Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	servant_n	show_v	1,920	5	6.2627	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

godly seruaÌ„ts for the liberal disposition of a child is easily spilt with the leaud manners of a seruant Hence it commeth that almost their first words are ribauldrie and feareful othes and that they learne to blaspheme God before they can plainely speake GOD yea sometime they proue twofold more the children of Satan then their Tutors were For a new vessell will keep the tatch of the first seasoning a long time after Cause them therefore to frequent the holy exercise of religion as Preaching Catechising Praier Sacraments c. Bring them with you where they may be instructed in the waies of the Lord to doe righteousnesse especially on the Sabbath day because that is a day appointed and set apart of God himselfe for his worship and seruice wherein he wil haue our seruant as free as our selues and to the end we may prepare them the better to the sanctifying of the Lords day we are to call them vp betimes in the morning to praier wherein first we are to thanke the Lord for all his mercies to such vnworthy wretches and namely for the rest and preseruation the night past Then to beseech his Maiestie that hee would so prepare and fit our hearts to the profitable retaining of his most holy and blessed word and so direct the mouthes of his ministers that day in the vttering of it that it may be a comfortable sauour of life and saluation to vs and not a sauour of death vnto destruction And hauing ended this duty by 7. in the morning we may if wee will directly goe where there shall bee a Sermon vntill eight so comming home we are to goe to our owne Parish Church both in the forenoone and in the afternoone and after that to some Lecture as there be diuers blessed bee GOD in diuers parts of the City And hauing thus spent the day till six at night we are not to content our selues there thinking we haue done by this time a work of supererogation but to come directly from the Lecture to our houses and call our seruants together to praiers to almighty God that it would please his Maiestie to giue a blessing vpon that which we haue heard that wee may auoide the sinnes execute the good duties feare the threatnings and lay vp the comforts from the mouth of his ministers plainely shewed and laid down vnto vs. And hauing ended praiers for that instant we are to examine euery one of them particularly what lessons they haue learned at Church and what vses they were taught of those lessons and hauing done that to giue them a generall exhortation incouraging them to goe forward in godlinesse which hath promises of this life and of that which is to come and so to make an end for that time with singing a Psalm of thankesgiuing NOW as we are to performe these duties on the Sabbath day so we haue our duties to performe on the weeke daies also For it is not enough for any man to giue his family victuals and prouision one day in the weeke and let them fast all the rest of the weeke after for so he should soone make a leane houshold but we must deale with our seruants in Spiritual things as we deale with them in Corporall things that is as wee allow them meat and drinke sufficiently all the weeke daies and on the Sabbath day they haue extraordinary dishes So although we haue beene carefull to pray and instruct them in religion on the Sabbath day yet we must looke we do our duties in the weeke daies also although not like vnto the Sabbath for the Lord doth not require it at our hands This discipline and good order if wee would carefully inure our Prentises to seuen or eight yeares together till their first youth the age which is set vpon the very pinacle of temptations be past ouer methinkes it were enough to kill all the weedes of vices in them to make euen Atheists religious and grow into a habit of sanctimony and godlinesse Here I thinke it needfull for euery one of vs as we are yet seruants to know our duties also that wee may demeane our selues agreeably to our present condition Seruants duty First then wee are to follow the counsel of the Apostle to be obedient vnto our bodily masters with feare and trembling because they be in their places vnto vs as God God hath set theÌ„ ouer vs in his own stead and therefore we ought not onely to carry a reuerend estimation of them counting them worthy of all honor but to performe our duty and seruice vnto them not to the eie as men pleasers but as the seruants of Christ doing the will of God himselfe singlie and from the heart labouring continually to please them and submitting our selues to theÌ„ in all things as the holy Ghost commandeth But this must not be vnderstood absolutely but with an exception So they bee lawfull things For if a master command his seruant to speake a lie or to sweare his commodities cost so much when they cost much lesse or to breake the Lords Sabbath in such a case we ought rather to obey God then man but in all iust and lawfull impositions not crossing their roiall commandement we are to conforme our selues in all duty and obedience to them yea not only to the good and courteous but euen to the froward sower For this is thankworthy saith Saint Peter if a seruant for conscience toward GOD endure smart suffering wrongfully But it is a great fault in vs that are seruants that if correction be giuen vs though with iustice and discretion we will say most commonly wee deserue it not This is not the saying of the holy Ghost For saith he what praise is it for a seruant to be buffeted for his faults but and if yee fault not and yet suffer hard vsage and take it patiently then is there thanke with God And herein what better satisfaction or quieting of our mindes can we desire then the example of our Sauiour himselfe who neuer sinned neither was there guile found in his mouth yet he was reuiled and reuiled not againe he suffered beyond all degrees of patience opened not his mouth but committed reuenge to him that iudgeth righteously euen to God his Father So ought wee my Brethren when our masters bee out of reason and offer vs extreame measure to put it vp and endure it patiently knowing that they also haue a master in Heauen who beholdeth with an equall eie both vs and them and not to answer Sir I deserue it not For if correction should not bee giuen to the most of vs till wee confesse we deserue it it should neuer be giuen vs. Heere I cannot keepe silence but I must needes make known how good and gratious the Lord hath shewed himselfe in this case to mee his most vnworthy seruant and the rather to cause all other Prentises to thinke themselues not miserable but most happy when the Lord hath set ouer them such

that acquaintance may be renewed and not lost So for our mutuall exhorting one another how vnequally haue we performed it sparing them too much with whom we are inward and reprouing them too tartly whoÌ„ we like not so well and perhaps thinking scorne to be admonished our selues by any How many times when we haue met together for our comforts and to the edifying one of another in godlinesse haue wee burst out into prophane and idle talke letting our mouth loose to all vanity that should haue vttered gracious words giuing proofe of the inward sanctification of our hearts so slie is the diuel the perpetual enemie of all good things wheÌ„ wee goe about to diminish his kingdome to rob vs from our selues and diuert our best thoughts another way I speake this the rather that all those that are the professors of the Gospell might vse these means here after with more care and conscience lest they be ouer-reacht by this slight of Sathan and set a watch before their mouth and keepe the doore of their lips that they giue no example of lightnesse or vanity to them that are new conuerts nor vnto any other but carying theÌ„selues as paterns vnto them in word in conuersation in faith in spirit in loue and in purenesse that euen those that are backwardest in religion may be drawne by their integrity to repentance from the corruptions of the world For vertue shewes so well in whomsoeuer it is that it stirres vp a meruailous loue and desire of it in them that behold it But if neither Gods benefits nor his iudgements nor his word nor godly bookes nor the good counsell and admonition and examples of our brethren who are more carefull of our saluation then we our selues will preuaile with vs let the shortnes and vncertainty of our owne life make vs looke about vs. For what is our life but a vapour a flower a flash a shadow a dreame vanity nothing Haue you euer obserued the bubbles which boyes blow vp in a shell of sope-water how some being swollen to a determinate quantity breake immediatly in the shell some the wind whisleth vp aloft into the aire and are dissolued there some flie alowe by ground till at length they dash against the ground and come to nothing Such things are men and women when you see a thousand of them walking the streetes imagine you see a thousand belles or bubbles of water wandering vp and downe some a high aboue all their fellowes as the gale fauours them some in a lower region and with a thought as high as the highest some beneath that lownes and some as low as the pauement Now stand still a little and marke them and you shall see some times one striking out another sometimes tenne or twenty or thirty popping out of themselues and instantly so many more some of the highest some of the lowest some of the meane ones one amongst another so that anon you cannot see one of the olde men or bubbles left but all are new men or new bubbles call them which you will for all is one blowne vp in the places of the former If this be our best firmenesse if our mettall be thus full of flawes if our life be but a moment and yet vpon that moment depends eternitie of weale or woe in the life to come who would not take opportunitie by the foretop and make hay as the saying is while the sunne shines who would put off his amendment till to morrow when he knowes not what a day may bring forth Man knoweth not his end saith the wisest among men but euen as the fishes be taken with the hooke and the birdes be sodainly intrapped with the snate so are the children of men preuented with the euill day when it comes vpon them sodainly When the tree falleth whether toward the North or South there it lieth and in the same state you die you shall be iudged Learne therefore to number your dayes and consider seriously of your latter end that you may repent betimes for that is wisedome and depart from euill for that is vnderstanding Or if you scorne all other schoole-masters learne of the diuell one rule of policy He knowing his time to be short will doe what mischiefe he can you knowing your time to be short doe you what good you can CHAP. 6 THere remaines yet three other means which I cannot ouerpasse without making mention of them The first is the care of masters Godly carefull Masters and the discipline of a well gouerned house which may set straight the maÌ„ners of a yong man and restraine him from those vices whereto by reason of his age or the corruption of the place he is inclined For the prouerbe holdeth for the most part true LIKE MASTER LIKE MAN If Abraham feare God his seruants and houshold will bee religious If Herod scorne Christ his captaines courtiers wil deride him also In the History of the Apostles Acts when any housholder was conuerted to the faith of Christ you shall finde it said The man beleeued and all his houshold shewing that as they were swaied before of an Idolatrous master to superstition so now they are swaied by a Christian master to the true worship and seruice of God Here therefore I thinke it not amisse to shew the duty of a Master in some measure as God shal enable me not that I would take vpoÌ„ me to teach my elders and betters yet let none disdaine to learne of yong ones seeing euen our cradle sometimes may teach vs wisedome for out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings hath the Lord ordained strength but to the end that we that are yet seruants and prentises may know how to cary and behaue our selues when it shall please the Lord to lay such a charge vpon vs. First my Brethren when the Lord shall call vs to this waightie charge that we come to be rulers of families and that we keep seruants it behooueth vs nay we are bound in duty to God to haue as great a care of their saluation as of our owne and to see they do their faithfull seruice to God as we will looke that they should faithfully serue vs For assuredly that seruant that is not faithfull to GOD can neuer bee faithfull to his master but he that serues GOD with a good conscience wil serue his master with a good conscience The awe presence of his master to ouereie and chide him needes not for his owne heart will check him They doe best serue their Masters that haue learned first to serue God and the feare of God will keep him from vntrustines You may find a kind of pick-thanke officiousnes in seruants of another making but there is no seruice like his that serues man for conscience toward God And beside our duty to God and desire of faithful seruice to our selues the care we should haue of our childrens godly education that they be not corrupted shold double our care to keep

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