Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	husband_n	mother_n	wife_n	20,403	5	8.3061	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45184	The bow of Jonathan with the flower de Luce in a funeral lamentation committed to the men of Judah : parallelled and applyed to that worthy his compeere Robert Lucy of Charlcote in the county of Warwick, Esquire, lately deceased : in a sermon preached at Charlcote / by Richard Hunt ...	Hunt, Richard.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3741; ESTC R32357	22,399	42

Solomon compares her love to the mans cistern as delightful as fresh water to bath in to a loving Hind as a pleasant Roe in his own Park Prov. 5.15 19. to take his delight this love shews it self most of all by the loss and made the very heathen resign their lives as captives to it Gracchus finding two serpents in his chamber See Valer. Max. was told kill the Male and you shall die first the Female and your wife shall die to save the last he killed the first and dyed A mans wife of Naples was taken by the Mores and shipt away French Acad. he swam after her and by the power of such love overcame the taker that sent them both home Pedro Maxio lib. 5.14 to weare out their loves together Three noble Romans for love of their ravisht wives made an end of themselves Orpheus his wife dying on the wedding day he never loved other but left the world to be a companion to his deceased wife A great Don of Spaine having sustained this losse that was his bed his board his pillow slept a years space in his clothes eat not on any Table-cloth nor sate down in a chaire Herod was so enamour'd on Mariamne Josippus that having embalmed her dead body he us'd it as his living bed-fellow Few men of our age out-do these affectionate examples but I have shewn them the most excellent way 1 Cor. 12. Now Michal Sauls daughter and Davids wife is a rare and onely example of lovingnesse to an husband 1 Sam. 20. by an officious feigning and counterfeit image suborned and invented to further his escape Otherwise the Scripture is silent and leaves women to speak for themselves yea Jonathans mother had not his fathers good word and theirs but one single example of love to their husbands among the Jewish wives the more Jews you will say for that But among the Gentiles go we to their reports and their Story produceth numbers of most loving and adventurous wives Some putting on armes and playing the man in wars for their husbands company to hazard life or bring them off some choosing death according to the Oracle See F● Acad. to save them alive some changing apparel to convey them out of prison and to stay and answer in their place winning the hearts of conquerors by love of the first to become their second husbands killing their living bodies to lye by their corpes drinking their ashes to interre them in their bowels at the sight of their bloody coat swooning travailing lying eating hot coles to consume thē for want of other weapons in banishment becoming slaves and exiles keeping their house and children at home notwithstanding all their abuses and indignities abroad not enduring life if husbands must die opening a veine to bleed and die with them in the bath forsaking rich fortunes to go barefoot for a Scholars fancy embracing both bodies to precipitate themselves in the sea to end an incurable consumption refusing Queenships and preparing poisons for joy-sops rather then marry to their husbands murtherers keeping their chambers for a years space and not so much as looking out at windows striving for precedence to be buried alive with their dead husbands Calvis in Conrad 2. in a siege carrying them on their backs for their best goods ingeniously deluding the intent and winning the consent of conquerors bearing their beloved over the snow lest his footsteps should betray their meeting and avenues bearing each others burden and fulfilling the law of Love Gal 6. Who desires more examples of the love of women may find in every age and climate some to country some to parents some to children and some to husbands I hope good store of company But I will end at home with one an example of Queen Hellen whose pillars and statues deserve to stand as Mary's boxes but unbroken to the end of the world to witnesse her work and preach by the way her memorial who suckt with her lips the poisoned wound received in wars Speed in Ed. 1. to save her husband Edwards life We have lately had one more at home whom t is hard to say who loved most but these are parted and I know not how to apply to them the active or the passive sense implyed in my Text. I have been long on this Bow of love bent on both sides but I trust the women will not think it so as long as t is in commendation of that sex nor the men to gruge them this garland so long as here is but one in their sex to exceed them all whose love surpassed the love of women Use 1. Let this stand as to this use for a monument to the men husbands love your wives and be not bitter unto them for Juno's marriage-sacrifice expels the gall and to the women be it as the pillar of salt to season their manners and to keep them sweet and lovely to their husbands to both to set one another interchangeably as seales upon their hearts Cant 8.6 7. and signets on their armes for love is stronger then death and more hardy then the grave her coales are of fire breaking out into a vehement flame much water cannot quench love neither can the flouds drown it This is the love that past betwixt Jonathan and David that like Hippoc. twins did impart joys and sorrows one to another and which I have endeavour'd to recommend to you in this masterpiece of love in the old Testament which is the character of a true disciple of the new Saint Pauls most excellent way and Saint Johns all-sufficient exercise who in age not able to ascend the pulpit and carried to Church used to say no more but my little children love one another and being askt by his disciples the reason of so frequent repetition of these words Perald To. 1. cap. 8. answered Quia praeceptum Domini est si solum fiat sufficit T is the Lords command if this be done then all is done Where also I might seasonably shut up my sayings were it not where Jonathans part goes out as acted there onr second Jonathan this much lamented person should come in on whom deaths sable mantle here hath overspread it self and on whom this lesson of the Bow with David-like affection may be playd wept anew I'arallels as being with little variation fit parallels in circumstance of life and some similitude of death names answering in manners and natures all agreeing for which let me bespeak your eares and affections for some spare minutes and so an end For their descent and family Parallel 1. Solomon tells us that the glory of children are their fathers Jonathan was of the tribe of Benjamin unattainted for treason or apostasy Saint Paul could boast of this if that Christ had not been in the ballance and our Jonathan of the ancient family of the Lucies whose loyalty to my report was never yet impeacht but as Jonathan