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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	witness_v	word_n	write_v	148	3	4.8813	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68830	St. Pauls threefold cord vvherewith are severally combined, the mutuall oeconomicall duties, betwixt husband. wife. parent. childe. master. servant. By Daniel Touteville Pr. to the Charterhouse.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1635 (1635)	STC 24396.5; ESTC S101650	102,232	490

of the second TOME Fathers provoke not your Children to anger least they be discouraged TOM II. LIB II. The duty of parents to their children THE Apostle still carries the scales in an even hand and as in the first combination belonging to the constitution of a family having principled the wife he came to direct the husband that neyther might bee def●ctive in the p rformance of such offices as by vertue of the nuptiall tie were mutually to passe from one to the other So here in the second which is betwixt the parent and the child he doth the like Fathers saith he provoke not your children least they be discouraged In the words we may observe two things First A prohibition Fathers provoke not your Children Secondly the cause of this prohibition least they be discouraged In the former we may consider First the persons to whom the prohibition is directed Fathers Secondly the act prohibited Provocation Thirdly the persons in whose behalfe it is prohibited Children Fathers As touching the first It may be demanded why the Apostle doth here make mention of Fathers onely not retaining the word Parents which hee had used before in exacting the obedience of children considering that fath●rs and mothers both are comprehended under it I answer that children are usually deficient in the tender of this duty towards their mothers 'T was necessary therefore in prescribing of the same that mothers should equally be included But very seldome or never is the tendernesse of their affections so farre exasperated against the fruite of their wombe as to looke upon it with an austere and sowre eye 'T was sufficient therefore here that fathers onely should be named as principally lyable to this Interdiction The offence of a mother is to bee more cockering than cruell Moses his wife Exod. 4.25 cal'd him a bloudy husband because he put her childe to paine though in a way which God had commanded And therefore Fathers provoke Fathers The very name implies an Argument For when he saith Fathers provoke not 'T is no other than if hee should have sayd Forbeare the doing of that which so ill beseemes the person and ought to be so farre removed from the practice of a father 'T is a title which sounds not any thing but mildnesse The Poet therefore speaking of one in whom this vertue was exceeding eminent sayth thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was as milde and loving as a father And doe we not see that the very creatures are instructed by nature to be kinde and courteous towards their young Plutarch writes of the male Partridg that hee shares with the female in hatching of her egges and is the first when they come out of the shell that brings them meate The Beare and the Woolfe for want of hands wherewith with to stroke their whelps are still licking them with their tongues Yea the Dragons how pernicious so ever unto others looke smilingly upon their owne And shall we that are indued with reason bee froward and perverse to those of our owne loynes Omnes honesti mores in bestiis congregantur in homine Man is an universall Pandect and in him are congregated what ever vertues are in all the creatures Ishmael was a gibing bratte Esau a surly child and Absalom a trayterous sonne Abraham was yet loving to the one Isaac tender over the other and David most affectionate towards the third witnesse the care he had to preserve him while he lived and the lamentation which he made for him being dead In a word then having such a precept together with such p●e●edents Fathers provoke not your children And thus from the persons to whom this prohibition is directed I come to the act prohibited and that is Provocation The word in the originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifies to provoke to anger which may happen many waies to children from their fathers by abuse of their paternall power as first by words and secondly by deeds By words three manner of waies First by burdening them with precepts eyther unlawfull or unmeete unlawfull 1 Sam. 20.31 as Saul when he commanded Ionath●n his sonne to fetch David his innocent and harmelesse friend unto him that hee might deprive him of his life And likewise when Herodias enjoyn'd her daughter to aske of Herod who had promised with an oath to give her whatsoever shee demanded the head of Iohn the Baptist Math. ●4 8 we reade not yet that this dancing daughter was any way displeased with the bloudy mandate of her mother but had she harboured in her brest so much as a graine of piety 't would have griev'd her very soule to heare such an unjust request Againe unmeet as when the father no necessity urging him thereunto shall binde them to such servile and base imployments as beseeme not an ingenuous nature to undergoe For according to the Philosopher The rule of a father over his children should be like that of a King over his subjects grounded rather upon love than feare He should not out of an insul ing tyranny abuse their labour as the Aegyptians did that of the Israelites by tyring out their strength in workes of drudgery but make that use of it which may tend to the good of eyther Secondly fathers may provoke their children by thundering upon them undeservedly with rayling and reproachfull words For these have usually with them so sharpe a sting as will goe neere to wound the soule of the most setled patience and in this kind also was Saul injurious unto Ionathan when in his anger hee sayd unto him Thou sonne of the wicked and rebellious woman doe not I know that thou hast chosen the sonne of Ishai to thine owne confusion and to the confusion of that shamefull and ignominious wombe which brought thee forth For what should more provoke a sonne than to heare not onely himselfe reviled and disgraced but his mother likewise to bee scandalized with base invectives and made in reputation inferiour to a common Courtisan Thirdly and lastly parents may provoke their children in words by traducing their workes and weakning their desart to others and that eyther before their faces or behind their backes And indeed it hath often hapned that the father hath suspected vertue even in his childe and hath therefore laboured to weaken the reputation of it in the opinion of such as were thought to admire it or sought by bloudy practises utterly to extinguish it Solyman the fourth Emperour of the Turkish Monarchy commanded his sonne Bajazet to bee strangled by Hassan Aga together with his foure you●g sons one of which lying in the cradle was there murdered by an Eunuch the childe smiling in the villaines face And that which moved him to this unnaturall cruelty was onely the noblenesse of their sire which in his ambitious apprehension was gazed upon by his subjects with an eye of too much admiration The like jealousie provoked him with no lesse barbarous fury to prosecute the life of Mustapha