Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	lord_n	servant_n	service_n	5,597	5	7.0128	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63124	A cap of grey hairs for a green head, or, The fathers counsel to his son, an apprentice in London to which is added a discourse on the worth of a good name / by Caleb Trenchfield.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing T2118; ESTC R25830	77,548	215

mouth in wisedom and that in your tongue was the law of kindeness If you are Parents leave a name behinde you that you brought your children up in the fear and nurture of the Lord that you did not go before yours with the dark Lanthorn of a loose and profane conversation but that you did shine before them in that holy exemplariness whereby you might be a pattern to them of purity and an holy life If you are Masters leave a name behinde you that you always had a sense upon you that you also had a master in heaven to whom you must give an account that it was your care not only that your servants should serve you but they should serve the Lord and had rather they should loose a days work then that God should loose an hours service If you be Magistrates let not your dead hands smell of bribes but let it be said that vice was your utter enemy which neither for fear or affection you would shew any countenance but that you made it your business to be an incourager of those that do well and a terrour unto evil doers As thou art a Subject let it be said of thee that thou wer't none of those who did speak evil of dignities nor refusedst to yeild a ready complyance to any of those burthens which may conduce to thy Princes honour and thy Countries welfare but didst consult for all such things as make for general good and publick peace If men speak of you as you are a member of the Church let them celebrate thy obedience to those that had the rule over thee in the Lord That thou wert not factious but as thou contendest for the faith once delivered to the Saints so thou wert careful not to break the golden chain of brotherly love for the scruples of opinion but tookst care to preserve the unity of the faith in the bond of peace being convinc'd that there is more prudence to overlook gross infirmities then to be apt to separate and that there is more Christianity in amending our private faults then in reprehending publick enormities Having always such a conversation as is becoming Godliness and not denying thy Christianity by thy works Thus to go out of the world is to carry baskets of all sweet-smelling Flowers along with you to cast into your grave and put Rosemary into the hands of those who do accompany your Funeral and give a kinde of immortality to your own memorial THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK ADvice concerning Religion as it includes the care to save a mans own soul Page 5 Cautions concerning Religion in that sense Page 7 8 9 Of Religion as it includes devotion towards God Page 10 11 12 13 Of Vertues requisite in an Apprentice Page 14 Of Veracity Ibid. Of Fidelity Page 15 16 Of Temperance Page 17 to 22 Of Taciturnity Page 22 to 31 Of Affability Page 31 32 Of Frugality Page 33 to 33 Of Industry Page 38 to 41 Of the choice of Company Page 42 Of the danger of ill Company Page 43 44 45 Directions for the choice of Company Page 46 to 53 Of Conversation with Familiars Page 53 to 60 Of Discourse Page 60 to 65 Of the choice of Recreations Page 65 to 78 Of converse with men Page 78 to 95 Of setting up a Trade Page 95 to 98 Of Servants Page 99 to 108 Of Marriage Page 108 to 111 Of the choice of a Wife Page 112 to 129 Of Behaviour to a Wife Page 129 to 143 Of House keeping Page 143 to 150 Of Children their Nurses Page 150 to 153 Of their Education Page 153 to 166 Of their disposing into the World Page 166 to 170 Of Funerals and Alms deeds Page 170 to 173 A Discourse on the worth of a good name Page 175 to the end Books lately printed for Hen. Eversden THe Pens dexterity compleated Or Mr. Rich his Short-hand now perfectly taught Prince 1 s. 6 d. Theodulia Or a just Defence of hearing the Sermons and other Teaching of the present Ministers of England By J. T. The Friendly debate Third and Fourth parts at 4 s. 6 d. bound A Crew of kinde London Gossips all met to be merry complaining of their Husbands with their Husbands Answer in their own defence To which is added Ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery at 1 s. bound Pearls of Eloquence Or the School of Complements A serious Examination of the Independents Catechism and therein of the Nonconformity to and Separation from the Church of England By Benj. Camfield Price 2 s. 6 d. FINIS