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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	lord_n	servant_n	son_n	5,065	5	5.6175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35189	The young mans monitor, or, A modest offer toward the pious, and vertuous composure of life from youth to riper years by Samuel Crossman.	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.; Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684. Young mans meditation.	1664 (1664)	Wing C7276; ESTC R24109	112,999	295

Divulge not their infirmities though many lest the Curse of Cham overtake you for adding to their weakness your wickedness These things it may be the Lord may thus order for your trial for the more kindly and genuine expression of your duty Hearken unto thy Father that begat thee and despise not thy Mother when she is old Where the hedge is lowest God repairs it strongest that our duty might still remain inviolable If they be as Iacob in any straights be you as Ioseph their staff or like the pious Stork the nourisher of their Age. If God shall hereafter shine upon you and raise your future condition to an honour amongst men Hide not your eyes from your meaner Parents Acknowledge them chearfully Honour them willingly Behave your selves in their presence very respectfully Say still as that King of France Though I be now Superiour to many others I am still Inferiour to my Parents The glory of the Aged is their experience and their wisdom The glory of the young man is his modesty and submission And we may truly say as the Apostle in a case not altogether unlike He that honoureth not his natural Parents whom he hath seen how shall he honour his heavenly Father whom he hath not seen Your Parents have hitherto cared for you with an exceeding great care and what shall now be done for them Oh! requite their affectionate tenderness toward you with a filial Ingenuity and Respectfulness toward them He were hard-hearted indeed and unnatural beyond expression who could requite his Parents evil for all their good Secondly As Servants in relation to your Masters Be ye indeed their Servants to whom you yield your selves to obey Your very relation speaks you not your own but theirs If you receive their wages do not your own much less Satans work Be you to your several Masters as Eleazar once to Abraham religious prudent industrious and faithful in all your Masters business Interesting the Lord as he by humble prayer in all your undertakings Careful as he also was though at the greatest distance from your Masters eye Speaking as he likewise did becomingly of the Family in the hearing of strangers and very desirous as he still shewed himself that your Masters affairs might prosper under your hands Such a Servant the heart of his Master shall rejoyce and easily trust in him Such a Servant we may truly say is already preferred to an higher place The Apostle plainly tels us that such serve the Lord Christ and shall of him receive the reward of inheritance Faithful Servants whatever others do God will take a particular care of them and will see that their wages shall not be abridged or detained from them Their Masters may account with them for their outward service but when they have so done God will assuredly yet further requite them an hundred fold because they have done this thing in the singleness of their hearts serving their Masters as in the sight of God and for his sake You are ready it may be sometimes too dejectedly to sit down and complain That the Orbe and Sphaere in which you are placed is low and mean and so indeed comparatively it is but still it is such that the Lord reckons his very Gospel stands capable of receiving great lustre much honour from you and your gracious carriage It is you that in so particular a manner may adorn the doctrine of God and our Saviour To be saved by the Gospel is much but to be an ornament to the Gospel seems more yet this may the meanest the poorest Servant be And oh what praise like the widows mite above the stately gifts of richer ones doth it offer to the name of the Lord when a Child of God intituled to heaven can bring down his heart willingly to stoop and serve him in the meanest capacity which he shall please to set him in here on earth Blessed are those Servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall sind so doing Be ye then satisfied rest your selves contented in the condition wherein the Lord hath called you Service may seem some Eclipse but still as the Eclipse it needs no●●e total Your nobler part your soul without the least injury to your service may nevertheless fairly enjoy a divine liberty Service and freedom the Lord himself tells us are sweetly compatible You may be servants to others accordin to the flesh and yet as truly the Lords freemen walking in much liberty of Spirit Cast not away your encouragements Let not the comforts that are so peculiarly su●ed to your condition seem mean in your eyes A vertuous Epi●letus may at any time live s● better and more honourably upon his poor service than a vicious Nero upon a whole Empire Your service in your several places for the present it is not your M●sters advantage only but your own als● it is your preparation and making ready for your selves against the 〈◊〉 wherein we may all too ●ruly conclude ●vil courses under anothers roof are rarely mended very sel●om redressed when we come to live under our own Be ●●●eful to serve the Families wherein you ●●r pre●en● 〈◊〉 diligently cherfully and 〈◊〉 now and in that sweet habitu●l ●●●●sition you shall gr●w up and beco●e a blessing to yours whenever God shall make you 〈◊〉 by your selves CHAP. VI. Characters of the truly vertuous Young Man First Negative I Have thus far exhorted you I shall now endeavour once more to write the Vision before you and make it what I can as in the Prophet plain upon the Tables that you may see as in a glass what manner of young persons I have been recommending and am still setting before you for your imitation 1. I shall first describe them by their negative Characters what they are not That you may therein understand what you also ought to keep your selves free from 2. I shall describe them by their affirmative Characters what they plainly are That you may therein see what you likewise ought to be First Negatively the Young Person of vertue or hopefulness he is 1. Not one that ●ver r●viles Religion or religious people Oh! no Though as yet he hath not much understanding in these things yet he sees Religion it is sacred The preserver of a most divine Correspondency between Heaven and Earth Our Prerogative above the Beasts The sweet means of our Converse with the Lord The greatest appeal that can be made The highest claim that man can possibly say toward Eternity Contempt herein he finds it so odious hat all Ages have even trembled at it and the very Heathen would never bear it against their sorry Idols much less dares ●e contumeliously offer it against the true God This is Crimen laesae Majestatis High Treason against the throne and dignity of Heaven Vengeance in these cases is very particularly the Lords And he will surely and soon enough see to the repaying of

your f●ar and profession of him and his name be alwaies guided by his pure Word It is your Chard and Compass your Pole and Star in Gods name sail by it Whatever other desirable enjoyments God hath given you this without an Hyperbole far excels them all we may safely conclude with the Ancients The whole World hath no Jewel like to this Read dayly meditate reverently in those holy Scriptures They are the Christians Treasury the field where the heavenly Pearl must be sought may be found There shall you meet with History none so sacred none so ancient Promises none so heavenly none so cordial Precepts none so righteous none so holy For what nation is there so great that hath Ordinances and Laws so righteous as all this Law which the Lord your God setteth before you Let these Scriptures be ever more your Songs in the house of your pilgrimage Men may fondly magnifie profane and Philosophical Writings as somewhat of inferiour usefulness many of them have and we both may and should freely and honourably acknowledge the common gifts of our Creator wherever we find them But still in all things that concern our conversation and souls comfort to the Law and to the Testimony as the standing and unalte●●ble manifestation which God hath been pleased to leave extant of his Will unto the ends of the World In your reading begin alwaies with Prayer humbly intreating the Lord that he would shew you the wonders of his Law In your hearing attend with the greatest reverence still remembring the Ordinance is high though the Instrument may be mean the Treasure heavenly though the Vessel be but earthy In your applying force not the Scripture from its native intendment and meaning to the humour of times the biass or interest of your own opinions or affections whatsoever Let all your converse therewith be in all chastity and pureness of mind take Gods Word as God gives it and resign your selves into a pious obedience to it Remember Timothy and be ye provoked to an holy emulation he had known the Scriptures from a Child it is they which under God are able to make you wise unto salvation Your knowledge in other things may be a● Brass your knowledge in these will be as Gold greater riches and of greater worth Happy is that man that is an Ezra a ready Scribe graciously versed and acquainted in the Law of his God It is too likely you may live to hear and see great contentions in the World about Religion Lo here is Christ and lo there but go not you forth after them be not led by the insinuations of men whereby they cunningly lie in waite on almost all hands to deceive I have often been ready to say within my self Lord give me a Religion according to thy holy Scriptures truly built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles or I have no great desire to any at all Here our foot standeth upon firm ground Here we may safely repose our wearied hearts Here we may confidently adventure the great concerns of our dear immortal souls Here have we the faith of God himself the true and faithful God solemnly plighted unto us that we shall not be ●eceived in our way that we shall not be disappointed in the end Oh! stir not from the horns of this Altar from this City of Refuge lest you die Be you I pray you guided by the good Word of God the Heavens and the For●h shall pass away and the boisterous wills of men shall come to nought but the Word of the Lord shall endure for ever Thirdly Next after this general fidelity to the Scriptures draw nearer home and let them more particularly inform you in the true knowledge of your selves This is that Terraincognita that unknown Land which so few make any discovery of Many are great Travellers ready Historians scarce any Age any Country or City but they are familiarly acquainted with it The S●●s and utmost Isles the very Desarts and remotest Mountains they can discourse particularly of them But still are too great strangers at home there is one Cabinet scarce yet ever unlocked one book scarce ever yet opened they are little read in their own hearts May be it is because the reckoning is long and we but little provided to clear is The Leaf where we should read is much blotted and we take little delight to look into these things But Dear Children say not you so Neglect will scarce pay that debt which grows of it self dayly greater or pacifie that Creditor who takes the contempt worse than the debt it self Know therefore and you cannot indeed but know that you even you have gone astray from the womb and are though but young people yet old sinners great sinners Gospel-sinners and that God expects true repentance true faith at your hands as well as any if you desire any part in the Kingdom of God The story is sad but true and we may relate it Man enters into the World at traitors gate born in sin and conceived in iniquity His body frail and mean as the dust a common Hospital for almost all diseases which successively one after another come and take up their quarters perforce there His mind as Nebuchadnezars degraded and cast down from its former excellency among the beasts of the field and there it now walks His understanding that bright and precious Lamp is gone out nor does he now lift up his eyes any longer to know the Lord. But sinks down in great stupidity of spirit as one regardless which way Eternity goes as one utterly alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in him His Conscience that noble watch and under God the very Life-guard of his soul stands no longer upon its watch Tower but lyeth as one that fainteth spreading its hands bleeding and dying at the Gates The inferiour servants the affections all in an uproar and confusion Iudas-like betraying their Master rending themselves from their just service and hasting to ingratiate and let out themselves to a foolish treacherous World He that might have been sometime saluted and that truly too Iedidiah the beloved of the Lord the Son of God and Heir of glory His bloud is now stained the entail justly cut off and he must be arraigned under that joyless title Loammi none of Gods but a child of wrath a stranger from the Covenant of promise Under the guilt of sin and he knows it not Under the power of sin and he feels it not Responsible to God for all he now does and yet regards it not Within a daies march for ought he knows of death and judgement and yet ●ies it not to heart His eyes hath he closed and he knows not the things of his own peace These things Sirs are no hidden secrets The Heathen though at a great distance yet they easily saw Mans misery and frequently made both affectionate and voluminous