Index of Stanzas from "The Church-porch" by Subject

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adaptation. See useful.

"age, if it will hit, Shoots a bow short" 27

alms. See giving.

"Anger is not love, nor wisdom either" 52

appearance  45.  See also clothes.

arguing. "Be calm in arguing"  52 , "Mark all his wanderings" 53. See also conversation.

arguments. See quarrels.

attitude, demeanor. "Be sweet to all"  36, "All worldly joys go less to the one joy of doing kindnesses" 55

B

baseness "When baseness is exalted..." 45

behavior. See attitude.

boasting. "...Nor make thy shame thy glory"   9

boldness. "In conversation boldness now bears sway"  35

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C

calmness in arguing. "Calmness is great advantage" 53

children. "Some till their ground but let weeds choke their son"  17, "They breed them tender" 18, "fill his mind with rest before his trunk with riches"  19, "Love is a personal debt" 47

church. "Twice on a day His due is understood" 66, "Pray with the most" 67, "God is more there than thou"  68, "Praying 's the end of preaching" 69, "weep out the stains"  70, "All worldly thoughts are but thieves" 71, "Judge not the preacher" (72), "combine with saints on earth" 73, "Though God do hedge us in yet who is holy?" 75

cleanliness.  "Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation" 62

clothes, appearance.  "take thine own measure" 30, "empty vessels under sail" 31, "cheap handsomeness" 32, cleanliness 62, "Thy clothes being fast, but thy soul loose about thee" 69

command thyself  36. See also control, self

communion. "the food... 'tis better" (66)

control in conversation. "Calmness is great advantage"  53

control, lack of. "Lose not thyself"  24, "Correct thy passion's spite" (44)

control, self. "Constancy knits the bones" 20, "Thou liv'st by rule" 23, "Command thyself" 36, "mind's sweetness" 62

conversation. "Dare to be true" 13, "Look to thy mouth" (22), "boldness now bears sway" 35, "courteous, useful, new or witty" 49, do yourself and him a pleasure 50, "spend not all that you can speak" 51, "Truth dwells not in the clouds" 53, "Take all that is given" (60)

curses. See swearing.

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D

debt. "By no means run in debt" 30

drink. "Drink not the third glass" 5, "outlawed by himself" 6, "must I find pain wherein he finds a pleasure" 7, "frailty gains pardon by submissiveness" 9

drinking with friends. "Let not a common ruin entomb you"  8

E

employment. See service.

"envy not greatness"  44

Eucharist. See communion.

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fame. "Take stars for money" 29, "Think not thy fame at ev'ry twitch will break" 37, "If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd 'Tis a thin web" 38

"Fast when thou wilt but then, 'tis gain not loss." 66

"Fathers first enter bonds to nature's ends" 47

food. "do not a famine fear" 22

fortitude. "slackness breeds worms" 57

friends. "Wisdom picks friends" 38, "your friend put in your bosom" 46, fatherhood first 47

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gambling. "Play not for gain but sport" 33, "game is a civil gunpowder" 34

Gentry "are gone to grass" 16

giving: to the poor "regard your means and others' merit" 63, "so much giv'n to God" 64. to God "restore to God His due" 65

goals. "Pitch your behaviour low, your projects high" 6, "active and stirring spirits live alone" 57

God. "Join hands with God" 63, "Man is God's image" 64, "Thwart not the mighty God" 66, "where most pray is heaven" 67

gold. See money.

good. "A good digestion turns all to health" 60

great, the. "Envy not greatness" 44

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heaven. "keep heaven's gate open" 64, "where most pray is heaven" 67, "churches are either our heaven or hell" 71

holy. "nothing but holy, pure and clear" Superliminare2

honesty, openness. "Do all things like a man, not sneakingly" 21

humor. "Pick out of tales the mirth" 11, "The witty man laughs least" 39, "all things are big with jest" 40, "a wise man is master of all his jests" 42

I

idleness. "Fly idleness" 14, "full of sin but most of sloth" 16, "sink not in spirit" 56, "slackness breeds worms" 57

J

jealousy. "Be not your own worm" 44

job. See service.

jokes. See humor.

joy. See kindness.

justice. "Art thou a Magistrate? then be severe" 15

K

kindness. "All worldly joys go less to the one joy of doing kindnesses" 55

L

listening. "Mark what another says" 54

love. "If cause require, you are his sacrifice" 46, "Love is a personal debt" 47, "all your goods and ground submit to love" 48, "Love is a present for a mighty king" 59, (60). In arguing: "anger is not love" 52. See also fathers, friends. Do not see "lust."

lust (Do not confuse with love). "It blots your lesson written in your soul" 2, "Your lust has bounds and stays" 3.

lying. "Nothing can need a lie" 13

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"Man is God's image" 64

minister. See preacher.

money. "For he, that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he, that needs but five" 18, "The way to make your son rich is to fill his mind with rest, before his trunk with riches" 19, "Be thrifty but not covetous" 26,  "Never exceed your income" 27, "Wealth is the conjurer's devil" 28, "None is so wasteful as the scraping dame" 29, "By no means run in debt" 30, "whether wealth, or love, or language; nothing comes amisse" (60)

music in church. "mark in church-time others symmetry" (70)

O

oaths. See swearing.

P

patience. See listening and sermons. [See also idleness.]

persistence. See fortitude.

planning. "Let your mind still be bent, still plotting" 57

pleasures. "Make a bait of pleasure" Perirrhanterium, "Look not at pleasures as they come, but go" 77. See also sins, drink, money, humor etc.

poor. "Give to all something, to a good poor man" 63, "a poor man is Christ's stamp" 64

position, rank. "Do not bate the place its honor" 45

prayer. private and public 67, "praying 's the end of preaching" 69

preachers. "God calls preaching folly" 72, "God sent him whate'er he be" 74. See also sermons.

preparation & morality: be better. "my first fruits" Dedication, lessons of the 77 stanzas Superliminare

priest. See preachers.

profane humor. "buy it not too dear" 41

profaneness. "Avoid profaneness" Superliminare Stanza2

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Q

quarrels. "Catch not at quarrels" 37

R

relationship with people. "Do all things like a man" [or woman] 21, "Entice all neatly to what they know is best" (50), "Be useful where you live" 55. See also friends.

relationship with the great. "use respective boldness" 43

relationships, family. "your children, kindred, friends call upon you" 27, "game is a civil gunpowder"  34

reputation, "for all may have, if they dare try, a glorious life, or grave" (15), "the great soldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuff" 38. See also fame.

rules, ethical. "turn delight into a sacrifice" (1), "choice of paths; take no by-ways" 3, "man breaks the fence and every ground will plow"  4, "Man is a shop of rules" 24

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saints. "combine with saints on earth" 73

self examination. "lose not thy self" 24, "salute yourself" 25, "take account of all"  58, in church 70, "Let vain and busy thoughts have there no part"  71, "Sum up all at night" 76, "defer not the least virtue"  77, "nothing by holy, pure and clear" Superliminare (Stanza 2)

sermons. "Resort to sermons, but to prayers most"  69, "God's way of salvation" 75. See also preachers.

service. "chase brave employments" (15), "Spend not on hopes" 31

sex. See lust.

single, not married. "All your goods and ground submit to love" 48

sins. "Boast not thereof"  9, "the cheapest sins most dearly punished are" 12

sloth. See idleness.

society. "meet them there" 55 See also relationship.

Sunday. See church.

swearing. "It gets you nothing" 10, "Omit the oaths" 11

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tithing. "Restore to God His due in tithe and time" 65

"Truth dwells not in the clouds" 53, "share in the conquest, confess a truth" 54. In arguing:  "arguing...makes...truth discourtesy" 52.

U

useful. "Be useful where you live" 55, "Take all that is given...nothing comes amiss" 60, naturalize all foreign good 61

W

wealth. See money.

wine. See drink.

wisdom, foreign. "Take all that is given" 60

wit. See humor.

Y

youth."whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance your rate and price, and mark you for a treasure" Perirrhanterium, "Youth may make even with the years" 27

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