Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	1,667	5	4.8252	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08129	Certaine sermons, preached by the reuerend and iudicious diuine master Thomas Nevvhovse late preacher of Gods word in the citie of Norwich. And now set foorth for the vse and benefit of Gods people, by Robert Gallard, Master of Arts and minister in the same citie	Newhouse, Thomas, d. 1611.; Gallard, Robert.	1614 (1614)	STC 18493; ESTC S102789	66,753	182

a symball and as it were a doore of their solemne entrance admissiō into the Church of God and for the time to come it is a seale and pledge vnto them of their certaine incorporation into the body of Christ Thus much of the first vse Secondly if by baptisme wee are ingrafted into Christ then let vs walk as it becommeth the members of Christ 2. Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ let him be a new creature that is renewed in his minde in his thoughts in his purposes in his desires in his affections in his speeches in his actions and whole conuersation let none of these sauour of the flesh but of the spirit and why so because All old things saith the Apostle are past and all things are become new So likewise Galath 5.25 If we liue in the spirit that is if being coupled vnto Christ we be quickned by his spirit in the inward man then let vs walke in the spirit that is let vs bring foorth the fruites and doe the workes of the spirit and not of the flesh If a man were called out of the countrie to liue in the citie and made one of the corporation his name being registred in the Roles and he enfranchised and entitled to all the priuiledges of a free Citizen he would shake off all his rude and rusticall behauiours and carry himselfe and conuerse ciuilly as a Citizen so likewise wee being called out of this world that is the corrupt stock of mankind and set into Christ the true vine our dutie is to cast off all our worldly and carnall behauiours and to carrie and demeane our selues honestly as it becommeth the members of Christ being now made as it were free Citizens of the kingdome of heauen Thirdly if by baptisme we are ingrafted into Christ let vs endeuour and vse al good meanes daily to grow vp more and more with him in this spirituall coniunction The members of the naturall bodie at the first are but small and slender but still they grow in strength and receiue daily increase till they come to their iust quantitie euen so it is in the mysticall body of Christ though at the first we be but babes in Christ yet by the continuall vse of the Word and Sacraments and by prayer meditation c. wee must looke to receiue continual increase growing from grace to grace till we come to be tall strong men in Christ Iesus The sience or graffe that is set into a stocke and doth not prosper and grow greater neither bearing leafe nor bringing foorth fruite we iudge it to be a dead and a rotten branch and that worthilie and that it liueth not by the sappe and iuyce of the roote semblablie when as by baptisme wee are set into Christ and make no progresse or proceedings in knowledge in faith in loue in zeale in godlinesse in obedience it is an argument wee are but dead branches and are but only outwardly in appearance before men ingrafted into Christ and not truly indeed before God Fourthly here al parents are taught their dutie as the common care of all is which is commendable by baptisme to bring their children into the Church so when they come to yeeres which is commonly neglected of al to instruct them touching the matter and vse of baptisme a maine principall point whereof is their infition into Christ labouring to bring them to the sight and sense of their sinnes to repentance vnfained for the same and consequently by the vse of the Word and Sacraments to true fellowship and communiō with Christ Fifthly heere is a matter of great comfort vnto all that are fallen or by infirmitie or otherwise haue made relapse in some or more grieuous sinnes for when a man fallen shall consider that baptisme is a signe and seale of our perpetuall insition and indissoluble vnion with Christ in which is granted a generall pardon of all sins past present and to come neuer to be repealed because the Couenant remaineth euer in force vnto them that repent and obserue the cōdition Esay 54.10 The couenant of my peace shall not faile he taketh hart and comforteth himself in hope of fauour and mercie if he returne vnto God by repentance For baptisme is like vnto a ship out of which if a man shall be fallen into the Sea and shall but catch hold of a board to bring him to the ship the Pylot will be readie to receiue him so if a man shall after his fall hauing caught the board of repentance returne vnto baptisme the Lord will be readie to receiue him to mercie and it will bee of force to saue him Lastly if baptisme bee the sacrament of our incorporation then wee ought to honour it to reuerence and regard it as the holie ordinance of God and by all meanes to testifie the same And heere a common abuse commeth to be taxed and reproued when men depart foorth of the congregation in the time of administration thereby manifesting their contempt of the holy Sacrament whereas by their presence and decent behauiour they ought to testifie their reuerence vnto the ordinance of God and their ioy for the adding of a member vnto the Church Haue put on Christ Christ is put on three waies First in his merit secondly in his efficacie and thirdly in his example For the first Christ is put on in his merit when as by faith his righteousnesse and meritorious obedience is applied vnto iustification and saluation this is signed and sealed by the action of the Minister besprinkling the bodie of the partie baptized with water thereby representing the blood of Christ which being sprinkled vpon the soule by the hand of faith purgeth and cleanseth it from all sinne 1. Ioh. 1.7 Our dutie therfore which we learne from hence is this that we are to labour aboue all things to bee purged and washed in our consciences from sinne that our hearts being purified by faith wee might stand blamelesse and without fault before God Acts 22.16 Ananias is brought in giuing this counsell vnto Paul Arise saith he and be baptized wash away thy sins c. Secondly Christ is put on in his efficacie when as by the vertue and power of his death a man killeth and crucifieth the corruption of his nature and by the power of his resurrection he reuiueth and is raised out of the graue of his sinne to holinesse and newnes of life this is also signed and sealed in our baptisme and for that cause we are said Rom. 6.3 to be baptized into the death of Christ because baptisme is the seale and sacrament of our mortification neither of that only but of our viuification also as may appeare Rom. 6.4 for we must be like fashioned vnto Christ not only in the similitude of his death that as he died for our sinnes so we by the vertue of the same death should die vnto sinne but also in the similitude of his resurrection that as hee rose againe for our iustification