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	soul_n	whole_a	1,004	5	5.1794	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32047	The noble-mans patterne of true and reall thankfulnesse presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, at their late solemne day of Thanksgiving, June 15, 1643 : for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate and bloody designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and of the famous city of London / by Edmund Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1643 (1643)	Wing C260; ESTC R20268	43,210	65

befoole themselves saith Lactantius that follow the judgement of their leaders without judgement which is the propertie of Sheepe rather then of reasonable men It is a good saying of Sir THOMAS MORE I will not pin my salvation upon any mans sleeve because I know not whither he will carry it But God must be obeyed without an If with absolute in conditionall unexamined subjection this is to serve God as God 10. Ioshua chose to serve God transcendently and Angelically To doe his will on earth as it is done in Heaven For he is Iehovah that gives being to all the great God of the whol earth and therefore is to be served with super superlative super transcendent service {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} These are the 10. Ingredients of Ioshuas choice these are as a ten stringed Instrument to make our services melodious harmony in Gods eares Let us strive to remember them because they are the foundation to the building that followes We live in an age wherein every man will professe that he serves God But I beseech you remember that unlesse you adde these 10. Ingredients ye doe not serve him but grieve him Ye dee not serve him but doe him disservice unlesse ye serve him undividedly everlastingly sincerely zealously c. Before I leave this point I must adde one thing That there are 2. properties of a servant that must not be in Gods servant First a servant serves his Master with a slavish feare but we must serve God with a godly feare Heb. 12. 28. Secondly a servant loves his Master with a mercenary love he serves his Master as a hireling for his wages But Gods servant must serve God with a filiall love He that serves God only for Heaven fells his service to God as Parisiensis saith Et est inter illum Deum negotiatio quaedam Not but that a true servant of God may have an eye to the recompence of reward as Moses had but he must have but one eye upon the reward not both and the left eye too For our chiefe and last aime must be at Gods glory And the reason is because Gods servants are also his sonnes and heires and therefore as we must serve him with the subjection of servants so we must serve him with the affection of sonnes Let us remember that we are his servants that we may serve him with reverence diligence and exact subjection but remember also that we are his sonnes to serve him with filial feare love hope and faith And this is the right serving of God to serve him with a servant-like subjection and with a sonne-like affection The second thing propounded in the Explication is to shew the necessity that lies upon all men as well as great men to serve God and to serve him with all these Ingredients For though Ioshua did freely choose to serve the Lord yet it was not free for Ioshua to choose whether he would serve God or no For we are all bound to doe God homage and service This is primum and totum officium hominis This is the chiefe and the whole of man Eccles. 12. last We are all bound to this service by a 6. fold bond First by the bond of Creation It is a fundamentall errour to think that we are borne chiefely and ultimately to seeke our own happinesse God made man to serve him and to seeke his owne happinesse in Gods happinesse and his owne glory in Gods glory It is God that hath made us and not we our selves we are his workemanship and therefore it is our duty to improve all our parts and gifts to the service of that God from whom we have received all As all Rivers returne to the Ocean from which they first came And as Aulius Fulvius said to his sonne when he found him in the conspiracie of Catiline Now ego te Catilinae genui sed patria So doth God say to every man I did not give thee a soule and body to serve sinne withall but to serve me withall Quot membra tot ora so many members of our bodies so many faculties of our soules so many mouthes to call upon us to serve God withall Secondly It is our duty to serve God not only for our own creation but for the creation of the whole world For God made all the world to serve man and man to serve him with all the world and for all the world He made the Sunne the Moone the Fire and the Water c. to be serviceable to man and therefore man must serve God because he hath given all these to his use and he must serve God with all these improving them all to his service Quot creaturae tot ora so many creatures as there are in the world so many mouthes to call upon us to serve God and to serve him with all the Ingredients before named Thirdly We are bound by the bond of Redemption For we are therefore delivered out of the hands of our enemies by Iesus Christ that we should serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life Quot inimici tot ora So many enemies as we are freed from by the death of Christ so many mouthes to call upon us to serve Jesus Christ And in this sence the very Devill himselfe and Hell it selfe as we are redeemed from them doe call upon us to serve God and to serve him faithfully c. Fourthly We are bound by the bond of Sanctification For this is the end of our sanctification That we might have grace to serve him so as to please him Heb. 12. 28. Quot gratiae tot ora so many graces as God hath planted in thee so many mouthes to call upon thee to serve God For who goes to warfare at his owne charge saith the Apostle Who planteth a Vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof Who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock If God hath planted the graces of his Spirit in thy soule he lookes to reape the fruit of his own plantation and husbandry by thy holy serving of God Fifthly We are bound by the bond of Gratitude Quot beneficia tot ora so many mercies as we have received from God so many mouthes to call upon us to serve God For every mercy is as a needle saith S. Austin to sow God and Man together Man and God are seperated by disobedience but mercy is as a needle to sow God and Man together againe by obedience And therefore God makes the deliverance out of Egypt to be a forcible motive to the keeping of the ten Commandements I am the God that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt Therefore thou shalt have none other gods but me Therefore thou shalt keepe holy the Sabbath day c. So must the deliverance wee celebrate this day It must be as a golden Cord to tye us to serve God more devoutly more resolvedly then ever Every Deliverance binds