Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	family_n	parent_n	3,006	5	8.2083	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26967	Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and the opposers and neglecters convinced by the light of Scripture and reason / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1320; ESTC R11592	92,411	266

spoil it and hinder the success make it do more hurt then good How many a Sermon or Prayer or reproof is made the matter of derision and contempt for some imprudent passages or deportment God sendeth not his servants to be jesters of the world or to play the mad-men as David in his fears We must be wise and innocent as well as resolute and valiant Though fleshly and worldly wisdom be not desirable as being but foolishness with God yet the wisdom which is from above is first pure and then peaceable and is acquainted with the high and hidden mysteries and is justified of her children must be the Guide of all our holy actions Holiness is not blind Illumination is the first part of Sanctification Believers are Children of the light Nothing requireth so much wisdom as the matters of God and of our Salvation Folly is most unsuitable to such excellent imployments and most unbeseeming the sons of the most High It is a spirit of wisdom that animateth all the Saints 1 Cor. 3. 19. 2. 6 7. Ephes 1. 8 17. Col. 3. 16. It is the treasures of wisdom that dwell in Christ are communicated to his members Col. 2. 3. We must walk in wisdom toward them that are without Col. 4. 5. And our works must be shewn out of a good Conversation with meekness of wisdom Jam. 3. 13. Yet I must needs say that its more in great things then in small in the substance then the circumstances in a sound judgement and estimate of things and suitable choire prosecution then in fine expressions or deportment answering proud mens expectations 2. Though you must work with your might yet with a diversity agreeable to the quality of your several works Some works must be preferred before others All cannot be done at once That 's a sin out of season which in season is a duty The greatest the most urgent work must be preferred And some works must be done with double fervour resolution and some with less Buying and selling and marrying and possessing and using the world must be done with a fear of over-doing and in a sort as if we did them not though they also must have a necessary diligence 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. Gods Kingdom and its Righteousness must be first sought Mat. 6. 33. And our labour for the meat that perisheth must be comparatively as none John 6. 27. 3. Lastly it is not an irregular nor a self-disturbing vexatious violence that is required of us but a sweet well-setled resolution and a delightful expeditious diligence that makes the wheels go merrily on and the more easily get over those rubs and difficulties that clog and stop a sloathful soul And now will you lend me the assistance of your Consciences for the transcribing of this command of God upon your hearts and taking out a Copy of this order for the regulating of your lives Whatsoever is not a word so comprehensive as to include any vanity or sin but so comprehensive as to include all your Duty 1. To begin with the lowest The very works of your bodily callings must have diligence In the sweat of your brows you must eat your bread Gen. 3. 19. Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do Exod. 20. 9. He that will not work let him not eat 2 Thess 3. 10. Disorderly walkers busie-bodies that wil not work with quietness and eat their own bread are to be avoided shamed by the Church 2 Thess 3. 6 11 12 14. Lazy servants are unfaithful to men and disobedient to God who commandeth them to obey their Masters according to the flesh unbelieving ungodly Masters in all things that concerns their service and that not with eye-service as man-pleasers but in singleness of heart and in the fear of God doing what soever they do as to the Lord and not unto men knowing th●● of the Lord even for this they shall receive the reward of the inheritance Col. 3. 22 23 24. But he that doth wrong by sloathfulness or unfaithfulness shall receive for the wrong which he hath done vers 25. Success is Gods ordinary temporal reward of diligence Prov. 10. 4 12. 24 27. And diseases poverty shame disappointment or self-tormenting melancholy are his usual punishments of sloath Hard labour redeemeth Time you will have the more to lay out on greater works The sloathful is still behind hand therefore must leave much of his work undone 2. Are you Parents or Governours of Families you have work to do for God and for your childrens and servants souls Do it with your might Deal wisely but seriously frequently with them about their sin their duty and their hopes of Heaven Tell them whither they are going and which way they must go Make them understand that they have a higher Father and Master that must be first serve and greater work to do then yours Waken them from their natural insensibility and sloath Turn not all your family duties into lifeless customary form whether extemporate or by rote speak about God Heaven and Hell and Holiness with that seriousness as beseems men that believe what they say and would have those they speak to to believe it Talk not either drowsily or lightly or jeastingly of such dreadful or joyful unexpressible things Remember that your families and you are going to the grave and to the world where there is no more room for your exhortations There is no Catechising examining or serious instructing them in the grave whither they and you are going It must be now or never And therefore do it with your might The words of God must be in your hearts and you must diligently teach them to your children talking of them when you sit in your houses when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise up Deut. 6. 6 7 8. 11. 18 19 20. 3. Have you ignorant or ungodly neighbors whose misery calls for your compassion and relief Speak to them and help them with prudent diligence Lose not your opportunities Stay not till Death hath stopt your mouths or stopt their ears Stay not till they are out of hearing and taken from your converse Stay not till they are in Hell before you warn them of it or till Heaven be lost before you have seriously called to them to remember it Go to their houses take all opportunities stoop to their infirmities bear with unthankful frowardness It is for mens salvation Remember there is no place for your instructions or exhortations in the Grave or Hell Your dust cannot speak and their dust cannot hear Up therefore and be doing with all your might 4. Hath God intrsusted you with the Riches of this world with many talents or with few by which he looketh you should relieve the needy and especially should promote those works of piety which are the greatest charity Give prudently but willingly and liberally while you have to give It is