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	owe_v	servant_n	1,002	5	6.9749	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41331	The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianisme ... / by Giles Firmin ...	Firmin, Giles, 1614-1697.	1670 (1670)	Wing F963; ESTC R34439	271,866	392

warm Sun of occasion and temptation shines upon that side of the dunghill of his corrupt heart this is his comfort that Jesus Christ whom I received for my King and Lord he will be my Redeemer from this lust also I chuse him and apply his Lordship to this he hath engaged against whatever it be that should come in between me and him to make my heart unsound and rotten If then they do rise as they will unexpected yet if thine eye be upon them and canst carry them to Christ and doest not say O spare me in this but let this lust feel the power of thy iron Mace Psal 2.9 deliver me from this enemy too strong for me Canst please thy self in thinking Christ is engaged for me against it he will undertake it for me and help me through his strength and redemption to be above it Thou mayest yet conclude thou hast truly received Christ for thy Lord though new corruptions which had the seeds in thy heart before do rise up and trouble thee Secondly Carry this general to thy particular relation see what doth this King there what authority bears he there Thou hast received Christ thy Lord thou sayest thou art a Husband or a Wife a Father Mother or a Child a Master or Servant hath this Lord any thing to do there hath he any Rules for these Relations to observe or any other Relations more publick than I have mentioned If I be a Father where is my honour If I be a Master where is my fear Mal. 1.6 Shew then thou hast received this Lord by endeavouring to yield obedience to the Rules of thy Lord in thy particular relation But what sad work will this Rule make among many Professours The man can talk of faith hath very good knowledge can pray at a meeting of Christians a man of excellent parts but a churlish Nabal a Tyrant rather than a Husband and his heart it may be not truly closed with the wife of his youth let her be studious to please him tender over him all her care respect obsequiousness towards him cannot obtain a loving tender conversation from him but carries himself like a surly imperious blockhead Take such a woman she is a Believer she hath taken Christ for her Lord goes to Sermons frequently and private Fasts you must look upon her for a Christian she can talk very well of good things see her in her relation of a Wife is Christ her Lord there doth she manifest that submission that reverence to her Husband which her Lord calls for This Doctrine I have observed by some will hardly be born it is strange to see what Wives some are how clamorous froward how far from being Sarahs Daughters how usurping authority over their Husbands they must not dare to do any thing but as they will have them for fear the house be too hot or the dumb devil possess them yet these must be accounted Christians they have received Christ their Lord. It was a worthy speech I once heard from a Lady a very comely person well bred of a good Family her Husband a man of no sweet temper but too blockish in our discourse some words falling which tended a little towards her duty intimating some difficulty that she must needs meet with in the discharge of her place she quickly perceived my meaning and answered me it was no difficulty to her I have the easiest part said she to perform my duty is to obey his duty is to love not but that the Wifes duty also is to love Titus 2.4 and so was she as loving as dutiful answering the Apostles charge there given proving by the discharge of her Lords command in her particular Relation as well as in other points that she had truly received Jesus Christ her Saviour Lord. As for Children it were a comely sight to see profession of faith in Christ adorned with dutifulness obedience and honour towards the Father and especially towards the Mother It was a custome not long since but now it is almost worn out for Children going to bed and in morning to ask their Parents blessing upon the knee that Ceremony did much tend to keep up Parents superiority and keep Children in mind of their duty since that hath been left off most Children have left off that reverent respect they owe to Parents For Servants those who do answer the Lords Rules let them have their commendation but never I think was there such a complaint of Servants since the Gospel was known as is in these dayes To shut up this Head I do not say but some have a hundred times more difficulty to quit their places than others have with some it is nothing but others have temptations enough especially in the relations of Husband and Wife some I do heartily pity when I see what strange kind of Creatures they have to love scarce one good quality in a Wife He that can erre alwayes in ber love Prov. 5.19 I count him an Orthodox man for such an error I know no Orthodox error but that I think they have obtained great mercy from the Lord who can thus love unlovely objects So on the other side what imperious Tyrants have some Wives to obey what pitiful Idols have some to reverence I do not look on a Christians grapling with and getting above his special lust to be an easie matter I do not think it so easie to discharge the duties of particular relations especially for some but this I say he that is not so loosed from his special lust that he receiveth Christ as King to make an eternal separation of that lust from his Soul he or she that makes not conscience of the discharge of the duty of their particular relation be it Husband Wife Child or Servant c. it is the thing they are labouring after humbled under their miscarriages and improving Christ to this end if these things be light with any person not worthy the regarding let your profession be what it will you did never yet truly receive Jesus Christ the Lord and your faith is but vain Thirdly Carry this general to thy particular Calling see how Christ is Lord there What diligence doest thou shew there What care and conscience doest thou express there Your Lord hath Rules for mens particular Callings Do you know what they are and doth your heart stand in aw of them Do you lay his Rule to your buying and selling to your commerce and dealing with men There are other Rules but I only instance in these Alas these are low things say you Then say I they are easily observed by you I hope if they be so low in your esteem but I have found some as high as they have been in their Gospel notions and very frequent at private Fasts yet very tardy in these low things Diligence in our Callings is a thing that light of Nature as well as light of Scripture doth teach Some think it a high attainment in Religion