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duty_n	child_n	servant_n	teach_v	1,055	5	6.2813	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32977	Certain sermons or homilies appointed to be read in churches in the time of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory and now reprinted for the use of private families, in two parts.		1687 (1687)	Wing C4091I; ESTC R1759	454,358	660

thy House Thy Children shall be as the young Springs of the Olives about thy Table Lo thus shall that Man be blessed saith David that feareth the Lord. This let the Wife have ever in mind the rather admonished thereto by the Apparel of her Head whereby is signified that she is under covert or obedience of her Husband And as that Apparel is of Nature so appointed to declare her subjection so biddeth St. Paul that all other of her Raiment should express both Shamefacedness and Sobriety For if it be not lawful for the Woman to have her Head bare but to bear thereon the Sign of her Power wheresoever she goeth more is it required that she declare the thing that is meant thereby And therefore those Ancient Women of the old World called their Husbands Lords and shewed them reverence in obeying them But peradventure she will say That those Men loved their Wives indeed I know that well enough and bear it well in mind but when I do admonish you of your Duties then call not to consideration what their Duties be For when we our selves do teach our Children to obey us as their Parents or when we reform our Servants and tell them that they should obey their Masters not only at the Eye but as the Lord if they should tell us again our Duties we should not think it well done for when we be admonished of our Duties and Faults we ought not then to seek what other Mens Duties be For though a Man had a Companion in his fault yet should he not thereby be without his fault But this must be only looked on by what means thou mayest make thy self without blame for Adam did lay the blame upon the Woman and she turned it unto the Serpent but yet neither of them was thus excused and therefore bring not such excuses to me at this time but apply all thy diligence to hear thine obedience to thine Husband For when I take in hand to admonish thy Husband to love thee and to cherish thee yet will I not cease to set out the Law that is appointed for the Woman as well as I would require of the Man what is written for his Law Go thou therefore about such things as becometh thee only and shew thy self tractable to thy Husband or rather if thou wilt obey thy Husband for Gods precept then alledge such things as be in his duty to do but perform thou diligently those things which the Law-maker hath charged thee to do for thus is it most reasonable to obey God if thou wilt not suffer thy self to transgress his Law He that loveth his Friend seemeth to do no great thing but he that honoreth that is hurtful and hateful to him this Man is worthy most commendation even so think you if thou canst suffer an extream Husband thou shalt have a great reward therefore but if thou lovest him only because he is courteous what reward will God give thee therefore Yet I speak not these things that I would wish the Husbands to be sharp towards their Wives but I exhort the Women that they would patiently bear the sharpness of their Husbands For when either Parties do their best to perform their Duties the one to the other then followeth thereon great profit to their Neighbors for their Examples sake For when the Woman is ready to suffer a sharp Husband and the Man will not extreamly entreat his stubborn and troublesome Wife then be all things in quiet as in a most sure Haven Even thus was it done in old time that every one did their own Duty and Office and was not busie to require the Duty of their Neighbors Consider I pray thee that Abraham took to him his Brothers Son his Wife did not blame him therefore He commanded him to go with him a long Journey she did not gainsay it but obeyed his precept Again after all those great miseries labors and pains of that Journey when Abraham was made as Lord over all yet did he give place to Lot of his Superiority which matter Sarah took so little to grief that she never once suffered her Tongue to speak such words as the common manner of Women is wont to do in these days when they see their Husbands in such Rooms to be made Underlings and to be put under their Youngers then they upbraid them with cumbrous Talk and call them Fools Dastards and Cowards for so doing But Sarah was so far from speaking any such thing that it came never into her mind thought so to say but allowed the Wisdom and Will of her Husband Yea besides all this after the said Lot had thus his Will and left to his Uncle the less portion of Land he chanced to fall into extream Peril which chance when it came to the knowledge of this said Patriarch he incontinently put all his Men in harness and prepared himself with all his Family and Friends against the Host of the Persians In which case Sarah did not counsel him to the contrary nor did say as then might have been said My Husband whither goest thou so unadvisedly Why runnest thou thus on head Why dost thou offer thy self to so great Perils and art thus ready to jeopard thine own Life and to peril the Lives of all thine for such a Man as hath done thee such wrong At the least way if thou regardest not thy self yet have compassion on me which for thy love have forsaken my Kindred and my Countrey and have the want both of my Friends and Kinsfolk and am thus come into so far Countries with thee have pity on me and make me not here a Widow to cast me into such cares and troubles Thus might she have said but Sarah neither said nor thought such words but she kept her self in silence in a●l things Furthermore all that time when she was Barren and took no Pains as other Women did by bringing forth Fruit in his House What did he he complained not to his Wife but to Almighty God And consider how either of them did their Duties as became them for neither did he despise Sarah because she was Barren nor never did cast it in her teeth Consider again how Abraham expelled the Handmaid out of the House when she required it so that by this I may truly prove that the one was pleased and contented with the other in all things but yet set not your eyes only on this matter but look further what was done before this that Hagar used her Mistress despitefully and that Abraham himself was somewhat provoked against her which must needs be an intolerable matter and a painful to a free-hearted Woman and a chast Let not therefore the Woman be too busie to call for the Duty of her Husband where she should be ready to perform her own for that is not worthy any great commendations And even so again let not the Man only consider what belongeth to the Woman and to stand too earnestly gazing thereon

Faith doth directly send us to Christ for remission of our Sins and that by Faith given us of God we embrace the Promise of God's Mercy and of the remission of our Sins which thing none other of our Virtues of Works properly doth therefore the Scripture useth to say That Faith without Works doth justifie And forasmuch as it is all one Sentence in effect to say Faith without Works and only Faith doth justifie us therefore the old ancient Fathers of the Church from time to time have uttered our Justification with this Speech Only Faith justifieth us meaning no other thing than St. Paul meant when he said Faith without Works justifieth us And because all this is brought to pass through the only Merits and Deservings of our Saviour Christ and not through our Merits or through the Merit of any Virtue that we have within us or of any Work that cometh from us Therefore in that respect of merit and deserving we forsake as it were altogether again Faith Works and all other Virtues For our own Imperfection is so great through the corruption of Original Sin that all is imperfect that is within us Faith Charity Hope Dread Thoughts Words and VVorks and therefore not apt to Merit and Deserve any part of our Justification for us And this form of Speaking use we in the humbling of ourselves to God and to give all the Glory to our Saviour Christ who is best worthy to have it Here you have heard the Office of God in our Justification and how we receive it of him freely by his Mercy without our deserts through true and lively Faith Now you shall hear the Office and Duty of a Christian Man unto God what we ought on our part to render unto God again for his great Mercy and Goodness They that preach Faith only justifieth do not teach carnal liberty or that we should do no good Works Our Office is not to pass the time of this present Life unfruitfully and idly after that we are Baptized or Justified not caring how few good VVorks we do to the Glory of God and Profit of our Neighbors Much less is it our Office after that we be once made Christ's Members to live contrary to the same making ourselves Members of the Devil walking after his enticements and after the suggestions of the VVorld and the Flesh whereby we know that we do serve the VVorld and the Devil and not God The Devils have Faith but not the true Faith For that Faith which bringeth forth without Repentance either evil VVorks or no good VVorks is not a right pure and lively Faith but a dead devilish counterfeit and feigned Faith as St. Paul and St. James call it For even the Devils know and Believe that Christ was Born of a Virgin that he Fasted forty Days and forty Nights without Meat and Drink that he wrought all kind of Miracles declaring Himself very God They Believe also that Christ for our sakes suffered a most painful Death to redeem us from everlasting Death and that he rose again from Death the Third Day They Believe that he ascended into Heaven and that he Sitteth on the Right Hand of the Father and at she last end of this VVorld shall come again and judge both the Quick and the Dead These Articles of our Faith the Devils Believe and so they Believe all things that be written in the New and Old Testament to be true And yet for all this Faith they be but Devils remaining still in their damnable estate lacking the very true Christian Faith What is the true and justifying Faith For the right and true Christian Faith is not only to believe that Holy Scripture and all the foresaid Articles of our Faith are true but also to have a sure Trust and Confidence in God's merciful Promises to be saved from everlasting Damnation by Christ Whereof doth follow a loving Heart to obey his Commandments And this true Christian Faith neither any Devil hath nor yet any Man which in the outward profession of his Mouth and in his outward receiving of the Sacraments in coming to the Church and in all other outward appearances seemeth to be a Christian Man and yet in his Living and Deeds sheweth the contrary They that continue in evil living have not true Faith For how can a Man have this true Faith sure Trust and Confidence in God that by the Merits of Christ his Sins be forgiven and he reconciled to the Favour of God and to be partaker of the Kingdom of Heaven by Christ when he liveth ungodlily and denieth Christ in his Deeds Surely no such ungodly Man can have this Faith and Trust in God For as they know Christ to be the only Saviour of the World so they know also that Wicked Men shall not enjoy the Kingdom of God They know that God hateth Unrighteousness Psal 25. that he will destroy all those that speak untruly that those which have done good Works which cannot be done without a lively Faith in Christ shall come forth into the Resurrection of Life and those that have done Evil shall come unto the Resurrection of Judgment Very well they know also that to them that be Contentious and to them that will not be Obedient unto the Truth but will obey Unrighteousness shall come Indignation Wrath and Affliction c. Therefore to conclude considering the infinite Benefits of God shewed and given unto us mercifully without our Deserts who hath not only Created us of Nothing and from a piece of vile Clay of his infinite Goodness hath exalted us as touching our Soul unto his own Similitude and Likeness But also whereas we were condemned to Hell and Death everlasting hath given his own natural Son being God Eternal Immortal and Equal unto Himself in Power and Glory to be incarnated and to take our mortal Nature upon him with the infirmities of the same and in the same nature to suffer most shameful and painful Death for our Offences to the intent to justifie us and to restore us to Life everlasting So making us also his dear Children Brethren unto his only Son our Saviour Christ and Inheritors for ever with him of his Eternal Kingdom of Heaven These great and merciful Benefits of God if they be well considered do neither minister unto us occasion to be idle and to live without doing any good Works neither yet stir us up by any means to do evil things But contrariwise if we be not desperate Persons and our Hearts harder than Stones they move us to render ourselves unto God wholly with all our VVills Hearts Might and Power to serve him in all good Deeds obeying his Commandments during our Lives to seek in all things his Glory and Honour not our sensual Pleasures and Vain-glory evermore dreading willingly to offend such a Merciful God and Loving Redeemer in VVord Thought or Deed. And the said Benefits of God deeply considered move us for his sake also