Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	respect_n	servant_n	1,977	5	7.1711	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09086	The seconde parte of the booke of Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution. Or a Christian directorie, guiding all men to their saluation. Written by the former authour. R.P.; Booke of Christian exercise. Part 2.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. First booke of the Christian exercise.	1590 (1590)	STC 19380; ESTC S110194	217,337	475

the tyme lost but passe no further If hetherto thou haue not considered the weightines of thys affayre serue thy selfe of thys admonition and remember that it is written that a wise man profiteth by euerie occasion Esteeme thy resolution in thys one point the cheefest menage that euer shall passe throgh thy hands in thys worlde albeit thou wert a Monarch and Ruler of tenne worldes together And finally I will ende with the verie same wordes where-with the wise man concludeth his whole booke Feare God and obserue his commandements for this is euery man That is in this doth all and euerie man consist his end his beginning his life and cause of beeing that he feare God and direct his actions to the obseruaunce of hys commaundements for that without this he is no man in effect seeing that he looseth all benefit both of his name nature redemption and creation THAT THE SERVICE VVHICH GOD REQVIRETH OF MAN IN thys present life is Religion With the particuler confirmations of Christian religion aboue all other in the worlde CHAP. IIII. HAuing prooued in the former chapters that there is a God which created man and that man in respect thereof and of other benefits receiued is bounde to honor serue the same God the question may be made in this place what seruice thys is that God requireth and wherein it doth consist Wherunto the aunswere is breefe and easie that it is Religion which is a vertue that containeth properlie the worship and seruice that we owe vnto GOD euen as Pietie is a vertu contayning the duetie that children do owe vnto their Parents and Obseruance another vertue that comprehendeth the regard that schollers and seruants beare vnto their Maisters In respect of which comparison and likenesse betweene these vertues God sayth by a certaine Prophet The sonne honoureth his father and the seruaunt his Maister if then I be a Father where is my honor if I be a maister where is my feare The acts of Religion are diuers and different some internall as deuotion and prayer some other externall as adoration worship sacrifice oblations and such like that are declarations and protes●ations of the internall It extendeth it selfe also to stirre vp and put in vie the acts and operations of other vertues for the seruice of God in which sence S● Iames nameth it Pure and vnspotted Religion to visite Orphanes and Widdowes in their tribulation and to keepe our selues vndefiled from the wickednes of thys world Finally how soeuer some Heathens did vse this word Religion to some other significations yet as S. Augustine wel noteth the vse therof among the faithfull hath alwaies beene to signifie therby the worship honor and seruice that is due vnto God so that if in one word you wil haue it declared what God requireth of man in this life it may be rightly said that al standeth in thys that he be Religious Heereof it proceedeth that whatsoeuer sort or sect of people in the world professed reuerence honor or worship to God or to gods or to any diuine power essence or nature what soeuer were they Iewes Heathens Gentiles Christians Turks Moores Heretiques or other they did alwaies call theyr said profession by the name of theyr religion In which sense also and signification of the word I am to treate at this tyme of Christian Religion that is of the substance forme manner and way reuealed by Christ and his Apostles vnto vs of performing our duetie and true seruice towards God Which seruice is the first point necessary to be resolued vpon by him that seeketh his saluation as in the Chapter that goeth before hath beene declared And for obtayning thys seruice and the true knowledge therof no mean vppon earth is left vnto man but onely the light and instruction of Christian Religion according to the protestation of S. Peter vnto the Gouernours of the Iewes when hee said There is no other name vnder heauen giuen vnto men whereby to be saued but only this of Christ and of his Religion If you obiect against me that in former tymes before Christes natiuitie as vnder the Lawe of Moses for two thousand yeeres together there were many Saints who without Christian Religion serued God vprightlie as the Prophets and other holie people and before them again in the law of Nature when neyther Christian nor Iewish Religion was yet heard of for more then two thousand yeeres there wanted not diuers that pleased God and serued him truelie as Enoch Noe Iob Abraham Iacob others I aunswer that albeit these men especiallie the former that liued vnder the Law of nature had not so perticuler and expresse knowledge of Christ and of his misteries as we haue nowe for thys was reserued to the tyme of grace as S. Paul in diuers places at large declareth that is albeit they knewe not expresly how in what manner Christ should be borne whether of a Virgine or no or in what perticuler sort he should liue and die what Sacraments he shoulde leaue what way of publishing his Gospel he shold appoint and the like wherof notwithstanding very many perticulers were reuealed to the Iewes from tyme to time and the neerer they drewe to the time of Christes appearance the more plaine reuelation was made of these mysteries yet I say all and euerie one of these holy Saints that liued from Adam vntil the comming of Christ had knowledge ingenerall of Christian Religion and did beleeue the same that is they beleeued expresly that there shoulde come a Sauiour and Redeemer of man-kind to deliuer them from the bondage contracted by the sinne of Adam Thys was reuealed straight after their fal to our first Parents and Progenitors in Paradise to wit that by the womans seede our redemption should be made In respect wherof it is sayd in the Reuelations that Christ is the Lambe that hath beene slaine from the beginning of the world And S. Peter in the first generall Counsaile holden by the Apostles affirmeth that the old ancient Fathers before Christes natiuitie were saued by the grace of Christ as we are now which S. Paul confirmeth in diuers places And finallie the matter is so cleere in thys behalfe that the whole Schoole of Diuines accordeth that fayth and religion of the auncient Fathers before Christes appearaunce was the verie same in substaunce that ours is nowe sauing onely that it was more generall obscure and confuse then ours is for that it was of things to come as ours is nowe of things past and present For example they beleeued that a Redeemer shold come and we beleeue that he is alreadie come They said Uirgo concipiet a Vyrgine shall conceiue and we say Uirgo concepit a Virgine hath conceiued They had sacrifices and ceremonies that prefigured his comming for the time ensuing we haue sacrifice and sacraments that represent his being for the time