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
A47643	A practical commentary upon the first epistle general of St. Peter. Vol. II containing the third, fourth and fifth chapters / by the most Reverend Robert Leighton ... ; published after his death at the request of his friends.	Leighton, Robert, 1611-1684.; Fall, James, 1646 or 7-1711.	1694 (1694)	Wing L1029; ESTC R36245	321,962	503

above shall always satisfie and never cloy When the chief Shepherd shall appear and that shortly this moment will shortly be out What is to be refused in the way to this Crown all labour sweet for it And what is there here to be desired to stay your hearts that we should not most willingly let go to rest from our labours and receive our Crown Was ever any man sad that the day of his Coronation drew nigh no envy nor jealousies all Kings each his Crown and each rejoycing in the glory of another and all in his who that day shall be all in all Verse 5. 5. Likewise ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble SIN hath disordered all nothing to be found but distemper and crookedness in the condition and ways of Men towards God and one towards another till a new Spirit come in and rectifie all and very much of that redress lies in this particular grace of humility here recommended by the Apostle That regulates the carriage of the younger towards the elder 1. Of all Men one to another 2. Towards God 1. The younger to be subject to the elder Which I take so of difference of years that it hath some aspect to the relation of those that are under the discipline and government of the Elders who though not always so in years however ought to suit that name in exemplary gravity and wisdom It is no Seignory but a Ministry yet there is a sacred authority in it rightly carried that both duely challenges and effectually commands that respect and obedience which is fit for the right order and government of the House of God The Spirit of Christ in his Ministers is the thing that makes them truly Elders and truly worthy of double honour and without that Men may hunt respect and credit by other parts and the more they follow it the faster it flies from them or if they catch any thing of it they only grip but a shadow Inf. Learn you my Brethren that obedience due to the discipline of Gods House This is all we plead for in this point And know if you refuse it and despise the Ordinance of God he will resent the indignity as done to him And Oh! that all that have that charge of his House upon them would mind his interest wholly and not rise in conceit of their power but wholly imploy and improve it for their Lord and Master and look on no respect to themselves as for themselves desirable but only so far as is needful for the profitable discharge and advance of his work in their hands What are differences and regards of Men how empty a vapour and whatsoever it is nothing lost by single and entire love of our Lord's glory and total aiming at that Them that honour him he will honour and those that despise him shall be despised But though this likewise implies I conceive somewhat in it relative to the former subject yet certainly 't is more extended in its full intendment and directs touching the difference of years the Su●jection that is respect and reverence due from younger to elder persons The presumption and unbridledness of youth requires thepressing and binding on of this rule And it is of undeniable equity even written in nature due to Aged persons but doubtless those reap this due fruit in that season the most that have ripened it most by the influence of their grave and holy carriage 't is indeed a Crown but when when found in the way of righteousness there it shines and hath a kind of royalty over youth otherwise a graceless old age is a most despicable and lamentable ●ight What gains an unholy old Man or Woman by their scores of years but the more scores of guiltiness and misery and their white hairs speak nothing but ripeness for wrath Oh! to be as a tree pla●ted in the House of the Lord bringing forth fruit in old age much experience in the ways of God and much disdain of the World and much desire of the love of God heavenly temper of mind and frame of life this is the advantage of many years but to have seen and felt the more misery and heapt up the more sin the greatest boundle of it against the day of wrath a woful treasure of it threescore or threescore and ten years a gathering and with so much increase every Day no vacancy no dead years no not a Day wherein it was not growing A sad reflection to look back what have I done for God and find nothing but such a world of sin committed against him how much better he that gets home betimes in his youth if once delivered from sin and death at one with God and some way serviceable to him or desiring to be and hath a quick voyage having lived much in a little time All of you be subject one to another This yet further dilates the duty makes it universally mutual one subject to another This turns just about the vain contest of Men that arises from the natural mischief of of self-love every one would carry it and be best and highest The very Company of Christ and his exemplary lowliness and the meanness of himself and those his followers all these did not bar out this frothy foolish question who should be greatest and so far disputed as into a heat about it a strife amongst them Now this rule is just opposite each strive to be lowest subject one to another This doth not annul either Civil or Church Government nor those differences that are grounded upon the Law of Nature or of Civil Society for we see immediately before such differences allowed and the particular duties of them recommnended but those only that all due respect according to their Station be given by each Christian to another and though there cannot be such a subjection of Masters or Parents to their Servants and Children as is due to them from these yet a lowly meek carrying of of their authority a tender respect of their youth receiving of an admonition from them duly qualify'd is that which suits with the rule And generally not delighting in the trampling on or abusing of any but rather seeking the credit and good esteem of all as our own Taking notice of that good in them wherein they are beyond us for all hath some advantage and none hath all And in a word and 't is that of St. Paul like this of our Apostle here let this be all the strife who shall put most respect each on another according to the capacity and station of each one in giving honour go each one before another Now that such carriage may be sincere no empty compliment or court holy water as they speak but a part of the solid holiness of a Christian the Apostle requires the true principle of such deportment the