Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	abraham_n	servant_n	serve_v	332	4	6.4220	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93242	Judgement and mercy: or, The plague of frogges [brace] inflicted, removed. Delivered in nine sermons, by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Iosias Shute, Arch-deacon of Colchester, and preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth, in London: with his usuall prayers before and after sermon. Whereunto is added a sermon preached at his funerall, by Mr. Ephraim Vdall. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Octob. 29. 1644.	Shute, Josias, 1588-1643.; Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647. Sermon preached at the funerall of Mr. Shute.	1645 (1645)	Wing S3715; Thomason E299_1; Thomason E299_2; ESTC R200245	134,491	230

I will visit the Princes and in the same day I will visit all that leap upon the threshold If I begin with the Princes I will goe lower I am no excepter of persons I am impartiall if they sinne they shall be punished All before me are as the stubble from him that sitteth on the Throne to her that grindeth in the mill they shall taste of my wrath they shall be sure to drinke of the cup of my displeasure according to their sinnes that doe not repent So Samuel tells the people If ye doe wickedly ye and your King shall dye 1 Sam. 13.25 So much if that And into the houses and on the beds of thy servants What were these servants They were either such as attended upon the body of Pharaoh that were neare to him or such as were officers of State to whom the administration of publick businesse was committed Whether the one or the other it is more then probable they were such as applauded Pharaoh in his ill courses against the Hebrewes out of an inbred hatred against the Hebrewes for every Hebrew was an abomination to the Egyptians And likewise they were subservient to the King in the execution of his wicked designes And now beloved you may justifie God in his proceedings that as he punisheth the Master so he punisheth the servants It is just with God when men serve others in wickednesse to punish the instruments as well as the principall The servants as well as Pharaoh In Gen. 12. Abraham comes to Pharaohs Court another Pharaoh of Egypt and it seemes his wife being beautifull he was afraid that injury should be offered him for her and you know what he put into her mouth and after it fell out that Pharaoh and all his house were plagued Chrysostome makes the question Pharaoh tooke the woman into his house Why should his houshold be plagued why should his servants suffer The Father as he makes so he answers the question let men consider what went before how the Princes of Pharaoh commended the woman to him they looked and surveyed her excellencie and commended her to the King Hee that considers this saith Chrysostome shall finde them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they played the tricke and part of Panders and procurers base people that were servile and officious to the lust of their Prince So he saith they did further and give their hand to helpe forward the wickednesse to be committed therefore saith he they justly and deservedly suffered for that fact so being agents and instruments of satisfying the Kings lasciviousnesse it was just with God to wrap and involve them in the same judgement There is a lively instance in Iudg. 9. the men of Sechem did further the wicked designe of Abimelech and lent him money to strengthen him in his usurpation Now because they were so officious in that wicked way that he was in it was just with God that afterward they were punished and a fire did breake out of the house of Abimelech against Sechem he slew them and rased their City and sowed it with sait As himselfe afterward was punished so were they that were instruments Those Captains with their fifty that attempted to apprehend Elija 2 King 1. A man would thinke they came upon a faire message when the King sent for them they must come But saith Tostatus for the justifying of God they were Idolatrous and it is likely they were such people as were at the becke of the King to serve him in base services therefore it was just that they were consumed So Ioab you know he served the turne of David in setting Vriah in the front the time came that his owne blood was shed and though the cause be made by David for the slaughter of Abner yet without doubt God put in the murther of Vriah for therein hee served the Kings lust for when the deed was done and he was to give an account saith he If the King be angry tell him that Vriah is slaine as if he had said that will salve up all he thought the King will thinke he is true in the great matter therefore I will passe by the lesser that the King might see he was officious to him in that So in Zedechiah that he might shew his officiousnesse to him that he knew hated Micaiah he strikes him upon the face Was it not just with God according to the Prophesie of Micaiah that he should runne into a chamber to hide himselfe and finde no security So those that were so officious to Nebuchadnezzar to throw the three children into the fire it was just with God that the flame should licke them in and consume them St. Austen in one of his Sermons de tempore hath a conceit that those children that called Elisha Bald-pate were set on by their parents and if it were so it was just with God that those that were set on by their parents should be punished So if Nicephorus say true it was just that Herodias daughter should dye as shee did hee saith that she slipped into the Ice and the Ice closed and cut off her head Being an instrument of so foule an act it was just with God that she should suffer It is just indeed that the instruments should suffer as well as the principall upon this ground For many a wickednesse would finde its owne grave if there were not some instruments officious for feare or favour or gaine to execute those purposes The lust of David might have easily beene swaged perhaps if his servants had not beene so ready to fetch Bathsheba And those high Priests had not so soone wreaked their malice upon Christ if Iudas had not been so ready to betray Christ So that because instruments are so ready to being forth wickednesse that else would perish and come to nothing it is just with God that the instruments should suffer For the Use of it In the name of God let us all fear to serve any other whosoever that hath power over us in regard of sinne let them be what they will if conscience tell us it is unlawfull take heed we serve them not in it For it will not serve another day for Doeg to say Saul bid me fall upon those that wore linnen Ephods It will not serve the Task masters of Pharaoh to say He enjoyned us to lay great burdens upon the Israelites It will not serve Absaloms servants to say Our master commanded us to kill Amnon It will not serve Herodias daughter to say My mother bid me aske Iohn Baptists head in a platter O no Beloved father and mother and master and Prince and all must be obeyed in the Lord as the Apostle saith and no further If therefore we shall wave God and his Commandements to serve them in ill we draw upon us judgements in this world and in the world to come And how many can you remember perhaps in your experience that have cursed the time that ever they were instruments to others sinnes