Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	action_n	good_a	work_n	1,044	5	5.6274	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12150	A Breefe collection concerning the love of God tovvards mankinde, & hovv for diuers causes vve are iustlie bounde to loue & serue him with preparation to prayer, and certaine necessarie prayers and thankesgeuing to God for his benefites, daylie to be vsed : also a deuote meditation to procure contrition, and excite deuotion with other vertuous prayers.		1603 (1603)	STC 5554; ESTC S1869	22,473	91

to make Remember you are novv before a moste mighty Deuine Maiesty The Creator and Redeemer of your selfe all Mankinde vvhome Infinite Numbers of Angels all the Caelestiall multitude doe continually adore vvorshipe vvith feare tremblinge And your selfe a most wretched vnworthey Creature fraile vnstable falling from him dulle vn-apte to call vpon him And yet his mercy is so muche his goodnes so great that he is euer ready to heare graciously to graunte your lawful requestes and to receiue you when you come vnto him also to forgeue you al your offences when you are hartely sorye aske mercye for them Likewise he is one that hath and doth most bountefully bestow vpon you al thinges necessary for body and soule hath and doth defend kepe feede nourish you al creatures And that before his diuine Presence you nowe presume to enter and to present you selfe To Intreate beseech Require mercye and forgeuenes of sinnes for your selfe al others to offer the Sacrifise of Prayse Thankesgeuinge Therfore with al humility reuerence prostrate your selfe at the feete of his mercye Indeuore vvith deuotion to accomplish that you come for But before you begin your praiers that you maye the rather offer them vvith cleannes of harte geue thankes to God not only for his Benefits but chefely for his goodnes in him selfe Make it fully knovven to your harte as true it is vncertaine vvhether you shal liue to the ende of your Prayers or not Indeuor therfore thay maye be such as if it shold so happen before you had ended them that so through the mercy of God they may be acceptable vnto him for the ful forgeuenes of your former offences the receiuing you to his fauoure And that you may the more perfectly beginne continevv and ende al your prayers and other good actions In the Name to the honoure glorye of God the moste holy blessed Trinitye haue in minde his greate goodnes tovvardes you Benefits bestovved vpon you geue thankes for them and also that the Passion of our Lord may take the more effecte the benefit of it be Imparted the fruite ther of Inioyed and in al spiritual Practises remembred You may yf it please you begin your Prayers in manner as folovveth Meekly falling on your knees your hart ioyned hands being Eleuated to God VVhat is first to be vsed at the beginning of Prayer IN the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Amē In the Name and Honoure of our Lord IESVS Christ Emanuel Crucified for our Redemption and Saluation In the Honoure of God the moste holy Blessed Glorious and Indeuided Trinitye and Eternal Maiestie In the Honoure of our Lorde Iesus Christes Humanity and In memory of his greate Charitye towardes me and all Mankinde In the vvorshippe of oure Blessed Ladye the holye Virgin S. Marye and In minde of her Humilitye In the Name and Honoure of God the moste holye Trinitye In Vnitie Vnitie In Trinitye To whom be al glory And In the Honoure and Memory of our Lorde Iesus Christes humble Incarnation his Chaste Natiuitie his life Conuersation Charitable Death Bitter Passion His glorious Resurrection Asscension the Comming of the Holye Ghoste In the Honoure and Memorye of all the Laboures Vertues of our Lorde Iesus Christe of his holy Lyfe Conuersation In the Honoure and Memorye of the bitter Agonie Blooddye Svvete and Painfull Prayer that our Lorde Iesus Christe made in the Mounte of Oliuet Before his taking B. Passion And In Honour Memory of al the Partes Paynes of his moste Blessed bitter Paynfull Passion In the Honoure and Memorye of the fiue Woundes that vvere persed in our Lord Iesus Christes Blessed Bodye and Handes Feete his Side Harte And that I may vvith all Humillitie Reuerēce haue in Minde vvorship aright as I ought al the Precious droppes of Blood that our Lord Iesus Christ shed for my sake all Mankinde And likevvise that I may euer haue in minde obtaine the Promised laste Revvard of Saluation Glorification Perpetual Fruition of the Deyitie eschevve the Punishmēt Payne of eternal damnation I offer thes my praiers O God moste holy o A Donay in thy Name to thy honoure glorye I Begin Continue end these my prayers I offer this my dutie and laboure vnto thy moste Sacred Diuinitye O Good Lorde Iesus Christe I offer vnto thee my harte Soule and I offer my selfe Bodye and Soule vvith all the partes povvers vvorkes therof all my thoughts vvordes and deeds all my Intentions and Actions and all the Laboures of my hands To doe thy vvyll in al accōplish all to thy honore glory novv all the time of my life And I beseeche thee O God Holye Ghoste geue me grace and strength to doe thy vvill in all thinges to obay serue loue thee aright to offer these my Prayers vvith cleannes of harte purity of Intention vprightnes of Action vvith Attention Deuotion In perfect charity vvith true humility in the Vnitye of thy true Church Faith Catholike that they maye ascend into thy sight be acceptable vnto thee as a swete Sacrifice of Insence O Blessed Indeuided Trinity I offer vnto thy deuine Omnipotēcie these my Prayers dutie laboures for my health helpe parfect vveale for al things necessary for my body soule for the right direction of my vvhole Life as it may be best pleasing and moste acceptable vnto thee And likewise I offer vnto thy Omnipotent Maiesty o Holy and Glorious Trinitie these my Prayers dutie labours for the health helpe of soule and body of al other persons that thy B. vvil and pleasure is to haue praied for Quicke deade vvithin the Church vvithout in special general those in special that I am most behoulding to and bounde to Praye for by Inioyned penance blood or kinred promise debt or any other benefit receiued And for all other in generall that thy blessed vvill pleasure is to haue praied for And for vvhom and vvhat soeuer else thy Wysdome knoweth necessarye my frailtie can not acke That it may please thee to graūt vnto vs Pacience in all temptations tribulations ghostly bodelye Protection defence against all enemies visible inuisible Constancie perseuerance in vertue al goodnes helpe releefe in all needes necessities Ease deliuerie out of al troubles affictions that vvee are in or may any vvaye happen vnto vs. And to liue dye in the Vnitie of the true Catholike Faith Church and come to blisse O moste Blessed Glorious Indeuided Trinitie I humbly here prostrate my selfe before the Feete of thy Deuine Maiestie and mesurlesse mertie Beseeching thee of mercy forgeuenes of sinnes for my selfe and all others