Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	apostle_n	master_n	servant_n	1,864	5	7.1466	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19743	A godlie and fruitfull treatise of faith and workes. Wherein is confuted a certaine opinion of merit by workes, which an aduersary to the gospell of Christ Iesu, held in the conference, had in the Tower of London	H. D., fl. 1583.; Dod, Henry, attributed name. aut	1583 (1583)	STC 6168; ESTC S114042	37,853	104

plaine woordes of Christ how he ouerthroweth all the workes of man as meritorious to deserue anye thankes from God He sayth playnelye to all the world aswell as to his Apostles When you haue done all those things which are commaunded you yet say you are vnprofitable seruants and deserue nothing for that which we do is but our bounden duetie being bound to do the commaundement of God vpon paine of damnation As if a maister commaund his seruant to do a thinge and the seruant doeth not that which he is commanded to doe doeth not the mayster lay him on with stripes Then must the doing of his maisters commandement be not onely for obedience due according to the duety of a seruant towards his master but also to saue him from many stripes which hee should deserue according to the saying of our Sauiour Christ He that knoweth his masters will and doeth it not shal be beaten with many stripes Now not that the seruant in doing his masters commādement should therfore deserue to haue his masters inheritance as the Papists do maintein that by their good works they merite the kingdome of heauen And so standeth it with vs towardes God yea much more for no earthly master coulde euer doe for his seruants that our master Christ hath done for vs and therefore though we doe all that euer we are able to doe to the vttermost of our power yet are we still vnprofitable seruants and deserue nothing at the handes of God And behold the wisdome of the lord what person he hath chosen by whome to make this similitude touching this matter A ploughman a seruant plowing or seruing his cattle which kinde of people of all men in the world best deserue their hire and yet vnprofitable seruants deserue nothing For the Lord saith Doth he thank that seruant because he did that which was commanded vnto him I trowe not Here is a question demaunded by the Lord whether thanks be to be geuen to a seruant that doth his masters commandement the Lord making the answere himself said I trowe not Then is it thus much to say if a temporal master is not to geue thāks vnto his seruant for doing his commandement much lesse our Lord and God vnto whome no temporal master is to be compared is to geeue thankes to any person that is bound to do his commandement But if there be no thankes to be geuen by god to man for doing his com maundement which man in duetie is bound to doe then is it cleere that man doeth not merite heauen by his good workes nor deserueth thankes for the same And thus hath the Lord him selfe ouerthrown the popish error of meriting heauen by workes done after grace And now for finall conclusion if to much obstinate wilfulnes do not remaine within the brestes of the aduersaries that if the Lord haue not vtterly cast them of as reprobates it is not possible but that these wordes so plainely set down and written with the pen of the holy Ghost by the hand of the holy Apostles and saintes of God and here incerted must needes perce their flinty hartes and mollifie the same which if grace be allotted vnto thē wherby they may haue fleshie hartes and yeelding spirites to Gods truth It can not be possible for them to hold out against this truth but will yeeld them selues vnto Christ acknowledging him to be the only sufficient sauiour of all the elect without any helpe of man And so reposing their whole trust and confidence onely in Christ and casting off their good works as not meritorious and thinke that if they could fulfill the lawe in greater perfection then the best that liueth is able to doe that yet they should do no more but that which in dutie they ought and are bound to do No doubt but as the Lord is altogither mercifull so will he in mercy receiue them and bring them into his fold euen vpon his shoulders as he did the strayed sheepe and imbrace them as hee did the forlorne sonne if they can departe from their errors and imbrace this truth which leadeth to eternall life And for that the Lord God hath made prayer a meanes to obtaine any thing that shall be asked of him by faith and according to his will And also for that prayer may be made for such as we know not but may yet stande in the state of grace whereby the Lord maye drawe them to him selfe And for that also manye numbers of papistes haue willinglye departed from their popish religion and turned to the gospell of Christ Iesus And hoping that a great number of them by prayer and by reading the word of God and such good bookes as be agreeable to the word of god may be brought to the acknowledg ing of their errors to fall frō the same I pray and desire al Christians to pray to the eternall almighty God for their good conuersion and reformation and that they may haue the spirite of GOD to guide them into the way of trueth that they may cast off their heresies and vaine popish opinions either of merit by works or whatsoeuer els not agreeable to the word of God and so to cleaue to Christ Iesus our only Aduocate Mediator Intercessor Sauiour and Light of eternall life Vnto whome with God the father and the holy ghost be all honor praise and thanks for euer and euer Amen Rom. 5 12. 18. 1 Cor. 15 22. Rom 5 19 Ro. 6 23 2. Cor. 5 21. 1. Pet. 2 24. Esai 53. Mat. 8 17 Rom. 8. 29. Mat. 25. vers 12. Galat. 4 4. Esai 53 9●… 1. Pet. 2 23. 1. Pet. 2 24. Esai 53. 5. Ioan 17 4. 17 30. Luk. 24 26 27. Ioh. 17 4. Esa. 25 8. Cor. 15 54. Osee. 13 14 Ephe. 1 4. R. 9. 11. Ro. 11 29. Sam. 15 29 Ioh. 17 12. Nom. 23 19. Cor. 1 7 10 13 Thes. 5 24. Ephe. 4. 1. Ephe. 1 4. Ioh. 3 16. Luk. 17 10. Heb. 11 6. Esai 64 6. Luk. 23 42. Luk. 10 28 3 ●… Pet. 2 ●… 1. ●…oh 13 15 Ephe. 5 1. 4 Gen. 1 26. 27. Mat. 4 9 August contra Adamantū Cap. 12 5 Mat. 3 17. Mat. 5 16. Phil. 2 1●… Cor. 3 2. epist. 2 5. Phil. 2 12. Deu. 7 13. 14 Aug. conf li. ca. 13. Greg. cap. 9 of Iob. Barnar in festo om sanct ser. 1. Mat. 9 20. Mar. 5 25. Mat. 9 22. Phil. 2. 13. Ioh. 1. 29. 36 Esa. 53. 7. Act. 8. 32. Esa. 53. 9 1. Pe. 2 22 Esay 53 6. 2. Cor. 5 21 Luk. 12 32. Esay 53 7●… Rom. 3 2●… Psal. 14. 〈◊〉 53. ver 2 〈◊〉 Rom. 3 10 ●…1 12. Gal. 3. 10. 11 12. Deut. 27 2●… Abac. 2 4. Rom. 1 17 Heb. 10 3●… Le. 18 5. Eze. 20. 11 Rom. 10. 5●… Rom. 3 12. Rom. 3 20●… Rom. 3 10 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Rom. 3 19. I●… v. 2 10. Rom. 3 27. Rom. 3. 31. 1. Pet. 2 22. Rom. 2 13. Luk. 10 18. Iam. 2 10. Deut. 27 26. Iam. 2 21. 22. Answere to the obiectiō Ia. 1 26. 27 Iam. 1 27. Iam. 1 17. Rom. 3 20. Rom. 2 6. Rom. 2 13. Iam. 1 22. 23. Answere Ro. 2 17. Rom. 3 10 12. 13. 14. Rom. 4. 2. 3. 4. 5 Gen. 15. 6 Gal. 3. 6 Iam. 2. 23 Obiection Rom. 6. 2. Answere 2. Tim. 4. 14 Rom. 2. 7 Rom. 3. 2●… Rom. 8. 21. 22 Act. 13. 38. ●…9 Rom. 8. 3●… Rom. 9. 11 Aug. can 1 ●…m 1. 17 ●…ph 1. 4. 5 Rom. 9 16. Rom. 9 31. 32. 33. Esai 28 8. 14. 16. 1. Pet. 2 6. Gal. 2 15. 16. 21. Iob. 25 4. Gal. 5 4. 5. Tit. 3 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Tim. 2 1. 9. Ephe. 2 9. 10 Phil. 3 8 9. Phil. 3 7. Phil. 3 8. Rom. 7. 24 Gal. 3 19. 〈◊〉 22. 23. ●…4 Luke 17. ver 7. 8. 9. 10. Luk. 12 47