Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	express_v	parent_n	1,196	5	9.0833	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31058	A brief exposition of the Lord's prayer and the Decalogue to which is added the doctrine of the sacraments / by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.	1681 (1681)	Wing B928; ESTC R20292	77,455	270

precept may serve for a good direction to Governours what they may with safety what they should in wisedom establish what provision they should make for the promotion of piety and vertue such a precedent requires greatest veneration and respect cannot but appear of high moment in consultation about matters of this nature It is indeed particularly observable that in this command there is not an express order concerning the natural or moral service of God by prayer or hearing God's Law to be publickly performed on this day but the Jews were themselves so wise as to understand these duties couched in the sanctification of the day prescribed to them and accordingly they practised they in all places of their habitation did settle Synagogues and Oratories to them upon this day they resorted in them then they did offer devotions to God as the names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did import the Scribes did reade the Law and expound it to the People Moses saith Josephus did command the people to assemble for hearing of the law not once or twice or many times but every seventh day laying aside their works and exactly to learn it whence addeth he the people became so skilfull in the laws that if one asked any of them concerning them he would more easily tell them all than his own name whence also an admirable concord in mind and uniformity in practice did as he farther observes arise and The custom saith Philo was always as occasion gave leave especially upon the seventh days to philosophate c. in consideration of which practice it was that Jews so highly valued this Precept that it was a saying among them The Sabbath weigheth against all the Commandments as procuring them all to be known and observed And if that blind people could pick these duties out of this Law much more should we see our selves obliged according to analogy thereof to appoint set times for ensuring the practice of them 6. Again We may hence also learn our obligation to submit obediently to the constitution of Governours relating to this matter that we readily should observe all solemn times of festivity and rest which the Rulers of Church or State do appoint for the securing or the promoting those purposes of piety or charity according to the measure and manner prescribed by them for Reason approving the thing as good and usefull and divine order more clearly and fully confirming it to be so and it not appearing that God hath made express determinations about it it remains that it is left wholly to them to whose care God hath entrusted the publick welfare and hath committed to their judgments the providing means conducible thereto having also consequently injoined us in all lawfull things to follow their guidance and appointment in order thereto God decreed death to be inflicted on those who violated his command concerning the Sabbath which sheweth how great a fault it is to offend in this particular and we may reasonably esteem that command to be his which proceedeth from his Ministers by authority from himself and in conformity to his own pattern 7. We add that whereas God required of the Jews such a portion of time to be solemnly dedicated to Religion and mercy we to whom he hath vouchsafed higher benefits and proposed greater encouragements cannot reasonably but deem our selves obliged to sequester and consecrate as much or more time to the same intents we should indeed be content to withdraw our selves more frequently from pursuance of our own profits and pleasures to the service of God to the remembrance and celebration of his favours we should willingly allow greater relaxation to our dependents and should the publick be deficient in exacting a performance of such duties from us it would become us to supply such defects by our private devoting fit and frequent seasons thereto that in some proportion we may exceed the Jews in gratefull piety as we surpass them in the matter and causes thereof that we may appear in some degree more charitable than they as we have much greater reason and obligation to be so then they So much for this I proceed briefly to consider the remaining Commandments the which immediately concern another Object those foregoing did chiefly serve to regulate our religious practice in yielding due reverence toward God these following which are supposed to have made up the second of those Tables which written by God's hand were delivered to Moses and preserved in the Ark of the Testimony do guide our conversation and carriage toward our Neighbour in the front of which worthily is placed that which obligeth to dutifulness toward our Parents unto whom after God and his supreme Vice-gerents we owe the highest respect gratitude and duty V. Commandment Honour thy father and thy mother Honour the word signifies to have in weighty regard and aptly serves to denote those particular acts of duty which are otherwhere expressed in Scripture fear and reverence ye shall fear every man his father and his mother observance and obedience children obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing to God gratitude and retribution Let children learn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be pious toward their own family and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to render sutable returns or to requite their parents for this is good and acceptable before God regarding their instruction and advice My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother it also comprehendeth a prohibition of the contrary acts contemning cursing offering violence or contumely unto disobedience and contumacy toward parents the which are forbidden under capital penalties and dreadfull comminations Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or mother and The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it that is God in a fearfull and strange manner will avenge that wickedness upon him and in the Law it is ordained that the rebellious and stubborn son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastned him will not hearken unto them shall be stoned by all the men of his City and put to death in that manner Whence we may learn the nature of the duty here enjoined and what rank it beareth among other duties what high obligation belongs thereto of what consideration it is with God and how grievous a crime the violation thereof is that briefly we are obliged to yield our parents high affection of heart great expressions of respect and observance in word and deed that the neglect of these duties is next to that of profaneness and undutifulness toward God himself the greatest disorder we can be guilty of this all civil Nations have consented to be our duty and if we consider the grounds upon which it

is built we shall find that reason justice and necessity do require it S. Paul presseth his precept of observance to parents with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for this is just and equal for if we look upon the disposition of parents in their mind toward children we may presume them always full of tender affection and good will toward them full of desire and care for their good full of pity and compassion toward them in the highest and most especial degree beyond what they bear to others which dispositions in reason and equity do require answerable dispositions in those upon whom they are placed and who from them do receive inestimable benefits for if we do regard the effects proceeding from them we shall discern that 1. From parents children do receive being and life that good which nature inclineth so highly to value and tender as the foundation of all the good happiness and comfort we are capable of 2. They are obliged to their parents for the preservation maintenance and protection of their life it is a long time before we came to be able such is the particular condition of man among all living creatures so ordered on purpose as it were to beget this obligation and endearment any-wise to provide for or to defend our selves and the doing thereof in that senseless and helpless state relies upon the care pain and solicitous vigilance of our parents the which they are not onely always obliged but are commonly disposed with admirable willingness to spend on their children 3. Parents not onely thus at first undergo such care and trouble to maintain their children but by expensive education often with much inconvenience and incommodity to themselves they provide means for their future support and subsistence during life 4. Children are so strictly tied to their parents as by their willing concession to partake in all the comforts of their state and ornaments of their fortune 5. The goods acquired by the parents industry do usually devolve upon their children by inheritance and succession whence that children live handsomely and comfortably is the reward of their parents merit comes from the store that they have carefully provided and laid up for them 6. To which we may add that not onely the provision for our temporal necessities and conveniencies dependeth upon our parents but the care of our souls and our spiritual welfare is incumbent on them they are obliged to instruct us in the fear of God and to set us in the way toward eternal happiness 7. We may consider also that all this they do most frankly and out of pure kindness without regard to any merit antecedent or benefit consequent to themselves as they received nothing to oblige and move them to such performances so they can seldom hope for answerable returns it is abundant satisfaction to them if they see their children do well their chief delight and contentment is in their childrens good absolutely and abstractedly without indirect regards to their own advantage Upon these and the like accompts it appeareth that as parents have the affections most resembling those of God toward us as they perform toward us the actions most like to his as they are the principal instruments of divine providence and bounty by which God's blessings are conveyed and conferred upon us so they may be deemed in a sort to represent God and as his most lively images have an especial veneration due to them God himself to endear and render himself amiable or in the most kindly way venerable to us to engage us to a more ready obedience of him to declare the nature of our duty toward him assumes the title of Father and all Nations have agreed to style him so Reciprocally also whereas the duties toward other men are termed justice or charity or courtesie or liberality or gratitude those toward parents in every Language I suppose are styled piety implying somewhat divine in the object of those duties 't is more than injustice to wrong a parent 't is more than uncharitableness to refuse them succour or relief 't is more than discourtesie to be unkind to them 't is more than sordid avarice to be in their need illiberal to them 't is rather high impiety to offend in any of these kinds He that returns not love in answer to their tender affection that doth not as occasion requires and his ability permits requite the benefits received from them doth not defer to them an especial reverence in regard to that sacred name and character they bear thereby intimates that he would in like manner be unjust ungratefull and disingenuous toward God from whom he hath received the like benefits the beginning and continuance of his being the preservation maintenance and protection of his life if he will not honour his earthly Parents whom he hath seen how will he reverence his heavenly Father whom he hath not seen so we may according to S. John argue I might subjoin that as justice and ingenuity do enforce this duty so for the good of the world there is a necessity that it should be observed If parents are not onely by natural instinct disposed but by divine command obliged and by humane Law the preservation of the world so requiring constrained to undergo such hardships for the maintenance and education of their children it is fit and necessary they should be supported and encouraged in the bearing them by reciprocal obligations in children to return them dutifull respect observance and requital the world could not well subsist without children being engaged to these duties there were no reason to exact there were no ground to expect that parents should cheerfully and faithfully discharge their part upon other terms To this Precept there is added a Promise and it is as S. Paul observeth the first precept that hath a promise formally annexed whereby he enforceth his exhortation to the observance thereof That thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee So God expresly promiseth to bless dutifull children with a long life in the comfortable possession of those good things which he should bestow upon them this was the most of reward explicitly covenanted to the Jews in regard to their obedience there is also implyed a commination of a contrary curse from God upon the infringers of this Law that they should either be immaturely cut off from life as Abimelech and Absalom were upon this score or should draw on a wretched life in banishment from the contents thereof by which things respectively are intimated to us the rewards of piety in this kind or the punishments of impiety in the future state whereof the land here mentioned was a shadow or figure what length of days in Canaan was to them that to us is immortal life in heaven what being excluded thence was then that now is everlasting death or banishment into the regions of misery I might also note the