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	law_n	parent_n	4,009	5	8.7116	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89578	A sacred record to be made of Gods mercies to Zion: a thanksgiving sermon preached to the two Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of the city of London, at Christ-Church, June 19. 1645. Being the day of their publike thanksgiving to almighty God for the great and glorious victory obtained by the Parliaments army under the conduct of Sir Thomas Fairfax in Naseby-field. /	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1645 (1645)	Wing M773; Thomason E288_36; ESTC R200112	25,316	41

last solemn meeting you had in this place upon a like blessed occasion And the grounds or reasons why this ought to bee done why these things should bee recorded are necessary First in relation to God Secondly in relation to the Generation who receive these mercies Thirdly in relation to the posterity that are to come after First in relation to God and his glory As the works of God are all worthy to be registred and remembred so the work of building the Church and answering his peoples prayers is the most worthy the most excellent because these are his master-pieces in all these works God appeares in his glory all his excellent perfections shine forth in their beauty and therefore none so worthy to be written And as this work is most worthy so there is no way or meanes so excellent and effectuall for the perpetuating of the honour and glory due to him as the faithfull recording of it and delivering it from hand to hand in all generations which else will soone bee forgotten and lost as loose pearles and pretious stones But when they are recorded they are like pretious and excellent pearles put upon a golden thred and thereby easily kept together and preserved and his glory thereby made everlasting His Works are all Eternall à parte ante in his decree this writing and registring of them will make them so à parte post in the eternall commemoration of them Thus shall be fulfilled to his glory that which Solomon says I know whatsoever God does it shal be for ever it shall last for ever to his glory Secondly in relation to them who receive these mercies the present age that enjoyes them may also bee great gainers by it for it makes the favour and mercy deeplier written in their owne hearts in indeleble characters and the frequent reading of them would keep the mercy alwayes fresh and green alwayes of the same efficacy and vertue unto them who have received it And besides those excellent Instruments whom God hath employed to helpe in the great worke of building the Church shall thereby enjoy the honour and praise which God is willing to have conferred upon them for hee would have the righteous in everlasting remembrance when in all ages it shall be known not onely what the Lord hath done for his people but also who they are whom God hath been pleased to employ in this great Work wee know the old saying Multi ante Agamemnona fuere fortes c. there were many valiant Commanders and Souldiers before Achilles or Ulysses but none of them are famous to posterity because they wanted a Homer their worthy deeds are not recorded but by such a faithfull register the Lords worthy instruments are in all ages made partakers of a glory which is next the glory of Heaven But chiefly my Text leads to the third in relation to posterity These things shall be written for the Generations to come and for their sakes they ought to be written 1. Because they are their due and the present generation cannot without injustice deprive posterity of a faithfull record of Gods mercies for in all these things he speaks to all the ages to come as well as the present You have it in Hosea 12. 3. where Jacobs wrestling with God and meeting with him in Bethel are mentioned There sayes the Church hee spoke with us what he spoke to Jacob hee spoke to Israel that lived in Hosea's time above a thousand years after it and what Paul spake 1 Cor. 10. 11. concerning Gods Judgment All these things happened unto them for ensamples and are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the World are come is as true of all his works of mercy they hapned unto them for oursakes as well as for their owne and the Prophets knew this unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did admin●ster the things which are now reported Now look as it is with Parents who though themselves know they cannot live long and peradventure some of them are but termers in their states and Honours yet their Evidences of their Lordships or Mannors which belong to their children they dare not but transmit the Copies of them to those who shall inherit their Lands after them Since then the records of these things are their due wee cannot deny them to posterity unlesse we would rob them of that which God will have them receive from us Nay secondly it is their gaine as well as their due yea it may prove an infinite and invaluable gain to posterity for by the recording of these great and excellent Works posteritie may learne to know God to trust him to feare and serve him they may out of these learne their duty and read their destiny This was the very end why God made that law Psal. 78. 5. That the Parents should transmit unto their children the wonderfull works which hee had done That they might set their hope in God and keep his Commandements and might not bee as their fathers a generation whose spirit was not stedfast with God The like causes of writing these things you shall find Rom. 15. 4. 1 Cor. 10. 11. Look as it is with them that travaile at Sea take for instance Columbus or Drake or any of those famous Sea-men that have discovered unknown tracts in the deep waters when they themselves had past them if they had come home again without making a Sea-mans Chard who had been the better for all their voyages whereas now ordinary Sailers by help of their Chard can compasse the world round about because they know where the safe chanels and where the rocks and dangers lye So in the faithfull Stories of the works which God showes to his people in one generation the generations to come shall before their eyes be able to read the right way by the fall of others they shall know where lies the rocks and stumbling blocks by the deliverance of others they shall know where out-gates are to be found The reading of a record of Mordecays good service was a meanes to save all the Church of the Jews at one time Est 6. 1 2. The remembring of Micah his prophecy saved the life of the Prophet Jeremy at another time Jer. 26. 19. the remembrance of the causes why Israel was carryed captive out of their owne Land was a meanes to bring them to repentance at another time The records of Gods dealing with Abraham Isaac and Jacob have succoured Gods people in their distresses ten thousand times the particular wayes how the Church hath profited by them are not to bee numbred inexpressible is the gaine which may be gotten by them therefore the Lord would have them written for the generations to come For Application of this First if the Lord will have his great Workes recorded to posterity that they may give him his glory surely then the present age should observe them and