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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	love_n	parent_n	6,450	5	9.2665	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35080	A sermon preached to the gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bow-Church in London, the 24th of June, 1684, being the day of their yearly feast by Tho. Cartwright ...	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1684 (1684)	Wing C705; ESTC R4837	24,490	43

our first Parents for had they fear'd they had not fell but this their Guardian Angel being departed from them they quickly lost their Innocence and Paradise The only care must be that it be plac'd upon its right objects and these in Solomons Judgment are only two God and the King 1. He counsels us to fear God with a Filial Fear of Reverence and Circumspection a Consciencious Fear in Worshipping him and a Careful Fear of offending him such as becomes all ingenuous and dutiful Children who out of love to their Parents are afraid of displeasing them and of falling short of their duty to them which Filial Fear he who is born of God cannot put off but he will be fearful of any stone of stumbling in the whole course of his life which may make him fall into Sin and will make it his principal care and design to approve the sincerity of his heart to the piercing eye of a jealous God which Fear discovers it self not in a trembling amazement but in a chearful and uniform Obedience to all his Commandments which is such a divine fear as never damps his Spirits or robs him of those succours which Reason would afford him but makes him as bold as a Lyon and may Prov. 28. 1. therefore be justly termed the beginning or principal Prov. 9. 10. part of Wisdom And indeed what greater folly and madness can the most desperate Malefactor be guilty of than to commit Capital Crimes in the sight of his Judge And yet how easily are we tempted to offend the dreadful Majesty of the Omnipresent and Almighty Judge who observes our closest Actions and will infallibly call us to account for them and reward us according to what we have done in the flesh whether it have been good or evil When you walk in the ways of Math. 16. 27. Eccl. 11. 9. your own hearts and in the sight of your eyes remember that for all these things God will bring you to Judgment And knowing this terrour of the Lord let me perswade 2 Cor. 5. 11. you not to let your Lives give your Lips the lye when you say that you fear him but consider that you naturally fix your eyes upon that which you fear and cannot easily get that out of your minds which doth affright you If therefore you pretend to be afraid of Gods displeasure where is your tenderness of his Honour Your care to please him your zeal for his Cause and Service your delight in his Commands and your rejoycing to do his Will You cannot fear his Name and blaspheme it If against the clear evidence of his Word and your own Consciences you entertain any rebellious thoughts against the Lord whom you should fear you can neither escape his sight in this life nor his vengeance in the next Be not deceiv'd God is not mock'd by wearing his Livery and doing the Devil Service by talking as if you were inspir'd and had Cloven Tongues and yet acting as if you were possess'd as some Cloven Footed Protestants have of late done There is no way to please God 2 Cor. 10. 5. Jam. 1. 22. but by bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Be ye therefore doers of his Word and not hearers only Indent not with him to spare you no not in your darling sins but resist them to the blood because the keeping of some of his Commandments will not expiate for the breach of the rest Make no League with any Gibeonite spare no Agag no ruling sin but crucifie the Old Man with his affections and lusts Dash all those Babylonish Brats against the stones which are Traytors to the Crown and Dignity of the King of Heaven throw them from you with the same indignation that you would do those loathsom things which you cannot behold without great distemper Let Christ be your King on Earth and he will be your Saviour in Heaven Be as ready to be over-ruled by him here as to be rewarded by him hereafter so shall you prove your selves to be Solomon's Sons indeed nay Sons of God and Heirs of Eternal Glory always provided that to this fear of God you add that of the King 2. My Son Fear the King God commands us to subdue our wills to that will of Man on Earth that he may the better subdue us to his own will in Heaven and accordingly our Saviour came into the World to take away the Sins not the Laws of it Nor was the Religion he established designed to loose the Reins of Civil Government but to keep Subjects under the same and greater Obligations than he found them to make sacred the Persons as well as Offices of Princes and to establish their just Prerogatives as being those Visible and Mortal Gods whom the Almighty had honour'd with his Name and to whom he had deligated his Vicegerent power over us and bound us not only for wrath but also for Conscience sake to obey and fear them as ordained of him and to reverence that Divine Character of Soveraignty which that his Ordination had impressed upon them Fear Good Kings as God Bad Ones for him though they should strain the necessary and essential Powers of Government beyond its due pitch and become as very Tyrants as Nero was whose Power was from God in St. Paul's Rom. 13. 1. 2. judgment though the abuse of it were from himself and his way of attaining it not justifiable For the Roman Emperors were not by right but by force then Lords of the World and yet he commands Every Soul Omnis anima quoniam ex animo to be sincerely subject to them and though they were unworthy of that Authority which they usurp'd and abus'd yet were they not in any case to be resisted under peril of Damnation 'T was God made Solomon King over Israel not the Priest or the People and he is said to have set him on 2 Chron. 9. 8. his own Throne to let the People know that he did immediately represent his Person and was in his stead among them as his Vicegerent and Lieutenant under him Inde est Imperator unde homo antequam Imperator Tertul. inde potestas illi unde Spiritus He made him a King who made him a Man and from him had he his Scepter from whom he had his Soul And this was no Court-Complement of Tertullian's None of those Love-Tricks which were plaid between the King and his People in the Honey-Moon of His Majesties Restauration as the Plato Redivivus who is not yet out of love with his Commonwealth Principles styles them nor did he speak it in his own Person but as the Judgment of the whole Catholick Church whose Cause he was then defending So that the King does not Reign it seems in the Judgment of the Primitive Church either by the Commission of the Pope or the Courtesie of the People who can no more chuse their Princes than their Parents and have as much