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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	master_n	servant_n	6,433	5	6.5164	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56562	The magistrates authority asserted, in a sermon, preached at the cathedral in Norwich by James Paston ...	Paston, James, d. 1722?	1673 (1673)	Wing P666; ESTC R13819	15,825	32

of this will further appear if we consider how often the Apostle inculcates this very thing it is this he begins with 1 Cor. 1.10 which he presses with Intreaty and conjures them by that blessed Name to which all should bow and yield Now I beseech you brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye speak the same thing and that there be no Divisions among you And it is this he ends with 2 Cor. 13.11 and endears the Command with the Promise of a Blessing which will sufficiently crown our Obedience Be of one mind live in peace and the God of peace shall be with you and wherefore is this Exhortation so frequently repeated but to shew how highly necessary Unity is since without it there will be little of that Peace and Charity which should be among Christans which makes Kingdoms and Societies happy Therefore since Unity is the Bond of Peace Since unless some particular way be prescribed Men will have several Modes of Religious worship since Governors prescribe this or that way for all to embrace to the end differences and mischief might be prevented We must needs be subject Thirdly Without subjection there can be no order but a strange confusion If there be no obedience from the Child to the Parent If there be no subjection from the Servant to the Master No submission from the Subject to the Ruler it would be safer living among the Beasts of the Wilderness than among men We are not all born Parents or Masters or Governours and questionless we ought not to usurp these places For God has commanded Children to obey their Parents Servants their Masters and also Subjects their Governours And if a Parent or Master should command his Child or Servant in the publick duties of his Family to use this or that Prayer with him at this or that time in this or that place in this or that posture What place of Scripture or what Precept of nature forbids their obedience so it be not contrary to the Word of God and if a Parent or Master has this power over a Child Heb. 13.17 1 Cor. 14.40 or Servant why may not our Superiours appoint the like things to those whom God had committed to their charge for whom they must give an account why may they not provide that all things be done in decency and in order since if there be any undecencies any disorders they must be as liable to punishment at the great day as any Parent or Master for the disorders and undecencies of his Child or Servant And that Man that disobeyes his Superiours at the same time teaches and pleads that his Child or Servant may refuse obedience to himself For he has no other Charter for his liberty And there is no more ground for the levelling of Kingdoms than for making all equal in Families And God hath given us no warrant for either 1 Cor. 14 33. for he is the God of Order not the Author of Confusion If therefore we break from those stations which his most wise Providence has set us if with the Complices of Corah we take too much upon us though with Uzzah to support that Ark which Faction and Prophaneness has put into a tottering condition we provoke the God of Order and have cause to fear his vengeance Wherefore we must needs be subject Fourthly We must needs be subject because our Superiours must needs command Men commonly are apt to run into error and the pride or ignorance of some Men makes them as apt to deceive and to be deceived To mislead and to be misled into Factions and Divisions and those Divisions breed a dislike between this or that party and that dislike produces uncharitableness and this uncharitableness proceeds to hatred and this hatred brings forth cruelty blood and ruine to the scandal and undoing of Religion and Justice Now those whom God sets over a Nation are bound in Conscience to prevent these miseries and to institute some ways to reduce Men to that Unity Love and Charity which should be among Christians If therefore they be bound in Conscience to command we no less to obey For without our Obedience their Commands can be no Remedy If the Governours of a Church or Nation do not endeavour to prevent by some injunctions those miseries which fall upon a people for whose Souls they watch they questionless must give an account at the great Audit And so likewise they who are the people of such a Church or Nation if they obey not those that rule over them in those Injunctions which for so good an end are laid upon them they will find a dreadful doom at the last day when they shall appear before his Tribunal who is the God of Love and Unity Wherefore we must needs be subject And thus we see in what things we must be subject And also wherein lies the necessity And I presume this necessity is not taken away by the suspension of the penal Laws And my presumption is so far from being groundless that it is founded upon the words of the Apostle in that part of my Text which I am now going to treat of Which tells us we must be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake not only for fear of the Punishment but also for the love of the Duty First For Wrath to avoid this we must be subject For self-preservation is a duty which cannot be dispensed with and therefore that Man that shall suffer rather than perform this or that thing which is indifferent his blood is upon his own head He that will sacrifice his Life or Health or Estate to an obstinate groundless humour although he scruples a Ceremony is so far Superstitious that he is a great Idolater for he offers up all to his own vain imagination For what should make kneeling at our Prayers less lawful than standing or a form of Prayer than a Directory since no Scripture commands the latter rather than the former One is commanded at least by those whom God hath set over us The other neither by God or Man And what can better merit the name of Will-Worship than that which is set up by every particular Man's will But here is the Grand inducement to disobedience in such things Men call that persecution which is but being buffeted for their faults and glory in suffering for the Cause of God when alas there is no such thing For God never required this at their hands Therefore when we exclude our selves from the priviledge of the Church or Nation wherein we live rather than obey in such things as are no where proved to be unlawful When Men have suffered their bodies to be imprisoned their Estates to be wasted and by this means their Families to be unprovided for to suffer Hunger and Thirst and all other kind of Wants Who has exacted such severe things from them that they should endure these just effects of the Superiours wrath rather than be