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	parent_n	provoke_v	1,966	5	10.4177	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61865	Conscience the best friend upon earth: or, The happy effects of keeping a good conscience Very useful for this age. By Henry Stubbes, Minister of the Gospel.	Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing S6029C; ESTC R222100	33,441	135

lips but do neither mourn for it nor hate it nor turn from it with their Hearts Some pray for that they would not have Some hear the Word but will not do it Some love in word and tongue but not in deed and in truth Some fashion themselves according to this world yet would not be thought to be of the world Some Dedicate and Devote their Children to God to the service of that one God who is Father Son and Holy Ghost and when they have so done they alienate them from his service to the service of the World Flesh and Devil breeding them np in Idleness Pride and Wantonness Never or never to any purpose minding them of their Baptis●al Covenant and Engagements to be ●holy and only the Lords Some neglect relative Duty as thou Conscience knowest very well Are not some Husbands bitter to ●heir Wives and some Wives disobedient to their Husbands Do not some Parents provoke their Children to wrath and do not some Children dishonour their Parents Do not some Masters deny that which is just and equal to their Servants and are not some Servants unfaithful to their Masters Dost thou not know all this to be true Conscience Doubtless thou doest and doubtless thou doest often nip and twinge them for it But good Conscience make them feel make them smart let them not go on in peace disturb them hannt them continually tell them their own and take a fit time and season for it My Reader does frequently or some●imes at least hear Sermons Sermons of the necessity of the New-birth Faith Repentance Holiness Take this opportunity Conscience of telling him the truth Say to him Hearest thou what the Preacher sayes hath he not clearly proved the necessity of New birth Faith Repentance Holiness unto Life Eternal What wilt thou do Man Woman Thou art not New-born thou hast not believed nor repented thou art not Holy Sure thou canst not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Joh. 3. 3. Sure thou must be Damned Mat. 16. 16. Sure thou must perish Luke 13. 3. Thou canst not see the Lord to thy comfort in that unholy Estate thou art now in Heb. 12. 14. My Reader prayes constantly or sometimes at least and sayes Lord give me a better Heart a new Heart a clean Heart a soft Heart a single Heart Lord write thy Law in my Heart plant thy Fear in my Heart put thy Spirit into me cause me to walk in thy Statutes Now Conscience tell h●● the truth say to him Thou drawest ●igh to God with thy lips but thy Heart is far from him Thy Lip doth ask these things of God but thy Heart does not desire them thou art well enough satisfied and contented though thou be denied My Reader is sometimes busy in his Calling Conscience go to him and say O how busy thou art for back and belly what provision makest thou for thy soul My Reader is sometimes at a Feast or at his own Table go to him Conscience and say O how sweet this meat is to thy taste when shall the Word of God and the meat indeed and the drink indeed be as sweet My Reader is sometimes in a Tavern Ale-house or Coffee-house Conscience when he has done his necessary business there go to him and say Is not thy Family or Closet a fitter●place for thee to be in Sometimes he is walking in the fields Conscience go to him and ask him what ●e is meditating on and put him in mind of Isaac's practice Gen. 24. 6. My Reader is sometimes sick go ●t him Conscience and say This is th● just hand of God upon thee and bi● him take his Bible and read Jer. 4. 18 Sometimes my Reader takes Physick go to him Conscience and say to him When wilt thou be at so much cost for thy soul when wilt thou spare so much time from thy business for thy soul when wilt thou keep thy Chamber a day or two for thy souls health Possibly my Reader has lately been recovered out of a dangerous fit of sickness go to him Conscience and put him in mind of ●is sick●bed prayers and purposes and say to him Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee Conscience have but a very little patience more and I have done Some of my Readers thou knowest have lain under the meanes of Grace a long time Vnconverted would I could perswade thee 〈◊〉 force them to read Heb. 6. 7 8. Jer. ● 29. Ezek. 24. 13 14. Mat. 23. 37 38. Luke 19. 41 42. 2 Cor. 13. 5. and not let them be quiet until they have mused a while on each Conscience I am in care and fear about my Readers lest that dreadful Message be sent to them that once was sent to Israel of old Isa. 6. 9 10. with Rom. 11. 18. I beseech thee Conscience suffer them not to eat drink or sleep in quiet until they have fixed their thoughts a while on this Message after the reading of it Conscience I am out of hopes of my Readers welfare unless thou be the more vigilant a●●gent and faithful in doing thy office Wherefore I beseech you nay I charge you as once Paul charged Timothy 2 Tim. 4. 1. before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom preach the Word to my Reader be instant in season out of season Reprove Rebuke Exhort him and continue thy speech to him as once Paul did to his Hearers Acts 20. 7. until midnight rather then fail of prevailing with him There are a few other Scriptures which I desire my Reader might peruse viz. 1 Sam. 2. 25. 2 Chro. 25. 16. Pro. 29. 1. But Conscience if thou wilt not by earnest and continual urging compel him he will not bestow the time nor take the paines to do it In hope thou wilt be faithful to my Reader I shall add no more save only the promise of my prayers that thou mayst be so SERMON I. JOB 26. 7. My Righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go my Heart shall not reproach me so long as I live MY Righteousness I hold fast His Friends would have robb'd him of it would have persuaded him out of it would have argued and disputed him out of it but you shall not do it saith Job I stand up in the defence of it I hold it fast I will not let it go● Say what you will do what you can I will maintain my Integrity I am not an Hypocrite as you would have me think I am I am not an unrighteous man as you would speak me to be and as you would have me take my self to be no my Righteousness I will hold fast I will not let it go pull while you will I will hold it fast Take we up the like Resolution there are some that pretend to be friends pretend friendship and kindness but act the part of Job's friends here Oh how many are there that would spoil us of our