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
A81982	Davids three mighties: or Sovereignties three champions: being the three prime reformers of the Protestant religion, Luther, Calvin, Tindal. Faithfully cited, and affectionately presented to all the misled people of England, for their instruction and direction, how to deport themselves in the unhappy division betwixt the King and them. That yet at the last by the light of these three glorious professors of the Gospel, they may the better discern both their owne errors, and the impostures of their false teachers. Other renowned worthies since the Reformation have done honourably in the defence of sovereignty, howbeit they attained not unto the first three, 2 Sam. 23. v.18.23.		1644 (1644)	Wing D378; Thomason E42_1; ESTC R11742	28,856	41

anointed of the Lord that I should lay my hand upon him because he is the anointed of the Lord. Againe who shall lay his hand upon the anointed of the Lord and shall be innocent So sure as the Lord liveth unlesse the Lord strike him or his day be come that he dye or he goe downe into battell far be it from me that I should lay my hand upon the anointed of the Lord. Sect. 29. Finally we owe this affection of reverence yea and devotion to all our Rulers of what sort soever they bee which I doe therefore the oftner repeat that we may learn not to search what the men themselves be but take this for sufficient that by the will of the Lord they beare that personage in which the Lord himselfe hath imprinted and ingraved an inviolable Majesty But thou wilt say Rulers owe mutuall dutyes to their Subjects that I have already confessed but if thou thereupon conclude that obediences are to be rendred to none but to just Governours thou art a foolish reasoner for husbands also are bound to their wives and parents to their children with mutuall duties let parents and husbands depart from their dutie let parents shew themselves so hard and unpleasable to their children whom they are forbidden to provoke to anger that with their peevishnesse they do unmeasurably weary them let the husbands most despitefully use their wives whom they are commanded to love to spare them as weak vessells shall yet therefore either children be disobedient to their parents or ●ives to their husbands But they are subject both to evill parents and husbands and such as doe not their duty yea when as all ought rather to endeavour themselves not to looke behind them to the bag hangi●g on their backe that is not to enquire one of anothers duties but every man set before him that which is his owne duty this ought chiefly to have place among those that are under the power of other wherefore if we be unmercifully tormented of a cruell Prince if we be ravenously spoy●ed of a covetous or riotous Prince if we be neglected of a slothfull Prince finally if we be vexed for godlinesse sake of a wicked and ungodly Prince let us first call to minde the remembrance of our sinnes which undoubtedly are chastised with such scourges of the Lord thereby humility shall bridle our impatience let us then also call to minde this thought that it pertaineth not to us to remedy such evills but this only is left for us that we crave the helpe of the Lord in whose hand are the hearts of Kings and the bowings of Kingdomes he is the God that shall stand in the assembly of Gods and shall in the midst judge the gods from whose face all Kings shall fall and be broken and all the Judges of the earth that shall not have kissed his anointed that have written unjust lawes to oppresse the poore in judgement and doe violence to the cause of the humble to make widowes a prey and rob the fatherlesse Sect. 30. And here both his marveilous goodnesse and power and providence sheweth it selfe for sometime of his servants he raiseth up open revengers and furnisheth them with his commandement to take vengeance of their unjust government and to deliver his people many wayes oppressed out of miserable distresse sometime he directeth to the same end the rage of men that extend and goe about another thing So hee delivered the people of Israel out of the tyranny of Pharaoh by Moses and out of the violence Chusam King of Syria by Othoniel and out of other thraldomes by other Kings or Judges So he tamed the pride of Tyrus by the Egyptians the insolence of the Egyptians by the Assyrians the fiercenesse of the Assyrians by the Chaldees the boldnesse of Babylon by the Medians and by the Persians when Cyrus had subdued the Medians and the fulnesse of the Kings of Judah and Israel and their wicked obstinacy towards his so many benefits he did beat downe and bring to distresse sometime by the Assyrians sometime by the Babylonians albeit not all after one manner for the first sort of men when they were by the lawfull calling of God sent to doe such acts in taking armor against Kings they did not violate that Majesty which is planted in Kings by the ordinance of God but being armed from heaven they subdued the lesser power with the greater like as it is lawfull for Kings to punish their Lords under them but these latter sort although they were directed by the hand of God whither it pleased him and they unwittingly did his worke yet purposed in their mindes nothing but mischiefe Sect. 31. But howsoever the very doings of men be judged yet the Lord did as well execute his work by them when he did break the bloudy Scepters of proud Kings and overthrew their intolerable governments Let Princes hear and be afraid but we in the meane time must take great heed that we doe not despise or offend that authority of Magistrates full of reverend Majesty which God hath stablished with most weighty decrees although it remaine with most unworthy men and which doe with their wickednesse so much as in them is defile it for though the correcting of unbridled government be the revengement of the Lord let us not by and by thinke that it is committed to us to whom there is given no other commandement but to obey and suffer I speake alway of private men for if there be at this time any Magistrates for the people constituted for the moderating of the lust of Kings such as in old time were the Ephori that were set against the Kings of Lacedemonia or the Tribunes of the people against the Roman Consuls or the Demarchy against the Senate of Athens and the same power also which peradventure as things are now the three Estates have in every Realme when they hold their principall assemblies I doe so not forbid them according to their office to withstand the outraging licentiousnesse of Kings that I affirme that if they winke at Kings wilfully raging over and treading down the poore Communalty their dissembling is not without wicked breach of falth because they deceitfully betray the liberty of the people whereof they know themselves to be appointed pro●ectours or defen● ours by the ordinance of God This ●estimony I co●●eive to be as compleat an● opposite as can ●e desired only for me●s perve●ting the l●●ter part of the last ci●ed paragraphes from those words I speak alway of private men c. to the end of that Sect ha●h 〈…〉 both the honour of that teste● amongst loyall subjects and the validity of that testimony in so honourable a cause as t is now produced in but with Gods assistance I trust I shall vindicate both by this candid explication of those words and cleare manifestation of their true sco● e and intent I speake alway of private men saies Calvin but in what case and of