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	reverence_n	2,346	5	9.8318	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02339	Two guides to a good life The genealogy of vertue and the nathomy of sinne. Liuely displaying the worth of one, and the vanity of the other.; Anathomie of sinne.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656, attributed name.; Humfrey, Richard, attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 12466; ESTC S118647	67,276	265

is no hope of pardon or possability to prosper because shee wanteth will to aske the one or courage to attempt the other as appeares by the example of Kaine Iudas and such like who offended god more in dispairing of his mercy then in the committing of their offences for the first steppe to saluation is to decline from sinne and the second not to dispaire of mercie Misprision of time what MIsprision of time is a kind of sloth mixte with vnnessessarye labour whereby time is otherwise spent then it shoulde and therein although we seeme industrious yet because our labour both of minde and body is either about trifles or vnlawfull actions therefore such labour is accounted idlenes And this is the fault of such as breake their braine aboute the studie of mischife and wicked inuentions discourse vpon vaine and filthy matters seriously read profane bookes practise vnlawfull games gad vp and downe vppon no ocasion of businesse spend time in daliance drinking and eating or make a continuall custome of such excersices as are appointed onely for recreation Omission what OMission is a kinde of sloth whereby we let slippe the knowledge of such thinges as we ought to knowe or the prosecution of such thinges as we ought to doe and this is the faulte of those that being cōmaunded to watch and pray ouerpasse that duety by the means of being imploied about worldly vanities or of such as know that god is the gracious giuer of all those benefites which they enioy and yet forget to giue him thanks for the same or resoluing vpon some good worke to the aduauncement of gods glory and the profite of the common wealth are carried away through the streame of their owne affections and so leaue it vnfinished THis sinne toucheth all sors of people as magistrates when they omit the administration of iustice ministers when they omite the preaching of the worde parents when they neglect their children especially in matters touching their soules health children when they dispise the disciplin of their parents and so foorth through all degrees and callings where there is anye neglect of duety Duty what DVety is the bonde of the soule whereby we cheerefully and willingly without force or constraint giue to euery one that which belongeth vnto him as honour to whome honor reuerence to whom reuerence tribute to whom tribute and succor to whom succour belongeth it is of two kindes duety towards god and duety towards our neighbour duety towardes god is loue testified by obedience duety towardes our neighbour is loue testified by vpright dealing How to detest Sloth REmember that sloth is a vice which impouerisheth both soule and bodie the soule of internall graces the body of externall goodes as appeares by the words of the gospel to him that hath shal be giuen and to him that hath not shall be taken euen that which he hath and by the wisedom of Salomon the idle hand is filde with penury Remenber likewise that it is a vice which captiuates and bringeth vs vnder the slauish tyranny of our worldely enemies the world the flesh the diuell for whilest through a carelesse and negligent regard we make slight acount of their temptations or valiantly perseuer not in fight agaiust them we lose the honour and reward of victory and euer after lie bounde in the seru le chaines of darkenesse Remember also it is a vice which is the roote and nurse of many other vices as appeares by the example of Dauid who no sooner gaue himselfe to rest after his painefull warres but hee fel into the sinnes of adultery and murder Saloman so long as he was busy in building the Temple and other houses cōtinued zealous in the seruice of God but waxing negligent he fell straite to lust after women and commit idolatry Fourthly remember that it is helde a vice so detestable in nature as verie brute beastes abhor it as we may gather by the industrie of the Ant Bee and other smal and contemptible creatures Lastly let vs consider that all other creatures not hauing life are so opposite to sloth as they continually keepe the first course wherein they were created without intermission or ceasing vnlesse it be vppon some violent and accidentall cause as wee see by the reuolution of the sunne moon and stars by the ebbing and flowing of the sea and by the iust returne of summer and winter spring and Autumne nay the very stones of the earth thogh they be sencelesse and lye still yet haue they in them a kind of working faculty which giues them groath and increase if then these much more ought men indued with reason and vnderstanding to decline from sloth and imbrace the labor whereunto they are ordained for man is created not to take rest but to trauel and he liueth most happily who as little as may be liueth to himselfe How to auoid Sloth COnsidder that wee enter into this worlde as it were to run a race or fight a battell if therefore wee run not so as we may get the gole we lose the rewarde or if we fight not so as we may preuaile we loose the reward and honour due to victory Consider likewise that we neither runne this race nor fight this battell in priuate to our selues but in the open sight of him that wil one day call vs to a reckoning how we haue bestowed euery houre and minute allotted vs for that purpose pronouncing in the mean space a curse vpon them that doe this worke negligently The best remedy therefore against sloth and ydlensse is deuotion which is a ready and willing performance of the seruice of God and of all other duties required of vs in the course of this life Deuotion is of two sorts the one belonging to the minde which containes the exercise and labours of the minde as prayer prayse thanksgiuing and such like the other to the body which comprehendeth the workes of charrity abstinence humility and such like corporal functions To be incited the rather herunto let vs call to minde the examples of such persons as for the loue of virtue haue refused no paines cost or industry what monumēts may we behold erected by the dilligence of our fore fathers what large reuenues left to the reliese of the poore What books and volums written for our instruction which we had neuer beene happy by if they had delighted more in sloth then dilligence The Queene of Saba trauelled ftom the furthest part of the south to Iudea to heare the wisdome of Sollomon S. Paule neglected no perril nor persicution in many countries for the daily hourely planting of the holy Gospell euen heauen men are liuely patternes vnto vs for the auoiding of sinne Plautus by day writ his commedies and in the night ground in a mill that so hee might haue wherewith to maintaine him at his study Apelles for the desire he had to excel in the art of paintng would let no day passe wherin he drew not some line or