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	sin_n	3,547	5	5.4363	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04101	The Christian sacrifice by Iames Barker ...	Barker, James, fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 1418; ESTC S113337	35,264	174

hath no calling to get him one for he that hath no vocation is of no Religion There are in the world viri absque jugo * Anabaptists unruly men who stand upon their lawlesse libertie which they mis-name Christian untamed heyfers whom no pales or walles of law or discipline can keepe within the boundes of the Church or Common-wealth who abhorre that lawfull Authoritie or Christian Charitie should regulate their ill-governed libertie But surely this is no privilege of Gods Sonnes a character it is rather of the sonnes of Belial * Judg. 19. 22. 1. Cor. 7. 21 1. Pet. 2. for Saint Paul in one Epistle and Saint Peter in another teach another lesson thus much in effect that honour reverence obedience and service unto men may well consist with the libertie of the Sonnes of God The freedome Christ purchased for them is not civil from the obedience of the magistrate soveraigne or subordinate nor naturall from those respects and duties which children owe to their parents wives to their husbands c. But spirituall from sinne and Sathan death and hell this and not that is the freedome Christ purchased and Saint Paul fitly called the glorious libertie of the Sonnes of God from which happy libertie no beleever is excluded and unto which the meanest hath as good right as the greatest and be mens qualities and degrees in the world never so different God comprehends all under one common motion of Sonnes nor is it any worldly respect that makes a man ever the more favoured with God for a man to plead his birth breeding wealth wit learning beautie valour is more fit for a Coridon to his Alexes or a Phoebus to his Daphne then a Christian to his God It is not the proper man nor the rich man nor the wittie man nor the valiant man nor the learned man nor the noble man It is not any of these though all these deserve a civil respect that God is taken with his affection pitches on the godly man Psalme 4. 3. The Lord hath chosen to himselfe the man that is godly and now let no man disdaine Gods choyce how meane soever in outward appearance for whom his mercie chooses his love advanceth to the dignitie of his Sonne and whom his love hath advanced to the Dignitie from him his authoritie requires the duty of his Sonne and the duty here expressed is to give God his Heart which is the second part of my text My Sonne give me thine heart If wee be his Sonnes God is our Father there is his authoritie over us And if God be our Father where is his honour there is our duty to him Nobilitas ad virtutem obligat the greater honor God hath done us the greater are our engagements to him and therefore as wee have looked up with comfort to the dignitie so now let us looke downe with care to the dutie of Gods sonnes which is briefly sum'd up in two words Love and Obedience Where Obedience is there is nothing so difficult commanded that will not with diligence be attempted And where Love is there is nothing so pretious demanded that will not with cheerefulnesse be tendred here God tries our Love by our Obedience that he may see how much wee love him by that which we will doe for him And againe he tries the sinceritie of our Obedience by our Love that he may see how much we will doe for him by that which we wil cheerfully give him and as a pledge both of Love and Obedience he requires the heart My Sonne give me thine heart Cor tuum thy heart to God there is the thing required to testifie our Love Da mihi Give mee there is the dutie to be performed to expresse our Obedience The testimony of thy Love to God is thy Heart to God A Heart there is the quid the thing what it is that God requires Thine there is the cujus the proprietie whose it is First the Heart is the thing God calls for and what is that This small piece of flesh that beates in our mortall bodie No that were to require our lives God will have Mercy and not Sacrifice and craves not our life but our Love the Heart is the seate of Love that our heavenly Father requires of us his unworthy Children that we love him And not only our Love but in calling for the heart he calls for our feare and service too for whatsoever the curiositie of some Philosophers have determined to the contrary the heart is the seate of all the affections and passions the Gall Liver and Spleene give the occasion to stirre them up but in the heart they are seated the Heart is the Metropolis of the soule and often taken for the soule with all her faculties Besides the Heart is Omnis hona dispositio corporis reduci dat quodam modo ad cor ficut ad principium corporaliū motionum Aq. 1 2. q. 38. art 5 resp ad 3. arg Vide Aq. 1 2. q. 17. art 9 arg 1. 2. the first mover of all the Externall actions and every member worketh according to the motion inclination and will of the Heart It liveth first and dyeth last and therefore first and last and for all give God the heart for that is all All the faculties of the soule all the members of the body attend the Heart and follow it the Heart goes before and drawes the whole man after it And this is Gods delight the whole man he loves Integrity and in calling for the heart he requires every part thy head to know him thy tongue to confesse him thine eyes to observe him thine eares to attend unto him thy lips to praise him thy hands by good workes to glorifie him thy knees to bow before him and thy feet to stand in his Courts God is not served at all where any part is withheld from him or devoted to any other besides him sincerity and integrity are individuall companions If true devotion lodge in the heart humble reverence will shine in every part So sings David Psal 84. 2. Cor meum caro mea exultaverunt c. My heart inwardly and my flesh outwardly have rejoyced in the living God Thus the whole man must apply it selfe to the worship of God the outward aswell as the inward man by the outward 2 Cor. 4. 16 Oecum in locum man the learned * understand the body the inward man by St. Peter is expounded to be the hidden man of the heart that aswell as this this in private that in publike this with inward and spirituall that with outward and corporall worship In private then and in thine owne Chamber commune with thine owne heart the testimony of Gods spirit and thine own is sufficient But in publik in Gods presence Chamber the Temple it sufficeth not except the Church may see too that all may see and beare witnesse that God is in you of a truth and this cannot be except mens externall