Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	command_v	law_n	precept_n	1,277	5	9.1164	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71013	Origo protestantium, or, An answer to a popish manuscript (of N.N.'s.) that would fain make the Protestant Catholick religion bear date at the very time when the Roman popish commenced in the world wherein Protestancy is demonstrated to be elder than popery : to which is added, a Jesuits letter with the answer thereunto annexed / by John Shaw ...	Shaw, John, 1614-1689.; N. N.	1677 (1677)	Wing S3032C; ESTC R20039	119,193	138

least is secondary Idolatry For Idolatry consists in giving Religious Worship due to God to that which is not God and a primary and secondary respect cannot relieve them because these are Duties of the same kind the higher or lower conceptions of the Object toward which the Religious Office is exercised cannot alter the kind or species and it is impossible to assign any real difference betwixt them Bellar. could find none either in respect of the internal Act of the Will or the external Offices excepting that figment of a sensible Sacrifice but only in operatione intellectus in the apprehension of the understanding which renders the difference only rational nor real 5. Press the Papists with that Text with which our Saviour Christ confuted the Devil Matth. 4.10 Thou shalt Worship the. Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve they will return this is meant of Latria not of Doulia but if this exclusive Particle only bar Latria only then the Devil could have replied the Answer is not sufficient confessedly there is none good but God and then if he had been as subtle a Sophister as a Jesuite or an Apostate he would have added it is not Latria or Primary Sovereign and Terminative Worship that I expect or demand for I acknowledg the Sovereign Almighty Power of God vers 3. and 6. and him to be the Author and donor of this Power which I challenge over the Kingdoms of the earth to give them all I have or can dispose of were first given me for they are delivered to me v. 4.6 and this therefore thou answerest is a mistake keep thine heart thine elevated conceptions to God Doulia and the outward acts are sufficient for me if thou wilt fall down and Worship me that is by falling down Worship me for the Text reacheth not that and indeed that is all I desire but surely this were to corrupt the Text which must be understood of the exhibition of the outward acts agreably to other places of Scripture in which the Worship and outward acts are used as Synonyma's for the Leper who came to Christ and Worshiped him Matth. 8.2 is said to beseech him and kneeling down to him Mar. 1.40 and to fall on his face Luk. 5.12 and so the plain meaning of the sentence is Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve not only with Latria but with Doulia be it by Incurvation Genuflexion Prostration or any other external act expressive of inward Devotion or Subjection Part 3. 3. It is Irrational For 1. To determin that a necessary or profitable Office of Religion and Practice it as such which is neither founded on the Law of Nature nor prescribed by any positive constitution is Irrational because all perpetually and universally obliging Duties of Religion are either Natural which by the tenure of our Creation we are to perform in gratitude to and for the Honour of our Creator or instituted such as we are bound to observe because commanded so to do by our Lord Jesus Christ who only hath Power to order perpetually and universally obliging observations to all Christians Now forasmuch as there is nothing in the Law of Nature to enforce this supposed profitable Duty for then both Jews Gentiles and Christians did sin in the omission of it if it were by the the Law required nor is there in the Discipline of Christ either any Precept or Promise to authorize and legitimate either as a necessary or profitable Duty therefore both the imposition of the Duty and the practice must be Irrational 2. Invocation of the Supreme God the Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth is an act of Justice as well as Religion we wrong God if we pay not this tribute and Homage to him and we wrong him too if we offer or determin it to any other besides him For Invocation is of common right antecedently to any positive order due from man to God and therefore no man nor Society of man can on their own heads without his allowance or consent dispose thereof without Sacriledg Indeed if God had permitted this Honour to be given to any besides himself it would not be an injury to him to pass it to them he should grant it to But in that there is no such assignment extant or producible by any Letters Parents or Settlment from Heaven it is an high Injustice to determin or invade his Original right by an arbitary presumption But admitting which is the most that is by some or can by any be pretended that God had granted to Angels or Saints departed Reigning in Heaven a priviledg to solicite for us at the Throne of Grace and make motions for us in his Court of Requests yet did he never give them leave to pass an Act of Indemnity and Grace for our security and preferment This is a Prerogative which he hath reserved to himself and therefore it is repugnant to right reason to sue for Pardon and Grace from them who have no Power to grant the one or give the other or make good either of them It often proves a profitable good policy for one who seeks a Pardon for a capital offence or affects places of trust and honour in the State to oblige and employ some Favorite Courtier to mediate in his behalf to the King but it would be extreamly ridiculous and absurd in the Petitioner to fall down on his knees to that Courtier and beseech him to command a Pardon under the Broad Seal to be assigned for him or to beg an Act of Grace as to make him an Earl or a Baron of the Realm because these Powers and Preheminencies in right belonging to the Kings Prerogative are inherent to the Crown and inseparably annexed to it 3. The ascribing this Duty to any the most excellent Creatures cannot be profitable to living men because upon several other accounts it is injurious to God for it entitles Creatures in those incommunicable attributes of his upon which also the Duty is founded his Omniscience in fixing a Power in them to hear the mental (b) As it is approved by the Council of Trent Sess c. 1. and exemplified in rheir L●turgy in this form with the desires of our heart we pray unto you receive the ready service of our minds Prayers of living men and his Omnipresence in supposing and asserting they understand the vocal Prayers of Petitioners at the greatest distance removed one from another though it be most certain that the life and virtue of these Prayers lieth not in the outward expressions and postures of Devotion but the inward Veneration and affection of the heart which by the way obviates that vain pretension that by Praying to those Creatures in Heaven they do no more nor otherwise than in begging the assistance of the Prayers of Holy men upon Earth for it was never heard nor can it be conceived that any living man in his right Wits would vocally beg of another at a Thousand miles