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	servant_n	unprofitable_a	1,244	5	10.6349	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53095	Ultimum vale, or, The last farewell of a minister of the Gospel to a beloved people by Matthevv Nevvcomen ...	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing N914; ESTC R8564	50,710	82

Love and Obedience which the Son yeelds to the Father So the Hapiness and Glory of the Life to come is not only a sufficient but a superabundant Recompence of all that the Saints of God either do or suffer for him Fourthly Because often in Scripture the phrase or denomination of an Inheritance is used pro quavis regratâ et acceptâ So Psal 16. The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places and I have a goodly Heritage Now the Hapiness and Glory of the Life to come may be called an Inheritance because it is the most acceptable desirable delightful thing that God himself could bestow upon the Creature Fiftly An Inheritance it is a free gift No Son can claim the Inheritance at his Fathers hands by way of merit indeed a man may by his demerit forfeit his Inheritance and deserve to be disinherited but no child can challenge the Inheritance of men but must receive it of free gift And the Child yet ows all love and all service and all duty to his Father though he have never a peny of Inheritance to leave him and though he hath and should not leave it to him but leave it to some other yet still the child ows all Love and Duty to his Father and the Inheritance that is left him it is his Fathers love and good-will and not his desert So the Happiness and Glory of the Life to come though as I said before in the third Particular it is a sufficient super-abundant reward of all the Love Duty Service and Sufferings of Believers yet it is not the wages of their Service but it is the Grace of God the free Gift of the good Will and Pleasure of God And that leads me to the second Doctrine That the Heavenly Inheritance it is a Gift So Scripture expresly speaks Luke 12.32 It is your Fathers good Pleasure to give you the Kingdom Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Death indeed is due wages deserved wages but eternal Life the Heavenly Inheritance is a Gift a free gift a meer gift so in many other places and needs it must be so I will but use the Apostle's disjunction Rom. 4.4 Either it must be of Grace or of Debt of debt it cannot be And therefore it must needs be of Grace That the Heavenly Inheritance or Reward cannot be of Debt I prove First That what ever it be that makes another indebted unto me it must be in debitum unto him For by doing that which is a due debt in me and which I am obliged to do I can never make him for whom I do it indebted unto me Now all our Service and Obedience to God it is but due debt in us unto God it is that we are obliged to and therefore all our Service can never oblige God or make him indebted unto us Upon this account it is our Saviour teacheth us Luke 17.10 When ye have done all these things which are commanded you say We are unprofitable Servants we have done that which was our duty to do Secondly This cannot be of debt because there must be a proportion between the Work and the Reward to make the Reward due of debt A man that works in your Fields for you a day why he may come at night and claim twelve or fourteen pence for a dayes work as a due debt but if he should challenge an hundred or a thousand pound for one dayes work you would look upon him as unreasonable and impudent There is infinitely more difference between all our Service and the heavenly Inheritance than there is between a pound for a dayes hedging or ditching in your Fields It cannot be that Heaven should be a debt it must then be a Gift not of Debt but of Grace Seeing then that Heaven is an Inheritance and therefore of Gift not of Merit because an Inheritance Let this teach us to abhor that proud Popish doctrine of Merit and admire and adore the free Grace of God in Jesus Christ The Reward of Heaven and Glory it is not a Purchase but an Inheritance Among men there is a great deal of difference between a Purchase and an Inheritance For a Purchase a man layeth down a valuable price but an Inheritance comes to him freely it costs nim nothing possibly it might cost another man much that purchased it for him but if it descend unto him by Inheritance it costs him nothing O my Brethren Heaven the Happiness and Glory of the Life to come it is not our Purchase but our Inheritance we pay nothing for it indeed it cost Christ our elder Brother dear to purchase it not for himself for He was Heir by birth but to purchase this Inheritance for us it cost him dear but it cost us nothing Christ bequeathed it unto us of free Gift it is to us not of purchase but Inheritance therefore it is not of Merit but of Grace Yea Heaven is not only said to be our Inheritance but we are said to be made Heirs So Tit. 3.7 We are not born Heirs of Heaven but born Heirs of Hell but we are made Heirs of Heaven by the Grace of Adoption yea we are not only made Heirs of Heaven by the Grace of Adoption but we are made fit for Heaven by the Grace of Sanctification unto Acceptation So that here all is of Grace The Inheritance of Grace our Right and Tittle to it is of Grace our Fitting and Preparing for it is of Grace all of Grace nothing of Merit all of God nothing of our selves Secondly this That Heaven is an Inheritance which God freely gives This should teach all of us 1. To set our minds upon this Inheritance A man that hath but possibilities or expectations of an Inheritance to befal him by the death of such or such a one though it be but a poor slender paltry matter yet how hardly can he keep his mind from running upon it from thinking long till he come to the possession of it from even almost wishing sometimes the party dead whose the present possession is Filius ante diem Patrios inquirit in annos Many a graceless Child is even weary of his Father and sick of his Mother only because his mind runs so much upon the Patrimony the Inheritance and he thinks so long for it Pupillumice utinam quem proximus Haeres Impello ex pungam saith another O my Brethren did we look upon the state and happiness of the life to come as an Inheritance as our Inheritance it would be so with us we could not keep our minds from running out upon the happiness and glory of the life to come our thoughts would be running upon it our hearts would be longing and wishing for the possession of it and here we may give our thoughts and desires line scope to the utmost Indeed in our thoughts of and desires after earthly inheritances we had need set bounds to our