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
A64650	Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the son of God unfolded by James Archbishop of Armagh.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1643 (1643)	Wing U180; ESTC R7064	32,765	70

this wicked world he should be subject to fall as they were or if he should hold out as l the elect Angels did that must have been ascribed to the grace and favour of another whereas the giving of strict satisfaction to Gods justice was the thing required in this behalfe But now being God as well as Man he by his owne m eternall Spirit preserved himselfe without spot presenting a farre more satisfactory obedience unto God than could have possibly been performed by Adam in his integrity For beside the infinite difference that was betwixt both their Persons which maketh the actions of the one beyond all comparison to exceed the worth and value of the other we know that Adam was not able to make himselfe holy but what holinesse he had he received from him who created him according to his owne Image so that whatsoever obedience Adam had performed God should have n eaten but of the fruit of the Vineyard which himselfe had planted and o of his owne would all that have been which could be given unto him But Christ did himselfe sanctifie that humane nature which he assumed according to his owne saying John 17. 19. For their sakes I sanctifie my selfe and so out of his owne peculiar store did he bring forth those precious treasures of holy obedience which for the satisfaction of our debt he was pleased to tender unto his Father Again if Adam had p done all things which were commanded him he must for all that have said I am an unprofitable servant I have done that which was my duty to doe Whereas in the voluntary obedience which Christ subjected himselfe unto the case stood farre otherwise True it is that if we respect him in his humane nature q his Father is greater than he and he is his Fathers r servant yet in that he said and most truly said that God was his Father s the Jewes did rightly inferre from thence that he thereby made himselfe equall with God and t the Lord of hosts himselfe hath proclaimed him to be the man that is his fellow Being such a man therefore and so highly borne by the priviledge of his birth-right he might have claimed an exemption from the ordinary service whereunto all other men are tied and by being u the Kings Sonne have freed himselfe from the payment of that tribute which was to be exacted at the hands of Strangers When x the Father brought this his first-begotten into the world he said Let all the Angells of God worship him and at the very instant wherein the Sonne advanced our nature into the highest pitch of dignity by admitting it into the unity of his sacred person that nature so assumed was worthy to be crowned with all glory and honour and he in that nature might then have set himselfe downe y at the right hand of the throne of God tyed to no other subjection than now he is or hereafter shall be when after the end of this world he shall have delivered up the kingdome to God the Father For then also in regard of his assumed nature he z shall be subject unto him that put all other things under him Thus the Sonne of God if he had minded only his owne things might at the very first have attained unto the joy that was set before him but a looking on the things of others he chose rather to come by a tedious way and wearisome journey unto it not challenging the priviledge of a Sonne but taking upon him the forme of a meane servant Whereupon in the dayes of his flesh he did not serve as an honourable Commander in the Lords host but as an ordinary souldier he made himselfe of no reputation for the time as it were * emptying himselfe of his high state and dignity he humbled himselfe and became obedient untill his death being content all his life long to be b made under the Law yea so farre that as he was sent c in the likenesse of sinfull flesh so he disdained not to subject himselfe unto that Law which properly did concerne sinfull flesh And therefore howsoever Circumcision was by right appliable only unto such as were d dead in their sinnes and the uncircumcision of their flesh yet he in whom there was no body of the sinnes of the flesh to be put off submitted himselfe notwithstanding thereunto not only to testifie his communion with the Fathers of the old Testament but also by this meanes to tender unto his Father a bond signed with his owne bloud whereby he made himselfe in our behalfe a debtour unto the whole Law For I testifie saith e the Apostle to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtour to the whole Law In like manner Baptisme appertained properly unto such as were defiled and had need to have their f sinnes washed away and therefore when all the land of Judea and they of Jerusalem went out unto John they g were all baptized of him in the river Jordan confessing their sinnes Among the rest came our Saviour also but the Baptist considering that he had need to be baptized by Christ and Christ no need at all to be baptized by him refused to give way unto that action as altogether unbefitting the state of that immaculat Lamb of God who was to take away the sinne of the World Yet did our Mediatour submit himselfe to that ordinance of God also not only to testifie his communion with the Christians of the new Testament but especially which is the reason yeelded by himselfe because h it became him thus to fulfill all righteousnesse And so having fulfilled all righteousnesse whereunto the meanest man was tied in the dayes of his pilgrimage which was more than he needed to have undergone if he had respected only himselfe the workes which he performed were truly works of supererogation which might be put upon the account of them whose debt he undertook to discharge and being performed by the person of the Sonne of God must in that respect not only be equivalent but infinitely overvalue the obedience of Adam and all his posterity although they had remained in their integrity continued untill this houre instantly serving God day night And thus for our maine and principall debt of Obedience hath our Mediator given satisfaction unto the Iustice of his Father with i good measure pressed down shaken together running over But beside this we were liable unto another debt which we have incurred by our default and drawn upon our selves by way of forfeiture and nomine poenae For as k Obedience is a due debt and Gods servants in regard thereof are truly debters so likewise is sinne a l debt and sinners m debters in regard of the penalty due for the default And as the payment of the debt which commeth nomine poenae dischargeth not the tenant afterwards from paying