Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	david_n	psalm_n	sing_v	985	5	9.2598	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66095	Divine meditations. Written by an honourable person. Whereto is adjoyned, a determination of the question, whether men ought to kneele at the receipt of the Holy Communion. And an essay of friendship	Wake, Isaac, Sir, 1580?-1632.	1641 (1641)	Wing W226B; ESTC R219891	35,999	169

mater est diffidentia Diffidence is the mother of Prudence For if thou examine thy life by the Rule of GODS Law thou wilt finde thy soule full of a spirituall Leprosie which nothing can cure but the bleeding wounds of the immaculate Lambe of God which taketh away all the sinnes of the World The 4th note of our inclination to that Lethargik disease was the want of selfe-examination viz. how we stood affected to holy duties in times of adversitie and Prosperity respectively If then wee feele the Pulse of our Soules to beate more faintly and weakely in our prosperous and flourishing estate then it did when we were in Trouble or Danger it is high time to looke to our selves lest we fall into a Lethargy For as the lest Declination of the Sunne from the Meridian though insensible at the beginning ever encreases till the Sunne bee set so the lest relenting in the zealous * M. Latimer being asked why there was so much preaching and so little practising answered Deest ignis there wants fire viz. of Zeale practice of Piety and Charity will in short time prove a Retrogradation which will cast us mainly backward and take quite from us in the end the light and Comfort of the Sunne of Righteousnesse There are few men that after they have sung Te Deum for any great Deliverance will seriously remember or thinke upon Miserere mei Deus present Prosperitie making them secure of future Danger as if they needed not to pray Leade us not into Temptation They have a Custome in Italy A relation of the Italian Revels and Bacchanals the week before Lent of putting out the Quaranta hore as they terme it in the principall Churches in the last week of Carneval when Feasting Dicing Dancing and Masking with all sorts of licentious revelling is shamefully priviledg'd among them During those fortie houres they which have any Devotion attend to the hearing of Sermons fasting and praying for the Remission of their owne sinnes and of those that sinne in that time of excesse and loosenesse which was the best peece of Pietie that I observed in the Roman Church Weaknesse of Faith is in degree Want of Faith When we finde therefore a weakenesse of Faith a faintnesse in our Devotions cold affection to God and good men fewer Teares shed for sinne then formerly lesse remorse of Conscience and dread of Gods Iudgments we may well suspect in our selves a carnall and Carnevall Securitie which by all pious meanes wee must labour to prevent Howbeit in this Synchronisme or Collation of the times of our Adversity and Prosperity I require not in all points the same spirituall exercises without Variation as if there were no difference betwixt Christmas-day and Good-Friday but a constant Tenour of serving God all the dayes of our life without intermission or remission of the essentiall duties of Religion that as in Affliction we call'd on him for deliverance so being deliverd we forget not to glorifie his Divine Majesty as he hath * See Psal 50. ver 15. and 23. commanded us having ever a watchfull eye to our selves that our Zeale to his service relent not nor our Charity to our neighbour wax * Coldnesse is a Symptom and degree of death cold and learning of holy Iob ch 9. to feare all our workes as knowing that wee are to worke out our salvation c. as wee are taught Phil. 2.12 which is not to bee understood that we are to bee so fearefull as to doubt of the end if we continue in our faith but to be so carefull and punctually circumspect as to omit no means thereto conducent The last signe indicating a propension in our soules to carnall security was the Omission of the Spirituall Sacrifices of Praise and Thanks after any blessing comfort or deliverance receaved from God To remedie this requires only an inspection into the Booke of GOD where wee shall finde innumerable Precepts and Precedents seconded with most gracious promises exciting and even enforcing us to that heavenly exercise of glorifying God for all his Mercies Moses in Deuteronomy doth preach to the Israelites and mainly presse on their Soules and Consciences two chiefe Doctrinall Points viz. Obedience and Thanksgiving This was the Reverend Patriarchs Practise who never receav'd any blessing The ancient practise of Piety by Geds true servants worthy our imitation but immediately wee reade of an Altar by them erected yea if they found but Water for their Cattell they gave to the Wells they had digged significant Names expressing their Gratitude The Israelites deliverance at the Red Sea produced the Song of Moses The Victory of Barak the Song of Debora The birth of Samuel the Song of Hanna The birth of the Baptist the Song of Zachary and the Annunciation of our Saviours Nativity the Blessed Virgins Magnificat The Prophet David hath left us only seven penitentiall Psalms but his Eucharisticall psalms of Thanksgiving are very numerous not omitting to compose an Hymne of praise for every signall favour that hee receaved at the hands of God Motives and Reasons impelling yea compelling us to the performance of this duty are many First among Ethniks and meere Morall men Ingratitude is reputed the Metropolis of Vices and ingrate persons branded with the greatest infamy Ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris It is a violation of naturall Iustice Secondly Partem beneficij reddidit qui gratias dedit He hath in part requited a benefit that returnes thankes The Prophets demand was Quid retribuam arguing that some kinde of retribution was due to God for his blessings Ex aequo bono the neglect whereof must needs bee adjudg'd a violation of naturall Equity Gratitude a due debt Doe yee thus requite the Lord ye Fooles saith Moses * See Deut. 32.6 Thirdly Gratitude for Mercies receav'd is the next way to purchase more from God as the servant in the Parable that improved the pound left with him by his Master was made Ruler over tenne Cities Luke 19 16.17 Fourthly whosoever is truely thankfull to God will endeavour to expresse his gratitude by Obedience extending it to the whole course of his life and to all the divine Commandements not taking liberty in any one sinne but striving to avoid all nor omitting any Duty of Piety or Charity but conscionably * The Law may bee kept sincerely though not fulfilld exactly performing all like Zachary and Elizabeth who walked in all the Precepts and Ordinances of the Lord unblameably Luk. 1.6 As God never ceaseth to bestow his blessings on us so should wee incessantly serve laud and magnifie him all our days In which heavenly exercises if wee continue constant faithfull to death wee shall receave a Crowne of Life Revel 2.10 Fifthly this holy Duty is full of comfort and contentment and a singular solace to the religious soule O praise the Lord saith the Prophet for it is a good thing to * Sing Davids Psalms with Davids

spirit sing praises to Our God yea a joyfull and pleasant thing to be thankfull Psalm 147.1 If we delight in this heavenly * Singing of Psalmes to Gods glory Melodie and soule-ravishing Harmonie it is impossible we should ever forget God Therefore it is an Antidote of Soveraigne vertue against worldly securitie Lastly the celebration of GODS Name reduces to our memory the Dangers and disasters that we have past Psalm 54.6 7. and those sins of ours likewise that occasioned them The consideration whereof may deterre us from sinning and teach us to stand in awe of the Divine Majesty Psal 4.4 lest by committing new sinnes wee pull on our Heads new punishments according to that terrible Commination of God Deut. 32.23 I will heape mischiefes on them I will spend mine Arrowes upon them and verse 42. I will make mine Arrowes drunke with the bloud of the slaine c. Let us therfore as Moses there adviseth ver 46. set our hearts * Hardnesse of heart the cause of Inconsideration Mark 6.52 compard with 2 Chr. 12.14 unto all these words lest after we have escapt the sword of Saul we be hew'd in peeces by Samuel All relapses into sinne or sickenesse are extreme perillous Recidiva pejor Radice Recidivation aggravates the crime and makës the latter end worse than the beginning as Saint Peter testifies 2 Pet. 2.20 who resembles such Delinquents to dogges and hogges ver 22. Wherefore let us not provoke to anger our heavenly Father our gracious Redeemer and sweet comforter Sinne no more saith our Saviour Iohn 5.14 least a worse thing befall thee that is sinne no more wilfullie doe what thou canst to avoid it Shun whatsoever hath any tincture of sinne Detest it as the bane of thy soule * Numb 16.38 and abhorre thy selfe for it Desire to forbeare all sinne and that desire shall exempt thee from the Guilt or Punishment Turne Hagar out of doores Crucifie the Flesh with the Affections and lusts Crush the Cockatrice in the shell Non nocent peccata praeterita saith Saint Augustine Si non placent praesentia Grace resists and subdues corruption Sins past cannot harme us if sinnes present doe not please us Be vigilant therefore and keep an eye upon thy selfe and all thy actions and designes Make a covenant with thine eyes and set a strict watch on thy lips that thou offend not Let Gods Law * Qui diligit legem diligrt Regem and Word be a Lanterne to thy feet by which thou maist order thy steps then if thou slide thou shalt not fall and if thou fall by infirmitie Dominus supponet manum the Lord Iesus shall raise thee by his Power and not * See Isaiah 41.10 permit thee to be attempted above thy strength He is full of compassion and will not deale with us after our sins nor reward us according to our Wickednesse for hee knowes whereof wee are made and remembers that we are but Dust Est piger ad poenas Iehova ad praemiavelox Quique dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Multa metu poenae poenâ qui pauca coercet Et jacit invitâ fulmina rara manu Qui cum triste aliquid statuit flt tristis ipse Cuique fere poenam sumere poena sua est Gods blessings are more rife then 's Maledictions He frets when he is forc'd to plague the Times Choosing affrightments rather than Afflictions Rarely he thunder-strikes the greatest crimes When he resolves to strike he doth condole And when he strikes it grieves his very Soule Let us then wholly fixe our mindes on God and embrace the divine Counsell of our blessed LORD and Redeemer Watch and pray that yee enter not into Temptation Mat. 24.42.46 Watch for yee know not in what houre your Lord commeth Blessed is that faithfull and wise servant whom his Lord when he comes shall finde so doing But if wee say in our hearts with the evill servant Mat. 24.48 Our Lord delayes his comming and therupon abandon our selves to all excesse of sinning following our unsanctified affections and extravagant lusts in all security the Lord will come upon us in a Day when we looke not for him and cut us in peeces as Agag when he lest expected it Let us remember there is Dies Deus ultionis a day and a God of Vengeance that we must shortly appeare before His dreadfull Tribunall who is a Iudge for wisedome infallible for Iustice inflexible Behold death is at our doores and Iudgement hovers over our Heads we cannot therefore conclude that the bitternesse of death is past If therefore wee have any * 1 Pet. 2.3 Taste of Grace any sense of our Mortalitie any Impression of Eternitie any resentment of sinne which raignes every where to the subversion of States and destruction of Soules let our conversation be honest modest sober pure and holy as becomes the Children of God that wee may so improve to our selves by repentance and amendment of life this grievous visitation that the blessed Angels in Heaven may rejoyce at our conversion and our Mercifull Father bee pleased to continue to us His gracious protection For the Angell of the Lord the volant minister of his Vengeance being still abroad with his sword drawne as appeares * This was written in the time of the great plague in Italy and Savoy by those horrid spectacles of Mortality every where visible it concernes us All to humble our selves under the mighty hand of God And as in prosperity wee may not presumptuously say The bitternesse of death is past much lesse in this time of Pestilitie and tribulation ought we to sleep in securitie lest wee be worthily branded with that stigmaticall Mark which is set upon Ahaz 2 Chro. 28.22 This is that King Ahaz What had he done that the Spirit of the Lord should point at him with his finger in that sort above all the rest of the Kings of Israel and Iudah the reason is there rendred In the time of his distresse hee trespassed yet more against the Lord. This is that King Ahaz These things saith Saint Paul are Examples for us to reflect on and are written for our admonition 1 Cor. 10.11 upon whom the ends of the World are come AN ESSAY OF FRIENDSHIP VVritten by a Noble GENTLE-MAN DECEASED And now Revised and Illustrated 1 PET. 1.22 and 3 16. See that yee love one another with a pure heart fervently Having a good Conscience that whereas they speake evill of you as of evill doers they may be ashamed c. Amor Dei amorem proximi generat LONDON Printed by T. Badger for H. Mosley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Church-Yard 1640. AN ESSAY of Friendship IN the workemanship of the World MAN is the most excellent piece and there is no particular Man but in his Essence and nature is far more excellent then the Frame of all the rest of the World But that man