Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	holy_a	week_n	1,884	5	10.1877	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05259	The mothers blessing. Or The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction. By Mris. Dorothy Leigh.	Leigh, Dorothy.	1616 (1616)	STC 15402; ESTC S113606	65,870	296

forsake me whereas if you haue vviues that you loue not I am sure I will forsake you Do not your selues that wrong as to marry a woman that you cannot loue shew not so much childishnesse in your sexe as to say you loued her once and now your mind is changed if thou canst not loue her for the goodnesse that is in her yet let the grace that is in thy selfe moue thee to do it and so I leaue thee to the Lord whom I pray to guide both thee and her with his grace and grount that you may chuse godlily and liue happily and dye comfortably through faith in IESVS Christ. CHAP. 14. How to deale with seruants YEt one thing I am to desire you to doe at my request and for my sake and though it bee some trouble to you to performe it yet I assure my selfe you will doe it If God shall at any time giue you or any of you a seruant or seruants you shall aske them if they can reade If they cannot you shall at my request teach them or cause them to be taught till they can reade the tenne Commaundements of almightie God And then you shall perswade them to practise by themselues and to spend al their idle time in reading that so they may come the better to know the will of God written in his Word Remember your seruants are Gods seruants as well as yours if they be not say as Dauid sayd There shall not an vngodly person dwell in my house he that loueth or maketh lyes shal depart out of my sight It is not for you by any meanes to keep any vngodly profane or wicked person in your house for they bring a curse vpon the place wherein they are and not a blessing neither will they bee taught any goodnesse but you must keepe those that bee tractable and willing to serue God that hee may blesse you and your houshold For God doth not delight in that Master that will suffer his seruant to blaspheme his name or to mis-spend his Sabbaoths for God commaunded the master that he should see his seruants to keepe holy the Sabbaoth day and if hee keepe that day holy he will learne to spend all the other dayes in the weeke well in following the duties of his calling I pray you keep the seruants of God and then remember they are your brethren vse them wel and bee as ready to doe them good as to haue their seruice Be not chiding for euery trifle for that wil hinder good liuing and nothing enrich you Be carefull that they be godly for Godlinesse hath the promise of this present life and of the life to come godlinesse is great riches if a man be contented with that hee hath for wee brought nothing with vs into this world neither shall we carry any thing out of the world if wee haue food and rayment let vs therewith be contented CHAP. 15. Patience is necessary for Gouernours of families LIue godlily and patiently in your house if you cannot bee patient neuer think to liue godlily for if Sathan see you of a froward mind he wil soon finde matter enough to set you on worke Pray faithfully with your seruants twice a day and liue so godlily that you may be an example to them to follow you Pray often priuately faithfully and zealously vnto GOD in the name of Christ so as may bee well warranted by his Word for that is a true marke of the childe of God Many heare the Word as our Sauiour witnesseth but few follow it Many pray openly as the Pharises did to bee seene of men but Christ sayth they haue their reward This was not because Christ misliked publike prayer but because he sawe their hearts and so knew that they praied more to be seene of men then for any true faith they had in him Christ sayth When two or three be gathered together in my name I will be with them And this mercifull promise is enough to make any man pray for though hee doe it very weakely and coldly yet he sheweth his humility and obedience to God and confesseth his owne weakenesse and calleth to God for his assistance and grace to serue him One is also helped by the prayer of another and the weaker is made partaker of the praiers of the stronger for Christ taught vs to pray one for another Forgiue vs our trespasses When Christ sayth If two or three be gath'red together in my name I will be with them he doth not say With some of them but I will be with them that is with all of them that are ioined together in my name Though some bee weaker and some bee stronger yet they all shew their obedient hearts and God will accept them in Christ. And this is a great means to stir vp their hearts to praier for it is the hardest thing that is for any man to performe rightly truely and faithfully CHAP. 16. Meanes to further priuate prayer NOw all things are to bee vsed that are meanes to stirre vs vp to priuate prayer and all things are to bee shunned that hinder vs from it Those things that may further vs to it are hearing the Word reading it praying publikely and being in company with others when they pray for all these help to increase and strengthen faith and without faith it is impossible to pray aright either publikely or priuately or to take hold of the promises of God in Christ beleeuing that our prayers shall be accepted and granted so far forth as shall bee to Gods glory and our good and the true seruant of God will neuer desire more then hee knoweth by faith in Christ which hee hath learned by the promises of the Gospell that he shall haue CHAP. 17. Le ts THere bee many things that will hinder both man and woman from this duetie The diuell will doe what hee can to hinder vs the world is our hindrance continually and a mans owne friends are oftentimes hindrances too yea a mans owne nature will neuer bee willing to talke with God for by nature wee run away from him with Adam and rather hide our selues with figge-leaues and excuses then come to God and fall downe before him on our faces confesse our sinnes acknowledge our vnworthinesse craue pardon for Christs sake of God for all of our transgressions Yet Adam had more cause to runne away then we haue and wee haue more cause a great deale to come to God then hee had for hee knew not then that God would call him backe againe and giue him his pardon in Christ who should tread downe the head of the Serpent which beguiled him but we know that GOD hath called Adam and all his posterity giuen them pardon in Christ if they wil come and ask it in faith and repentance Hee therefore that doth not often and priuately fall downe and humble himselfe before God and confesse his owne sinnes crauing pardon in Christ by faith