Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	expression_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	10	3	9.5007	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93781	Spiritual infatuation, the principal cause of our past and present distempers. Or a serious caveate to the many seducers and seduced who under the specious pretences of reformation and conscience endeavour the subversion of Church and State. In several sermons on Isa. 9,10,11,12. By W. Stamp D.D. late minister of the Word at Stepn[e]y near London.	Stampe, William, 1611-1653?	1662 (1662)	Wing S5195; ESTC R229850	116,158	268

him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house that he may set his nest on high that he may be delivered from the Power of evil Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people and hast sinned against thy soul For the stone shall cry out of the wall and the Beam out of the Timber shall answer it Wo unto him that buildeth a Town with blood and stablisheth a City by iniquity They that will be rich will as certainly fal into Temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition 1 Tim. 6. 9. And they that love to fish in troubled waters or trouble the waters that they may fish for profit seldom think of the malignity of those Curses that are wrapt up in their ill gotten wealth The wealth is winged and will soon take its flight Prov. 23. 5. But the curses are of a longer durance and stay behind That which was a snare to the soul in the acquisition is very likely to prove a curse to the family in the designation It is a snare saith Solomon to the man who devoureth that which is holy and after vows to make enquiry Alas my dear friends what comfort can you take on your death beds in bequeathing things unto friends or posterity that stand before your trembling eys but as so many witnesses and remembrancers of guilt and iniquity with what comfort or Conscience can you dispose of your Estates when you know not what to do with your immortal souls how is it possible you should set your house in order when your better part your mind which should do it is in the greatest disorder and distraction when all that you have grasped by the hand of Power and oppression shall not be able in the least measure to release you of the horror and amasement wherewith your mercenary souls will be surprised Therefore if any accursed gain stick to your fingers my advice is very short but withal safe and I hope not unseasonable Make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail ye may be received into everlasting habitations Matth. 16. 9. The last objection I foresee is very general and very desperate and runs parallel with that of Cain and Judas Mine iniquity is greater then can be forgiven 'T is true indeed if you set your selves before the glass of Gods law and look upon your selves with an impartial ey as God looks on you you have reason enough to be highly displesed with your ugliness and deformity Or if you suffer your actions to be scanned and tryed by the Municipal Laws you were born under which are the best security you have for any propriety you cannot but discern your Persons and Estates in justice to lie at the mercy of Confiscation and Censure But yet for you to stand so much in your own light as to turn your backs upon all offers of Grace and Mercy and to prefer your own guilty fears before your Princes favour is to add more weight to the afflictions of your injured Soveraign To conclude him severe because you are pre-resolv'd not to tast of his benignity is an high breach of Charity and Gratitude But to say within your selves Nolumus hunc regnare for no other reason but because you adhere to those who killed his servants murdered his royal Father and seized on his inheritance is cleerly and undoubtedly to rebel not only against his Prerogative the means of your Protection but against the Gospel it self the means of your salvation and insteed of giving God and Cesar their due you do at once d●ny King and your Christ together I rather wish and pray that you may learn of Benhadads servants a safer way to peace and reconciliation Behold say those heathens we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings and therefore they resolve to address themselves to the king in a posture of humiliation And so will you I hope if you are not bewitch'd into your own ruine You have a merciful king to deal withal one who is bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh One in whom the heroick spirit of his Grandfather Henry 4th of France the peaceable mind of his Grandfather K. James and the merciful inclinations of his martyr'd father do all concur to make up an incomparable king who when we are tyred and jaded with disputes must at last be trusted or can be no king and is not in a capacity to shew mercy till he hath power to do otherwise For where the word of a King is there is power saith Solomon and without that power mercy is not mercy but servile and slavish compliance So that if there were nothing to be alledged in defence of the Regal power or in demand of the Subjects duty yet judge within your selves whether it is better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal which are more then 70. raign over you or else that the natural head be restored to the body for the preservation and rest auration of our languishing gasping Church State Whether it be better to return to our former Laws and Government or remainunder a perpetual fluctuation of Arbytrarie Power which rowls from one faction to another the wisest among us cannot imagine where it will settle Whether one form of doctrine and Discipline or a thousand Heresies and Schisms be the better Religion Whether one King or fifty Colonels is like to produce the more safe and quiet Government It is said of some who adhered to Saul who was none of the best kings that they were a band of men whose hearts God had touched but for those that despised him and brought him no presents they are branded with the name of children of Belial And in another place we read of a fierce contestation between the men of Israel and the men of Judah who should express the greatest zeal in bringing the king to his royal Throne oh that it might please the God of Peace and Order to close all our unnatural and bloody differences in such a sweet emulation and agreement that the last contestation among us might be that of outvying one another in the seasonable expressions of duty and allegiance that our Absoloms and Sheba's and Achitophels which are worse then these our sins being supprest we would be as zealous and active in restoring the Throne of Gods Anointed as we have been fatal and unfortunate in the demolishing of it without which I fear the youngest amongst us will never live to see the settlement of Truth and Peace upon any firm and assured foundation And though his Majesties present condition will not enable him to give you fields and vinyards and to make you Captains of thousands and of hundreds yet the villany of these times hath not stript him of all power and capacity to reward for he hath a reward of Pardon for such as shall submit themselves and