Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	heart_n	holy_a	spirit_n	3,361	5	5.0490	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29925	Vlastēma ex hypsous, or, The best vvisdome propounded to the gentry of Suffolk in a sermon at Ipswich : prepared for the 9th of April, 1660, the day of election of Knights of the shire for the afore-said county, but preached the morning after / by Benjamin Bruning ...	Bruning, Benjamin, 1623?-1688.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5231; ESTC R2801	32,130	63

confusion and tumult would there be in the body It would be no wonder in such a case to see one foot spurning or one hand chopping off another but one common appetite craving for the whole body that so every Member may have its due proportion this is it that keeps the members of the body in peace The Application of this to Politick bodies is easily made I shall leave it to you to do it The Apostle Paul exhorting to love and unity Phil. 2.2 Fulfil my joy that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind and in the 3d. vers Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory Now as an effectual means to further this mark what followeth in the fourth verse Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others Were but this well digested in the Nation its work were more then three quarters done as to the establishment of Peace 'T is base self-interest and party interest that undoeth our Peace Where shall we meet a Moses who being largely proffered if the Israelitish Nation were destroy'd to become a great Nation himself chose rather to be nothing then to be made a great Nation upon such tearms Exod. 32.10,11 Where shall we find a true Mordecai seeking the wealth of his People Ester 10.3 A Nehemiah that left the pomp and pleasure of the greatest Princes Court then on Earth and took a tedious and hazardous journey that he might seek the welfare of the children of Israel Nehemiah 2.10 Where shall we find a Nanianzen that would not grutch Jonas-like to be cast into the Sea so that all might be calm in the publick And if the heathen was as good as his words when he said Ne immortalitatem contrà Remp. acciperem I would not be hired with immortality to wrong the Common-wealth How rare is it to find amongst Christians a man so bravely spirited The Parliament-house filled with suuh spirited men would be one of the rarest sights that could be seen in the Eeglish Nation And how quickly may a self-seeking Parliament lose itsself and the Nation too 6. Sixthly Another dictate of Wisdom in order to peace is this A malitious desire of revenge is so much beneath a Christian that 't is the baseness of a Man Doth any trespass against me let him look to that he hath the worst on 't thus much could a heathen say Vengeance is mine these are the Lords words and alledg'd by the Appostle as a reason why we should not avenge our selves Rom. 12.19 Thou canst not execute a private revenge without wronging the Lord infinitely more then 't is possible for any creature to wrong thee for herein thou invadest one of Gods prerogatives namely Vengeance The Lord vouches it as his and in effect thou tellest him to his face 't is thine There is a proverb concerning the Lion That he is not so fierce as men paint him But as for this sin of malicious revenge no tongue can paint it so foul as it is I may well term it profundam nequitiam one of the profoundest depths of Satan that can be imagin'd to be in the heart of man If we consider it abstractly in its naked self we find the very quintessence of sin abounding in it Would we take a true measure of the goodness or badness of actions one of the surest rules we go by is to observe how much there is of the Will in the Action as closing more entirely and immediately with good or evill for its own sake So far as credit and profit and such like sensual accessaries attending the practice of holiness and vertue are influential upon the will to alure it so much is the action blended there 's so much the less of pure goodness in it But now when holiness stript of such accessaries obtains the consent and embrace of the will for the sake of its naked self this argueth an eminent sincerity and heighth of Grace It holds proportionably in evil habits and practises and what is malice but a meer ulcer or gangreen of a depraved will It argues a person so much debauch'd into a greedy compliance with sin that he swallows the bare hook St. John tels us 1 John 3. He that hateth his brother is a murtherer and he that murthers another meerly for evil wills sake is worse in the sight of God then he that doth it for moneys sake And may it not be for a lamentation that so cursed a thing should fill the hearts of so many as it doth Were ye to deal with some in order to peace and reconciliation ye would be ready to imagine that to be true of malice which Flaccius Illyricus conceited of Original sin That 't is no accident or quality but the very essence and substance of the man You would find it as easy work to remove a mountain as to remove a grudge out of some mens hearts Instead of being rooted and grounded in Love Eph. 3. they are rooted and grounded in Malice instead of being stedfast and unmoveable in Grace 1 Cor. 15. ult always abounding in the work of the Lord they are stedfast and unmoveable in wrath as if they were under an oath to abound always in this work of the Devil When Nilus over floweth it leaves a slime in which some say Crecodiles breed a malicious spirit of revenge is the Crecodile that hath bred in the shine of our wars and troubles the Lord send us well ●id of it Are there any that study more how to do an opposite party a mischiefe then to further the publick good Pray God keep such out of the Parliament Should such a spirit as this be in the Parliament 't would be a hundred times worse then 36 barrels of gunpowder under it I hope God will keep them clear of this Where there is but the ingenuity of a well-bred Gentleman I do not much fear it To wrong the community for self-advantage sake 't is the spirit of a Wolf rather then a Christian but to disturb peace for revenge sake 't is the spirit of a Devil rather then a Gentleman The Lord give the Parliament Gentry and People of this Nation a holy spite in their hearts against the sin of Malice 7. Seventhly Another dictate of Wisdome in order to Peace is this 'T is every mans duty to abide in the duties of his place and station and the use of just and lawful means and therein to wait upon God for events and issues The Apostles were once accused for preaching such Doctrin as this Let us de evil that good may come Rom. 3.8 But see with what vehemency this is defied of St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We ●aith he be slanderously reported and some affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come And mark what followeth whose damnation is just Whether this be to be understood of them that rais'd this slander or of them which held