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	love_n	love_v	3,572	5	6.5737	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39761	The dead saint speaking, or, A sermon preached upon occasion of the death of that eminent man, Mr. Mathew Newcomen ... wherein is succinctly discoursed (to a popular auditory in Dedham) what instructions are given and sealed to the living by the death of the righteous servants of God / by J.F., Minister of the Gospel.	Fairfax, John, 1623-1700.	1679 (1679)	Wing F127; ESTC R16035	17,568	32

bread What desolate Congregations mourn in silence And is this a time for thee to dye But righteous art thou O Lord and we will not plead with thee concerning thy judgments this is the will of our heavenly Father and thy will be done Thou art gone oh precious and desired Newcomen Thy course is finished thy race is run thy work is done this place that knew thee Twenty years and upwards shall know thee no more this Pulpit shall sound forth and these walls shall eccho back thy voice no more This Congregation shall receive the law at thy mouth no more but our eyes shall weep for thee when we see thee not and our tongues shall speak of thee when we hear thee not May our feet follow thee though we reach thee not May we go to thee that canst not return to us But recollect thy self oh my passionate soul whither shall affection carry thee Wipe thine eyes from tears and read on the Text this second word shall extenuate the first He is dead but being dead he yet speaketh These be the last words of David saith the holy Pen-man of the book of Samuel And thus were the last words of Reverend Newcomen Shall the standers by report and say they were no for he yet speaketh You remember his dying words his parting words which viva voce from this place he delivered to this Congregation and out of that dear love he had unto this Congregation and that his dying words might make the deeper impression he afterwards committed them to perpetual memory and this is the name by which he called them his Vltimum vale But my Text shall blot out that that was not his last farewel for being dead he yet speaketh He speaketh First From a Forreign Land to his Native Countrey Oh dear England In thee my Mother conceived and brought ●…e forth In thee I drew my first breath In thee I hung upon my Mothers breasts In thee I was nourished and fed and cloathed and had all things pertaining unto life In thee I had a liberal ingenious and religious education In thee the name of Christ was put upon me In thee I saw a glorious light and heard the sound of the Gospel In thee it pleased God to call me effectually by his Grace In thee God judging me faithful put me into the Ministry In thee I enjoyed many years of precious liberty of serving God in the Gospel of his Son In thee I have begotten many spiritual children unto God In thee I enjoyed sweet communion with God and his Saints This was thy bounty and this was thy blessing and this was it which endeared thee to me This is the bond that did constrain my heart to love thee This is the foundation of my most enlarged and improved discharged duty to thee Now from this unfeigned and invincible love and from the conscience of this my bounden duty I have faithfully served thy welfare and happiness I have propounded and set before thee peace that peace may be within thy walls and prosperity within thy Palaces was the desire of my heart to God and the endeavour of my hand In the day when thou hadst sinned I was ashamed for thee and bare the burden of thy sins before my God I wept in secret for thy pride and sighed for the abominations that were found in thee and entreated for thee In the day when thou sufferedst I mourned When thou wert sick my cloathing was sackcloath I humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer was in thy calamity When thou rejoicedst I rejoiced with thee I went with the multitude to give thanks and to keep holy day I gave thanks for thee in the great Congregation and I praised God for thee among much people Where thou wert ignorant I endeavoured to enlighten thee Where thou wert wandering I endeavoured to reduce thee Where thou wert offending I endeavoured to reform thee My Closet my Study my Books my Pulpit Publick Assemblies mine own and other Families can bear witness for me how I have spent and been spent watched and prayed and fasted and studied and laboured in the word and doctrine how I have preached the word in season and out of season reproving rebuking with long suffering Now my dear Countrey what have I done unto thee Wherein have I offended thee What is my iniquity and my sin Is my zeal for Reformation conscience of pure and undefiled Religion the forfeiture of my liberty that thou hast cast me out of thy Vineyard and turned me out of the Harvest that my mouth must be shut up in silence that I must never speak more to thee in the name of the Lord Have I not reason to say For my love thou hast been my enemy Thou hast requited me evil for good and hatred for my good will Through thy unkindness my gray hairs are brought down with sorrow to the grave in a strange Land More particularly He being dead yet speaketh 1. He speaketh first to you my Brethren the Ministers of the Gospel and to my self He speaketh First Having put your hands to the Plough look not back Lay not up your Talent in a Napkin Never think of being discharged from the Ministry of the Gospel or the service of the Gospel by God Hath God intrusted you with gifts Hath God called us to the Ministry Hath he made us Stewards of his Mysteries Surely he will find us work he will give us opportunities to dispence his Word he will shew us where to sow our seed No man having lighted a Candle putteth it under a bushel but sets it on a Candlestick The manifestation of the Spirit is given to profit withall Therefore the Providence of God that shut his mouth in one place opened it in another 2. He speaketh unto us Natural and acquired abilities are needful accomplishments for the work of the Ministry He had in his treasury things both new and old the old things of Nature as well as the new things of grace and both together made him an able Minister of the New-Testament by this then he speaketh unto us as Paul to Timothy 1 Tim. 4.13 Be thou an example to the believers in word in conversation in spirit in faith in charity in purity Give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine And 2 Tim. 2.15 Study to shew thy self approved a workman that needeth not to be ashamed He that will be a Workman in the Ministry that needeth not to be ashamed must be a Student Grace is profitable to our selves but gifts are not to be expected immediately by God now as in the Primitive Church but in the use of means 3. He speaketh unto Ministers Diligence painfulness and faithfulness are incumbent upon the Ministers of the Gospel His great example speaks this of which this place wherein we are do bear him ample witness The difficulty of the service the concernment of precious souls the certainty and strictness of the accompt that must be given are strong arguments