Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	husband_n	love_n	wife_n	8,272	5	8.0646	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86070	A discoverie of truth: presented to the sons of truth.	P. H.	1645 (1645)	Wing H103; Thomason E1176_1; ESTC R208086	31,573	89

the soule is made fruitful by living with Christ for it is alone the sweet glorious discoveries of Christ that makes a soul bring forth fruit sutable to Christ Fifthly as in other marriages there is a kinde of trans-acting of each others condition to each other the riches of the Husband to the Wife and the povertie of the Wife to the Husband So it is betwixt Christ and a Christian as you may see in the 2 Cor. 5. and last He that knew no fin became sin for us that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him Whatsoever Law sin or conscience hath against a man is taken away by Christ he being one with Christ and all that is in Christ given forth by God through Christ is made over to a christian made one with Christ and is as really a christians as Christ himself Sixthly as in other Marriages there is a sympathising one with the other so in this Christ sweetly simpathises with his spouse and the spouse sweety simpathises whith Christ Seventhly as in other matrimoniall union so in this in their absence from each other where is much longing for each other and in the presence of each other much rejoycing and delight in each other And so much of the second thing For the third where it transcends all other matrimoniall contracts in the world that it doth in these perticulars First in that the mutuall consent of will flowes from one and the same power it is not so in other matrimoniall contracts for though a man hath a will to marry a Virgin yet he hath not a power to make her willing to consent to him But it is so with Christ that that power of love that carries out Christ to be willing to make himself one with us the same power makes us willing to be one with him Secondly in other manages mens love is caried out to the party beloved as being beautifull but it is not so with Christ for Christ doth not match with us because we are beautifull but being deformed to make us beautifull And this you may see in the 16. of Ezek. 5 6 8. where you may see the time of Gods love was when they were in their bloud And God there entred into covenant with them not because they were beautifull but even when they were in their bloud and this he did to make them beautifull As you may see Ezek. 16.14 where God saith I beautified you in my own beautie If a Moses marry an Aethiopian she is an Aethiopian still but it is not so betwixt God and the soul 3. In other mariages commonly men marry such that are sutable in portion but Christ never maries such that are rich but being poore he marries them to make them rich and for that end Christ became poor that we might be made rich Fourthly in other marriages infirmities in a wife or accusations against a wife doth many times take off the love of a husband from the wife but it s never so with Christ Will the divell accuse Iob to the Lord Yet the Lord is not changed by it but declares the same approbation of Iob as before And so the Spouse who hath infirmities in her and she confesseth the same saying she is black yet Christ to the same Chapter saith she is fair and comely Fifthly that which is a just ground according to law to take off the love of a husband from his wife so that there is no acceptance to be found with a husband in the returne of his wife it s not so betwixt God the soul And this you may see at large in the third of Ieremiah and the first verse Sixthly that which makes a separation in part or whole betwixt a man and his wife neither in part nor whole can make a separation betwixt Christ and a christian As poverty imprisonment and banishment may make a separation in part and death makes a totall separation But know this if the world makes a christian poore or sends him into prison or banishment all this cannot deprive them of sweet fellowship and communion with Christ who hath ingaged himself to be with them and to unfold himselfe to them not lesse but more at such times when Ieremiah and Paul were in prison when more enjoyments from God and unfouldings of God than then And then for death t is so far from separating us from God that then is the time wee have a full injoyment of God And herein I have discovered wherein this matrimoniall contract doth transcend all other I should draw a corolie from each of these particulars but for brevities sake I will passe them over and make onely a briefe use or two of instruction from the whole conclusion And first to instruct us if this be so then let it teach us to look upon-Christ as a husband and that we do when we do these things First when we look upon him as none like him Secondly when wee look for all lawe and government from him It is not the vives duty to make lawes but to obey lawes so it is not the churches duty to make laws for the worship of Christ but to conform to such laws for worship given forth by Christ Thirdly we are said to look upon Christ as a husband not onely when we go on in our duty to conform to him but also when we lay all our povertie and debts upon him But it is here with christians as it is with some simple women who out of a pretended humilitie though reall pride instead of laying their debts upon their husbands whom have enough they pinch themselves to pay their debts from themselves So many christians when the law and conscience comes to them with a writ they not knowing their freedom from them do not send them to Christ and lay them upon Christ but endeavour to answer such things from their resolutions against sin and from their conformitie to Christ and so set up their resolutions and conformity as a Christ Fourthly in looking for all maintainance from him Fiftly in doing all things for the honour of him Next use is of comfort to comfort all the people of God that they have such a husband provided for them which is God It is a comfort to them in these perticulars First in that he is a husband that lookes for nothing in you to draw his love to you Secondly no infirmity in you can draw his love from you Thirdly nothing that befals you can make a separation betwixt Christ and you Fourthly he will call you to no duty but he will give you a power sutable to perform duty Fifthly ye may be sure he is such a husband that will be so farre from failing in his love that he will transcend all in love So much of this use and of this conclusion For these words the Lambs wife which is an explication of the former to make the former title glorious Thence you may observe this conclusion That titles