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	marriage_n	wife_n	3,594	5	7.6210	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17722	Thirteene sermons of Maister Iohn Caluine, entreating of the free election of God in Iacob, and of reprobation in Esau A treatise wherin euery Christian may see the excellent benefites of God towardes his children, and his maruelous iudgements towards the reprobate, firste published in the French toung, & now translated into English, by Iohn Fielde, for the comfort of all Christians.; Treze sermons de l'election gratuite de Dieu en Jacob et de la rejection en Esau. English	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Fielde, John, d. 1588.	1579 (1579)	STC 4457; ESTC S107264	201,134	366

off that by good right But if heerein wee suffred alone there were no daunger the worste is that the name of God is blasphemed through our wickednesse So then let vs learne by this example to become so tractable apte to be taught wrought vppon that when GOD shall reprooue vs wee willingly suffer our selues to bee condemned of him and that we be ashamed of our selues to the ende that our shame and infamie be not discouered and laide open to the whole worlde Loe then what we haue farther to learne of this place But it is saide that Abimilech complayning to Isaack added It was not farre off that some of the people had not lien by thy wife and thou caused greate euil to come vppen vs. Concerning the first pointe heere Isaack is reproued of his inconsideration and follie For that asmuch as was in him hee layde his wife open to be defyled And why so Wee haue seene beefore that the husband ought to be as a vayle or couerture to his wife When a woman shal be maryed and that her husband shall liue with her doeing his duetie this is to the end shee may be there as it were in sauegarde and that none come to deceaue nor defile her Now therfore Isaack for the discharging of his dutie ought to haue beene as a vaile or couerture to his wife that is to say vnder the name of a husband and of mariage he ought to haue let that none should haue attempted to withdrawe her whether it were to haue her to wife or after any other manner For mariage is as a sauegarde as wee haue saide and God woulde haue it honoured in all ages And although adulterers woulde abandon it as Swine and Asses yet notwithstanding they haue alwayes had remorse in it and euermore euen amongst he Panims adulterers went not vnpunished It is knowē that if euer any thing in this world was priuiledged it was mariage yea thefts other crimes ought a great deale rather to bee borne with then such enormities to wit when the couenant cōpany which God hath dedicated in his name to the ende it should be holy as it were separated from prophanation is violated When therefore this was violated the Painims knewe that it was so greate an abhomination that in no wise it ought to bee borne with Now therefore by the way Abimilech findeth faulte with Isaack concerning this that hee had thus prostituted his wife asmuch as lay in him And we are taught by this doctrin to meete with daungers afore hand and not to tempte God by our rashnesse and follie Let vs take good heede therefore howe wee cloke euill and as a man would say shut the doore against God so that through our rashenesse and vnaduisednesse God be offended Loe then the wisedome which wee ought to haue and therefore because we haue it not we must aske it of god But now for the seconde matter Abimilech sayth Thou haddest made great euill to come vpon vs. And howe when any of the people had committed adultery that he had so offended what greefe soeuer it had beene hee should onely haue deserued to be punished and ought then a whole countrie to haue answered it Nowe we see heere that a miserable heathen an vnbeleeuer and a poore blinde person knewe that the land shoulde be defiled by an adulterer and that if this remained vnpunished notwithstanding before God loe an whole people culpable therein in respect of the temporall punishment It is true that God knoweth how to turne the chastisements that hee sendeth to them that are innocent from that faulte to their profite For if they suffer which consented not vnto the euill this shall not bee altogither as if they had beene faultie But God turneth this to their saluatiō In the meane while so it is that he neuer chastiseth thē without cause if we see it not now with our eye yet when all those registers shal be opened then we shall finde that God hath not gone as they say indirectly and awry And when hee sendeth generall punishmentes vpon a whole people for one particular fault as it semeth neuerthelesse he knoweth well that all bee not innocent therein as it is expressely said heere and as also Abimilech vnderstoode For when adulter●●● are committed and be not punished loe an infection which creepeth ouer the whole land but shall we yet say that a man is innocent therin when we close our eyes when we suffer all this to ouerflowe Although a man be no iudge but a priuate person yet he ought to oppose himself asmuch as lyeth in him Nowe on the otherside there is not any one but he spreadeth the sayle in steade that hee should let the euill if wee had the courage and zeale of God we would procure that he might bee serued and honoured as he is woorthy But this wee doe not there is a certaine faintnesse and sluggishnesse in all To be short vices neuer raigned and had swaye in any Countrie but bothe greate and small were partakers therein by reason of their too much patience or dissimulation or coldenesse Marke then why God punisheth sinnes not without cause But moreouer concerning adulterie wee see what a miserable Heathen hath pronounced Let vs therefore bee ashamed when such a greate euill shall raigne in the middest of vs and let vs know that there shal neede no other Iudge to condemne vs vs I say that haue beene baptised in the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe when we shall maintaine such filthynesses infections seeing a poore miserable blinde Heathen knewe well what haynous enormitie there was in such a vice Loe then what we haue to learne that wee may make our profite of this place And farther let vs learne to honour Mariage seeing God hath dedicated it and that it is a couenaunt which he hath consecrated in his name that also it bee maintained in his honour and dignitie and that bothe Husbandes and Wiues dwell in such honestie one with the other that eche one may gouerne their houses in peace and quietnesse and that there bee no loosnesse amongst vs but that wee knowe that we haue better profited in the Schoole of GOD then our Father Isaacke had doone in this poynt forasmuch as hee declined therein But now let vs prostrate ourselues before the high maiestie of our good God in acknowledging our offences praying him that it will please him to make vs feele the infirmities vices that are in vs to the end that we may bee displeased therwith in such sorte that we may fight against them and not to giue our selues any libertie therein and when we haue offended that we may bee touched with such repentaunce that we may returne to him and mourne for them vntill he haue reformed vs by his holy spirit and haue drawen vs into a good way after that we shall haue strayed from it And that withall he would in the meane while so supporte vs in