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	owe_v	wife_n	3,983	5	8.4283	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30920	Sermons upon several texts of Scripture by George Barker ...	Barker, George, B.D.	1697 (1697)	Wing B768; ESTC R22629	136,325	300

any controll and he makes every passage to promote the Comfort welfare of those that truely love and fear him and will bring to utter shame and Misery all those who despise him and choose the World for their portion however he may suffer them to flourish for a while 2ly The Knowledge of the world how little there is in it to fill the capacities to supply the needs to satisfie the desires of an Immortall soul how vain and unsavory all the Comforts of it are especially to such an one as is awakened to a due sense of the wretched Misery and extreme danger of a poor soul and the concernments of Eternity How uncertain all the enjoyments Exposed to infinite hazards and running 1000. ways and while possest are oft made wearisome by the Cumber of them vexations by the Crosses interwoven with them dangerous by the snares of them A Minister can do no greater service to God and Souls then by rubbing off the paint from the Face of this Tempting whore stripping her of her Gawdy Ornaments whereby she do's bewitch the Jnhabitants of the Earth 3ly The Knowledge of our selves How nobly Descended from Adam the Son of God the Master-ship of Gods Creation how Richly Accomplished with Wisdome Righteousness and Power how largely Capacitated for higher and more glorious enjoyments how Lamentably Degenerated into a state of shame misery and danger How dark polluted and Distempered our Souls are how frail and crazy our bodies how vain and miserable our Lives how sad and Hopeless our Death How Unconceiveably wretched if we come short of Christ how strangly Senseless of one Need of him how Grosly Ignorant of the way to him how foolishly content to take up short of him How few reall Friends we have to our Souls how many slie Enemies quite out of Favour with God out of Peace with our selves The Curses of the Law we are to Expect the Joyes and Glorys of Heaven we may hear of indeed but cannot hope for Hell with it's Torments and Confusions is our portion 4ly The Knowledge of Christ in him there is merit Enough to Appease a Provoked God to Satisfie violated Justice he has peace Enough to speak to a troubled Conscience ease to give to a burdened spirit he can quicken the dead heart subdue the stubborne strengthen the weak soften the hard enlarge the strait compose the distracted make Fruitfull the barren He can inform the ignorant rectify the mistaken Councell the Foolish Resolve Doubts Discover Wants Distempers Dangers Remedies Supplies helps c. He can give grace to make holy Heavenly meek Lowly Selfdenying obedient resigned patient Dependant upon God every way pious toward God Just and Charitable to brethren 5ly Knowledge of the way to Christ The true the onely way the ready and sure way That this is obedience and self denyall faithfulness to God and their own Souls in these as light and strength is given in For onely this way a man comes to find Really and Experimentally the blindness weakness Poverty Corruption of his nature and heart which else at best he knows but by hearsay untill by putting himself out to the ●utmost he finds that his Soul is little else but a lump of Darkness and Sin duty he knows but very Faintly what he Knows though it be but little he is not able to practise the Law comes in here sayes do this and Lawe he is not able to do it though it cost him his life it sayes refrain such courses or my curse is against you your Souls Bodies as to the concernments of this Life and the other yet though it bring never so much misery he is not able to refrain Notwithstanding all his reasonings with himself his Resolutions endeauours Either put of your Lusts and be Clothed with the graces of the spirit or else no enterance into Heaven he finds he can do neither I say till a man come to follow God faithfully according to that discovery which he makes of himself unto his Conscience he will never come so far as to understand really the Depravedness of his nature the strict requirings of the Law his vtter in ability to help himself and so never finds any need of Christ never is in good Earnest to lay hold of him but Contents himself with a Christ of his own making and so Lives and Dies in his corrupt nature and all his groundless hopes wherewith he flattered himself do not save him from the misery he never thought of 6ly Knowledge of the priviledges which are in Christ God reconciled Conscience quieted the heart at rests the Soul purified and enlightened filled with Peace passing understanding Joy unspeakable and full of Glory the Man himself and his as to all their Concernments here and hereafter under the Charge of that providence which over rules all God continually present to guide him in his wayes to comfort and help in Afflictions and to make People seek after Christ not onely out of necessity but out of Choice as one who has enough in him to Recompence for all the losses and crosses in the way to him 7ly Knowledge of Dutyes what God requires of all to practise for their own good and the good of their Brethren and how to practise it in such a way as the good that God drives at by it may be Attained To shew what the man owes to himself his Soul his Body To keep his body in Chastity Sobriety To get his Soul quickened with the Life of Christ enlightened with the Knowledge of all it 's reall concernments what he owes to others as a Magistrate a Subject a Minister a Parishioner A Master or Servant an Husband a Wife a Father a Child c. And to make people know that their dutyes are their interests too and nor made Necessary by being enjoyned but therefore enjoyned because discerned by the wisdom of God to be vsefull Not burdens laid on People Arbitrarily by God to make a vain ostentation of his Soveraignty but prescriptions Accomodate to the Necessitous and Distempered Condition of apostate nature to direct them what Course to take for their recovery and to do this with that authority which may awe them to make vse of these directions though contrary to their inclinations To shew them the means the Encouragements and to Answer their objections 8ly Knowledge of Liberty That an upright Person may in certain cases Act this way or that way as their shall be occasion without danger of Sinning even in matters of Religion which as to the Externall and Mutable part of it do's admitt of great latitude and may be Modellized this way or that way as it shall be found to serve most for it's main ends the generall good of Souls and the peace of states And where it is thus ordered upon serious Deliberation by those who have authority what before was indifferent in it self now becomes necessary by vertue of Gods Law which requires us to Submit to every