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	particular_a	wife_n	3,246	5	7.4684	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12209	Two sermons: preached by that faithfull and reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to the honorable society of Grayes Inne; and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22520; ESTC S114825	20,880	93

the damned And take this with you the more sence you have of the love of Christ the lesse you will regard the pleasures the riches or contempts of the world And indeed what joy can bee compared with this that the soule hath communion with Christ All the world is nothing to this And now seeing you cannot require this love of Christ yet shew your love to him as you may and as you may manifest your love to his members and kisse them with the kisses of your love Doe good to the poore especially to those poore that have the Church of God in their Families As the woman powred her oyle on the head of Christ so doe you powre some of yours upon the feete of Christ. That which yee would doe to him if hee were here that doe to his members in whom he is after a sort present with you Thereby you may further your communion with him and make him your debter then as one saith well hee can be no loser that makes God his debter THE POWER OF Christs Resurrection COLOS. 3. 1. If yee he risen with Christ seeke those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God THis Verse hath dependance on the second Chapter before the twelve and thirteen Verses of that Chapter where the Apostle tells the Colossians that they were risen with Christ from the dead by Faith and quickned by the Spirit that raised him hereupon followes this inference If therefore yee be risen with Christ shew it by seeking after those things which are in heaven or are heavenly The Apostle had much adoe to roote out those dangerous seedes of conceit which false teachers had sowen upon these Colossians touching some legall ceremonies as touch not taste not handle not he tells them that these dead things have no life of use now and that therefore if they be risen with Christ they must fall to other matter seeking those things that are above These ceremonies were indeede appointed by God at the first but now being ended and brought to their grave they must be buried there never to rise againe And therefore no more to be revived as being not dead onely but deadly As I sayd the Apostle finding their hearts tainted with this false doctrine having first sought by purging to drive it out of their hearts and liking he now begins to season them with that truth which is after godlinesse that is with heavenly and other truths and doctrines not of men such as were those of these false Apostles but of God where hee begins with generall instructions and then proceeds to particular callings as of husbands and wives of parents and masters of children and servan's Now because the well managing of the particular duties of these particular callings depends on a good principle that is that they bee sound in Christianitie which is the generall Therefore hee begins first to season their hearts with that grace of their generall callings knowing that it is so much the easier to bee good in their particular callings when they are first good in the generall But if not good in the generall then never good in the particular If a good man then a good husband a good father and a good master fit for any good service but if not a good man then good for nothing So a woman if a good woman then a good wife and good in any calling So for children and servants if good in the generall then good in the particular also But to come to the order of these words they containe first a ground and then an inference upon that ground If you be risen with Christ there is the ground then seeke the things that are above there is the inference From the ground observe two things First that Christ is risen himselfe Secondly that wee therefore shall rise For the first It is an Article of our Faith and the Holy Ghost hath taken a great deale of paines to prove it It is the confidence of Christians it is the maine or free hold that wee have for wee hold all by the resurrection of Christ as of fee and wee have sixteene apparitions of him to prove this Besides it was impossible that hee should bee held of the bonds of death Impossible I say being invested with these three offices of King Priest and Prophet Impossible as hee was King for how then could hee have triumphed over his enemies here and in hell Impossible as hee was Priest for if hee had not risen how could hee have made daily intercession for us as he doth And lastly impossible as he was a Prophet for else how could he have instructed his people in doctrines of salvation But when rose hee wee say with the Scriptures and our Creede the third day Now as Christ rose and rose the third day manifesting thereby that he was dead and this after so great basenesse for his greater glory So it is to teach us that as it was with him so it is with all his members never nearer helpe then when at the worst nor more glorious then when basest for Christ for then it appeares to bee Gods owne worke who therefore will raise them to glory that he may be glorified in and by them When therefore wee are in any distresse voyd of the helpe of man then God will come in and raise us up whether in our credit estate or persons c. onely therefore let us have patience for a while and waite his comming But as Christ is risen so we shall rise Hee is the meritorious cause of our resurrection hee hath deserved that wee should rise Also he is the worker of it and by that same power whereby he rose againe by the same will he raise up us at the last day He is every way the cause of our rising and hereupon we are risen with him As hee was a publick person in his death and as upon the Crosse hee stood in the place of all the elect so as all their sinnes committed or foreseene to be committed were layd upon him and hee bare the iniquitie of us all so after and now he freed himselfe and us by his Resurrection First he freed himselfe of his suretiship our bond was taken up and our debt payd where justice lost not a penny by us So wee were freed in him and for him and therefore he rising wee are to rise with him for what should hold us in the grave now that deaths bands are loosed or shal the head be above water and the members perish in it But further to speake of the Resurrection This Resurrection of Christ is twofold spirituall and corporall spirituall when wee take life from Christ and being quickned by him begin to rise with him corporall when our bodies shall bee raised at the last day When wee beleeve that Christ is dead for our sinnes our sinnes are then in their grave and Christ is