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
A49337	Of the subject of church power in whom it resides, its force, extent, and execution, that it opposes not civil government in any one instance of it / by Simon Lowth ...	Lowth, Simon, 1630?-1720.	1685 (1685)	Wing L3329; ESTC R11427	301,859	567

what Principle flowing and 't is a Consideration so absolutely necessary for whoso engages in this or such-like Debates and their Resolutions that he must otherwise be at a loss and miss of the aim proposed To Virtue and Goodness in general there is in every Man an innate Power he has Faculties concreated and of his Constitution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Clemens Alexandrinus in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this improveable by Industry and Care Notices and Experiences and God in course as he incourages and preserves whatever is his own gives more help The Art of a Physitian and Skill of a Divine are also attainable in the like way by a Progress of Study and continued Observations upon an hability or first stock within but this not equally given and ingraffed in each as is a Power to Goodness Wisdom Knowledge is not to all The Power of a Father over his Child is from God by virtue and force of the relation laid in the foundation of it because begetting him and by the general concourse of Providence the Power of a Husband over a Wife and a Master over a Servant is by the appointment of God upon a particular Covenant or Stipulation the Power of Government and Jurisdiction in the greater extent whether of a King in the State or a Priest in the Church enabling each to discharge the Publick Duties belonging to them comes quite different from each before 't is by no improvement of Nature or any thing within a Man concreated and a common concurse of Providence contributes not nor can common Notices or whatever particular Industry and Experience attain unto it no particular act of Man whether Moral or Natural is a foundation sufficient for these greater relations and higher instances of Power whether of his Person apart or by compact with others 't is as always lodged in several Persons or when it was once in one and the same so by discriminating marks distinct symbols in the conveyance and appropriation whereby to discern the one from the other the Secular Power by Descent or Votes or in some instances Conquest the Spiritual by the Deputations of the Bishop and the Acts and Offices are quite apart and different as is the design of this Discourse to make fully appear but in this they agree and are as one because immediate from God by a special concurse and devolution and so deposited into particular hands and Persons no Force no Virtue no Compositions or Overtures in any Action or Performance by any Person or Persons amounting to it they are both highest Powers in their kind and sphere and 't is something apart and solitary and which none else have which makes them so and consequently none else can give it them because supposed not to have it but only he who is transcendently the highest and eminently above all and does and can give to each Son of Man as he pleases And now since each of these Gifts and Offices and Powers are attain'd to convey'd and devolv'd in several courses methods and ways one and the same Symbol Compact or Act does not produce and evidence their existence in and to the World invest with the Power instate in the Possession enable and engage all men alike to the attainment the Duties and Offices of them hence the Consequence is as clear in the course and chain of things as it is in Matter of Fact the Practice and known every day's Experience of the World that they are not any but two much more all of them in any one degree of Necessity as to their coexistence they do not any ways include or infer each other one Virtue 't is true includes and infers another and all Virtues I speak of practical Virtues Bonum ex causa integrâ and Goodness is all of one chain and where true in any one instance is all together but yet this Goodness in the nature of it includes not Wisdom and Knowledge a Virtuous Man has not always the most Knowledge nor where this Knowledge is is it always Universal To be a Divine is not to be a Physitian or were it always Universal this infers no one branch of Power Solomon's poor Wise man had none at all and so it may be with the richest and wisest 't is too often so nor doth any instance of Autority and Power where existing infer all other instances of it To be the Husband of a Wife is not therefore to be the Father of a Child nor do Paternal and Despotick Government either necessarily go together to be a King indeed is usually to be all but to be a Priest is oft to be neither he is many times too poor to have Servants and his Marriage is by some judg'd unlawful at least by Church-Law forbidden and every one says he ought not to be a King to be sure he is not so because a Priest nor is the King a Priest either because a King they no more infer one another than do any of the former two or all of them nor is their co-existence otherways necessary than any of the other they indeed were once united in the Worlds Infancy and some Ages after both seated in the first born though by what special grant we know not the small account we have of those Ages hinders it only I cannot agree with Grotius De Imper. Sum. Potest in Sacris Cap. 2. Sect. 4. that it was assumed by themselves or that every man had a Natural right to it and the Elder in the Family limited it to himself but however it came there it was afterwards severed by God himself who took only the Tribe of Levi for his Service at the Altar and governed in State more by his own Person and therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 himself sometimes appearing and giving Laws sometimes immediately raising up one and sometimes another to go in and out before his People as from Moses and in the days of the Judges to King Saul And as I intimated before these things not throughly considered and digested these courses and bonds and limits of Offices and Gifts and Powers their Posts and Stages removed or taken down if once these Land-marks be displaced become promiscuous and common making inrodes on one another not only he will be at a loss that engages in the Debates and Resolutions in these cases but Mankind it self the Christian Part of the World to be sure can no more continue in Peace but with Invasions and Usurpations Disorders and Confusions here upon Earth than the earthy Globe it self can subsist or keep its Equilibrium should the Elements of which it is made lose their Native qualities and become blended together or should its two Poles unite and kiss each other and of this our own late Experience in our own particular Church and Kingdom gives Testimony in abundance when a pretence of Holiness or the reality of it was determined sufficient to invest in the Priesthood the same Plea was concluded as