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	perform_v	wife_n	3,838	5	7.4579	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47273	Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London.	Kephale, Richard.	1665 (1665)	Wing K330; ESTC R26148	48,416	100

speaks comfort to him thorow the Grates unlesse hee go in to salute him amongst those fierce companions a good Minister is the common good hee cannot make his life peculiar to one without injury to many in the common cause of the Church hee must bee no niggard of his life in the private cause of a Neighbours bodily sickness hee may soon bee Prodigal a good Father may not spend his substance on one Childe and leave the rest Beggars If any man bee resolute in the contrary I had rather praise his courage then Imitate his practice I confesse I fear not so much Death as want of warrant for Death Quest How far publick persons are bound to visit particular men under the Infection Ans I Find no ground in sacred Scriptures to bind publick persons to hazard their life in particular mens cases they are set over a society not over one or two particular persons Indeed every particular member of a Society belongs to their charge and they ought to do what they can to the good of every particular Member under their charge so far as may stand with the good of the whole body and prove no prejudice thereto But if by visiting particular persons they should bee Infected and by that Infection their life taken away would not this prove a prejudice and dammage to the whole body Is it the way is it the Calling of a publick person to go into a particular mans House that is Infected Private persons may every where bee found out competently enabled to do such duties as are requisite to bee done to such as are Visited with the sickness or at least fit persons that have not publick employments may bee chosen out and set apart to visit the sick in contagious places to comfort them and to see all things meet for them duely performed Quest And whether they may substitute others in their places Ans QUestionless difference may be put betwixt persons some Magistrates are of such use in a Common-Wealth as it is meet they bee as as much as lyeth in man preserved from danger on this ground When David the King would have gone out with his Souldiers to battel the people answered Thou shalt not go forth thou art worth ten thousand of us Wherefore eminent excellent persons may bee exempted from abiding in dangerous places and others substituted in their name and stead to preserve peace keep good order and provide necessaries Provided that they who are substituted bee able and willing to perform the duties whereunto they bee deputed The like may bee said of Ministers yea of Husbands Parents Masters and the like to leave a Wife a Childe a Servant Infected with an Infectious Disease to the tendance of others that are fit and willing to do that duty and faithful in what they undertake is not to forsake wife childe or servant Quest How bold Christians ought to bee in dangers in the time of a Plague when they have a good calling A Good calling is that way wherein God by his Divine Providence setteth a man and wherein hee hath appointed him to walk in that way he hath given his Angels charge over him to keep him where we have the Angels to Minister for us and to encamp round about us what need wee to fear they will either keep us safe from danger in this world or if it seem good to God to take us out of this world they will carry our souls into Heaven as they did the soul of Lazarus For Application of this point it is requisite that wee bee well instructed by Gods Word in the kinde of our Calling whether it be lawful and warrantable or no as for extraordinary Callings they must bee warranted by an extraordinary spirit which is rare if at all in these daies but ordinary Callings have their express warrant in Gods Word As the Callings of Magistrates Ministers Souldiers Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Masters and Servants Nurses and Helpers in all kinde of necessities these may these must in their place and calling expose themselves to danger for performing the work which by vertue of their place belongeth unto them Captains and Souldiers must stand against Enemies though thereby they endanger their lives Magistrates must abide in Cities and other places diseased or Infected with contagious Diseases to see good order kept to take order for supply of such necessaries as are fit for all sorts though by abiding there they be in danger So Ministers must abide in such places to instruct direct comfort and encourage the people under their charge So Husbands and Wives being one flesh must have such a tender respect each of other as not to forsake one another for fear of Infection or other like danger Servants also Nurses and others that in such cases take upon them or by publick authority are appointed to bee helpers to such as are Infected with the Plague or any other contagious and infectious Disease are bound to attend such persons and abide by them yea though it bee with danger of their own lives For it is necessary that such persons bee looked unto to forsake and leave them that are not able to help themselves is more than barbarous inhumanity it is necessary that some abide by them who are more bound than they that have an especial Calling thereto they with greatest confidence may depend on Gods special providence for protection from Infection if they be infected and dye they with greatest comfort may yeild up their souls into Gods hands as dying in that place wherein God hath set them in these cases God hath called them to venture their lives for their brethren and thereby to give evidence of their true brotherly love Of old Christians were so charitable in relieving such as were visited with the plague as willingly they hazarded their own lives for proof whereof I will here set down what Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria reporteth in an Epistle to the Brethren in Aegypt Many of our Brethren by Reason of their great love and Brotherly Charity sparing not themselves cleaved one to another visited the sick of the Plague and attended upon them diligently cured them in Christ which cost them their lives and being full of other mens Maladies took the Infection of their Neighbours and translated of their own accord the sorrows of their Neighbours upon themselves fulfilling indeed the Common saying That Friendship is alwaies to be retained and departing this life they seemed the off scouring of others In this sort the best of our Brethren departed this life whereof some were Ministers some Deacons in great reverence among the common people So that this kinde of Death for their great piety and strength of Faith may seem to differ nothing from Martyrdome for they took the dead bodies of the Saints whose breasts and faces and hands lay upwards and closed their eyes shut their mouths and joyntly with one accord being like affectioned embraced them washed them and prepared their