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	servant_n	wife_n	4,873	5	6.7520	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17321	Conclusions of peace, betweene God and man containing comfortable meditations for the children of God. By W. Burton.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1594 (1594)	STC 4169; ESTC S116868	49,833	152

talked of him or with him but to shew their vtter dislike of him they vsed to say Is this he or art thou hee that wilt doe such a thing Is not this hee whom they go about to kill They woulde not say Is not this Iesus Christ or the sonne of God Againe whither will hee go that we shall not finde him This is a most despightfull kinde of speaking and doth bewray a bundance of malice that is hidden in the heart And is it not so betweene some Husbandes and Wiues and their neighbours they coulde speake one to another but disdaine and anger will not suffer the one to affoord vnto the other their names and their titles least they shoulde be put in minde of those dueties which these names require whereout Sathan sucketh no small aduauntage and these are like the spirituall Iewes Whereas manie times the verie name of husband or wife or brother or sister or neighbour or sonne or seruaunt or maister doth helpe not a little to persuade the minde and to win the affection yea the verie mentioning of those names doth oftentimes leaue a print of duety behind in the conscience Many think themselues sufficiently discharged if they speake the truth It is no matter they thinke after what maner it be done thinking to preuaile by boysterous terms nicke-names and wordes of disgrace but they are deceiued for if termes of loue and kindnesse will not preuaile words of reproch and hatred shall neuer preuaile except it be to make thinges worse and this will be the end of it while they doe so vnkindly hunt one another the diuell doth hunt them both vntill both of them become a praie vnto the diuell like men which make themselues a pray vnto the Lawyers while they striue to eate vp one another at law Now on the other side if teachers must shew themselues like Fathers then by the same lawe the people must shew themselues like children If the minister must for his parte seeke them with a fathers affection then they for their parte must not be wanting with a sonnelike affection His authoritie for God bindeth them to reuerēce him as the minister of God to obay him as if God himselfe did commaund them for for they are embassadours for Christ or in Christs stead and do entreate vs to be reconciled vnto God And in the 2. Cor. 5. 20. the Apostle saith that God doth beseech vs through them We must know then when Gods minister in the excercise of his ministerie doth persuade God doth persuade when he doth threaten vs God doth threaten vs when he doth promise vs any thing God doth promise it when he doth shew patience it is Gods patience if he doth forbeare thee God doth forbeare thee and all this is done for thy good therefore they that abuse the ministers patience as he is a minister do abuse Gods patience which God vseth towards vs for no other purpose but to draw vs to repentance which if we abuse to serue our own turn we do but heape vnto our selues wrath against the day of wrath Your murmurings are not against vs saith Moses but against God He that receiueth me saith Christ c. He that despiseth you despiseth me Therefore touch not mine annointed saith God and do my Prophets no harme because they are my Prophets not to prophesie vnto me but for me vnto you Are we now at libertie thinke we to here them or not to heare them at our pleasure because some speake roughlye and some smoothlye may we now without sinne censure the preachers of the word buy and sell them behinde their backes or gibe and iest at them with our mouthes may we descant and play vpon their wordes as the maner of some is and escape in the end may we ly in waite for them and betray them may we smite them with our tongues as the Iewes do smite Ieremie may we thinke any thing wel gotten that is gottē from them Or may we make more account of any yea of the oddest companion in the worlde than of Gods minister May any thinke to doe this and a great deale more which is vsed in the world and not to be called to account for it one day Will there not be bitternes in the end as Abner said to Ioab But stay thou art a father and hast children and doest trye by all waies and meanes to do them good what if thy child shuld mock thee or iest at thee when thou doest speak in earnest to him for his good wouldst thou be contented what if he should turne his backe vpon thee in contempt and goe his way when thou callest him Or what if he should turne againe and smite thee when thou doest reproue him for his faulte but what if he should betray thee into the handes of his enemies wouldst not thou thinke thy cost well bestowed vpon him wouldst thou take pleasure in such a monster Nay wouldst thou not wish rather that he had neuer seene the sunne But if a child ought not so to handle his naturall parentes which haue begotten him and brought him forth into the worlde shall any man thinke it lawfull so to handle his spiritual father by whom he is begotten to God and brought vp to the hope of life euerlasting The eye saith Salomon that mocketh his father despiseth the instruction of his mother let the Rauens of the valley pickè it out and the young Eagles deuoure it But the eye that mocketh the counsell of God his heauenly father or despiseth the instruction of Gods minister his spirituall father let the Deuils of hel picke that out and except he repent let the infernall Spirits deuour it But some will say if he were learned as other men be if he were of yeares and grauitie as some men be if he were a good fellow as some men be if he would flatter please as some men do if he would preach seldome as some men doe if he were in place of authoritie as some men be and did come with countenaunce and credite as some men do then would we heare him and reuerence him and regard him and maintaine him as now we do not Now imagin that thy child should make such an apoligie for himsefe when he hath dishonored thee and say father do not meruaile though I regard you not more than I do for you are but a young man you are but a plain man you are but a poore man you are but a simple man and haue no learning I haue more learning than you and can teach you what though you giue me meate and drinke apparell what though you haue brought me vp to learning yet it is not in such plentifull and fine maner as some haue nor you do not handle me so daintilie nor make so much of me as some do vse their children c. Therfore I care not for you if you had these properties as you haue not I