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	subjection_n	wife_n	4,236	5	8.3965	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49463	The life of faith Wherein is shewed the general use of faith in all the passages of a Christians life. Together with a discourse of right judgment on Joh.7.24. By H. Lukin.	Lukin, H. (Henry), 1628-1719.	1660 (1660)	Wing L3477; ESTC R213826	80,145	275

strengthens his confidence Psa 121.2 My help stands in the name of the Lord that hath made heaven and earth as if he had said I will never distrust his power for deliverance or protection who could erect such a stately Fabrick from nothing And there are other historical passages of Scripture also which may be of like use unto us both for encouragement Deut. 8.17 and caution 1 Cor. 10.11 yea and for confirming our Faith in the Messiah John 20.31 that History of the acts and Sermons of Christ being written by John in his old age for the confirming of the Deity of Christ against those which then begun to deny it at the request of the Bishops of Asia which is the reason why he disputes more clearly of the Deity of Christ than any of the other Evangelists and records divers of his miracles which serve for the confirmation thereof that the rest do omit And for those points of Doctrine which Faith assents to and are not otherwise demonstrable by reason they are generally reckoned amongst those Fundamentalls the belief of which is necessary to Salvation But herein the use of Faith in this particular doth further appear when men do not believe such things as these it brings them to flat Atheisme at last for they first question and by degrees deny the Authority of the Scriptures when they see the improbability or rather impossibility as seems to their reason of many things both in the Doctrine and History of it as in Philosophy because some cannot conceive how such a vast body as it is demonstrable that the Sun is should move so many thousand miles in an hour as it is necessary it must if we suppose that it move at all venture rather to deny the received opinion of its motion and entertain that paradox of the motion of the earth Secondly Faith submits to the commands of the Word Heb. 11. we shall finde many eminent acts of Obedience ascribed to Faith as ver 8. By faith Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went It was an hard tryall for as the Proverb is patriae fumus igne alien● luculentior the smoak of our own Country is as good as the fire of another and he was to go he knew not whither for God only bade him go into a country that he would shew him Gen. 11.33 So that command which was yet more hard of offering up his son he submitted to by faith ver 17. he was to offer up his son which was against nature yea his only begotten son that is of his wife and the son of the promise in whom his seed was to be called So ver 29. By faith they passed through the red sea when it was very unlikely the unruly surges of it should keep their place while they went so many miles ver 30. By faith they compassed the walls of Jericho seven dayes together with ramms hornes a very ridiculous thing in the eyes of men Now Faith doth thus submit to the commands of God because we are thereby brought into covenant with God and consequently subject our selves to his authority as a wife by taking another to be her husband doth oblige her self to those duties which do immediately result from such a relation and to that subjection which is due from a wife to an husband So by taking God to be our God and Christ to be our husband we are ipso jure obliged to submit to all his commands Deut. 26.17 Jer. 31.32 We are indeed obliged to this subjection before we believe but by faith we own our obligation and do actually and professedly make a recognition thereof So that we may say as Salvian de guberunt Dei lib. 3. Fides est fidelis Deo esse hoc est fideliter Dei mandata servare Faith is to be faithful to God that is faithfully to keep his commands yet I am far from thinking with Socinus Defens 108. that fides in Christum ista opera sunt re ipsa idem and that a faith of such a latitude is the matter of our Justification and holds the same place in the Covenant of Grace which perfect obedience should have done in the Covenant of Works these are not Faith formally but only effectivè true Faith necessarily producing these Vide Stresonis meditat de fide sect 34 c. Secondly Faith receives the Word as the Word of God 1 Thes 2.13 in which place we may observe three things 1. The power of the Word it wrought effectually 2. The persons in whom it had this efficacy they were such as did believe 3. The reason of it they received it not as the word of Man but as the Word of God which implies two things First Their receiving it Qua Verbum Dei or under that notion considered as the Word of God or believing it to be so whether it be strictly and properly the object of Faith that the Scriptures are the Word of God I will not stand here to dispute or determine and how the preaching of men may be received as the Word of God you may see in the fore-mentioned Treatise of Mr. Hieron We are to prove all things that we may hold fast that which is good 1 Thes 5.21 and that we may do so we are to search the Scriptures to see how that which we hear doth accord therewith Act. 17.11 and what is rightly deduced or inferred from the Word is of the same authority with the Scriptures as Daille and Vedelius have sufficiently proved against the new Methodists in France as they are called who by denying this did undertake quite to overthrow the Doctrine of the Protestants whatever the success of such an undertaking would have been their boasts may serve for a caution to those who decry consequences but I hope men are not so zealous now against them as they sometime were else I should before this time have taught that small Treatise of Daille to speak English wherein he useth his wonted candor and clearness Secondly To receive the Word as the Word of God is to receive it as becomes the Word of God that is as the Word of such a God who is so wise so just and faithful so good so holy that all his commands must needs be holy and just and good Rom. 7.12 and so not to be disputed but obeyed for by Faith we believe the nature of God as well as his beeing Now Faith is in this respect of singular use in the whole course of our lives how oft do men stand and dispute the commands of God till they reason themselves out of their duty in things that are against carnal reason and carnal interest things which are of meer positive institution not of any natural moral right but Faith considers not any thing against a Command as it is said Abraham did not against the Promise Rom. 4.19 If Christ bid