Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	lord_n	master_n	servant_n	3,754	5	6.8479	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63910	A letter of resolution to a friend, concerning marriage of cousin Germans by John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1682 (1682)	Wing T3310; ESTC R7495	18,496	47

heard a good Character yet good News proves oftener to be false than true that if you are a bad man you would reflect considerately and coolly with your self upon the Folly and Vnreasonableness of sin and set upon a speedy and effectual Reformation but if you are that good man I take you to be continue as you are you will find the Comfort of it in all your concerns God will bless and men will praise you your Affairs will be prosperous and your Bones fat and your Heart merry you will not be afraid of the Terrours by night nor of the Arrows that fly abroad by day you will have a perpetual Calm of Joy and Peace attending upon your Person and a Seeurity which no Fears can shake will entrench and encamp it self round about your Habitation it will be the best Comforter in your Sickness the best Preparation for Death and the best Advocate at the day of Judgment therefore in the Name of God and for the sake of our selves let us lay aside all Personal and all Political Vices and let us heartily repent us of our sins and be in perfect Charity with one another Farewel A Letter of Resolution to a Friend concerning the Marriage of Cousin Germans SIR I Have received so many Testimonies of Kindness from you that I cannot believe otherwise but the Advice you give me not to trouble the World with the Discourse I have promised of the Marriage of Cousin Germans with which you are pleased to say I have threatned the Nation and am like to make a Disturbance in it proceeds from the same cause likewise your continued Goodness and Affection to me but I assure you I am so far from having any turbulent or unquiet Projects in my Head that a natural Inclination to all the greatest Instances of Peace and Friendship is a thing so essential to my Constitution that I cannot take so much as a just and necessary Revenge without a great deal of real Trouble and Affliction to my self much less would I give any the least Occasion of Displeasure to those from whom I never received the least Disobligation and you cannot but imagine that I am a Cousin German my self to some body or other and therefore have no reason to be angry with the Name unless I have a mind to write Books against my self as Mr. Baxter does but yet after all I see no Reason to desist from my undertaking and that it may not be thought that what I do is the effect only of an obstinate and wayward humour without Reason therefore I hold my self obliged to give you all the Satisfaction which the narrow bounds of a Letter will allow I am very sensible what a mighty torrent of prejudice I am to stemm and that not only from the Displeasure of those who are themselves engaged in Marriages of this Nature or are descended from such as have been so but also from this that all the Learned men that have written do generally determine contrary to me insomuch that even the Lutheran Churches themselves which to avoid scandal do not allow the Practice of it yet it is the received Opinion of all their Divines that all such Marriages are lawful but Sir if a man must never stand up in the defence of Truth when there is an Interest engaged against it and if this had always been the Practice of the World then no vulgar Error could ever have been corrected nor any fashionable or customary Vice reproved If this were a Rule universally to be observed then our Saviour should not have come into the World whose whole life after he entred upon the Administration of his Prophetical Office which he did about four Years before his Crucifixion was a perpetual Combat with the Prejudices and the Passions and the false Notions of men And Sir the Vindication of that Truth which I pretend to maintain being as I think of so manifest and undeniable Consequence to the Peace of the World which was the great Design of our Saviours appearance upon Earth and of all the Doctrines which he delivered there is some Analogy with all humble Reverence and Duty be it spoken betwixt the Case of my great Lord and Master the Author and Finisher of our common Faith and mine for I am sent on his Errant by the Appointment of the Church which hath thought fit to impress the Priestly Character upon me as he was on the Fathers and the same Message is common to us both to exhort people to love and be helpful to one another and to perswade to the constant Practice of those Duties which make both for Temporal and Eternal Peace If Prejudices which will always be strong against every Undertaking that is but new and bold were a sufficient Argument why men should not attempt them then the Reformation should never have been begun the Copernican Hypothesis and the Cartesian Philosophy should never have been communicated to the World the Antipodes to this day would have remained as great an Heresie as it was in those times of Ignorance and Darkness when a Bishop was removed from his Office and Dignity for asserting it the Circulation of the Blood would have been as great a Secret now as it was before Solomons time whom one Learned Author more Ingenious than Wise would have to have been the Inventor of it or as it hath been ever since till our late Famous Doctor Harvey discovered it if this Principle were always to be followed Columbus had left a new World undescryed nay if this Principle were the general measure of Action that a man must never speak but in the common Road and as the Prejudices or the present Interests of particular persons would have him then no man should dare to oppose a Faction though in defence of his King his Countrey or the Church and still the more dangerous that Faction is the more pressing is this Argument which is drawn from the Prejudices or the Passions of men upon us to let them alone But Sir we are not to be pleasers of men but of God and we are to tread in the steps of the Captain of our Salvation who through much Tribulation and through Death it self the most painful and ignominious Death that Human Nature was capable of enduring led us the way to Heaven and who hath commanded us to do our Duty with Chearfulness and Courage without either Fear or Favour whatever the Event and Consequence of it be The Disciple said he Matth. 10. 24 25 26 27. is not above his Master nor the Servant above his Lord It is enough for the Disciple that he be as his Master and the Servant as his Lord Fear them not therefore but what I tell you in Darkness that speak ye in Light and what ye hear in the Ear that preach ye upon the House-tops And if this were our Saviours Injunction to his Disciples Twelve Poor and Inconsiderable men of no Interest or Reputation in the World and