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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,280	5	11.2870	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14095	A discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie. Or A perspective glasse, wherby the admirers of D. Iacksons profound discourses, may see the vanitie and weaknesse of them, in sundry passages, and especially so farre as they tende to the undermining of the doctrine hitherto received. Written by William Twisse, Doctor of Divinitie, as they say, from whom the copie came to the presse	Twisse, William, 1578?-1646.	1631 (1631)	STC 24402; ESTC S118777	563,516	728

but yee shall cry for sorrow of heart and house for vexation of spirit Yea and in making one piece rained upon sometimes and not another yet I nothing doubt but you will acknowledge God to bee as holy in these waies as in any other yea in causing two Beares to come out of the wood upon Elisha his cursing in the name of the Lord and teare fourty two children Yea in revenging Achans sacriledge not onely with his owne death but with his childrens also and in destroying suckling children and children in the wombe both in the generall deluge and in the conflagration of Sodome and when for the sinne of Saul hee caused seven of his sonnes to bee delivered into the hands of the Gibeonites to bee put to death for God is righteous in all his waies and holy in all his workes And the equity of Gods courses though sometimès discernable by man as in the case you put out of Ezechiel 18. 25. yet not alwaies so but that wee are driven sometimes to cry out with the Apostles Oh the depth of the riches of the wisedome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements and his waies past finding out 5 I confesse that if to dictate like a positive Theologue be to instruct us you have thus farre instructed us That those paternes of holinesse or perfection which we are bound to imitate in him are not to be taken from his bare commandement or revelation of his will but from the objects of his will revealed or from the eternall practises which he hath exhibited as so many expresse and manifest proofes that his will is alwayes holy and just The paterns of holinesse which wee are bound to imitate are not to be taken you say from Gods bare commandement I finde what you say but I had rather finde what you prove When our Saviour exhorteth us to be holy as God is holy and perfect as God is perfect he speaketh it with a particular reference to a particular course in Gods providence taking thereby not an obligation to imitate him but onely an inducement to bee so much the more forward in doing that which God commands us in loving our enemies And unlesse wee have a commandement from God for the rule of our obedience it is nothing safe to imitate God For what shall Magistrates spare malefactors because God spareth them a long time Or because God causeth the children to be put to death sometime for the sinne of the father shall we do so too Or because God makes his sunne to shine as well upon one as upon another shall we therefore put no difference betweene such as are of the houshold of faith and others Wee may not imitate Elisha in cursing little children that mocked him nor the zeale of Phinees in killing Zimri and Cosbi in their lust much lesse must wee alwaies imitate God who hath greater power over mens lives then Elisha or Phinees had Yet why you should call the workes of God in the course of his providence eternall practises I know no reason or coulour of reason It may be that in stead of eternall it should be externall practises God no doubt is holy in all his waies and workes but herehence it followeth not that wee must imitate him in all his courses but rather wee must have an eye to his commandements And what I pray are those perfections whereof our generall duties are the imperfect representations Our generall duties are such as these We must not deale unjustly with any we must deale justly with all or wee must be holy Holinesse becomes thine house for ever and in the Priests forehead was wont to bee written Holinesse unto the Lord. Now are these the perfections wherein God as you say is holy and just Then t is as if you should say God is eminently and apparantly holy in the perfection which is called his holinesse God is eminently and apparantly just in that perfection which is called his justice Of all his morall commandements not one there is you say whose sincere practise doth not in part make us truely like him and we are bound to be conformable to his will revealed that we may bee conformable to his nature without conformity whereunto wee cannot participate of his happinesse for happinesse is the immediate consequent of his nature You proceede to cut out work for your Readers as many as are willing to Try the spirits and not hand over head to receive all for gold that glisters That the practise of Gods commandements maketh us like him is a plausible speech And it is true in the generall for as God is wise and holy so our obedience to his commandements is that which mades us wise and holy And as God doth nothing but that which very well becomes him so in obeying the will of God wee shall doe nothing but that which very well becomes us But as for particular duties there is little or no correspondency betweene the carriage of superiours and inferiours Wee have a God to worship by reverence and feare and by praying unto him these are moralities no way incident unto God Wee have parents both naturall and spirituall and masters and magistrates whom we must honour God hath none such to honour Wee by our authoritie may not take away the life of any be he never so great an offendor God may take away the life of any bee hee never so innocent without any blemish to his holines Matrimoniall chastitie is a vertue commendable in a Christian but this vertue is of so base a condition that the divine nature is not capable of it as who hath no lusts at all to order like as on the contrary the very Devills themselves being Spirits are no way obnoxious to unchristitie The like may bee said of temperance and intemperancie in the use or abuse of Gods creatures through gluttony and drunkennes T is theft for us to take any mans goods from him against his will it is not so with God who can send any man as naked out of the world as hee brought him into the world without any prejudice to the repuration of his justice And seeing he is not capable of any manner of concupiscence either of the eye or of the flesh for hee is a Spirit and not a body or flesh nor in the way of pride of life the contrary conditions cannot be in the way of any commendable vertues attributed unto God In a word all the goodnesse that is in God is essentiall unto him our goodnesse whatsoever we be is but accidentall unto us and therefore when we are exhorted to be holy as he is holy and perfect as God is perfect it tends onely to this even to set before us certaine actions of God as patternes and precedents to imitate him therein and that onely so far forth as they are suitable and congruous inducements to the performing of Gods commandements not to affect any conformity