Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

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
A48723	The churches peace asserted upon a civil account as it was (great part of it) deliver'd in a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in Guild-Hall-Chappel July 4 / by Ad. Littleton, presbyter.	Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.	1669 (1669)	Wing L2560; ESTC R37938	36,810	50

from their own writings and practices and others there are that do in effect loosen the bands of all Society by excusing that duty Servants owe to their Masters Children to their Parents Wives to their Husbands under a pretence of seeking God justifie disobedience by the Corban of Religion and for any command of their Superiors they like not have a ready answer that they are to obey God rather than man whereas on the contrary there is no one thing that the English Church does in her Doctrine more positively affirm or in her Offices more zealously express then obedience to Governors and her duty to her Soveraign To draw to an end in this Argument some there are that fear not to charge the Church it self with Sacriledge and truly I must grant that Church-men may be guilty by imbezilling and mis-imploying Church-revenue which sure enough was mainly design'd for Pious Uses but may not a man that faithfully serves the Publick in his place have some regard to himself too in fair provisions for his own Family The Apostle tells us that he that does not is worse then an Infidel To shut up all and to drive this nail to the head I do freely acknowledge that the Church never flourish'd more under Pagan Governments then when it was in the poorest condition for it's temporals when it lay under Pressures and Afflictions and had the Heathen-State its Enemy But shall any Christian Magistrate now design the Perscution and Ruine of the Church therefore This were to Argue with the Apostate Iulian to strip Bishops and Priests of their lively-hood and to turn them out of all they have that they may be poor in imitation of their master's Example and in obdedience to his command may learn to contemn the World But thanked be God we live not now under Heathen Emperours and Pagan Governours though if we did it were our duty to pray for them and to thank God for then too and to obey them in all lawful commands and where we can not safely obey chearfully suffer for a good Conscience Neither is nor ought the Church to be so now as it was in the Primitive times before it was setled under Christian Magistrates though then too there was fair liberal allowance and there 's no Minister we have but would be contented to Preach at the Primitive rates were our Auditors as free and open-handed as they were then In the close of all these sacred Morsels though they may seem sweet yet leave gravel behind them and this I dare boldly say that the decay of the Church and the disrepute of Religion amongst any people is a certain token and an infallible character of that People's approaching Ruine Sic profanatis sacris Peritura Troja perdidit primùm Deos. So that from the complication of Church and State and the extreme hazard each of them runs in the other's perils we stand obliged upon a meer Civil account for our Brethren and Companion sakes to wish the Churches prosperity and welfare in our mutual Agreement among our selves Before I make an end I think it necessary to take notice of an Objection or two which may seem to overthrow the purpose and design of this whole Discourse For though it hath already been clear'd out of the Context that by Ierusalem here must be meant the Church and that the Churches Peace which for his Brethren and Companions sakes David resolves to wish and endeavour did consist in that People's uniform Worship of God as appears further by that Churches sad experience when Ieroboam drew off the Ten Tribes from their Allegiance and which is reckon'd his great sin which he made the Children of Israel to sin had by setting up new forms of Worship made their return as well to the Thrones of David at Ierusalem as to the Temple impossible and by a subtle contrivance of an establish'd Schism to render his Rebellion perpetually successful divided them from their brethren in Religion and made the breach irreconcileable then by degrees the poor Samaritans fell off into all kinds of Superstitions and Idolatries the Statutes of Omri and Ahab and I know not what else gallymawfreys of Religion and all this grounded on the fair pretence of that Precise Sect the Karaei who would admit of nothing in the Worship of God but what they found expresly commanded in the Law of Moses I say though thus it stood with the Iewish Church I foresee an Objection may be made that our case is much different from theirs for first Theirs was but a Typical Ceremonial Service which in the Gospel state has no place since our Worship now must be in Spirit and in Truth and then again for these very Types and Ceremonies they had a Divine Command and were by strict precept oblig'd to that uniform attendance upon the Temple whereas such a precept or command now we have none to tye us up in like manner to any one form of Worship To the first part of the Objection that that was a Typical Service in the Iewish Church but that the Holy Iesus has to the Christian Church brought Grace and Truth which do not tye us up to such severe observances in external things but have instated us into a Liberty wherein we are commanded to stand fast and therefore we are not to part with it upon any terms I answer that though the Ceremonies of that Religion be abolished yet the substance of it remains still in the Christian Church for the shadow and the truth were to answer one another and those Types and representations are therefore now to be made out answerably by us in real performances so that the Vniformity of Worship is as agreeable and perhaps more necessary now to the Substance as 't was then to the Shadow and the obligation proportionably the same upon us as upon them For though God did by the death of his Son rent the vail of the Temple and break down the Partition-wall and so has brought us Gentiles into the Fellowship of the Church it was that we should in the same orderly manner serve him in substance as they did in Germony and in suitable methods accomplish their Types with the Truth of our services They brought their Calves and their Lambs to the Priest and had them by his hand offered in the Temple Christian Religion has for their Priests and Levites distinct orders likewise of Bishops Priests and Deacons and instead of a Temple Churches where the People by the Ministration of the Priesthood are to offer up their Prayers and their Praises which are our morning and evening Sacrifices And thus for their Temple their Sacrifices their Sabbaths their Priesthood and almost all considerable Instances of their Worship there is a perpetual uniform Analegy throughout betwixt them and us Only their Worship was perform'd in the shadow of the Law ours in the light of the Gospel and if this light proves to us darkness how great will our darkness be For alas that