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	perform_v	servant_n	3,566	5	7.2466	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83990	Englands remedy of a deadly malady: the vvise-womans saving the city Abel, by delivering the head of Sheba, who was a traitor to the common-wealth of Israel. Which serveth as a pattern, whereby the City of London may be saved, by the wise endeavours of the citizens thereof, like this wise-womans, (which are upon divine record both for our learning and imitation) even by delivering up to law & justice, the traitors to the common-wealth of England. ...		1647 (1647)	Wing E3028; Thomason E397_20; ESTC R201676	19,353	23

King and Kingdome with our Armies Ingagements Declarations Petitions and Remonstrances concerning Sir Thomas Fairfax's Commission in his so faithfull service to the Kingdome of England now in this our extreame necessitie they will find that hee hath a better Commission then Joab had in this his pursuit for as the one prosecuted with zeale for the weale safety and recovery of that Kingdomes Liberties against all adversaries he onely knowing the mind of the better party so with the like zeale doth our valiant Captaine prosecute for the weal safety and recovery of this Kingdomes Liberties against all adversarie powers knowing the mind of the well affected and at the earnest requests and fervent desires of many distressed and oppressed Commoners Prisoners Widdowes Fatherlesse maimed Souldiers poore and others And whereas it may be alledged that our Generall is out of his office and the Army ordered to be disbanded by the Parliament who both gave him his office them their power for the use they were at first appointed It is answered what the Parliament gave either him or them or took from him and them they neither gave the one nor tooke the other as they are an entire Corporation or State by themselves alone but as the representative Body of all the Commons of England and so in that respect but their agents and servants even as some Bishop or Minister after the example of Samuel the Prophet doth annoint a King being so ordained by the Kingdome yet it doth not follow by any good consequence that such a man meerly for his so officiating or discharging the duty of his Office is King Lord or Master of such a King so annointed by him but rather still a subject or servant to him because he is so ordained by the people as by a greater power then his owne to performe that point of duty as well as the rest belonging to his Office And upon this consideration he may neither justly say nor in any respect dare avow as Cardinall Weolsey presumptuously wrote to the Pope I and my King doe such and such things so that both the Armie and the Parliament or the Parliament and the Army which of them soever may justly at this time have the first place as the case now stands the one having the bare word and the other the sharp sword yea and the King himselfe though he were set as high as Solomon on his throne are all but the Commons of Englands Servants and they onely ordained for the weale and better being but never for the woe and worse being of the Common-wealth whereas the Common-wealth was never ordained for the better nor worse being of them in any regard but as they are servants to it or as shepheards and watch-men in keeping it in peace order and tranquility both from forraigne and intestine enemies and the other as speciall instruments both of defending them in the discharge of their offices and for that end of maintaining them in their authorities Needfull Queres to the Parliament Right honourable and truly noble at least should be like the men of Berea NOt to speak of the crying sins and great abominations whereof the Kings Parliaments Priests and People of this Nation are guilty even surpassing the sinnes of Sodome and Gomorah Tyrus and Sydon in so long injoying and yet never receiving nor obeying the glorious Gospell of Christ which if they had had as our Saviour said of Capernaum and Bethsaidah might possibly have brought forth better fruits then ever England did neither to insist of the innocent blood which cryeth from heaven against this Nation by our betraying under the colour of helping that worthy and strong City Rochell as well by cheating them of their provision in their extreame famine when they were so straightly besieged as by advancing their enemies with eight great ships to their utter ruine starving and desolation nor yet of the oceans of the guiltlesse blood spilt and treasures spent of late daies amongst our selves to small purpose yea and much thereof by your corruption carelessenesse double-dealing and other indirect and counterfeit meanes Did ever any Nation give better assistance to any Parliament then this distressed Nation have everie manner of way given unto you Was it all done to make you Lords and Knights and our selves but servants and slaves Was it to set you all in Coaches and on horse-backe and our selves but to run at your feet Was it not meerely that ye should redresse our grievances and recover our Liberties abolish wicked Lawes and establish good Lawes But have ye performed to us either one or other of these your duties Have ye not rather made the cure more grievous then the disease and the last errour worse then the first Have ye so often protested vowed sworne and declared before God and the world that you would deliver us from all oppression and tyrannie and yet are not ye your selves become greater oppressors and tyrants then ever we had Have ye not against all Law justice reason conscience and profession both done many things ye ought not and left abundance of things undone which according to the same grounds ye were bound to doe Did either Petitions Informations or Admonitions ever prevaile with you by word or writing but rather did you not hearden your hearts more and more like Pharoah Have ye not alwaies sought rather to be revenged on such as shew you your hainous sinnes then any wise except in hypocriticall Fasts to amend your faults Yea and I appease to your owne consciences Are not all these but meere shewes which now ye make to rectifie some of the innumerable things that are amisse by your owne meanes even rather for slavish and guilty feare of the Armies sword then out of any dutifull respect or true favour to the Commons of England who choosed and trusted you and whom as yee are bound ye should both serve and respect if ye made any conscience of Gods VVord A faithfull Advice to the Armie Renowned Brethren MAny of you know better then I can expresse what wise course Josuah that valiant Captaine Generall who for a long time fought the Lord of Hostes Battells in the behalfe of his peculiar people the Jewes did take when he saw the Lord shew himselfe so angry at the sins of the people though it was but of one man that he made them both fall and fly before their enemies he searcheth diligently either by lot or otherwise according to the custome of those days throughout all the twelve Tribes in which Tribe or person of the Tribe the fault was and finding it in the royall Tribe of Judah and in Achan by name through his covetousnesse which is the root of all evill did punish him according to the nature of his fault Ye have both begun and run very well hetherto yea and win one part of the prize praised be God but I pray who lets you that yee will not obey the truth but seem to be weary of