Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	motive_n	object_n	use_v	1,353	5	10.1785	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78576	The preacher, or the art and method of preaching: shewing the most ample directions and rules for invention, method, expression, and books whereby a minister may be furnished with such helps as may make him a useful laborer in the Lords vineyard. / By William Chappell Bishop of Cork, sometime Fellow of Christs College in Cambridge.; Methodus concionandi. English	Chappell, William, 1582-1649.; Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1957; Thomason E1707_1; ESTC R209506	52,143	230

of holy Angels and men from the good which is found in the irrational creature as diligence or care in the Ant or Emmit c. from the good of men which are not good and from the good also in the sins of wicked prudent laborious men c. in their generation in doing evill and that out of motions which are slight and weak at least comparatively if not quite null but only in shew and really disswasive Finally from the examples of the Divels themselves of which if a legion could agree in one man much more is it just and fitting for two men to be perswaded to live in concord in one house To this part of Exhortation the Scheme may conduce 5. To this act may be added a Commination or Denunciation of evill as also a Lamentation Jer. 13.17 but Hypothetically if when they are pricked forward to some great good they neglect to obey In the same manner a blessing may be pronounced upon those who studiously seek after some great good 6. If the hearers falsely perswade themselves that the good to which they are incited by the Exhortation is not future but that they are already possessed of it the occasion of suspecting whereof in most of them may be the self love which is bred in all men some Notes may be given whereby the absence thereof may be argued Neither will they be unuseful although it be truly present for so the motives will incite to the cherishing of that good and persevering in it But here the notes must not be taken from the causes if that head of direct means must be treated of 7. If the hearers have too confidently promised to themselves they shall ever have in their power the thing it self or time to acquire it so that whensoever they will without any trouble they may possesse themselves of it and so neglect the present then that which is hard must be expounded 8. To obviate the first confidence which is of the facility of the thing it self we may consider First on Gods behalf the order which he hath fixed in things according to which he would have every good thing to not be acquired without labour and difficulty Then on our part how averse our depraved nature is from the study of excellent things Finally how careful and assiduously Satan and his instruments endeavour to deterre us from entering into the right way or lead us another As concerning the other which is of the time or space of gaining the thing may be considered the contingency and incertitude of the future as well concerning life as capacity Adde also the danger either from Gods act substracting his grace and sending forth his decree or from the efficacy of an evill custom which comes creeping in by degrees and encompasseth the mind with an hardnesse causing it no longer to obey wholesome counsels and admonitions 9. If the hearers shall judge the thing impossible or too hard for them Means may be added whereby that may be obtained whereunto we exhort them In the treating of which we may also obviate such objections if any there be by which men may seem to be deterred from seeking after that which they believe they cannot attain to 10. Means are of two kinds prohibiting by way of removing direct which in the beginning of the action excited by the motives doe inform if need be and teach the way of acting and doe afford strength to attain to or effect that which we will To all each or some of these as it shall be convenient may be added God's promises in Scriptures by which he promiseth to those who are willing ●… power to use the means 〈◊〉 successe to those who make 〈◊〉 of them 11. Sometimes before the particular assignation of the means the general prae-requisite ought to be premised without which it is in vain to deliberate of the means and which being laid both kinds of means may usefully be prescribed Crypsis 12. When the chief Motives are contained in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wherefore they may here be omitted and either others be applyed or none at all and the hearers be referred to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wherefore Yet if the exhortation were of great moment which was there proposed to the mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by way of teaching and expound●… way of reasons they may 〈◊〉 be usefully resumed and being taken as for granted urged to ●…ve affections 13. If the Auditors shall seem to be too great self-pleasers so that the motives seem to be but little regarded by them as seeming to them to not be very necessary The Notes may be delivered in the first place then the Motives be added 14. That which is difficult may here for the most part be omitted as well because it seems but accidentally to enter into the object of hope as also because sloathful men use of their own accords to pretend difficulties when they are incited to perform their duties and finally because the means doe in a manner presuppose some hardnesse Yea oftentimes in the Motives to urge a good the argument must be drawn from the easinesse namely when the means are omitted or this argument is so handled that it doth not fall in with them But when it shall be necessary to touch it the means may be so handled as they may shew how these Difficulties may be overcome 15. Because mans heart is more prepared to the prosecution of good by the apprehension of evill The Preacher may sometimes mixe Reprehension and sometimes Consolation with the Exhortation either in the beginning or elsewhere insinuating how unseemly it is for them now to need to have him exhort them to that which they should long since have performed of themselves c. Or that seeing such an affliction lyeth upon them there is now an occasion proffered to exhort them to that which may countervail it abundantly c. CHAP. XXI Of Dehortation 1. DEhortation hath a relation to some future evil to which the hearers are obnoxious or subject instigating the heart to avoid and fly it The scope of this is to excite fear and therefore it represents that from which it doth dehort under the formal reason of the objected fear that it is a great evill imminent avoidable 2. The grounds of Dehortation or Disswasives ought to be taken from the evill of that thing from which we doe dehort The Evill considered according to its degrees and kinds may be estimated by the opposite good in the dishonest and unseemly or the unuseful and displeasing 3. The Evill may be urged here oppositely to the Good in the first act There may also be added if it be thought fitting the difficulty or impossibility of satisfying the desire in that matter Though this seems to hinder the external act rather then the root of fin which is in the heart and tend more to proving the folly of man then the iniquity of the thing 4. To this may also be added hypothetically