Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	parent_n	servant_n	superior_n	1,175	5	11.5024	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85780	Ortholatreia: or, A brief discourse concerning bodily worship: proving it to be Gods due; to be given unto him with acceptation on his part, and not to be denyed him without sin, on ours. A thing worthy to be taken into consideration in these dayes, wherein prophaness and irreverence toward the sacred Majesty of God hath so much corrupted our religious assemblies, that men are regardless of their being before God, or of Gods being amongst them in his own house. / By S.G. late preacher of the Word of God in the Cathedrall Church of Peterburgh.	Gunton, Simon, 1609-1676.	1650 (1650)	Wing G2247; Thomason E592_8; ESTC R206877	34,540	64

benefits of Creation Redemption and Glorification and from hence debate and enquire in our selves Whether or no there be not cause for them to be united in setting forth the honour and worship of God for seeing God hath not disjoyned them in these his Benefits there can be no colour that we should disjoyn them in his Worship A second Argument may be drawn from the definition of Idolatry out of Zanchie that it is a Religious worship whereby an Idol is worshipped as the Deity A Religious worship What 's that but such as Religion bindes to give unto God himself The question then may be asked Whether Bodily worship given to an Idol in a religious way be Idolatry or no Surely 't is plain Idolatry And what makes it Idolatry but the giving that Bodily worship unto it which is Religious and belongs onely to God Do we not see then in the nature of Idolatry that Bodily worship is Gods due and therefore he must have it and that if it were not due unto God it would thence follow that to worship an Image with the body were no Idolatry because the worship given unto it belongs not unto God A third Argument may be drawn from the Second Commandment which in form of words is a Negative Commandment and the Rule of the Negative Commandments is that they command the contrary to that which they forbid As for example That Commandment which says Thou shalt not commit adultery does on the contrary command us to keep our selves chaste and undefiled That Commandment which says Thou shalt do no murther does on the contrary command us that we be careful as much as in us lies of preserving life That Commandment which says Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain does on the contrary command a holy and reverend usage of Gods Name Deut. 6. 13. And shalt swear by his Name In like manner the Second Commandment is a strict prohibition against Idolatry and worshipping of Images any Creature or the Figure of any thing whatsoever Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them c. We see here what way Bodily worship must not go it must not be given to Images nor to any Creature Now doth this Negative precept so restrain Bodily worship that it should go no way at all but suffer it to be altogether omitted Is there none or nothing that requires it Surely God himself requires and commands it in that prohibition Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them is as much as if God had said Thou shalt bow down to Me and worship Me If any doubt of this construction of the Negative Commandments that they command the contrary to what they restrain from inquisition into the judgement of Divines will settle him that so it is and particularly in this Second Commandment For which I will onely cite the words of that Mirrour of Piety and Learning Archbishop Usher and leave it to the * margin to point at more In his Sum and Substance of Christian Religion pag. 226. he saith thus The gestures of religious adorations being here forbidden to be given unto Images are therein commanded to be given unto the God of heaven * But perhaps some will say These are Humane constructions the glosses of men If they could see it thus in the written Word of God * that would strike a greater stroke in their conviction Let them take then what is set down 2 King 17.35 36. Ye shall not fear other gods nor bow your selves to them nor sacrifice to them But the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm him shall ye fear and him shall ye worship and to him shall ye do sacrifice The Negative is in the 35 verse and the Affirmative answering to it as face to face in the 36. And this sense of the Second Commandment may further appear by the words following For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God What is God jealous of but of his Glory of his Honour of his Worship as well Corporal as Spiritual He will not have them taken from him and given to another As he will not have them given to Another so he will not have them taken from Himself The assertion then that Bodily worship to God is Idolatry unlawful unnecessary must be brought to this Second Commandment as the proper Touch-stone by which it is to be tried Bring it hither and let it be judged whether Bodily worship unto God be not rather confirmed then condemned commanded then forbidden and so the denial of it to be a sin against this Commandment A fourth Argument may be drawn from the Civil worship A Father will look for due honour from his Childe And for the childes part bowing is a duty which he is bound to render to his parents by vertue of the Fifth Commandment A Master will expect due obeisance from his Servant and that as well Outward as Inward Superiours also accept the same and Inferiours discharge it without contradiction Why then should not God our heavenly Father and Lord receive from us religious Bodily worship in honour and obeysance as a good Father and as a great Lord and besides when we profess our selves his Children and Servants and also acknowledge him not onely our Superiour but Supreme of all Why should not religious worship to God extend it self to as large and as ample an act as the Civil worship unto men No man dares deny God to be the greater object and infinitely more deserving then any mortal man can be If we honour earthly Kings so much with our bodies if we bow and kneel when come into the places of great and honourable presence Why should we not do the same and more if it were possible unto God Certainly we Christians may blush and be ashamed that the very Turks should go beyond us in prizing this argument for hence they conclude and with more reason then we can gainsay that if they give such worship and reverence to their great men much more ought they to do it unto God Let him speak who living among those Unchristened people yet more respective of the Divine Majestie then we heard them justifie their practice of Corporal adotion unto God after this manner Sicum Bassis tibi sermo habendus sit non aliter facias quam toto corpore ad reverentism composito Quantò aequiùs est idem servare erga Deum omne humanum fastigium tantopore excedentem If say they thou wert to have speech with the Bashaws thou wouldst not do it otherwise then with thy whole body composed to reverence How much more just is it that the same should be observed towards God who so