Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	duty_n	good_a	servant_n	6,329	5	7.1626	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09333	Two twinnes: or Two parts of one portion of scripture. I. Is of catechising. II. Of the ministers maintenance. By Richard Barnard, preacher of the word of worship in Nottinghamshire	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1613 (1613)	STC 1964; ESTC S115305	35,775	56

is wicked and wilfull and so your condemnation the more iust except you amend But why doe you stand so much vpon your late Popish forefathers and neglect your Ancestors before them shall the grosse ignorance of the latter more harden vs in an ill course than the grace of the former in purer times stirre vs vp vnto goodnesse let this vanitie and vaine folly and madnesse indeed be farre from vs. When these come into your minde thinke whither it is better to follow them than our father Abraham the blessed Apostles the holy Saints in their time and our first forfathers receiuing religion submitting themselues to be Catechised when they were brought to the faith of Christ before Popery tooke possession of them Obiect But peraduenture yet you haue this more to say that you are olde and past learning and therefore will thinke to be excused Remember that olde age acquiteth none from iudgement for the man that is an hundred yeere olde Esa 65. 20. and vvicked is accursed vvee may not therefore liue wilfully in sinne because we be olde Olde folke for preseruation of bodily life will eate childrens foode and are you too olde to desire the Milke of the Word for the soules safety Againe the older so much the neerer the graue and therefore haue the greater cause to learne to prepare for death by knowing such things as bee most necessary to saluation Olde folke can learne such things as be for the body and can giue their mindes to remember them in cases of need why not then heauenly and spirituall knowledge the cause is for that indeed they are like soulelesse men not caring at all what may befall them in the life to come But to take this excuse away that olde age is past learning there are and haue beene many persons olde which haue learned the Catechisme so as all old persons are not past learning but such as indeed are past grace and so if they remaine are past hope of saluation The ancient in dayes and the multitude of yeeres should teach wisedome and shall olde age now not Iob 32. 7. onely be full of ignorance but also a supporter of the same blindnesse in the middest of such cleare light and so great varietie of the meanes to bring them to this light God forbid to whom I leaue you to bring you to a better minde But if you be past learning then from experience of your former lost time and inhabilitie now to learne thinke vpon such as be yong vnder you send them that they may not follow your steps and plead ignorance and vncapablenesse at your yeeres saue yours if yee cannot vse the sauing meanes for your selues Obiect But me thinkes I heare some say that euen the sending of their seruants is great detriment vnto them for by being restrained of their libertie thus they are not vvilling to serue them and so hardly can eyther get or keepe them Brother If this be so know it is for want of Catech●sing for if euery Master would discharge this duetie as they by law and conscience are bound whither should such i●religious seruants goe from the presence of the Lord But this is not euery where so good and godly seruants vvill seeke to good and godly places as for other seruants if thou thy selfe truely fearest God thou wil● as gladly be rid of them as they would be going from thee Abraham wanted no seruants though he had care to Catechise them nor Cornelius vvho was a deuout man fearing God with all his householde Vse well seruants reward the well-doers and thou shalt not want such as will serue thee faithfully and constantly As for libertie afford it vnto them out of thy owne sixe dayes of seauen seasonably and conueniently and let them not robbe th● Lord of his onely one day in seauen Remember that thy seruant should be to thee more precious than a beast yet what difference makest thou if not in this matter of religion thou feedest yea cloathest giuest libertie rest warme harbour and dressing to thy beast to haue the vse of him for thy seruice and if thou neglect thy seruants soule doest thou any more esteeme or make of him than of thy beast looking onely to his body for bodily seruice and therefore thou mayest not neglect this good of his soule for who so doth hath his seruant but as in place of a reasonable beast but not as a Christian soule See then Masters what you doe herein and you seruants behold such Masters to you as Turkes and your selues as their beast-like slaues bodily and Sathans spiritually but of this thus much concerning Catechising or teaching the first thing to be obserued in the person to be maintained Now followeth to shew what it is he must teach and from what in these words In the Word By Word here is ment the holy Scriptures and more specially the doctrine of the Gospell which in the new Testament by an excellency is called the Word Actes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts. 14. 25. 16. 6. which in verse 10. is expounded to bee the Gospell so also vsed in other places Doct. Hence obserue That the doctrine of the Gospell is a word of great excellencie therefore wee see it here by a speciall manner of speaking to be called the Word as if there were no word else besides Proofe and for further proofe hereof the H. Ghost addeth elsewhere something to set out the excellency thereof it is called the Word of the Ma●th 13. 19. Acts 13 26. 5. 20. Iohn 5. 25. 1 Pet. 4. 6. Heb 4. 12. Kingdome the Word of Saluation the Word of Life Reasons For it shewes what Christs kingdome is it is the instrumentall meanes for our saluation and causeth the dead to liue according to God in the Spirit vnto euerlasting life hence is it said to be liuely and mighty in operation Vse This teacheth vs to esteeme highly of the doctrine Acts 13. 48. of the Gospell to receiue it with great gladnesse as the Church hath done glorifying the Word of the Lord. Motiues For it is the glad tidings of peace it is the onely curing Salue to the accusing conscience the Law killeth this maketh aliue that terrifyeth this comforteth that saith discedite maledicts Away depart ye cursed ones but this venite benedicts Oh come ye blessed of the Lord receiue the kingdome prepared for you that is the law of bondage this of libertie therein we behold onely the Iustice of God and our miserie herein our happie deliuerance and Gods great vnspeakeable mercy Blesse the Lord therefore and let them be made much of who bring these glad tydings of great ioy vnto all his people for beautifull are their feet Esa 52. 7. Doct. Secondly hence may vvee obserue That the Word of God is the matter of the Ministery for the instruction of the people Proofe vvhich may appeare most true by these Scriptures Matthew 28. 20. 2 Timoth. 4. 2. 1 C●rinth 4. 6. and