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	lord_n	servant_n	4,270	5	6.7893	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53716	Ouranōn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled on April 19, a day set apart for extraordinary humiliation / by John Owen.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1649 (1649)	Wing O789; ESTC R575	33,598	48

know no other end of these things but for you who know the mind of the Lord what he intendeth and will effect by these things cast off all sinfull fears and rejoyce in him who cometh Amongst us in these dayes new troubles arise wars and rumors of wars appearances of famine invasions conspiracies revolts treacheries sword blood oh how do mens faces wax pale and their hearts dye within them Sometimes with David they could fly to the Philistines and wind up their interest with them whom God will destroy every new appearance of danger shuffles them off from all their comforts all their confidence Hence poore souls are put upon doubling and shifting in the wayes of God in such a frame as God exceedingly abhors They know not why any mercy is given nor to what end and therefore are afraid to own it lest some sudden alteration should follow and make it too hot for them to hold it and all this because they know not the minde of the Lord nor the judgement of their God were they but acquainted with it so far as it is evidently revealed they would quickly see all things working together to the appointed end 3. Sinfull follies Toil and labour in vain is of all follies the greatest folly like the Jews under Julian building of their Temple in the day God casting it to the ground in the night When a man labours toils wearies and spends himself for the accomplishing of that which shall never come to passe and that which if he would but enquire he might know shall never come to passe he cannot well want the livery of a bruitish man How many poore creatures that think themselves wiser then Charchan and Dedan and all the children of the East do spend and consume their dayes and time in such wayes as this labouring night and day to set up what God will pull down and what he hath said shall fall Come on let us deal wisely saith Pharaoh to his Egyptians Exod. 1. 10. to root out and destroy these Israelites poore fool is there any wisdome or counsell against the most high I could give instances plenty in these daies of men labouring in the dark not knowing what they are a doing indeavouring with all their strength to accomplish that whereof the Lord hath said It shall not prosper and all because they discern not the season 4. Sinfull negligence You are no way able to do the work of God in your generation It is the commendation of many Saints of God that they were upright and served the will of God in their generation Besides the generall duties of the Covenant incumbent on all the Saints at all seasons there are speciall works of Providence which in sundry generations the Lord effecteth concerning which he expects his people should know his minde and serve him in them Now can a servant do his masters work if he know not his will The Lord requireth that in the great things which he hath to accomplish in this generation all his should close with him What is the reason that some stand in the market place idle all the day some work for a season and then give over they know not how to go a step farther but after a day a week a month or yeer are at a stand worse then all this some counterwork the Lord with all their strength the most neglect the duty which of them is required what is the reason of all this They know in no measure what the Lord is doing and what he would have them apply themselves unto The best almost live from hand to mouth following present appearances to the great neglect of the work which the Lord would have hastned amongst us all this comes from the same root But now if all these sad and sinfull consequences attend this nescience of the minde of God as to the things which he is a doing in the dayes wherein we live so far as he hath revealed himself and requires us to observe his walkings by what wayes and means may we come to the knowledge thereof that we be not sinfully bewildred in our own cares fears and follies but that we may follow hard after God and be upright in our generation There be foure things whereby we may come to have an insight into the work which the Lord will do and accomplish in our dayes 1. By the light which he gives 2. The previous works which he doth 3. The expectation of his Saints 4. The fear of his adversaries 1. By the light which he gives God doth not use to set his people to work in the dark they are the children of light and they are no deeds of darknesse which they have to do How ever others are blinded they shall see Yea he alwayes suits their light to their labour and gives them a clear discerning of what he is about The Lord God doth nothing but he reveals his secrets to his servants The light of every Age is the forerunner of the work of every Age When Christ was to come in the flesh John Baptist comes a little before A new light a new Preacher And what doth he discover and reveal why he calls them off from resting on legall Ceremonies to the doctrine of Faith Repentance and Gospel ordinances tels them the kingdom of God is at hand instructs them in the knowledge of him who was coming to what end was all this onely that the minds of men being enlightned by his preaching who was a burning and a shining lamp they might see what the Lord was doing Every Age hath it's peculiar work hath it's peculiar light Now what is the light which God manifestly gives in in our dayes surely not new doctrines as some pretend indeed old errors and long since exploded fancies Plainly the peculiar light of this generation is that discovery which the Lord hath made to his people of the mystery of Civill and Ecclesiasticall Tyranny The opening unravelling and revealing the Antichristian interest interwoven and coupled together in civill and spirituall things into a State opposite to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus is the great discovery of these dayes Who almost is there amongst us now who doth not evidently see that for many generations the Western Nations have been Juggled into spirituall and civill slavery by the legerdemain of the Whore and the Potentates of the Earth made drunk with the cup of her Abominations How the whole Earth hath been rolled in confusion and the Saints hurried out of the world to give way to their combined interest Hath not God unvailed that Harlot made her naked and discovered her abominable filthinesse Is it not evident to him that hath but half an eye that the whole present Constitution of the Governments of the Nations is so cemented with Antichristian morter from the very top to the bottom that without a through shaking they cannot be cleansed This then plainly discovers that the work which the Lord is a doing relates to the