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
A66712	Honest plain dealing, or, Meditations and advertisements offered to publick consideration by John Winter ...	Winter, John, 1621?-1698?	1663 (1663)	Wing W3080; ESTC R38147	25,168	35

water told him that he should find him at the Sacrifice in the high-place whether the Prophet and the people were to go up to eat 1 Sam. 9.13 For the people will not eat said they untill he come because he doth blesse the Sacrifice and afterwards they eat that be bidden Israel had their Sacrifices to God and they had their Love-feasts among themselves And Samuel as he was the proper person in his time to consecrate the first so where his presence was the people thought him meetest to bless the latter And so well disciplin'd were that people that even the poor servants that carried water were able to give an accompt of it And behold a greater than Samuel even Christ who as he was carefull to feed so to teach the multitude lest the multitude should be better fed than taught He being Lord of all became his own and the peoples Chaplain For being about to feed at one time five thousand persons and upward and at another time four thousand he looked up to heaven and blessed before he gave a morsell of bread to any Accumbent Matth. 14. chap. 15. By this he gave them nòn tàm caenam quàm disciplinam not so much corporal food as spiritual furtherance that people may know whence they have every piece of bread and whether to render thanks for it And it were a shame for the servant to omit this humble duty seeing his Lord and Master did perform it Besides seeing it is the will of God in Christ Jesus that we should in every thing give thanks 1 Thess 5.18 then must we not neglect this duty at the perception and reception of our daily necessaries And seeing civil customes tye men to remember their friends and benefactors at their meales much more doth sacred duty obliege them then to remember their God In whom they live move Deut. 6.12 and have their being especially considering that the most dangerous time for men to forget God is when they have eaten and are full Even the heathens eating and drinking did praise their gods Ceres and Bacchus and they are worse than heathens who give thanks to none and they are accursed who give glory to any but to the only true God The Apostles rule is 1 Cor. 10.31 Whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do else do all to the glory of God And though he indulgeth the weak bretheren as to meats yet not as to giving of thanks And if this be a good argument of his Rom. 16.4 He that eateth eateth to the Lord for he giveth God thanks then it will follow He that eateth and giveth not God thanks eateth not to the Lord. And they have but an untoward nursery that feed the Devil But now come in our Mutes with a mentall reservation and tell us that though they say nothing when they go to meat yet they tickle it with thinking Oh they give thanks in their hearts And is that enough why then do they not eat onely in their hearts why do they not chew the cud why do they not live only by ruminating on dishes in their thoughts As they would be loth God should so serve them so I advise them that they would not so serve God And as they would not willingly have the world feed them with such empty dishes so let not them feed the world with such frothy fancies Are their mouths made only for meat and drink If mens lips will do more to serve their belly than to honour their heavenly Lord is it not clear that their belly is their God He that giveth man a heart wherewith to believe unto righteousness Rom. 10.10 giveth him also a tongue wherewith to make confession unto salvation And where the Lord opens a mans lips Psal 50.15 that mans mouth will shew forth his praise Quisque suam vocationem Every man look to his Calling AMbiguous terms need Explication and evill times Application We live in an age that hath made a great noise and no little stir about mens Calling Calling is either Civil or Sacred A civil Calling is a setled course of life wherein a man is profita ble to himself and the publick and helps to bear up after a due proportion the fabrick of the land of his nativity And this is best done when every man keeps his station as a firm stud or pillar Ar. Pol. l. 1. For according to Aristotle it is not meet for the same man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be a Musick master and a Shooe-maker and he determines that he must be a Rogue by consequence who liveth sine tribu sine lege sine lare without tribe without Law and without a fixed residence And Christian polity herein agrees with humane according to the Apostles rule Let every man abide in the same calling 1 Cor. 7.20 wherein he was called that is in the same calling or trade of life wherein he was called to be a Christian Had this advice been followed our Church and Kingdome had uninterruptedly unto this day flourished But here was the misery and the beginning of forrows the people thought the Lord was not amongst them except all the Lords people were Prophets and many imagined they could not be Christians except they left their Shops to get into the Priests Desk and leaped from the Loome into the Pulpit But God hath now let the world see that they who could well mend Shooes did but marre the Text and were utterly unfit to be Scripture-translators And doth any man ask why those men who had never any calling from God and the Church which two must not be separated did notwithstanding presume to be Teachers and publick Preachers The reason is evident therefore they presumed to teach because they had never rightly learned and therefore made they themselves Preachers because they scorned to be Christs Disciples For he hath called us to peace 1 Cor. 7.15 chap. 14.33 And God is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints Sacred or heavenly calling is Generall or Speciall The generall call to faith and holiness is made to the world by the preaching of the Gospel and administration of the Sacraments The speciall calling is made by grace wrought in the hearts of men and that by the operation of the holy Ghost upon the Preaching of the Word and administration of the Sacraments Thus as St Aug. saith Ex peccato evocat omnes communitèr sed suos excitat singularitèr God calls all men generally but he stirs up his own singularly But now the great business whereabout many have been troubled is to know the certainty of their true calling unto bliss And indeed this is a weighty Quaere and requires mature deliberation and contemplation It is not for nothing that we are called upon To give diligence to make our calling and election sure Which making sure bears reference to our consciences 2 Pet. 1.10