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A79474	The man of honour, described in a sermon, preached before the Lords of Parliament, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, March 26. 1645. The solemn day of the publique monethly-fast. / By Francis Cheynell, minister of Gods Word. Die Jovis, 27. Martii, 1645. It is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that this House doth hereby give thanks to Master Cheynell for his great pains, taken in the sermon, he preached on the 26. of this instant March, in the Abbey Church Westminster, before the Lords of Parliament, it being the day of the publique fast. John Brown, Cler. Parliament.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing C3812; Thomason E279_3; ESTC R200026	64,263	74

Ph●losophicall Honour of which I shall give you if not a more rationall yet a more punctuall account The Philosophers shew a necessity of supporting that Civil Honour which is setled upon Noble Families by the Laws and Customes of Common-wealths Aristotle laughes at them as ignorant Politicians who divided a Common-wealth into Souldiers Husbandmen and Artificers because those Dignities which are necessary for the support of a Common-wealth could not be all conferred upon men of that quality unlesse you made all the rest slaves to those Souldiers whom they themselves maintain and then it would be no Common-wealth I finde a great deal of good Philosophie in Historians Poets and Oratours as well as in professed Philosophers they all agree my Lords that Nobility took its first rise a from Vertue and some of them are so strict as to maintain that sowre principle Vertue is the onely true Nobility and therefore they take their novus homo who can onely shew a broken spear a torn Ensign some Military Donatives and famous Skars to be truely noble Marius and Pompey were such Noble-men The soul of every man is in their judgement as nobly descended a● the soul of any man and they do not attribute much to the body nor will they give any man leave to arrogate the vertue of his Ancestours to himself They tell him sadly that unlesse he hath vertue of his own he doth dishonour his Ancestours discredit himself and shame his Posterity all at once Though he may be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} yet he is not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and Philosophers will not count him truely noble who is welldescended unlesse he be well-affected It is confidently affirmed that if Noble-men look farre enough back upon their Progenitours they will finde some of them ignoble and if the ignoble look back upon their Progenitours they will finde some of them noble The Philosophers conceive it more noble for a man to give Honour to that House from which he received none then to eclipse that Honour which he received for this is to make the Sun go down at noon to make all the glory of his House fall into the Socket and die in a loathsom Snuff The Conclusion of all therefore doth amount to this He that is born well must either live well or die well that is It is far better to die honourably then live basely in sin and slavery by unworthy Compliances corrupt Arts and ignoble Flattery So much shall suffice to be said of Philosophicall Nobility I must go higher and open the rich treasure of Christian Nobility which to your Coronets of Nobility superaddes a Crown of glory 3. Christian Nobility is Nobility in the highest for never was the Humane nature so highly honoured as when it was assumed and hypostatically united with the Divine nature in one person the Person of the Lord Jesus the second Person in the holy Trinity and therefore they are ennobled in the highest degree according to the Christian account who are united unto Jesus Christ by a lively faith and made one Spirit with him I have done with the Civil account and speak now of Spirituall Honour and Christian Nobility Be pleased to consider that we are all Gentiles by nature and the more we have of the Gentile in us the lesse we have of the Noble-man We are not Jews by nature but poor miserable sinners of the Gentiles Gal. 2. 15. and as Gentiles we can never be justified we must therefore turn Christians and believe in Christ that we may be justified by the faith of Christ as the Apostle goes on vers. 16. No man can be truely and justly reputed to be in an Honourable estate unlesse he be in a Justified estate for all those Priviledges and Immunities whereby a Christian is ennobled are peculiar to a justified estate Noble-men are distinguished from other men by their long Robes and he is no Noble-man as yet in the true Christian account who hath not the long white Robe of Christs Righteousnesse girt about him by a lively faith If a Noble-man be condemned to a shamefull death for some ignoble and capitall Offence What priviledge or comfort hath he by all his Titles of Honour none of his Titles can purchase his Pardon or procure his Release My Lords we are all in a damnable estate till we are translated into a justified estate and the greatest Noble-man in the world must fall down upon his knees and cry out Lord I am guilty of base servile sins most ignoble practices and I am justly condemned by thy Law and my Conscience to a base and ignoble death to an accursed and tormenting death to an hellish and eternall death I have forfeited all to thee I have forf●ited my Temporall estate my Civill honour my precious life my more-precious soul Give m● Christ Lord whatever thou deniest me give me Christ give me Christ or I perish and that eternally This is ingenious this is noble The greatest Honour that we can attain to is To be of the off-spring of God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Acts 17. 28. All men indeed are of the off-spring of God by Creation but the speciall peculiar Honour and therefore the highest Honour is to be his off-spring by Regeneration to be his sons by Adoption for then we are truely noble highly descended indeed more noble then the proudest of them that were termed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for every regenerate man is born of God and bred of God and therefore it must be granted that he is well bred and born My Lords you may be more ennobled by a new-birth by a second-birth then you were by your first birth for in your second birth ye are born to an heavenly Kingdom and ye are born not of blood mark that nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of the will of God Joh. 1. 13. Be pleased to consider that you may be noble after the flesh and the flesh shew its frailty You may fall from all your Honour and become like the Beasts that perish The most noble Plants amongst us Gentiles are but Plants of the wilde Olive we must be engrafted into Jesus Christ the true Olive by a lively faith that we may partake of the sap and the fatnesse the noblenesse of Christ who was not onely the Off-spring but the Root of David Revel. 22. 16. We are but the degenerate Plants of a strange Vine we are not a Noble Vine wholly a right seed till we are engrafted into the True and Noble Vine Joh. 15. 1. Faith is a noble grace for it teaches a man to deny himself to crucifie his lusts to sacrifice his Estate Honour Life and All in the Service of Jesus Christ Faith doth exceedingly raise the Spirit and ennoble the Soul of man A Believer looks upon all the

wealth and glory of the world as drosse and dung in comparison of Jesus Christ A Believer is strong in Christ rich in faith because rich in Christ he is wise in Christ and noble in Christ he is nothing in himself and all things in Christ for Christ is all in all unto him Believers are the Members of Christ and the Apostle shews that the Head and Members make but one Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. and therefore all Believers must needs be Noble by their intimate relation to Christ this glorious Title of Christ being imposed upon them as united in one Body to their Head the Lord Jesus Christ This one Title of Honour doth outshine and eclipse all the admired Titles of Honour in the most flourishing Common-wealths Once more Faith i a noblegrace if it be faith of the right strain the faith of Gods elect a faith that is not built upon Quicksands upon Hearsays and Fancies upon the Authority of man much lesse upon the Authority of the Man of sin the Pope or Church of Rome nay the true Church the Church of Christ is not the foundation of our Noble faith for an Implicite faith though grounded upon the Authority of the true Church is but an Ignoble faith because it leads men hood winked to a blinde obedience The Disciples of Berea were noble Christians because they were endued with a faith that was truely Noble a searching faith a busie faith an examining faith they were ready to receive any Scripture-truth but they loved to be sure and therefore compared even the Apostles Doctrine with the written word You may read the story Acts 17. 11. These were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} better born more Noble then those in Thessal●nica But wherein did their Noblenesse consist Why in that they received the Word with all rea lin●…ss● of minde and searched the Scriptures d●…ly whether those things were so They were not slow to believe what the Apostles taught for they received the Word with all readinesse of minde but they made no more haste then good sp●ed they searched the Scriptures and search●d them daily there 's work for Noble-men that know not how to passe away their time Search the Scriptures that 's a Noble employment On that Noble-men would make it both their businesse and their recreation also that they might be fitted with the Noble Science of Christ and Heaven * I desire to close up this point in a word All reall Christians are spirituall Kings the Prince of the Kings of the earth loved us so well as to wash us in his own pretious blood that he might make us Kings unto God Revel. 1. 5 6. We are kings by birth born to a Kingdom by a new and miraculous birth We are kings by purchase the Kingdom cost Christ dear but it cost us nothing and therefore the Kingdom comes to us by deed of gift also We are kings by conquest our Lord and Master hath conquered principalities and powers for us he hath conquered the World and t●● Devil for us nay he hath conquered even our own selves for us by mortifying our lusts within us and therefore we are more then conquerours thorow him that loved us and overcame our spirituall enemies for us Finally We are kings by marriage the soul of every beleever is married to the King of Kings and is attended with a guard of Angels This is not onely a Noble but a Royall marriage If a woman that was Noble by marriage marry a second husband that is no Nobleman she looses her nobilitie and becomes ignoble If our souls fall into a league with Sin and Satan Death and Hell our souls are made ignoble we are servants of sin slaves of Satan the undoubted heirs of Hell and damnation But if when Christ makes love to our souls we do with all humilitie and thankfulnesse embrace the offer and take him for our Lord and our Love our King and our Husband We have Heaven made over to our souls for ever not as a Joynture but an Inheritance We are Kings to God and Heirs Coheirs with Christ Such Honour have all the Saints for they are the men whom the King of Kings doth delight to honour and they shall continue in their honour because they understand their dependance and will continue in their adherence to the fountain of honour They shall not be like the Beasts of the field but like the Angels of Heaven satisfied with honour and crowned with glory And so I passe to my second observation which is briefly this Doctrine Men that are in Honour do too often behave themselves more like Beasts then Men They are Beasts for want of understanding and Beasts in regard of perishing as it is in my Text Man that is in Honour and understandeth not is like the Beasts that perish 1. They are Beasts for want of understanding or for want of consideration for they will not understand so Arias Montanus renders it They are so wilfully inconsiderate that they become like bruite Beasts that have no understanding Men in Honour are very bruitish if they understand nothing concerning the eternall welfare of their pretious soul nothing concerning Religon and Happinesse Heaven and Holinesse Surely saith that ingenuous man Prov. 30. 2 3. I am more brutish then any man I have not the understanding of a man I neither learned wisedom nor have the knowledge of the holy Though a man hath a deep reach and be endued with strong and happy parts though he be an able Statesman a profound Politician yet if he hath not the knowledge of the holy a spirituall practicall experimentall saving knowledge the knowledge of a Christian the knowledge of a Saint he is but a brutish man he hath no knowledge of that grace and glory of which the pretious soul of a man is capable and therefore if he be a man he is but a brutish man nay he hath not the understanding of a man and therefore may well be compared to the Beasts that perish He that knows nothing after the right manner nothing as he ought to know it Is not he a Beast And doth not the Apostle point at such Beasts 1 Corinth 8. 2. How little is it that great men understand of those great Things of Eternitie And yet how many great men of the world who understand Religion no more then Beasts being steeled with ignorance impudence and Atheism do take the boldnesse to censure what they understand not These men should learn the wisedom and modesty of Socrates who when he met with an obscure Book passed his judgement thus The things in this Book saith be as far as I understand are generous and truely noble and for the rest I have no reason to censure it because I do not understand it Saint Jude gives two Characters of men that are transformed into Beasts The first is this They speak evil of those things they know not the second is this What they

better satisfaction in future employments and then you will acknowledge That though God did in your apprehension chastise you with Scorpions nay Serpents also yet he hath turned these Serpents into Rods and wrought wonders with them I hope I have quitted my first score I proceed to answer The second Quere How your Honour may be preserved increased By your leave my Lords if you desire to preserve your Honour you must preserve the Fundamentals of Honour and then let times alter as they will you 'l be sure to preserve all the Realitie of your Honour He who hath learnt to preserve a just Order and true Decorum in all things which concern God the Common-wealth and himself he will by Gods blessing preserve nay increase his Honour every day more and more That Honour which is maintained by vulgar breath is But like Lightning it appears and vanishes in an instant But he who deserves doth in the judgement of good and wisemen preserve his Honour though the people cease to do him Honour The strongest Foundation of Honour which layes a man lowest and yet raises him highest is Reall Pietie The Philosophers were acquainted with some kinde of Pietie to order us in those things which belong to God They could treat of a certain Reverence and Divine Respect due from rationall Creatures to the Creatour Preserver and Governour of all things They perceived by the light of Nature that Deprecations Petitions and Thanks were to be duly presented by us Mortals to the God of Heaven They were convinced that God was offended with sin and concluded That he was to be appeased by Sacrifice for it could not enter into their reasonable mindes to conceive That all our prayers or any of our performances could give satisfaction to the Justice of God and yet they were invincibly ignorant that our Emmanuel our Jesus and none but our Jesus alone could give him all-sufficient satisfaction And this Piety they laid as the ground and foundation of all other vertues They did poor Pagans remember that there was an omnipresent God which did overlook them and a Conscience a Genius or as some were pleased to speak a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} within to reprove and check them and by these sublimenotions they did restrain men from running into exorbitant and dishonourable courses For if you have say they God and conscience within you these have no need of a Candle to see what mischief you do in the dark Next to Piety the Philosophers conceived that Prudence and Morall vertues were the sure Fundamentals of substantiall Honour 1. Prudence was in their conceit as a silken string which runs thorow all the Morall vertues as so many Pearls knitting them all together and making a Bracelet a Chain of Honour fit to adorn the Necks the Souls of Nobles for Prudence is that vertue which doth order even Reason it self which being carnall is apt to be irregular The other vertues which they called Morall were to regulate our will and affections indeed our whole life and conversation These these are the Fundamentals of Reall Honour He then that desires to preserve his Honour must be a prudent and knowing man because Honour is as unseemly for a fool as Snow is unseasonable in Summer or Rain in Harvest Prov. 26. 1. Honour conferred on such is not onely an Inconvenience but an ill Omen a sad presage for you know this by experience That unseasonable Weather in Harvest will certainly cause a Famine and a Famine will bring a Plague Honour cannot be secured without knowledge and prudence for the highest Tower is easily undermined if its foundation be hollow Humane societie doth consist in communicating prudent notions to one another for the preservation of the whole societie and therefore a man cannot be an usefull member of a body Politique because he cannot be a sociable man muchlesse sociable in an high degree in a way of Honour without knowledge and prudence 2. He must be Temperate else he cannot long be wise for Intemperance will exhaust his spirits weaken his parts and drown his wisdom Temperance is by the Greeks called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} it is clear and evident That he who cannot moderate himself in those pleasures which are common to us with beasts will fall from all his honour and become like the beasts that perish 3. He must be valiant else he is no man {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and therefore cowards are said to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} An army of cowards is but as a Table of Cyphers cast up the totall sum and it will not amount to a single unite Give me a man of a compact solid heart that is full of spirits else hee 'l not stand upon his guard nor keep his watch no nor the faith neither hee 'l not quit himself like a man but turn Apostate in perilous times {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith the Apostle play the men 1 Cor. 16. 13. Watch ye stand fast in the Faith quit your selves like men If the beams of an house then certainly the pillars of a State had need be strong Heart of Oak We use to say That Horse is not fit to lead the way who is given to starting He is a man of Honour in whom there is an happy Vnion between wisdom and boldnesse Boldnesse will carry them on to charge thorow in despight of danger with convenient courage and wisdom will bring them off with sufficient Honour The boldnesse of Hannibal was not void of Counsell and the boldnesse of a Christian must not be void of Religion For a valiant man fears nothing but what is dishonourable And nothing is indeed dishonourable but that which is in some respect dishonest The Ancients therefore said That Fortitude was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the fear of a dishonourable check and as he said well They who are most fearfull to offend against the Law are most bold to fight against an enemy Certainly that man that is not afraid of death and judgement sin and Hell is not valiant but mad He saith Aristotle who doth not fear what he ought to fear is not valiant but impudent Fools make a mock at sin Prov. 14. 9. And Atheists make a mock at Hell as if sin and Hell were Bug-bears to affright children that are neither wise nor bold But there is a secret witnesse in the heart of man which doth dictate severe and terrible truths to obstinate Roysters and curious Sceptiques without and above any Humane Tradition Civill Imposition or Scientificall Demonstration 4. He must be liberall and in some cases magnificent Remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed and therefore more honourable to give then to receive Acts 20. 35. 5. He must be magnanimous and then he will be just not onely in respect of