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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

know naturally as bruit Beasts in those things they corrupt themselves I have touched upon the former Character give me leave to point at the latter Men in Honour do extremely debase and dishonour themselves by sensualitie by corrupting themselves in those things which they know naturally that is in those things which are discerned by their outward and inward sense They are more corrupt then bruit Beasts by indulging to their Appetite by pleasing their Senses and gratifying their Lusts What is the reason that men in honour are so Phantasticall but because they live like Beasts by phantasie rather then like men by reason They that feed high and make it their businesse to please their senses and pamper their lusts must needs be bruitish at last for their very reason is incarnate it grows fat and fleshly and therefore they embrace principles of sensuality instead of principles of Moralitie or Divinitie They have grosse souls though wanton wits and all their wit is but like a flash of lightning which doth not direct but puzzle and dazzle the eye of reason or else their wit is but a vapouring wit and vapours eclipse and overcloud the rising beauty of the light of nature I may well be brief in this Argument for it will not quit cost to instruct an Epicure The Philosopher tels me That every sensuall man is an impenitent man and all our Preaching is like that quick thunder they write of which strikes thorow these spungy souls without any sensible impression I could heartily wish that every man that hath any thing of a Christian in him would consider these two sad Texts None that go to the strange woman return again neither take they hold of the paths of life Prov. 2. 19. and Eccles. 7. 26 27 28. And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is snares and nets and her hands as bands who so pleaseth God shall escape from her but the sinner shall be taken by her Behold this have I found saith the Preacher and the Preacher had good skill counting one by one to finde out the account which yet my soul seeks but I finde not one man among a thousand have I found but a woman among all those have I not found In all Solomons observation he never knew above one man of a thousand and many conceive that was himself that ever repented of this beastly sin of sensualitie but for a woman to repent of that base sin was a thing unknown in all Solomons sad experience Phansie is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Aristo●le a kinde of weak sense and therefore men that live like Beasts by phansie are unable to judge of the weight of those spirituall Arguments which we urge out of Scripture against this beastly sin of Sensuality You know when Arguments are but weakly apprehended men are but weakly moved Now the sensuall phansie and carnall reason of corrupt men doth not discern the strength or see the beauty of such Trueths as are divinely sober and spiritually chast and hence it is That they who are Beasts for want of understanding are likewise 2. Beasts in regard of perishing My Lords it is no wonder at all if men that affect beastly pleasures and dote upon perishing honours become like the Beasts that perish It is no miracle if he that lives like a Beast dies like a Beast Take a man that hath lived like the fool in the Gospel and tell me what hath this man done for his immortall soul more then a Beast doth for its perishing soul Soul soul cease from care eat drink and take thine ease this is the constant ditty of most men in honour They have studied Clothes and Victuals Titles and Offices wayes of gain and pleasure Am I not yet at highest They have it may be studied the Black Art of Flattery and Treachery they understand the humour of the times the compliances and dependances of this and the other Statesman the projects of divers Princes abroad and the main design here at home Is this all Why then be it known unto you That the men of this strain have made no better provision for their pretious souls then if they had the soul the vanishing soul of a Beast within them and certainly if we were to judge of the substance of mens souls by their unworthy and sensuall conversation we might easily fall into that heresie that dangerous dream of some who conceive that their souls are mortall Surely the Wiseman speaks their opinion to the full who like sensuall disputants argue from none but sensible effects Eccles. 3. 19. 20. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth Beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth so dieth the other yea they have all one breath so that a man hath no preeminence above a Beast For all is vanitie True it is the soul of a man is different from the Soul of a Beast but wicked men are not acquainted with the worth of their immortall souls Vers 21. Who knows the spirit of man that goeth upward Secondly This preeminence tends to a greater downfall If wicked men had not immortall souls they could not be eternally tormented after death in the angry flames of hellish Brimstone Thirdly This their eternall torment is called an eternall death and therefore these wicked men or as the Apostle cals them these Naturall bruit Beasts do perish utterly because they perish eternally They shall utterly perish in their own corruption 2 Pet. 2. 12. This is to perish worse then a Beast this is to perish like the Divel and his Angels Fourthly The bodies of wicked men are in worse condition then the bodies of Beasts because their bodies shall be raised at the last day and made immortall that their bodies may be eternally tormented as well as their immortall souls This is to perish positively to be alwayes perishing alwayes feeling themselves to perish and yet ever repining and grieving that they cannot perish I have studied plainnesse nay laboured to be rather Practicall then Argumentative in the proof of the point yet give me leave to set the point home by a closer Application May it please you my Lords to give me leave to use the Rhetorique of the Apostle The great men of the upper-end of the world suffer Fools gladly suffer me a little since you your selves are wise In those Common-wealths which are governed by a kinde of Aristocracy it hath been the custome to lead the people by the conscience rather then by the ears because it is known by experience that the people had rather loose their ears then loose their liberty and wound their conscience Now the onely way for to work upon the conscience of others is for the Nobles themselves to pretend to conscience And hence it is that men in Honour do so often promise upon their Honour that they will do the people Right But when their Honour hath been worn even thred-bare and all their Noble