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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96870	Lex talionis: or, God paying every man in his own coyn. Held forth in a sermon preached at Margarets Westminster, before the Honorable House of Commons, on their solemn fast, July 30th, 1645. / By Francis Woodcock, minister at Olaves Southwark, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.	Woodcock, Francis, 1614?-1651.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3431; Thomason E294_13; ESTC R200182	17,870	31

low earth should upon their exaltation goe about to darken and allay that heat and light that first rais'd them should therefore be dissolv'd into showres and left to fall down again unto the low places from whence they were exhaled I have done clearing the point I now proceed to Application intending to apply both the branches severally And will God honour them that honour him This Vse 1 then discovers to us whence it has come to passe that divers of low descent and mean beginnings have yet arrived to greatest eminencies in their lifetime and dying have left such precious memories behinde them It learns us whence Joseph the most despised of all his brethren is yet advanc'd so farre above them whence David the youngest and least promising of all the sons of Jesse is yet preferr'd to the throne his other brethren being rejected whence some of Herdsmen have been advanced to Prophets of Fishermen and Tentmakers to Apostles whence Luther a mean despised Monk hath the honour to conflict with all the powers of Popish Rome and overcome them whence one of this Nation of mean descent 1. Cromwell born but a Blacksmiths son attain'd and that deservedly to greatest office in the Kingdome As also whence the memories of these and thousands more that might be mentioned are at this day fresh and fragrant and will by no length of time be forgotten sure it is not their stars it hath not happened to them of chance but this among others is not the least reason they were those that honoured God and therefore God is pleased to make them honoured This discovers again which is the high way to come Vse 2 to honour why if we honour God God will retaliate upon us and honour us Indeed wealth or flattery or doing some baser office may purchase perhaps titles for us but vvhat are these A Baron an Earl a Marquesse they signifie nothing without some reall vvorth annexed to them Turn to the enemies party relinquish your trust be the foremost in storming Towns or doe but bring along with you the plunder and ruines of a Countrey as Titles goe now adaies This is the vvay to procure Titles all this vvhile the only vvay to true honour is to honour God This the ancient Romans if I mistake not had some sense of and therefore made the way to Honours Temple thorow the Temple of Vertue meaning hereby there vvas no vvay to honour but by vertue And I doubt not but some of you have prov'd it by experience that you had never arriv'd unto that just value and esteem vvhich now you have had you not been regardfull above all things of Gods honour As ever therefore vve vvould consult our honour Vse 3 name estimation any thing be persvvaded to honour God Me thinks this Argument should prevail for vvho is not moved vvith desire of name and honour Omnes incenduntur ad studia gloriae Herostratus adventures to burn that Temple vvhich in those daies vvas one of the vvorlds vvonders for this reason only that he might be famous Prov 2● 1. Eccl 7. 1. and talk'd of Solomon tels us A good name is better then great riches yea he goes further and tels us it is better then precious ointment and in those daies vvhat more precious then ointments yea experience tels us to a free and ingenuous spirit 't is dearer then life it self and therefore to gain a name the bookish man will waste and spin out himself in studies he cares not how short his daies are so his memory be but lasting And therefore saies Diebus ac rectibus hoc ●o●u● c●g●ar●● qua me p●ss●m lev●re ●u●●o 〈◊〉 sec Epist Gloria tantum ●la●us no●●ra in med●o ho●●es irruere quod completis muris consp●●●●●pugnantem ● mur● spectant●●●●●greg●um du●e●at Liv. one of them 'T is all my study night and day that I may be famous For honour the Souldier fights in the face of death goes on upon the mouth of the Cannon Like him in the Historian who not spurr'd on by anger but glory rushed into the thickest of the enemy and all because he counts it a gallant thing to be beheld from the wals of the neighbour City fighting in the middest of them And if all of us doe so naturally thirst after honour let no one refuse the easie tearms on which it is now offered God will assuredly honour us if we will be perswaded to regard his honour Oh therefore let me presse this same indifferently upon us all to honour God Be we perswaded every one of us to conceive high thoughts of God submit without murmuring and dispute to the commands of God use reverently the titles and things of God particularly roll thy self upon God by believing and so honour God so Abraham as was shown ere while by believing glorified God Be holy in all manner of conversation and so honour God Holinesse 't is Gods image his picture and wherein can you more honour any one then in wearing their picture Fear God be zealous for God and so honour him And if thou comest with any black guilt before the Lord this day confesse repent as Joshua speaks to Achan and so glorifie God And now in the present differences of the Kingdom wherein the honour of God is so much concern'd Which of us but hath some talent or other which if employ'd might bring some honour unto God If thou hast a Sword maist fight for it an estate maist lay it out for it a good pen write for it a ready tongue speak for it or in the failer of all these at least waies thou maist pray for it And there is good reason I should presse you to honour God for is there any thing dearer to God then his honour Or should there be any thing dearer unto us Is not this the great end of all deliverances mercies yea of all his glorious works Is not this the great end of all our lives why we breathe or any thing that we might honour God Hath he not lay'd a law upon all the creatures Sun Moon and Stars to honour him and they in their manner obey it and shall man who hath upon him the greatest engagements and is best able to doe it shall he only of all the creatures not honour him Doth God glorifie and honour himself yea doth he infinitely desire glory and shall it be withheld from him When we court a man we studie what will please him give the Lord glory he cares for nothing else but glory Doth God make it one of his ends to glorifie us and shall it not be ours to glorifie God Yea will God abase himself so low as to take honour from us and shall we refuse to give it When the Heathens bringing Garlands to their Idols could not by reason of the height of them reach their heads they did not therefore take them home again but lest them at their feet but when the high God will stoop so low as