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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

honour and dishonour Did chance or fortune as they call it dispose them it would be a blinde disposall indeed we then should see that done every day of chance which Jacob once did purposely and of choice The right hand put upon the younger the left hand on the Elder we Gen. 48. 14. Eccl ●0 7. should most familiarly see servants on horses and Princes walking as servants by them and so what encouragement would there be of any to well doing if shame and honour happened to us of chance who would in hope of honour be moved to vertuous action when such action is as likely to be rewarded with shame as honour Or who through fear of shame will be deterr'd from wickednesse when that notwithstanding he 's every way as fair as any to be advanced to highest honours Nor were the matter much amended were they at the dispose and arbitriment of man it would then be carried with so much partialnesse so little regard of worth and so much regard of friends and interests besides of so uncertain a tenure would that honour be that depends upon the fancie and humour of man that to want it on such termes may seem as great a happinesse as to enjoy it But now that God should have the ordering of them what more equall Who more meet to dispose of reward and punishment which honour and dishonour are then he that makes the law upon the breaking or keeping whereof reward or punishment are to be dispenced Besides who so meet to have the award of these to man as God who as he best understands the true weight and value of each mans actions so also is most just to give to every man according to his works Vse 1 If this be so in vain then doe we court or Prince or people for honours not expecting it at all from the hand of God Indeed the Prince may load his favourite with titles so much may be done for the man whom the Prince will honour but as for any reall weighty abiding honour he must say as once the King of Israel to the woman If the Lord thy God doe not honour thee how can I honour thee 1 King 6. 27. They therefore mistake the way to honour who to purchase it depart from us going over to the enemy alas What doe such do but forsaking the living fountain of honour Ier. 2. 13. dig unto themselves broken cisterns that will yeeld them none 'T is true the King is there neverthelesse there is not the fountain of honour for 't is God that doth dispose unto the sons of men shame and honour so that although it frequently comes to passe as Solomon observes it did in his daies that every man seeks the Rulers favour hoping Prov. 29. 26. that that being gained they shall not fail to swim in happinesse and honour yet as the same Solomon adds every mans judgement is of the Lord God will have the casting voice in every mans promotion which is the same was cited out of the Psalm before God is the Judge he lifteth Psal 75. 6. up one and casteth down another Vse 2 Believe this same let every of us resolve upon it it is so then if honour come we shall know whom to thank for it if for well doing our names are like to suffer we shall know into whose hands to trust them as allso in the losse of honour whither to goe to be repaired I have done with both the former Observations upon which I intended but a touch and now haste to the third upon which I shall with your patience insist a little longer Observ 3 Accordingly as we either honour or dishonour God accordingly shall we be honoured or sleighted by him Or if you had rather take the words of the Text Them that honour God God will honour and them that despise him shall be lightly esteemed In prosecution whereof we shall enquire 1. What it is to honour God as also what it is to despise to dishonour God 2. How it can with satisfaction be made appear to all of us That accordingly as any doe honour or dishonour God accordingly they shall be honoured or disesteemed by him In answer to the former to honour God according to the notation of the word mentioned before can be nothing else then to give God that weight and value which is due unto him It is to weigh the Lord in the balance of the Sanctuary and to give him all the allowances of worth and value that appertain to him Mistake me not I say not ought can be added to that innate excellency that is in God Should all the creatures cast into the balance their severall glories they all together could not adde unto it the least grain of glory all their glory in this case is no more then what the Prophet saith themselves are when put in counterpoyse with God who are but as the small dust of the balance yea accounted lesse then nothing and vanity We indeed must be beholden to Isa 40. 17. fellow creatures to honour us else we get none but 't is not so with God he being equally glorious before he made any creature as he is at this day So that though Sunne and Moon and Starrs Angels and men yea all the hosts of Heaven and Earth continually empty all their glories into God yet is he swell'd up no higher hereby then we see the Ocean is which notwithstanding all the rivers running into it is never the fuller To adde then any thing of dignity to God this is not the Scriptures meaning when it speaks of honouring God It is not I say to bestow some worth upon God which he had not before but rather to take notice of and acknowledge that worth and excellency which was in him before And therefore if the Scriptures be consulted we shall finde that to conceive weighty thoughts of God believing him to be that great that gracious that just holy God his vvord and works shew him to be to speak of him accordingly readily and without dispute to receive his commands this is plainly to honour God Thus God having promised Abraham a sonne and he conceiving him able and faithfull that had promised and thereupon Rom 4 20. mauger all the contradiction of flesh and bloud believing the performance in so doing is said to glorifie God In like manner when Achan is called upon to confesse his sin Iosh 7. 19. and so condemning himself to justifie the Lord this in Scripture language is to glorifie God And when Peter upon the call of God is willing to suffer death for the Gospel such an obedience unto death is accounted a glorifying Ioh. 21 19. or honouring God You see what it is to honour God we next enquire what it is to dishonour him And this is not to detract any thing of substantiall worth from God for that as it is capable of no addition as we saw ere while so neither