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A64970	The right notion of honour as it was delivered in a sermon before the King at Newmarket, Octob. 4, 1674. Published by His Majesties special command. : With annotations, the contents whereof are in the following leaf / by Nath. Vincent, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, and Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1685 (1685)	Wing V419; ESTC R3122	34,127	86

and the wisest Contrivance To the end he might behold in every Region through the vast Tracts of Nature ten thousand times ten thousand Myriads of Representations and clear Images of his boundless Goodness That he might not only be entertained at the dawning of the World with those first Anthems in the Celebration of his glorious Bounty by the Sons of the Morning and with the Adorations Praises and Thanksgivings of his Church throughout all Ages of the World but likewise by all the bright Legions of Angels by all the Companions of the glorified Order by the whole Quire of Heaven enthroned Martyrs rejoycing Sufferers triumphant Captives crowned Saints comforted Mourners and the Spirits of just Men made perfect ascribing Rev. 4. 11. c. 5. 13. c. 19. 1. Honour Salvation Blessing Glory and Power unto our God for ever and ever Thus we see that Honour in God so far as it commands the due regard of intelligent Beeings is the Manifestation of the Divine Goodness in our Temporal or Eternal Happiness 2. Christianity alone does rightly inform us what Honour is in Man Namely that it is both the reward and the discharge of his Duty 1. Honour in Man is the reward of his Duty either in this World or in the next It is here the Benefit that accrues to us from the good Opinion of wise and good Men it is what we gain by our Moral or Religious Excellencies by our Services in the Church or in the State in the Court or in the Camp by our Tongues or Hands by our Pens or Swords It is the Princes Favour the sence of good Laws the munificence of Founders and Benefactors in the encouragement of that vertuous Industry to which the corrupted Nature of Man is of all things the most averse In reference to the other World Honour is that Goodness which does entitle us to the Divine Favour and Acceptance whereby we are admitted into the nearest Relation unto himself by which good Men become his adopted Children a chosen Generation a royal Priesthood not Servants only which is Honour enough but the Sons of the most High and more than that Kings and Priests unto God Hereby they receive the Inheritance as well as the Adoption of Sons and the Kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of the World immortal Honour and an exceeding weight of Glory 2. Honour is not only the Reward but it is likewise the discharge and exemplary Performance of our Duty Honour quite contrary to what the Leviathan asserts is that quality or action which is a sign of extraordinary Goodness To turn his Words I assert the contempt of great Riches and the refusal of great Honours to be Honourable as they are Signs of that unusual Goodness which does at the same time both deserve and despise them The Hebrew words for Glory and Honour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie a recommendable quality and endowment as well as Promotion or Ornament The latter without the former is the least part of Nobility which is then compleat and perfect when Power and Goodness meet together We therefore find in S. Paul's Instructions 1 Tim. 5. 17. to Timothy That there is a greater Reverence due to our Superiors than what their mere Power and Authority requires of us That the Elders who rule well are to be counted worthy of double Honour In the sight of God and the opinion of all good Men Persons of Honour are far less noble by their Birth and the highest Extraction than by Virtue and humble Piety Upon this account it is that in the History of the Patriarchs Japhet the eldest Son of Noah is thrust down beneath his two younger Brothers and Sem the second Son is named and reputed as the Eldest For this reason Abraham was named before Haran the eldest Son of Terah Isaac was set before Ishmael and Jacob advanced above his elder Brother Esau Hence it was that Jacob in Blessing his Sons laid his right Hand upon Ephraim's Head who was the Younger and his left upon Manasseh the first-born When Aristotle bequeathed to the Schools the common received Notion of Honour he taught the World to believe that Honour has its being (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eth. Nicom c. rather in those that yield it than in the Persons honoured When he maintained this he had a regard only to the Ceremonies the attire and externals of Honour not to the Foundation and Original the Reasons and genuine Causes of it For he adds at the same time (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eth. Nicon c. 3. that People seem to pursue Honour in hopes to be accounted good Men. He says that (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all those things or actions which are justly rewarded with Honour there is Honesty and Virtue This he delivers as a plain Demonstration and makes it (d) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rhet. l. 1. c. 9 a necessary Consequence for Virtue to be honourable He shews us with great acuteness the nature and connexion of Honour and Virtue when he determines the former to be (e) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 1. c. 5. the proof of an opinion in others which is a benefit to our selves and the latter to be that (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 1. c. 9. Power in us whereby we are beneficial unto others They are (g) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 1. c. 5. honoured says he in Justice and in the highest degree that do good in the World But yet still the Man is honoured that has the Power of doing Good These Sentiments of Aristotle have passed for sound Divinity among the Scholastick Doctors who tell us That bad Governours and vicious Parents are to be honoured as they have the Stamp Commission or Authority of Almighty God That Nobility and Age are honourable meerly as Signs or Resemblances of that Vertue which is the eternal Reason of Honour So that when the forementioned Qualifications are wanting then it is that Men give Honour where Honour is not due then are they guilty of the old Idolatry of throwing Stones to Mercury's Heap reproved by b Solomon and S. Paul's respect h Prov. 25. of Persons This we are taught even by Nature it self for all Mankind hath naturally something of the Nation as well as of the Sense and Desire of Honour There is an old Pagan Empire on the further side of Asia where the Religion and Learning which they had for above two thousand years was to study the repair of Humane Nature the perfection of Government and the Reasons of Honour Their Emperor whom they stiled the Son of Heaven was for the most part a Philosopher and always a very improved Person Their Nobility was not from Families but from Wisdom and Knowledge And as Men grew eminent for their Intellectual and Moral Endowments so they were accordingly enriched and preferred There are Instances enough from whence we may conclude that by attending