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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

take him Jaylour clap some bolts upon his conscience and let the iron enter into his soul let him taste a cup of brimstone and see how he likes it before hand let the Law thunder curses upon him and the spirit of bondage flash some lightning into his soul Oh base unworthy wretch doest thou capitulate with thy Judge and scorn thy Saviour is thy minde preposessed with prejudice against Christ and are thy affections preingaged to the flesh the world the divell dost love thy sin better then thy Saviour Why then thou art mad upon thy pleasure thou art drunk with honour and bewitched with gain enjoy thy sin and hug thy damnation the Lord Jesus will not bestow himself on such a sot Yet once more I le ask the question for ought thou knowest it may be the last time of asking Wilt thou have Jesus Christ for thy antiquitie for thy nobilitie for thy husband thy King thy Prophet thy Priest thy Saviour thy All Jesus Christ will binde Kings in chains and Nobles in setters of Iron he will powre contempt upon Princes if they contemn him What say you then my Lords and what say you Brethren will you submit your necks to the yoak and your shoulders to the burthen of Jesus Christ Will you deny your selves take up your crosse daily and follow him Will you beleeve him trust him love him obey him Give me leave to insist a little upon those two speciall duties of Faith and Love and I pitch upon them the rather because Faith and Love are Radicall Graces and you can never prove your selves to be new creatures in Christ but by Faith and Love Be pleased to compare two Scriptures together for the cleering of this truth the Scriptures are not far asunder one is in the sixth Chapter of the Epistle to the Galathians the fifteenth verse In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature Would you know what this new creature is Read the fifth Chapter of the same Epistle and the sixth verse In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but Faith working by Love Mark I beseech you it is worth your observation Nothing avails but a new creature in one place Nothing avails but Faith working by love in the other No man then is a new creature but he whose Faith worketh by Love There is the sum of the Gospel the substance marrow power spirit quintessence of Christianitie First Then examine whether you have any knowledge of Christ or Faith in him any heart and well grounded assent to the Gospel of Christ with the heart man being convinced beleeves Have you any pretious Faith If you have no true Faith you cannot understand the Mystery of Godlinesse after a spirituall and saving manner Now man that is in honour and understandeth not saith my Text you know what follow● Faith is the eye of the soul Reason is blinde without Faith Except a man be born from above except his reason be raised elevated by Faith inlightned by the Spirit he cannot see the Kingdom of God as our Saviour told that Ruler of the Jews when he catechised him John 3. 3. Every true beleever hath so much understanding as to assent to the truth and so much ingenuity as to consent to the goodnesse of all the promises Secondly The pretious Faith of Gods elect is an holy Faith nay Saint Jude exhorts Christians to build up themselves on their most holy Faith Jude vers. 20. True Faith ayms at the highest degree of holinesse it is ever labouring to build up the soul one story higher in holinesse that we may be every day nearer Heaven He that thinks he is holy enough already hath neither true Faith nor Holinesse of Truth They are unbel●eving men that are afraid they shall be come too strict in dutie and too precise in abhorting and declining sin they say they have holinesse enough to carry them to Heaven though there are many that were as holy as themselves gone to H●ll already Remember that though Jesus Christ be King of all the world in a providentiall way yet he is King of Saints onely in a spirituall and saving way Christ will save none but Saints such honour immortall honour have all his Saints and none but Saints none but his Saints whose consciences Christ hath purged from the guilt and allowance of sin and whose hearts he hath purified from the Love and their whole man from the power and dominion of sin by a lively Faith that they may serve the living God Thirdly True Faith is a resting and relying grace Faith doth support the feeble soul the sinking soul by leaning upon Gods arm and Christs bosome because thou didst relie on the Lord saith the Se●● to Asa Help us O Lord saith Asa to God for we rest upon thee Doth thy soul rest upon Christ not onely for pardon of sin but power against sin Dost thou relie upon the free grace of God the all-sufficient satisfaction compleat righteousnesse and perfect merits of Christ for justification Then it is well but a beleever must likewise live in a constant dependance upon God for perseverance in grace and then he is right Fourthly Faith is a radicall grace and therefore as the root of a tree sucks nourishing moisture from the earth fo a ●●leever sucks and draws nourishing vertue fresh vertue and new supplies every day from Jesus Christ Faith doth not onely depend upon Christ and adhere to him but suck from him it hangs upon the Ordinances of Christ the Breasts of Christ as the Infant hangs upon the Mothers breast Fifthly Faith is a mortifying and quickning grace Because it draws vertue from Christ to mortifie our lusts and quicken us to a lively performance of all duties in their due place and season Upon dayes of Humiliation the beleever draws much power from the death of Christ to mortifie his lust and sets upon all tasks of mortification in the strength of Christ Sixthly Faith is a victorious grace it overcomes the world and the Divel and it doth both by purifying our hearts and mortifying our lusts For if our hearts be purified and our lusts mortified the world and divell are not able to prevail against us We shall come of with honour in the main battle at the latter end of the day though we may be foiled now and then in a skirmish and give ground a little when we are too hotly charged and over-borne by violence The divel cannot throw a fiery dart at us but faith will quench it If our lusts do not fire us the dart cannot wound us Take the shield of Faith saith the Apostle That ye may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the divel Above all other pieces of Christian armour take the shield of Faith Ephes. 6. 16. The least degree of true Faith doth in some measure overcome the world because it doth perswade the

Protestations have lost their credit they usually go a strain higher in this dissembling age and take Religious Protestations but most Irreligious Oaths for when they have once engaged their honour and given their oaths they hope they may abuse the Common-wealth without suspicion for the poor silly people dare not so much a● suspect that they are abused no not when they are most grossely abused because it is accounted a most absurd unmannerly and uncharitable conceit that the Lords will forfeit their honour or break their oaths My Lords this Sophism passes currant at Oxford for a Demonstration as it did of old at Athens where the oath was conceived sub hac specie Jure populum nullis injuriis affectum iri and therefore Aristotle saith it is better policy to flatter in plain English to cheat the people then to threaten them and thereupon advises the great ones to dissemble and swear that they will not wrong the people Surely my Lords by all their proceedings at Oxford it appears that all men in Honour are not men of Honour for they have studied Aristotles Politiques more then Solomons Proverbs the purest Politiques But truely wh● ever he be that sails by this compas●e it is impossible he should steer aright especially in a tempest for though policy sets the compasse yet pride and vainglory fill the sails and folly I mean Atheism sits at stern My Lords I say Atheism a sin which will stain all the pride and glory of that man who is guiltie of it in the sight of the Searcher of hearts It was the speech of a good Statesman and a good Christian Men saith he talk of the sins of the Court but truely for my part I think the Court is guiltie but of one sin of Atheism the fruitfull mother of every sin and my Text is of so large a compasse that it doth certainly comprehend nay as some Expositours conceive directly point at Atheism Man that is in honour and understandeth not that there is a God above him whom he is bound to serve and honour he it is that is compared to the beasts that perish For an Atheist is of all others the grossest fool and the foulest Beast Give me leave to throw my first dart at this Beast in an U●e of Reproof What need we my Lords look out for a stronger Argument to prove That some men in honour do not unstand that there is a God above them then this That they do usually make little or no conscience of cursing their own practises and damning their own souls by false Protestations Oaths and Covenants They who do not understand God to be omnipotent and omniscient just and true they do not understand him to be a God But men that make no scruple of violating their Oaths and Covenants for the compassing of their designes do neither judiciously practically understand or truely beleeve God to be omnipotent and omniscient just and true Therefore they are Atheists and arrant Beasts who make no conscience of Oaths and Covenants In a Promissory Oath or Covenant be pleased to consider that you call God to be your Witnesse your Suretic your Judge 1. Your Witnesse to testifie the truth of your intentions and purposes You know none can bear witnesse that the intentions of your heart are sincere and true but the Searcher of hearts and yet how few are there that look up to God as a witnesse when they take a solemn Oath And therefore men do too often hold correspondence with those Covenant-breaking sins of malice and ambition even after they have taken the solemn Covenant Oh it is a sad thing for which the Land mourns that God is not discerned in an Oath nor Christ in the Sacrament by some that take themselves to be men of discerning spirits 2. You call upon God to be your Suretie for the performance of those things which you swear and covenant to perform If you never intend any reall performance year● downright Atheists or else you would never put such asolemn jear upon the God of Heaven 3. You call God to be your Judge in case you be deceitfull in promising or unfaithfull in performing I admire how men can professe that they beleeve God to be true when they do what I even tremble to speak call God to do the Devils office to bear witnesse to a lie It were more proper because more suitable to their purposes and principles for such men to swear by the Devil rather then by God for it is the Devils proper office to bear witnesse to a lie he being a lier from the beginning and the Father of Lies Certainly these men must conceive that either God doth not love truth or else that he doth not know it and what is this but to deny him to be God Moreover these bold Atheists cannot beleeve God to be just and omnipotent able and willing to revenge himself and his people upon such Honourable enemies as they are for if they did they would never go about to deceive God and the Kingdom by the pretended religion of an Oath They would not thus out-brave God and dare him to his face to take vengeance on them if they did beleeve that there is a God or a Devil Heaven or Hell Certainly these religious blasphemers will be religiously I mean assuredly damned if they repent not for their very pretended Religion will sink them into the bottomlesle pit of fire and brimstone nay into some lower and more tormenting Hell Hypocrites shall have their portion with the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. Now great men are very apt to dissemble else David who was well acquain ed with King-craft as they call it would never have acknowledged that great men are a Lye Observe it they are more prone to cogg and lie then meaner men Surely ●aith he Psal. 62. 9. men of low degree are vanitie and men of high degr●e are a Lie and if laid in the ballance they are alike or altogether lighter then vanitie I need say no more 2. Moreover they who understand and beleeve that there 〈◊〉 a God cannot dare not live in a constant contempt of godlinesse And yet how many are there who in a Civil account are men of Honour yet in a Religious account are so dishonourable as to contemn Religion and permit their great and much-observed families to live in a constant Contempt of pure Religion I appeal in this Point my Lords to your Honours consciences whether the Power of godlinesse I say the Power of godlinesse be not usually contemned and scoffed at in the Families of Noble-men 3. Consider That Heathens will rise up in judgement against these Right Honourable Atheists for an Atheist is a Nabal the carcase of a man or a man of withered principles one that hath no more reason in him then there is sap or juyce in a withered leaf for so the word Nabal imports Nabal or as very a fool as Nabal is

that man who doth but say in his heart that there is no God Psal. 14. 1. though he doth but say it in his heart though Atheism be rather his wish then his opinion for I doubt not but the stoutest Atheist hath some characters of a Deity indelibly stamped upon his Adamant heart and every time he turns his eyes inward he cannot but read them Besides the flashes of hell-fire in his guilty Conscience when he is cast into some trembling fit doth give him light enough to see that there is a God and that Scripture is the Word of God that Impartiall Word by which he must be judged at the Terrible day of God Now grant me but these two Principles That there is a God and That Scripture is the Word of God and my work is at an end I have evidently proved what will be the end of those men who live in Secular Honour and Atheisticall Security because they understand not or believe not that there is a God above them whom they ought to serve and honour Master Greenham a Reverend and Practicall Divine conceived that Atheism was the most domineering sin in England And certainly it is a sin of the highest strain and deepest tincture it is the Disease of Courtiers of Nobles and it is a catching Disease The second Beast is a compounded Beast a Chim●ra a kinde of Monster because it doth borrow the ill qualities of more Beasts then one for such is the Beastlinesse of a wicked man especially if he have Honour to countenance his wickednesse that he is more Beastly then any one beast whatsoever as Chrysostom observes And you may see by sad experience how the self-same man is disfigured and deformed with the basest qualities of severall Beasts as if he were a kinde of universall Beast or had the Quintessence of Bestiality within him like the fourth Beast in the seventh of Daniel or that Antichristian Beast Revel. 13. 2. a Leopard with the feet of a Bear the mouth of a Lion having power from the Dragon to note unto us that the cruelty of all the Persecutours that ever were in the world is compounded together and revived in Antichrist and the Antichristian faction One man in honour may have divers unworthy and beastly qualities he may have First the cruelty of Wolves Bears and Tygers he may be as S. Dominicks mother dream'd he should be A Wolf with a fire-brand in his mouth to burn up all that he is not able to devour Cruelty is a part of their Pride their State their Recreation they are even phantasticall in their bloody Butcheries witty Tragedies for mark it and you shall see that they who appear {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} think it part of their pomp and state to be ushered in like Comets with a stream of fire Diodorus Siculus as I remember reports that the Irish of old sailed in Vessels made of wreathed boughs covered with the Hides of Beasts a proper covering for such savage Beasts Certainly the Irish Rebels who rage at this very day are of the old strain too like their bloody and inhumane Progenitours who fed upon the paps of women feasted themselves upon young children and offered mans flesh as the Rebels do now offer Protestants flesh to the devil himself to whom it is no doubt an acceptable Service to sacrifice the blood of so many thousand Protestants though he cannot touch their souls Certainly these Irish Papists these pure Romane Catholikes have as they say the first Founders of Rome Romus and Romulus did sucked Wolves milk they are of such a Wolvish disposition All the great Persecutours of the world though mighty Monarchs are called Beasts in Scripture though their flatterers would have made them more then men yet their names declared them to be worse then Beasts As the savage Beasts do first hunt after a Prey then overtake it catch it gripe tear devour it so did these mighty Hunters and savage Beasts deal with the Church of God they did catch whole Kingdoms as beasts do their Prey by Rapine and when they gained a Land by Rapine they enslaved the people by Tyrannie Diogenes being asked what Beast was most noisome returned this sharp answer The most noisome of savage Beasts is the Tyrant and of tame Beasts the Flatterer But I leave these cruell Beasts to the Grace and Mercy or else to the Wisedom and justice of the God of Heaven The dear servants of God have made their Appeals to God upon many such days as these and surely if God regard as he hath done the Appeal of a blaspheming * Turk he will much more regard the Appeal of his righteous servants Secondly A man in Honour may be transformed into a Fox not by prudence but craft and into a Serpent not by wisedom but subtiltie for subtilty is not the wisdom but the poyson of the Serpent the Brasen Serpent which was the Type of our Saviour who is wisdom it self had neither sting nor poyson Herod is called a Fox for his subtiltie Luk. 13. 32. because he did subject Religion to carnall policie it concerns great men to beware of the a Art of Sempronius and the b leaven of Herod For that leaven of carnall policie will sowre the whole lump The enemy doth watch for an advantage and if men in Honour will comply upon reasons of State and prostitute their consciences they shall not want either a temptation or an opportunity it may be whilest the bargain is driving they may think it good policy to go thorow with the bargain but when the heat of the temptation is over they may repent too late as some have done within our memory It will be your wisdom my Lords to beware of their subtilty to beware of such Foxes as destroy the Corn-fields and Vineyards for these Foxes have plots in their heads and fire-brands at their tails the Philisti●… Foxes are more mischievous then Sampsons Foxes I have read of a City called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I hope this Citie will never deserve that Title the Lord keep it from being a Citie of Foxes and make it a Citie of Saints that it may for ever be a Citie of Honour Thirdly Men in honour are too often to their great dishonour Beasts of Burthen I shall make bold to call them Slaves and they will when they see it call themselves something else illud quod dieere nolo for they that have studied how to be Foxes will when they are over-reached and enslaved confesse that they are Beasts of Burthen A Neuter is like Issachar a strong Asse coaching down between two burdens Gen. 49. 14. But the Royalist is a strong Asse he takes up the heaviest burthen enough to load his conscience break his brains and his baek it is well if it break his heart They are undeniably brutish and intolerably base who betray their Countrey and enslave their posterity that they may for a while advance themselves

strict as to prohibite Stage-playes which made the people laugh the Lacedaemonian did not give him the reason of the State That they were afraid their youth would be corrupted and their Laws derided by Stage-playes but returned this answer Sir I presume That we Greeks are better when we are weeping with our sages then the Romans when they are laughing at their fo●ls My Lords It is my humble desire to be humbled before God and to weep with the Sages of England upon this happy day of solemn Humiliation Do ye love God do ye hate sin do ye beleeve my Text come then let us mingle tears my Text will supply you with store of weeping matter and penitent tears which flow from the hatred of sin from the love of God and faith in him are NOBLE TEARS Nobles use to be proud of their Birth they are too often puffed up with the glory of their Progenitours But ye have not so learned Christ if ye have been taught by Christ as the truth is in Christ My Lords we were all conceived in sin and born in sin Nobles are by nature the children of wrath even as other common men and can you be proud of your foul conception and foul birth My father Adam was he not your father Oh my father Adam your father Adam was once a man in honour because a man in innocency but his blood was tainted by sin nay your blood and mine were tainted by that first sin in the Garden it was my sin and yours for in him we all sinned it was the sin of his person but it was the sin of our nature do ye not feel the poyson of that sin burning and boyling in your nature still do ye not feel the weight of that sin upon your conscience Oh it was a sinning sin the cause of all the sin and mischief that ever was or ever will be do ye not feel the dregs of that sin oppressing your nature and even choaking all those generous and noble Principles which are written in your Hearts by Nature And are you still proud of your birth and blood when you are thus polluted in your own blood with your birth sin Can you still be proud of your originall when your originall your blood your very nature is stained and tainted with originall corruption and all corruption is ignoble Oh base ignoble birth we are born slaves of sin born like the heirs apparant of Hell with the seeds of damnation in us Can you still be proud of your Progenitours when they derived a sin upon your high-born soul which will sink it as low as Hell unlesse ye are born again by the Spirit of Jesus Come turn a side for I must weep Come if you will we●p I will weep with you if you will not weep I le weep for you I could even finde in my heart to sit down and weep out the rest But your attention doth encourage me to go on and therefore I hope you will be humbled to day if not my soul shall weep in secret for your pride But you cannot be proud if you consider and beleeve my Text my Text is Versus amaebaeus and answers to the twelfth verse of this 49 Psalm and there it is Man being in Honour abideth not Arias Montanus renders it non Pernoctabie shall not lodge one night in Honour some conclude from hence that Adam fell the very first day that he was created he did not stay all night in his Honour and the word indeed doth properly signifie to tarry all night as is clear Gen. 28. 11. And ●ertain it is our first father stayed not long in his Honour but was turned forth of the Garden like a Beast Oh the fall of our first father from his honour from his innocency is to be bewailed even with tears of blood My Lords ye are men in Honour but Civil Honour is not long-lived and therefore usually entailed Are ye sure that any one of you in your own persons shall lodge this night in your Civil Honour ye may be taken into another world ere morning and if ye have made no better preparation for another world and a better life then if your souls were to perish after death as the soul of a Beast perishes Be pleased to understand my Text and your danger Sigh out my Text and weep it over Weep for your grosse neglect and carnall security and let every soul that is guiltie cry out Oh what a wretch what a Beast am I to suffer my minde and heart to be taken up with the perishing delights and fading honour of this vain world And now I am summoned to appear in another world to answer for all the evil I have done and all the good I have neglected in this world My body sinks under naturall distempers my soul sweats under morall distempers the sin of my birth and the sins of my life torment my wounded conscience Oh I faint I fall I die I perish like a Beast in this world and the Lord knows what will become of me in the next it is a wo●ld that I am no better acquainted with then the very Beasts that perish My Lords This is the sad condition of many a great man and I am resolved to deal faithfully with you for your honour is dear unto me and your souls are pretious Consider oh consider it every hour that you have more reason to fast then feast upon your birth-dayes that ye may bewail your birth-sin and mortifie your beastly lust For some worthy Divines have observed That none for ought we finde in Scripture ever celebrated their birth-dayes but Pharaoh Jeroboam and Herod 2. Consider That great men are mortall Abner who was Captain of the Guard a kinde of Generall to three Princes Saul Is bosheth and David fell suddenly unexpectedly Some die in the strength of their perfection with their breasts full of milk and bones full of marrow Job 21. 23 24. Death doth not flatter Nobles it will not stay their leasure it will strike home even then when they are in their cups or at their plots in the middest of their wanton embraces and beastly compliances Remember the two Zimri's Prince Zimri struck dead in the wanton Arms of the Lady Co●bi and Zimri who smote King Elah whilest he was drinking himself drunk 3. Consider That beastly men are unnaturall Beasts It is no fault for a beast to be a beast for it is naturally a beast and it can be no fault to obey the Law of nature but for a creature to degrade it self below that Form and Species in which nature hath placed it is unnaturall This is a most unnaturall and accursed self-deniall for a man to depose himself below the dignitie of the humane nature This is as if a beast should loose its sence take root in the earth and sprout out into a Plant Animall a Plant that hath the shape but not the sense of an Animall or as if a Tree should cease