Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	amen_n	end_n	glory_n	1,475	5	5.0774	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31429	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, on Sunday, January 18th, 1684/5 by William Cave ...	Cave, William, 1637-1713.	1685 (1685)	Wing C1607; ESTC R36289	9,318	37

happy Being to consider the glories of his nature the Wisdom and Harmony of his Creation the wonders of his Providence the treasures of his mercy and the unfathomable designs of his love and goodness in the great work of our redemption Things which cannot but excite his wonder and ravish his affections And if only intellectual pleasures which are but the exercise of one faculty have so wide a Sphear to move in what is there when every faculty is employed upon its proper object In the best enjoyments upon Earth we are soon at the end of the Line the senses are limited to this and t'other object and if that fails their comforts are presently at an end but spiritual delights are unconfined and extend themselves equal to the desires the needs and capacities of the Soul 4. The Pleasures of Religion have infinitely the advantage of all others in point of duration and continuance they abide with us when all other comforts fly or are rifled away from us The delights of sense as all other things in this World are in their own nature fading and transient and perish with the using like the crackling of Thorns under a Pot that make a flash and a blaze for a while and then suddenly die away Besides they are exposed to a thousand casualties that unavoidably break in upon us Belshazzer was Arrested in the midst of all his Jollity and the Triumphs of his Court when an unexpected Message from Heaven meeting with the Vote of a guilty Conscience turn'd him into horror and trembling and then all his light Airy Mirth vanished and disappeared It is the peculiar excellency of Religion that the comforts of it are out of the reach of all foreign and external accidents and cannot be ravished from us He that is the happiest Man in this World is not able to secure his own felicity because not able to defend it from the rapine and malice of bad Men who can be too hard for him and strip him of his Estate or Reputation when they have a mind to it But what can break the ease of a good Man what violence can force the guards of Conscience or disturb that composure that is within our own Breasts Death it self does not take it away but improve and perfect it And when the Joy of a wicked Man shall Perish like the Spiders Web and his hope be as the giving up of the Ghost Then will the Pleasures of a good Conscience accompany us into the other World Mark the Perfect Psal 37.37 and behold the Vpright for the end of that Man is Peace Thus we see That the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness and how much the delights of a vertuous and a good Man transcend all other whatsoever A consideration that ought mightily to endear Religion to us we naturally thirst after Pleasure and 't is no where substantially to be found but in the course of a Holy Life All sin is restless and tormenting and sooner or later will make us troublesome and uneasie to our selves 'T is some time before a bad Man can wholly debauch his Reason and his Conscience and 'till he can that will create him some trouble and difficulty it being impossible a Man should sin with any tolerable ease or comfort while Reason does remonstrate and Conscience make head within And when he has in a manner conquer'd all remorse and stupified the sense of good and evil he has no security that it will continue but that upon every little affliction or petty accident conscience will awaken into rage and horror and that will be a torment infinitely beyond what the most witty cruelty of Man could ever find out it being in the Phrase of the excellent Hierocles to anticipate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the torments which the damned suffer in the other World as on the other hand to persevere in course of a serious and regular piety is to enter upon the Joys of Heaven even in this Life Joys which no misfortune is able to impair 'T is not all the World can make me miserable if I be careful to preserve my innocency and integrity Tho' I cannot say says Plutarch that while I live Lib. de Anim ap Stob. Serm. 22. this or that calamity shall not befall me yet this I can say that while I live I will never do this or that I will not lie or deceive or craftily over-reach and betray my neighbour For these and such like are things that are in every Man's power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and do greatly conduce to the peace and tranquillity of our Minds The sum is this Esai 32.17 the work of righteousness is peace and the effect of righteousness is quietness and assurance for ever if either we would live with comfort or die with safety this is the way this is that that will sweeten the present difficulties of our journey and in the end bring us to the Vision of God in whose presence there is fulness of joy Psal 16.11 and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore To which God of his infinite Mercy bring us all for Christ Jesus sake To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory World without end Amen FINIS