Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	angel_n	glory_n	jesus_n	1,324	5	5.7068	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60471	The designed end to the Socinian controversy, or, A rational and plain discourse to prove, that no other person but the Father of Christ is God most high by John Smith.	Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680.	1695 (1695)	Wing S4103; ESTC R15169	29,912	68

have Life through his Name Joh. 20. 31. If we confess with our Mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in our Heart that God raised him from the Dead we shall be saved Rom. 10. 9. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God 1 Joh. 4. 15. Who is he that overcometh the World but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God 1 Joh. 5. 5. These are a plain Account of that Faith which now is indispensably required of every Christian in relation to Christ The Scripture no where injoins us to believe on pain of Damnation either that Jesus is God most High or that he is indeed both God and Man or that he was Eternally begotten of the Father It only teaches us thus much concerning him that the Man Christ Jesus is the Mediator between God and Men 2 Tim. 2. 5. That he is the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World 1 Joh. 2. 2. That it pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things to himself Col. 1. 20. That there is no Salvation in any other Acts 4. 12. That he appears now in the Presence of God for us Heb. 9. 24. And that he shall judg both Quick and Dead at the latter Day Acts 10. 42. These are Fundamentals so plain and so undoubted that all Christians do universally agree in the Profession of them as they likewise would do in all other Truths were nothing but what is really such imposed on the Faith of Believers Of the transcendent Dignity of Jesus Christ And now although from what has been said hitherto it be plainly evident that the Godhead does consist but of one Divine Person only even the Father of Christ and that Jesus called otherways in Scripture the Son of God is no other than an humane Person yet 't is plain also that he is not a common Man but the chief and most transcendently Excellent of all humane Beings yea in Dignity above even the Angels For as his Conception in the Womb of a Virgin was miraculous so were his Life and Actions a Wonder He made a perfect Conquest both of Death and the Devil and in that great Instance of Magnanimity has out-done all the renowned Heroes both of Greece and Rome And unto which of the Angels said God at any time Sit thou on my right hand but to this Dignity is Jesus exalted Heb. 1. 13. God has crowned him with Glory and Honour Heb. 2. 9. And anointed him with the Oil of Gladness above his Fellows Heb. 1. 9. Angels and Authorities and Powers being made subject unto him 1 Pet. 3. 22. He is ascended into Heaven in a triumphant manner and as he now sits there at God's right Hand in Glory so at the last Day shall he come down from thence to judg Mankind with such a surprizing Majesty as shall amaze and confound the World 'T is doubtless impossible for any humane Understanding to conceive or Tongue to express this most excellent Man's transcendent Dignity his Greatness must needs be very extraordinary who is thus set even above the Angels is the Head of every Man and the Prince of the Kings of the Earth 1 Pet. 3. 22. 1 Cor. 11. 3. Rev. 1. 5. And now if to those foregoing Considerations we add that of his most admired Love to us sinful Mortals in making Peace for us by the Blood of his Cross Col. 1. 20. and in undergoing with invincible Patience all those Indignities and Miseries which did befal him in this the Course of that glorious Work of his the opening for Men a new and living way to the Regions of Bliss The Consideration of this I say added to that other of his most transcendent Glory and Power ought evermore to raise up in us that Veneration which is sutable to such most wonderful Instances of unconceivable Majesty and Heroick Affection Yet it is not any way justifiable to honour Christ falsly As the Glory of God is not to be advanc'd by Falshood so neither can we truly honour Christ by Lies he desires no such thing at our Hands neither at the last Day will he reward us for affirming him to be that which indeed he is not they only give true Honour to Christ who own him for the undoubted Messiah or the Son of God and do stedfastly both believe and obey his Gospel As for the other vain and ungrounded Opinions of Men concerning him they no ways conduce to the Glory of our Blessed Redeemer 'T is said indeed that we should honour the Son as we honour the Father Joh. 5. 23. But that word AS does not import an equal Honour no more than it does import an equal Holiness and Purity when we are commanded to purify our selves AS he is pure 1 John 3. 3. And AS he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of Conversation 1 Pet. 1. 15. Besides the word Honour is of a doubtful Import and doth often-times signify only Obedience as is evident from Ephes 6. 1 2. where by honour thy Father and Mother is clearly signified obey your Parents And accordingly Dr. Clagget in his Paraphrase on the Place makes it to be an honouring the Son with the same Faith and Obedience implying that we are as much bound to believe and obey the Gospel of Christ in the New Testament as we are the Law of God recorded in the Old that since he is made Judg of the World to be certain he will not suffer the Breach of his own Laws to go unpunished Doubtless we ought to be as careful of ascribing to Christ those Glories which are his as we are to give to God Almighty that Honour which essentially belongs to himself and no Man can think or speak too honourably of his Redeemer so long as he no ways does thereby rob God the Father of that truly Divine Honour which is his indispensible Due Our Lord who sought not his own Glory John 8. 50. will give us no Thanks for such Honours as do naturally derogate from his Father's Dignity but such is their Honour who make the Son to be God for then since but one Person can be truly God they do assert by Consequence that the Father is not so God has indeed highly exalted Jesus his beloved Son and has given him a Name above every Name and has put all things under his Feet But when all things are said to be thus put under him 't is manifest that he himself is excepted that did put all things under him 1 Cor. 15. 27. So that notwithstanding the great and mighty Dignities to which God hath exalted Christ yet he has still reserv'd to himself this most supreme Royalty of being the God and Head of Christ God hath given him indeed a Kingdom but when the Intent of this Government of his is accomplish'd he shall again resign it back that so God in that after-state of Eternity may be all in all 1 Cor. 15.