Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	belong_v	custom_n	tribute_n	1,565	5	11.5084	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68830	St. Pauls threefold cord vvherewith are severally combined, the mutuall oeconomicall duties, betwixt husband. wife. parent. childe. master. servant. By Daniel Touteville Pr. to the Charterhouse.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1635 (1635)	STC 24396.5; ESTC S101650	102,232	490

they require but what thy Lord and Maker hath ordained and let his proceedings towards Christ his one and onely Sonne provoke thee to Obedience Hee commanded him to bear the Crosse and he with all alacrity embraced it hee willed him to let his face be buffeted his Flesh ploughed up with whips and his cheekes defaced with lothsome excrements Yea hee willed him to suff●r every word hee spake and every miracle he wrought to bee traduced and blasphemed and he declined it not but in all things became obedient to the will of his Heavenly Father Others peradventure will object that their Parents are destitute of wisdome and discretion and therefore unfit to be obeyed in any thing they shall impose but however my answer is they are not to bee despised The Rose smels not the lesse because it springs from out a Briar Neither doth an Almond abate of his sweetnesse because of the hardnesse of his shell GOD knowes what is good for thee and hath therefore caused thee to come out of the Loynes of such that the faire tender of thy obedience might make thee a worthy spectacle to God to Angels and to men A third sort to blanch this dutie from themselves will peradventure say They are not my naturall Parents but my Stepfather or Stepmother Be it so yet even these must bee obeyed The great respect of Ruth to Naomi is sufficient to remove this cavill as likewise that of Moses to Iethro The one would not be perswaded to abandon the societie of her Mother in Law but would share with her in all occurrences the other hearkned to the voyce of his Father in law did in all things as hee directed Or if these examples be too weak look againe upon that of Christ to Ioseph Hee had no greater relation to him than that hee was betrothed to the blessed Virgin his Mother and yet hee was content to bee governed by him A fourth and last ranke to pleade exemption from what is here required will say They bee not my Parents at all but only my kindred and allies as my Vncle or my Aunt c that have had the breeding and bringing of me up It is al one thou owst this duty evē unto them Esther was advāced to bee a Queene she forgot not yet in the height of Majesty to shew her obedience to her Vncle Mordecai To close up this point then Children obey your Parents The next to bee discussed is the extent of this obediēce how farre it is to reach Children obey your parents in all things In all things There must bee a limitation of this for universall and absolute Obedience is due onely to God and wee may finde it in Ephes 6.1 where the Apostle plainly expresseth what here hee leaves to bee understood Children obey your Parents in the Lord that is so far forth as is permitted by the Lord. Or thus A. Gell. lib. 2 Cap. 7. All things may bee reduced to a threefold rank For 1. some are simply good and these must bee done notwithstanding any inhibition of our Parents to the contrary and that in regard of the things themselves as likewise in regard of him that doth injoyne them For hee that listneth saith our Saviour to Father or mother more than mee is not worthy of mee 2. Some things are simply evill and these must not bee done for any strong intreaties or enforcements that can be used by our Parents because God forbids them and according to that of Saint Peter Wee are to obey him rather than men Act. 5.29 3. And lastly some things are of an indifferēt strain as neither simply good nor simply evill in these children must shew their Obedience without any reluctation how unmeet soever they may seeme to their owne apprehension In adiaphoris saith Gerson superioris judicio maximè credendum quoniam ille vice Dei tibi dicit quid expedit quid decet In matters of an indifferent nature a man must ever subscribe to the judgement of his Superiour because hee doth supply the place of God and serves as one deputed from him to tell thee what is decent and convenient to bee done Patris jussa discutere non lic●t patris monita retractare non convenit s●ith Petrus Ravennas Tristior esse poterit paterni mandati species res tamen ipsa salutifera est vitalis Though the commands of our Parents may seeme to us never so harsh never so unjust so they bee not clearely convicted of impiety wee are not to reject them especially if wee bee such as are still under their governmēt and protection An excellent example wee have of this in Isaac who without any resistance either in word or deed suffered himselfe to be bound and laid upon the Altar where hee was content so far to yeeld unto the wil of his Father as to be sacrificed unto the Lord. Iude 11.36 The like did Iephtah's daughter unto him and the like should be done by every one The very placing of the fift Commandement in which this duty is required may bee sufficient to move us hereunto God hath set it before our goods yea before our lives to shew that Obedience to Parents should bee dearer unto us than ●it●●● Goods or Lives Aga●●e there is annexed unto it a ●●omise of Long life a thi●g so beloved of all that ●here need no other allurement For Death is hated and abhorred of Nature But here it may bee demanded whether married Children or such as are called to any publike place eyther in Church or Common-weale bee still bound to obey their Parents and how farre I answere that this filiall obedience is to receive no intermission so long as life doth last For 1. as it is 1 Tim. 2.3 it is not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good thing and to God acceptable but it is likewise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a just thing Eph. 6.1 Wee cannot ●orbeare it without injury Christs direction therfore is this Give unto Caesar Mat. 22.21 that which is Caesar's to every one his due Tribute to whom Tribute Custome to whom Custome Feare to whom feare Rom. 3.7 Honour to whom Honour belongeth Now this is proper and peculiar unto parents as appeares by God himselfe If I bee a Father where is my honour if I bee a Master where is my feare 2. It is exacted by way of Precept Honor thy Father thy mother that thy dayes may bee long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee So that concerning the continuāce of this duty It is to last so long as we doe live but not in the same measure nor after the same manner For such as live in their Fathers house and under their Fathers power are to be employed by their Parents both at home and abroad according as they shall thinke fit to make use of their service But as touching such as are married or called to the administration either of Church or common-weale though they