Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	child_n	glory_n	parent_n	1,912	5	9.5403	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85881	The arraignment of pride, or, Pride set forth, with the causes, kinds, and several branches of it: the odiousness and greatness of the sin of pride: the prognosticks of it, together with the cure of it: as also a large description of the excellency and usefulness of the grace of humility: divided into chapters and sections. / By W. Gearing minister of the word at Lymington in Hantshire.	Gearing, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing G430; Thomason E1762_1; ESTC R209642	162,907	286

And we have seen many notable instances of the transitoriness of worldly honour in these our days Man being in honour abideth not Similis est pecoribus morticinis he is like the beasts that perish Psal 49.12 The old Translation reads it thus Man shall not continue in honour he shall be like the beasts that dye or as Tremellius Tremell he shall be like the beasts that dye of the Morrain and so become useless and fit for nothing And many times men are lifted up on high that their fall may be the greater Dionysius of Syracuse glad to teach a School at Corinth to get a poor living Some in these days boast of the honour that they have gotten by the disgrace of others of their rising by others falling but this is a great vanity to grow proud that we rise by others ruines Thus did the common souldiers in Tacitus repress the pride of Pompey Nostrâ miseria magnus es Tacitus Honour is the greatest outward glory saith the Philosopher Arist Ethic. 4. Thou art great by our misery therefore swell not against us He that like Matthias cometh in the place of another must rather lament the others loss then grow proud of his own gain If the Gentile be advanced by the fall of the Jew he should not boast against the Jew but rather lament the Jews falling then be proud of his own rising Many in these our days have erected to themselves stately Pallaces Vbi honor non est ibi contemptus Hier. Epist by the fall of other mens houses and such as these are ready to swell with pride against their decayed brethren It is a sign of a vain mind to think the worse of any man because he is fallen or to think the better of our selves because we are risen What though Job be on the dunghil yet he shall be restored and though Joseph be in prison yet he shall be advanced If therefore men are ambitious of honour 1 Sam. 2.30 let them honour God Them that hononr me saith he I will honour Let David carry himself valiantly in the wars of Israel though Saul himself labour to keep him down Non facit nobilem atrium plenum sumosis imaginibus animus facit nobilem Sen. Epist 44. and to ecclipse his glory yet the very women in their songs shall prefer him before their King saying Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands If Mordecai the Jew be faithful to King Ahashuerus and discover the Treason of Bigtanah and Teresh there will come a time that the King will be at leisure to read the Chronicles and reward his good service Est 6. If Daniel continue constant in Gods service it shall at last appear that the truth was at his side and he shall prevail and be preferred according to his desert Men mistake the way to be great while they neglect the way to be good Adams Dan. 6. If Paul and Silas be painful in their places and seek their Masters glory and the enlargement of his Kingdom by the propagation of the Gospel if men be dumb and silent the very Devils shall confess them to be the servants of the most high God and to shew unto men the way of Salvation Acts 16.17 In a word if our Saviour Christ go about preaching in the Synagogues and curing diseases and doing all sorts of good deeds howsoever the Rulers of the Jews accuse him Joh. 6.15 and persecute him and seek to execute him yet many of the common people admire him yea seek to advance him and thought to make him their King howbeit he will accept of no such honour yea Pilat himself cannot but confess to his eternal Glory and his own perpetual shame that though he condemned him to please the people and not displease the Emperour yet he found no cause of death nay no fault in him Joh. 19. The way to be truly honoured is first to be vertuous Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus Juvenal Sat. 8. and this the wise ancient Romans knew right well by building the Temple of Honour within the Gate of Vertue to teach all their people that whosoever would come to the one must pass through the other and doubtless wheresoever Honour is placed in the Crest and hath not vertue for a Supporter all true Heraulds know to be but false Arms and wheresoever it is conferred without vertue it will not continue it being out of its element and proper place But on the other side There be two things make holiness above greatness 1. The work of Holiness 2. The reward of Holiness Blessing shall cover the head of the righteous Prov. 10.6 Dr. Sutton wheresoever is vertue there honour and estimation shall be first or last for it follows true vertue as the shadow accompanieth the body when the Sun shineth and when it doth not it is but the over-casting of a cloud and the Sun will one day shine again SECT 4. Of Pride of a generous and noble descent PRide of descent is when men do boast of their noble Extraction and Generous Original This is a thing most ridiculous for a man to boast of that which belongeth to another It is better that others be known by thee then thou be known by others Plato saith that every King cometh of a slave and every slave of a King Such was the pride of C. Caligula that he took from the ancient noble families their Arms and Badges as from the Torquati their collar from the Cinnati their curled lock from Cneius Pompeius his posterity the sirname of Magnus Suetonius in vit Calig The great Tamerlain was the son of a Peasant and kept Cattel Arsaces King of the Parthians was of so base a stock that his Parents could not be known yet he got such renown by his vertue that his posterity were called Arsacides as the Emperours of of Rome were called Caesars of Augustus Caesar Pertinax a Roman Emperour was son of an Artificer his Grandfatherwas a slave Agathocles King of Cicily the son of a Potter The Emperour Probus the son of a Gardiner The Suldan of Cayro was chosen out of the Mamalukes to which honour none might arise unless he had first been a slave Divers Popes likewise were basely descended Little cause have men to pride themselves in the Nobility of their birth when they come by it by their Parents who by some vertuous or noble acts exceeded other men and were by the people held in the greater estimation which honour for their sakes descended to their posterity So that if any glory be due it is due to the Parents and not to the children unless they tread in the steps of their Parents and many times Children do not tread in the steps of Vertuous Parents which gave occasion to Cicero to reprehend Catiline by comparing the antiquity of his blood with the vitiosity of his manners Faelix quem virtus generosa exornat