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	parent_n	reverence_n	2,246	5	9.8892	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25291	The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.; Medulla theologica. English. 1642	Ames, William, 1576-1633.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3000; ESTC R23182	239,577	422

God and the Father is this to visit the fatherlesse and widdowes in affliction 1. Iohn 4. 20. 21. If any one say I love God and hate his bzother he is a lyar This Commandement have wee from God that he that loveth God love his brother also 11. Hence finally religion is best proved and tried by Iustice according to the frequent use of the Scripture which argument notwithstanding doth serve much more certainly for negation then affirmation if it be understood of the outward workes offices of Iustice because such workes of Iustice may be sometime present where true religion is wanting but if true religion be present they cannot be wholly absent 12. By the same reason also unjust workes doe more argue a man to be ungodly then those which are just doe argue a godly man whence the workes of the flesh are said to be manifest Gal. 5. 19. Which is not affirmed of the fruits of the spirit Verse 12. 13. The order of this charity is this that God is first and chiefly to be loved by charity and so is as it were the formall reason of this charity toward our neighbour next after God we are bound to love our selves namely with that charity which respects true blessednesse for loving God himselfe with love of union we love our selves immediatly with that chiefe charity which respects our spirituall blessednesse but we ought to love others whom we would have partakers of the same good with us secondarily as it were moreover others may be deprived of this blessednesse without our fault but we our selves cannot therefore we are more bound to will and seeke it for our selves then for others 14. Hence it is that the love of our selves hath the force of a rule or measure unto the love of others Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe 15. Hence it is never lawfull to commit any sin for anothers sake although our offence may seeme small and to be a chiefe good which wee should seeke to another for he that wittingly and willingly sinneth hateth his own soule Prov. 8. 36. 29. 24. He that sinneth against me offereth violence to his own soule He that partaketh with a thiefe hateth himselfe and he that hearing cursing declareth it not 16. Among other men none indeed ought wholy to be removed from the embracing of our charity who is capable of blessednesse for if we love God above all things no enmities will so far prevaile with us but we may love our very enemies for God Mat. 5. 39. Rom. 12. 17. 1. Thess. 5. 15. 1. Pet. 3. 9. 17. But among men those are more to be loved then others that come neerer to God and in God to our selves Galatians 6. 10. Let us doe good to all but especially to the houshold of Faith 18. But because they that believe are more neere both to God and to us also spiritually then those who doe not as yet believe therefore also are they more to bee beloved 19. Yet this is so to be understood that it be referred to the time present and the immediat affection for we may will the same good to some other as much or more in time to come the grace of God and faith comming between in which sence that affection of the Apostle concerning the Israelites is to be taken Rom. 9. 3. 20. If among those that are to be beloved there be no apparent disparity neither in respect of God nor in respect of us then they are equally to be beloved 21. But if any apparent disparity appeare either in their neerenesse to God or to our selves then he who exceeds in any neerenesse is more to be beloved that is when we cannot exercise the act of our love alike toward all we are more bound to place our love on those whom God hath by some speciall neerenesse or communion commended to us then on others Therefore although we ought equally to will the salvation of others yet the exercise and care of this will is chiefly due to those that are neere joyned to us in some speciall respect as a Souldier although he ought to wish well to all his fellow Souldiers yet he is bound to take most care of those who are of the same band and are next ad●…oyned in the same Ranke This appeares in that example of Paul who did more servently desire the conversion of the Israelites then of other Nations of which affection he gives this one reason because they were his brethren and and kindred according to the flesh Rom. 9. 3. 22. Yet in this prerogative of charity we must wish to those that are neere unto us rather those good things which pertaine to that conjunction whereby they come neere unto us as spirituall good things to those who are most spiritually joyned to us and naturall good things to those with whom we have a naturall neerenesse not that those kind of good things are in our desires to be separated one from another but because the very kind of conjunction is as it were a bek from God whereby he stirs us up to bestow our paines chiefly in this or that kind 23. Hence it followes first That kindred in bloud Caeteris paribus other things answerable are more to be beloved then strangers in those things which pertaine to the good things of this life and among those that are neere in blood those that are the neerest to be most loved 24. Secondly that some speciall friend is more to be beloved then an ordinary kinsman in bloud at least in those things which pertaine to the common duties of this life because friendship may be such that it may make a neerer conjunction then consanguinity it selfe considered by it selfe Prov. 18. 24. For a friend is neerer then a brother 25. Thirdly that parents are to be loved more then any friend because the neernesse of parents is greater then of friends as touching the communicating of those things which are most intimate to us 1. Tim. 5. 4. If any widow have children or nephewes let them learne first to shew piety towards their own house and to recompence their parents for this is honest and acceptable in the sight of God 26. Fourthly that parents are more to be beloved then children in those good things which ought to redound from the effect to the cause as Honour Esteeme Reverence Thankfulnesse and the like But that children are more to be loved then parents in those things which are derived from the cause to the effect of which kind are Maintenance Promotion Providence and the like 27. Fifthly that husb●…s and wifes are to be loved more then parents or children in those things which pertaine to society and union of this life for that is the greatest neerenesse whereof it is said they shall be one flesh Gen. 2. 24. Matthew 19. 5. Therefore shall a man leave his Father and Mother and shall cleave to his Wife and they shall be one flesh 28. Sixtly that they that have deserved well of