Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	fear_v	tribute_n	4,452	5	11.2078	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42584	Gell's remaines, or, Several select scriptures of the New Testament opened and explained wherein Jesus Christ, as yesterday, to day, and the same for ever, is illustrated, in sundry pious and learned notes and observations thereupon, in two volumes / by the learned and judicious Dr. Robert Gell ; collected and set in order by R. Bacon.	Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.; Bacon, Robert, b. 1611 or 12.	1676 (1676)	Wing G472; ESTC R17300	2,657,678	1,606

which is a kind of fear and terrour saith Aquinas in Inferiours and drives them from them But this fear and terrour is abated and allayed 2. By the goodness of the higher Powers which begets in Inferiours love and desire of Union with them As he that beholds the Sun loves it for the comfortable light heat and influence of it For surely the light is good and it is a pleasant thing to behold the Sun saith the Wise Man Eccles Yet because it is disproportioned to his sight he dares not out-face it or boldly look upon it but as if he were striken with a kind of awful modesty or fear turns his face downward So lovely is Magistracy that it invites to Union but lest that love should degenerate into familiarity and thence into neglect and contempt so dreadful and terrible it is that it keeps us off and causeth an awful distance from it Of this fear and love consists inward Reverence unto the higher Powers which is outwardly expressed in answerable Obedience to their Commands in doing and suffering and correspondent and sutable signes of both in reverend words and gestures paying tribute custom and the like And all these make up the subjection commanded in the Text which seems to be more fully explained by the Apostle vers 7. of this Chapter Render unto all their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour is due Great Reasons there are for this subjection from the consideration both of God the King the Subject And the Text affords the first of these both Negative and affirmative for there is no power but of God Saul cloathed you in Scarlet though an evil Prince how much more a good Optimè praesumendum de Magistratu Ignorant Men they are that oppose it and self-willed they know not the benefit of a King though an evil one nor the miss of him how it will end in Anarchy And the Powers that are are ordered of God for so I rather choose the Marginal reading than ordained in the Text Because when Men hear this word ordaining they presently cast their thoughts back to the beginning nay before the beginning of the World as when 't is said That as many as were ordained unto Eternal life believed Act. 13.48 They presently think of ordaining before the beginning of the World whereas the word signifieth only they were set of God in order to Salvation so the Powers that are are set in order of God God hath ordained and constituted the services of all Angels Men in an excellent order The ground of this is Creation which St. John expresseth in a like manner of speech both Negative and Affirmative By him all things were made and without him nothing was made that was made Upon this Creation is founded Gods absolute Authority to dispose of his Creatures as he pleaseth The Earth is the Lords and the fulness of it the whole World and they that dwell therein And the Reason is added from Creation For he hath founded it upon the Seas and established it upon the Floods saith the Psalmist Ps 24.1 2. Yea that great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that highest Power vouchsafes to make man an account of his Authority Jer. 27.5 I have made the Earth the Man and the Beast that are upon the ground by my great Power and by my outstretched Arm and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me And the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of men and giveth it unto whomsoever he will Dan. 4.25 According to a general rule of Aquinas Quicquid communiter de Deo Creaturis dicitur à Deo in Creaturas derivatur Whatsoever is spoken in Common of God and the Creatures is derived from God unto the Creatures as wisdom justice goodness and here power Non abjecit Deus potestates cum ipse sit potens Job 39. Add hereunto the will of God arising from his love of order among the Creatures especially among Men both 1. Those whom he hath taken near unto himself and made like unto himself in governing the World And 2. Those whom he hath set under their Authority and made subject unto them as also from his love of obedience unto his Law and of submission thereunto which they who by Nature are equal perform unto those who are made Superiours unto them meerly by Gods ordination and appointment which is reason enough in respect of God And 2. Reason also there is in respect of the King and other superiour Powers subordinate unto him Est Minister Dei vers 4. He is the Minister of God So Wisdom bespeaks the higher Power Wisd 6.3 Power is given you of the Lord and Soveraignty from the Highest and you are Ministers of his Kingdom yea and Ministers unto thee for good which includes a reason 3. In respect of the Subject good yea all the good is the Subjects As the rain descens indeed from Heaven upon the Mountains but thence runs down unto the skirts of their Garments Ps 133. This good according to the twofold life is either Animale or Spirituale either Natural or Spiritual And as the one life is in order to the other primum Animale dein Spirituale so the good of the one is in order unto the good of the other 1. The good of the one is a quiet and peaceable life one with another St. Paul hath both 1. A quiet and peaceable life 2. In godliness and honesty 2. The good of the other is the Peace of God ruling in our hearts the good of the Spiritual life the life of God The good of the Natural life if alone is but the happiness of a Beast for even the Bears and the Swine they live peaceably and quietly one with another And ye know how lovingly the Drunkards herd together and like the herd of many Swine possessed with the Legion of Devils run head long together unto destruction Non est bonum in unitate nisi unitas sit in bono Wherefore the higher Powers direct and advance this good of the Natural life unto the good of the Spiritual life which when it once obtains so that the Peace of God rules in our hearts and we live the life of God and are all become Kings and Priests unto God the Father Apocal. 1.6 then every inferiour Power shall yield it self up to the Superiour then shall the Son of God himself deliver up the Kingdom unto God the Father to whom mean time all Power is given both in heaven and earth Matt. 28. Whence it is that we are subject to the Son in special manner in the Gospel Then shall the Son put down all Rule all Authority and Power and all things shall be subdued unto him Then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him and God shall be All in all 1 Cor. 15. So great a good so great that none so great accrues unto us by being subject unto the