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	render_v	tribute_n	3,126	5	11.2636	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62137	Twenty sermons formerly preached XVI ad aulam, III ad magistratum, I ad populum / and now first published by Robert Sanderson ...; Sermons. Selections	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1656 (1656)	Wing S640; ESTC R19857	465,995	464

her his drudge by denying her the honour of a tender respect and loving condescension Which kinde of honour is in some measure and according to their different proportions due also to be given by Parents to their children and by the greatest Masters to the meanest of their servants 6. We have another example of the like use of the word 1 Tim. 5. where S. Paul biddeth Timothy honour widdows that are widdows indeed Timothy was a man of eminent rank in the Church of God a Bishop and that of no mean See but of Ephesus a famous city and the chief Metropolis of Asia and the Widows he there speaketh of were poore old women such as in those times for the meane services they were to performe to the Saints were called also Diaconissae and were therefore to be maintained out of the contributions of the Church and the common stock The parties being of such wide distance it had been most unseemly for him to have given to them but extreme and most ridiculous arrogancy in them to have expected from him any honour properly so called honour of reverence and subjection But the honour he was to give them was such as was meet for persons of that quality especially in relation to their maintenance that in the execution of his pastoral charge amongst his other cares he should take care that those widdows should be provided for in fitting sort that so in the Province of Ephesus there might be no cause of such complaint as had formerly been by the Grecians at Ierusalem Acts 6. that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration 7. In like manner we are to understand the word Honour here in the Text in such a notion as may include together with the Honour properly so called and due to Superiors only all those fitting respects which are to be given to Equals and Inferiors also which is a kinde of Honour too but more improperly so called And then it falleth in all one with that of S. Paul Rom. 13. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom honour As if he had said I would not any of you should be behinde with any man in any thing but if you owe him any duty performe it to the full If any honour or respect in whatsoever kinde or degree belong to him account it as due debt and let him have it to the utmost of what can with justice or in equity be demanded So that we then fulfill this precept of our Apostle when we are careful to our utmost power and best understanding to respect every man whether Superior Equall or Inferior secundùm gradum meritum according to his place and desert For those two are as it were the Standards whereby to measure out to every man his proportion of Honour in this kinde That is to say every man is to be honoured and respected according to the dignity of his place whatsoever his deserts are and according to the merit of his person whatsoever his place and condition be 8. It would be a tedious indeed rather an endless taske and therefore I undertake it not to drive the general into its particulars and to shew what peculiar honours and respects are due to all estates of men considered in their severall ranks and mutual relations It must be the care of every godly wise man to inform himself the best he can for that matter so far as may concern himself and those whom he may have occasion to converse withall and it must be his resolution to give honour to every man accordingly that is to say neither more or less but as nere as he can understand within a convenient latitude that which is justly his due Yet let him take this withall that where the case is doubtfull it is the safest course lest self-love should incline him to be partial to pinch rather on his own part then on his neighbours especially if his Superior That is to say rather to forgoe a good part of that honour which he may think is due to himself if he be not very sure of it then to keep back any small part of that honour which for any good pssurance he hath to the contrary may fall due to his neighbour Agreeably to the other Apostles advice Rom. 12. that not in taking but in giving honour we should go one before another 9. Now we see in the meaning of the words both what duty we are to performe and to whom The Duty Honour and that to all men and all this but Quid nominis It may next be demanded Quid Iuris upon what tye we stand thus bound to Honour all men I answer Funiculus triplex There lyeth a threefold tye upon us for the performance of this Duty to wit of Iustice of Equity of Religion A tye of Iustice first whose most proper and immediate office it is suum cuique to give to every one that which of right appertaineth to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Aristotles phrase but S. Pauls is far beyond it in the fore-cited Rom. 13. Render to all their dues So we translate it but the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which imports more then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It signifieth Debts accordingly whereunto he saith in the next verse there pursuing his metaphor Owe nothing to any man We do not account it discurtesie but dishonesly in any man that is able not to pay debts Withhold not good from them to whom it is due saith Solomon Prov. 3. Whosoever withholdeth a debt or due from another doth an unjust act and is next akin to a thief and as a thief is bound to restitution The other word in the same place inforceth as much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is 〈◊〉 more then Aristotles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the very same word that is used where Zacheus promised fourfold restitution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 19. Render or restore 10. It is a thing not unworthy the observing that all those words which usually signifie Honour in the three learned languages do either primarily signifie or else are derived from such words as do withall signifie either a Price or a Weight Now by the rules of Commutative Iustice the price of every commodity ought to be according to the true worth of it And things payable by weight are by Law and Custome then onely currant when they have their due and full weight and that usually with some draught over rather then under Even so it is a righteous thing with us to make a just estimate of every mans worth and to set a right valuation upon him so near as we can respectively to the quality of his place and his personal desert and to allow him his full proportion of Honour accordingly neither under-rating him in our thoughts nor setting lighter by him then we should do in our