Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	1,226	5	9.8585	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09062	The first booke of the Christian exercise appertayning to resolution. VVherein are layed downe the causes & reasons that should moue a man to resolue hym selfe to the seruice of God: and all the impedimentes remoued, which may lett the same.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1582 (1582)	STC 19353; ESTC S121958	250,257	448

many doe we see daylie as the prophet dyd in his dayes cōmended in their sinnes and blessed in their wickednes How manye palpable and intolerable flateries doe we heare bothe vsed and accepted daylie no man cryethe withe good kyng Dauid avvaye uuithe this oyle and oyntement of sinners let it not come vpon my heade Is not all this vanitie Is it not madnes as the scripture callethe it The glorious Angels in heauen seeke no honour vnto thē selues but all vnto God and thow poore worme of the earthe desyrest to be glorified the fowre and twentie elders in the Apocalips tooke of theyr crounes and cast them at the feete of the lamb thow woldest plucke fortye from the lamb to thy selfe yf thow couldest O fond creature how truelie sayethe the prophet homo vanitati similis factus est A man is made lyke vnto vanitie that is lyke vnto his owne vanitie as lyght as the verie vanities them selues whiche he foloweth And yet the wife man more expresselie In vanitate sua appenditur peccator the finner is weyghed in his vanitie that is by the vanitie whiche he foloweth is seene how light and vayne a synner is The second vanitie that belongeth to Ambition is desire of worldlie honour dignitie and promotion And this is a greate matter in the sight of a worldlye man this is a Iewell of rare price and woorthie to be bought euen with any labour trauaile or perill what soeuer The loue of this letted the great men that were Christians in Iewrie from confessing of Christ openlie The loue of this letted pilat from delyuering Iesus according as in conscience he sawe he was bounde The loue of this letted Agrippa and festus from makyng them selues Christians albeit they esteemed Paules doctrine to be true The loue of this letteth infinite menne daylie from embrasing the meanes of their saluation But alas these men doe not soe the vanitie heerof S. Paul sayth not without iust cause Nolite esse pueri sensibus be you not children in vnderstanding It is the fashion of Children to esteeme more of a paynted bable than of a riche Iewell And suche is the paynted dignitie of this worlde gotten with muche labour maintayned withe great expenses and lost withe intolerable greefe and sorow For better cōceauing wherof ponder a litle withe thy selfe gentle reader any state of dignitie that thou woldest desire and think how many haue had that before thee Remembre how they mounted vp and how they descended downe agayne and Imagine withe thy selfe whiche was greater ether the loye in getting or the sorowe in leesing it VVhere are now all these emperours these kynges these princes and prelates whiche reioysed so muche once at their owne aduancemē where are they now I saye vvho talketh or thynkethe of them are they not forgotten and cast into their graues long agoe And doe not menne boldelye vvalke euer their heades novve vvhose faces might not be looked on vvithout feare Ī this vvorld vvhat then haue their dignities done them good It is a vvounderfull thing to consider the vanitie of this vvordlie honour It is like a mans ovvne shadovve vvhich the more a man runneth after the more it flyeth and vvhen he flyethe from it it folovveth hym agayne and the onelye vvaye to cache it is to fall dovvne to the grounde vpon it So vve see that those men vvhich desired honour in this vvorld are novv forgotten and those vvhich most fledd from it cast them selues lovvest of all men by humilitie are novv moste of all honoured honoured I saye moste euen by the vvorld it selfe vvhose enemies they vvere vvhyle they lyued For vvho is honoured more novv vvhoe is more commended and remembred than S. Paul and his like vvhiche so muche despised vvorldlie honour in this lyfe according to the sayeing of the prophet thy freendes o Lorde are to too muche honored Moste vayne then is the pursuyte of this vvorldlie honour and promotion seyng it nether cōtenteth the mynde nor cōtinuethe vvithe the possessor nor is voyde of greate daungers bothe in this lyfe and in the lyfe to come according to the sayeing of scripture Moste seuere iudgement shal be vsed vpon those that are ouer other the meane man shall obtaine mercie but the greate and strong shall suffer tormentes stronglye The third vanitie that belongeth to ambition or pryde of lyfe is nobilitie of fleshe and bloode a greate pearle in the eye of the vvorld but in deede in it selfe in the sight of God a meere trifle and vanitie VVhiche holy Iob vvell vnderstoode vvhen he wrote these vvoordes I sayde vnto rottennesse thou art my father and vnto vvormes you are my mother and sisters He that will beholde the gentrye of his auncestoures Lett hym looke into their graues and see whether Iob say the truelie or no. True nobilitie was neuer begonne but by vertue and therfore as it is a testimonie of vertue to the predecessours so is it an other of vertue vnto the successours And he whiche holdethe the name therof by descent without vertue is a meere monster in respect of his auncestoures for that he breaketh the limites of the nature of nobilitie Of which sort of men God sayeth by one prophet They are made abominable euen as the thinges vvhiche they loue theyr glorie is from theyr natiuitie from the bellye and from theyr cōception It is a miserable vanitie to goe begge credit of deade men wher as we deserue none our selues to seek vp olde titles of honoure frō our auncestours we beyng vtterlye vncapeable therof by our owne base maners and behauyour Christ clearlie confounded this vanitie when being descended hym selfe of the greatest nobilitie that euer was in this world and besides that being also the sonne of God yet called he him selfe ordinarilie the sonne of manne That is the sonne of the virgin Marie for otherwyse he was no sonne of man and further than this also called hym selfe a shepeheard whiche in the world is a name of contempt He soght not vp this and that olde title of honour to furnishe his style withall as our men doe Nether when he had to make a kyng first in Israell dyd he seeke owt the auncientest bloode but tooke Saul of the basest tribe of Iewes and after him Dauid the poorest sheephearde of all his breethren And whē he came into the world he soght not owt the noblest men to make princes of the earthe that is to make Apostles but tooke of the poorest and simplest therby to confound as one of them sayeth the foolishe vanitie of this world in making so great account of the preeminēce of a litle fleshe and bloode in this lyfe The fourthe vanitie that belongeth to ambition or pryde of lyfe is vvorldlie vvisdome vvherof the Apostle sayeth The vvisdome of this vvorld is folye vuith God If it be folie then greate vanite