Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	2,006	5	9.7690	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19611	The terrestriall paradise, or, Happinesse on earth. Written by Robert Crofts	R. C. (Robert Crofts)	1639 (1639)	STC 6044; ESTC S109076	37,271	114

the performance of all divine Exercises and so most apt and well prepared for the conceiving Receiving and retayning of all divine and heavenly illuminations and consolations But herein it is good to observe a due and convenient order as concerning fasting according to the prescriptions and customes of the Church and Saints in all Ages to fast publikely when Authority enjoyns us sometimes privatly according to our Saviours exhortation and the usuall practice of religious Christians which is good to be done at and in convenient time as somtimes forbearing a meale somtimes a day till night or the like when and so long as we may conveniently and by our owne experience finde the same doth make us best prepared for all divine exercises and contemplations And also upon good occasions It is not good to make an extraordinary exercise ordinary which in some sort takes away the excellency therof And because it is an extraordinary exercise extraordinary occasions best be fits the same And so of other Christian duties a due and convenient order is to be observed in all of them according to that of the Wiseman There is a time for all things a time to be dejected a time to mourn a time to refraine from pleasures c. Eccles 3. Yet ought wee not to be so superstitiously nice as to refuse Gods creatures gifts and blessings which he freely offers to our good use and enjoyance and so hinder and prejudice the welfare of our bodies and mindes through defect But these earthly felicities also are to be used and enjoyed in due order and at convenient times The Wise man also saith There is a time to laugh a time to rejoyce c. Eccles 3. And commonly in the use and enjoyance of meat drink recreations and all pleasures a temperate custome as it is most beneficiall to the welfare of the body and minde So also is it most pleasant and such men as so use and enjoy the same may be commonly observed to be the most healthy free cheerfull and happy men and consequently apt and well prepared for the performance of all good exercises of body and minde both humane and heavenly And the free and cheerfull enjoyance of earthly happinesses also may encourage and stirre us up to all divine exercises and may be an occasion of many heavenly contemplations and consolalations as more plainly appeares in the last Section And so further us in the attainment and also enjoyment of supernatuall and heavenly things rather then hinder the same And therefore in such good use notwithstanding this objection may at convenient times be enjoyed freely and cheerfully It is true also as it is further objected That many ill men enjoy earthly felicities and many good men want them And good reason for it because of their dangers and impediments as hath been objected and answered God like a wise Physician a loving Father often keeps his servants from these things knowing Perchance the same will hurt them for we are prone to fall into abuses and wickednesse And we had much better never enjoy them then abuse them But these dangers abuses and hinderances may be avoided Converted to our good and encrease our happines as hath been shewed and answered before Or perchance the reason why many good men want these may be to try stirre up quicken and refine all heavenly graces in them and so to encrease their glory and happinesse in Heaven And the reason why some ill men enjoy them may be for their greater mi ery and punishment in the ill uses of them O perhaps lest these earthly should be thought of any value in respect of heavenly felicities or divers other Reasons best known to the Almighty Yet many good men also as the most regular Philosophers and greatest professors of verrue Zeno Cato Scipio Epaminondas Plato Socrates himself and divers others have used enjoyed and written in commendation of love and other sports delights and pleasures Likewise Abraham Job Solomon and innumerable others have possessed and enjoyed these earthly Felicities And somtimes Christ himself as at the Marriage in Cana would use and approve of the enjoyment of earthly creatures lest they should be thought evill Being indeed of themselves good but of an indifferent nature to us good or evill as they are well used or abused But being well used with mediocrity and to good ends They are without question rather to be used and enjoyed then despised or neglected Vnto the pure all things are pure saith Saint Paul And again Rom. 14.14 I know and am perswaded by the Lord Jesus saith he That there is nothing unclean of it selfe But to him that esteemeth any thing unclean to him it is unclean and in the same Chapter hee intimateth Such to be the weaker Christians who are nice and scrupulous in these things Yet however wee ought not to despise such men who refuse the moderate use of earthly blessings Saint Pa●l adviseth so Rom. 14.2 10 13. Forasmuch as he saith aswell such as eate or drink or such as refuse both do it to pleas● God and to give God thanks Wherfore it appears Although such refusall be superstition and folly in such men yet sith they do it to please God we ought not to despise or judge them But rather respect and wel esteem them for their good intents and purposes Let no man judge you in respect of meate or drinke or of an holy day or of the new Moone or Sabbath days Col. 2.16 True it is we reade of many ancient Fathers and holy men who have been very strict and observant in the refusall of riches of honour of dainty meats flesh wine marriage and all pleasures and lived in Deserts Cels and Monasteries very abstemiously eating very seldome and faring onely with bread water herbs or other course meat And of Saint John Baptist who lived a very austere life Whose garments were onely of Camels haire and girdle of skins his meat Locusts and wild honey Of whom our Saviour saith Matth. 11. That he came neither eating nor drinking and blamed them who therfore said he had a Devill Wherfore wee are to reverence and well approve of the severe sanctitie of those ancient Fathers and holy men respecting their good intents being intended and done to the glory of God and in and through Christ Iesus gloriously ●ewarded yet wee may as much admire those ●thers as devou● and of like sanctity who imi●ate our Saviour He saith of him after hee had ●old of Saint John Baptists severity as before Matth. 11. That the Sonne of man came eating and drinking But being with temperance and moderation Hee blamed those which therfore ●aid Behold a man gluttonous and a Wine-bib●ber a friend of Publicans and sinners concluding But wisdome is justified of her children implying his innocency And that there ought to be a wise moderation in all things Now such as imitate our Saviour and those ancient Christians in the Primitive times Who did eate their meate together with