Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	due_a	fear_n	tribute_n	2,900	5	10.7895	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30414	The royal martyr, and the dutiful subject in two sermons / by G. Burnet.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Royal martyr lamented.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Subjection for conscience-sake asserted.	1675 (1675)	Wing B5869; ESTC R22925	37,186	94

shadows of Mortality and false appearances of Happiness which do now impose on our bewitched minds and seduce us into a thousand Errors and Follies And thus again we see how Conscience stifles the very first motions of disorder and teaches us to be subject 4. A fourth Occasion of disorder is a busie medling Temper that cannot contain its self within its own Limits and Sphere but will engage in things beyond its understanding and above its reach Some cannot stay at home and do their own business but must ramble abroad and insinuate themselves on all Affairs and Company and are ever gaping for some change hoping it may make way for their appearing in another figure These are ever sucking in ill Reports which they are sure to belch up again in all Companies not without additions They delight to asperse Governours and Government and either to find or make faults in every thing that is done and a volatile unfixedness of disposition makes them weary of established Laws and Customs and gape for Changes through a fond affectation of Novelty Now these Vermine creeping into all Companies must certainly weaken the Nerves and Sinews of Government and most attempts for repressing this humour make it boil with the greater vehemence But as the Wiseman instructed us of old To fear God and honour the King and not to meddle with those that were given to change and not to say Why were the former days better than these for we do not enquire wisely concerning that matter So the doctrine of the Gospel commands every man To do his own business to stay at home not to be a busie-body nor meddle in other mens affairs but to pay tribute to whom tribute is due fear to whom fear and honour to whom honour is due These being the Rules of Religion I may appeal all the World to shew anything can so settle Order and Authority as this which guards against the first appearances of Clouds and Storms But as Conscience doth meet the earliest beginnings of disorders in their less discernible and more plausible colours so it ties a man to that severe conduct of himself that he cannot embark in Designs which must be managed with so much fraud and dissimulation as the contrivers of wicked courses must needs carry along with them in all their practices Pretending the highest respect when they mean worst lying and forswearing and sometimes assassinating as it may serve their ends and never meaning what they say nor saying what they mean but shuffling and warping as Interest carries them Nor can wicked Projects appear at first barefaced lest they should be entertained with horrour by all to whom they are proposed but must go masked till they be so strong as to dare to throw off the disguise Nay Religion will be perhaps called in to serve a turn and Scriptures wrested to a favourable construction all this base and foul dealing will so wound a tender and sincere Conscience that it will either contract a hardness and callus and become proof against all these awakenings or pull a man out of these base Courses that must be carried on by so bad Methods for there is nothing so candid as Conscience and therefore S. Paul chargeth us not to lye one to another since we have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man for he that does all things as in the sight of God can do nothing that he fears should be seen or known of men And thus I have dispatched the First part of my Design that Conscience obliges us to Subjection by resisting all the first Motions that lead to Disorder or Confusion 2. Nor does it only put out of the way those dangerous Stumbling-blocks but it drives the sense of Duty deep into our Minds Law and Government can only watch over the Actions and Words of Subjects but can neither discover nor over-rule their Thoughts which a cautious man wrapping up within himself can reserve to a fit opportunity but Conscience insinuates the Duty we owe the Sovereign Power upon our secretest thoughts and Religion obliges us not to curse the King in our thoughts and has made the Duty we pay Authority a part of its self and of these returns of the holy Fear and humble Obedience we owe the great King of Kings But this must not be so far carried as if those who are vested with the Sovereign Power had Authority to command us to embrace whatever Religion they enjoyn according to the pestiferous spawn of that Infernal Leviathan who by this Assertion doth at once destroy both Religion and Government For that base Flatterer of Princes pretending to offer them more than was due to them hath struck at the Root of their Authority and at once robbed them of all their Rights For we are either bound to obey the Sovereign by some obligation the Law of God brings on us or not If not then all the Sacredness of Authority is gone and the Prince has nothing but Force to maintain his Right and every Usurper that Masters him shall have a better Right by how much more Power he has to strengthen his ambitious Pretensions But if we be bound by the Laws of God to obey the Supreme Power then these Laws had a prior Title to our Obedience and infer the Duties of Subjects as a particular Effect of their Doctrine Therefore these Laws having the first Right to our Obedience must oblige us Nor can we be allowed to pick out that one of obeying the Magistrate and leave the rest behind us for all the Laws of God being enacted by the same Authority must equally bind us and as no deputed Magistrate can void the Laws of the Supreme Power so neither can Princes void the Laws of God without sopping the Foundations of their own Authority But none of these magnifyings of Magistracy are necessary to make it great it being by God himself exalted to so culminating a height and the rendring to God the things that are God's does not prejudice Caesar in the things that are Caesar's But Religion ingages us to so full an Obedience to the Laws that our violating them when they contradict no Command of God's makes us guilty in his sight and though we disguise what we do with so much cunning that the Secular Power can fix no Censure on us yet our Consciences will accuse us before God for those secret Transgressions which no humane Care can discover There is a Tribunal set up by God for the Magistrate in all our Breasts which will pass Sentence severely and not be put off by the tricks of Law the boldness of Denials the cunning of Excuses or any other Arts that may impose upon or abuse such Judges who must proceed upon clear evidence and not on dubious conjectures But when a man is retired inward and his Conscience takes him to task then all these visors are pulled off and he must needs appear in