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_v	tribute_n	3,178	5	10.8957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53500	The living, dead pastor yet speaking in two sermons, preached on Bartholomews Day, Aug. 24, 1662, in Bewdly Chappel / by Henry Osland then minister there, and now published by some friends of truth.	Osland, Henry.	1663 (1663)	Wing O531; ESTC R17697	23,412	72

damn you and shame you before God and the world and be a torment to think of it to all eternity Oh that I might be so happy with Sampson to kill more of these Philistines at the day of my death then in all my life 8. Let not the world and the things of the world be too precious in your eyes Believe that there is not that worth in it that its pleasures and profits tempt you to think there is It is a portion that the Reprobate hath and sometime that the Elect do want You have many more precious things to look after love and delight in a precious God a precious Christ and a holy Spirit precious Truth and a precious Soul and Heaven The world weighs nothing when it is laid in the ballance with any with either of these Oh lose not either of these for the gaining of this base world having food and rayment be content wit● things convenient if God give you more use them for his glory and your neighbours wealth 9. Obey your King not for wrath but for Conscience sake If he impose Taxes murmur not at them Tribute saith Paul must be paid to whom Tribute is due Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Protection is a greater mercy then we can value How much would many people give for such a defence as we have ●et upon all our glory and such quiet habitations our lives and goods are not prostituted to the envious but confirmed by Acts of Parliament Fear God and the King and foll●w not them that are given to change And so obey all in their places that are under him in their places I say and in the things wherein they have power The meanest Officer must not be contemned nor resisted doing his Office He that resists resists an Ordinance of God Rom. 13. But still know that none have power against God to set up an Altar against Gods Altar The Church hath power to declare Christs Laws already made and see them executed and that the things of Christ be managed decently and in order i. e orderly without confusion in Modes and things Circumstantial they may determine as to time place c. and we must obey But say the Leyden Divines Syn. Pur. Theol. Disp 35. Ab omni traditionum humanarum jugo liberas habemus Conscientias cum solius Dei sit res ad Religionem pertinentes praescribere If any thing be enjoyned that you cannot yield to submit your selves to suffer patiently what shall be laid upon you When you see it is your duty non obedire not to act and practise there you must not nolle obedire or superbe repugnare there 's a great deal of difference between a man 's not being able to obey actively and his being unwilling to obey or proudly to resist or disobey Let the world know that you are willing to yield as far as you can All this I add as to obedience in matters Ecclesiastical and Spiritual 10. Conform to things established in the Church as far as you can this follows on the last There are many things good that you may safely own and practise and joyn in without sin Do not think that because I and others do refuse to subscribe and Conform that therefore we could not yield to some or that we judge all bad no we should have gone far rather then leave our Ministry as far as any shoe of the preparation of the Gospel would bear us Your Case and ours are not the same you are not put to declare your unfeigned Assent and Consent to all and every point in the Liturgy as we are nor to subscribe to other things I can saith Mr. Z. C. keep communion under that form of Worship wherein I cannot administer and heartily say Amen to the Petitions which are put up in an order so confused preposterous and indigested that it seemeth to me so much below the gravity of the Church whose mouth I must be the seriousness of the Office whereby I must minister the sanctity of the duty I am to perform and the Jealous and Sacred nature of the object to whom they are presented that I dare not stand between God and his people in the same In things that are unlawfull absolutely the actor and the looker on he that prayes and he that holds up his hands sinneth But in things that are inconvenient or in an imperfect mode of Worship where thete is a liberty of closing or refusing the Joyners are not guilty of the sin especially if there is a secret protest entered against every desiling thing In our extempore prayers there were failings imperfections we were men words might fall that were not so apposite as was desired by us for such a duty Our soul abhorred them as they were sinfull so did yours Will God impute these to you surely no. There is a local presence and a moral absence in one and the same duty the body is before the Minister or Officiating Priests ready to hear what God saith or to offer up to God what he saith but if he utter falshood the soul is absent A Minister preacheth a manifest error the hearer abhors it keeps it far enough from the belief of his heart shall this man be guilty of it Surely it is his sin that is the Actor it lyeth at his own door thou hast delivered thy Soul The Application is easie 11. Do not be drawn by the examples of men only nor feared by their threats be not Conformists I mean because such and such are and be not Non-conformists because others are so I desire that my bare practice may not lead you possibly I may be deceived and mistaken We all know but in part as I ever said Follow me no further then I follow Christ And though Christ refused to wash his hands though it was a tradition of their forefathers and a command of Superiors yet into their Synagogues Christ went Search the Scriptures see with your own eyes and let the command and will of God weigh more with you then the example of men And be not feared from following God through the fear of man He hath assured you that no man shall harm you whilest you follow the thing that is good The fear of man hath been a great snare to the godly How uprightly had Peter stood had it not been for this Daniel was fearless and so would not omitt a small thing of opening his window but prayes in the sight of all though the King had forbidden it Christian Courage doth excellently become a Souldier of Christ get much of the fear of God in your hearts Timor timore ut clavus clavo pellitur fear drives out and expells fear 12. Have a great care of Schim I speak of sinfull schism There is a schism that is lawfull and commanded and there is a schism unlawfull and condemned Separate from sin and things in themselves unlawfull and the Scripture will bear you out 2 Cor. 6. ult but to