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
A66816	Eremicus theologus, or, A sequestred divine his aphorisms, or, breviats of speculations, in two centuries / by Theophilus Wodenote ...	Wodenote, Theophilus, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing W3241; ESTC R39130	60,438	192

to do but a great number of them for our admonition that we may know what to shun 17. WHom thou now truly believest to be invisible and immortall and incomprehensible Think not at any time that God is in earnest like one of us or that God hath a body because the Scriptures sometimes give him our parts because we read of the heart of God eyes ears arms hands feet and such like for the holy pen-men by now and then the things of God by the phrases of men for mens better apprehension and readyer understanding because we cannot understanding because we cannot understand how one should see without eyes or heare without eares or shew strength without armes I speak after the manner of men saith Saint Paul because of the infirmity of your flesh [y] Rom. 6.19 I speak as men commonly use in regard of your weak capacities and carnall imaginations taking the best way to be understood to instruct your souls and affect your hearts Come not to the hearing or reading of such speeches as the Corinthians came together not for the better but for the worse [z] 1 Cor. 11.17 gather not the more errour from them but the more knowledge Hear them or read them to that end for which they were written even for thy clearer conception and easier perswasion 18. IN all places and amongst all persons let thy maine care alwaye be to set forward Gods cause to defend his truth to maintaine his Name and estimation whensoever it is any way questioned or evill spoken of Have a greater care of Gods glory than of any others or of thine own and let it go neerer unto thee to hear Gods Name dishonoured than to have thine own destroyed yea rather than thou O Lord shouldst lose any part of thy glory which is most proper and precious unto thee glory be for ever taken away from us and our honour with all contempt and disgrace layd in the dust loss of credit and reputation be to all our doings and sayings losse to our goods and good name and whatsoever in this world is most dear unto us 19. BE slow to wrath in the greatest in juries inferred upon thy selfe but in the least affront offered to God put on all the indignation and rigour thou hast Be mild and forbearing suffering and soft in causer of thy own but in the quarrell of God be magnanimous and fervent sharp and severe according to thy power and place Moses in his own quarrell in matter concerning himself was a man most meek and had not an equall unto him in his time for peaceable and gentle behaviour [a] Numb 12.2 3. he quietly bare wonderfull wrongs and was easily perswaded to depart from his right But when he was to deal for God he took upon him an holy obstinanacy He would not consent unto Pharao that so much as an hoofe should remain behind them [b] Exod. 10.26 but when he spyed a Calf in the campe when he perceived idolatry committed and Gods glory comming into question He proclamed a bloody massacre and pronounced the execution to be a consecration yea he with his partakers speedily sacrifised to God the blood of three thousand malefactours [c] Exod. 32.27 28 29. S. Paul was not mooved with thought of his own troubles or danger of death but when he saw the City of Athens wholy given to idolatry his spirit was stirred in him and though he did not as Moses because he had not the like authority yet he disputed in the Synagogue with the Jewes and with the devout persons and in the Market daily with them that met with him [d] Acts 17.16 17. 20. MAke O make no long yea no little tarrying to turne unto the Lord put not off from day to day from youth to old age when Summer is turned into Winter when the raine descendeth and the flouds come and the winds blow [e] Matth. 7.27 when men are beset with troubles and sickness with paine and grief and torment when their wits and senses are taken up to devise remedyes against their diseases to prevent or to sustain the pangs of death but remember thy Creatour and remember a convenient time for thy Creatour remember thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth in thy young years in thy flourishing dayes in thy time of prosperity whilst thy sences are sharpe thy memory quick thy wit ripe thy capacity ready thy understanding deep Remember his might that thou mayest believe his mercy that thou mayest hope his justice that thou mayest be fearfull his goodnes that thou mayest be thankfull [g] Augustinus 21. LOve all Gods children for his sake and obey all superiours whom he hath appointed The debt of love is generall we all owe it and we owe it unto all but trust in God and depend upon him onely joyne not any creature with him He is contented and hath commanded that we should perform all other duties to all others to whom they belong Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour appertaineth [h] Rom. 13.7 provided alwayes that we yeeld them all to him chiefly to him ever and to none so much as him But the worship of confidence he hath reserved wholy to himselfe neither may we communicate it to any other upon any conditions without extreme disloyalty to him what is it less than idolatry for the meanest upon earth to tender it and as much as it as sacrilege for the mightiest up●arth to take it 22. OPen thy mouth and thy mind for thy brethren when they are molested and maligned and laden with scandals and reproaches but much more then for his cause and for his glory that made thy mouth and thy mind Be not ashamed of his righteousnes or of his Gospell lest he be ashamed of thee confess his Name before the sons of men and thou shalt be sure to be confessed before the sons of God Acknowledge Christs truth and he will acknowledge thee before the Angels and before his Father 23. IT hath been the custome alwayes of the best sort to offer in the best manner the best they had unto the best that is to the Lord himself Offer thou likewise the best to God whensoever thou hast cause to offer if ever thou desire to be in the number of the best otherwise the worst sort shall rise up in judgment and condemn thee the very idolaters that worshipped the works of their own hands and turned the truth of God into a lie shall go before thee into the Kingdom of heaven They in their oblations thought not the worst they had or what came first to hand as good enough but brought the best they had would have brought better if they could and thought nothing too much for their newly devised God they were content to spoil themselves that they might adorn their idols (i) Exod. 32.2 3. 24. STand upon

thy credit and provide things honest before men A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favour than silver and gold (k) Prov. 22.1 It seasoneth the gifts that we have received and maketh them profitable unto others Be our parts never so transcendent Be our gifts never so excellent Be we never so loaden with spirituall graine and food and treasure yet if we have not a good name to grace them and countenance them we can do very little or no good with them It was an honour to Demetrius that he had a good report of all men and of the truth if self (l) 3. Epist John v. 12. but stand no more upon thy credit than upon thy conscience neither regard more the shame of men than the fear of God Have him still before thine eyes who hath thee alwayes before his eyes look up unto him continually who never leaveth to look down upon thee so shalt thou walk evermore in his presence and be sure to become ever the more upright 25. NEither derogate any thing from the Majestie of God albeit he vouchsafe ordinarily to use externall and ordinary meanes in bringing his purposes to pass for he useth them freely not of necessity and he is as well able to manifest his power without them as with them He hath a prerogative above the prerogative of any Prince to work above and besides yea and against nature Neither yet magnify the creatures which the Lord at any time is pleased to use above that which is convenient for any rare gifts and qualities that we see in them for that were to set them in the place of God who have no more efficacy than that which is given them from above from him who is the guide of nature and the cause of causes according to his own pleasure but first and above all give thou glory to God to whom onely it is due and then for the Lords sake honour thou the means because God hath put the honour of an instrument upon it 26. NEver distrust in thy least or greatest vexation any the least or greatest promise of God for not one jot or one tittle of any shall fail to be performed in due time Man is variable in his love and promises to his neighbour Men are subject even the best men both to deceive and to be deceived Men promise much and perform little but as God is not deceived so he cannot deceive and if thou be of any spirituall experience thou canst not but know that the Lord often bringeth to passe more than he promiseth to do Doubt not therefore at any time of his Word who is many times better than his Word 27. ACcount it and acknowledge it alwayes with all thankfulnes as a great mercy of God that he sendeth thee to school and speaketh to thee who art not able to abide the beauty and brightnes of his majestie by men and brethren like unto thy self and subject to like passions If God himself should appeare unto thee and utter his voyce his voyce from heaven then wouldst thou fear and quake and fall down as a dead man or cry out with great astonishment as many of the Fathers did Alas I shall dye we hear not the thunder without feare we behold not the brightnes of the Sun without dazeling how then should we hear the immediate voice of God or see his glory without confusion Then if by Gods mercyes thou recoverest thy sences thou wouldst make request to have the ministers of the Word to speak unto thee again whom now thou despisest and whose words thou contemnest now as base and contemptible thou wouldst then desire and imbrace 28. REmember it and consider it as a principle whensoever thou hearest that howsoever we may not obey either man or Angell if he speak any thing contrary to the written Word though he come with all shew of learning and all appearance of unspotted and undefiled pureness yet the greatest princes of the world are bound to heare and obey the meanest man that God doth send so far as he teacheth according to his commission If Princes resist the word of truth in the Preachers mouth they resist not the messenger but the master that sent him 29. GRow better as thou growest elder Be not like a dead hedge with the many by standing longer waxing rottener Art thou past growth in body yet art thou not come to thy full growth in soul thou so journest here in this valley of teares untill thy faith be turned into vision and thy hope into fruition As a new born babe desire the sincere milk of the Word that thou mayest grow thereby [m] 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I Pet. 2.2 The Apostle speaketh it to the eldest as well as to the youngest There is no bound for this thy growth but the common bound of thy mortality Grow still in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ [n] 2 Pet. 3.18 c. without whom all knowledge is ignorance all wisedom foolishnes all learning madness and all religion errour or hypocrisy or superstition and of whom the greatest part of that which thou knowest is not the least part of that which thou knowest not Never be to teach unwilling or to learn ashamed 30. THink not thou hast knowledge enough for then thou clearely bewrayest thy want of knowledge such as have attained and received the greatest knowledge do find in themselves the greatest ignorance such as imagine themselves to be most sure and rich in understanding are indeed most sottish and childish in the matters of God like empty vessels that make the greatest sound Hereby thou shalt try thy self whether thou hast reached to any measure of acceptable knowledge if it work and kindle in thee a desire of more knowledge if it do praferre facem hold the light before thee to see thy own weakness and if it teach thee that still thy wants are greater than thy wealths 31. DEspise not undervalew not the the holy Word of God because it is conveied unto thee by sinfull man Forsake not the exercises of religion for the wickedness or unworthiness of the Minister As thou art not to receive his doctrine for his good life so thou art not to reject it for his evil life An evill Messenger may deliver a good message The Pharisees in the dayes of Christ were lewd livers full of pride covetousnes hypocrisy and dissimulation and many of them of other tribes than of Levy yet so long as they fate in Moses chaire that is held themselves to Moses text and doctrine the disciples are commanded ded to heare them as damned hypocrits as they were and to do whatsoever they commanded [o] Matth. 23.2 3. which words our Saviour would never have delivered if either the Minister might have defiled the Word or any man be allowed for the faults of the Minister to have rejected and refused the Lords Mysteries 32. IF thou wouldst increase in