Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	eternal_a	glory_n	immortality_n	1,513	5	10.0609	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00980	The way to blessednes a treatise or commentary, on the first Psalme. By Phinees Fletcher, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word at Hilgay, in Norfolke.	Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650.	1632 (1632)	STC 11085; ESTC S102384	208,041	304

frequent idolatrous houses of Papists till at length by Gods just judgement they are snared Will men yeeld to the voice of God Keepe not companie with drunkards Doe they presently obey the heavenly warning doe they not despise these admonitions not of man but of God aske them what profit haue you by such companie what credit doe you not sometimes fall into many inconveniences temporall and spirituall by this societie Can you bee in the fellowship of the Saints and of God through Christ when thus your heart cleaveth to wicked sinfull persons Haue you any right to that holy Hill when you make much of a man vile unprofitable and noysome and the righteous is contemned in thine eyes Psal. 15. 4. nothing awakes them 3. That stiffe unbeliefe of heart resisting this evident truth and resolving to giue no credit to it when wee heare the Wisedome of God witnesse to us the righteous man is more excellent then his neighbour doe we seale to this testimonie that it is true when we heare the Lord speake so contemptuously of wicked persons that they are dogges swine drosse filth corruption doe our hearts answer truth Lord and humbling our soules with that Cananite confesse our selues no better in nature so abhorre our owne filthinesse and uncessantly blesse that glorious Saviour who hath washed clensed and changed us to his glorious image Oh! how few stand thus affected witnesse our common behaviour for are we downe the winde streightned in a low base and despicable condition and are there any meanes offered to rise and prefer ourselues who doth not instantly apprehend and pursue them be they difficult be they dangerous be they almost desperate venturing our liues by sea by land to attain to a better estate though in hope onely wee will often put our liues in venture when our hopes are but in peradventure Are we now got up unto some comfortable or honourable place doe we know that by want of such or such observances we shall quickly fall againe but stand and increase by performance of some no hard service who neglects it What Farmer obserues not a good Land-lord what Courtier doubles not his diligence to a bountifull Prince that he may still enjoy his favour But now turne your eie upon the behaviour of Christians the Lord tells us thou art as base in thy nature as the earth thou treadest on as the dung thou scornest to tread on it is sinne makes thee thus base and abject Desirest thou the true honour and dignitie of my kingdome know they certainely attaine that constantly seeke it If by continuance in well-doing thou seekest glory honour and immortalitie thou shalt reape eternall life To every one that doth good shall bee honour and glory but to the contentious and disobedient to the truth and obeying unrighteousnesse shall bee indignation and wrath Tribulation and anguish upon every soule that doth evill Now when so gracious meanes are offered who takes hold of them who giues up his soule to obedience of this truth who withdrawes his heart from the subjection of sinne by this wee manifest our grosse unbeliefe and contempt of God and his word 4. The cursed securitie of our sluggish nature never trembling at the judgements of God denounced in his word till they over-take and attach vs. Is God gracious wee abuse his grace to wantones Is he patient wee abuse his patience to hardnesse and encouragement to sinne Is he silent expecting our returne wee abuse his silence to blasphemie and thinke him like our selues nothing moues us till we are arrested by the judgements of God Oh how farre are we from that melting heart of good Iosiah we can heare thunders of the law with lesse feare then boyes their owne squibs and crackers we can see the roddes of God on every hand of us and ●●ver feare the same punishment although we are even in the same or some worse sinne Oh then let us be stirred up to abhorre this sinfull vanitie which turnes us into chaffe and exposes us to certaine perdition Say oh say to thy soule Dost thou carefully provide against disgrace and contempt of this world dost thou cast about and find out an hundred devises to under-prop my credit and dignitie on earth and what wilt thou suffer me to fall into eternall shame and confusion It is sinne it is onely sinne which can debase mee povertie reproaches despising of men cannot vilifie me but in the sight of fooles but rather enobles me in the sight of God Angels good nay even heathen men Bend then all thy forces against sinne and never let that finde any grace or favour in thine eyes which heapes upon thee all disgrace and scorne in the eyes of God Destroy it which else certainely will bring thee to destruction Vse therefore carefully the meanes Let that sword of the Spirit bee ever drawne in thy hand to cut off this corruption which else will certainely cut thee off from GOD himselfe and all his blessings for evermore Psalme I. Verse V. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous HEEre the Prophet further aggravates the cursed estate of wicked persons by a double consequent certainely attending them 1. They shall not stand in the judgement 2. They shall not stand in the congregation of the righteous Whence arises this conclusion The ungodly shall not stand in the judgement Little explication shall need who were the ungodly was before opened The word strictly taken is confined to the breach of the first table and in this place though I would not absolutely restraine it to that sense yet it is very probable that it doth here especially point out such as neglect God in his worship and the word sinners the unrighteous they are joyned often certaine is it where ungodlinesse is rooted there unrighteousnes flourisheth and where unrighteousnesse is fruitfull ungodlinesse is there deepely grounded 2. Iudgement is double either in this life or the other the temporall judgements see described 1 Pet. 4. 17. Psal. 82. 8. and 96. 13. For hee commeth for hee commeth to judge the earth and is either exercised in the inward court of the conscience or in the outward by afflictions Secondly the judgement of that other life is called the generall judgement and the judgement of the great day Iude 6. the judgement after death Heb. 9.27 3. To stand in judgement is a phrase of speech signifying to overcome or to bee cleere when wee are judged compare Rom. 3. 4. with Psal. 5. 5. So the Latines say that a man falls in judgement when he looseth the day So then they shall not stand in judgement is all one as if it were said they shall be cast in judgement yea cast downe for ever and shall rise no more The sense then is Such as are without the feare of God and care to please him as Atheists hypocrites both when God rises