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
A08482	Lifes brevitie and deaths debility Evidently declared in a sermon preached at the funerall of that hopeful and uertuous yong gentleman Edvvard Levvkenor esquire, &c. In whose death is ended the name of that renowned family of the Lewkenors in Suffolke. By Tymothy Oldmayne minister of the Word of God at Denham in Suffolke. Our dayes on earth are as a shaddow, and there is none abiding. Also an elegy and an epitaph on the death of that worthy gentleman, by I.G. Dr. of D.	Oldmayne, Timothy.; Garnons, John, fl. 1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 18806; ESTC S120802	49,291	128

pious and charitable actions performed by his honourable Ancestors their gracing of true Religion with a most holy life and conversation what is all come to this All lost and gone For answere of all these Answere first it must be held as an infalliable ground a truth without all contradiction which the preacher delivereth Ecles 2.16 As the wise man dyeth so dyeth the foole neither Is love and hatred to be discerned by any outward thing whatsoever Ecles 9.2 Secondly that as there are periods of Kingdomes so are there of private and particular families It was a question that Pompey once propounded to a certain Philosopher a sage wise man of those times having lately before received by Caesar an unrecoverable losse and overthrow why Caesar having so bad a cause in hand and himselfe so good yet Caesar should so mightily prevaile as he did and he fall in his righteous cause more and more under his adversaries victorious sword My Lord answered he Sunt periodi Regnorum there are periods of Kingdomes and it is probable that the period of the Roman State is come to an end and that the manner of the present government wil suddenly be changed as not long after it came to passe And so may I truely say by experience of particular families that they have their periods and one family passeth and another commeth in the place thereof Shew me else what is become not onely of those holy families of which we have such honourable mention in holy writ but also of those families of whom Heathen records speake so honourably The Syrgij Appij Fabij Valerij Bruti and the like that stood so much upon their Gentility and eminents of blood contemning all others as Novi homines new upstarts in comparison of themselves If Families have not their periods when we see it hourely before our eyes this family cut off and another comming in the place thereof one ending and another beginning so that what is come to this is befalne to millions before neither is it a new thing under the Sunne Eccles 1.9 Thirdly it must be remembred that Almighty God passeth none of his promises but upon a twofold condition 1. His Glory then 2. The good of the party Now God alwayes glorifies himselfe two wayes 1. In his Mercy 2. In his Justice First in his mercy in showring downe his richest blessings upon the House and Family of the righteous man Pal 85.10 so that within the wals therof mercy and truth do daily meete righteousnesse and peace do kisse and imbrace one another Yea those that by continuance in well doing seeke glory and honour and immortality Eternall life is sayth the Apostle Glory and honour Rom. 2.10 and peace to the Iew first and also to the Greek Secondly in Justice in visiting of sinne with an unpartiall eye not onely on the Fathers but likewise on their children yea oftimes so hotly that the Father sinneth Jer. 31.22 and the child suffereth The Fathers eat sower grapes the childrens teeth are iustly set on edge Secondly for the good of the party And here it must be remembred that it is a thing most usuall with God our heavenly Father intending the good of his servants partly for their bodies but principally for their soules in disposing of these outward things for speciall reasons best knowne unto himselfe to seeme after a sort to crosse his own word and promise made unto them So that whereas hee promiseth health they meete with sicknesse length of dayes shortnesse of Life the Sunne shine of prosperity and behold they meete the sad and gloomy dayes of adversity yea it is ordinary with him to dispose of all sublunary blessings as Queene Hester for a time bestowed her chiefest favours not upon them shee loved best but upon him shee hated most For whereas Mordecay her Uncle and other her kindred and neerest alliance were seldome named or it may be hardly looked on as may without wronging the text Hest 2.10 20 not unprobably be gathered Haman that cruel Tyger and bloody enemy to her stock and Nation hath in the meane while what heart could wish and all the honour done him which so mighty a Princesse could possibly bestow uppon one that was her vassall and inferiour Or like olde Isaac's dealing with his two sonnes Esau and Iacob making on a Lord and cockering him under his Wing and the other the true heire of the promise he turneth out of his doores with his staffe in his hand to seeke him a service Gen. 28.1 2 3. upon which hee might afterwards live by the sweate of his browes Many more instances of Gods dealing with his children in this kinde I could produce which for brevity sake I doe heere omit onely I could wish wee finding Almighty God walking in this ordinary way and course of his that wee should not by our uncharitable surmises and rash conclusions eyther too rigidly censure his righteous actions or measure at all his blessed steppes by the rule and compasse of our shallow reach remembring that there are Arcana Providentiae secrets and mysteries of Divine providence into which with the strength of our dazled eye wee are no way able at all to pierce So that we may thinke yea verily beleeve this or that to be the true cause and reason of this or the like heavy accident and yet be nothing so but a meere phantasie of our owne And truely this have others done before us standing upon Record in holy writ who verily beleeved they had as sure a ground to walke upon and as much reason to judge in divers cases as we possibly can haue and yet when matters came to scanning were miserably deceived For instance to take 2. or 3. examples amongst many who would not have judged the blindnesse of that poore man Iohn 9 who wanting sight from his birth and never beholding the Sun walking in his strength had bin either for his owne or the sin of his parents and this was the opinion of most as may appeare by the Disciples words after Ioh. 9.2 3 Master who did sin this man or his parents that he was borne blind But Christ tels another reasō in the verse following Neither this man nor his parents but the true cause saith hee is this that the workes of God should be made manifest in him Or secondly who would not have thought that the true reason why Almighty God shortned as hee did the dayes and life of that young noble Prince the hope of the ten Tribes and honor of the house of Ieroboam had beene the fiercenesse of his wrath bent against that ungodly Family for the horrible abhominations daily therein committed but it is not the reason that is alleadged by the Prophet but it is the goodnesse of the vertuous Prince as hee affirmeth that occasioneth his untimely death For so saith the Prophet Ahijah to the wife of Ieroboam masking her self in the weeds of another