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
A11610	The worthy communicant rewarded Laid forth in a sermon, on John 6.54. Preached in the Cathedrall of St. Peter in Exeter, on Low-Sunday, being the 21. of Aprill, Anno 1639. By William Sclater, Master of Arts, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now chaplaine of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop's Barony of Saint Stephens, and preacher also at S. Martin, in the same city.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1639 (1639)	STC 21850; ESTC S100965	42,655	89

receive the seeds of grace One sting of the fiery Serpent in the wildernesse drives the pained Israelite to look up for remedy to the i Num. 21.9 brasen Serpent there set up so when the Conscience is as it were stung with the bitings of the k Rev. 12.9 old Serpent the Devill by the sight and smart for sinne Then flies the Penitent and sobbing soule for ease and remedy to the True brasen l John 3.14 Serpent Christ Jesus who hath broken the teeth and plucked out that m 1 Cor. 15.55 57. sting which so much pained the good soule The n Initium salutis notitia peccati qui peccare se nescit corrigi non vult Sen. Frustra medicantis auxilium expectat qui vulnus non detegit Boctius sight and sense of misery by sinne is the sure preparatory meanes to seek and finde a remedy by mercy as when the powers of the jaylors soule were shaken with as strong an earth-quake as the Prison it selfe was Then but not till then hee o Act. 16.29 Non potest scire quo modo morbos curare conveniat qui undè hi sunt ignorat Cornel. Cels de Re Med. lib. 1. sprang in to Paul and Silas desiring both ease and direction from the guilt of sinne unto the life of Christianity The like to which wee read of S. Peters Converts when they were p Act. 2.37 * A man were better feele wrath then nothing D. Sclater in sick souls salve pricked in their hearts then they cry out What shall wee do to bee saved 2. Secondly Christs Resurrection was q Thom. 3ª qu. 54ª Art 2. Integrall whole in every part a most complete and perfect Resurrection he had nothing wanting or defective in his body which now arose in incorruptibilitate as r Primasius in 1. ad Corinth c. 15. v. 20. Primasius speaks in an absolute incorruption yea and impossibility of returning back againe to Death He being risen dieth o Rom. 6.9 no more death hath no more dominion over him for he arose Immortalis Totaliter as p Raymund à Sabunde in Theolog. Natural Raymundus à Sabunde saith Totally Immortall Now his Resurrection being an example of ours from hence wee are instructed to a Totall Integrall and Universall abrenunciation of all sinne unto the contrary reformation A Christian must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whole in regard of sincerity universall in regard of the extent of his obedience unto q Psal 119.128 all Gods Commandements for hee that allowes himselfe in any one knowne sinne cannot bee said Truly to hate any sinne even as a loose adulterer that hath many curtisans but some one above the rest on whom hee doates on whom his luxurious affections are more intensively enamoured though hee entertaine the rest but onely in a generall salute and so goes them all by to glut himselfe with pleasure on that one Though the manifestation of his carnall love be greater to this one then to all the other yet hee cannot properly be said to hate any of the rest But a Christian must not onely as Herod be at his r Mar. 6.20 many things nor as Agrippa at his ſ Act. 26.28 almost nor as Naaman at his Rimmon and his being pardoned in t 2 King 5.18 This though but an onely minion but he that is in Christ must bee a new Creature throughout and u Act. 26.29 altogether x 2 Cor. 5.17 all things must become New in heart and affection in life and conversation in body in soule in spirit y 1 Thes 5.23 Wholly Integrally Universally for so was Christs Resurrection 3. Thirdly Christ arose speedily the z Luke 24.46 Third day from his death and that no sooner nor no later first saith a Thom. 3ª qu. 53. Art 2. in corp Aquinas to shew the Truth of both his Natures it behoved him to rise quickly least if his Resurrection had beene deferred till the end of the world the Truth of his Divinity might with his omnipotency have beene suspected as if hee b See John 10.18 could not have raised up himselfe before and it behoved him to lie till the third day before hee arose least the Truth of his humanity and his death might have beene questioned now continuing in the grave untill the Third Day so that the grave to our Saviour was not onely Sheol but also b Bp. Lake quà supra p. 152. Shacath not onely a greedy swallower but a ravenous digester also it 's manifest that his Death was True No Apoplectick extasie being compatible with life under favour above three dayes Secondly Hee rose the third day that is speedily no long delay intervening betweene his Dissolution and his Resurrection to bee a Patterne to us herein of our speedy and c Luke 24.1 early arising out of the grave of sinne unto the life of grace Ne differas de die in diem saith d Ecclus. 5.7 Siracides Make no tarrying to turne to the Lord and put not off from day to day I love them that love me saith God and they that seeke me early shall finde me Prov. 8.17 God loves such as bee aurorantes ad se that with the first peeping of the day give up themselves to God Let us with Abel offer up the e Gen. 4.4 firstlings of our Time in Sacrifice to God we shall so be the first in his acceptation Let us die the wooll of our infancy and youth into the graine colour of sanctity that when our dayes are woven into more yeares wee may never after change colour Awake up my glory saith King David awake Psaltery and Harpe I my selfe will awake right early Psal 57.8 Or as some render it Excitabo auroram I will stirre up the morning non illam ut me à somno excitet praestolabor sed illam ego morantem excitabo saith m Granatens tom 3. concion de temp conc 1. in die S. Pasch Granatensis And surely my Beloved Christians would wee as now it 's n Rom. 13.11 high time awake out of the sleepe of our carnall security and sin and as Bildad advised Job seek unto God o Job 8.5 6. betimes surely now he would awake for us and make the habitation of our righteousnesse prosperous Yea if thus we would awake and arise from the dead in the first Resurrection Christ himselfe shall give us p Eph. 5.14 light that is himselfe for so old Simeon calleth him The q Luk. 2.32 Joh. 1.9 Light to lighten the Gentiles and in thy a Psal 36.9 light O blessed and sweet Saviour we shall surely see light This was the way that a * Dr Peterson the reverend Dean of Exeter in his learned and elegant sermon upon Eph. 5.14 preached in the Cathedrall of Saint Peter there upon Easter day 1639 bright starre pointed out unto me lately as yee all know and the readiest affections of mine heart lending mee winde and sayles at will for present would now put mee on to steare amayne in the same course This was the Musick that so tooke our eares and hearts upon the solemne Festivall it selfe Oh that as the voice and eccho in the woods that most divine Sermon and our true Practice might make up one sound and termination I confesse my meditations have since that time as Moses on the Mount b Exod. 32.1 stayed long upon it and were it not that I justly feared my jarring notes would marre that taking harmony I could yet winde up mine instrument a while longer but so divine an Orpheus could not but draw even the stony heart to follow Doe then what then you heard I will assure you it is that which leads the way directly to the life eternal in this my Text Concerning which if ye would now enquire of me and aske me what it is I must needs tell you that its that which sooner swallowes up our thoughts in wonder then it can become capable of but a competent expression by our speech it s better knowne indeed by True fruition then discourse Therefore leaving that let us now rather all pray so to bee enabled all to feed upon the flesh and to drinke the bloud of Christ by faith that in the issue we may make sure of the full fruition of the same and in the end of all things obtaine infallibly the c 1 Pet. 1.9 end of all our faith even the salvation of our soules and this through the alone merits and mediation of the same Jesus Christ the d 1 Joh. 2.1 righteous who hath risen from the dead is e Eph. 4.8 9. ascended up into Heaven there to f Joh. 14.3 prepare those eternall mansions of blisse promised to all that cleave unto him by a true effectuall and lively faith even for ever and ever Unto him with thee O righteous Father and thy blessed incomprehensible Spirit our God in Unity our God in Trinity be all honour and praise thanksgiving immortality dominion salvation and glory in the g Eph. 3.21 Church throughout all ages world without end Amen FINIS