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
A31349	Catholicon, the expediency of an explicit stipulation betwixt the parochial ministers and their congregations, or, An essay to prove that the intervention of solemn mutual promises betwixt the parochial ministers and their people (faithfully to discharge their relative duties to one another) would be useful and expedient for these ends to promote in clergy-men regularity of life, and diligence in their ministerial function, to increase in the lay parishioners, Christian knowledge, sincere godliness, with a free and friendly conversation, to give a stop to separation, and reduct dissenters to the communion of the church without using secular compulsion, to secure the peace of the nation, to inlarge trade, and make provision for the poor, and that all may be effected without the least innovation, or alteration of the present legal establishment of the Church of England humbly tendred to the consideration of all English Protestants / by a parochial minister.	Parochial minister.	1674 (1674)	Wing C1498; ESTC R17127	21,417	32

measure now manifested to be like to produce such a general benefit may be objected against as impracticable by reason of the weakness of the present Ministry of the Church of England few of which are equal as to parts and prudence for the management of such a work as this is Answ My answer is very short and peremptory if I only say then let them be deprived of their places and more able Persons put in their rooms But I rather answer that notwithstanding the slanderous insinuations of some prophane Droles and other malignants I am confident to assert That there are not many of the Clergy of England and indeed it is not fit there should be any who are not able from the Scriptures of the New and Old Testament to prove unto the People their misery both of guilt and impotency in their lapsed state And that God hath sealed a New Covenant in the blood of Christ wherein he hath promised through the propitiation of that blood to forgive and blot out the sins of the penitent believer and to give grace and power to resist corruption on those that are sincere and humble and smother not or stifle their convictions and to increase Grace from Christs fulness to the sincere and diligent and to secure by his Grace the humble and the watchful that they shall not fall away and that finally he will give to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for honour and glory and immortality eternal life I doubt not also but that they are able from the Scriptures to prove the contrary threatnings namely That they who resist Gods Spirit in its motions and convictions sinning against their light are in danger to be given over to a reprobate sense and to be estranged wholly from the life of God through a blinded mind and hardned heart and that the Impenitent and Unbelievers continuing such shall perish in their sins and that he who useth not his talents is like to lose them and that he who trusts to an old age repentance or a death-bed change is in danger to be cut off in his sins for combring the ground And that there is unsupportable and everlasting indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish certainly to come on all those who obey not the truth but obey unrighteousness and die in a state of impenitency and unbelief I do not question also but that most of the English Clergy are furnished with ability to prove the equity beauty and real pleasure and benefit of all the holy precepts of the Gospel and obedience to them not only from the direct testimony and assertion of the Scriptures but also by rational appeals to the light and experience of those of their Auditors who have not lost that dignoscitive power of their souls whereby their spiritual sense discerns betwixt good and evil which power whoever hath lost is not far from the condition of the damned spirits for he also is reserved in the chains of darkness to the judgement of the great day if God do not in a miracle of mercy break through that darkness wherein the resolved sinner hath shut up himself Such duties are these to love God with all our heart and to delight our selves in the manifestation of his glory by Jesus Christ and to love our Neighbour as our selves to forgive injuries to compassionate and help them who are miserable either by reason of sin or outward affliction to delight in those who are holy upon earth and to mortifie and crucifie worldly and carnal lusts and chearfully to bear the Cross when we suffer for righteousness sake I doubt not also but they can from Scripture and from the like rational applications and appeals prove the real danger unseemliness and unprofitableness of every sin with the real damage that sinners suffer by sin especially in their souls being thereby estranged from the life of God and more indisposed than before the perpetration of it to the reverence love and delight and confidence in God which is the life and happiness of all rational spirits I doubt not I say but most Ministers can prove this also to the conviction of them who will ponder and consider the sad influences of their own sins and have not sinned away the ability of tasting the good word of God and the powers of the world to come I do not know that I have set down either in the promises precepts or threatnings any but what is necessary to be known by all who live under the means of grace even by Lay-men And if a Parochial Minister hath a competent knowledge of these truths and can make them out to the conviction and instruction of honest plain men who desire to know what they must do to be saved and if withal the Teacher himself be of an holy humble and sober conversation he is not to be judged unfit for the Ministry because he hath not studied the Mathematicks or Modern Politicks or cannot humour his Discourses to the pleasing of their Gusto who go to the Theater with greater devotion than they do to the Church and prefer a modern and modish Play stuft with that they call wit namely interlardings of prophaness and scurrility far before a serious and seasonable but plane Sermon Object If it be objected further that every Minister that is able to Preach and instruct plain men is not able to manage the guidance of a Parochial Congregation wherein may be persons of great learning and parts and quality the Nobility Gentry Lawyers and Physicians of the Nation and can any imagine that these will subject themselves by explicit Promise to the oversight of the Parochial Clergy many of which want both experience and prudence to rule their own Houses well how shall they then take care of the House of God Answ I Answer that supposing those Persons of great abilities and qualities to be Christians and Protestants they will think it agreeable to Scripture and reason to put themselves into the society of those Christians amongst whom they do cohabit for the celebration of publick worship administred by some person set apart to that office according to the Order of the Gospel If then they own themselves for members of the Church of England in their particular Parish Assemblies their quality and abilities do not exempt them from owning the Parish Minister as their immediate Pastor But on the contrary their better abilities oblige them to give so much more assistance and incouragement to him in his work And so the Minister who was not equal to the guidance of a Parish in the single strength of his own prudence will by the advice and countenance of such helps in Government be rendred more able and successful in his work And an humble and modest Minister cannot want help sufficient from God to make his work prosperous if he be sincere in aiming at Gods Glory and the good of his people And if through pride and self-willedness any balk the advice of