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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37536	The present interest of England in matters of religion, stated wherein is clearly demonstrated that the Protestant religion may be fully secured from popery, though the penal laws be taken away / by W.D., alover of liberty for conscience sake.	W. D., lover of liberty for conscience sake.	1688 (1688)	Wing D99; ESTC R21223	21,170	32

we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Heb. 2.3 This is the work that every man should most pursue and that early and not to refer it and put it off to a dying hour O how unfit a time is that for so great a work Often-times Mens Speech is taken from them they would speak but cannot sometimes their reason is taken from them they are light-headed and speak they know not what surely that is not a proper season for men to make their peace with God. Can any man think that God Almighty will be so soon reconcil'd to him that hath lived a sinful wicked life all his days when he lyes on his death bed under the weight of all his sins when wrath is in his bosom and vengeance at his back I was told lately of a rich man that spake these words on his bed a little before he dyed I have left thousands for this Child and thousands for that Child but I have no treasures laid up for my self in Heaven To make them Rich I have made my self Poor to make them great I have made my self miserable and now my poor Soul is left to shift for it self what will become of it I know not O is not this the sad state and condition of many a Rich Man when he comes to dye A great man may enjoy much and yet he wants more than he enjoys he wants the favour of God an interest in Jesus Christ and that joy of the holy Ghost which is unspeakable and full of glory and that love of God which is better than life and that grace which is sufficient and assurance of that glory which God hath promised and Christ hath purchased O work while it is day for the night cometh when no man can work When once the Master of the House is risen up and hath shut to the door and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door saying Lord Lord open unto us and he shall answer and say unto you I know you not whence you are Depart from me ye workers of iniquity Luke 13.25 26 27. O be therefore traders for heaven that God may be your portion Christ your gain Heaven your home and Glory your reward This then is the work of your Salvation to continue in well-doing seeking for Glory and Honour and Immortality Rom. 2.7 and Eternal Life But Glory Honour and Peace to every one that worketh good ver 10 11. For there is no respect of persons with God. Secondly A Generation Work. And you will say What is that Have you not known have you not heard has it not been told you God Almighty hath spoken to these Nations from Heaven by his mighty works which we have all seen and the Trumpet of his providences hath sounded this truth aloud in our ears To loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy burthens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every Yoke Isaiah 58.6 Who is there amongst us that hath not heard this voice The King that sits upon the Throne hath spoken to us by his late gracious Declaration for Liberty of Conscience Gamaliel by one argument silenced a whole assembly of persecutors that had agreed to slay the Holy Apostles And they took Counsel together to slay them Acts 5.33 Gamaliels argument was this Now I say unto you Refrain from these men and let them alone for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against God verse 38 39. Now the King by his gracious Declaration hath done much more for he hath silenced all the persecutors in three Kingdoms and tyed up their hands that they cannot smite with the fist of wickedness Many Thousands of Gods people in these Kingdoms have spoken also to you by the many humble addresses they presented to the King blessing God and thanking the King for this Liberty of Conscience which they now enjoy Persecution is a thing so ill in its nature so black in its name so bad in its effects and consequences so displeasing to God so hurtful to a Kingdom and so destructive to trade that modesty it self might restrain men from that hellish and devilish work though they had nothing of Christianity in them and this will appear farther because Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. 5.10 Now if they be blessed that are persecuted then they that persecute are cursed If Heaven be the reward of faithful sufferers for Conscience sake towards God then Hell will be the portion of persecutors 2 Thes 1.6 If persecution be a thing so evil and bad let us consider then what these Penal Laws and Tests are and what they have done or has been done by them 1. First then These Penal Laws have arm'd your Enemies and put Weapons into their Hands to destroy you that are Dissenters When you were in the hands of your persecutors they neither pity'd you nor spar'd you but broke open your Doors and entered into your Houses taking away your Money and Goods and at some places not leaving the Poor People a Bed to lye on nor a Stool to sit on forcing you to attend from Sessions to Sessions and from Assize to Assize still keeping them bound over and putting many into Prison and there keeping them long and some so long till they dy'd And at that time they told you that it was not they that spoil'd you of your goods but the Laws it was not they that shut you up in Prison but the Laws it was not they that punish'd and destroy'd you for your Consciences towards God but the Laws This was that persecutors said then and this is that they say now it was the Laws that destroyed you and not them The King by his Declaration hath put Violence out of their Hands that they cannot hurt you and do you pray to God that he might put Violence out of their Hearts that they may not hate you and take hold of this opportunity that God hath put into your Hands by all Just and Lawful means that those Laws may be destroy'd that have destroy'd so many people This makes men bold to commit the greatest wickedness when they have Laws to encourage them and bear them out This said the Jews that Murdered our Lord and Saviour John 19.7 We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye Dan. 6.15 And this was the thing that cast Daniel into the Den of Lyons namely the Law of the Medes and Persians And this was that encourag'd Haman to contrive the destruction and ruin of so many thousand Jews at once Esther 3.8 The Law being on his side and against them And this is that the Prophet Micah complain'd of That the Statutes of Omri were kept up and all the works of the house of Ahab Micah