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
A45082	Of government and obedience as they stand directed and determined by Scripture and reason four books / by John Hall of Richmond.	Hall, John, of Richmond.	1654 (1654)	Wing H360; ESTC R8178	623,219	532

left hand of Christ in his Church should be left to the dispose of Providence as heretofore declared But now it is not every Patience or dull insensibility under every affliction that is to have this honor and reward but that Patience most properly that is accompanied with the duty of Obedience For I may give all I have to the poor nay my body to be burnt and yet be but charitable to my self in design to mine own honor But when I am so taken up with the good of others in order to my love of him whose image they bear that in sure token thereof I can forgive all injuries and them also that did them here is Charity upon Charity which in care of publike Peace and Good suffereth long is kinde envieth not is not puffed up but beareth all things Which expressions as they properly betoken the Vertues of such as are to be subject to Authority so may they serve to expound to us those sayings of our Saviour whosoever shall smite thee c. namely that the right use of Patience is thereby meant even Patience under Authority and not any stupid neglect of our own safeties For so in Saint Matthew it is whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek c. Whereby we are to understand that those evils are not to be resisted that come from men on our right hands that is are above us And so again Whosoever will sue thee at Law c. to him we must with Patience give our Cloak also if Law will take it away and being thereby compelled we are to do for any man more then he shall ask And these Gospel Precepts carry but the same meaning toward Patience and Humility under Authority as Solomons prudential Precept formerly did if the spirit of the Ruler rise up against thee leave not thy place for yielding pacifyeth great offences and all because of that relation of obedience we stand bound unto in regard of his Authority that thus commanded us And therefore when we finde these Graces of Humility and Meekness set down and commended unto us they are to be taken as necessarily implying the duty of obedience inasmuch as they are the onely proper Vertues of such as are stated in the relation of subjection For this Vertue of Patience is as necessary to the constitution of things voluntary in the relation of Patients towards the receit of the Vertue of that Agency which from the Governor is to be acted on the governed as is the endowment of other natural Vertues and Properties on inanimates to make them susceptible of that efficacy which on the part of their Agents is required also Whereupon Patience comes to be a Vertue of such great influence and concern in the establishment of Charity making the Precept of love useful to humane preservation and Gods honor that sometimes it supplies the place of Charity and is joyned to Faith in Christ as the other fundamental requisite to salvation nay sometimes goeth alone as the most sure ground-work thereof and true token also of Christian Faith it self For so runs our Saviors admonition in patience possess ye your souls And to that purpose saith Saint James the tryal of your Faith worketh Patience and then to shew the perfection that follows Patience he adds but let Patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing And St. Paul having set forth our access to God through Faith after adds and not onely so but we glory in tribulation also knowing that tribulation worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope and Hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given us that is Tribulation and Patience do uphold and supply that fundamental and saving Grace of love which is wrought within us by the Holy Ghost And as in the Epistle to the Hebrews we are exhorted to be followers of them who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises so doth St. Peter well ●et out what is or should be the sign and effect of this brotherly love viz. Not rendring evil for evil and railing for railing That is not resisting the evils suffered from Authority by Deed or by Word after the example of Christ formerly set down but contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing meaning the blessed reward of our Patience in suffering of that share of afflictions unto which we are in this life called For he that will love life and see good days that is he that desires to enjoy a future life or good days here let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile let him eschew evil and do good Which is the same with the former admonition of not rendring evil for evil nor railing for railing onely there our resistance by act was put first but here the resistance by words is put first under the Precept of refraining our tongues from evil And then follows the admomonition for actions let him eschew evil and do good let him not onely forbear resistance but be obedient also and thereupon shall he be in a state both to seek peace and ensue it As generally thus amongst mankinde Patience is added to Faith to make us inheritors of the Promises and a necessity of compliance with Christ in sufferings that we may be also glorified together so unto the particular of women is Patience added also she shall be saved by childe-bearing if she continue in the Faith By which words as we are not to understand that none but Child-bearing women shall be saved or that the others should not be sharers also of these common sufferings incident to the rest of mankinde so may we perceive this particular instance of Childe-bearing put both to set out Patience in the highest degree of suffering known amongst us and also being put under the notion of Childe-bearers may be taken as comprehending such as are married who being subject to husbands may farther serve to shew that this Patience is occasioned from that degree of subjection and bondage which God by reason of their appointed subordination had put them under when he said In sorrow shalt thou conceive and thy desire shall be subject to thy husbands So that then each one that travelleth in pain under this yoak of bondage to the Laws of Superiors by reason of and for punishment of our corruption is to submit to the pleasure of him that subjected the same in hope and to reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us when we shall be restored to the glorious liberty of the sons of God Nor need we wonder why immortality and eternal life should be promised to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor