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A79474	The man of honour, described in a sermon, preached before the Lords of Parliament, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, March 26. 1645. The solemn day of the publique monethly-fast. / By Francis Cheynell, minister of Gods Word. Die Jovis, 27. Martii, 1645. It is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that this House doth hereby give thanks to Master Cheynell for his great pains, taken in the sermon, he preached on the 26. of this instant March, in the Abbey Church Westminster, before the Lords of Parliament, it being the day of the publique fast. John Brown, Cler. Parliament.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing C3812; Thomason E279_3; ESTC R200026	64,263	74

there is nothing amiable or lovely in Hell therefore there is no use of love there is no joy or delight no good to be hoped for there onely the tormenting affections of grief shame despair and the rest of that black crue remain to vex and torture the soul though they cannot devour or consume it Let us then so place our affections here as that we may enjoy the comfort of them in another world let our love and confidence be placed on Christ let us delight and rejoyce in him and his service that our souls may be for ever satisfied with his goodnesse and even ravished with his love Remember that Faith and Love are both Active it is Faith working by Love you have heard of the obedience of Faith Rom. 16. 26. And if ye Love me keep my Commandments Joh. 14. 15. Consider that Jesus Christ is the Authour of eternall Salvation to all them and none but them that obey him Heb. 5. 9. Beloved in the Lord Jesus If you will learn to perform all your duties in faith and out of love trusting onely upon free grace and aiming onely at Gods glory My soul for yours you will be of the Christian circumcision you will worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh You will be justified by free-grace acted and lead by effectuall Grace into all necessary Trueths and Holinesse of Trueth Faith and love will finde out their way to Heaven Faith and love will establish your hearts and mindes These graces will make you not onely patient and constant but zealous also For zeal can never boil high enough unlesse it be raised by Faith and enflamed by Love Zeal is the strength of affection and heighth of grace it is the heighth of knowledge the heighth of prudence and therefore not to be ordered by discretion as they talk who mistake policie for wi●dom and subject matters of Religion to reasons of State nay zeal is the heighth of Faith also When we read that something was imputed to Phinehas for righteousnesse Some say it was Justice others say Zeal but I say Faith for I know nothing else imputed for righteousnesse in any Scripture notion And Faith is said to be imputed for righteousnesse because the object of Faith the Lord Christ is Jehovah our righteousnesse Come then let your Faith and Love and Zeal kindle burn rise flame higher and higher Beleeve it you 'l be but uselesse men without zeal for your parts and gifts will be uselesse As a knife without an edge a ship without sails sails without winde a bird without wings wheels without oyl an horse without mettall such is a man any man a man in Honour without Zeal But a word or two more my Lords and I have done You must shew your selves noble Christians in your places relations correspondencies and improve all your Interests for the Honour of Jesus Christ and if you Honour God he will Honour you and your house 1 Sam. 2. 30. Honour God not onely with outward but inward worship honour him with your soul and body and substance Perform Honourable actions do not disdain to anoint the feet of our Saviour the lower you do stoop to serve Christ the higher you will be preferred for your humble service You may smell the perfume of that womans ointment that anointed the feet of Christ even to this very day wheresoever the Gospel is Preached Salvator noster faeminae monnumentum curr● triumphali vel Statuâ Imperatoris illustrius erexit Study Honorabilia legis The great and honourable things of the Law and Gospel Consider that vile affections base lusts will dishonour your bodies and damn your souls Rom. 1. 24 26. O possesse your vessels in sanctification and honour 1 Thes. 4. 4. It will not be for your honour to be guiltie of those sins which ye ought to punish Jehu was a murtherer in the sight of God for slaying of Idolatours because he was an Idolatour himself Mordecai was next to the King great among the Jews and accepted of the people by doing what was right in the sight of the people Hester 10. 3. You shall be near to Jesus Christ and accepted of God if ye do what is right in the sight of God Glory and Honour and Peace shall rest upon you for to them who by Patient continuance in wel-doing seek for glory and honour and immortalitie God will give immortall honour eternall life Rom. 2. 7 10. You know that they are good men who are good in their places and they are men of Honour who keep a good conscience in places of honour My Lords I do not desire to deal with you in a full Body as you make an House of Peers but I consider you as you will be considered and dealt with at the day of judgement then Christ will take you out every Lord single by himself one by one and say Sir you had the honour to sit in the House of Peers why did you hold correspondence with my utter enemies the Antichristian faction and commonly give your Vote against me when the welfare of three Kingdoms the building up of my Church and the making of a new heaven upon earth did much depend upon your Vote When it was put to the Vote in the Senate at Rome Whether Christ should be worshipped as God in the Romane Territories It was carried against him by a major part of Votes But my Lords I hope nay I know better things of your House then of the Romane Senate for the House of Peers hath passed a Vote lately much conducing to the Honour of Jesus Christ and the Reformation of particular Congregations Be pleased to proceed and perfect the Work let the ignorant be better instructed and the scandalous better disciplined the Liberties and Priviledges of Gods people restored Heretikes Blasphemers Seducers severely punished Oh that you could form and new mould our Armies into Churches also Is it not possible that there should be a spirituall Militia a powerfull Ministery and some Ecclesiasticall as well as Military Discipline set up and countenanced amongst them I must acknowledge That when I had the honour to serve the Sate and attend the Army I received all encouragement from His Excellency the Noble Generall in the work of my Ministery But I beleeve the want of Ministers was one defective cause or at least occasion of many disorders in that Army and how highly God was provoked by those disorders we have all cause to acknowledge yet give me leave to say That your sins had an influence into that sad defeat as well as ours and notwithstanding all the faults of that Army Surely my Lords That Army which had borne the heat and burthen nay carried away the glory of the day in so many set-battles and solemn victories should not have been so much neglected but timely relieved You see my Lords I know not how to flatter you but I beseech you I beseech you That

Ph●losophicall Honour of which I shall give you if not a more rationall yet a more punctuall account The Philosophers shew a necessity of supporting that Civil Honour which is setled upon Noble Families by the Laws and Customes of Common-wealths Aristotle laughes at them as ignorant Politicians who divided a Common-wealth into Souldiers Husbandmen and Artificers because those Dignities which are necessary for the support of a Common-wealth could not be all conferred upon men of that quality unlesse you made all the rest slaves to those Souldiers whom they themselves maintain and then it would be no Common-wealth I finde a great deal of good Philosophie in Historians Poets and Oratours as well as in professed Philosophers they all agree my Lords that Nobility took its first rise a from Vertue and some of them are so strict as to maintain that sowre principle Vertue is the onely true Nobility and therefore they take their novus homo who can onely shew a broken spear a torn Ensign some Military Donatives and famous Skars to be truely noble Marius and Pompey were such Noble-men The soul of every man is in their judgement as nobly descended a● the soul of any man and they do not attribute much to the body nor will they give any man leave to arrogate the vertue of his Ancestours to himself They tell him sadly that unlesse he hath vertue of his own he doth dishonour his Ancestours discredit himself and shame his Posterity all at once Though he may be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} yet he is not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and Philosophers will not count him truely noble who is welldescended unlesse he be well-affected It is confidently affirmed that if Noble-men look farre enough back upon their Progenitours they will finde some of them ignoble and if the ignoble look back upon their Progenitours they will finde some of them noble The Philosophers conceive it more noble for a man to give Honour to that House from which he received none then to eclipse that Honour which he received for this is to make the Sun go down at noon to make all the glory of his House fall into the Socket and die in a loathsom Snuff The Conclusion of all therefore doth amount to this He that is born well must either live well or die well that is It is far better to die honourably then live basely in sin and slavery by unworthy Compliances corrupt Arts and ignoble Flattery So much shall suffice to be said of Philosophicall Nobility I must go higher and open the rich treasure of Christian Nobility which to your Coronets of Nobility superaddes a Crown of glory 3. Christian Nobility is Nobility in the highest for never was the Humane nature so highly honoured as when it was assumed and hypostatically united with the Divine nature in one person the Person of the Lord Jesus the second Person in the holy Trinity and therefore they are ennobled in the highest degree according to the Christian account who are united unto Jesus Christ by a lively faith and made one Spirit with him I have done with the Civil account and speak now of Spirituall Honour and Christian Nobility Be pleased to consider that we are all Gentiles by nature and the more we have of the Gentile in us the lesse we have of the Noble-man We are not Jews by nature but poor miserable sinners of the Gentiles Gal. 2. 15. and as Gentiles we can never be justified we must therefore turn Christians and believe in Christ that we may be justified by the faith of Christ as the Apostle goes on vers. 16. No man can be truely and justly reputed to be in an Honourable estate unlesse he be in a Justified estate for all those Priviledges and Immunities whereby a Christian is ennobled are peculiar to a justified estate Noble-men are distinguished from other men by their long Robes and he is no Noble-man as yet in the true Christian account who hath not the long white Robe of Christs Righteousnesse girt about him by a lively faith If a Noble-man be condemned to a shamefull death for some ignoble and capitall Offence What priviledge or comfort hath he by all his Titles of Honour none of his Titles can purchase his Pardon or procure his Release My Lords we are all in a damnable estate till we are translated into a justified estate and the greatest Noble-man in the world must fall down upon his knees and cry out Lord I am guilty of base servile sins most ignoble practices and I am justly condemned by thy Law and my Conscience to a base and ignoble death to an accursed and tormenting death to an hellish and eternall death I have forfeited all to thee I have forf●ited my Temporall estate my Civill honour my precious life my more-precious soul Give m● Christ Lord whatever thou deniest me give me Christ give me Christ or I perish and that eternally This is ingenious this is noble The greatest Honour that we can attain to is To be of the off-spring of God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Acts 17. 28. All men indeed are of the off-spring of God by Creation but the speciall peculiar Honour and therefore the highest Honour is to be his off-spring by Regeneration to be his sons by Adoption for then we are truely noble highly descended indeed more noble then the proudest of them that were termed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for every regenerate man is born of God and bred of God and therefore it must be granted that he is well bred and born My Lords you may be more ennobled by a new-birth by a second-birth then you were by your first birth for in your second birth ye are born to an heavenly Kingdom and ye are born not of blood mark that nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of the will of God Joh. 1. 13. Be pleased to consider that you may be noble after the flesh and the flesh shew its frailty You may fall from all your Honour and become like the Beasts that perish The most noble Plants amongst us Gentiles are but Plants of the wilde Olive we must be engrafted into Jesus Christ the true Olive by a lively faith that we may partake of the sap and the fatnesse the noblenesse of Christ who was not onely the Off-spring but the Root of David Revel. 22. 16. We are but the degenerate Plants of a strange Vine we are not a Noble Vine wholly a right seed till we are engrafted into the True and Noble Vine Joh. 15. 1. Faith is a noble grace for it teaches a man to deny himself to crucifie his lusts to sacrifice his Estate Honour Life and All in the Service of Jesus Christ Faith doth exceedingly raise the Spirit and ennoble the Soul of man A Believer looks upon all the