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
A86450	The valley of vision, or A clear sight of sundry sacred truths. Delivered in twenty-one sermons; by that learned and reverend divine, Richard Holsvvorth, Dr. in Divinity, sometimes Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, Master of Emanuel Colledge, and late preacher at Peters Poore in London. The particular titles and texts are set downe in the next leafe.	Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649.; Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649. Peoples happinesse.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2404; Thomason E631_1; ESTC R202438	355,440	597

is in graine that hath the true stamp if love be wanting and there is no grace that shall ever carry the Crowne where love is not St. Paul makes it cleare 1 Cor. 13. Knowledge faith Alms●deeds suffering afflictionss are all nothing without love Though I have all knowledge and all faith that I could remove Mountaines though I spake with the tongue of men and Angels though I should give my body to be burned and feed the poore with my goods and have not love all is nothing There is no grace if love be wanting that c●n have interest in the Crowne because there can be no truth of grace there can be no truth of faith no truth of obedience to God where love is wanting As all is wanting if love be wanting so ●very grace is present if love be present therefore in that the promise is made here to love it is made to all there is good reason of the variation That you may see the reason of it the Apostle St. Paul in 1 Cor. 2. when he quotes that place out of Isaiah 46. he varies the word being guided by the Spirit of God the word in Isaiah is Eye hath not seene nor ●are hath heard the things that God hath prepared for them that waite on him The Apostle quotes the place Eye hath not seene nor eare heard the things that God hath prepared for them that love him Implying that where there is love there is waiting where there is love there is all So though suffering be not mentioned suffering is there and every grace it is a larg expression Therefore that we may see it is large the number is varied there is an alteration of the number as well as of the grace He begins the Proposition in the Singular number Blessed is the man See the wisdome of the Apostle it should according to the tenure of the same number run thus He shall receive the Crowne of life which God hath promised to him that loves him No he varies the number and sayth That God hath promised to them that love him Least any that are not called to suffering should doubt of the Crowne they are blessed and shall receive the Crowne of life that suffer but God hath not called me to afflictions he sets a gap open of comfort for them here it is for them and for all that love him It is ordinary in Scripture to enlarge the promise Christ inlargeth the precept That which I say to one I say to all watch As he there inlargeth the precept so in another place he inlargeth the promise I pray not for these alone but for all that shall beleive in my name to the end of the World St. Paul follows it 2 Tim. 4. The Crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day I Paul shall have it but none else Yes not onely to me but to all that love him So St. James here varies in a heavenly straine he pronounceth Blessed is the man that endureth tribulation for when he is tried he shall receive the Crowne of life I he shall but none else yes not onely he but it is promised to all that love him It is no strait expression To draw all to a head you see the sum of it is thus much It sets downe the qualification of the person that shall be capable of the Crowne of glory here is the qualification he must be one that loves God It sets downe againe the qualification of that person that will stoutly and valiantly endure tribulations he must get abundance of the love of God in his heart If we suffer not if God lay it on us we shall never reigne and if we love not we will never suffer There is no promise of God but hath a qualification going along with it It is a great errour among us we are ready to catch at the promise but never to take notice of the qualification There is never a promise made but the person must be so and so qualified there is a condition goes along with the promise The condition is the qualification As if it be the promise of forgivenesse the qualification of the person is it is to those that are penitent that repent God never gave forgivenesse where there was not the work of repentance If it be the promise of Salvation there is the qualification of the person he must be a Beleiver faith comes in God never gives Salvation where he doth not first work faith to lay hold of it If it be the promise of glory there is a qualification too perseverance To those that continue in well doing there shall be glory and honour and immortality there shall be eternall life to them God never gave the Crowne of glory nor never will but where he gives the grace of perseverance to hold out here is the qualification If it be this Crowne that is here spoken of here is the qualification those that suffer tentation there is one those that love God there is the great qualification If therefore we look to have a true infallible interest in the promise let us look to get the propriety of the qualification If we be not persons qualified we have no interest in the promise Many men goe on in sin and still flatter themselves with hope in the promise presumptuous men talke of forgivenesse as familiarly as if it were written by the hand of God Impenitent men that forsake not sin talk of glory and Heaven and of inheriting the Crowne and hope for that it is a poore hope there is no qualification God never gave them a promise There can be no hope of Heaven where there is not a promise there can be no interest where there is not a promise God never gave a promise of forgivenesse to the impenitent to men that goe on in sin but that forsake them he never promised Heaven to the presumptuous man but to him that layes hold of it by faith If we will have interest in the promise we must get the qualification On the other side where there is this condition and qualification though our names be not written upon the promise yet the names of all that are so qualified are as good as written There is no promise but hath the names of all the persons that are so qualified graven on it not expresly but virtually If the promise be made to faith every beleiver is in that promise If it be a promise to repentance every penitents name is written there as if it were set there he hath an interest where there is a qualification there cannot be a missing of the promise Look for the qualification and for this qualification of love Those that love God It is true there are no limits or bounds set downe that is our great comfort it is not said those that love God much nor those that love God most but simply to those that love him to let us see that as much love shall have a

the Hypocrite the glory is short it is but for a moment it is but a shaddow in the best interpretation it is substantiall solid glory and honour in Heaven That you may see it is substantiall it is called a crowne as if it were massie and ponderous it is massie substantiall glory That you may see it is massie and substantiall what a word doth the Apostle use The weight of glory the exceeding eternall weight of glory It is a Crowne that is one Secondly the Crowne of life Honor maximus c. It is the greatest honour there is nothing higher in the estimation and in the admiration of men then a crowne it is the highest appendant of Majesty Kings are supreme those that are Gods Deputies onely accountable to God and next to God The glory of a King is so great that men have hardly eyes that are great enough but they are dazelled to look on them Yet the Kingdomes of the World and the glory of them are but dark and powerlesse in respect of the Crownes of Heaven There is no Crowne this World but hath a crosse upon it there are Thornes in every Crowne cares goe along with the Crowne all is not pure glory they watch and are troubled in the government of them that are committed to their charge But these are Crownes of glory and honour of Kings without disturbance There may be crosses here in tribulations but tribulation ends all here how Sweetly in a Crowne all the Saints of God are Kings there is a Kingdome prepared for you and they are not Kings without the glory of Kings here is the Crowne added to the Kingdome The Crowne of a King it is the highest honour Thirdly a Crowne is the honour of those that strive those that are put into the lists Crownes were the rewards alwaies of Conquerours as St. Gregory saith very well the Crowne is the reward of victory It is true all the Saints have the Crowne promised but above all those that endure Tribulation have the promise of it more properly because they are brought to the strife to the fight of faith It is drawne from the custome of the Heathens they in all their Olympicks the great Spectacles they made in the view of all the world still there were cups and garments and Crownes that were the rewards of the Conquerours And yet so poor they were that if a Horse did but run a race and won he had a crowne or a cup. And thereupon Theocritus sayth see what poore things the World glories in that bruit Beasts are taken with their Conquerours are Crowned so are their Horses But see what Crownes these are not Crownes of Ivie and Lawrell but made out of the Tree of life not a cup of Gold but of Salvation It is the wreath of Lawrell that never withers the Crowne that never fades the Crowne of life The Apostle might have as easily exprest it said for when he is tried he shall reap Heaven he shal be taken into heaven here had been a round proper expression No it is not so proper because he had mentioned tribulation before he suits it with a word answerable therefore having spoken of Strivers he adds the reward blessed are they that endure tribulation they shall have the Crowne Fourthly the Crowne of life is an honour a lasting honour for the Crowne of life is as much as a Living Crowne Who ever saw a living Crowne They be in Heaven living Crownes that is lasting Crownes that shall not be set upon the head but the heart Crownes are for the head in the World it is the highest place and therefore being the highest place is most conspicuous But the Crowne of life it is set on the heart the seat of life What is that Crowne that is not set on the head but on the Soul and on the whole man O her Crownes are but Ornaments for the head this for all the body it shall be all Crownes whatsoever is upon the body glorified or the soul it shall be all glorious it shall be all glory and glory and bliss is but the Crowne The same that the beatitude is that is the Crowne but as it is here it is a living Crowne It is true in Revel 4. St. John tells us that upon the Elders heads he saw Crownes of Gold One speciall reason is because Gold is a thing all desire and long after he meets with men in their owne desires because every man desires Gold and Crownes he tells us where we shall have Gold and Crownes both but it is in Heaven But on the other side least we should think that he spake properly and that there were any thing in Heaven so poore and so base as Gold that which he there calls Crownes of Gold he calls in Chap. 2. the Crowne of life I that is spirituall to let us see that they are Crownes of Gold but in a spirituall manner for the same that is the Crowne of immortality the Crowne of Starrs the Crowne of righteousnesse is the Crowne of life In this that it is said to be the Crowne of life it hath not the lustre of one Crowne but the glory of all Starrs and righteousnesse and immortality all are in the Crowne of life you see now what a rise here is these are the rises when God raiseth Who is more on the Dunghill then an afflicted Creature What a rise is here for dust and ashes to be raised to the glory of Heaven For a man in tribulation to be raised to the state of a King the glory of a Crowne As the Apostles and Disciples sayd Did not our hearts burne Doe not your hearts leape to think of a Crowne How impossible is it for any man that is ambitious to reach honour of less matters then a Crowne but it is for those that it belongs to and that God hath appointed And yet how easily may we attain a Crowne that is more glorious in Heaven Is not this a great excitement and encouragement for men patiently to suffer tribulation Admit the tribulation be sharp here is that that will allay it the tribulation is sharp but the crowne is glorious Feare not though the tribulation be bitter Dum passio c. as Gregory sayth well while the tribulation is sifting and winnowing the Crowne is preparing and God is sending There is nothing that is excellent but it comes with difficulty if then we be content to take things that are excellent in this World with labour and paines and cost and difficulty shall we not bestow a little paines to goe through difficulty for Heaven It is but small straits that we are to goe through for Heaven it is but a little tribulation that is prepared before it be sent and fitted when it is sent if it be sharp the Crowne is glorious In the second place admit the afflictions be many as they be sharp as the sufferings are many so the rewards and Crowns are many Every perticular suffering