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
A90059	The sinners hope: as his priviledge, and duty, in his worst condition, stated, cleared, and improved. Tending as well to the startling and inviting of the wicked from his sinfull and wretched course, upon the conditionall hopes that are layd out for him; as the confirming and directing of the truly humble and weak Christian in his duty and comfort, in the severall cases of darkness, sin, and affliction. Being the substance of severall sermons, / preached by Henry Newcome, M.A. and one of the ministers of the Gospell, at Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster.	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.	1659 (1659)	Wing N899; Thomason E1764_2; ESTC R209655	106,234	225

either will serve his turn Alas you that are at a distance from God you patch up a content and satisfaction from the creatures one contributes one part and another another but now if one thing be away one string out of tune there is then no musick all the rest can not joyne together to make up the place of that one thing that is away Alas one sick child puts you all into hurries and imbitters all the other things which you enjoy and so it will be with you as long as you live as you do I cannot see how a carnall man can be sure of any content at al for he must have it out of so many things and a thousand to one some one thing or other is still away Now turn to God and you may have content you may be able to part with many things for your treasure is not in them though the ship be lost yet your adventure is not in that bottome you wil lesse matter your hart will be fixed Psal 112.7 trusting in the Lord so you will not be afraid of evill tidings if many casualties befall thee yet still thou hast God to delight in and he can soon give thee either in another thing or in himself in the light of his countenance much more than this is 2 Chro. 25.9 Secondly for advantages for the future if you would but come in 1. You should have joy in death and this when we come to dye indeed were worth creeping on our hands and knees all the days of our lives to have attained rather than to be without it in the time of need in the hour of trouble Wicked men Alas death feeds on them like sheep the first born of death will seize upon them but now they that are reconciled shall come famously off Psal 49.10 they are by Christ delivered from death and him that hath the power of death who is the Devill Heb. 2.14 15. and from that bondage which all their life-time they were subject unto through the fear of death turn to God and death shall comfort you 2. You shall have Heaven for your soul to them that believe eternall life the other same body is in Heaven already Joh. 3.15 you come at your conversion to an innumerable company of Angels Heb. 12. and spirits of just men made perfect these you are associated to already and you shall shortly be brought to be with them for ever to be with the Lord many turned proselites of the gate among the Jews Luke 14.15 because of the excellency of their religion above all other religions in the world for their religions promised nothing for eternity as this did sure the recompence of reward should fetch you in many that must never come there would yet count him blessed that might eat bread in the kingdom of God I am confident you count it happy to be in Heaven and will you not labour to get thither To them that by patient waiting and continuance in well doing seek for immortality honour and glory Mat. 19.19 Ro. 2.7 eternall life they that look for immortality and glory and seek it in such a way as by patient continuance in well-doing they shall have eternall life Now seriously think of these things which are offered and think what a deal it is you lose for want of turning what a world you must part from if you keep your bad heart Your condition so hopeful and all frustrated by a base heart is very sad This for the first consideration at large in respect of the hopes of and from reconciliation which might induce you to come in 2. Consider these hopes all have them not 2. Motive you have the hopes that many have not and if you be not the better for them your condition wil prove worse then theirs that never had them or are not in your present capacity As 1. The Divels never had any hopes afforded them they were proceeded against at their fall clapt under chains of darkness reserved in present to further torment when God expostulates the business with man for his fall and reasons it with him to draw him to repentance in token of a design of mercy towards him he proceeds to curse the serpent without any parley with him and in his absolute sentence and conclusion of judgment against him le ts fall a promise of the seed of the woman for mans recovery but delivers this in an absolute doom against him Christ took not on him the nature of Angels Heb. 2 16 Dr. Ham mond he took not hold of that nature to save it from sinking never tryed them with a conditional tender of mercy as he hath done the sons of men no doubt they would not stick to say if they had but the probability of reception to mercy which you have if they had but a saviour given amongst them as you have they would have been glad of him and many of them have closed with him with all their hearts on the worst terms immaginable much more on such as he is offered to you As some of the fathers have told us that the Devill on a time when this scripture was read et carro factus est the word was made flesh that he should smite some Christians saying why do ye not worship at this word for if he had taken on him our nature we would have worshiped The moral of it holds and certainly for you that have this hope to get besides it to be in the same condition that the damned Angels are in that never had any is very sad It is called the fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Mat. 25.41 it was primarily ordained for them It is not fire prepared so properly for man for they had a mediator provided and upon fair terms might have escaped but for you to pertake of the Devils fire it is but good enough for you when you wilfully put your selves besides your better capacity and neglect your hopes which they never had 2. Many of the Heathens never had these hopes made known to them Ephe. 2.12 the heathen while such before the gospell came among them they were without Hope and so are they stil that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death what hope there is of a Gentiles salvation that never heard of the gospell I shall not here discourse of and I would be loath ours were no otherwise then theirs is yet must hold they shall not be proceeded with in the same manner as Christians shall Viz. 1. for the contempt and neglect of the gospel which they never had But certainly if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon in Sodom and Gomorrah in India and China and Tartary c. which have been done in England London Lancashire and Manchester they would have repented long ago they would embraced Christ and closed with him verily if you stand out and are never the better