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
A91998	A den of theeves discovered. Or certaine errours and false doctrines, delivered in a sermon at a visitation holden at Baldocke in the county of Hertford, Decemb. 9. 1641. By Henry Denne, curate at Pyrton in Hertfordshire. And since printed by his owne appointment. Contradicted justly by many of the auditors. And confuted by Thomas-Atvvood Rotherham, now rector of St John Zacharies, London, and sometimes vicar of Iclkeford in Hertfordshire, neare Hitchin. Here you have the point of iustification by free grace fully handled, together with many difficult places of Scriptnre [sic] (much abused) plainly expounded; and some speciall cases of conscience resolved, whereby the weakest Christian, in the greatest conflict, may gather true and solid comfort. With severall tables very necessary and usefull for the reader. Published by authority.	Rotherham, Thomas Atwood, d. 1657.	1643 (1643)	Wing R2000; Thomason E251_3; ESTC R212516	114,466	110

pray we doe not perswade them they shall merit eternall life by prayer neither doe we wish them to rest in the duty done but wholly upon the merits of Christ Neither do we thinke that Christ doth infuse his (s) Nec ita intelligendum est quod Christus infundat meritum suum nostrae orationi ut ipsa sit placatio coelestis irae expiatio pro peccatis sed quia exerit sese per preces intuetur promissiones Dei quibus roboratur confirmatur apprehendir Christum propter quem solum Deus nobis in vocantibus est propitius quia Deus invenir in nobis Christum per fidem ideo in nos ipsum invocantes essundit omne genus beneficiorum non propter invocationis meritum sed propter Christi meritum Gerbard locor tom 3. Col. mihi 368. merit into our prayer that it should become the pacification of the wrath of God or an expiation for our sinnes but because faith doth manifest it selfe by prayer doth behold the promises of God with which it is strengthened and confirmed and it doth apprehend Christ for whose sake alone God is mercifull to us when we call upon him And because God findes Christ in us by Faith therefore when we pray to him he doth bestow upon us every good thing not for the merit of our prayer but for the merit of Christ Let men take heed lest under the colour of Preaching free Grace they doe not turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and give men such a liberty to live as they lust which is indeed the greatest bondage let them take heed lest while they pretend to advance the Kingdome of Christ they doe not overthrow his Kingly Office and plucke as much as in them lyeth the Crowne from off his head If Christ be a King certaine his Subjects must yeeld obedience to him And we his Ministers must preach obedience to them Could not the Apostle distinguish between Law and Gospell and doe we preach popery when in our Sermons we follow the rule of the Apostle Rom. 2.6 7. and tell the people God will render to every man according to his deeds To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seeke for glory and honour immortality eternall life ver 10. Glory honour and peace to every one that worketh The Apostle doth not say God will render to every man for his deeds that so he may exclude merit in regard of our best performances but according to his deeds that so he may extoll free grace That (t) Quod Deus aeterna gloria felicitate eos donare vult qui ex fide bene operati sunt id nihil gratuitae justificationi nostrae derogat justificamur enim gratis fide deinde ex fide bona Deo placentia opera facimus Osian in loc God will bestow glory and eternall life upon those who by faith continue in well-doing that derogates nothing from our free justification and being justified gratis or freely through Faith Then by Faith wee doe good workes pleasing to God Consider these two places first Ephes 2.8 For by grace ye are saved through Faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God The second place is Colos 1.10 That ye might walke (u) Dignitas haec nostra non pendet ex absoluta nostra persectione sed ex dignatione Dei gratuita 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in omne placitum vel obsequium Davenant in loc worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitfull in every good worke Whereas pag. 22. he wisheth us to look into the most materiall controversies betweene the Papists and us I doe not thinke he is much seene into them for I did heare him peremptorily affirme that the Councell of Trent did hold Bishops (w) Si quis dixerit in Ecclesia Catholica non esse Hierarchiam divina ordinatione instituram quae constat Episcopis Presbyteris Ministris anathema sit Concil Trident. Sess 23. de Sacrament Ordin cap. 4. can 6. Presbyterii gradu superior est dignitas Episcopalis quam quidem excellentiā habent Episcopi non tantum ex Ecclesiastica vel Apostolica traditione seu constitutione aliqua sed ex Jure divino institutione Christi Estius in lib. 4. Sent. dist 24. not to be Jure Divino by divine right being asked what Session and Canon could not tell and afterwards confessed he had not read it in the Councell of Trent and indeed the Councell is cleane contrary in extolling Bishops In the 23. page of his booke he saith There is this day a complaint in our Country that our Sermons are full of contradictions the Multitude observe them and grievously complaine of them and this is not the complaint of unlettered men What a lewd slander is this laid upon all the Ministers And whom doth he bring to proveit The (x) Vulgus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Graece usurpatur a Latinis ad significandum ignobiliorem multitudinem quomodo dixit Virgil Saevitque animis ignobile vulgus A volvendo dictum volunt quod stulte huc atque illuc volvatur unde vulgivagus deducitur Et apud Lucanum legimus vulgivagaque vagus venere pro illo qui certae mulieris amore non capitur sed popularem venerem sectaturus Multitude It wonder where this multitude is but grant it were so it is a credit to have such accusers The multitude called the vulgar from volving rowling or tumbling in constant unsettled foolishly carryed about this way and that way with every winde of Doctrine But how comes the Multitude to understand what the word (y) Contradictoria sunt quae affirmationi negationi subjacent Duplex contradictionis genus Simplicis complexae Contradiction meaneth how come they to bee so cloquent how come they by so much Logicke I dare say if they be examined they cannot render the signification of the word whether it be in the praedicaments or post-praedicaments they understand not surely if they did they would not so grossely bely their Ministers The multitude laid many grievous complaints against Paul which they could not prove Act. 25.7 It argues a great deale of indiscretion if not of pride and arrogancy and selfe-conceitednesse for a man to cast such an aspersion to the blasting of so many godly Ministers and the extolling of himselfe especially at a visitation Sermon where he pretended to preach Christ but did altogether preach himselfe as is plaine by his owne expressions If we doe bid the Letany farewell yet for once upon such a speciall occasion as this Let me say from pride vaine glory and hypocrisie good Lord deliver us In the latter end of page 23. and the beginning of the 24. he hath this passage It was Prophesied by Luther that after his time the difference betweene the Law and the Gospell should be neglected Our age hath proved him to bee too true a Prophet for it is a thing not ordinarily observed The fault is the Law