Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	worldly_a	worship_n	worship_v	18	3	7.3063	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58938	A Seasonable prospect for the view and consideration of Christians being a brief representation of the lives and conversations of infidels and heathens, in our age, as to religion and morality : together with some reflections thereupon, in relation to us who profess Christianity : to which is now added many of the wise and vertuous sayings of the ancient heathens / by a gentleman.	Gentleman.	1691 (1691)	Wing S2239A_VARIANT; ESTC R34065	38,938	60

profitable because it is honest And he that defends an Injury is next to him that commits it And take away the Opinion saith he of a mans Integrity and the more crafty and subtle he is by so much is he the more hateful and suspected It costs us saith Seneca a great deal of time and other mens ears a great deal of trouble to purchase the Character of a learned man wherefore I shall e'en content my self with the courser Title of an honest man He saith O quantum mali est nimium subtilitas O what a great Evil and Mischief is too much Cunning It is not enough to be just where is honour to be got but to continue so in defiance of infamy and danger Not only the chiefest but the only good consists in what is honest and vertuous The Graces of an honest Mind saith he will serve us upon the way and make us happy at our Journeys end A peaceful Conscience honest thoughts vertuous actions and an Indifference for casual Events are Blessings without end Satiety or Measure There is no Chearfulness like the Resolution of a brave mind that hath Fortune under his feet he that can look Death in the face and bid it welcome open his door to Poverty and bridle his Appetites this is the man whom Providence hath establish'd in the Possession of inviolable delights It is clear saith Tully that whatsoever is done with a timorous abject mean and broken mind cannot be profitable because it is flagitious dishonourable and shameful as the Action of Regulus would have been if he had rather consulted his own interest than that of the Publick Light is not more inseparable from a Sun-beam than Pleasure and Peace of Soul is from a State of Purity and Integrity saith another Make it no longer a matter of dispute what are the marks and signs of a good man but immediately set about it and endeavour to become such an one saith Antoninus As to the Providence of God in the World Man is a feeble Creature saith Seneca and impotent for his own defence in a thousand Cases that happen every day It were therefore a most melancholy Condition of Life if we were not under the shelter of a Providence if we had no Patron if there were not a supream Genius a higher nature continually sollicitous for our Protection Nothing but childish Cowardice could tempt a man to wish to live one day if he were confident there were not such a thing as a Providence This erects a mans-mind and fortifies his Spirits this suffers him neither to fear nor to wish for death but enables him both to live patiently and die bravely Which was verified in honest Socrates who resolutely told his Enemies and his Judges you may kill Socrates but you cannot hurt him And Seneca saith That the Consequent of the trust in a Providence is the great Encouragement to all generous Enterprizes and Performances c. Marcus Antoninus Philosophus saith That he would not be willing to live one day in the World if he thought there was not a God in it Epictetus saith It is among our first Rudiments that there is a God and that his Providence is over all things Know ye O men saith he that every of you is committed to a certain diligent and excellent Keeper and Observer such is every mans Genius appointed by God so that thou art never alone Of the Sense of God and of Religion and Vertue Plutarch saith They that look upon God as the chief Rewarder of good and evil and fear him accordingly are thereby freed from other perplexing fears Such persons have more inward peace than others who indulge themselves in thir Vices and dare to commit any Wickedness Such a man hath a truly great and generous mind who can resign himself up to God's Disposal The greatest Liberty is to submit to the Laws of God our Soveraign Plato defines vertue to be the Harmony of the Soul And Hierocles saith That Philosophy advanceth the Soul into the divine likeness And another Philosopher tells us That the subduing our Wills to the Will of God is indeed the Substance of all Religion and that the highest and costliest Sacrifices were never prized like the Sincerity of an honest heart Imitate him saith he whom you worship And both Plato and Epictetus will have Mans great end to consist in following of God Every thing saith Antoninus is designed for some kind of work Beasts and Plants the Sun and Stars and what do you conceive your business to be Sensual Pleasures Bethink your self a little better whether this be suitable to your natural Sentiments to the Nobility of your mind and those excellent Faculties with which you are endowed Every mans chief end should be a Resemblance of God and being made like to the Deity And Epictetus further excellently thus discourseth If I had been saith he a Nightingale or a Swan I should have imployed the time of my Life in such a way as is suitable to the Condition of those Creatures But being made a Man capable of serving and worshipping that God from whom I had my Being 't is but reason that I should apply my self to this as being my proper work and business And therefore hereunto will I devote my self as being the chief Imployment to which I am designed c. and concludes it to be his duty wholly to devote himself to the praises and worship of that God who was the Author of his Being And Hierocles in Carm. Aur. hath this excellent passage He there adviseth to second all our Endeavours with prayer to God and then to be careful of pursuing our Prayers with Endeavours It is not granted to men that have been in an Error or Fault to see their mistake until first they are very weary of it Brutus in Epist ad Pergamen Concerning Religious Worship and prayer to God Aristotle most excellently discourses where he states that to be the most desirable proportion of all worldly Felicities and Enjoyments which is most consistent with mens devoting themselves to the business of Religion and that to be either too much or too little of Wealth or Honour or Power c. when men are hindered in their meditating upon God or their worshipping of him And the Saying of Pythagoras mentioned by Tully and Plutarch was We are never better than when we approach to God when we as Tully speaks Rebus Divinis operam damus i. e. are imployed in the Duties of divine Worship The better sort of Heathens as one tells us said of Prayer that it is our Conducter unto God brings us into his divine Light sets us in his Presence draws him to us by a divine perswasive Rhetorick and powerful Sympathy with him nay knits and unites us unto the first Being and moves his bountiful goodness to communicate all good things unto us it being the opening of the Soul to God that he may fill us And Plato tells us That as well Greeks as