Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	appearance_n	judge_v	2,239	5	7.7140	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40738	The worlds honour detected, and, for the unprofitableness thereof, rejected, and the honour which comes from God alone, asserted, and reduced to practice, or, Some reasons why the people of God called Quakers, do deny the accustomary honour and salutations of the world ... by a friend to truth, who is no respector or regarder of persons, called a Quaker, B.F.	Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2541; ESTC R8091	54,243	70

eyes and to be desired To get honour to be worshipped what more pleasant what more desirable though indeed there is no honour nor worship at all in it nor ever was it so accounted by the people of God to put off the hat but a shame and reproach rather as may be seen by the Priests being forbidden to uncover their heads Levit. 10.6 21. 10. But seeing the frothy minds of people have imagined to themselves an honour in it why should we add unto any mans temptation by this vain thing nay rather let us leave off this thing Object But say some again it is their due and we must not detain from any man his due lest he should abuse it and much less from him that is not likely to abuse himself with it because others do for the Apostle saith Give unto every man his due honour to whom honour is due c. Answ. True honour is due to the honourable but then we must see to give them the honour which is due and not a strange far-fetcht device instead of it in which is no honour at al as where is it written that puting off the hat bidding good-morrow and good-night saying though a lie I kiss your hands Sir your Humble Servant Madam and such like is the honour due or that there is any honour real true honour in any of these things that there is honour so called so esteemed a pretence and shew of honour in these and every of these things I know but to what mind doth it so seem by what spirit are these things accounted honour but by that mind which delighteth it self in vanity and by that spirit and generation which calleth light darkness and darkness light Now doth the Apostle recommend Christians to follow this mind to be instructed from it to count that honour which it might esteem so and accordingly to give it them as their due or doth he not rather refer them to the Spirit of the Lord which teacheth all things honorable and is the Author of all true honour and to render that to every man in the Lord and not an empty shew the former we deny nor can't be proved and this we assert therefore What the Apostle saith we willingly own and acknowledge neither would we upon any pretence withhold from any man his due but as for your common-far-fetcht-fine-spun consequences you must give us leave to deny them till you can better prove them If you be so willing to be deceived we are not willing to deceive you to put you off with Cap and Knee a few fine ●awning words shaddowy scrapes and cringes when a better substance is your due Object But it 's said again you give offence to the weak Now the Apostle saith Judge this rather that ye give no occasion or offence to the Iews nor Gentiles nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10.32 Answ. This is a meer shift and blind subterfuge for ignorance and deceit both a something though nothing to the purpose for the Apostle speaks here of things that offended the week Consciences of some in those dayes and so plainly speaks of matters of Conscience But our Adversaries generally with one mouth cry out and think it an invincible Argument against us There is nothing of Religion in these things they are no matters of Conscience they are things of Civil concern indifferent may be left or done Now these two Pleas or Shifts are diametrically opposite and cannot stand together onely if you cleave to the first as I think all do to call them civil indifferent things no matters of Conscience then your Plea is good against your selves in that ye are found offending us so far as in you lies by doing that which we in Conscience to the Lord cannot do and your selves may leave undone if you will But besides 't is granted the good and humble the meek lowly are not offended at it matter it not whether they have it or not and evil-minded men we are not to please in their Haughty Proud Ambitious Minds The Apostles were not men-pleasers and warned the Christians not to become such nor to be subject to the Ordinances or Rudiments of the world Object T is true the good and meek are not offended for their own sakes because they are not honoured c. But for your sakes who thereby seem to them Proud High-minded Obstinate Self-willed Self-conceited men and of a Contentious Spirit c. Answ. Let it all come out And then know that if any judge us with a rash false judgement according to outward appearance to their forward froward minds we appeal from their judgement to him that cannot err in judgement and knows the inmost frame of our hearts and Spirits and judgeth us with Righteous Judgement Have therefore but a little patience to observe our conversations and if the rest of our converse doth not plainly demonstrate the contrary let your judgement stand upon that person till it doth But withal Friends who are more proud than those that are ready at giving and receiving this thread-bare honour who are so handy in it that they have every jot thereof at their fingers and tongues ends as it were Oh! that ye were indeed enemies to Pride and offended at it then would ye suspect your selves and your own manners more then us and ours and then ye would abstain from that whole bundle of aiery manners which are as Oyl poured into the fire of Ambition to increase the flame and burning thirst thereof Yea commonly those that are so expert in this mannerly trade do willingly receive again what they give with encrease and so do often give the more liberally that they may receive their returns in more abundance as the Germane Proverb saith Ehr wil geehrt sein Honour would be honoured but both the giver and the receiver are out of the Truth Way and Faith of Christ in that matter for he received not honour of men So it is not true Humility nor morigerosness to be exact in the Academy of Complements nor yet in a self-pleasing-way of simply putting off the hat and bidding good-morrow and good-even which some hope to excuse themselves with as not being conformable to the worlds abused customs Nay nay these are not the right badges of true Honour Humility or good manners but rather of feignedness vanity and custom But he that joyns himself to those of low degree going before them in honour as a good example honouring and serving all men in that which is good and serviceable in his place as well the poor as the rich the mean as the mighty without respect of persons he bears the badges of Humility and shews his good breeding and manners But alas how empty are our modern mannerly Ones of these things when shall we see these things in our streets in which of our Cities shall we see a great man or a rich man proffering his service and lending his helping hand to a mean despicable man