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A79474	The man of honour, described in a sermon, preached before the Lords of Parliament, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, March 26. 1645. The solemn day of the publique monethly-fast. / By Francis Cheynell, minister of Gods Word. Die Jovis, 27. Martii, 1645. It is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that this House doth hereby give thanks to Master Cheynell for his great pains, taken in the sermon, he preached on the 26. of this instant March, in the Abbey Church Westminster, before the Lords of Parliament, it being the day of the publique fast. John Brown, Cler. Parliament.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing C3812; Thomason E279_3; ESTC R200026	64,263	74

heels shall compasse them about vers. 5. And surely none have more cause to fear then the great ones of the world vers. 6. They that are so rich that they trust in their riches and boast of their riches which the wisest of men are forced to leave to others v 10. have a deep though vain conceit that their houses shall continue for ever and therefore call their lands by their own names v. 11. But alas not withstanding this their Atheisticall Dream they abide not in their Honour for they are like the Beasts that perish And yet though this their way is their folly undeniable folly their Posterity are such fools as to imitate their Practices and approve their Sayings Selah vers. 13. Oh look not upon this Censure as a Jerk of Wit for it is indeed A sad Preface to a black Sentence full of horrour For mark what follows When a man is made rich and the glory of his house is encreased he is usually so taken up with his wealth and glory that he forgets the mortality of his frail body and the eternity of his precious soul He doth not consider how he may be ransomed from the strength of sin the sting of death the hand of the grave the power of hell and therefore his body falls like the carcase of a Beast the Grave hath victory over him and Death feeds upon him Like sheep they are laid in the grave death shall feed upon them vers. 14. And though whilst he lived he was applauded by others and he blessed hi● own soul vers. 18. yet his soul shall go to the Generation of his fathers he shall never see light Tell me tell me is not this 〈◊〉 black Sentence full of Horrour Menglory in their Pedigre● and are as it were damned ex traduce They take a pride in imitating the errours and vanity of their forefathers who lived in darker times and they shall go to the Generation of their fathers where they shall never see light for to such is reserved the blackness● of darknesse for ever And then to close up all the Prophet warbles over the dark saying of the Text upon his dol●full Harp it is the Burden of the Psalm and the Burden of many a guilty cons●ience which will one day swea● and groan and sink under the weight of it Man that is in Honour and understandeth not falls like the Beasts that perish In the words be pleased to observe 1. The Honourable estate or in your own Language the precious Peerage of great men A Noble-man is homo in pretio as Junius hath it a man to be prized and honoured 2 The wilfull and dishonourable Inconsideratenesse of men in Honour Man that is in Honour and understands not 3. The lamentable Downfall and beastlike Ruine of such as fall from their Order from their God and from their Honour They are like the Beasts that perish First for your Honourable Estate without any Courtship or Complement I must observe That a Noble-man is Homo in pretio one that is prized and honoured in a Civill account Be pleased Brethren to suspend your Censure till I come to speak of the Christian account They that are truely-Noble are the a bl●ssing and b glory of a Kingdom Their honourable men or their glory are men of famine Isa. 5. 13. And dignities are called glories in the eighth verse of the Epistle of Jude When men are not honoured according to the weight worth dignity of their Places and Persons they are as it were c blasphemed and cursed in the Scripture-phrase But that I may top the rising Errours of the time give me leave to distinguish of a threefold Honour Civill Philosophicall and Christian First for Civill Honour we must consider that it was purchased of old by the worth of renowned Ancestours who were the glory of their times and is it not fit that Posterity should enjoy the Purchase of their Forefathers Those Titles of Honour which help to set forth a son of mean parts and but ordinary abilities might cost the Father or Grandfather very dear he might forsake his meat break his sleep exercise his strong parts and put forth his eminent gifts for the Service of the Common-wealth of England and Church of God It is probable that he did lay out vast sums for the pu●like good adventured his life for his Countrey and shall a Title of Honour purchased by gold laid out in an honourable way nay purchased by sweat and blood be taken away from the son of this Noble Progenitour The publike Faith of the Kingdom is virtually engaged for the Ennoblishment of his Posterity by Justice and Equity in all Nations thorowout the world the childe of such noble Ancestours ought to enjoy with honour what his Progenitours have purchased for him at so dear a Rate True it is that God hath made all Nations of men of one blood Acts 17. 26. and therefore as we are descended from Adam our blood is of the self-same complexion but the strength wisedom valour wealth vertue of Ancestours in succeeding Generations did purchase transcendent degrees of Honour for themselves and their Posterity The Titles of Dukes Marquesses Earles and Barons were anciently bestowed on them to whose Vertue Prowesse Wisedom the Kingdom was beholding both for Counsel and Assistance in times of War and Peace The first Dukes or a Duces undertook a great Charge their Office was full of Care and Trust and Danger Duke was a Title of Duty rather then Dignity as Master Cambden observes The Title of Lord b Marcher was accounted more honourable then that of Marquesse because it was more ancient and did import some honourable Service Barons were men of Valour Robora Belli and therfore are engaged to shew their Valour by their very Title Why were the Ensignes of Distinction first born upon Shields but because they who purchased them at first did use their own Bodies as a Shield to bear off those fatall Blowes which would otherwise have lighted upon the Body of the Common-wealth This may suffice to shew that noble-men of old did pay a valuable Consideration for those Titles of Honour which their Posterity enjoy But put the case that the son of noble Progenitours prove degenerate and hath nothing to ennoble him but an empty Title I answer that such a man hath nothing that should tempt a wise man to envie him What is an empty Title so great a Provocation Do not envie him that for his Forefathers sake who purchased it of the Common-wealth Ye ought to stand to that Bargain by which the Common-wealth is so great a gainer The Jews took their Kings and their Priests for better for worse as they arose by lineall descent God doth not onely shew mercy to the fourth Generation but to some hundreds of men for the forefathers sake Again consider whether this Heir be desperate may he not be recovered If not yet the Breed may mend

strict as to prohibite Stage-playes which made the people laugh the Lacedaemonian did not give him the reason of the State That they were afraid their youth would be corrupted and their Laws derided by Stage-playes but returned this answer Sir I presume That we Greeks are better when we are weeping with our sages then the Romans when they are laughing at their fo●ls My Lords It is my humble desire to be humbled before God and to weep with the Sages of England upon this happy day of solemn Humiliation Do ye love God do ye hate sin do ye beleeve my Text come then let us mingle tears my Text will supply you with store of weeping matter and penitent tears which flow from the hatred of sin from the love of God and faith in him are NOBLE TEARS Nobles use to be proud of their Birth they are too often puffed up with the glory of their Progenitours But ye have not so learned Christ if ye have been taught by Christ as the truth is in Christ My Lords we were all conceived in sin and born in sin Nobles are by nature the children of wrath even as other common men and can you be proud of your foul conception and foul birth My father Adam was he not your father Oh my father Adam your father Adam was once a man in honour because a man in innocency but his blood was tainted by sin nay your blood and mine were tainted by that first sin in the Garden it was my sin and yours for in him we all sinned it was the sin of his person but it was the sin of our nature do ye not feel the poyson of that sin burning and boyling in your nature still do ye not feel the weight of that sin upon your conscience Oh it was a sinning sin the cause of all the sin and mischief that ever was or ever will be do ye not feel the dregs of that sin oppressing your nature and even choaking all those generous and noble Principles which are written in your Hearts by Nature And are you still proud of your birth and blood when you are thus polluted in your own blood with your birth sin Can you still be proud of your originall when your originall your blood your very nature is stained and tainted with originall corruption and all corruption is ignoble Oh base ignoble birth we are born slaves of sin born like the heirs apparant of Hell with the seeds of damnation in us Can you still be proud of your Progenitours when they derived a sin upon your high-born soul which will sink it as low as Hell unlesse ye are born again by the Spirit of Jesus Come turn a side for I must weep Come if you will we●p I will weep with you if you will not weep I le weep for you I could even finde in my heart to sit down and weep out the rest But your attention doth encourage me to go on and therefore I hope you will be humbled to day if not my soul shall weep in secret for your pride But you cannot be proud if you consider and beleeve my Text my Text is Versus amaebaeus and answers to the twelfth verse of this 49 Psalm and there it is Man being in Honour abideth not Arias Montanus renders it non Pernoctabie shall not lodge one night in Honour some conclude from hence that Adam fell the very first day that he was created he did not stay all night in his Honour and the word indeed doth properly signifie to tarry all night as is clear Gen. 28. 11. And ●ertain it is our first father stayed not long in his Honour but was turned forth of the Garden like a Beast Oh the fall of our first father from his honour from his innocency is to be bewailed even with tears of blood My Lords ye are men in Honour but Civil Honour is not long-lived and therefore usually entailed Are ye sure that any one of you in your own persons shall lodge this night in your Civil Honour ye may be taken into another world ere morning and if ye have made no better preparation for another world and a better life then if your souls were to perish after death as the soul of a Beast perishes Be pleased to understand my Text and your danger Sigh out my Text and weep it over Weep for your grosse neglect and carnall security and let every soul that is guiltie cry out Oh what a wretch what a Beast am I to suffer my minde and heart to be taken up with the perishing delights and fading honour of this vain world And now I am summoned to appear in another world to answer for all the evil I have done and all the good I have neglected in this world My body sinks under naturall distempers my soul sweats under morall distempers the sin of my birth and the sins of my life torment my wounded conscience Oh I faint I fall I die I perish like a Beast in this world and the Lord knows what will become of me in the next it is a wo●ld that I am no better acquainted with then the very Beasts that perish My Lords This is the sad condition of many a great man and I am resolved to deal faithfully with you for your honour is dear unto me and your souls are pretious Consider oh consider it every hour that you have more reason to fast then feast upon your birth-dayes that ye may bewail your birth-sin and mortifie your beastly lust For some worthy Divines have observed That none for ought we finde in Scripture ever celebrated their birth-dayes but Pharaoh Jeroboam and Herod 2. Consider That great men are mortall Abner who was Captain of the Guard a kinde of Generall to three Princes Saul Is bosheth and David fell suddenly unexpectedly Some die in the strength of their perfection with their breasts full of milk and bones full of marrow Job 21. 23 24. Death doth not flatter Nobles it will not stay their leasure it will strike home even then when they are in their cups or at their plots in the middest of their wanton embraces and beastly compliances Remember the two Zimri's Prince Zimri struck dead in the wanton Arms of the Lady Co●bi and Zimri who smote King Elah whilest he was drinking himself drunk 3. Consider That beastly men are unnaturall Beasts It is no fault for a beast to be a beast for it is naturally a beast and it can be no fault to obey the Law of nature but for a creature to degrade it self below that Form and Species in which nature hath placed it is unnaturall This is a most unnaturall and accursed self-deniall for a man to depose himself below the dignitie of the humane nature This is as if a beast should loose its sence take root in the earth and sprout out into a Plant Animall a Plant that hath the shape but not the sense of an Animall or as if a Tree should cease

there is nothing amiable or lovely in Hell therefore there is no use of love there is no joy or delight no good to be hoped for there onely the tormenting affections of grief shame despair and the rest of that black crue remain to vex and torture the soul though they cannot devour or consume it Let us then so place our affections here as that we may enjoy the comfort of them in another world let our love and confidence be placed on Christ let us delight and rejoyce in him and his service that our souls may be for ever satisfied with his goodnesse and even ravished with his love Remember that Faith and Love are both Active it is Faith working by Love you have heard of the obedience of Faith Rom. 16. 26. And if ye Love me keep my Commandments Joh. 14. 15. Consider that Jesus Christ is the Authour of eternall Salvation to all them and none but them that obey him Heb. 5. 9. Beloved in the Lord Jesus If you will learn to perform all your duties in faith and out of love trusting onely upon free grace and aiming onely at Gods glory My soul for yours you will be of the Christian circumcision you will worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh You will be justified by free-grace acted and lead by effectuall Grace into all necessary Trueths and Holinesse of Trueth Faith and love will finde out their way to Heaven Faith and love will establish your hearts and mindes These graces will make you not onely patient and constant but zealous also For zeal can never boil high enough unlesse it be raised by Faith and enflamed by Love Zeal is the strength of affection and heighth of grace it is the heighth of knowledge the heighth of prudence and therefore not to be ordered by discretion as they talk who mistake policie for wi●dom and subject matters of Religion to reasons of State nay zeal is the heighth of Faith also When we read that something was imputed to Phinehas for righteousnesse Some say it was Justice others say Zeal but I say Faith for I know nothing else imputed for righteousnesse in any Scripture notion And Faith is said to be imputed for righteousnesse because the object of Faith the Lord Christ is Jehovah our righteousnesse Come then let your Faith and Love and Zeal kindle burn rise flame higher and higher Beleeve it you 'l be but uselesse men without zeal for your parts and gifts will be uselesse As a knife without an edge a ship without sails sails without winde a bird without wings wheels without oyl an horse without mettall such is a man any man a man in Honour without Zeal But a word or two more my Lords and I have done You must shew your selves noble Christians in your places relations correspondencies and improve all your Interests for the Honour of Jesus Christ and if you Honour God he will Honour you and your house 1 Sam. 2. 30. Honour God not onely with outward but inward worship honour him with your soul and body and substance Perform Honourable actions do not disdain to anoint the feet of our Saviour the lower you do stoop to serve Christ the higher you will be preferred for your humble service You may smell the perfume of that womans ointment that anointed the feet of Christ even to this very day wheresoever the Gospel is Preached Salvator noster faeminae monnumentum curr● triumphali vel Statuâ Imperatoris illustrius erexit Study Honorabilia legis The great and honourable things of the Law and Gospel Consider that vile affections base lusts will dishonour your bodies and damn your souls Rom. 1. 24 26. O possesse your vessels in sanctification and honour 1 Thes. 4. 4. It will not be for your honour to be guiltie of those sins which ye ought to punish Jehu was a murtherer in the sight of God for slaying of Idolatours because he was an Idolatour himself Mordecai was next to the King great among the Jews and accepted of the people by doing what was right in the sight of the people Hester 10. 3. You shall be near to Jesus Christ and accepted of God if ye do what is right in the sight of God Glory and Honour and Peace shall rest upon you for to them who by Patient continuance in wel-doing seek for glory and honour and immortalitie God will give immortall honour eternall life Rom. 2. 7 10. You know that they are good men who are good in their places and they are men of Honour who keep a good conscience in places of honour My Lords I do not desire to deal with you in a full Body as you make an House of Peers but I consider you as you will be considered and dealt with at the day of judgement then Christ will take you out every Lord single by himself one by one and say Sir you had the honour to sit in the House of Peers why did you hold correspondence with my utter enemies the Antichristian faction and commonly give your Vote against me when the welfare of three Kingdoms the building up of my Church and the making of a new heaven upon earth did much depend upon your Vote When it was put to the Vote in the Senate at Rome Whether Christ should be worshipped as God in the Romane Territories It was carried against him by a major part of Votes But my Lords I hope nay I know better things of your House then of the Romane Senate for the House of Peers hath passed a Vote lately much conducing to the Honour of Jesus Christ and the Reformation of particular Congregations Be pleased to proceed and perfect the Work let the ignorant be better instructed and the scandalous better disciplined the Liberties and Priviledges of Gods people restored Heretikes Blasphemers Seducers severely punished Oh that you could form and new mould our Armies into Churches also Is it not possible that there should be a spirituall Militia a powerfull Ministery and some Ecclesiasticall as well as Military Discipline set up and countenanced amongst them I must acknowledge That when I had the honour to serve the Sate and attend the Army I received all encouragement from His Excellency the Noble Generall in the work of my Ministery But I beleeve the want of Ministers was one defective cause or at least occasion of many disorders in that Army and how highly God was provoked by those disorders we have all cause to acknowledge yet give me leave to say That your sins had an influence into that sad defeat as well as ours and notwithstanding all the faults of that Army Surely my Lords That Army which had borne the heat and burthen nay carried away the glory of the day in so many set-battles and solemn victories should not have been so much neglected but timely relieved You see my Lords I know not how to flatter you but I beseech you I beseech you That