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truth_n	father_n	liar_n	lie_n	1,848	5	8.8730	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Protestations have lost their credit they usually go a strain higher in this dissembling age and take Religious Protestations but most Irreligious Oaths for when they have once engaged their honour and given their oaths they hope they may abuse the Common-wealth without suspicion for the poor silly people dare not so much a● suspect that they are abused no not when they are most grossely abused because it is accounted a most absurd unmannerly and uncharitable conceit that the Lords will forfeit their honour or break their oaths My Lords this Sophism passes currant at Oxford for a Demonstration as it did of old at Athens where the oath was conceived sub hac specie Jure populum nullis injuriis affectum iri and therefore Aristotle saith it is better policy to flatter in plain English to cheat the people then to threaten them and thereupon advises the great ones to dissemble and swear that they will not wrong the people Surely my Lords by all their proceedings at Oxford it appears that all men in Honour are not men of Honour for they have studied Aristotles Politiques more then Solomons Proverbs the purest Politiques But truely wh● ever he be that sails by this compas●e it is impossible he should steer aright especially in a tempest for though policy sets the compasse yet pride and vainglory fill the sails and folly I mean Atheism sits at stern My Lords I say Atheism a sin which will stain all the pride and glory of that man who is guiltie of it in the sight of the Searcher of hearts It was the speech of a good Statesman and a good Christian Men saith he talk of the sins of the Court but truely for my part I think the Court is guiltie but of one sin of Atheism the fruitfull mother of every sin and my Text is of so large a compasse that it doth certainly comprehend nay as some Expositours conceive directly point at Atheism Man that is in honour and understandeth not that there is a God above him whom he is bound to serve and honour he it is that is compared to the beasts that perish For an Atheist is of all others the grossest fool and the foulest Beast Give me leave to throw my first dart at this Beast in an U●e of Reproof What need we my Lords look out for a stronger Argument to prove That some men in honour do not unstand that there is a God above them then this That they do usually make little or no conscience of cursing their own practises and damning their own souls by false Protestations Oaths and Covenants They who do not understand God to be omnipotent and omniscient just and true they do not understand him to be a God But men that make no scruple of violating their Oaths and Covenants for the compassing of their designes do neither judiciously practically understand or truely beleeve God to be omnipotent and omniscient just and true Therefore they are Atheists and arrant Beasts who make no conscience of Oaths and Covenants In a Promissory Oath or Covenant be pleased to consider that you call God to be your Witnesse your Suretic your Judge 1. Your Witnesse to testifie the truth of your intentions and purposes You know none can bear witnesse that the intentions of your heart are sincere and true but the Searcher of hearts and yet how few are there that look up to God as a witnesse when they take a solemn Oath And therefore men do too often hold correspondence with those Covenant-breaking sins of malice and ambition even after they have taken the solemn Covenant Oh it is a sad thing for which the Land mourns that God is not discerned in an Oath nor Christ in the Sacrament by some that take themselves to be men of discerning spirits 2. You call upon God to be your Suretie for the performance of those things which you swear and covenant to perform If you never intend any reall performance year● downright Atheists or else you would never put such asolemn jear upon the God of Heaven 3. You call God to be your Judge in case you be deceitfull in promising or unfaithfull in performing I admire how men can professe that they beleeve God to be true when they do what I even tremble to speak call God to do the Devils office to bear witnesse to a lie It were more proper because more suitable to their purposes and principles for such men to swear by the Devil rather then by God for it is the Devils proper office to bear witnesse to a lie he being a lier from the beginning and the Father of Lies Certainly these men must conceive that either God doth not love truth or else that he doth not know it and what is this but to deny him to be God Moreover these bold Atheists cannot beleeve God to be just and omnipotent able and willing to revenge himself and his people upon such Honourable enemies as they are for if they did they would never go about to deceive God and the Kingdom by the pretended religion of an Oath They would not thus out-brave God and dare him to his face to take vengeance on them if they did beleeve that there is a God or a Devil Heaven or Hell Certainly these religious blasphemers will be religiously I mean assuredly damned if they repent not for their very pretended Religion will sink them into the bottomlesle pit of fire and brimstone nay into some lower and more tormenting Hell Hypocrites shall have their portion with the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. Now great men are very apt to dissemble else David who was well acquain ed with King-craft as they call it would never have acknowledged that great men are a Lye Observe it they are more prone to cogg and lie then meaner men Surely ●aith he Psal. 62. 9. men of low degree are vanitie and men of high degr●e are a Lie and if laid in the ballance they are alike or altogether lighter then vanitie I need say no more 2. Moreover they who understand and beleeve that there 〈◊〉 a God cannot dare not live in a constant contempt of godlinesse And yet how many are there who in a Civil account are men of Honour yet in a Religious account are so dishonourable as to contemn Religion and permit their great and much-observed families to live in a constant Contempt of pure Religion I appeal in this Point my Lords to your Honours consciences whether the Power of godlinesse I say the Power of godlinesse be not usually contemned and scoffed at in the Families of Noble-men 3. Consider That Heathens will rise up in judgement against these Right Honourable Atheists for an Atheist is a Nabal the carcase of a man or a man of withered principles one that hath no more reason in him then there is sap or juyce in a withered leaf for so the word Nabal imports Nabal or as very a fool as Nabal is