Part If: -JI S~lnt ir aBrutt,.· i~ f ( Jjan1 nMn (erv4 me, bi• will my F~tther Honour.] Acd ·who ~ares then for the difuonottrs of all the wicked of the world? Our trpdfaith AI preciDufer then G9ld, wiO be found unto pr11ije, ~nAhonoHr, andglory, at the11ppearingof 1efusChrift.] I Pet. I ·7· See 2. Tim. 2. 21. We mufi learn therefore to imitate our Lord , rohn ~. 4 I. and not to receive our Honour fr~m men ; and not to imitate the wicked) verf. 4~-. thAt receive Honour one of another, al$dfeek. not the Ho'nour thflt comethfrom God. There is enm.1gh for · us in Gods approbation• .And yet aHhis fenants do imitate th~il" · Lord· and his Judgement is their Judgement; and whom he · hono~reth, them do they honour ; Angds , and Saints, and all that emer into the Tabernacle of the Lord , do contemn the vile; 11nd honour them thttt fe~r the Lerd, P[alm 15 . 4· And though no mans J udgemem or Praife be: valuable in cornparifon of the Lords ; yet the Honour and Praife that is given by the wife and Godly, is more then a thoufand times as mm;h from ignorant un– godly men. If the Athenian Orator regarded the cenfurcof S(}– cr~Ztes Rtore then of all the refi of his auditors, we have ca:ufe eo jud£e ,he Elogies of experienced holy men agrcarcr honour chen · of choufands of the wicked,& greater then all their contempt or fcorn is able towei~h down. The applaufe of the wic;ked is oft– times a difuonour in wife mens eyes. Was it nor Bid11ams chiefefi · k~nour to hear from BalP~I{., [ J thought to promQte tl:~ee to grtal · RonoNrs,butthe Lbrd h'ith k!Pt thee back..frum H(J·nour.] Nnm!J. · 24. r r. The Honour that God k!epeth" manfrom, is no Honoar: hut it is an Honour to ·be kept from fuch Honour by the Lord : lrinocent poverty is incomparably more Honourable then Riches by iniquity, ,which is the great eft flume. . I o. La!'Hy it is ~n(pe~tk..able tverl~tft~·ng J:!onour thAt holinlfsd~th ' te.nd ~Jnto,- andwhKh ·holy men/h~tll tnjO) lfPith G'od, , The very Re– lation of a Godiy man to his everlaiting Glory , is an Honour ren rhoufand times furpa'ffing the Honour of all the Kingdom~ o_f the world. If you did but know that one of--your poor neigh~ · , hours !hould certainly be a King,would you not prcfemly honour hi~m, eve~ in his rags? :You may know that t'he Sa~nrs fliall raign , wnh Chtdl, as fure as tf an Angel from heaven had to!d you fo , '. a-nd more ·; and rherefore how fbould a Saint be,ho'noured ? If· God had but lcgi bly mar ked outfome among JOu for falvation, ·. ;tFJd written in their fore-heads, [ Thu man fha'IL be [~tved] : ~uli !JOt a~l th~ Pa~~~ ~~Y~Ee!1~~- ~~a~ m~n ~ yvhyaHcav~n7 ,' nun'*:)', '
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