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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 3: Quest. How God is his Peoples great Reward. SERMON III.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. God is Merces honorifica, an honourable Reward: Honour is the height of mens Ambition: Aristotle calls it [Greek or Hebrew]. Alas! Worldly Honour is but a pleasant Fancy. aActs 25.23y. Honour hath oft a speedy burial: but to enjoy God is the head of Honour. What greater Dignity than to be taken up into Communion with the God of Glory, and to possess a Kingdom with him, bespangled with Light, and seated above all the visible Orbs? A great Heir while he is in a Foreign Land, may be despised, but in his own Country he is had in Veneration. Here the people of God are as Princes in a disguise, 1 John 3.1. but they shall have honour enough in Heaven, when they shall be clothed with white Robes, and sit with Christ upon his Throne. Rev. 3.21.
6. God is Merces honorifica, an honourable Reward: Honour is the height of mens Ambition: Aristotle calls it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Alas! Worldly Honour is but a pleasant Fancy. aActs 25.23y. Honour hath oft a speedy burial: but to enjoy God is the head of Honour. What greater Dignity than to be taken up into Communion with the God of Glory, and to possess a Kingdom with him, bespangled with Light, and seated above all the visible Orbs? A great Heir while he is in a Forreign Land, may be despised, but in his own Countrey he is had in Veneration. Here the people of God are as Princes in a disguise, 1 John 3.1. but they shall have honour enough in Heaven, when they shall be cloathed with white Robes, and sit with Christ upon his Throne.