Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

5. It is honourable because there are so few that continue till they be Old in the ways of Godliness; If we set many plants, and most of them vanish and come to nothing, but there is one or two that flourish, and come to be trees, and so prosper, we love them the better, and delight in them the more: so because God sees there are so few that continue in his ways, therefore those that do are the more prized by God, and the more honoured by God; So Paul he tells us that of the most he was forsaken; 2 Tim. 1 15.16. He prays for the house of Onesiphorus, because he had kept by him when most in Asia had forsaken him; that is honourable. Again,

5. It is honorable because there are so few that continue til they be Old in the waies of Godliness; If we set many plants, and most of them vanish and come to nothing, but there is one or two that flourish, and come to be trees, and so prosper, we love them the better, and delight in them the more: so because God sees there are so few that continue in his waies, therefore those that do are the more prized by God, and the more honored by God; So Paul he tells us that of the most he was forsaken; 2 Tim. 1 15.16. He praies for the house of Onesiphorus, because he had kept by him when most in Asia had forsaken him; that is honorable. Again,

Those that continue in the ways of Godliness they are honourable before the Lord, because they have passed through many difficulties in the ways of God. A soldier that hath passed through man• dangers and difficulties in the Kings service, is so much the more honoured. We read of Solomon, 1 Kings, 2.26. That he honoured Abiathar because he had suffered so much affliction with his Father of Old: so God will honour those that have suffered many difficulties, those that have gone through many changes of time, and yet continued upright God will exceedingly honour; in