A37049:1143
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
2. Yet there is a civil honour, which they may get, and we are called to give them upon several accounts, as 1. on the account of their place, if Magistrates, honour to whom honour is due, is in that respect enjoined, Rom. 13.7. 2. Of their relation, if they be Fathers, Mothers, &c. as it is 1 Tim. 6.2. i Pet. 2.3.3. Of their other Qualifications and parts, or on other accounts, yea even on this general account, that they are men having immortal souls, capable of grace, and of being restored to Gods Image, our evidencing of honour to them is called for.
2. Yet there is a civil honour, vvhich they may get, and vve are called to give them upon several accounts, as 1. on the account of their place, if Magistrates, honour to whom honour is due, is in that respect enjoyned, Rom. 13.7. 2. Of their relation, if they be Fathers, Mothers, &c. as it is 1 Tim. 6.2. i Pet. 2.3.3. Of their other Qualifications and parts, or on other accounts, yea even on this general account, that they are men having immortal souls, capable of grace, and of being restored to Gods Image, our evidencing of honour to them is called for.
2. Quest. If rich men should be honoured? Answ. Riches of themselves, and for themselves, are not honourable, neither can they make the Possessor such: But Riches may make one capable of doing more good, and of being more useful in Church and Commonwealth, and consequently of being deservedly honoured; and no doubt a rich man is to be respected, as a steward entrusted with some thing to be employed for the honour of God, and for the good of others; and r aches, when well improved to these ends, they become useful, and therefore in that Case the Possessors of them are to be honoured; but when abused, the person is more vile, so David, at first, honoured Nabal, as a Father, and called himself his Son, but after that his churlishness appeared and discovered