N00732:27
The surest way to the greatest honour
The surest way to the greatest honour: discoursed in a sermon, delivered in the audience of His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont, captain general and governor in chief, and the Council, and representatives of the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, convened at Boston in New-England, May 31st. 1699. Being the day for the election of counsellors in that province. / By Increase Mather.The surest way to the greatest honour: discoursed in a sermon, delivered in the audience of His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont, captain general and governour in chief, and the Council, and representatives of the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, convened at Boston in New-England, May 31st. 1699. Being the day for the election of counsellors in that province. / By Increase Mather.
Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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.
18 Be it known unto thee, O King, that we will not Serve thy gods, nor Worship the Golden Image which thou hast set up. Or, if men should inhibit what God Commands, we must honour God by obeying him rather ⟨p. 7⟩than them. Thus the Holy Apostles, when the Jewish Rulers straitly commanded them that •hey should not Preach Christ, they replied, we must obey God rather than men. Act. 5. 29.
18 Be it known unto thee, O King, that we will not Serve thy gods, nor Worship the Go•den Image which thou hast set up. Or, if men should inhibit what God Commands, we must honour God by obeying him rather ⟨p. 7⟩than them. Thus the Holy Apostles, when the Jewish Rulers straitly commanded them that •hey should not Preach Christ, they replyed, we must obey God rather than men. Act. 5. 29.
2. The Honourer of God is one that does Worship […] and Him only, and this according to his Will. The true Worshipper of God is one that […] him. It becomes the Greatest on Earth so to do. Psal. 29 1, 2. Give unto the Lord O •e Mighty, give unto the Lord Glory and Strength; give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name, Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness. When we Worship God if we do it in the Beauty of Holiness, we give unto him the glory that is due unto his Name. As the neglect of Divine Worship is a disrespect and dishonour put upon him