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A79474	The man of honour, described in a sermon, preached before the Lords of Parliament, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, March 26. 1645. The solemn day of the publique monethly-fast. / By Francis Cheynell, minister of Gods Word. Die Jovis, 27. Martii, 1645. It is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that this House doth hereby give thanks to Master Cheynell for his great pains, taken in the sermon, he preached on the 26. of this instant March, in the Abbey Church Westminster, before the Lords of Parliament, it being the day of the publique fast. John Brown, Cler. Parliament.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing C3812; Thomason E279_3; ESTC R200026	64,263	74

God be not too hasty He that beleeveth maketh not haste Isai. 28. 16. Waite Gods leisure and God will in due time exalt you to such a degree of honour as will make most for his glory and yours God will do it in due time saith the Apostle but remember that God is the Judge and therfore that is the due time which he appoints Your time is in Gods hand Psal. 31. 15. If the time of your pref●rment were in your enemies hand it would be deferred too long if it were in your own hand it would be over-much hastned and come too soon Such green fruit would breed worms It is well your time is in Gods hand leave all to him beleeve and pray w●ite and pray pray to him that disposes of Honour and Power Victory and Glory make your acknowledgements in the words of David 1 Chro. 29. 11 12. Thine O Lord is the greatnesse and the power and the glory and the victory and the majestie for all that is in Heaven and Earth is thine Thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted a● head above all both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thy hand is power and might and in thy hand it is to make great We humble our souls before thee we cast our care upon thee Exalt u● in due time that we may exalt thee give us grace to serve thee with all our power wealth and strength and honour thee with all our honour that thy power majestie and glory may be made known unto men This this is the way to recover all your honour Sixthly It will make exceedingly for your Honour to do most service when you have least encouragement because then it will appear that you do service upon Noble principles and do not intend to serve your selves But it will be objected That the greatest triall to a man of noble endowments is to be laid aside for that doth not onely reflect upon his Honour but deny him opportunitie of doing farther service This is indeed the saddest objection but I hope to return a satisfying answer First then consider That every man is not laid aside who is not constantly employed in Military affairs In other Common-wealths it doth not reflect upon any mans Honour if the date of his employment expire within an yeer or two Such was the wisdom of the Roman State that they seldom gave any long leases of Honour unto men that were deeply entrusted in eminent places of authoritie and command When the State was even surprized by some unexpected danger the Senate or Consuls did create a Dictator or in the absence of the Consuls in after times the people named some Pro-dictator and a Magister Equitum who by the Senates approbation were to take care of the Common-wealth But the same person continued not Dictator above six moneths unlesse his lease were renued and that was rare But it was more rare that there should be two Dictators at once Sylla would ●ain have been Dictator for five yeers and pleaded that Lex Valeria would justifie his desire but the Oratour denied that there was any such Law It is safer in places of such great trust and command to limit the time becansc you cannot so well limit their power Secondly All that have performed considerable service heretofore have cause to blesse God who did them the Honour in times past to make use of them in any Noble and renowned atchievements All that are Emeriti have made the State nay the enemies of the State sensible of their worth and therefore they do not lay down their Arms but hang them up as Ensignes of Victory Thirdly God hath an absolute Power and Soveraign Command over the greatest men in the World and they owe Absolute subjection to the will pleasure providence of the God of Heaven Come acknowledge your subjection God is not bound to use the same Instruments still Instruments are no helps to him for he helps his Instruments and works all i● them and for them God loves to shew his Prerogative and make great ones know that he is not beholding to them to do his work he will let them see that he can do his work without them My Lords I dare not flatter you there are enough can do that who are onely men in black and no Divines I speak to you in the name of the mightie God who breaks in peices mightie men without number and sets others in their stead Job 34. 24. God having varietie of Instruments doth delight to use them by turns If any are unfaithfull they have been used too long but all that have faithfully performed their part of the service will not or need not repine if men of meaner abilities take their turn the meaner they are the more should God be glorified and you humbled Fourthly When God hath tried men in the duties of active obedience he doth usually call them to honour him farther by passive obedience and it is no easie matter to come off with honour in the passive part Great spirits will finde it task enough for to be patient they will have work enough to keep themselves humble in such a case and therefore they need not complain for want of work My Lords It is a Work indeed to mortifie self-love it is no easie matter for great men to take themselves off from self-confidence self-conceitednesse and self-ends that their hearts may be wrought unto a self-deniall which is the foundation of Christianitie and at this time the onely means in sight of our safetie Can you imitate David in one of the most royall services that ever we read of it was a self-denying service a royall and magnanimous but sweet submission to the Will of God If I finde favour in the eyes of God he will bring me back again and employ me farther that was his meaning But if he say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do unto me as seems good in his sight 2 Sam. 15. 25 26. My Lords Suffer me to deal freely and honestly with you It may be God sees that your hearts are like to be lifted up by too high an opinion of what God hath done by you in former times and therefore God would have you breath and rest a while that you may be sufficiently humbled and so fitted for some higher and nobler peece of active obedience and then you 'l shew more bright and glorious after this seeming sad eclipse At low water you have him to tread the banks whilest the ship is in the barbour you may dresse it and trim it and make it able to endure storms and tempests They that are employed will shew themselves men they adventure far and you have a full employment your votes have an influence into all affairs of high concernment Be not displeased but rest assured That your active spirits and inlarged hearts will by the blessing of Heaven have fairer opportunities and

wealth and glory of the world as drosse and dung in comparison of Jesus Christ A Believer is strong in Christ rich in faith because rich in Christ he is wise in Christ and noble in Christ he is nothing in himself and all things in Christ for Christ is all in all unto him Believers are the Members of Christ and the Apostle shews that the Head and Members make but one Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. and therefore all Believers must needs be Noble by their intimate relation to Christ this glorious Title of Christ being imposed upon them as united in one Body to their Head the Lord Jesus Christ This one Title of Honour doth outshine and eclipse all the admired Titles of Honour in the most flourishing Common-wealths Once more Faith i a noblegrace if it be faith of the right strain the faith of Gods elect a faith that is not built upon Quicksands upon Hearsays and Fancies upon the Authority of man much lesse upon the Authority of the Man of sin the Pope or Church of Rome nay the true Church the Church of Christ is not the foundation of our Noble faith for an Implicite faith though grounded upon the Authority of the true Church is but an Ignoble faith because it leads men hood winked to a blinde obedience The Disciples of Berea were noble Christians because they were endued with a faith that was truely Noble a searching faith a busie faith an examining faith they were ready to receive any Scripture-truth but they loved to be sure and therefore compared even the Apostles Doctrine with the written word You may read the story Acts 17. 11. These were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} better born more Noble then those in Thessal●nica But wherein did their Noblenesse consist Why in that they received the Word with all rea lin●…ss● of minde and searched the Scriptures d●…ly whether those things were so They were not slow to believe what the Apostles taught for they received the Word with all readinesse of minde but they made no more haste then good sp●ed they searched the Scriptures and search●d them daily there 's work for Noble-men that know not how to passe away their time Search the Scriptures that 's a Noble employment On that Noble-men would make it both their businesse and their recreation also that they might be fitted with the Noble Science of Christ and Heaven * I desire to close up this point in a word All reall Christians are spirituall Kings the Prince of the Kings of the earth loved us so well as to wash us in his own pretious blood that he might make us Kings unto God Revel. 1. 5 6. We are kings by birth born to a Kingdom by a new and miraculous birth We are kings by purchase the Kingdom cost Christ dear but it cost us nothing and therefore the Kingdom comes to us by deed of gift also We are kings by conquest our Lord and Master hath conquered principalities and powers for us he hath conquered the World and t●● Devil for us nay he hath conquered even our own selves for us by mortifying our lusts within us and therefore we are more then conquerours thorow him that loved us and overcame our spirituall enemies for us Finally We are kings by marriage the soul of every beleever is married to the King of Kings and is attended with a guard of Angels This is not onely a Noble but a Royall marriage If a woman that was Noble by marriage marry a second husband that is no Nobleman she looses her nobilitie and becomes ignoble If our souls fall into a league with Sin and Satan Death and Hell our souls are made ignoble we are servants of sin slaves of Satan the undoubted heirs of Hell and damnation But if when Christ makes love to our souls we do with all humilitie and thankfulnesse embrace the offer and take him for our Lord and our Love our King and our Husband We have Heaven made over to our souls for ever not as a Joynture but an Inheritance We are Kings to God and Heirs Coheirs with Christ Such Honour have all the Saints for they are the men whom the King of Kings doth delight to honour and they shall continue in their honour because they understand their dependance and will continue in their adherence to the fountain of honour They shall not be like the Beasts of the field but like the Angels of Heaven satisfied with honour and crowned with glory And so I passe to my second observation which is briefly this Doctrine Men that are in Honour do too often behave themselves more like Beasts then Men They are Beasts for want of understanding and Beasts in regard of perishing as it is in my Text Man that is in Honour and understandeth not is like the Beasts that perish 1. They are Beasts for want of understanding or for want of consideration for they will not understand so Arias Montanus renders it They are so wilfully inconsiderate that they become like bruite Beasts that have no understanding Men in Honour are very bruitish if they understand nothing concerning the eternall welfare of their pretious soul nothing concerning Religon and Happinesse Heaven and Holinesse Surely saith that ingenuous man Prov. 30. 2 3. I am more brutish then any man I have not the understanding of a man I neither learned wisedom nor have the knowledge of the holy Though a man hath a deep reach and be endued with strong and happy parts though he be an able Statesman a profound Politician yet if he hath not the knowledge of the holy a spirituall practicall experimentall saving knowledge the knowledge of a Christian the knowledge of a Saint he is but a brutish man he hath no knowledge of that grace and glory of which the pretious soul of a man is capable and therefore if he be a man he is but a brutish man nay he hath not the understanding of a man and therefore may well be compared to the Beasts that perish He that knows nothing after the right manner nothing as he ought to know it Is not he a Beast And doth not the Apostle point at such Beasts 1 Corinth 8. 2. How little is it that great men understand of those great Things of Eternitie And yet how many great men of the world who understand Religion no more then Beasts being steeled with ignorance impudence and Atheism do take the boldnesse to censure what they understand not These men should learn the wisedom and modesty of Socrates who when he met with an obscure Book passed his judgement thus The things in this Book saith be as far as I understand are generous and truely noble and for the rest I have no reason to censure it because I do not understand it Saint Jude gives two Characters of men that are transformed into Beasts The first is this They speak evil of those things they know not the second is this What they

there is nothing amiable or lovely in Hell therefore there is no use of love there is no joy or delight no good to be hoped for there onely the tormenting affections of grief shame despair and the rest of that black crue remain to vex and torture the soul though they cannot devour or consume it Let us then so place our affections here as that we may enjoy the comfort of them in another world let our love and confidence be placed on Christ let us delight and rejoyce in him and his service that our souls may be for ever satisfied with his goodnesse and even ravished with his love Remember that Faith and Love are both Active it is Faith working by Love you have heard of the obedience of Faith Rom. 16. 26. And if ye Love me keep my Commandments Joh. 14. 15. Consider that Jesus Christ is the Authour of eternall Salvation to all them and none but them that obey him Heb. 5. 9. Beloved in the Lord Jesus If you will learn to perform all your duties in faith and out of love trusting onely upon free grace and aiming onely at Gods glory My soul for yours you will be of the Christian circumcision you will worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh You will be justified by free-grace acted and lead by effectuall Grace into all necessary Trueths and Holinesse of Trueth Faith and love will finde out their way to Heaven Faith and love will establish your hearts and mindes These graces will make you not onely patient and constant but zealous also For zeal can never boil high enough unlesse it be raised by Faith and enflamed by Love Zeal is the strength of affection and heighth of grace it is the heighth of knowledge the heighth of prudence and therefore not to be ordered by discretion as they talk who mistake policie for wi●dom and subject matters of Religion to reasons of State nay zeal is the heighth of Faith also When we read that something was imputed to Phinehas for righteousnesse Some say it was Justice others say Zeal but I say Faith for I know nothing else imputed for righteousnesse in any Scripture notion And Faith is said to be imputed for righteousnesse because the object of Faith the Lord Christ is Jehovah our righteousnesse Come then let your Faith and Love and Zeal kindle burn rise flame higher and higher Beleeve it you 'l be but uselesse men without zeal for your parts and gifts will be uselesse As a knife without an edge a ship without sails sails without winde a bird without wings wheels without oyl an horse without mettall such is a man any man a man in Honour without Zeal But a word or two more my Lords and I have done You must shew your selves noble Christians in your places relations correspondencies and improve all your Interests for the Honour of Jesus Christ and if you Honour God he will Honour you and your house 1 Sam. 2. 30. Honour God not onely with outward but inward worship honour him with your soul and body and substance Perform Honourable actions do not disdain to anoint the feet of our Saviour the lower you do stoop to serve Christ the higher you will be preferred for your humble service You may smell the perfume of that womans ointment that anointed the feet of Christ even to this very day wheresoever the Gospel is Preached Salvator noster faeminae monnumentum curr● triumphali vel Statuâ Imperatoris illustrius erexit Study Honorabilia legis The great and honourable things of the Law and Gospel Consider that vile affections base lusts will dishonour your bodies and damn your souls Rom. 1. 24 26. O possesse your vessels in sanctification and honour 1 Thes. 4. 4. It will not be for your honour to be guiltie of those sins which ye ought to punish Jehu was a murtherer in the sight of God for slaying of Idolatours because he was an Idolatour himself Mordecai was next to the King great among the Jews and accepted of the people by doing what was right in the sight of the people Hester 10. 3. You shall be near to Jesus Christ and accepted of God if ye do what is right in the sight of God Glory and Honour and Peace shall rest upon you for to them who by Patient continuance in wel-doing seek for glory and honour and immortalitie God will give immortall honour eternall life Rom. 2. 7 10. You know that they are good men who are good in their places and they are men of Honour who keep a good conscience in places of honour My Lords I do not desire to deal with you in a full Body as you make an House of Peers but I consider you as you will be considered and dealt with at the day of judgement then Christ will take you out every Lord single by himself one by one and say Sir you had the honour to sit in the House of Peers why did you hold correspondence with my utter enemies the Antichristian faction and commonly give your Vote against me when the welfare of three Kingdoms the building up of my Church and the making of a new heaven upon earth did much depend upon your Vote When it was put to the Vote in the Senate at Rome Whether Christ should be worshipped as God in the Romane Territories It was carried against him by a major part of Votes But my Lords I hope nay I know better things of your House then of the Romane Senate for the House of Peers hath passed a Vote lately much conducing to the Honour of Jesus Christ and the Reformation of particular Congregations Be pleased to proceed and perfect the Work let the ignorant be better instructed and the scandalous better disciplined the Liberties and Priviledges of Gods people restored Heretikes Blasphemers Seducers severely punished Oh that you could form and new mould our Armies into Churches also Is it not possible that there should be a spirituall Militia a powerfull Ministery and some Ecclesiasticall as well as Military Discipline set up and countenanced amongst them I must acknowledge That when I had the honour to serve the Sate and attend the Army I received all encouragement from His Excellency the Noble Generall in the work of my Ministery But I beleeve the want of Ministers was one defective cause or at least occasion of many disorders in that Army and how highly God was provoked by those disorders we have all cause to acknowledge yet give me leave to say That your sins had an influence into that sad defeat as well as ours and notwithstanding all the faults of that Army Surely my Lords That Army which had borne the heat and burthen nay carried away the glory of the day in so many set-battles and solemn victories should not have been so much neglected but timely relieved You see my Lords I know not how to flatter you but I beseech you I beseech you That