No cross, no crown : $b a discourse shewing the nature and discipline of the holy cross of ChristPenn, William
Religion
No cross, no crown : $b a discourse shewing the nature and discipline of the holy cross of Christ
Penn, William
Christian life; Christian life -- Quaker authors; Self-denial -- Early works to 1800
1. The third evil effect of pride is love of honour and respect.
Too many are guilty of it.--2. It had like to have cost Mordecai
dear. Great mischief has befallen nations on this account.--3.
The world is out in the business of true honour, as well as in
that of true science.--4. Reasons why the author, and the rest
of the people he walks with, use not these fashions.--5. The
first is, the sense they had in the hour of their conviction,
of the unsuitableness of them to the Christian spirit and
practice, and that the root they came from was pride and
self-love.--6. Reproach could not move them from that sense and
practice accordingly.--7. They do it not to make sects, or for
distinction.--8. Nor yet to countenance formality, but passively
let drop vain customs, and so are negative to forms.--9. Their
behaviour is a test upon the world.--10. And this cross to the
world a test upon them.--11. The second reason against them is
their emptiness.--12. Honour in Scripture is not so taken as
it is in the world. It is used for obedience.--13. It is used
for preferments.--14. A digression about folly in a Scripture
sense.--15. Honour is used for reputation.--16. Honour is also
attributed to functions and capacities, by way of esteem.--17.
Honour is taken for help and countenance of inferiors.--18.
Honour is used for service and esteem to all states and
capacities: honour all men.--19. Yet there is a limitation, in a
sense, to the righteous, by the Psalmist; to honour the godly,
and contemn the wicked.--20. Little of this honour found in the
world's fashions.--21. The third reason against them is, they
mock and cheat people of the honour due to them.--22. The author
and his friends are for true honour.--23. The fourth reason is,
that if the fashions carried true honour in them, the debauched
could honour men, which cannot be.--24. The fifth reason is,
that then men of spite, hypocrisy, and revenge, could pay
honour, which is impossible.--25. The sixth reason is drawn from
the antiquity of true honour.--26. The seventh reason is from
the rise of the vain honour, and the teachers of it, wherein
the clown, upon a comparison, excels the courtier for a man of
breeding.--27. The eighth reason against these honours is, that
they may be had for money, which true honour cannot be.--28.
The ninth and last reason is, because the holy Scripture
expressly forbids them to true Christians.--29. As in the case
of Mordecai.--30. A passage between a bishop and the author
in this matter.--31. Likewise the case of Elihu in Job.--32.
Also the doctrine of CHRIST to his disciples.--33. Paul
against conforming to the world's fashions.--34. Peter against
fashioning ourselves according to the world's lusts.--35. James
against respect to persons.--36.
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