The Right Notion of Honor, Title page – Epigraph
THE RIGHT NOTION OF HONOUR: As it was delivered in a SERMON BEFORE THE KING. At NEWMARKET, Octob. 4. 1674. Publiſhed by his Majeſties ſpecial Command. WITH ANNOTATIONS: The Contents whereof are in the following Leaf. By NATH. VINCENT, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majeſty, and Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.
LONDON, Printed for Richard Chiſwell, at the Roſe and Crown in S. Paul's Church-Yard. MDCLXXXV.
The Contents of the Annotations.
THE occaſion of publiſhing this Diſcourſe, after its ſuppreſſion for ſo many years.
A ſure Expedient for attaining the greateſt Honour.
This conception proved agreeable to the Divine Oeconomy, in ſeveral Particulars.
An account of the excellent Life, and a Specimen of the admirable Morals, of that old Chineſe Philoſopher Cumfuſu. Wherein we find the happy influence of the Natural, and the Improved ſenſe of Honour, upon the Manners of that People, and the Proſperity of their Empire, in antient times.
The contrary Sentiments of Ambitious, Revengeful or Miſtaken Men, repreſented in Hiſtorical Parallels between the old Politick Frights of Tyranny and Slavery in other Countries, and the like ſeditious Clamours among our ſelves in the late Rebellion.
HOneſtatem voco intelligibilem pulchritudinem. S. Auguſt. Honeſtum idem quod decorum ſpirituale. Dionyſ. de Div. Nomin. Formam ipſam & tanquam faciem honeſti vides, quae ſi oculis cerneretur, mirabiles amores, ut ait Plato, excitaret ſapientiae. Cic. Caeſar cum quoſdam ornare voluit, non ipſos honeſtavit, ſed ornamenta ipſa turpavit. Idem.
foreign. Hierocl.
See the laſt Particular of the Sermon.