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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80047	Gods vvisdom justified, and mans folly condemned, touching all maner of outward providential administrations, in a sermon / preached before the Honorable House of Commons, Ian. 31. 1648. By John Cardell.	Cardell, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing C492; Thomason E540_24; ESTC R205775	30,393	55

a double Consideration And this I do the rather move for upon a double Consideration First because of that great defect or want of wisdom 1 Consid From that want of wisdom that hath always been in the world that both hath been and is apparently to be seen in the world In all times and ages a truly wise man hath been a very choyce piece a very rare commodity Look among the Jews of old that had the lively Oracles of God committed to them and that had more helps and means and advantages to make them truly wise then all the world besides and yet it is even admirable to consider what a foolish people they were and even more bruitish then the very bruit creatures Isa 1.3 The Ox knows his owner says God by the Prophet there and the Ass his masters crib Sensus est perspicuus ego inquit cos adoptavi in silios feci populum peculiarem partem meam ac funiculum haerelitatis meae appellavique eos primogenitos illi autem ne hoc quidem fecerunt quod bruta faciunt animalia ut beneficis vinceventur intelligerent Pastorem Nutritium suum Hieron Com. in loc but Israel does not know my people do not consider And again Jer. 8.6 7. I hearkned and heard but they spake not aright no man repented of his wickedness saying What have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rushes into the battel yea the Stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the judgement of the Lord. Mark My people if it had been any body else a man would never have wondred at it but that God should say this of his own people that was very strange And in the New Testament Jam. 3.13 there where the Apostle falls professedly and expresly upon this point of Wisdom says he there Who is a wise man Iam. 3.13 Vera sapientiâ scientià polleus ostendat eam operibus honestae mansuetae conversationis tanquam ejus germanis perpetuis fructibus N. Herming in loc and endued with knowledge amongst you As if he should have said If there be such a one to be found amongst you If ye can furnish me with such a man let him now stand forth and shew his face and let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But the words do clearly hold forth thus much unto him that understands them That it is not easie to meet with such a man that is able to shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom 2 Consid From the many mistakes that are in the world about wisdom Secondly Though there hath been and is so great a defect of this wisdom abroad in the world yet few men think so most men think they are wise and that their wisdom shall dye with them and few there be that will own so much ignorance and folly as David does here assume or take home to himself but even they that are most foolish would yet be reputed wise It s a notable speech to this purpose that Zophar hath in Job ye must not take offence at the similitude because the holy Ghost uses it Job 11.12 Iob 11.12 cap. says Zophar there Vain man would be wise though man be born like the wilde Asses colt that is though man by Nature be not onely like unto the beasts that perish as the Psalmist speaks Psal 49.12 10. but like unto the dullest of beasts the Ass and the dullest of Asses the wilde Ass and the dullest of wilde Asses the wilde Asses Colt yet for all that vain man would be wise that is he would fain be reputed so though he be not so In other cases men and women are content to be reputed as they are they that are lame and they that are blinde and they that are deaf and they that are dumb are willing to bear the burthen of these Infirmities and to be looked upon as they are but no man would be reputed or looked upon as a fool every man would be wise as Erasmus said in a Book that he wrote concerning the Praise of Folly Moriae Encomium 't is called Male Audit stultitia etiam apud stultissimos Folly hath an ill name Erasm Mor. Encom ad init even among those that are most foolish And this frequently hinders people from enquiring after wisdom even their want of knowing that they want it and therefore it was a sage speech of one of the wiser sort among the Heathens Puto multo● potuisse ad sapientiam pervenire nisi putassent se pervenisse Sen. de Tranq An. cap. 1. That many might have been wise if they had not thought themselves wise if their own Wisdom had not stood in their light and Professing themselves wise they became fools says the Apostle Rom. 1.22 Now I say Since there is so much want of Wisdom and withal since there are so many misperswasions in the world about it and since the thing is in it self so excellent and so necessary that the holy Ghost calls it The principal thing These Considerations should stir us up to be so much the more diligent and curious in our Enquiries after it How to attain wisdom And for the Attainment of it Means 1 First ye must all be content to tread that unsmooth and unpleasant and unbeaten path of Wisdom which the Apostle speaks of 1 Cor. 3.18 he speaks of it there not without some seeming disadvantage as to his hearers the Corinthians who had a great Name for Wisdom who looked upon themselves and were looked upon by others as a very knowing people Corinth being a rich opulent City Vid. Alsted Chronol Vrb. Antiquis Aul. Gell. Noct. At. lib. 14. c. 6. Itiner tot sacr Script by R.B. printed at London An. 1629. full of Goods and full of Gifts and full of Parts and full of Pride which things are very seldom or never asunder in such like places but yet for all that says the Apostle to them in the place aforementioned Let no man deceive himself he means in point of Wisdom but If any man among you seemeth to be wise or would be reputed wise 1 Cor. 3.18 then here 's his Rule Let him become a fool that he may be wise Means 2 Secondly Pray for wisdom Prov. 2.3 4 5. If thou cryest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding If thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and finde the knowledge of God Solomon ye know took this course he begg'd of God A wise and an understanding heart he made that the main of his desires 1 Kings 3.9.4.33 and thereupon God gave him a large heart for wisdom even as the sand upon the sea shore he was able