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death_n	know_v	life_n	love_v	8,582	5	6.6638	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37065	The earnest breathings of forreign Protestants, divines & others, to the ministers and other able Christians of these three nations for a compleat body of practicall divinity ... and an essay of a modell of the said body of divinity / by J.D. ... ; together with an expedient tendered for the entertainment of strangers who are Protestants, and by their means to advance the Gospel unto their several nations and quarters ...	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1658 (1658)	Wing D2855; ESTC R3545	75,860	66

practise that which they taught but by their transgression of the Law they did dishonour God Rom. 2. 21 22 23. And the Gentiles to whom together with the Jews the light of the Gospel was and is revealed shall be condemned because they loved darkness rather then light Joh. 3. 19. And he that may know all Mysteries may yet want Charity and be nothing as to the happiness and life of God But although all this knowledge of Truth which is Antecedent to the enjoyment of the life of God may be void of the practise of Truth and so come short of happinesse yet it may also through the practise of Truth become effectuall unto happiness if God make it fruitfull which he doth according to his own pleasure in giving saving faith whereby the heart is purified that it may become obedient to all his will by which means the soul partaketh of the life of God and becometh truly happy This knowledge then doth not otherwise make us happy but as it bringeth us unto this estate As for the other knowledge of Gods Truth which followeth upon our union with him it is nothing else but a further confirmation of the soul in the truth which it hath received unto life and an enlargement thereof by the enjoyment of God in his power for Christ doth give us two promises to that effect The first is that by the truth of obedience we shall come to the clearing of doubts concerning intellectual matters for Joh 7 v. 17. he saith If any man will do the will of him that sent me he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self And the second is that upon the keeping of the Commandments both the Father and the Sonne will manifest unto the soul which loveth them their presence in love For Christ saith Joh. 14. 21 23. He that hath my Commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and manifest my love unto him and if any man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him Here the manifestation of Gods presence which is both the light and power of life unto the soul is the consequent of the obedience of faith and so it is in that of St John 1 Epist Chap. 5. 20. And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternall life This is a reflexive knowledge from God upon our selves in the enjoyment of him as our happiness and so is that 1 Joh. 3. 14. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren So then we see that all truth as it is the object of contemplation is nothing else but a Preparative to or a consequent of the Truth which is the object of Action The Practicall truth then is the main thing to be heeded for to it the Theoretical is either subservient and subordinate or a necessary and infallible effect The Apostle maketh this evident by the nature of his Ministry which Tit. 1. 1. he saith Is to be an Apostle according to the faith of Gods Elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which is after Godlinesse Intimating clearly that as his Apostle-ship was appointed by God to beget faith in the Elect by their acknowledgment of the truth so the acknowledgment of the truth and faith is appointed to beget the life of Godliness in Believers Therefore as the end and perfection of his Apostleship was the begetting of faith by the acknowledgment of the truth nor was he warranted to teach or do any thing which did not tend to that end and effect So the end and perfection of all true knowledge is the life of Godlinesse nor is any knowledge in spirituall things warrantable or any thing to be accounted a truth which doth not tend to this end and effect Godliness therefore which is the practise of divine Truth is the measure of all intellectuall truths for whatsoever matter of knowledge is not proportionate subordinate and subservient unto the production of the life of God in the soul of a Beleever is not to be received as a divine Truth for the faith of Gods Elect is in the acknowledgement of none other truth but of that which is after Godlinesse From all which we shall inferre this Conclusion That the study of Practical Divinity is of farre greater concernment unto all and far more to be heeded esteemed and entertained in the Schools of the Prophets then the study of contemplative Mysteries and notions of Divinity whereupon Controversal matters are ordinarily attendants And seeing there are so many bodies and Systemes of Theoretical and Controversal matters that it would be no easie task to any man to reckon them all up and yet there is not so much as one compleat body or Systeme of Practical Divinity found in all the Churches whereunto we see nevertheless that all Theoretical Truths ought to be referred directed as to their end it is evident that therein there is a manifest defect and that much is wanting hereby to the increase of publique Edification to the supply of spiritual Consolation and to the settlement of a sound Reformation in all the Churches which may be remedied by a Body of this nature Now by this which we call a Body of Divinity is meant a full Collection and an orderly disposition of all divine Truths which are after godliness under several distinct heads and matters to the end that from the holy Scriptures the man of God may be perfectly instructed and throughly furnished with sufficient helps and directions which by the Spirit of Faith may not onely make him wise unto salvation but able also to work all his works in God And concerning this Body Seeing I am intrusted and conscionably obliged as in the presence of God to solicite the same towards those that are able to contribute their Talents to make it up I conceive it may be an advantage to the Work to offer up the parts thereof unto their consideration that the number of tasks being distinguished and known such as God shall inable and stir up to manifest his truth and to joyn with others in compleating this work may know what tasks to chuse and how to concurre with each other in elaborating the same I shall therefore with due respect unto better judgements offer these following thoughts unto such as shall be undertakers in this Work First I lay this Fundamental Rule to be observed in the contrivance of the whole and of every part of the Work viz. That the Number and Measure of the Parts of this Bodie should be made sutable and proportionate to the end thereof that as nothing should be