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A13851	Christian wisdome, or The excellency fame and right meanes of true wisdome As it was briefly delivered in a sermon in St Maries Church in Oxford. Novemb: 11. 1638. By H. Tozer B. D. Fellow of Exeter Colledge.	Tozer, Henry, 1602-1650.	1639 (1639)	STC 24159; ESTC S121020	22,673	117

free from the Other The way to avoid Both is with this All in the Text to seek for Wisdome which must be sought for because of it selfe it will never come unto us and it is well worth the seeking because it is pretious One small peece of silver in the 15. of Luke deserved the lighting of a candle to finde it out be it never so litle yet if it be Silver it is worth the looking after much more if it be Gold or Pretious stones and Wisdome indeed is all These and more How much better is it Prov. 16.16 saith Solomon that is 't is far better to get wisdome than Gold to get understanding rather to be chosen then silver for when we talke of That wee then speak of Silver and Gold and all the Treasures of the World cast together All which we may have and be rich therewith if we doe but seek it For if thou seekest Her as silver and searchest for her as for hid Treasures then shalt thou understand saith Solomon who found it so Prov. 2.4.5 Prov. 2.4.5 Where calling it a Treasure he sheweth how well it deserves in saying it is Hid he putteth us in minde how much it requires our seeking which two are Motives to perswade us to the seeking of it and Motives sufficient they are except it be to a selfe-conceited Foole to put anyman with diligence upon it But here the materiall Question will bee when and where and how we are to seek it 1 When The Son perhaps would gladly put it off till his Pleasures be ended and the Father untill his Projects be contrived both supposing the Gravity of wisdome better befitting the Grandfathers yeares So in deed too many doe and die Fooles for their labour for saith Solomon Eccles 9.10 Eccles 9.10 there is neither Knowledge nor wisdome in the grave whither thou goest and then it is much to be feared that They which never had any before will finde but litle when they are going Toward the grave Wee should then set upon it with our might in the Morning of our Age as soone as wee can because we know not how soone we shall goe as soone as possibly wee can wee should seek strive to know God and serve him 2 If in the next place you aske me where wee may seek and finde this wisdome I will then answer that you must not think to find much good water but either in the streames or at the spring-head and There at the Head you shall be sure to finde it clearest Wisdome is that water of life which the Lord by the Prophet inviteth every man to come freely unto Isai 55.1 Isai 55.1 The Head-spring of this Water is a VVell of Gods own making namely his sacred word about which unlesse wee chance to meet as too many doe with some invidious Romanist that will lock it up from us we need have no Contention now as the Israelites often had about their VVells for God hath now made it freely Ours every man may come and draw without exception and yet never empt it because it is an Everlasting spring The streames of wisdome flowing from this Head are thence gone out into all the world which never had so many Helps for wisdome as Now it hath so that goe where you will if you seek for wisdome it will be very hard if you find it not Only you may chance in your way to meet with some Ditches of Puddle fit for none but Asses to drink in which the Monks and Friers with such like wisemen have digged for us purposely to stay us from looking after better Waters setting us on work with some Tales and Fables of their Own to withhold us from the word of God as many good Books as possibly they can When These or any such wee meet with as often we doe wee need not make any long stay at them or if we doe so we shall bee very litle the better for them But goe to the Spring the word of God or any streames which proceed frō That and There you shall be sure to finde true wisdome if you seek it Aright Which is the next Query namely How we are to seek it 3 Hovv And How should we seek wisdome in the word of God but only by daily Reading Meditating therein Which I forbeare any further to commend to You because it is Your Profession I hope it is Your Practice too Yet thus much let mee put You in minde of which too many forget that as the Woman of Samaria said once to Christ the Well is deep Ioh. 4.11 and We of our selves have nothing to draw withall All our Reading and Meditation will but perplex and trouble us if God doe not prosper us with a Blessing on it It is said of these Men here in the Text that when they sought to Solomon they brought Presents o● Gifts with them 1 Kings 10.25 with them v. 25. and so must we seek unto the God of Solomon with the Gift of Praise for what we have received with the Gift and Sacrifice of Prayer for what we want and this is the way to seek and finde the Gift of Wisdome which we desire Wh● therefore thou takest thy Bible or any other good Book in thy hand to seek Wisdome in it say with David Lord open thou mine eyes Psal 119.18 that I may see the wonderous works of thy Law and then thou needest not doubt but thou shalt behold the Goodnesse of Wisdome to thy great content especially if as Solomon his Son gives the advise Prov. 4.20 Prov. 4.20 thou attend to his Words and not seek to mend what hee hath done but humbly incline thine Eare to hearken what hee shall say And herein These Seekers in the Text may be a fit Patterne to us for They sought to Solomon not to Reprove and Correct him but to Heare and be Instructed by him which brings in the last Part of the Text namely the End of their seeking and that was to Heare Particular 3 They came to Heare Solomon and that presupposeth that Solomon though a King was ready and willing to Teach them otherwise hee had been no fit Type of Christ who though a greater than Solomon did litle else but Teach and among other lessons that he taught he taught this One to his Own Disciples namely that they should goe out and Teach all Nations Mat. 28.19 Which Precept of His together with his own Example wrought so much with them that neither Tumults nor Prisons neither wicked Men nor Divells could stop them from it but casting out the One and confuting the Other they went on to Teach in spight of All. And who thē is He that is too good to Teach Seneca Sen. Ep. 90. alias 89. in his 90. Ep. will tell us that a wise man is but Humani generis Poedagogus by his Profession a Schoolmaster a Teacher to any man that will