Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	day_n	heart_n	youth_n	1,554	5	9.4723	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54657	Happy merchandise or Wisdoms excellency darkly discovered or rather greatly obscured by words without knowledge By Charles Phelps.	Phelpes, Charles.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1978; ESTC R218239	66,695	104

And it might be powerfull also to awaken us to seek the Lord to seek Wisdome and righteousness while he is exercising patience and forbearance to us and crying to us to turne at his reproofes and to stirre us up hereto the next branch of the instruction is good to be considered by us viz. 2. The present time is the opportunity in which it is good and needfull for us to seek and get Wisdome and understanding Wherefore as the Ho Ghost saith to day if ye will heare his voice harden not your hearts Hebr. 3. 7 8 14 15. and 4. 7. strive now to enter in at the strait gate for many I say unto you saith our saviour shall seek to enter in and shall not be able When once the master of the house is risen up and hath shut too the doore and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the doore saying Lord Lord open unto us Then all pleadings and arguments will be in vaine he shall say I tell you I know you not whence you are Luk. 13. 24 27. gather your selves therefore together yea gather together before the decree bring forth before the day pass as the chaff before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you before the day of the Lords anger come upon you Zephan 2. 1 2. Objection If any one should say I am young and strong and the evill day will not yet prevent nor overtake me I may now rejoyce in my youth and let my heart cheere me I may now seek after the world and love the lust of the flesh mine ease and pleasure Or the lust of the eye in labouring to be rich and laying up for my selfe and mine Or the pride of life I may hereafter apply my heart to Wisdome I know not yet how to be so serious it will be time enough for that when old age cometh Answer 1. To this I may say this Objection savours of great ignorance and folly and want of consideration of the worth and invaluable price of Wisdome did we seriously consider that Wisdome is the principall thing and that all the things we may or can desire are not to be compared to her as God is discovering the excellency of it and opening our eyes to behold it and that it is prepared for us and may be found and gotten by us it would be powerfull with us to seek it early to seek first the kingdome of God and the righteousness thereof to cry after it and be restless in our spirits for it and with all our gettings and in all opportunities to seek after this one thing that is so profitable unto all things Prov. 3. 15 16 17. and 4. 1 8. and 8. 1. 6. 10 11 17. And therefore also 2. It is safe good and needfull to seek it in the present opportunity and dangerous to neglect that For. 1. If thou shouldest live to old age it may be more difficult then to finde Wisdome then now because 1. When old age cometh then our naturally capacities and powers will be much weakned and impaired and afflictions and weaknesses are ordinarily so many and so flowing in upon us like the waves of the sea one in the neck of another the clouds returning after the raine that then we shall be more out of capacity to seek and get Wisdome hence when the preacher had by way of severe reproofe to such an Objector said rejoyce ô young man in they youth and let thy heart cheere the in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thine owne heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment c. He addes Remember now thy creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evill dayes come not nor the yeares draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them While the sun or the light or the Moone or the Star be not darkned nor the clouds returne after the raine c. Eccles 11. 9 10. and 12. 1 7. it will then be more hard to heare and seeke after Wisdome when we are prest downe and burdened with manifold paines sicknesses weaknesses and when also our naturall strength is weakned As is signified in what is said of the Israëlites when God sent them word by the hand of Moses that he would bring them out from Under the burdens of the Egyptians and rid them out of their bondage c. yet they hearkned not unto Moses for anguish of spirit Exod. 6. 2 9. 2. Then also it will ●e more hard and difficult to get understanding because they have been accustomed to doe evill When it hath been mens manner from their youth to neglect Wisdome and despise instruction and to seek after and set their hearts upon the world and the things thereof this renders it more difficult with them to leave their old wayes and practices and cause their hearts to come to Wisdome according to that Can the Ethiopian change his skin Or the Leopard his spots then may ye also doe good that are accustomed to doe evill Jerem. 13. 23. Indeed with God all things are possible nor doe I speak this to discourage them that are old but to awaken the young and others before they are older to break of their sins and forsake their unrighteous wayes and thoughts and turne unto him who delighteth in mercy and who will multiply to pardon Nor doth the Holy Ghost use that saying fore mentioned Jerem. 13. 23. to signify that it is impossible for them to learne to doe well as he is giving grace unto them for he vers 27. thus still expostulates with them wilt thou not be made cleane When shall it once be As intimating that God was yet waiting upon them and cleansing them from the evill they had been accustoming themselves unto but he speakes it to the end he might ingage them to consider their waies and turne unto him but continuance in evill makes it more difficult with us to depart there from and to forsake our old lovers and companions and to incline our hearts to Gods understanding which we have so long despised and set light by What one is wont to doe becomes at last after a sort necessary for him to doe As whereas in Matth. 27. 15. it is said Pilate was wont to release unto the people a prisoner it is thus rendred Luk. 23. 17. of necessity he must release unto them one at the feast As on the one hand the holy spirit saith traine up a child in the way in which he should goe and when he is old he will not depart there from Prov. 22. 6. so on the other hand we may say when we have been training up our selves in the days of our youth and strength in the ways in which we should not goe it becomes more hard with us to depart therefrom when we are old 2 Petr. 2. 14. let this be considered by us 3. Yea God may put an end to

is proper and powerfull to teach and helpe us to rejoyce in the tribulations he is ordering Hence when the Apostle James exhorteth and instructs the beleivers to count it all joy when they fall into divers temptations c. he addes if any of you lack Wisdome let him ask of God Jam. 1. 2 5. intimating to us that Wisdome will instruct and strengthen us to carry our selves evenly under trialls and temptations and helpe us to rejoyce in that which seemeth to be greivous so the Apostle to the end the colossians might be strengthned to all patience and long suffering with joyfullness prayeth that they might be filled with the knowledge of Gods will in all Wisdome and spirituall understanding that they might Walk worthy of the Lord in all conditions unto all pleasing Colos 1. Colos 1. 9 11. this Wisdome will help us to judge well of God at all times and of his dealings with us when he writes bitter things against us needfull therefore it is that we seeke and search for this that we may not sleight nor sinke under the corrections he is ordering Or. 3. He addeth this affirmation of the happiness of the man that findeth Wisdome c. after the former admonition to signify to us that now when Gods hand is lifted up and he is judging us it is high time to a wake out of sleep and to seek after this most excellent thing that it may be well with us it is good profitable and needfull at all times to get Wisdome but then especially so when his judgments are amongst us and upon us for if the present opportunity be neglected we may be deprived of another and to the end we may be kept from evill both now and for ever hence the Apostle instructeth the beleivers to redeeme the time from this motive because the dayes are evill sinfull and full of afflictions and judgments wherefore saith he be ye not unwise but understanding What the will of the Lord is Ephes 5. 15 17. So when Moses the man of God had been declaring and bewailing the manifold afflictions himselfe and the people were under saying we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath we are troubled thou hast set our sins before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance c. He then prayeth so teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts to Wisdome signifying to us thereby that now especially our hearts should bestirred up and provoked to turne from our iniquities and understand his truth and to take fast hold of instruction and not let her goe to keep her for she is our life Psal 90. 7 12. Daniell 9. 13. Or. 4. He now sheweth unto us wherein happiness consisteth and who is the happy man to wit he that findeth Wisdome that this may be a comfort to us in all our afflictions and in and under all Gods corrections and rebukes be they never so heavy and grievous and though there by God should strip us naked and bare and take away from us all this Worlds good and we should be rendred amongst men miserable wretched creatures and looked upon as most un happy persons yet this one thing even Wisdome will render us truly happy and blessed in the account of him that judgeth righteously and of those that are taught of him Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest ô Lord and teachest him out of thy law Psal 94. 11 12. Men in their vaine thoughts thinke that they are accursed and miserable ones whom God chasteneth tough there by he give them Wisdome but their thoughts are vaine and foolish such is the excellency of this heavenly Wisdome and understanding as that it alone will make them truly happy that have it though God in and by his judgments and corrections should so impoverish them as that they should be as poore as was Christ who had not where on to lay his head and suchalone is its excellency as that though a man should gaine the whole World and be without this pearle of great price he would be a poore miserable pitteous creature This is good for us now to consider when God is pleading with us in rebukes in our nation generally by manifold afflictions and judgments and in great decay of trading when men are minished and brought low thorow oppression affliction and sorrow and God is staining the pride of our glory yet this is a pearle of such great price and worth that it will indeed render happy and truly inrich them that have and retaine it though they should be naked and destitute of daily food Oh! that it were so considered by us that we might with fervency seeke it and give no sleep to our eyes nor slumber to our eye-lidds till we finde it and that for the sake thereof we might count all other things but loss and dung that we might win and be made partakers of it In the words themselves we have 1. An affirmation of the happiness of the man that findeth Wisdome and of the man that getteth understanding vs 13. 2. A Generall Demonstration and evidence of the happiness of such a man and a commendation of the exercise it selfe laid downe as a Motive and argument to ingage us to seeke that we may finde and get it vs 14. 1. An affirmation of the happiness of the man that findeth Wisdome and getteth or draweth out understanding vs 13. In which affirmation we shall God assisting 1. Speak some what by way of explication 2. Note some instructions contained in this Affirmation 1. By way of explication and opening we shal inquire into and consider these two things which are needfull to be knowne by us 1. What is this Wisdome and understanding here commended to us 2. What is this finding and getting it 1. What is this Wisdome and understanding here commended to us To that we may say that by both expressions one and the same thing may be meant and signified as appeareth in that the Demonstration and motive is so set downe as to include and containe both in one word As the Merchandise of it namely of Wisdome and understanding is better then the Merchandise of silver and the gaine thereof as before then fine gold she speaking of both as of one person is more precious then Rubies c. so Chap. 4. 5 9. and 8. 1 4. and by this Wisdome and understanding is not meant ours that which we have naturally in us or that which we may attaine unto by art or by our owne labour and industry and so it is not the Wisdome of this World or of the princes of this World not humane learning nor the arts and sciences of this World such as Rhetorick Logick Philosophy which are science falsly so called and which though in high esteeme among men yet will not render a man happy nay those that had no other Wisdome came to nought 1 Corinth 2. 6. He who here commendeth to us this Wisdome and understanding warneth and