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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	add_v	grace_n	temperance_n	1,529	5	11.6033	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65809	The practice of Christian perfection wherein several considerations, cautions, and advices are set down, for the perfecting of the saints, and completing them in the knowledge of Christ Jesus / by Thomas White ...	White, Thomas, d. 1682.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1852; ESTC R39071	46,849	191

not prevailing he entreats her after that sends his Letters full of love and importunity sends Embassadors after Embassadors and lest those should fail sends her many gifts very rich and magnificent and thus he continues week month year after year yet she utterly refuses but after her rejecting and slighting all these wayes of love from the Emperour her husband there comes a base slave from whose company her husband had especially forewarn'd her because she had formerly committed folly with him and dishonoured both her self and the Emperour this adulterer and traytor speaks but half a word to her to go and she presently without delay and with joy goes when she perceives it would please the slave What do you think now do you think the Emperor wil be pleased with her coming upon those terms this is the case of all men that are no more then morally vertuous God perswades us to be just and to defraud no man he entreats us sends the Embassadors the Ministers unto us giveth us mercy upon mercy sends us his Word his Epistles from Heaven line upon line to perswade us to do justice or to be temperate not we for his sake we will do nothing The world comes the world which is a slave to Satan for he is a Prince and Ruler of the darkness of this world the world with which we have committed so often spirituall whoredom and against which God hath so often and seriously forewarned us now only upon a supposition that we should please the world if we are just or temperate we wil be intemperately temperate if I may so say even to macerate our bodies with fasting for a good look of the world we do indeed in being temperate or just do that which God commands but far are we from pleasing him considering the grounds from which we do it for can he be pleas'd that we should do more for a good look of the world then we would for all the wayes of love that he took with us nay indeed never to do any one action for his sake nay but before his face at the same time when we refuse all his entreaties c. to do it at the first word of the world therefore morall vertues considering the ground upon which they were done are sinnes before God therefore let us learn not to be vertuous as Philosophers were vertuous but holy as God is holy Secondly The perfections of God are infinite so must ours as farre as it is possible for creatures to attain our desires of holinesse must be without limits we must not set bounds to our holinesse saying Hitherto shalt thou go and no further but we must alwayes hunger and thirst after righteousnesse Thirdly God hath all perfections or rather is all perfections so we must adde to our faith vertue to vertue knowledg to knowledge temperance c. We must receive from Christ grace for grace as a child receives from his father limb for limb part for part the same parts that the fathers body hath the childs hath also the same for number figure and position though neither for strength nor bignesse and as God is the act of all possible absolute perfections either in degree or in kinde so we should endeavour to have those perfections that a creature of that kind is capable of Fourthly As the perfections of God are both inseparable from God and from themselves so should ours be also our wisdom must be holy our holinesse innocent our wisdom zealous and our zeal wise for we must not conceive that some of Gods actions are holy others wise but all are all his wisdom is holy just good his justice holy good and wise and every attribute is as inseparably united to all the rest of his attributes as any of them are to his Essence as if there were an hundred Suns shining at once in the firmament one could not say that one of these Sunnes shined in this part of the ayre and another in that but the light of every one of them would be in every point of the ayre nor could you possible take away the light of one of the Suns and leave the rest unless you could take away the Sun it self so it is in Gods perfection but thy glorious Name is exalted above all knowledge above all blessing and above all praise Many men will be zealous but without knowledg others will be wise but without zeal and so their wisedomes come to be no better then carnal sensuall and divelish the former zeal was that zeal of the Jews Rom. 10. 2. The other wisedome was the wisedome of Pilate both of them crucified Christ Lastly For I do not intend to be large in these parallels but make haste to presse the great point of Christian perfection we must be perfect as our Father which is in heaven is perfect notwithstanding all hinderances or provocations to the contrary though God by his wisdome governs and orders all things not a spire of grasse or blade of wheat grows but by him 1. Cor. 15. 38. Not a sparrow falls on the ground nor an hair from our head but by his providence not a lilly is cloathed in the field nor a fowle of the ayre is fed but by him yet notwithstanding such an innumerable number of creatures are both in respect of their essence and operations nay even in respect of the smallest circumstances of either are acted governed and ordered continually by his providence yet he doth no lesse know love and enjoy himselfe then he did from all eternity before there was any creature for his providence to watch over so should we do we should not have our thoughts lesse fixed on God or our love lesse fervent our communion with God should be neither remitted nor intermitted by the imployments in the world Mothers that have their little children to look to should be like the Angels which alwayes behold the face of our Father which is in heaven Mat. 18. 11. But I come as I promised to the great businesse of this Treatise viz. The pressing of Christian perfection which is almost forgotten and nothing left of it but the forme of godlinesse and I shall referre the whole discourfe to these three heads First Severall Considerations Secondly Severall Cautions Thirdly Severall Advises Considerations 1. Consid. Let us consider what the word of God speaks in this matter 1 Cor. 10. 31. Whether ye eat or drinke or whatsoever ye do doe all to the glory of God do we live up to the meaning of these words let us consider a little of it and see the meaning of the words First We are to glorifie God in all our actions that is wee ought in the secret of our hearts to admire and adore him to have high thoughts of him and sweet thoughts of him and to expresse it fully we ought to honour him as God Romans 1. Which he blames the Gentiles for not doing That knowing him as God did not honour him as God to