Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	add_v	kindness_n	temperance_n	1,894	5	11.3132	5	true

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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

in this heavenly commodity may have respect to the recompence of the reward to that gaine which is better then that of fine gold the hope of this is that which causeth them to labour and suffer reproach and forgetting the things that are behind and reaching forth unto those things that are before to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Philip. 3. 13 14. This is the motive the faithfull and true witness useth to ingage those who were wretched and miserable and poore and blind and naked to listen to his counsell and buy his commodities because they were gainfull to wit gold tried in the fire wherewith they might be made rich and white raiment c. Revelat. 3. 17 18. and because of this gaine proposed they who are spirituall and heavenly Merchants are strengthned to beare up against all stormes and to hoise up their sailes in all foule weather and not to faint but set their faces like a flint knowing that their light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for them a farre more exceeding eternall weight of glory While they look not on the things that are seen but on the things which are not seen 2 Corinth 4. 16 18. They doe not so observe the wind as to be discouraged but the gaine being so sweet and delightfull it causeth them to trade that they might get more knowledge of Christ and God in him more acquaintance with him and conformity to him that they might adde to their faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity and that their pound might gaine five or ten pound and that at last they might be made partakers of the hope of eternal life Luk. 19. 15 18. this makes them lanch out into the deep amidst the waves and billowes of the sea and to feare no weather because they know they shall reap in joy and at last partake of that glory which eye hath not seen nor eare heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive this hope saves them and strengthens them with patience to wait and with resolution to hold on their way and not to feare what flesh can doe unto them and this gaine makes them willing to count as loss those things that formerly were gainfull to them and to sel and part with all that by any meanes they may attaine the resurrection of the dead no stormes or blasts they must indure and pass thorow no goodly things they must forgoe and part with no flatteries and inticements they meet withall move them while the eye is fixed on this great gaine but he that hath this hope in him purifieth himselfe even as he is pure Act. 20. 19 24. 1 John 3. 1 3. 5. This exercise may be compared to merchandise because we should seek after this heavenly Wisdome that we might impart it to others thus it is with the merchants of the earth they adventure for commodities and buy them that they may sell and get gaine as before and here in merchants are differenced from many other buyers many others buy for themselves and their owne use onely or for their owne families But Merchants buy not commodities for themselves and their families onely but that they may sell to others to any that will buy of them and this is part of their trade and traffique Ezek. 27. 33 34. So those wise and spirituall Merchants should seek and get Wisdome and understanding not for themselves or their families onely though especially they are to seek their good and to teach and instruct their Children diligently and to talk unto them when they sit in the house c. Deut. 6. 4 9. But they are also to impart Wisdome to others I say not sell it however not in such a sense as to part with it and let in goe the Ho Ghost hath instructed us to buy the truth and not sell it Prov. 23. 23. but to disperse it as instruments in the hand of God to others this is the exercise of wise men and hereby they still grow richer according to that in the house of the righteous is much treasure the lips of the wise disperse knowledge hereby they are more filled with treasure to him that hath shall be given but the heart of the foolish doth not so Prov. 15. 6 7. this is the way for merchants to grow rich to disperse their commodities to others and hereby shall the wise merchant increase knowledge the more he scattereth the more he increaseth the liberall soule shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be watered also himselfe Prov. 11. 24 26. Christs disciples are the light of the World and are instructed to shine as lights in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation holding forth the word of life in word and conversation Philip. 2. 14 16. this liberty and authority he hath given them who taught them their trade and committed to them his goods and gave them ability to traffique therewith I meane he who is king of saints who is their judge to plead their cause and right their wrongs and justify them when thy are unjustly condemned Who is also their Law-giver and Statute-maker Whose lawes they ought to observe and according to whose statutes they are to act and by which to be judged And who is their king to save them from all evill and enemies and to help them as the needs of their matters require Isay 33. 22. And if any of them should forbeare to exalt and promote Wisdome to others because they are forbidden by men or because danger threatens them or on what account soever they hide their talents it will tend to their great dammage if not to their utter undoing from him that hath not shall be taken away that which he hath those who are unprofitable servants shall be cast into utter darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Luk. 19. 26. Matth. 13. 12. and 25. 29 30. their Apostle and the Bishop of their soules hath instructed them to exhort one another daily and as they have received the gift so to minister as good stewards c. Hebr. 3. 1 13. 1 Petr 4. 10. with Chap. 5. 1. 1 Thess 5. 11 12. and those that are indeed Wise merchants are found in this exercise to invite others to this excellent commodity the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely Isay 55. 1. Revel 22. 16 17. the very end wherefore they are brought into so neare a relation to Christ and have this treasure committed to them is that they might shew forth the praises of him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light and call others into Wisdom's house that they in eatingh her bread may be wise also 1