Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	believe_v	faith_n	implicit_a	1,688	5	13.6300	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93889	Catholique divinity: or, The most solid and sententious expressions of the primitive doctors of the Church. With other ecclesiastical, and civil authors: dilated upon, and fitted to the explication of the most doctrinal texts of Scripture, in a choice way both for the matter, and the language; and very useful for the pulpit, and these times. / By Dr. Stuart, dean of St. Pauls, afterwards dean of Westminster, and clerk of the closet to the late K. Charles.	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; H. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing S5518; Thomason E1637_1; ESTC R203568	97,102	288

danger Detestabilis est coecitas si nemo oculos perdiderit nisi cui eruendi sunt Senec. BLindness were a most accursed thing if no man were ever blinde but hee whose eyes are pulled out with tortures or burning bafons And if sickness were alwayes a testimony of Gods anger and a violence to a mans whole condition then it were a huge calamity but because God sends it to his servants to his children to little infants to Apostles and Saints with designes of 〈◊〉 to preserve their innocence to over●●ome tentation to try their vertue to fit them for rewards it is certain that sickness never is an evill but by our own faults and if wee will do our duty wee shall bee sure to turn it into a blessing If the sickness bee great it may end in death and the greater it is the sooner and if it bee very little it hath great intervals of rest if it bee between both wee may bee Masters of it and by serving the ends of providence serve also the perfective end of humane nature and enter into the possession of everlasting mercies However if all the calamities were true concerning sickness with which it is aspersed yet is it far to bee preferred before the most pleasant fin and before a great secular business and a temporal care and some men ●wake as much in the foldings of the softest beds as others on the cross and sometimes the very weight of sorrow and the weariness of sickness presses the spirit into slumbers and images of rest when the intemperate or the lustfull person rolls upon his uneasie thorns and sleep is departed from his eyes Solatium est pro honesto dura tolerare ad causam patientia respicit Senec. IN all sufferings the cause of it makes it noble or ignoble tolerable or intolerable For when patience is assaulted by a ruder violence by a blow from heaven or earth from a gracious God or an unjust man patience looks forth to the doors which way shee may escape And if innocence or a cause of Religion keep the first entrance then whether shee escapes at the gates of life or death there is a good to bee received greater than the evils of a sickness but if sin thrust in that sickness and that hell stands at the door then patience turns into fury and seeing it is impossible to go forth with safety rowls up and down with a circular and infinite revolution making its motion not from but upon its own center it doubles the pain and increases the sorrow till by its weight it breaks the spirit and bursts into the agonies of infinite and eternal ages If wee had seen St. Polycarp burning to death or St. Lawrence rosting upon his gridiron or St. Ignatiu● exposed to Lions or St. Sebastian pierced with arrows for the cause of Jesus for Religion for God for a holy conscience we should have been in love with flames and have thought the gridiron fairer than the marriage bed and wee should have chosen rather to converse with those beasts than those men that brought those beasts forth and have esteemed Sebastians arrows to bee the raies of light brighter than the Moon For so did those holy men account them they kissed their stakes and hugged their deaths and ran violently to torments and counted whippings and secular disgraces to bee the enamel of their persons and the oyntment of their heads and the embalming their names and securing them for immortality But to see Seja●us ●orn in peeces by the people or Nero crying and creeping timorously to his death when he was condemned to dye more majorum to see Judas pale and trembling full of anguish sorrow and despair to observe the groanings and intolerable agonies of Herod and Antiochus will tell and demonstrate the causes of patience and impatience to proceed from the causes of the suffering and that it is sin onely that makes the cup bitter and deadly Non est magnum audiri ad voluntatem non est magnum August BE not over-joyed when God grants thee thy prayer the Devil had his prayer granted when hee had leave to enter into the herd of Swine and so hee had when hee obtained power of God against Job But all this aggravated the Devils punishment so may it do thine to have some prayers granted And as that must not over-joy thee if it bee so if thy prayer bee not granted it must not deject thee God suffered St. Paul to pray and pray and pray yet after his thrice praying granted him not that hee prayed for God suffered that if it be possible and that let this cup pass to pass from Christ himself yet hee granted it not Tentemus animas quae deficiunt a fide naturalibus rationibus adjuvare St. Hieron LEt us endeavour to assist them who are weak in faith with the strength of reason though God hath not given the Minister a power to infuse faith into men yet hath God put it into his power to satisfie the reason of men and to chafe that wax to which hee himself vouchsafes to set to the great seal of faith And truly it is very well worthy of a serious consideration that whereas all the Articles of our Creed are the objects of faith so that wee are bound to receive them de fide as matters of faith yet God hath left that out of which all these Articles are to bee deduced and proved i. e. the Scripture to humane arguments It is not an Article of the Creed to beleeve these and these books to bee or not to bee Canonical Scripture but our arguments for the Scripture are humane arguments proportioned to the reason of a natural man God doth not seal in water in the fluid and tranfitory imaginations and opinions of men wee never set the seal of faith to them but in wax in the rectified reason of men that reason that is ductile and flexible and pliant to the impressions that are naturally proportioned unto it God sets to his seal of faith and therefore faith it self by the Prophet Isaiah is called knowledge Isa 53. 11. By his knowledge c. saith God of Christ i e. by that knowledge that men shall have of him Insomuch that it is not enough for you to rest in an imaginary faith and easiness in beleeving except yee know also what and why and how you come to that beleef Implicite beleevers ignorant beleevers the adversary may swallow but the understanding beleever hee must chaw and pick bones before hee come to assimilate him and make him like himself The implicite beleever stands in an open field and the enemy will ride over him easily The understanding beleever is in a fenced Town and hee hath out-works to lose before the Town bee pressed i. e. reasons to bee answered before his faith bee shaked and hee will sell himself dear and lose himself by inches if hee bee sold or lost at last Anima spiritualiter cadit spiritualiter resurge● August