Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	brotherly_a	love_n	temperance_n	1,285	5	11.2878	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13752	Thrēnoikos The house of mourning; furnished with directions for preparations to meditations of consolations at the houre of death. Delivered in XLVII. sermons, preached at the funeralls of divers faithfull servants of Christ. By Daniel Featly, Martin Day Richard Sibbs Thomas Taylor Doctors in Divinitie. And other reverend divines.	H. W., fl. 1640.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1640 (1640)	STC 24049; ESTC S114382	805,020	906

him yet neverthelesse he seemed to want nothing when he could comfort himselfe in the Lord his God Godlinesse is great gaine but how with contentment that is there is such a sufficiency with contentment of heart as if a man had the things he wants So then here is the thing that you may be intire in respect of all gracious habits necessary to the beeing of a Christian that you may have that inward store and supply of comfort that may support your hearts in all outward wants Thus you have the meaning of the words The parts are two An exhortation to duty An argument to enforce that exhortation The duty whereto they are exhorted is that they should bee perfect in Patience let Patience have her perfect worke The Argument whereby they are perswaded to this duty is that they may be intire and wanting nothing that they may have all that is necessary to a Chaistian We will observe two Conclusions hence which we shall follow at this time The first is this That Patience is necessarie to the perfection of a Christian. Or A Christian is not perfect without patience The second is this That every Christian should strive for a perfection of degrees of Patience Or that a Christian must labour to attaine the highest degree and perfection in Patience These two Conclusions we will handle apart in the Explication and proofe and joyne them together in the application and use For the first then that A Christian is not perfect without patience Our Saviour exhorting his Disciples to patience in the fifth of Matth. because they should meet with many enemies and injuries in the world he concludeth bee perfect saith he as your heavenly father is perfect What perfection speakes he of here Such a perfection such a worke of Grace as might inable them to carry themselves as became them in the middest of those many enemies and opposites they should meet withall I will not stand upon this I will endevour to make it appeare to you First it may appeare thus There is a twofold perfection of a Christian There is a perfection of parts and a perfection of degrees A child is a perfect man in respect of parts but not in respect of degrees because it is not come to that measure of strength for that age is not capable of it which a man hath Now there is a necessitie that there should bee a perfection of parts First the perfection of parts in a Christian is but the making up of all those graces which are necessarie to a Christian and without which he cannot obey God nor walke according to the rule All these are necessarie Now Patience is one of those parts one of those habits of grace with which every renewed soule is indowed and without which a man is not truly sanctified without which a man expresseth himselfe not to be regenerate And for this observe what the Apostle Peter saith Adde moreover to your faith vertue to vertue knowledge to knowledge temperance to temperance patience to patience godlinesse to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse to brotherly kindnesse love What is the reason of of it If these things bee in you and abound you shall neither be idle nor unfruitfull in the worke of the Lord. As if hee should say you will bee idle and unfruitfull professors unlesse that these graces bee in you and abound in you Now what are the Graces you shall see the necessitie of every one of them The Apostle exhorteth beleevers there to the giving all diligence to the making their calling and election sure to make it certaine to themselves that they are effectually called But might some say there are many graces necessary to a Christian but there is one principall which we call the radicall and maine grace of all Faith I but saith the Apostle there are many others necessary besides that as you must have faith towards God so you must also carry your selves so as may adorne your profession amongst men therefore adde vertue to faith But they might say vertue that is that that guideth a man in all Morralls in all the course of his life and conversation You shall have many provocations to sinne therefore adde to vertue temperance But we have many discouragements to good therefore adde to temperance Patience But what though you should have both temperance and Patience these are but morall vertues Therefore adde to Patience godlinesse that you may in all things you doe ayme at God and approve your selves to him But when we have carried our selves in a holy manner according to the rule and word of God yet neverthelesse there are many Christians that require offices of love from us and what shall wee doe to these Therefore adde to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse But then againe beside that conversation we have with beleevers the●…e are many men in the world that expect certaine duties from us Therefore adde to that Love that extendeth to all men according to their necessities So you see how the Apostle takes all graces as it were into severall parcels and sheweth how they cannot bee without one parcell of grace they cannot goe through the course of Christianitie except they have every thing they cannot carry themselves toward God without faith they cannot adorne their profession without vertue they cannot escape temptations without temperance neither can they be encouraged against discouragements without patience Therefore he bringeth patience in amongst the rest as a necessary part and dutie of a Christian without which hee cannot goe through the worke of Christianitie and religion Againe in the second place as it appeareth by the parts of a Christian and Christianity that a man cannot be perfect without Patience so it appeareth by another argument and that is this A Christian cannot be perfect without that without which hee cannot keepe that grace he hath Looke what ever grace is in the soule a man cannot keepe it without Patience By Patience possesse your soules The soule which is the seate and subject of Grace cannot it selfe be kept without Patience therefore neither can any grace be kept in the soule without Patience because as the riches and treasures in a Castle cannot be kept when the walls are beaten downe so those treasures of grace in the heart of man cannot be kept when once patience which is as the wall of the soule that keepes it from the batterie of tentations from the enemie that would steale them away while men sleepe I say unlesse these walls these supporting graces specially this of Patience be in the soule it cannot stand intire For indeed let impatience once into the soule and you let in all sinne with it impatience is a destroying of all grace a pulling downe of the wall Nay what is sinne indeed but impatience in a sense What is pride but the impatience of humilitie What is uncleannesse but the impatience of chastitie What is drunkennesse but the impatience of