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
A41017	Thrēnoikos the house of mourning furnished with directions for the hour of death ... delivered in LIII sermons preached at the funerals of divers faithfull servants of Christ / by Daniel Featly, Martin Day, John Preston, Ri. Houldsworth, Richard Sibbs, Thomas Taylor, doctors in divinity, Thomas Fuller and other reverend divines.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1660 (1660)	Wing F595; ESTC R30449	896,768	624

will handle apart in the Explication and proof and joyn 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 injuries in the world he concludeth be perfect faith he as your heavenly father is perfect What perfection speaks he of here Such a perfection such a work of Grace as might inable them to carry themselves as became them in the middest of those many enemies and opposites they should meet withal I will not stand upon this I will endeavour to make it appear to you First it may appear 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 necessity that there should be a perfection of parts First perfection of parts in a Christian is but the making up of all those graces which are necessary to a Christian and without which he cannot obey God nor walk according to the rule All these are necessary Now Patience is one of those parts one of those habits of grace with which every renewed soul is indowed and without which a man is not truly sanctified without which a man expresseth himself not to be regenerate And for this observe what the Apostle Peter saith Ad moreover to your faith vertue to vertue knowledge to knowledg temperance to temperance patience to patience godlinesse to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse to brotherly kindnesse love What is the reason of it If these things be in you and abound you shall neither be idle nor unfruitful in the work of the Lord. As if he should say you will be idle and unfruitful professors unlesse that these graces be in you and abound in you Now what are the Graces you shall see the necessity of every one of them The Apostle exhorteth beleevers there to the giving all diligence to the making their calling and election sare to make it certain to themselves that they are effectually called But might some say there are many graces necessary to a Christian but there is one principal which we call the radical and main 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 among men therefore adde vertue to faith But they might say vertue that is that that guideth a man in all Morrals in all the course of his life and conversation You shall have many provocations to sin 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 moral 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 nevertheless there are many Christians that require offices of love from us and what shall we doe to these Therefore adde to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse But then again beside that conversation we have with beleevers there 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 several parcels and sheweth how they cannot be without one parcel of grace they cannot goe through the course of Christianitie except they heve 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 he cannot goe through the worke of Christiantie and religion Again 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 he cannot keep that grace he hath Look what ever grace is in the soul a man cannot keep it without Patience By Patience possesse your souls The soul which is the seate and subject of Grace cannot it self be kept without Patience therefore neither can any grace be kept in the soul 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 soul that keeps it from the battery of tentations from the enemie that would steale them away while men sleep I say unlesse these walls these supporting graces specially this of Patience be in the soul it cannot stand intire For indeed let impatience once into the soul and you let in all sin with it impatience is a destroying of all grace a pulling downe of the wall Nay what is sin indeed but impatience in a sense What is pride but the impatience of humilitie What is uncleannesse but the impatience of chastity What is drunkennesse but the impatience of sobrietie Every sin beginneth in impatience when a man cannot bear with that abstinence and forbearance as formerly cannot keep that strict course in his wayes but groweth impatient against the rule of God he runneth into a course of sin presently So you see that for the very preserving the soul the subject of grace and grace the treasure of the soul it is necessary that we should have patience And then again thirdly It will appear thus to you that a Christian cannot be perfect without patience because he cannot doe his worke without Patience he cannot doe the works of Religion the taske that God layes upon him without Patience Looke in what measure Patience is defective in that measure he halteth in his dutie in the very actions of Religion he goeth about Take any one duty of Religion that you can name see whether a man can doe that without Patience Suppose it be Prayer How can a man goe on in the duty of prayer without Patience Sometimes God delayeth the grant of a mans petition A man will now sink and give over in discouragement if he have not Patience to support the soul The Canaanitish woman when she came to Christ and spake once to him and he did not answer a word she had so much Patience as to make her speak the second time to him then he answered her