Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	day_n	night_n	utter_v	1,344	5	10.6230	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31085	Sermons preached upon several occasions by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.; Loggan, David, 1635-1700?	1679 (1679)	Wing B958; ESTC R36644	220,889	535

abuse of words too enormous As therefore no moment of our life wants sufficient matter and every considerable portion of time ministers notable occasion of blessing God as he allows himself no spacious intervalls or discontinuances of doing us good so ought we not to suffer any of those many days vouchsafed by his goodness to flow beside us void of the signall expressions of our dutifull Thankfulness to him nor to admit in our course of life any long vacations from this Duty If God incessantly and through every minute demonstrates himself gracious unto us we in all reason are obliged frequently and daily to declare our selves gratefull unto him So at least did David that most eminent example in this kind and therefore most apposite to illustrate our Doctrine and to enforce the practice thereof for Every day saith he I will bless thee I will praise thy Name for ever and ever Every day The Heavenly bodies did not more constantly observe their course then he his diurnal revolutions of praise Every day in his Kalendar was as it were Festival and consecrated to Thansgiving Neither did he adjudge it sufficient to devote some small parcels of each day to this Service for My Tongue saith he shall speak of thy Righteousness and of thy praise all the day long and again My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day for I know not the numbers thereof The Benefits of God he apprehended so great and numerous that no definite space of time would serve to consider and commemorate them He resolves therefore otherwhere to bestow his whole life upon that employment While I live I will praise the Lord I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being and I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth No man can reasonably pretend greater impediments or oftner avocations from the practice of this duty then he upon whom the burthen of a royal estate and the care of governing a populous nation were incumbent yet could not they thrust out of his memory nor extinguish in his heart the lively sense of Divine goodness which notwithstanding the company of other secular encumbrances was always present to his mind and like a spirit excluded from no place by any corporeal resistence did mingle with and penetrate all his thoughts and affections and actions So that he seems to have approached very near to the compleat performance of this Duty according to the extremity of a literal interpretation and to have been always without any intermission employed in giving thanks to God The consideration methinks of so noble a pattern adjoyned to the evident reasonableness of the Duty should engage us to the frequent practice thereof But if the consideration of this excellent example do not yet certainly that may both provoke us to emulation and confound us with shame of Epictetus a Heathen Man whose words to this purpose seem very remarkable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he in Arrian's Dissert 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. That is in our language If we understood our selves what other thing should we doe either publickly or privately than sing Hymns to and speak well of God and perform Thanks unto him Ought we not when we were digging or plowing or eating to sing a sutable Hymn to him Great is God in that he hath bestowed on us those instruments wherewith we till the ground Great is God because he hath given us hands a throat a belly that we grow insensibly that sleeping we breath Thus proceeds he should we upon every occurrence celebrate God and superadd of all the most excellent and most Divine Hymn for that he hath given us the faculty of apprehending and using these things orderly Wherefore since most men are blind and ignorant of this should not there be some one who should discharge this office and who should for the rest utter this Hymn to God And what can I a lame and decrepit old man do else then celebrate God Were I indeed a Nightingale I would do what belongs to a Nightingale if a Swan what becomes a Swan but since now I am indued with Reason I ought to praise God This is my duty and concernment and so I do neither will I desert this employment while it is in my power and to the same song I exhort you all Thus that worthy Philosopher not instructing us only and exhorting with pathetical discourse but by his practice inciting us to be continually expressing our Gratitude to God And although neither the admonition of Prophets nor precepts of Philosophers nor the examples of both should prevail yet the precedents methinks of dumb and senseless creatures should animate us thereto which never cease to obey the law imposed on them by their Maker and without intermission glorifie him For The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy-work Day unto day uttereth speech and Night unto Night sheweth Knowledge There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard 'T is St. Chrysostom's Argumentation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 'T were an ugly thing that Man endued with Reason and the most Honourable of all things visible should in rendring Thanks and Praise be exceeded by other Creatures neither is it onely base but absurd For how can it be otherwise since other creatures every day and every hour send up a doxology to their Lord and Maker For The Heavens declare the Glory of God c. If the busie Heavens are always at leisure and the stupid Earth is perpetually active in manifesting the Wisedom Power and Goodness of their Creatour how shameful is it that we the flower of his creation the most obliged and most capable of doing it should commonly be either too busie or too idle to do it should seldom or never be disposed to contribute our endeavours to the advancement of his Glory But 2. Giving thanks always may import our Appointing and punctually Observing certain convenient times of performing this Duty that is of serious meditation upon and affectionate acknowledgment of the Divine Bounty We know that all persons who design with advantage to prosecute an orderly course of action and would not lead a tumultuary life are wont to distinguish their portions of time assigning some to the necessary refections of their Body others to the divertisement of their Minds and a great part to the dispatch of their ordinary business otherwise like St. James his double-minded man they would be unstable in all their ways they would ever fluctuate in their resolutions and be uncertain when and how and to what they should apply themselves And so this main Concernment of ours this most excellent part of our Duty if we do not depute some vacant seasons for it and observe some periodical recourses thereof we shall