Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	grace_n	temperance_n	1,784	5	11.4380	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42544	A caveat to the standing Christian, and to him that thinketh he standeth by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.	1666 (1666)	Wing G433; ESTC R14121	41,281	62

and became a great shadow to him but there was a worm at the root that smote the gourd that it also withered so some secret lust lying in the heart blasteth a forward spring of profession in many Christians 4. See that your growth in grace be a proportionable growth the formal Christians growth is like the growth of a child that hath the Rickets that is big in the head but thriveth not in any other parts of the body so many seeming Christians are big in knowledge but little in conscience full of seeming zeal but little in judgment and discretion yea one part is the occasion of the decay of another as in the body of man the increase and swelling of the spleen causeth the body to languish so where there is only a seeming growth in grace true love to God and his ways utterly decayeth see therefore that your growth be proportionable in every part there is an effectual working from the Head in the measure of every part every Christian is a member and a part of Christ and all his members are the fulness of Christ and every part must aspire to the nature and figure of the Head in his proportion that it may be a model and resemblance of the whole body which is the fulness of him that filleth all in all see that every part and piece of each part grow in Christ that when you grow in knowledge you grow in grace also and by growing in grace you will grow more in spiritual knowledge there is no true growth in the one without the other be still therefore adding to your faith virtue to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity and be ye careful not only that these things be in you but that you abound in them 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. It is true some Christians have been more eminent then others in some one particular grace Abraham was eminent for his faith Moses for his meekness Job for his patience David for his zeal John for his fervent love to Christ as it falls out in the parts of the body some have a stronger arm some a better leg another a taller stature another a more lovely countenance they may have some one or other part that may more affect the spectator yet all comely and holding a good proportion so it should be among Christians in the endowments of the soul some may excell more in one grace then in another but if your growth in grace be kindly no one grace will hinder the growth of another or render any unserviceable or disproportionable to the rest There is no body that is altogether perfect so that it is wholly free from obstruction or distemper in some parts of it neither is there any soul here so exact but that there may be an obstruction of some graces in their growth so that some graces may not hold pace with the rest some violent distemper in the body may be an impediment to a childs growth for a while so some dregs of corruption may obstruct our spiritual growth which being purged away a Christian grows more fruitful afterward 5. See that your growth in grace be more then a seeming growth that it be a real growth see that ye be not like stakes or posts pitch'd in the ground standing as if they grew but grow not be not you like those women the Apostle speaks of ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth 2 Tim. 3.7 but as thriving plants in Gods Orchard labour to increase more and more and like the Vine that shoots out as far as he can while either the wall or the pole will help him along FINIS