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
A86730	Heaven ravished: or A glorious prize, atchieved by an heroicall enterprize: as it was lately presented in a sermon to the honourable House of Commons, at their solemn fast, May 29. 1644. By Henry Hall, B.D. late fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge. Printed by order of the said House.	Hall, Henry, B.D.	1644 (1644)	Wing H340; Thomason E52_25; ESTC R1445	72,675	77

Throne that he may raigne in heaven and earth and in the hearts of men Though it be a difficult a painefull and chargeable designe yet this I must and will drive to the worlds end let other things sink or swim prosper or wither it skills not the Gospell of Christ shall prevaile with me universally let the world lye at six and seven this course I must and will follow though all the dust of the earth sands on the shore and tyles of houses were devills this I will set in hand with come what will come such a resolution as this is violent and it will overcome all resistance and make a man with a full purpose of heart cleave unto God Act. 11.29 We may see a lively portraict of such a spirit in the Apostle S. Paul Act. 20.22 He went bound in the spirit as in a chaine to Jerusalem and though he knew himselfe and others told him too by the inspiration and instinct of the spirit That nothing but bonds and imprisonments waited for him in euery City yet all this could not move him he had such a magnanimous and adamantine resolution to go through with his work and fulfill his ministery that his life was not at all deare unto him neither did he set any value on it in comparison of the service which he was now upon So true is that of the Spouse Cant. 8.6 7. Love is as strong as death zeale as hard i.e. inexorable as the grave much water cannot quench it neither can the floods drown it no difficulties or oppositions can allay or abate much lesse extinguish the heate of it If a man would give all the substance of his house for it it would be utterly contemned The whole world though vayled with the most glorious and glistering temptations would be scorned as too meane and poore a bribe to draw off the heart of a man from the kingdom of God when it is once well fixed and steeled with a firme and adamantine resolution no diswasions sloth feare policy covetousnesse ficklenesse nor any other thing can either divert or stop or interrupt him in his enterprize When a man is thus obstinately and couragiously bent unto his worke this is violence well pleasing unto God The Jewes have a saying That a man should set his face as a flint and that his countenance should be like a Leopard stout and stearn and obstinate to do the will of his father in heaven 3. This consists in strong and serious endeavours A man is not violent in matters of the Kingdome of God if he do not put forth himselfe into action trying every conclusion rolling every stone and leaving nothing unattempted that may conduce to the atchieving of his end Every man saith the Philosopher workes as he is and his acts and operations are such as his principles If the inward principles of his desires beat faintly if his purposes faulter and reele and be not steady and constant then his Actings in like manner will either be none at all or feeble and unspirited and consequently fruitlesse and bootlesse as an arrow weakely shot off will not carry home but fall short of the mark and short shooting we say looseth many a game it doth so in religion also but now when the desires are as hot as a flame and the purposes as strong as steele then to be sure vigorous and Spirited endeavours will follow unavoydably The Church in Solomons Song may serve for an instance to cleer this for a long time she lay languishing and as I may say wind-bound no excitations wooings or entreaties of her lover could prevaile to get her up out of her warme bed her secure and slumbring condition some velleities and imperfect wishings and wouldings she had but still the door was locked against Christ her will was not bowed there lay the inward impediment the will was but halfe stirred and therefore no arising no motion till Christ comes and puts in his hand to the hole of the doore and takes away the bar shoots the bolt removes the Impediments and then her bowels were affected and moved towards him Then she arose and sought him with a curious diligence every where her hands bestirred themselves till they sweat till they dropt againe her feete trudges up and down the streets to finde him whom her soule loved and a world now for them that could tell her of any tydings of him Cant. 5.2 3 4 5 c. It s a true saying That love is the roote and principle of all the motions of the soul for though there be other affections and those active yet all are reducible to love and in the strength thereof they Act and put all the wheeles of the soule in motion as David when his heart was caught with a violent passion of love towards God how doth he extend and spread out his armes and put forth all oares and sailes in a strong pursuance after him Psal. 63.8 My soule followeth hard after thee there was never a more difficult and in humane view a more unfeasible design then that of the Jewes in Nehemiahs time when they were to build the house of God they had a potent faction at Court and malignant Councellours at home to retard and stop the proceedings of the work they were faine to build with a trowell in one hand and a sword in the other yet they prevailed against all difficulties and this is given in account at the reason of it The people had a minde to worke Neh. 4.6 You see now what this violence is and wherein it consists see in the next place how it workes either in relation to the good which it reacheth after and would obtaine or else in relation to the evill which it would remove and be rid of In the relation to the good which it desires to obtaine 1. It stirreth up a generous and mighty ambition to excell in the inward gifts and graces of the Spirit which are necessary qualifications for all them that would have a share in the Kingdome of God A man that is in a violent straine he cannot rest in any mediocrities never thinkes he hath vertue and grace enough still he is aspiring and reaching after more He gives all diligence to adde unto his faith vertue knowledge temperance brotherly kindnesse godlinesse all the rest of that chaine of pearls which the Apostle stringeth up 2 Peter 1.5 6 7 as well knowing that if these be in him and abound they will make that he shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of Christ and then to be sure an entrance shall be ministred unto him abundantly into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ v. 11. As a scholler thinkes he can never have learning enough and a covetous man thinks that he can never have wealth and riches enough so is it with a Christian of a violent Spirit he never rests contented with his present pitch but labours still to abound