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	patience_n	temperance_n	4,962	5	11.6128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07450	The Christian mans assuring house. And a sinners conuersion Two sermons; the former, preached, before the Prince his Highnesse at St. Iames: the other to his Maiesties houshold at White-hall, on Sunday the 6. of February by George Meriton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Deane of Peterborough.	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1614 (1614)	STC 17837; ESTC S112663	30,464	58

THE CHRISTIAN MANS ASSVRING HOUSE AND A SINNERS Conuersion TWO SERMONS The former preached before the Prince his Highnesse at St. Iames The other to his Maiesties Houshold at Whitehall on Sunday the 6. of February By GEORGE MERITON Doctor of Diuinitie and Deane of Peterborough LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Ralfe Mab and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Greyhound 1614. TO THE PRINCE HIS MOST excellent Highnesse Most noble Prince IT pleased your Highnesse to heare this Sermon with patience and afterwards to command it at my hands which I offer vnto you as Dauids seruants did their gifts for the Temple 1. Chron. 19.9 with a good heart willingly It is an incomparable comfort to all true professors in the number of whom J desire to be accounted that your Grace at these yeares is so religiously disposed The God of mercy fill you more and more with his blessings that it may bee said of Prince CHARLES as was spoken of our greatest Master Christ And the child increased in wisdome and stature and in fauour with God and man Luk. 2.52 By him that serueth your Highnesse with his earnest praier to God for your happinesse George Meriton THE TEXT 2. PETER 1.10 Wherefore Brethren the rather giue diligence to make your Calling and Election sure THE office of a Minister saith Tertullian consisteth in the performance of three speciall duties tingere offerre docere And answerable vnto these are there as many places appointed in the Church for his attendance the Fonte the Altar the Pulpit The Font for dipping or baptizing the Altar for offering the Pulpit for teaching In Christs commission Goe teach all Nations baptizing them c. Math. 28.19 Teaching hath the first place And as it is chiefest in commission so among all points of Diuinitie that can be taught there is no One of greater moment than to bee acquainted with the counsell of God concerning our saluation What can be more comfortable than Pauls Certus sum Rom. 8.38 I am well assured what sweeter newes than to heare that it is our Fathers pleasure to giue vs a kingdome what more acceptable than to know that wee are the chosen of God Chosen infallibly to be saued Translated from death to life Neuer to bee snatched out of the hands of Christ This high point of Religion so comfortable so sweet so acceptable I am now about to deliuer My text craueth your diligence not only in the reading but much more your best indeuour in labouring for the same Giue rather diligence Brethren to make your calling and election sure It is S. Peters aduise to the dispersed Iewes who were now become Christians and had obteined like pretious faith with others 2. Pet. 1.1 The words haue dependance wherefore and the Context is this In the verses before he exhorteth them to the practise of excellent vertues which would adorne their profession as Knowledge Temperance Patience Godlinesse Brotherly kindnesse Charitie and such like vers 5.6.7 if these saith he abound in you you shall neither be idle nor vnfruitfull nor blind as men which cannot see or at least not remember that they are purged from their sinnes 2. Pet. 8.9 To be idle nihil agentes doing nothing is the root of euill To be vnfruitfull aliud agentes doing things impertinent is the note of folly To be blind and in darknesse male agentes committing wickednesse is the mother of mischiefe He that standeth let him take heed that he doth not fall Brethren you haue not thus learned Christ such cariage befits not Conuerts wherefore the rather giue diligence to make your calling and election sure H c nobis apponuntur nobis proponuntur saith S. Bernard these things are written for our learning St. Peters good counsell hath been reiected by the Iewes and they are fallen the destruction of them should be instruction to vs. Wherefore suppose I pray you that our Apostle were now turning himselfe vnto the Gentiles and were thus speaking to you Brethren it is enough that hitherto you haue mis-spent the time some in idlenesse shorting in summer like sonnes of confusion Prou. 10. some in vanities which is the trauell of fooles Eccles 10. some in sinne which is the seruice of the Deuill It is enough that you haue wearied your bodies troubled your wits broken your sleepes in the pursuit of the world some setting nets for commodities as the Spider doth his web to catch a Flye some striuing for honours still building vpwards as if Nimrods Tower were now too low some wallowing in pleasures as if they would lye deeper and longer with the swine in the mire My brethren what profit can be in those things whereof ye are or may be or shall be ashamed The Iewes are fallen wherefore doe you Gentiles first seeke the kingdome of God Giue diligence rather to make your calling and election sure The parts of the Text are two 1. A motiue 2. A dutie The Motiue in this word Brethren The Dutie in the rest And first of the Motiue Brethren There are Brethren by 1 Humanitie 2 Country 3 Affinitie 4 Consanguinitie 5 Christianitie 1 For the first God will require the life of a man at the hands of his brother Gen. 9.5 2 For the second Paul desireth to be separate from Christ for the Israelites his brethren Rom. 9.3 3 For the third Abraham said to Lot his nephew Let there be no strife between me and thee for we are brethren Gen. 13.8 4 For the fourth Children of the whole or halfe parents as Iacob and Esau Andrew and Peter the 12. Patriarkes were Brethren 5 For the fift One is your master Christ and all ye are Brethren Math. 23.8 Brother is a name of much loue and it mooueth howsoeuer it be taken One Man is not borne a wolfe vnto another but so made by custome though we are dispersed vpon the face of the earth yet are we framed out of the same moulde The slime of the earth is our common Mother wee are formed with the same stampe A reasonable soule is our common character we haue one Authour from whence wee all come God who is our common Father Non taliter fecit omni Creatura It is not so with the foules of the aire the beasts of the field the fishes of the sea Only one Man was created from whom all should proceed that a strength of Brotherhood might be amongst all And if S. Peter had been pleased to haue pressed the word Brethren in this large sense and had aduised the Iewes euen by their common humanitie to make their calling and election sure his motiue were not to be despised Our Country wherein we haue our being and breathing which susteineth feedeth ministreth content vnto vs wherein we worship one God obey one King where our stocke and linage doth remaine and where are many monuments of our ancient predecessors omnes in se charitates