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
A11823	Tvvo sermons, upon that great embassie of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ recorded by his Euangelist, Saint Matthew, Chap. 10.V.16. Preached by Iohn Scull, an humble professor and minister of the word.	Scull, John, minister of the word.	1624 (1624)	STC 22123; ESTC S114766	41,503	56

multum distat in vitio aut decipere aut decipi posse It is Hieron ad Rustic incident to man to deceiue and to be deceiued To preuent both our blessed Sauiour counselleth in my Text To be wise as Serpents and innocent as Doues Innocent as Doues Ne Hieron supra cuiquam machineris dolos Wise as Serpents Ne aliorum supplanteris insidijs Neither deceiuing nor being deceiued If either goe single Va Soli. Woe vnto him that is alone because Eccles 4. 10. Prudentia absque simplicitate malitia est simplicitas absque Hieron sup Oseam ratione stultitia est Wisedome without Innocency is but machauillian policy without Religion and Innocency without wisedome but will-worship without knowledge The Serpent had wisedome without innocency and became Gen. 3. 1. a Tempter Eue had innocency without wisedome and Gen. 3. 6. became a transgressor Vtraque bene in admonitione conuertit Greg. in moral vt simplicitatem columba astutia Serpentis instrueret rursus serpentis astutiam columbae simplicitas temperaret Christ Iesus ioynes both together in the Instruction that Wisedome might be Innocencies Lecturer and Innocency Wisedomes moderator because vtrumque per se indigens as one concludes Sallust betweene plaine force and stratagems alterum alterius auxilio ege● Wisedome must informe Innocency and Innocency temper Wisedome A man may not venture on Church or Common-wealth Doctrine with one single vertue The Minister must haue his head Exod. 29. 6. crowned like Aarons because of his sanctity For the Lord Leuit. 10. 3. will be sanctified in all them that come neere vnto him His tongue clouen like those on the Apostles Propter donorum diuersitatem Acts 2. 3. because of his gifts Out of his mouth as out of the Mar. ex bul Lambes must goe a two edged Sword Because the Word of Apoc. 1. 16. God in his mouth must be liuely and mighty in operation Heb. 4. 12. and sharper then any two edged Sword Edged on the one side and on the other On the one side with the Vrim of the Word on the other with the Thummin of good life least after that he hath preached to others he himselfe should be reproued 1 Cor. 9. 27. The Magistrate must be a man of courage fearing God dealing truly and hating couetousnesse He must be a man Exod. 18. 21. of courage like the title of the Kings of England Defender of the Faith He must haue the feare of God before his eyes like the Seraphins that couer their faces with their wings He Esa 6. 2. must be iust and vpright in all his dealings like Melchizedek Melchi-zedek Melchi-salem King of righteousnesse King Heb. 7. 2. of peace but first Melchi-zedek King of righteousnesse then Melchi-salem King of peace He must be free from couetousnesse he must be more he must hate it he must be free from couetousnesse contented like a good Christian with what he hath 1 Tim. 6. 6. He must be more he must as a good Magistrate hate it as the roote of all euill He must haue Iustitiam in affectu Iustice in Verse 10 the will Prudentiam in intellectu Wisedome in the vnderstanding Fortitudinem in effectu Fortitude in the resolution Ambr. de officijs Temperantiam in vs● Temperance in the life and conuersation What King going to make warre against another King sitteth not downe first and taketh counsell whether he be able Vse with ten thousand men to meete him that commeth against Luc. 14. 31. him with twenty thousand Now our warfare is not against few or contemptible but many and mighty aduersaries not Subiects but Princes not carnall but spirituall not against flesh and bloud but against Principalities against Powers and against worldly Gouernours the Princes of the darknesse Ephes 6. 12. of this world against spirituall wickednesses For this cause take Verse 13 vnto you the whole Armour of God The weapons offensiue and defensiue the Sword of the Spirit the Shield of Faith the Breast-plate of righteousnesse and the Helmet of saluat●●● stand Verse 14 therefore and your loynes girt about with veritie and 〈…〉 the breast-plate of righteousnesse and your feete shod with the preparation Verse 15 of the Gospell of Peace about all take the shield of Faith Verse 16 wherewith we may quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and Verse 17 take the helmet of saluation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God Ioyne moreouer vertue with your faith and with 2 Pet 1. 5. vertue Knowledge and with knowledge Temperance and with Verse 6 Temperance Patience and with Patience Godlinesse and with godlinesse brotherly kindenesse and with brotherly kindenesse Verse 7 Loue Be wise as Serpents but be there withall innocent as Doues for wisedome without innocencie is but subtilty and innocencie without wisedome foolery Be ye therfore wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doues Men like Apes loue to imitate for as they that would Plut. Moralib be neate consult with their glasse how things stand according to the idaea of their forming fancie so they that intend matter of consequence propose vnto themselues some man of note how he in the like case carried himselfe and Plut. Moralib his cause The poynt then of discretion is in the choyce-making 1. of the Obiect 2. of the Qualitie 3. of the Extention 1. What to imitate and to be like vnto 2. Wherein and in what respect 3 How farre forth Optimum est maiorum sequi Seneca in prouer vestigia sirecte praecesserint it is a very good thing to bee like vnto our ancestors in their good parts Scipio African Zunigle proposed vnto himselfe Cyrus Zenophon to be like vnto Cesar Alexander the great And Selimus the great Turke Cesar Diogenes like a snayle loued to carry his house on his backe Aristippus like the Heliotropium turned with the carte Lysander in the warres was both a Lyon and a Foxe Plut. Lacon The Apostles in my text Serpents Doues The first point of discretion is in the choyce-making what to imitate and to be like vnto the second is wherein and in what respect euery good man hath some thing in him to bee liked but wee may not in euery thing bee like to euery good man When X●●xis was to picture Iuno hee chose among all the Agrigetine beauties onely fiue and presented in those fiue quod erat in vnaquaque praecipuum that that euery one had Anominus singular and surpassing others When we propose patternes for our liues it must be a plurimis optimis a choyce of many and very good and then are wee bound to imitate in them Non omnia sed optima not euery thing but the best Idem ibidem Cic. 7. Offic. because Non vinitur cum perfectis the best be but men and men haue their imperfections The third thing to be considered in this choice