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
A20724	An apostolicall injunction for unity and peace. Or, a sermon preached by George Downame Master of Arts of Christs Colledge in Cambridge, to the parishioners of Saint Stephens in Walbrooke, at his departure from them	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1639 (1639)	STC 7108; ESTC S110125	23,771	45

standing in the midst betweene Heaven and Hell Never forget then the words of the Apostle Perfecti estote Be yee perfect never stand at a stay contenting your selves with what you have already much lesse go backward but be alwayes bettering be alwayes increasing in grace and godlinesse till you come unto perfection God saith unto us now as hee said at first unto his creatures foetificate augescite be fruitfull and multiply Increase and grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ. My dearly beloved Brethren be ye steadfast immoveable alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord for as much as you know that your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord. Content not your selves with small beginnings thinke not your selves well enough if you have out-stript the hainous and enormous sinner but labour to excell the best of men To this end call your soules into question every day that you may know how they have profited in grace say with that young-man in the Gospell What lacke I yet What corruptions have I already abolished and what yet remayne in me unmortified and unsubdued What graces of the Spirit have I already attained and what do I yet stand in need of So the longer wee live the more wee shall learne the more yeeres upon our heads the more grace in our hearts so shall wee increase and multiply every day more and more in grace and goodnesse and like the trees of the Sanctuary shall bring forth most fruit in our age so shall wee adde unto our faith vertue unto our vertue knowledge unto our knowledge temperance unto our temperance patience unto our patience godlinesse unto our godlinesse brotherly kindnesse unto our brotherly kindnesse charity that so continually going forwards from one degree of grace and godlinesse to another we may at length come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Sonne of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ. Again if you would be perfect you must complere ea quae desunt Ministro make up that which is wanting to the Minister So the Apostle Let him that is taught in the Word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things Gal. 6. and be not deceived God is not mocked but whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reape Mark God will not be mocked the injury is not done to man but unto God himselfe He will not be mocked if you wrong us you wrong Him if you rob us of our Tithes which are our due by the lawes of God and Man you rob God himselfe He that despiseth you despiseth mee saith Christ and therefore the Hebrews called the Priests because they were anointed Christs they beare the name of Christ himselfe and Christ doth beare the name of them They are Christs under Him and He is High Priest over Them If you did but see the fat cheeks of the Jesuits and the sowlne sides of the Masse-priests you would be asham'd to see the Ministers of the Gospell of Christ to want their daily bread The Priests of Baal sit at Ahabs table but the Priests of the Lord are put into a Cave or Den fed pane arido with bread and water So that we may truly invert that saying of our Saviour The harvest is plenteous said Hee but the labourers are but few but the labourers are plenteous say we and the harvest is but small Happy were many Ministers if they had but the gleaning of the Vintage if they had but one handfull of every heap one eare of every sheafe one grain of every eare But lest it should seeme unseemly for us to plead our own causes let me referre you to Saint Paul who spends a whole Chapter in defending the cause of the Minister which hee doth by divers strong and undeniable arguments although hee himselfe was as little beholding to them to whom he preach't as any man for rather then be burthensome you may read how hee laboured with his own hands And so much for the first admonition be perfect we come now to the second be of good comfort Graeca vox adhortationem consolationem comprehendit The word in the originall comprehendeth two things exhortation and consolation Vbi nota where note saith hee utroque opus esse that there is need of both first of exhortation Multa enim remo●antur jam ingressos viam opus est igitur stimulo tum publice tum privatim There be many things that stop and hinder us when wee are entred the way to Heaven therefore we have need to spurre on one another both in publique and private by zealous exhortations and admonitions So the Apostle counselleth the Hebrews Take heed brethren left there be in any of you an evill heart of unbeliefe in departing from the living God but exhort one another daily while it is called to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnesse of sinne So shall we uphold those that are ready to fall and such as are through frailty and infirmity already falne we shall raise up again So the Apostle admonisheth the Galathians Brethren if any man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spirituall restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse considering thy selfe lest thou also be tempted But I rather cleave to the latter interpretation of the word as Iunius and Tremelius and our English Translation renders it consolationi fruimini be of good comfort As if the Apostle should have said to them notwithstanding you have beene faulty in many kindes and have beene threatned and chastised for your faults divers and sundry wayes yet comfort yourselves in the mercies of God for though yee be troubled on every side yet yee are not distressed though perplexed yet not in despaire though persecuted yet not forsaken though cast downe yet not destroyed therefore consolatione fruimini be of good comfort Thus is God wont to send faire weather after foule the Sunne after raine the day after night Summer after Winter comfort after sorrow according to the Psalmist Weeping may endure for a night at mane adest cantus but joy commeth in the morning Thus doth he make us suck honey out of the rock and oile out of the flinty rock Thus are wee made whole by being wounded and healed by our stripes thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nocumenta documenta our crosse becomes our crown our destructions our instructions our corrections our directions God would not alwayes have his Prophets to be like Boanerges sonnes of Thunder but sometimes like Barnabas sonnes of consolation Comfort yee comfort yee my people saith your God speake yee comfortably to Ierusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received double of the Lords hands for all her sins A