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
A34673	The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23. Ver. 5. : also a doctrinall conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in-dwelling spirituall gifs [sic] and graces wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost / by that reverend and faithful minister of Gods word, Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New-England ; whereunto is added, A profession of faith, made by the reverend divine, Mr. John Davenport, in New-England, at his admission into one of the Churches there.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Davenport, John, 1597-1670. A profession of faith.	1645 (1645)	Wing C6424; ESTC R30971	35,301	46

when we shall be presented blamelesse without spot or wrincle before the presence of his glory Reasons of the point Reason 1 The first Reason is taken from the expresse testimony of Scripture speaking of the gifts of the Holy Ghost as being in us and fruitfull in us 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. Adde moreover saith hee to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godliness brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse love For if these things be in you and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ From whence the Reason is concluded thus Faith Vertue Knowledge Temperance Patience Godlinesse Brotherly-kindnesse Love they are all in us and make us fruitfull in Christ The Text is plain but all these are neither the Holy Ghost himself for then one Holy Ghost should be added to another or one part of the Holy Ghost should be added to another Nor are they the actions of the Holy Ghost proceeding from us for these things are in us and abounding in us and consequently abiding in us and they cause us to bring forth actions meet for Christian profession For they are said to make us fruitfull in the knowledge of Christ vers 8. Therefore they are the gifts of grace abiding in us Reason 2 The second Reason is taken from such places of Scripture as put an expresse difference between the Holy Ghost and his gifts in us and the exercise of these gifts by us In 2 Tim. 1.6 Stirre up saith Paul to Timothy the gift of God which is in thee and vers 14. that good Treasure or thing which was committed to thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us where there is a plain difference between the gift of God and the stirring up of that gift which is the exercise of it and the Holy Ghost which helped him to keep it and to use it Object But hee speaketh of ministeriall gifts not of gifts accompanying salvation He speaketh of both Answ for in the verse next before vers 5. hee putteth Timothy in minde of the unfeigned faith which saith hee is in thee and which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunices and now in thee also Whence the Reason is plain If unfeigned faith and other such like gifts of God dwelt in Timothy and in his mother and in his grand-mother then there be gifts of grace accompanying salvation that dwell in such as are effectually called But the former is plain out of the Text therefore so is the latter In 2 Cor. 6.6 the Apostle saith He with the other Apostles approved themselves as the Ministers of Christ by purenesse by knowledge by long-suffering by kindnesse by the Holy Ghost by love unfeigned Object But by these Paul and the rest approved themselves as the Ministers of Christ and therefore hee speaketh of ministeriall gifts not of gifts accompanying salvation The inference is naught Answ for a man cannot approve himself as a Minister of Christ by ministeriall gifts without such gifts as do accompany salvation and therefore the Apostle doth plainly instance not only in ministeriall gifts but such also as do accompany salvation as purenesse long-suffering love unfeigned In 1 Cor. 12.4 The Apostle saith there be deversities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of gifts of grace which he distinguisheth from operations vers 6. Object But hee speaketh of ministeriall gifts not of gifts accompanying salvation Hee speaketh not only of ministeriall gifts but of all gifts of grace by which we are knit to Christ and one to another as head and members of one body and in respect of which The eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee nor the head to the feet I have no need of you vers 21. Reason 3 The third Reason is taken from the estate of the person united to Christ which being united is not a naturall but a spirituall man The Reason standeth thus If there be no spirituall gifts of grace wrought and created in the soul then Christ is united by the Spirit of God to the naturall man For without spiritual gifts there is nothing but nature in us to which Christ by his Spirit is united But Christ is not united by the spirit to the naturall man Proof of this 1 Cor. 2.14 The naturall man doth not receive the things of God nor of the Spirit of God and therefore doth not receive Christ united to him Object A man is not a naturall man but a spirituall man when the Spirit of God dwelleth in him True Answ because the Spirit of God where he dwelleth worketh gifts of spirituall grace but if he should not the soul would be still naturall as the Temple of Solomon was still a materiall Temple not a spirituall Temple as wee are 1 Pet. 2.5 though God dwelt in it because hee wrought not gifts of spirituall grace in the Temple whereby it might live unto God In all union the things united are distinct from the bond by which they are united Christ is one thing the soul is another the Spirit of God that uniteth them is distinct from both Now take the Spirit of God as a distinct thing from the soul and what is the soul but a naturall soule And so Christ by his Spirit being united to the naturall soul is united to the naturall man Reas 4 The fourth Reason is taken from the nature and kinde of that life which the members of Christ do live thus If the members of Christs body be living members and living stones then they live either by some gifts of spirituall grace created in them or else they live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to them But they do not live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to them therefore they live by the gifts of spirituall grace created in them The former Proposition or major is plain because the dis-junction is immediate there is no middle way can be given but either wee ●●st live a created life by some gifts of spirituall grace created in us or else we must live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to us The latter Proposition or minor is as plain for no creature if being finite can live an increated life which is infinite but we are creatures and finite and the life of the Holy God is increated and infinite therefore wee cannot live his life Object The life of head and members root and branches is the same First Answ the life of Christs humane nature is not the infinite and uncreated life of the Holy Ghost which may serve for another proofe of the latter Proposition that wee do not live the uncreated life of the Holy Ghost communicated to us For we cannot live an higher or greater spirituall life then the humane nature of Christ lived But the humane nature of Christ lived