Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	jesus_n	patience_n	temperance_n	1,484	5	11.2902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43575	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honourable William Lord Pagett, Baron of Beaudefert, &c. By John Heynes, A.M. and preacher of the New Church, Westminster	Heynes, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing H17646A; ESTC R216791	19,530	47

if we have any sense of gratitude let us labour after the counsel of the Apostle to abound in the work of the Lord Phil. i. 11. let us endeavour that we may be filled with all the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ to the praise and glory of God Let us give all diligence to add to our faith vertue and to vertue knowledge 2 Pet. i. 5 6 7. and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity for so an entrance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Never object the greatness never urge the difficulty and hardness of the work required of you but consider he that hath commanded you to do it will enable you to go through with and your labor shall not be in vain in the Lord. O didst thou think of this it would inspire a new courage into thee it would invigorate thy fainty resolutions and carry thee through the greatest impediments and obstacles that are in thy way truly the reason why we do so little for God why we are so careless and cold and unconcerned in what we do is because our thoughts of the recompence of the reward are so seldome and slightly II. The serious meditation of this would support and uphold us under the greatest tryals and afflictions that God should at any time exercise us with this made Job stand upright under that great pressure of calamities that was laid upon him He knew that his redeemer lived and that he should stand at the latter day upon the Earth Job xix though saith he Vers 25. after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God Vers 26. whom I shall see for my self Vers 27. and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me This upheld David Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy Psal xvi 11. and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore I had fainted saith he unless I had believed to have seen the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living that is not only here in this life as the most understand it but in that other world which is truly and properly Terra viventium Psal xxvii 13. the land of the living Whatever your troubles are this is sufficient to comfort you under them that there is a state of happiness to be enjoyed hereafter by all such who are followers of those who through faith and patience have inherited the promise yet a little while and all your sufferings shall be at an end for no sooner shall you lay down your Earthly Tabernacle but God shall receive you into his Kingdom where there is neither sin nor sorrow but perfect peace and joy such peace that passeth all understanding such joy that is unspeakable and full of glory Eye hath not seen ear hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. ii 9. Can we believe these things and yet repine and murmur under any of the divine dispensations as though God had dealt hardly with us Oh how unreasonable is this since our afflictions are the way to glory for through many tribulations must we enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Acts xiv 22. since they fit and prepare us for our glory and make us meet to be partakers of it 2 Cor. iv 17. Let us rather rejoyce in our trials forasmuch as the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us forasmuch as they work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory This would be more becoming the faith of a Christian and much more conduce to the credit and reputation of that excellent Religion that we do profess IV. The serious meditation of this glorious change to be wrought upon our bodies would make death much less dreadful and terrible unto us death as it is an extinction of life as it is a dissolution of the frame and structure of our bodies is a frightful thing and full of horror nature starts back and cannot endure to look at it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Hom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. but did we seriously consider that when we die to this present life it is that we may live a much better life and that when God pulls down our earthly house it is for the erecting a more stately and magnificent fabrick for us we should soon be satisfied and composed in our minds and be so far from fearing it that we should with submission to the will of God desire it for in this saith the Apostle we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven if so be that being cloathed we should not be found naked 2 Cor. v. 2 3. THE END