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
A96104	Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders imployed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1131; Thomason E1856_4; ESTC R210370	59,985	120

is commanded to return that is to his promise in Bethel That if God would bring him safe to his Fathers house he should be his God Now God had performed his promise but Jacob had failed in his in that his sons had broken their Covenant with Shechem and Hamer Object Well but what doth God call Jacob to go to Bethel or to his promise in Bethel to do Answ It was to take notice that he had broke his promise and therefore he commands Jacob to build an Altar there for he would not answer him on that Altar El Elosie Israel or in the breaking of the Covenant but in Bethel or his owning of him to be his God and therefore Jacobs first work is to cleanse and purge his house of Idols as you may read in the 35th Chapter and to bury them in Shechem before he could go up to Bethel and tells his Family that they must change their garments and be clean and then arise and go to build an Altar in Bethel and seek the Lord that answered him in his distress and by that means a terrour did strike into the hearts of the neighbouring Cities that they journed safely Secondly Israel had purchased Gods displeasure not long before this engagement was made with the Gibeonites as is instanced in the 7th Chapter of Joshuah and the 11th verse Israel hath sinned saith the Lord in breaking their Covenant which I commanded them they have also stolen and have put it amongst their own stuff and therefore they could not stand before their enemies So you may see plainly that God is very exact to have Israel keep his Law and Commandments and had they not entered into Covenant with the Gibeonites to let them live they durst not have preserved any of their lives but seeing they had engaged to do it though it was unknown to them of their living in that place God was pleased better with it than if they had broke their Covenant and Gibeon is not the last in process of time that laid their helping hand to build the Temple of the Lord in Judah as you have in the third Chapter of Nehemiah and the 7th verse which shews that God was well pleased with Israel for their keeping their Covenant in accepting of the Gibeonites into his favour for Israels sake whereas Achan offending against him when there was no Obligation to urge him to it he will not be friends with him nor with Israel till they have destroyed him but Israel must fall before the men of Aie yea and those that have not offended with polluting themselves in the forbidden inticements therefore it is not that men do fall before their enemies alwayes for the sins that they commit themselves but for the pollutions of others Israel is said to sin in that one had sinned even Achan and God would suffer even 36 of the Israelites to dye before the men of Aie and the rest to flee for Achans offence therefore I would entreat every man whatever that professeth himself to be a Christian to take heed of offending God in this or any other thing for be sure if God do not take up a controversie against us for our backsliding yet we may be the occasion of his fury against others that are more innocent than we for God will not be friends with Israel till the Babylonish garment be burned and Achan stoned Look to it as well as you please you know your pay will be according to your work I need not tell you that there are more Babylonish garments than one and I sear some that profess high Notions have clothed themselves with them from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot onely wearing a religious cloak over it to deceive O men look well to your selves and let not your own hearts condemn you before God and before I will not condemn you but I speak my mind plainly because there is too too many that heal your wound too slightly even as the Prophet Jeremiah complains in the 6th Chapter of his Prophesie and the 14th verse They have healed the hurt of my Daughter slightly crying peace peace when there is no peace So it hath plainly appeared in our time that we have pretended to a great measure of light in Religion But where is the man that cryed We are all fell short But rather accounting that the Judgement that is fallen upon thee O England belonged to Rome and the Beast accounting of Christs Reign in person and not minding to set up his Power in our hearts just as the Children of Israel did account themselves happier in the Land of Canaan whilst they were in the Wildernesse than they did in the pleasure of God by which they were to enjoy it and so fell to murmering and repining at Gods dealing with them according to his pleasure therefore he slew that generation of men and would not suffer them to enter into the Land at all so may I say of thee O England that hast had more discourse of the throwing down of Babylon than thou hast had zeal to the God that should throw Babylon down into the bottomlesse pit if pretences could have done it I must confess thou mightest have gone a great way in it but you sought to cleanse onely the outside and did not furbish the inside to answer it it would be a very small satisfaction to thee to have Christ reigne a thousand years upon the earth and to begin his reign before he hath been lifted up in thy heart therefore first seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof and then ●e sure all other things shall be added unto you and do not think to dwell with the Father unless ye eat the flesh of the Son and if ye eat the flesh of the Son ye shall live by him even as he liveth by the Father John 6.56 57. Therefore do not think of satisfying your selves with any thing below him but be sure to eat that which the Scriptures doth manifest to be in him Thus wishing the one Almighty and infinite being to direct both you and I that we may not look at things as they appear customary but as they are in reality and truth that we may believe in him that is our peace By adding vertue to our Faith and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledg Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly Kindness and to Brotherly Kindness Charity and if these things be in you and abound you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7 8. For so is the Will of God that with well-doing you might put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free and not using your liberty for a cloak of malitiousness but as the Servants of God 1 Pet. 2.15 16. And if you have so learned Christ as ●o observe and do these things that you are invited to you need not fear what man can do unto you but you will get into a stronger harbour take your repose and wait till you hear the voice of the Bridegroom crying Come my People enter thou into thy Chamber and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be over-past Esay 26.20 FINIS