Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	kindness_n	lord_n	temperance_n	1,456	5	11.4306	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95692	Theologia Germanica. Or, Mysticall divinitie : a little golden manuall briefly discovering the mysteries, sublimity, perfection and simplicity of Christianity, in belief and practise. Written above 250 years since in high Dutch, & for its worth translated into Latine, and printed at Antwarp, 1558. Whereto is added definitions theologicall and philosophicall. Also a treatise of the soul, and other additions not before printed.	Randall, Giles, translator.	1648 (1648)	Wing T858; Thomason E1162_2; ESTC R210095	77,165	196

the plough As concerning my translation understand that I have neither added nor detracted any thing from the Author and I could no more avoyd obscurity in translating a book compiled with much affected brevity then the Author himself in writing of it yet I counsel the Reader that he would often and attentively read it which may ●●●ve in stead of a Comment I have used some words in it as these Egoity Selfness Meity Deified Disposence Personal●ity c. necessity compelling me thereunto because the Author useth that manner of speech wherein I ought to be thought no more blameable then Tidley who doubted not to be bold in using the words Appiety and Lentallity A Writer may make bold when necessity requireth it to command words and not to learn them The Inscription of this Book is Theologia Germanica the Author is not named only I find it written in a certain little Preface to the Book that he was one of those who are called Dun Teutonici or Dutch Lords the French call them Knights of the Rhodes and that he was a Priest and Governor in the house of Teutonici or high Dutch at Frankfort The Argument is of the new man or the new creature for he sheweth the manner how a man may be restored and return to God from whence he is faln by following his own will It is necessary that he bewilling to be restored because medicines are to be contrary to their diseases that he be deprived of his own will follow the will of God and no man can serve two masters but as a man may very well put out his own eyes or kill himself yet cannot restore himself to sight or life again even so man is in Adam prone to destroy himself and all his posterity by following his own will But neither he nor any who is guilty and overthrown by his sin can possibly save himself or repair the breach It was necessary again for the saving of the world that one should arise and exist who was holy harmless and undefiled separate from sinners to deliver others from sin and teach the way of life and this was Jesus Christ the Son of the living God to whom all power is given both in heaven and earth who doth not only teach man this way to salvation but also giveth them power by Faith to walk in it I would not hereby have you understand a dead Faith for that is no more Faith then a dead man is a man but a working and living Faith such a one as Saint Peter describeth together with the works and effects thereof saying Add to your faith vertue and to your vertue knowledg and to your knowledg temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity For if these things remain and abound in you they will make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather brethren give all diligence to make your calling and election sure for if these things be in you you shall never fail S. Peter speaks of a true and lively faith which doth not only procure unto a man the forgiveness of his sins by the merit of Christ but also effecteth that as before be yeelded his members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin so hereafter he may give them as instruments of righteousnes to do well And because S. Peter in this place doth describe a certain ladder to salvation I purpose to make it plain whereby we may more evidently perceive by which steps we may ascend to the top thereof lest that any man should be content to stand only upon the first step and yet think he had attained tosalvation from which he was distant many degrees Therefore according to S. Peter faith bringeth forth vertue that is strength and ability to perform those things which thou beleevest are to be done as so taught from God As for example Christ commands us to love our enemies and to do good to them which do evil to us Now there are some who beleeve that this cannot be done again they hate their enemies and do them all mischief others beleeve that it is to be done by the assistance of God and therefore do good to their enemies Consider all sects and kinds of men and you shall find that those who beleeve it is possible to be done do act the same and that Christ who hath given them power to beleeve hath given them power also to perform his Commandments for it is not said in vain that all things are possible to him that beleeveth And this I say generally of all other precepts of Christ As thou beleevest saith Christ so be it to thee this is generally to be taken look how much faith any one hath and so much strength of vertue he hath also And vertue begeteth knowledge for true knowledg consists in experience which comes to pass when a man is made able to perform something doth certainly know that that which before he did beleeve he did not certainly know might have been performed Examples hereof we have in Caleb and Joshua and the rest of the Israelites who did overcome the Canaanites for then did they certainly know that those might be overcome as they had before beleeved but the rest of the Israelites who did not beleeve that this could be done could not do it and again they knew it not So at this day such as do not beleeve that such a the power of Christ as that he is able to beat down the power of the Serpent under the feet of the faithful those men are not able to resist sin therefore they know not how it may be done and therefore deny it but those who beleeve can do it by faith and know certainly that it may be done and again affirm it to be true Knowledg bringeth forth temperance for a man confirmed with this knowledg goeth forward to the mark hoping for the same success in the rest and therefore with-holds himself from bodily lusts and pleasures which fight against the soul lest being hindred by them he be deprived of his Crown of victory Now as the Chaldeans did vex and persecute Jerusalem when it rebelled against them having before of its own accord served and obeyed them In like manner it falleth out in all rebellions of Subjects for the lusts and pleasures which before we voluntarily served when we rebel against them by temperance do vex us in renewing their desires and breed us grief as much as before they did delight which that we may bear manfully we stand in need of patience And because we know that this trouble which we must undergo in resisting these wicked lusts and affections in bearing of injuries doth far exceed our strength let us earnestly call upon God with