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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	baptise_v	disciple_n	infant_n	1,787	5	9.8128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95065	An exposition with practicall observations upon the three first chapters of the proverbs: grammaticall rhetoricall, logicall, and theologicall. As they were delivered in severall expository lectures at Christ-church in Canterbury. / By Francis Taylor, B. in D.	Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing T273; Thomason E847_1; ESTC R207317	415,752	563

of wisdome saith a learned writer Reas 1. Because they were written by an infallible spirit and therefore the writers could not erre in giving their own meaning or the meaning of one another 2. None have an infallible spirit now and therefore the best may erre in interpreting some place of Scripture Quest How can we interpret Scripture by Scripture Ans 1. By consulting with the originall As if children differ about their fathers legacy Non itur ad tumulum sed curritur ad Testamentum They go not to the Tomb but run to the Testament Optat. 2. By observing the coherence with what goes before and what followes as we pick out the meaning of a friends letter by the Scope of it and by the rest of the words 3. By paralell places as by comparing divers letters to one purpose 4. By plain places or grounds of religion to interpret the rest that are built thereupon as we do in Logick and other Arts. Use 1. To blame the Papists who submit the sense of the Scriptures to Fathers Councels and to the Pope singly 2. To teach us to use this help in difficult places and not to allow of any sense of any place of Scripture not agreeing with other Scriptures So about Baptisme Go teach all nations The originall is Make Disciples of all nations Mat. 28.19 And that by Baptizing as followes in the words and Teaching followes afterwards verse 20. So that this place makes nothing against Infants baptisme So about the resurrection 1 Cor. 15.50 is pleaded against it yet all the Chapter before and after pleads for it The Apostle saith there Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of God His meaning is mortall and corruptible flesh and blood cannot come to heaven till it be changed so he expounds himselfe in the end of that Verse and the Verse following Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption And We shall all be changed Thus John 14.28 is brought to disprove Christs divine Nature Christ saith My father is greater then I This must be understood of his human nature for in regard of his divine the Apostle saith He thought it no robbery to be equall with God Phil. 2.6 The Jews understood this that He made himselfe equall with God John 5.18 which had been blasphemy indeed had not he been true God So for excluding bread out of the Lords Supper Mat. 26.26 This is my body is cited by the Papists but it must be understood figuratively not literally The meaning is this is the sign of my body for Paul calls it bread when it is eaten 1 Cor. 11.26 God cannot contradict himselfe Doct. 2. Wisdome affords true nourishment Not for a time as fruits of trees do but for ever therefore it is compared to milk for babes and strong meat for men Heb. 5.12 13 14. And to milk again 1 Pet. 2.2 Reas 1. Because it shews how to get and dresse food for the body 2. How moderately to exercise the body without which food will not disgest 3. How to keep a cheerfull mind without which food will not be profitable to the body nor nourish it 4. It shews how the soul may be nourished by justification through the blood of Christ without which it pines away under the sense and of guilt of sin and of the wrath of God 5. How it may be nourished by sanctification that so all sins which are as obstructions being killed all the graces of Gods Spirit may be encreased in us 6. How it may be fullfed to glorification where it shall need no more food Use Labour for this true wisdome as men doe for food to nourish them This is to be found in the word of God Let others despise the scripture as Aenaeas Silvius speaks of councills so may we say of Gods word call bread stones if you will so you give it me to nourish me Acts and Monuments in the end of the raign of Henry the sixth All the labour of man is for his mouth Eccles 6.7 Men plow sow plant work for bodily food why should we not labour more for wisdome that will feed the body here and the soul to eternity Praeclarè Plato beatum ait cui etiam in senectute contigerit ut sapientiam verasque opiniones assequi possit Cic. 5. de finibus Plato excellently saith He is happy that in his old age can attain wisdome and true opinions Doct. 3. Wisdome makes a perfect cure The leaves did heal the nations Rev. 22.2 The Scriptures are able to make us wise unto salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 Reas 1. Because it cures hereditary diseases which Physicians cannot as the darknesse of the mind perversnesse of the will crosnesse of the affections received from our Parents 2. It cures infectious diseases as sinfull courses received from others by bad counsell or example 3. It cures the thoughts of the heart which no law of man nor Physick can do 4. It cures the tongue and words and teaches how to speak wisely and profitably 5. It cures the life and teaches how to avoid temptations and provocations to sin 6. It cures the body too from some diseases here by Physick and other good means and perfectly at the Resurrection Then God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall be any more pain for the former things are passed away Rev. 21.4 Use Praise God for communicating this wisdome to you in his word especially if ye have found good by this course of spirituall Physick already it is Gods work and he will finish it Doct. 4. Wisdom doth good to none but to those that get it fully and firmly As fruit of trees doth no good to them that seek it only or touch it so the fruit of wisdome to none but those that eat that is obtain it that seek it not sleightly or think a little enough but that take pains still for more not that look over the precepts as men look over an Almanack but as men seriously study good books John Baptists and Christs preaching did no good but to them that regarded it We have piped unto you but ye have not danced c. Mat. 11.17 Pauls Gospell is hid to them that are lost 2 Cor. 4.3 Reason 1. Because there must be a conjunction of things before there can be an operation of the one upon the other The soul must be infused into the body before it can work on the body to make the tongue to speak the foot to goe the hand to work A man must be married to a woman before hee can take care for her as for a wife So must wisdom be joyned to the heart before it can worke on heart soule or body 2. Because it is so in all other gifts of God A man cannot be liberal to whom God gives no riches nor fight stoutly to whom God gives no strength nor doe any good with wisdom or get any good by it to whom God gives it not Use See