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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	commandment_n	keep_v	liar_n	1,680	5	11.3944	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67762	No wicked man a wise man, true wisdom described the excellency of spiritual, experimental, and saving knowledge, above all humane wisdom and learning ... / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1666 (1666)	Wing Y167; ESTC R14648	28,496	34

of it It is one thing to know what riches are and another thing to be Master of them it is not the knowing but the possessing of them that makes rich Many have a depth of knowledge and yet are not soul-wise have a Library of Divinity in their heads not so much as the least Catechism in their Consciences full brains empty hearts Yea you shall hear a flood in the tongue when you cannot see one drop in the life Insomuch that in the midst of our so much light and means of Grace there be few I fear that have the sound and saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and him crucified which was the onely care and study of St. Paul 1 Cor. 2. 2. Sect. 5. And that I am not mistaken the effect shews For if men knew either God or Christ they could not but love him and loving him they would keep his Commandments Joh. 14. 15. For hereby saith St. John it is manifest that we know him if we keep his commandments 1 Joh. 2. 3. But he that saith I know him and yet keepeth not his commandments is a lyar and there is no truth in him ver 4. What saith our Saviour This is life eternal to know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou 〈◊〉 sent Joh. 17. 3. But how shall a man know whether he hath this knowledge Answ. St. John tells you 1 Joh. 2. 3. and so plainly that you cannot be deceived except you desire to deceive your own soul. The knowledge of God that saves us is more then a bare apprehension of him it knows his power and therefore fears him knows his Justice and therefore serves him knows his mercy and therefore truis him knows his goodness and therefore loves him c. For he that hath the saving knowledge of God or of Christ hath every other Grace there is a sweet correspondence between every one where there is any one in truth As in the generation the head is not without the body nor the body without each member nor the soul without its powers faculties so in the regeneration where there is any one grace in truth there is every one 2 Cor. 5. 17. If you will see it in particulars read Psal. 9. 10. Jer. 9. 24. 1 Joh. 4. 6. Joh. 4. 10. 1 Joh. 4. 7 8 2. 3. Job 42. 5 6. which Scriptures shew that as feeling is inseparable to all the organs of sense the eye sees and feels the ear hears and feels the pallate tastes and feels the nostrils smell and feel so knowledge is involved in every grace Faith knows and believes Charity knows and loves Patience knows and suffers Temperance knows and abstains Humility knows stoops Repentance knows mourns Obedience knows does Confidence knows reioyces Hope knows and expects Compassion knows and pities Yea as there is a power of water in every thing that grows it is fatness in the Olive sweetness in the fig cheerfulness in the grape strength in the Oak talness in the Cedar redness in the Rose whiteness in the Lilly c. So knowledge is in the hand obedience in the mouth benediction in the knee humility in the eye compassion in the heart charity in the whole body and soul piety Alas If men had the true knowledge of Jesus Christ it would disperse and dispel all the black clouds of their reigning sins in a moment as the Sun doth no sooner shew his face but the darkness vanisheth or as Caesar did no sooner look upon his enemies but they were gone Egypt swarmed with locusts till the west wind came that left not one He cannot delight in sin nor dote upon this world that know● Christ savingly Vertue is ordained a wife for knowledge and where these two joyn there will proceed from them a noble proginie a generation of good works Again as the water engendreth ice and the ice again engendreth water so knowledge begets righteousness and righteousness again begetteth knowledge It is between science and conscience as it is between the stomach and the head for as in mans body the raw stomach maketh a rhumatick head and the rhumatick head maketh a raw stomach so science makes our conscience good conscience makes our science good Nor is it so much scientiae capitis as conscientia cordis that knows Christ and our selves whence Solomon saith Give thine heart to wisdom Prov. 2. 10. and let wisdom enter into thine heart Prov. 4. 4. And when he would acquaint us how to become wise he tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Prov. 1. 7. as if the first lesson to be wise were to be holy Again if it be asked Why the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God Saint Paul answers he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. and indeed if they are spiritually discerned how should they discern them that have not the spirit For though the outward man receives the elements and rudiments of Religion by breeding and education yet his inward man receiveth them by heavenly inspiration 1 Cor. 2. 11 12 13. 12. 3 8. Mat. 16. 16 17. Deut. 29. 2. 3 4. Psal. 111. 10. Luke 24. 45. John 15. 15. And this alone is enough to prove that no wicked man is a wise man for if God alone be the giver of it we may be sure that he will reveal his secrets to none but such as he knows will improve their knowledge to his glory and the good of others Even as the husbandman will not cast his seed but into ground that will return him a good harvest Psal. 25. 14. Luk. 24. 45. Mark 4. 34. Gen. 18. 17. 1 John 4. 7. Sect. 6. But would there men any one even the best of them thus improve or imploy their knowledge Or do they desire it to any such end No but to some other end as I shall in the next place acquaint you Some men desire not to know some desire onely to know Or rather thus Few men in comparison desire knowledge fewer that desire divine and supernatural knowledge fewest of all that desire to be the better or that others should be the better for their knowledge More particularly a world of men desire knowledge for no other end but to remove their ignorance as Pharaoh used Moses but to remove the plagues Others again study the Scriptures and other good Books only to make gain thereof or to be the abler to dispute and discourse as boys go into the water only to play and paddle there not to wash and be clean With Eve they highly desire the tree of knowledge but regard not the tree of life As I would fain know what fruit or effect the knowledge of most men produces in them except it be to inable them to dispute and discourse to increase wit or to increase wealth or to increase pride or perhaps to increase Athism and to make them the more able and cunning