Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	godliness_n	knowledge_n	temperance_n	6,959	5	12.3060	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13629	The reasonablenesse of wise and holy truth: and the absurditie of foolish and wicked errour	Terry, John, 1555?-1625.	1617 (1617)	STC 23912; ESTC S118354	27,907	56

ioine to their faith vertue to vertue knowledge to knowledge temperance to tēperāce patience to patience godlines to godlines brotherly kindnes to brotherly kindnesse loue 2. Pet. 1. 5. For saith he if faith want knowledge it is a blind credulity and not a cleere eie wherewith we see God heauēs happinesse albeit it be a farre off v. 9. And if it bee not accompanied with all these divine graces it is an idle fruitlesse fancie vers 8. and not a true working and fruitfull faith Gal. 5. 6. But if it bee accompanied with these divine graces then it proueth it sufficiently to be the faith of Gods elect Tit. 1. 1. and assureth al such as are indued therewith that they are effectually called to the estate of grace and are elected to everlasting life vers 10. And verily even by the light of nature it is recorded that the Graces goe hand in hand and will in no wise part company and by the light of Prophesie it is further iustified that they are as a most pretious and golden chaine Ez. 16. 11. the linkes whereof cannot be severed How then can a true faith being one of the principall vertues that are by Christ infuled into the hearts of all true Christians Eph. 6. 16. Ioh. 6. 19. be severed from the societie of the residue of the divine graces of the spirit of God Doth not the Apostle plainly avouch that wee are all the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Gal. 3. 26. Ioh. 1. 12. and therefore renued into his image in righteousnesse and true holinesse Are wee not by faith vnited vnto Christ Eph. 3. 17. and at one with God Rom. 5. 1. How then can it be a neare companion with blindnesse and ignorance or with vnrighteousnesse and sinne For what communion can there be betweene light and darknesse what concord betweene righteousnesse and vnrighteousnesse 2. Cor. 6. 14. But there is so great an agreement betweene faith and loue and the residue of the divine graces of the spirit of God that S. Austin doth place them in the definition of faith as if they were the very essence thereof For what is it saith he to beleeue in God but to loue God and to loue God that is to loue God with a double loue Aug. in Ioh. tr 29. So. in Ps 77. To beleeue in God is to cleaue to God to worke that which is good together with him that worketh good in vs. Wherefore let all such as make profession that by faith they ioyfully imbrace the covenant of mercy in Christ and yet are carelesse in the performance of all holy duties nay which turne the grace of God into wantonnesse Iac. 4. and vpon a presumptuous opinion of the infinitie of the mercy of God and merits of Christ doe loose the raines to all manner of wicked and corrupt affections Let them all knowe that howsoeuer in word they make profession of the faith of Christ yet in their deeds they denie the same Tit. 1. 16. For how doth he say that he beleeueth in Christ who doth not that which he commandeth him to doe Cyp de simpl praelat How then can hee that doth contrary to that which God commandeth say that he beleeueth in Christ and is partaker of the covenant of grace For vnto the vngodly saith God VVhat hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances and to take my covenant in thy mouth Ps 50. 16. So Ier. 7. 9. Will yee steale murder commit adulterie sweare falsely c. and come and stand before me in this house whereon my name is called as if yee were my seruants whereas yee cloth your selues with the Divels livery and doe such works as belong to his service Will yee say that yee are deliuered from the slauerie of sinne yet pollute your selues with all maner of abominations How shall we saith the Apostle that are dead to sinne liue any longer therein Rom. 6. 2. Surely if Christs death doth deliuer vs from the guilt of our sinnes it will first deliver vs from the dominion of our sinnes and if Christs resurrection shall raise vs vp to be partakers of eternall life it will first raise vs vp to newnesse of life 1. Cor. 25. 34. Apoc. 20. 6. For vndoubtedly a wise and an holy faith whereby we liue to God Gal. 2. 20. must go before our glorification iustification also For whom God electeth in Christ before all worlds to those by an inward and effectuall calling he giueth a wise and an holy faith whereby they are made the sonnes of God Gal. 3. 26 are renued vnto his image in righteousnes true holines that so resembling their heauenly father hee may take them for his owne deare children Now whom he thus calleth them he iustefieth for by faith we must be first engraffed into Christ before wee can haue interest in his righteousnesse whereby wee are iustified and then them whom he iustifieth he also glorifieth Rom. 8. 30. A sanctifying faith is then the first of all the proper and peculiar gifts that God bestoweth vpon all those to whom he vouchsafeth to giue an honourable place in his house and family 1. Cor. 6. 11. Tit. 3. 5. 6. 7 a greater also then iustification it selfe For it is a greater blessing to be delivered from the being and bondage of sinne then from the guilt and punishment thereof for that the one is a farre greater evill then the other The making of an impious a iust man as Thomas A quinas teacheth is the greatest of all the workes of God So S. Austin writing vpon these words of our Sauiour Christ greater workes then these shall they doe saith that it is a greater worke of an impious man to make a iust man then to create heauen earth Aug in Ioh. tract 72. For in the creating of all things of nothing as there was nothing to further so there was nothing to hinder the work seeing nothing hath no activitie but in the recreation or regeneration of man there is not onely no furtherance in the natural Non ent is nullae sunt qualitates man but a great hinderance resistance Wherefore it is not without cause that the faithfull recording in what danger they were by reason of their sinnes before their regeneration and sanctification doe greatly reioice and say The right hand of the Lord hath shewed forth his mightie power the right hand of the Lord hath advanced me Aug. confes l. 4. c. 3. Wherefore seeing an holy faith which is accompanied with all the residue of the graces of sanctification is the greatest of all the peculiar gifts of God even such an one as whereby we haue not only an entrance into the estate of grace Rom. 5. 2. but are preserved there by to eternall salvation 1. Pet. 1. 5. wee ought to imploy our first and our chiefest care for the obtaining and preseruing of the same And that so much the more for that not only God is principally