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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	jesus_n	lord_n	saviour_n	5,163	5	6.4700	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86580	Wisdome's judgment of folly. Delivered in a sermon at the spital, in the solemn assembly of the city, on Munday in Easter-week, April XI. A.D. MDCLIII. By Thomas Horton D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2884; Thomason E691_4; ESTC R206965	45,879	67

much study and apply your selves to Those which profess themselves Believers and have given up their Names to Christ they should not judge and reckon of themselves by such matters as these are Though so long as they live in the world they must from the necessity of their condition converse in it and with it yet this is not that which they should look upon as their chiefest aime or the mark whereunto they direct and order their course but regard better things and of an higher nature Saint Paul gives us both his Precept for it and his example His Precept 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coloss 3.1 2. If then ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God Set your affections on things above and not on things on the earth And his Example Phil. 3.20 Our conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Of a contrary Disposition hereunto are all such persons as those who give themselves to nothing but the world and the interests of it All their thoughts and meditations and desires and affections which are in them they run out upon this If ye could Anatomize a carnal person rip him up and see what is in him ye should find the world in his heart as his chiefest Good and Treasure and Delight worldly Plots worldly Policies worldly Contrivances all savouring of the world as if he were made and created for nothing else but to live here below and to enjoy the comforts of this present life I would that this Distemper had been only the Distemper of Corinth and confined to those times wherein the Apostle wrote this Epistle But it is not so it runs down all along in a Succession even to following Generations and so wil do whilst the world it self lasts That is the first Explication of the wisdom of the world considered more Generally and at Large in the common notion of it Sapientia Mundi The second is Sapientia Seculi 2. The wisdom of the Age. The Wisdome of the Age. Not only of the world but of this world that is this moment of the world in which we live As the world in general has its defilements of worldly wisdome adhering to it so every point and estate of the world hath some particularity or other of this worldly wisdome in it as a Branch or slip of that General which does run out and express it self in several Ages and times of it and for the most part one worse then another Aetas parentum pejor avis Now this is that likewise which is here implicitely censured by the Apostle in this Expression If any among you be wise in this world that is wise with the subtilties and miscarriages of this present Age. Hence we read of the fashion of this world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 7.13 The shape or form or appearance And of the course of this world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 2.2 And of the lust of this world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Joh. 2.17 So 2 Tim. 4.10 Demas hath forsaken me and imbraced this present world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The world and the world that now is And that he might deliver us from this present evil world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Galat. 1.4 Every Age and Time of the world it has its particular Corruptions and Extravagancies both in matter of Judgment and Practice which are redundant in it There are the Errors of the Times on one hand and there are the Vanities of the Times on another and men are then said to be wise in either of them when they do close and comply with them and sute and conform unto them And so now you have the first particular as a part of the Apostles censure in this respect viz a Mistake of False wisdome for True or of that which is less considerable for that which is more which you have had in a threefold Explication laid open to you In the Wisdom of the Mind Natural Wisdome in the Wisdom of the Flesh Carnal Wisdom in the Wisdom of the VVorld Secular Wisdom The second thing which he here censures is the pretence to true Wisdome II. The meer pretence to Wisdom in the want of it That you have in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if any man seems It is not If any man be wise but if he seem to be In which expression as the Apostle doth implicitely cast a reproach upon the Wisdom of the World it self as being such only in appearance and not in reality which things have a shew of wisdom Col. 2.23 So he does cast a reproach likewise upon those which are pretenders to it as making shew and profession of more wisdom then is indeed in them such as seem wise but are not so This is that which wee find by the Apostle Paul in another place to be laid to the charge of the Gentiles and Heathen Philosophers Rom. 1.22 That professing themselves to be wise they became fools Wisdome was that which they pretended to but Folly was that which was most observable and remarkable in them This is the case of many more besides All that Wisdome which they seem to lay claim to as their interest and belonging unto them if it be brought to a just tryal and examination and discovery of it it will at last prove to be no better then Folly The third and last part of this Censure extends it self to Self-conceitednesse III. Pride in wisdom and Pride and vain applauding of themselves in that Wisdom which they conceive to be in them If any man seems that is seem to himself and to his own mind and fancy and imagination e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Justin Martyr ad Zen. Seren Epistola So also the Syr. Arab. so some Translations carry it and express it Si quis sibi videtur sapiens This was that which these Corinthians were especially guiltie of They were wise men and they did too much pride themselves in their wisdom and were lifted up with it now the Apostle does very seasonably set himself against such an humour as this as the Spirit of God does likewise in other places of Scripture besides this Prov. 3.7 Be not wise in thine own eyes fear the Lord c. So Rom. 12.16 Be not wise in your own conceits And Isai 5.21 VVo unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their owne sight Again Prov. 26.12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool then of him Thus is this Self-applause in Wisdome every where almost cryed out upon Qui seiplum habet pro sapiente Eum habent Deus Homines pro ignaro Arab. Adag according to that saying of the Arabians which is frequent amongst them He that accounts himself for a wise man God and men account him for a fool And Saint Paul to the like