Selected quad for the lemma: tradition_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	book_n	receive_v	scripture_n	2,071	5	6.0510	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35473	An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1650 (1650)	Wing C765; ESTC R17469	487,687	567

Fathers as if he had sayd Doe not despise what I say as ordinary or as a novelty no nor as received from corrupt antiquity for besides what I have seen Rambam subtitius a patribus suis exponit a patribus eorum Vt hic tres aetates considerentur una sapientum haec indicantium altera patrum tertia majorum atavorum Merc. I have good authority for what I speake the ancient and the wise vote with me Wise men have told it from their Fathers here is the conveyance Wise men He doth not meane worldly wise men Philosophers and Polititians but godly wise men these haue told it from their Fathers their Fathers told it them and they told it me so that this position claimes by two descents at least One of the Rabbins gives it three if not more for by the Fathers of the wise men he understands not their immediate Fathers onely but those who were more remote and further off yea possibly those who were furthest off even as far as Adam Hence Observe First It is an ingenuity to acknowledge by whom we profit wise men have told me this I received it from others as well as collected it by my owne experience Secondly Note Truth should be conveyed downe to our Posterity Truth is a more precious inheritance then Land or Money if Parents are carefull to secure as much as they can earthly things to their Children how much more should they be carefull to secure heavenly In the first Ages of the World till the Law was given on Mount Sinai faithfull men were in stead of Books and Tradition supplyed the want of Scripture But now our recourse must be to what God hath commanded to be written not to what men have said No Tradition is of any force but as consentient with Scripture and none of so much force as Scripture The Councill of Trent in the fifth Session thunders out Anathemaes against those who receive not Tradition with the same godly affection and devotion with which they receive the Scripture it selfe Bellarmin in his controversie about Tradition entitles his Book thus Of the Word of God not written as if the Word of God were to be divided into these two orders The Word written and the Word not written Tradition with him is the Vnwritten word and must be held of as much authority as the Word written This is as Christ taxeth the Pharisees to make the word of God of none effect through mans Tradition It is still a wise mans duty to to tell Posterity what the Word and Truth of God is but we must not receive any thing as a truth of God upon the bare Word of the wisest men Wise men have told their Fathers And have not hid it There is a twofold hiding first a hiding to keep a thing safe that we loose it not secondly a hiding that we keep it close and not communicate it In the former sense we must hide the truth of God but we may not in the latter When David saith I have hid thy Commandements in my heart when Mary hid the sayings of Christ in her hart and when the man that found the treasure Ma. 13.44 Went away and hid it and for joy thereof sould all he had and bought the field All these hid it that it might be forth-comming for their owne use they did not hide it as unwilling to bring it forth for the use of others so the idle Servant hid his Talent and was justly condemned for hiding it Matth. 25. Hence Observe Truth must not be hid from others Truth is a common good no man hath the sole property of it every one may challenge his part of this poffession and the more we part with it to others the more we increase our owne possession Truth multiplies in its degree to us while we make division of it to thousands A Candle gives not the less light to the owner because many standers by see by it and this Candle gives a clearer light to us when we let many see by it Our knowledge is perfected while it is communicated This Candle therfore is not to be put under a bushell but must be set upon a Candlestick that all may see by the light of it Shall I saith the Lord Gen. 18. hide from Abraham the thing that I am about to doe No I will not For I know Abraham will not hide it Hee will command his Children and his Houshold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord. The Israelites were charged to communicate the wonders which God wrought for them and the Ordinances which he appointed them when they were delivered out of Aegypt Exod. 12. I will open my mouth in a Parable saith the Psalmist I will utter darke sayings of old which wee have heard and knowne And our Fathers have told us we will not hide them from their Children shewing to the Generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and the wonderfull works which hee hath done Psal 78.2 3 4. 'T is our duty to preserve memorialls of the workes of God and to declare his word to all that are about us What wise men know from their Fathers they will not hide Eliphaz yet goes on to describe the men whose consent in opinion he had received about the controversie in hand Vers 19. To whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed among them If any man aske who were these wise men He answers They were wise men To whom alone the earth was given In these words Eliphaz seemes to remove a prejudice that might lye in Jobs Spirit against the testimony of those Ancients For suppose they were Wise men yet he might say 't is like they were but meane men men of no ranke or quality men of small credit or authority and we know what Solomon saith Affertur hoc ad amplificandum authoritatem horum sapientum q. d. hi tales tanti fuerunt ut c. Merc. Eccles 9.16 A poore mans wisedome is despised and his words not heard Therefore saith Eliphaz you shall not put me off thus nor disable my witnesses upon a supposition that these wise men were meane men for these were Cheifes and Princes in their Generation And he advanceth their honour two wayes First in regard of their riches and power To whom alone the earth was given Secondly in regard of their righteous and just administrations No stranger or strange thing passed among them as if he had sayd Job I speake of men that were fit to sit at the helme of a Kingdome and governe Nations yea to have the raines of the World put into their hands I speake of wise men who by their wisedome and the blessing of God have kept the earth quiet and so have possessed it alone But it may yet be said who were these Monarchs of the world and sole possessors of the Earth To whom alone the earth was given Some conceive that Eliphaz meanes it of