Selected quad for the lemma: tradition_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	faith_n	receive_v	scripture_n	3,204	5	6.0081	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51697	The axe at the root of professors miscarriages in a plain detection of, and a wholesome caveat against the miscarriages opposite to faith in God / by Thomas Mall ...	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.	1668 (1668)	Wing M328; ESTC R12069	51,837	51

prevent this let us all be sti●●'d up to conform more and more to Jesus Christ who grew in wisdome 〈…〉 as well as in stature Let us write after Paul's copy Phil 3 12 13 14 Not as though I had already attained or were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus Brethren I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth to those things that are before I press toward the mark c. Would you have God take away all your talents Take heed then of neglecting to increase them Then shall yee know if yee follow on to know the Lord. The path of the just is as the shining Light Hos 6.3 Prov. 4.18 that shineth more and more till it be perfect Day He saith one that hath the least saving acquaintance with God hath enough to make him thankful but he that hath the most hath not enough to make him idle 7. Neglecting to make use of Knowledge Against not making use of knowledge Hath not this been your sin Hath not the habit of knowledge layn dead in your Souls Hath it not been an useless and an unprofitable thing both as to your selves and others O that it may be your sin no more Be not satisfied with having Lights or Lamps Luc. 12.35 but Let your Lights be burning or shining Make use of your knowledge for the heating of your affections for the stirring up desires after God love to God delight in God hatred of sin fear of offending God c. As the Spouse He is altogether lovely Cant. 5.16 This is my Beloved Let the knowledge of wisdome be unto your Souls as Honey that is good and the Honey-comb Prov. 24.13 14 which is sweet unto the tast Make use of your knowledge for the guiding of your thoughts words and actions Let wisdome guide you in every step you take Prov. 6 3● Ask of your knowledge continually what saith the Rule what doth the Word of God require Make use of your knowledge in bearing witness to truth for which you came into this World John 18.36 When you come to appear for an opposed truth let not your knowledge be to seek Make use of your knowledge for the preserving of your Souls from theoretical and practical miscariages Seeing yee know c. beware lest yee also be led away with the errour of the wicked If you will make use of your knowledge 2 Pet. 3.16 Prov. 2.11 12 16. you have Gods promise for preservation from snares in judgment and defilements in practice The Devil shall not undermine you by policy no● overcome you by power Make use of your knowledge for the good of others One great end of knowledge is to communicate knowledge And indeed as one well observes to know for our own and others good is the only good knowledge To reject the directions of knowledge as well as the means of knowledge is to reject knowledge Bur. on Hof 4.6 And hath not God therefore rejected you Is not God reckoning with his wicked because slothful servants for letting their Talents lie un-improved Yea is not this a greater judgment than any outward judgments you are under Is it not an evidence of a Souls being under a spirit of slumber to have no more use of its knowledge Isa ●9 10 then one asleep hath Not to use is all one as not to have knowledge He that hath not i.e. that doth not make use of what he hath shall have what he hath or seems to have taken away from him Chap. II. The miscarriages opposite to Believing God The Assenting Act of Faith 1. Against credulity Prov. 14.15 VAin Credulity Hath not this been your sin Have not you been so simple as to believe every word pretending to come from God Have not you been ready to be ●●ken to false Teachers Mar. 4.24 mat 7.15 Jer. 23.16 mar 8.15 Though God hath said Take heed what you hear Beware of false Prophets Hearken not unto the words of the Prophets that prophesie unto you they make you vain they speak 〈◊〉 Vision of their own heart Take heed beware of the leaven of the 〈◊〉 harisees and of the leaven of Herod yet how fool hardy and venturous have you been O the sad consequences of this fool-hardiness Eve lost all by hearing one Sermon from the mouth of the Serpent Julian the Emperor sipt in his Apostasie by hearing Libanius the Sophister Let others yea your own harms make you to beware Faelix quem faciunt aliena pericula c. Prov. 9.18 ● Thes 5.21 O! come not any more neer the do●r of their house Knowest thou not that the dead are there and that their guests are in the depth of Hell Say not you must try all things Christians ought indeed to prove all things in the Apostles sense the Doctrines that Christs own Ministers teach them they must bring to the touch-stone of the Word But he that will adventure to tast of every box and glass in an Apothecaries shop may sooner meet with poyson than with nutriment Have not you been ready to receive and reject Doctrines before you have brought them to the touch-stone and ballance of the Sanctuary to be tryed Before you receive or reject a piece of gold you will go to the touch-stone to try whether it be good mettal or no and to the ballance to try whether it be weight or no But have you not dealt otherwise with the Doctrines you have heard C●ril on Job 12 11 Hath your ear tryed the words that have sounded therein The Original word for an ear as an excellent Expositor observes being of the dual Number signifieth a pair of ballances to note that we should not only hear but weigh But have not you received Doctrines upon trust Have not some given an absolute credence to the Church to a Synod to a Councel Have not others to this and the other singular person if a learned Man or a pious Man if a Pastor or a Teacher especially if pretending the spirit of Revelation But what faith the Apostle We beseech you brethren 2 Thess 2.2 that yee be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us not by spirit those that pretend pr●phetical revelations nor word those that plead traditions nor letter those that urge forged records It was the Bereans commendation Acts 17.11 that they would not trust Paul upon his word but tryed his Doctrine by the Scriptures Have not you also rejected Doctrines upon trust It is as dangerous saith one to refuse as to receive what we have not examined 2 Chro● 12.8 Shephard's wholesome caveat for a time of liberty p. 3 Ash on 2 Chr● 30.8 1 Cor. 7 23. mat 23.10 No wonder that we that have been so ready