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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	holy_a	read_v	scripture_n	8,342	5	5.9261	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47040	The future state, or, A discourse attempting some display of the souls happiness, in regard to that eternally progressive knowledge, or eternal increase of knowledge, and the consequences of it, which is amongst the blessed in heaven by a country gentleman, a worshipper of God in the way of the Church of England.	Whitaker, Edward.; Jones, George, d. 1704.	1683 (1683)	Wing J941B; ESTC R13197	63,632	160

Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil And such according to the Opinion of Some Divines was the Precept of Sacrificing Beasts For that Sacrifices of that Kind were offered to God whil'st Man continued Incocent they think probable because God cloathed our First Parents with Skins immediately after the Fall which they think were the Skins of those Beasts that had been offered in Sacrifice to God Of the First of these Precepts there is no doubt but that it was made known by Supernatural Revelation But whether Beasts were offered in Sacrifice before the Fall seems very Vncertain if not Improbable and consequently whether there were any Precept concerning it till afterwards For the Reason of This Opinion I conceive is not Valid and other Accounts are given of the Skins where-with our First Parents were cloathed by Learned Divines and Expositors 4. Since the Fall of Man 't is Apparent that much of God's Will hath been made known to them by Revelation This no Man doth or can doubt that Reads and Believes the Holy Scriptures That the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpent's Head was made known to Adam by Revelation and peradventure some other things not Recorded in the Book of God That the World was to perish by a Deluge if they continued in their Impenitency That God would no more Drown the World for its Wickedness was Revealed to Noah after the same manner Many things were so made known to Abraham and the other Patriarchs to Moses and the Prophets in succeeding Generations and after them to the Apostles of Christ Jesus 5. The History of the Creation was known to Moses either by Immediate Revelation or by Tradition from those that at first received it by Revelation For though the Creation of the World might be Collected and Gathered from the Things that do appear yet the manner of it could not possibly be Collected thence How could it be known that God Created the Heavens and the Earth and that the Earth was without Form and Void and that he said Let there be Light and there was Light and that he Divided the Light from the Darkness and called the One Day and the Other Night and that The Evening and the Morning were the First Day And so on according to the History and Account that Moses gives of it This could not be known otherwise than by Revelation There is nothing in the Frame and Fabrick of Heaven and Earth and the several Creatures in them that give us any notice of the Manner and Order of their Creation 6. To pass by many other things The Government and Policy of the Jewish Nation both Ecclesiastical and Civil was Established by Immediate Revelation from Above All their Laws were appointed by God himself He was their Legislator Their Government was a Theocracy God was their Supreme Prince and Ruled over them Whatever he required of them as a Common-wealth or a Church separate from all the Nations upon Earth to his peculiar Worship and Service was made known to them by Inspiration Their Laws and Methods of Government were not the Products and Effects of Reason upon the Consideration of the Nature of Things but of Divine and in many things of Arbitrary Will by Revelation 7. The Christian Church is also thus Established The great Author and Founder of it came out of the Bosom of God the Father and appointed the Laws by which 't is Constituted Ruled and Governed Tho' many of those Laws be of Natural Revelation yet even they were anew Revealed from Heaven and other Laws both for its Constitution and Administration were purely of Supernatural Appointment and Institution 8. The Angelical Host know much of the Will Nature Attributes and Perfections of God by Supernatural Revelation Thus they understand the Will of God concerning Man's Salvation thus they become acquainted with the Grace Mercy Pity and Compassion of God to wards Faln Man All that they know of these things is by the Revelations that God hath made to the Church and World concerning it Nothing thereof was or could be learned from the Book of Nature All the Knowledge they have concerning it is by Extraordinary Methods of Discovery 9. That God was Placable they might perhaps inferre from the Consideration of his Nature and his Works but that he would be Reconciled unto them they could not know till he Himself had declared it by Revelation The Will of God is secret and no Man or Angel can know or understand it till he hath by some Overt-Act discovered and revealed it That God would be reconciled to Sinful Lapsed and Faln Man was not discovered by Natural Revelation Therefore all that Angels know about it is from God and that by Supernatural Manifestation 10. If Man whil'st Innocent knew at least some Part of God's Will by Supernatural and Extraordinary Revelations if after the Fall God hath continued to make known his Will to the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles after the same manner yea if the Angels know much by the same Method and Means of Discovery I see no reason why it may not be at least Probable that the Blessed may Increase and Advance their Knowledge in the Future State by the same Way and Method Though I doubt not but that very much of the Nature Will and Attributes of God will be exposed and laid before their Eyes in the Glorious Works of his Hands yet I am not sure that Supernatural Revelation will be of No Vse There 'T is not Improbable but something that may and shall be known of God may be Excepted from Natural and Reserved for Supernatural Revelation 11. As the History of This Worlds Generation was made known to Man by Extraordinary Revelation as I have observed already so 't is possible the History of the Generation of many Other Worlds may by the same Means be made known to the Blessed For although it will be abundantly obvious by Natural Evidence and Light that all Beings do proceed from the First Being and all Effects from the First Cause yet the Time and Manner of their Production is not obvious thereby If it may be supposed that there are Angels or Intelligences Younger than this World I think it may be said That they could not know the Time or Manner of its Generation unless it be by Revelation or the Tradition of such Intelligent Beings as were Pre-existent to it There is no Evidence in the Nature of Things that This World was made between Five and Six thousand Years ago nor that Light was one of the First Things that was made and other Things in that order in which they are described in the History of the Creation 12. As many of the Laws and much of the Policy and Government of the Church of God in This World is known both to Men and Angels by Revelation so 't is not impossible but some part of the Laws Government and Policy of Other Worlds may be known to the Blessed after the Same manner They may obtain