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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41488	God a good master, and protector opened in severall sermons on Esaiah 8.13.14 / by Iohn Goodwin ...	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing G1168; ESTC R22549	88,532	456

peace of your souls only untill you come at some full fountaine of these waters where you may quench your thirst throughly I shall be willing to give you a taste of one maine difference between that kinde of Faith and dependence on God which will open the doore and lead you into this blessed Sanctuary here promised and that which will leave you without naked and exposed to the wrath of God in every kind That dependence on God which is raised in the soule by the help or means of that ignorance of God or of the minde and counsells of God which is within a man is a dependence which God will reject and with which the creature may perish as on the contrary that which either springs out of a true light of the knowledge of God or is accompanied and attended as it were in the production or birth of it with such knowledge is that great and sacred dependence which ingageth the Almightie to his creature and carrieth Heaven and Salvation before it This difference is built upon the sure foundations of the Scriptures This is life eternall saith our Saviour to his Father in that solemne Prayer of his a little before his death Joh. 17. 3. That they know thee the only true God and him whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ This is life eternall that is a certain means of attaining salvation or life eternall it is a figurative expression very frequent in Scripture wherein the effect is put for the cause or means of such an effect as Deut. 13. 5. Because he hath spoken apostacie or revolt so it is in the originall that is because hee hath spoken that which may be a cause or means of your revolting from God So John 3. 19. This is the condemnation c. that is the means of the condemnation So againe Rom. 14. 20. Destroy not the worke of God that is take not a course use not the means to destroy him In this figure of speech Christ is called our peace that is the Author or means of our peace Ephe. 2. 14. The resurrection Joh. 11. 25. The Lord our righteousnesse Jere. 23. 6. that is the Author or cause of our rising againe and of our righteousnesse or justification besides many like expressions Now then if the true knowledge of God and of Christ for the one cannot be knowne aright without the other be an unquestionable means of eternall life it must be this means thus as it produceth and worketh a true and living Faith in men according to that which David affirmeth Psal 9. 10. They that know thy Name will trust in thee Because without such a Faith or trusting in God eternall life is not to be had or obtained Marke 16. 16 c. Therefore that faith or dependence on God which ariseth from such a knowledge must needs be the true Faith which is accompanied with the favour of God and with salvation otherwise such knowledge could not be the means of either inasmuch as neither is to be enjoyed without such a Faith 25. And for those instances and examples cited from the Scriptures of some mens relyings and trustings on God without acceptation as Psal 18. 41. 42. Matth. 7. 22. 26. c. It were easie to demonstrate that they were assisted and strengthened in their raising and production by the ignorance of God found in the hearts of those who are said so to have relyed or trusted on him It is evident that those spoken of Psal 18. who were there rejected in their prayer and consequently in their dependence such as it was on God were men destitute of the true knowledge of God For they are said verse 40. to have hated David a dear childe and faithfull servant of God Now the Scripture teacheth expresly that he that hateth his brother is in darknesse and walketh in darknesse 1 Joh. 2. 11. that is is in a worse condition then he thinks or is aware of and knoweth not how to doe any thing to perform any work or service in a holy and right manner as hee ought And again 1 Joh. 4. 8. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love that is God truly known alwayes fills the heart with love towards men So for those Mat. 7. whose soules miscarried under a kinde of hope or trusting and relying upon God or Christ as apparent it is that neither had these any right knowledge nor due apprehensions of either Because it is said that they were workers of iniquitie verse 23. and that they heard the words of Christ and did them not verse 26. that is they lived in knowne sinnes Now concerning such the Scripture also speaketh plainly That whosoever sinneth willingly and against light and knowledge hath not seen him that is God neither hath knowne him that is hath not had so much as a cleer sight or enterview of him much lesse any setled experienced or more profound knowledge of him The sight of a man wee know is but the first degree of the knowledge of him 26. So that the rule is universally true that that Faith or dependence on God which either ariseth out of a true knowledge of him or is accompanied with such knowledge in its arising alwayes prospers triumpheth in its acceptation as on the contrary when men will claime friendship and acquaintance with God and will needs depend upon him for favour out of ignorant and fond imaginations and perswasions of him such claimes and dependences are still rejected and cast out by him The reason hereof may well be that which the Apostle delivers and laies down Rom. 11. 16. as a ground or principle upon which God builds many other of the wayes of his providence and dispensations in the world If the root be holy so are the branches As on the other hand Job reasoneth and demandeth Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean Job 14. So if the root of our dependence on God be holy that is if this dependence springs and shoots as it were out of righteous thoughts and apprehensions of God and of Christ it cannot but be holy so accepted with him As on the contrary if it be any common unclean or polluted conceit or notion of God that gives the raise and advantage to our trust or be the basis and bottome of our dependence on him it is no marvell if such trust or dependence be profaned by him and rejected with disdaine and indignation As for example the wicked of whom David speaks Psal 50. 16. is said verse 21. to have this conceit or thought of God that hee is altogether such an one as himself that is that he likes and approves those wayes and practises of sin wherein hee was ingaged and hardened as well as himself did Now if such a thought or opinion of God as this that hee should approve of or any wayes comply with sinners in the evill of their ways be the reason or ground or els gives any assistance furtherance to