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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	see_v	2,875	5	3.5208	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87872	The martyrdome of King Charles, or His conformity with Christ in his sufferings. In a sermon on I Cor. 2.8. / preached at Bredah, before his Maiesty of Great Britaine, and the Princesse of Orange. By the Bishop of Downe. June 3. 13. 1649.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1649 (1649)	Wing L1164; Thomason E569_10; ESTC R22162	31,059	32

preached unto them They among whom hee had wrought many miracles and unto whom he had done many good workes even they were such unthankfull traitors that they crucified the Lord of glory In the last place the Apostle tells us that their ignorance of the wisdome of god led them to the committing of that horrible murther for had they knowne it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory But here ye may say unto me did these malicious Iewes sinne onely out of ignorance as did Paul in persecuting the Church O no they sinned out of malice against knowledge and conscience for they knew that Iesus was a good and just man and had given him that testimonie that he had done all things well they knew that he was a great Prophet a teacher come from God they were in some sort too covinced that he was the Christ Mark 7.37 Ioh. 3.2 for Ioh. 11.47 they held a councell against him saying what shall we doe this man doth many miracles if we let him alone all men will believe on him namely that he is the Christ Where ye may behold them fighting against the light of their owne knowledge wherewith our Saviour expresly charges them Ioh. 7.28 Yee both know me and yee know whence I am and Ioh. 15.24 Now have they both seen and hated both me and my father This appeareth further by that which is said in the parable of the housholder Matth. 21.31 A certaine housholder planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen and went unto a farre countrey And when the time of the fruits came he sent his servants to receive them and the husbandmen took his servants beat them and killed them againe he sent other servants and they did unto them likewise Last of all he sent unto them his sonne saying they will reverence my son But when the husbandmen saw him they said this is the heire come let us kill him and cease on his inheritance And saith the Evangelist ver 45. when the chiefe Priests and the Pharisees heard this parable they perceived that he spake of them So that they had some knowledge of Christ but it was not the true knowledge they were not indued with heavenly wisdome nor taught of God for their heart did stand out against the light which did shine on their understanding and as Solomon saith They hated knowledge and did not choose the feare of the Lord. Prov. 1.29 Therefore saith our Saviour unto them yee neither know me nor my father Ioh. 8.19 So that even sinnes of malice committed against knowledge and conscience yet are accompanied with some kind of ignorance This is cleare in the crucifying of Christ for they knew that it was evill to kill him that was innocent and just but this knowledge was onely habituall and generall they did not actually know that it was evill at the instant when they did it or they did not consider it or though they knew that it was evill yet they did not know that that evill was not to be done for the obtaining of a greater good which they proposed to themselves namely the retaining of their places and dignities which they feared to lose if he were acknowledged for the Messias Thus it holds true that the Philosopher said omnis malus ignorans there is some ignorance in every sinne for seeing the will cannot possibly affect evill as it is evill but that the same is still presented unto it under the maske of good it followeth necessarily that every one that sinneth is some way ignorant of good and evil For which cause Solomon sayes nonne errant omnes Prov. 14.22 Psalm 14.4 Psalm 53.4 doe they not all erre that worke iniquitie And David oftner than once in the Psalmes saith have all the workers of iniquitie noe knowledge Indeed they have no true knowledge And therefore howsoever some have commended ignorances as the mother of devotion I may say more truly that is the mother of errour our Saviour said so much to the Saduces Matth. 22.29 Yee do erre not knowing the Scriptures It is the mother of Idolatrie Galat. 4.8 When ye knew not God yee did service unto them which by nature are no Gods It is the mother of pride and arrogance Rom. 10.3 Being ignorant of the righteousnesse of God they went about to establish their owne righteousnesse It is the mother of lust Thess 4.5 The Gentiles which know not God walke in the lust of concupiscence Finally it is the mother of all sinne Ephes 4.18 Having their understanding darkned through the ignorance that is in them and being past feeling they gave themselves over unto lasciviousnesse to worke all uncleannesse with greedinesse And on the other part all grace is from the true knowledge of God 2 Pet. 1.2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Iesus our Lord. As this knowledge brings grace and peace so it brings glory for saith our Saviour This is life eternall to know thee the only true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent Ioh. 17.3 This knowledge is the wisdome of God which the Apostle here magnifies so much Which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they knowne it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory I Have now done with my text but not with the Princes of this world for I am to present unto you another sad tragedy so like unto the former that it may seeme but vetus fabula per novos histriones the stage onely changed and new actors entred upon it other Princes of this world yea of the darknesse of this world Farre worse than then Pilat the high Priests Scribes and Pharisees who have lately murthered if not the Lord of glory yet I am sure a glorious Lord though not Christ the Lord yet the Lords Christ Gods annointed This is a parricide so heinous so horrible that it cannot be paralled by all the murthers that ever were committed since the world began but onely in the murther of Christ And indeed the providence of God gave me first occasion to institute this parallell for that day that our gracious Soveraigne was murthered being the 30. of January a day for ever to be noted with a black coale as his Majestie was at divine service before he was led forth unto the scaffold the chapter that was read unto him was the seven and twentieth of St. Matthews gospell which containes the passion of Christ and that chapter was read not by choise but by the direction of the rubrick it being the lesson appointed for that day so that we could not but conceive that the murther then to be acted was like unto that which in the chapter is described And indeed you will finde it very like unto it if you will but consider the three circumstances which I before observed in my text the dignity of the person murthered the kind of death that hee suffered and the qualitie of the murtherers