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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	knowledge_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,885	5	9.7377	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11458	Two sermons preached at Paules-Crosse London The one November 21. the other Aprill 15. 1627. By Robert Saunderson, Bachelour in Divinitie, and sometimes Fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford.	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1628 (1628)	STC 21709; ESTC S112209	107,028	135

last to forgiue me all my Ignorances will serue the turne I may runne the same course I doe without danger or feare God will bee mercifull to mee for what I doe Ignorantly Not to preclude all possibility of mercy from thee or from any sinner Consider yet there is a great difference betweene their state and thine betweene thine ignorance and theirs They had but a very small enioyance of the light of Gods word a Math. 5.15 hid from them vnder two bushels for surenesse vnder the bushell of a tyrannous Clergy that if any man should be able to vnderstand the bookes hee might not haue them and vnder the bushell of an vnknowne Tongue that if any man should chance to get the bookes he might not vnderstand them Whereas to thee the light is holden forth and set on a candlesticke the bookes open the language plaine legible and familiar They had eyes but saw not because the light was kept from them and the land was darke about them as the b Exod. 10.21.23 darkenesse of Egypt But thou liuest as in a Goshen where the light encompasseth thee in on all sides where there are c Ioh. 5.35 burning and shining lamps in euery corner of the land Yet is thy blindnesse greater for who so blind as he that will not see and more inexcusable because thou d Math. 13.15 shuttest thine eyes against the light least thou shouldest see and be conuerted and God should heale thee Breefly they wanted the light thou shunnest it they liued in darknesse thou delightest in it their ignorance was simple thine affected and wilfull And therefore although wee doubt not but that the times of their ignorance God e Act. 17.30 winked at yet thou hast no warrant to presume that God will also in these times winke at thee who f Luk. 7.30 rejectest the counsell of God against thine owne soule and for want of g 2. Thes. 2.10.11 loue and affection to the truth art justly giuen ouer to strong delusions to belieue fables and to put thy confidence in things that are lyes So much for that matter Secondly here is a needfull admonition for vs all not to flatter our selues for our ignorance of those things §. 20. The second Inference Not to flatter our selues in our ignorance that concerne vs in our generall or particular Callings as if for that ignorance our reckoning should be easier at the day gf Iudgement Ignorance indeed excuseth sometimes sometimes lesseneth a fault but yet not all ignorance all faults not wilfull and affected ignorance any fault Nay it is so farre from doing that that on the contrary it maketh the offence a Ignorantia directe per so voluntaria auget voluntar●ū per consequen● peccatum Aquin. 1.2 qu. 76 4. much more grieuous and the offender much more inexcusable A heedlesse seruant that b Luk. 12.48 neither knoweth nor doth his Masters will deserueth some stripes A stubborne seruant that knoweth it and yet tra●gresseth it deserueth more stripes But worse then them both is that vngracious seruant who fearing his Master will appoint him something hee had rather let alone keepeth himselfe out of the way before hand and ●ieheth in a co●ner out of sight of purpose that he may not know his Masters will that so he may after stand vpon it when he is chidden and say Hee knew it not such an vntoward seruant deserueth yet more stripes Would the spirit of God thinke you in the Scripture so often call vpon vs to c Prou. 2.3.4.7 23.23 get the knowledge of Gods will and to increase therein or would he commence his d Hos. 4.1 suite against a land and enter his action against the people thereof for want of such knowledge if ignorance were better or safer Oh it is a fearefull thing for a man to e See Prou. 1.24 c. shunne instruction and to say he desireth net the knowledge of God f Psal. 36.3 Noluerunt i●telligere vt bene agerent When men are once come to that passe that they will not vnderstand nor seeke after God when they g Ioh. 3.20 hate the light because they take pleasure in the h Eph. 5 11. workes of darkenes when they are i Impia mens odit et am ipsum intellectum homo aliq●a● so nimium mente peruersa timet intelligere ne cogetur quod intellexerit facere Augustin de verb. Apost serm 13. afraide to know too much least their hearts should condemne them for not doing thereafter when like the k Psal. 58.4.5 deafe adder they stoppe their eares against the voyce of the charmer for feare they should be charmed by the power of that voice out of their crooked and serp●ntine courses when they are so l Ex intentione voluntatis ad peccantū prouenit quod aliquis vult subire agno vantia d●mnum propter libertatem peccandi Aquin 1.2.76.4 resolued to take freedome to sinne that they chuse to be still ignorant rather then hazard the forgoing of any part of that freedome what doe they but euen runne on blindfold into Hell and through inner poast along vnto m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Math. 25.30 vtter darkenesse where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth n Bernard de 12. grad numil Frustrà sibi de ignorantia blandiuntur saith Saint Bernard Qui vt liberius peccent libenter ignorant Saint Paul so speaketh of such men as if their case were desperate o 2. Cor. 14.38 If any man be ignorant let him be ignorant as who say if he will needes be wilfull at his perill be it But as many as desire to walke in the feare of God with vpright and sincere hearts let them thirst after the knowledge of God and his will as the p Psal. ●1 2 Hart after the riuers of waters let them q Prou. 2.3.4 cry after knowledge and lift vp their voyces for vnderstanding let them seeke it as siluer and dig for it as for hid treasures let their feete tread often in Gods courts and euen weare the thresholds of his house let them delight in his holy ordinances and reioyce in the light of his word depending vpon the ministery thereof with vnsatisfied eares and vnwearied attention and feeding thereon with vncloyed appetites that so they may see and heare and learne and vnderstand and belieue and obey and increase in wisedome and in grace and in fauour with God and all good men But then in the third place consider §. 21. Inference 3. against sins done with knowledge that if all ignorance will not excuse an offender though some doe how canst thou hope to finde any colour of excuse or extenuation that sinnest wilfully with knowledge and against the light of thine owne Conscience The least sinne thus committed is in some degree a Presumptuous sinne and carryeth with it a contempt of God and in that regard is a Quo