Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	add_v	grace_n	temperance_n	1,529	5	11.6033	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86560	A caveat to all true Christians against the spreadings of the spirit of Antichrist, and his subtile endeavours to draw men from Jesus Christ / propounded to them by J. Horn, one of the unworthiest of Christs servants in his gospel, a preacher thereof in South Lin, Norfolk ; together with some brief directions for their orderly walkings.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2796; ESTC R42677	162,184	341

them and bought them and that he willingly condescended to out of his love to them but now these crucifie him again to themselves and put him to more grief as it were by their wicked and wilful departings from him and so in the most hainous sort ill requite and deny him Nay they are said to trample him under foot and count the pretious bloud of the Covenant by which they Were sanctified a common thing and to do despite to the Spirit of Grace Heb. 10.2.9 That bloud that was the bloud of God pretious bloud not to be reckoned amongst corruptible things as silver and gold Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 1.18,19 that they account as prophane or common ordinary blood nothing better then the bloud and sufferings of an ordinary man and whatever the Spirit speaks therethrough they despightfully and reproachfully blaspheam so great is their sin and he tells us their punishment is like to equalize it for they in so sinning put themselves besides the benefit of Christs sacrifice there remains no longer any sacrifice for them that can make in their behalf any expiation Heb. 10.26 thy have neither Father nor Son to be their protection or to afford any safety to them 2 Joh 9. Whatever they may dream of taking Satan for their glorious God and King and his delusions for ligh● and consolation and however they may boa●… of God yet God they have not he is no way ingaged by any Covenant or Promise now t● them they having trod Christ under foot an● wickedly departed from his bloud and from hi● Doctrine they bring upon themselves swift distraction 2 Pet. 2.1 and the very blackness of darkness is reserved for them for ever Jude 12. though now they talk of greater light and Satan make them as Wandring Comets Jude 13. having 〈◊〉 fixed abiding station in the Son of God nor filled with the divine beams of his Light yet they must go out in darkness yea into the blackness of it the most horrid darkness the worst and depth of misery must be their portion this is the end and will be the issue of their delusion thither tend the steps of this whorish woman or spirit of error her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead Pro. 2.20 Yea the dead are there and her guests are in the depth of hell Pre. 9.18 I will not here run into any curious search o● discourse about hell what it is it is sufficient to know that it is and will be a state of unspeakable horror torment misery and confusion in which men shall partake with the wicked one and his Angels in the weight heaviness and everlastingness of their destruction in the depth of which the Spirit of God ●ells us are the guests of the foolish woman the spirit of Error opposed to the Spirit of Truth called Wisdom I will not say nor do I think that all have been ●…ibling at these baits of Satan and parlying with him in these temptations nor that all that have through weakness been overtaken and catched in some degree of them are irrecoverably gone into this condition no some such may be pulled either by compassion or by fear and dread as brands out of the sire Jude 22,23 and God may be merciful unto them because they did it in weakness and through violence of temptation but all that willingly yield up themselves hereunto and persist therein till they be one with Satan and his Instruments are like to partake with them in the blackness of their portion and to have their latter end Worse then their beginning 2 Pet. 2.20,21 Sect. 8. Who are in danger to be snared herewith and by What steps THere are divers sorts of people in more speciall danger to be snared with these deceits and they that are snared are carried to the heigth of it by divers steps worthy our noting It s good indeed for every one to be cautelous and not secure yet there are some in greater danger then others and that are more usually taken in it In general all such as have not th● Word of God abiding in them or so rooted and deeply entred with understanding int● them as to dwell in and keep them through temptations as is noted Matth 13.19 such 〈◊〉 the Word had not root in fall away in a time 〈◊〉 temptation for indeed it s the power of Go● that keeps men and that keeps us by Faith a●… Faith is not but of the Word of God so th●… letting go the VVord is the departing fr●… Faith and the departing from that is the bei●… loosed from that saving Power of the Spirit 〈◊〉 God Now all they in whose hearts the VVor● hath but a little superficial place their hearts being stony so as they give not through and inti●… credit to it are soon loosed from it and so 〈◊〉 great danger of falling and this Peter implie● 2 Pet. 3.16 when he saith They that are unlearned and unstable unlearned he means not 〈◊〉 Arts Sciences and Languages which suffice no● to this business but that are but smatterers d●… of hearing not of understanding in the Mysteri●… of God or in the Word of his Truth and who●… hearts are unstable and unsetled not through● perswaded but halting between two opinion● easily blown away and removed these w●… the Scriptures to their own destruction and fi● away into the error of the wicked and so in●… perdition More particularly 1. Such as are slothful in the VVord of Go● that cry not for wisdom that give not diligent ● eed to understanding that follow not after God with earnestness but neglect that great ●alvation set before them and of which they have ●ad some views and nigh drawings to them such ●s take not up well pleasedness in Jesus Christ ●hat way of Gods appointing nor have pleasure 〈◊〉 the Truth Knowledge is not sweet unto ●hem and so not heartily cleaved to by them ●or fruitful in them they receive the Grace of God in vain in that regard rest in the form ●nd in some illuminations and tasts but give not ●iligence to atrain the power of it they add ●ot in their Faith Vertue force or efficacy and 〈◊〉 that Knowledge or a further growing up into ●he Knowledge of Christ and his Truth and to ●hat Temperance and sobriety c. but abiding ●arren and unfruitful in that Knowledge and ●rofession of Christ that they have in a time of ●emptation they fall off and wither are lopt off from the Vine and men gather them into their ●ocieties and perverse wayes and doctrines strong delusions take with them that they might be damned that had pleasure in unrighteousness and not in the Truth the righteous Truth of God that they might be saved 2. Such as believe not upon the VVord and its faithfulness but upon their sensible feelings and visits whose faith is built upon sense more then upon the Authority and Power of Gods Word thus the Israelites of old who had ma●… sensible experiences of Gods