Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	believe_v	faith_n	ignorance_n	1,362	5	9.1101	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70857	Christos angasmos, or, Christ our sanctification faithfully explained, fully confirmed, and practically applied ... being the substance of several lectures or meditations / by Tho. Pichard ...	Pichard, Thomas.; Pritchard, Thomas, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3524; ESTC R10560	136,857	229

ground upon the flesh and by degrees advanceth to a Victory Now examine your hearts whether ye encrease or decrease whether ye go forward or backward whether your faith love zeal patience Rev. ● 4 heavenly-mindedness c. thrive or not If ye have left your first Love if ye have lost your care of Duty sense of sin and hungring and thirsting appetite after Christ and his Righteousness 't is a sad sign Remember therefore from whence ye are fallen and repent and do your first works be also watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to dye 'T is Christs Blessed Counsel Revel 2.5 Revel 3.2 4. False grace is not humble Formalists Mark 4 are commonly proud and self-conceited persons Notare verò operae pretium est nominem spiritu esse pauperem nisi qui in nihilum apud se redactus in Dei misericordiam recumbit Calv. in Matth. 5.3 with true Grace there goeth alwayes a spiritual poverty or a sense of spiritual wants the poor in spirit are first in order of the Beatitudes Matth. 5.3 The more knowledge the Saints have the more they discern their ignorance the more faith the more they bewail their unbelief Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief Mark 9.24 The more they love him the more they blame their hearts for loving him no more they call upon their souls to love him most intensively Grace grows most and thrives best in a low and humble soyl the lowest Valleys are far more fruitful than the highest Mountains 't is a good sign when the soul is kept hungry and humble in the sense of its wants amidst the height of its enjoyments What restraining Grace is 3. The next is Restraining Grace which is nothing else but an awe put by God upon the Conscience constraining a man to forbear sin though he doth not hate it You may discern it by these signs Sign 1 1. Love is of little use and force with such spirits They are under a spirit of bondage chained up by their own fears not moved by the great Gospel Motive Rom. i2 1 viz. Mercy 'T is our Duty to serve God with Reverence and filial fear but not with a servile and distrustful fear Heb. 12 2● a servile fear hath little of Grace in it much of Torment We ought to fear God much but to love him more Love is the very life and soul of all Gospel-obedience Sign 2 2. Restraining Grace doth not destroy sin but only prohibit the acts of it Abimelechs lust was not mortified when God with-held him from Sarah Gen. 20.6 't was only suspended not subdued the heart was not renewed though the action was curbed as Israel had an adulterous heart towards other Lovers Hos 2.6 when their way was hedged up with thorns But when the Spirit of holinesse in power comes 2 Cor. 3.17 he comes as a Spirit of Liberty He frees the soul from the servitude of base lusts and mortifies them and both strongly and sweetly turns and enclines the heart to hate every false way and to run the wayes of Gods Commandments with an enlarged heart Psal 119 3● 4. The fourth thing that looks like Sanctification and yet is not is common or temporary grace This is a distinct thing from all the rest 't is higher than all the former it differs from Civility because 't is more Christian and Evangelical it differs from Formality because that is in shew only but this is a real work on the soul 'T is better than restraining grace because that avoids sin and performs Duties out of slavish fear but this seemeth to have some affection for Christ his Word and Kingdom 't is good in it self but not the best not throughly sanctifying and saving this a man may have and yet fall away and depart from God so it was with the stony and thorny ground Matth. 13. This is the nearest to true Grace of all the former of this the Apostle speaks Heb. 6.4 5. which is called an enlightning a taste of Christ and of the powers of the world to come and a partaking of the Holy Ghost i. e. of the common gifts of the Spirit abilities for holy duties great parts c. from whence I shall briefly note these three things 1. That the Light here spoken of Quam perniciosum sit inflarē notitia sine charitate in sacris legitur Prov. 26.12 P.M. is not humbling 2. The taste is not ravishing 3. Their gifts are not renewing 1. Their light is not humbling Knowledge puffeth up love edifieth 1 Cor. 8.1 Foundations sink that are not laid deep enough you can never magnifie Christ enough nor abase self enough Christ is most magnified when self is most abased Isa 2.19 This Dagon must fall down before the Ark sound humiliation brings sure and solid Consolation we must not rashly close with Christ in the pride of our hearts as they did but be sure we have depth of earth broken and contrite spirits 2. Their tast was not ravishing nor encreasing they had but loose and slight desires after happiness Glances upon the Glory of Heaven and the comforts of the Gospel and no more just as Balaam Oh that I might die the death of the Righteous c. and like that spiritual carnal Notion as a learned man phraseth it Dr. Fuller Lord evermore give us of this bread John 6.34 They were not serious desires not holy breathings after Christ proceeding from a sound principle neither were they transforming nor encreasing the Saints that have a tast groan for a full communion of Graces as well as Comforts but in temporary Believers there is a loose assent some slight affection profession for a while rejoicing in the light for a season c. But all at last like Blazing Meteors vanish and come to nothing Vocat participationem Spiritus quia is est qui unicaique distribuit prout vult quicquid est lucis ac intelligentia Calv. Heb. 6.4 3. And lastly In Heb. 6.4 it is said they were made partakers of the Holy Ghost i. e. of some gifts of the Holy Ghost yea perhaps those eminent Gifts which in the Primitive times God imparted to his Disciples 1 Cor. 12.4 There are diversities of Gifts but the same spirit Var iis do nis spiritus sancti Deus ornabat fideles in primitiva Ecclesi● ut loquerentur linguis ut prophetarent Cujusmodi enumerat Apostolus 1 Cor. 12. 14. Pareus in loc Now these gifts of the Holy Ghost that hypocrites partake of are not renewing throughly sanctifying they may have good abilites for the edification and comfort of others but in the mean time being unsanctified they themselves may become Cast-awayes 1 Cor. ● 27. Though a man could speak with the tongue of men and Angels yet having not charity true love to God he were but as sounding Brass and as a tinkling Cymbal 1 Cor. 13.1 A man may pray sweetly preach excellently