Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	commit_v	sin_n	sin_v	2,906	5	9.7075	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68733	A fountain sealed: or, The duty of the sealed to the Spirit, and the worke of the Spirit in sealing Wherein many things are handled about the Holy Spirit, and grieving of it: as also of assurance and sealing what it is, the priviledges and degrees of it, with the signes to discerne, and meanes to preserve it. Being the substance of divers sermons preached at Grayes Inne. By that reverend divine, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honourable society.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1637 (1637)	STC 22495; ESTC S117375	62,609	291

affections wee have tasted of the good things of God that the promises are sweet and the Gospell is good When we have given such way to the Spirit then to use him unkindly this grieves the Spirit Where the holy ghost hath not only set up a light but given a tast of heavenly things and yet we upon false allurements will grow to a distast it cannot but grieve the Spirit And this makes the sinne against the holy Ghost so desperat because there hath beene a strong conviction and illumination Therfore of all sinnes the sinnes of Professors of Religion grieve the Spirit most and of all Professors those that have most means of knowledge because their obligations are dee-per and their ingagements greater The deeper the affection hath entred the greater the griefe must needs be in unloosing The offence of friends grieves more than the injuries of enemies And therefore the sinnes that offend God most are committed within the Church where is the greatest sinne of all the sin against the holy Ghost committed but within the Church and where there is the greatest light and the greatest meanes Sinnes against knowledg grieve most especially if there be a malicious opposing for there can be nothing to excuse it The malice of the will maketh the sinne of the deeper die and it is contrarie to the spirit as it is a Spirit of goodnes hence is it that presūptuous sins so much grieve the spirit for by such sins we abuse the sweetest Attribute of Gods Spirit his Goodnesse and be therefore evill because he is good and turne his grace into wantonnesse the sin of this age Sins against knowledge are either such as are 1. Directly against knowledge as when we will not understand what we should doe because wee will not doe what we understand such put out the candle that they may sinne with the more freedome This kind of ignorance doth not free from sinne but increaseth it some men will not heare the Word nor reade good Bookes lest their consciences should bee awaked this affected ignorance increaseth the voluntarinesse Againe when we maintaine untruths for any advantage knowing them to be untruths as many learned Papists cannot but doe What a great indignity is it to the Spirit of GOD to sell the truth which we should buy yea with the losse of our lives and to prefer the pleasing of a base man or some gaine to our selves before a glorious beame of GOD Other sinnes if wee know them to be sinnes are sins against knowledge not so directly but collaterally yet this will bee the chiefe aggravation when our consciences are once awaked not so much that we have sinned as that we have sinned against the light when the will hath nothing to plead for it selfe but it selfe it would because it would though it knew the contrary Involuntarinesse takes away something of the hainousnesse of sinne when there is ignorance perturbation or passion there is lesse sinne and lesse grieving of the Spirit but when there are none of these but a man will sinne because he will accounting it a kinde of soveraignty to have his will this will prove the most miserable condition for not to have the will regulated by him that is the chiefest good is the greatest perversenesse and will end in desperation Qu. Why are voluntary sinnes so great and so much grieve the Spirit of God Answ When there is passion there is some colour for sinne as profit pleasure feare to displease c. When there is ignorance there is a want of that that might helpe the understanding but when there are none of these and a man willingly sinnes he is more directly carried against the command and will of God there is nothing puts him on yet hee accounts it so small a matter that hee will do it without any provocation out of a slight esteeme of the good pleasure and will of God As common ●wearers can they plead ignorance they know the Commandement God will not hold them guiltlesse that take his name in vaine can they plead perturbation They doe it oft in a bravery when they are not urged there is no ingagement in that sin of profit or pleasure but a voluntary superfluity of pride They would have you to know that they are men that care not for God himselfe let God and his Ministers take it as they will though I have no pleasure or profit by it yet I will have my liberty The heart that hath been thus wicked will hardly admit of comfort when it stands in need of it We are not said to be ill because we know ill but because we will and consent to ill it is the will that makes up the bargain sin were not sinne else God hath given us the custody of our owne soules and as long as wee keepe the keyes faithfully and betray not our soules to Sathan so long we possesse our owne soules and our comfort but when hee fuggests doe this or speake this and wee consent hee takes full and free possession of us as much as in us lies and God in judgement saith Amen to it God saith take him Sathan since hee will not have my Spirit to rule him it is fit he should have a worse The more willingnesse the more sinfulnesse and the lesse defence and Gods justice cannot better be satisfied than by punishing them most against their wils who sinned most with their will The clearer the light is and the more advantages it hath the more we sinne In this respect it is that sinnes against the second Table grieve more then sinnes against the first because here the conscience is more awaked These be sins against a multiplied light against the light of nature light of the Word and Spirit and such sinnes are contrary to humane society they dissolve those bonds that nature even by the common reliques it hath left studies to maintaine Though corrupt nature hath no good in it for we deserved to be like divels yet God intending to have civill society out of which he usually gathers his Church preserveth in mans nature an hatred of sinnes that overthrow society such sins therefore being committed against more light wound more as in case of murther notorious perjury theft c. Therefore God oft gives up men upon breach of the first Table to breaches of the second that so they may come to more griefe and shame as being the breakers of both Tables Men never fall into the breach of the second Table but upon breach of the first No man despiseth mans Law but he despiseth Gods law first No man breakes the law of nature but he despiseth the God of nature Prophane Atheisticall persons that glory in the breach of the third Commandement by swearing GOD meets with them by giving them over to grosse abhominable sinnes of the second Table which vexeth them more though they should not than sins against the first Table exposing them besides inward