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
A89617	Mary Magdalen's tears wip't off. Or The voice of peace to an unquiet conscience. Written by way of letter to a person of quality. And published for the comfort of all those, who mourn in Zion.	Martin, T., 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing M850; Thomason E1913_2; ESTC R202880	54,570	127

man would perform his resolutions in case God did permit him so much time yet should no man upon this Consideration deferre his Repentance but rather most studiously imbrace the present time offered not only for that this is to be interpreted an affront of the Divine Majesty by turning the Grace of God into wantonness but for that no man is assured that ever he shall have any such late and pretious minute vouchsafed unto h m or if it be can possibly have any assurance that he will be true to his word with God in his Vows and Resolutions God alone with whom all future things are present being able to foreknow the soundness and steadiness of such shipwrackt ingagers And as these dependencies are seldom so successful at least not so often as many men imagine and in Charity we may very farre hope so would I have them to be esteemed as such which can have no right Aspect upon nor incouragement from the usual regular Proceedings of the Divine Majesty but are rather to be layd on the unpromised excesses and superabundancies of an infinite goodness extending it self to a sinner Repenting him of his sins beyond the full and free limits of the first gracious Concession of Pardon from a Relyance on which as I would not deterre any the most grievous offender whose neglects and former Supinity had cast him on this little Plank in a Sea of Perplexities so do I almost assure my self that such a Christian who dares continue in sin upon the confidence of this superabundance of grace shall never be partaker thereof this being a Pearl of too incomparable a value to be cast before that Swine who hath so contemptuously trampled it under his feet Yet if you mark it your Case is far different from the state of such a man who hath neglected say despised the offers of mercy till the last minute of his life wherein he rather snatches after then imbraces pardon being more sensible of his own danger then the love of God for blessed be God you have not received any Summons to a speedy account of your stewardship by a decrepid old age or a violent disease or other contingency but have made it your blessed choice to double your Pace in the wayes of Holiness having yet as far as we are able to guess the Postmeridian part of your Day before you time enough by the good blessing of God to finish your Task which is set you ere the night come wherein no man can work Jo. 9.4 As for your Despightfully using the Spirit of Grace Heb. 10.29 as you phrase it after St. Paul an expression more suitable to a state of Apostacy than Vnregeneracy as you would have me suppose yours to be as in your former course of life you set if I may believe your self too little an esteem upon the wayes of God the manner of unregentrate men so have you now too bitter a censure upon your own the sins of our unregenerate life being after conversion by all Divines I presume accounted araungable under the style of Infirmities and therefore of what sort soever yet pardonable upon Repentance OBJECTION I grant say you that it may be with some Christians as with St. Paul he was a most violent Persecutor of the Church but then it was in a state of Ignorance and Unbelief and therefore he sayes God had mercy upon him because he did it through Ignorance and in Infidelity From whence 't is easy to in infer that had St. Paul maliciously and knowingly acted those outrages against the Church of Christ he had undoubtedly been excluded from all hopes of Pardon What think you then will become of me Who knew the will of my Master and did it not SOLUTION 8. THat Saint Paul did Ignorantly persecute the Church of Christ is unquestionable and that if Saint Paul had done the same Knowingly and Maliciously he had not had any grounds to expect Pardon may probably enough be true but I do not take it to be out of all Question but the Inference from hence against your self is Illogical and will by no means follow upon those Premises For thus your Argument stands Saint Paul had mercy from God for persecuting the Church of Christ Ignorantly therefore whoever committeth any sin against Conscience and Knowledge shall not have mercy and such sins I am guilty of I shall not stand to shew you the falsity of this way of reasoning but only discover unto you how erroneous your Principles are and that so evidently as I need not torture you into a confession thereof Do you profess to believe that there is an equality in all kinds of Sin that Adultery is not a greater sin than Swearing Murder or Idolatry than Sabboth breach Rebellion than Theft I am assured you are not involved in this gross error But then do you believe that that circumstance of doing it Knowingly can render the same sin unpardonable which if done Ignorantly will upon Repentance undoubtedly be forgiven Who then can be saved What were the sins of David and of Saint Peter were they not sins against Knowledge yet Repentance restor'd both of them to their former station in Gods favour you cannot suppose that those persons with whom our Saviour converst were all of them Sinners only out of Ignorance Mary Magdalen was never held to be Ignorant much less to be Inculpably so that her course of Life was not agreeable to the Law of God yet so dear was she to our Saviour upon her hearty Repentance That after his Resurrection he appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom be had cast seven Devils Mar. 16.9 OBJECTION IV. But under the Law the Soul that did ought presumptuously was to be cut off from Israel SOLUTION 9. WE are not under the Law but under Grace and Saint Paul tells us plainly that a main branch of that Priviledge is That by Him i. e. Christ all that believe are justified from all things from which Ye i. e. the Jews could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 13.39 from whence 't is clear that Remission of sins is given to all Sinners who repent and believe the Gospel Besides every sin that a man commits against Knowledge is not a sin of Presumption or a sin committed with an high Hand Presumption is not an error of or in the Understanding but in the Will at least is much more fixt in the Will than in the intellectual faculty and therefore to sin against Knowledge and to sin Presumptuously are not convertible and the same thing Presumption being not only the highest degree of Wilfullness and very properly plac'd under the v ce of Audacity but it reflects more upon the person of the Law-maker than on the Law it self and the contempt of persons in Authority is ever more grievously punished than the breach of such Laws and constitutions as are made by them OBJECTION V. 〈◊〉 to relapse into sin after not only Resoluttions but Vows against it