Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	count_v	loss_n	win_v	1,429	5	9.4826	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89844	The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the north, or The day of the Lord dawning: wherein the true light is holden forth to all who desire to walk in the day. With a warning to the people of England of all sorts, not to oppose Christ in his kingdom. Shewing also the way how all flesh comes to know the Lord and fear him, by his terrible shaking the earthly part in man, witnessed by the holy men of God in Scripture. With a word to the serpents seed, or ministers of Antichrist, or man of sin, wherever he is found. By one whom the Lord hath called out of this dark world, into the true light, whom Ismaels brood calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing N302; Thomason E711_2; ESTC R207117	21,947	29

by the same Spirit into the world as these are at this day Is this a Christian Law as you pretend it to be that thus withstands Christ in his Kingdom and were you spiritual as you pretend would not these carnal Laws that oppose the Spirit and practise of the Acts 17. 2 3. Saints be laid aside by you and now try whether that Spirit act in you which led the Apostles and Saints into the Temple and Synagogues daily there to dispute against all Idolatrous worships and to hold out to the people the true substance and thereby gathered the Church into God in the Spirit there to meet and worship or that Spirit that was in them who persecuted Acts 16. 19 20 21. the Saints for so doing and commanded them silence and charged them with breaking their Law and turning the world upside down and counted them mad men And if any be moved to speak a word of truth while your Parish Teachers are talking or before their glass be run you that execute a carnal Law upon the bodies of such are you subject to the Kingdom of Christ which is in the Spirits of his own whereby he rules the conscience and brings them to obey him in his commands Or will not you be found in the day of tryal to be fighters against him under the name of professing him 1 Cor. 14. 30. And do these whom you persecute any thing but what was the Saints practise And how are you not ashamed to profess that Scripture to be your Rule which saith If any thing be revealed to another that sits by let the first hold his peace and this the Apostle sets down as order and the Saints liberty but what Spirit acts you who would restrain it and call it disorder and hale them before Rulers or to prison for so doing And you that say If such have their own liberty it is reason they should be silent and not cry out against others know that the Law of Christ is not grounded on the will and reason of men And is your reason here any thing but carnal for doth pure reason give any way that deceit should go under the name of truth unreproved and is there any reason to limit the Spirit of Christ that it shall not discover the man of sin wherever he is who must be destroyed and revealed by the brightness of his coming in his Saints and by the sword of his mouth and is there any reason that the powers of the earth should make Laws for the Spirit of Christ in the Saints to act by though in all Ages they would be medling with it to their own hurt And if all should be subject to your Law which you say is reason how should truth be spred abroad and deceit be brought to blush seeing deceit hath always and doth still wind into the earthly powers for safety but truth seeks no corners not shelters from earthly powers for all that ever was sent out by Christ to preach the Gospel was called by him alone without the consent of earthly powers neither stood they to the judgment or Tryal of any men or powers as from them to receive order whether to preach or forbear but by his authority alone by whom they were sent to whom alone they were to give accompt of their Ministry with joy or sorrow and in this work they denyed all the Learning and Wisdom of the World Christ was not learned and the Apostles was not learned and Paul when he tells of his bringing Acts 4. 13. up in learning counts it amongst other carnal things loss dross and dung which before he had counted gain that Phil. 3. 7 8. in the loss of them he might win Christ And saith that the knowledge of the Gospel he had it not of man nor by man nor was he taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ but what Rule walk you by who must have them to such a Gal. 1. 11 12 pitch of Learning and so many years at Oxford or Cambridge and then to study so long in Books and old Authors and all this is to know what unlearned men Fisher-men Plow-men Herds-men did mean when they spoke forth the Scriptures who were counted fools and madmen by the learned generation when they spoke it forth And they who speak it by the same Spirit are so still by the same Serpents wisdom And when you have brought them to this height of Learning yet the Scripture is a book sealed to all their wisdom and learning Rev. 5. 3. and they from whom you expect the opening of this mysterie are at a jar amongst themselves what should be the meaning of it and have been in all Ages disputing quarrelling imprisoning killing and burning one another and would do so now had they power for this learned generation have been the stirrers up of all strife and bloodshed setting Kingdoms Nations and People one against another and all about standing to uphold their Meanings Forms and Imaginations and vain conceptions from the Letter but are all ignorant of that Spirit which gave it forth for they who have the substance contend not about words and meanings and that Spirit is the substance which gave it forth and opens it again as it ariseth in its measure and they who have that Spirit are Ministers of the Spirit and they minister to the raising up of the Spirit in others and not to the Serpents wisdom for they know that wisdom which stands in the will of man must not enter for the mysterie is hid from it and such cannot persecute the bodies of men because they know not so much as they neither do they seek to destroy the Creature but they strike at the accursed Spirit which keeps the Creature in blindness and bondage and so redeems the Creature and reconciles him to God in the Spirit and this is the Ministry of reconciliation guided by the Spirit and by this was the Scripture written forth for holy men of God spoke forth the Scriptures 2 Pet. 1 12 as they were moved by the Holy Ghost without carnal learning and holy men by the same Spirit read and understand them again not by carnal learning and natural tongues for the Spirit is the Original which first reveals the mysterie to 1 Cor. 2. 14. the Spirit within man and then declares it forth in words or Eph. 3. 3 5. writing to the understanding of others to the directing their minds to wait upon God for the same free-gift of the Spirit here is the true worship in Spirit found and performed which stands in the teaching of the Spirit and not in the Letter unknown to the world but owned of God but all you who seek to find out the invisible things of God or the way of his worship Mat 11. 25. by your learning and wisdom in the letter you seek that which is hid from your wisdoms you take the Saints conditions to