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
A91675	Adam unvailed, and seen with open face or, Israel's right way from Egypt to Canaan, lately discovered. Wherein his estate is laid down, opened and compared with ours, under severall dispensations; in opposition to what ever hath been formerly declared by most men: in which many excellent truths appear, to the great comfort and consolation of all those that are made capable of it. By William Rabisha.	Rabisha, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing R111; Thomason E1376_3; ESTC R209250	51,390	114

commeth whosoever feedeth on it it bringeth him into the same condition as the fruit brought Adam into and this may be a sufficient ground or reason to prove that the tree of knowledge of good and evill and the Law to be one and the same The sixt degree of Adams rising is thus as it followeth unto Adam also to his Wife did the Lord God make Coats of skins As in the five former degrees of Adams rising I have endeavoured to shew the substance or end of things so I shall in this sixth degree First What this cloathing is in the substance and Secondly compare us with Adam in shewing how and when we are cloathed with this cloathing First this cloathing with skins in the substance is the righteousnesse of Faith and Love this was the cloathing that Iohn was cloathed in for the t●xt saith His cloathing was of Camels haire and a Girdle of a skin this righteousnesse of God by saith is figured out by a skin in as much as it is a shield to cover the creature and keep it warme and secure the life and inwards of a creature and also bind up the flesh bones and sinews and is the very strength thereof the same is the righteousnes of faith and love to the inward man therefore Christ is said to bind up the broken and cloath the naked the Apostle cals it the Armour of God therefore saith he having your loynes girt about with truth and having on the breast-plate of Righteousnesse Ephes 6. 13 14. The same Apostle cals it the breast-plate of Faith and Love Thes 58. but Peter speaking plainer to this thing 1 Pet. 1. 13. saith he Therefore gird up the loynes of your minds and be sober and hope to the end so this cloathing is the righteousnes of faith love and truth which girds and binds up the loynes of the inward man in faith and love unto God this being true that this cloathing in the substance is the righteousnesse of faith and love we shall in the next place take notice when and how this clothing is put on God suffers man to run on in the first dispensation working and getting his bread with the sweat of his face and clothing himself with fig-leaves to cover his nakednesse and in this his workking God takes advantage and as it were meets man halfe way and uncloathes him of that cloathing of leaves and cloaths him with another cloathing This was figured out in that of Adam and also in that of Mount Sinai with that of Iohn for Iohn differed from the dispensation of Mount Sinai both in his meat and cloathing which are both to be understood in a spirituall sence his meat was Locust and wild Hony that is he fed on Christ through dark shadows he fed on him as he was in the flesh as John 14. 23. Luke 24. 25 26. Christs Disciples did and were reproved by him for it or as the Apostle Paul did although afterwards he saw his error when he saith although I have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth desire I to know him so no more 2 Cor. 5. 16. And thus Iohn fed upon Christ through shadows and in this respect his meat is said to bee Wilde Honey for the pure Word of God which is Christ is compared to the Hony and Hony Combe but Iohn fed not on this hony alone but upon Locusts which is the traditions and inventions and errours of men which devoure and eat like a Canker as you may see Exod. 11. 12. Rev. 9. 3 7. Thus Iohn saw something darkly of Christ and something of error Iohn must decrease Christ must encr●ase Ioh. 3. 30. therfore Iohns Disciples and Christ could not agree much lesse Moses Disciples and Christs after the comming of the Comforter Iohn is the greatest of all the Prophets but the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater then Iohn yet this dispensation of Iohn was of God in opposition to that of Mount Sinai which may be said to be of man It was the second dispensation and answers that second of Adams cloathing with skins which was of God in opposition to Adams first cloathing which was of himself it is also a figure of that righteousnesse of faith and love and as I told you before according to the figure God suffers men to run on in the first dispensation after the powerfull comming of the Law to the creature and gives him the knowledg of sinne which is his nakednesse then the creature runs on furiously and endeavours to cover himself with a Garment of his own making and in this his toyling under a heavy yoak of bondage and labouring therein to become like God then God as it were condescends and meets him and uncloaths him of that menstruous cloathing which could not well keep him warme and cloaths him with the righteousnesse of Faith and binds up the loynes of his mind unto God with this spirituall Girdle and as in the shadow there was two cloathings to bring them up to God the first is of mans owne which bringeth him on his way the second of Gods which brings him to the end of his Journy man must be cloathed with these two cloathings before he come to God and that you may see as followeth the Apostle saith For what the Law could not do in that it was weake through the flesh God sending his own Sonne in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh here you may see these two dispensations or cloathings First the Law or figleaves and this did endeavour but it could not doe that which it was put upon to doe but the Second God sent his own Sonne in the likenesse of sinfull flesh and this is Gods own dispensation or second cloathing which condemned sin in the flesh this in the cloathing of God which hides and covers sin therefore David saith Blessed is the man whose sins are covered this is repeated Rom. 4. 7. The first cloathing could not cover our sins neither from God nor from us Isaiah speaketh in reference to this cloathing thus but we are all as unclean things and all out righteousnesse is as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the winde have taken us away Isa 64. 6. This first cloathing is the same that Joshua was cloathed with which the Angel was commanded to take away from him that filthy garment and also he was cloathed with change of rayment which was the second dispensation which is the righteousness of faith and love which is called fine linnen Revel 6. 11. The Apostle had experience of these two cloathings and he being uncloathed by God of the first cloathing which he did so much approve of he now abhors it and counted it as drosse and dung in respect of the second as you may see Phil. 3. 7 8 9. in these words But what things were gain to me those I counted losse for Christ yea doubtesse I account all things but losse for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the losse of all things and I account them but dung that I may win Christ