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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	create_v	put_v	renew_v	1,358	5	9.7397	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62877	True old light exalted above pretended new light, or, Treatise of Jesus Christ as He is the light which enlightens every one that comes into the world : against the sense both of the Quakers, Arminians, and other assertors of universal grace, whose light is proved to be darkness / delivered in nine sermons, by John Tombes, B.D., and commended to publick view by Mr. Richard Baxter.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1824; ESTC R21431	110,239	95

darknesse and that they knew not the true light nor received him Whence we thus argue They had not a light within them sufficient to be a safe rule and guide to direct and warrant them in their way for pleasing God who were darknesse when the true light shined who knew him not nor received him for sure they that are such must be destitute of that light which might safely guide them who were so dark and ignorant as not to know the true light which enlightens every man But so it was with many even of the Jews themselves when Christ was in the world Therefore they had not sufficient light in them and consequently none much less every man hath a sufficient light to guide him safely in his way to God without the Scripture and the Spirit of God over and above the common light of reason and understanding which every man by nature and study attains to without them 4. Arg. From those Texts of Scripture which do expresly tell us that afore the preaching of Christ and his Apostles the people to whom they were sent were darkness sate in darkness and in the shadow of death Such are Ephes. 5. 8. Ye were once darkness Mat. 4. 16. The people that sate in darkness have seen a great light and to them that sate in the region and shadow of death hath the light sprung up Whence I argue They had not a sufficient light within them to be a safe and compleat rule and guide to direct them in their way to please God and to warrant their actions if they followed it who were darkness and who sate in darkness and in the region and shadow of death unless we will imagine that darkness is light and as the Quakers do put darkness for light and light for darkness to whom the Prophet denounceth wo Isa. 5. 20. But some there were afore Christs and his Apostles preaching to them who were darkness who sate in darkness and in the region and shadow of death Therefore every man had not a sufficient light within him to be a safe and compleat rule and guide to direct him in his way to please God and to warrant his actions if he followed it And if not then neither have we now 5. Arg. From Luk. 16. 8. where our Saviour saith The children of this world are wiser in their generation then the children of light The opposition of children of light to the children of this world shews that the children of this world are not children of light and if they were the same the speech of Christ would be foolish in preferring one sort before the other as wiser in their generation Hence therefore I thus argue If every man had a light within him sufficient to be his rule and guide of it self to direct him how to please God then every man should be a childe of light for to be a childe is all one as to be a person that hath light in him to guide him so as to please God But every man is not a childe of light Therefore every man ha●h not a light safe and sufficient within him to guide him in his way to God and to be the compleat rule of his actions Godward 6. Arg. Is from Act. 26. 18. where Paul saith Christ sent him to the Gentiles to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light 1 Pet. 2. 9. Ye are a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light Eph. 5. 14. Wherefore he saith Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light From whence I argue They who are to be turned from darkness to light called by God out of darkness into his marvellous light who are to awake and stand up from the dead that Christ may give them light had not a light within as a sufficient safe guide to direct them in their way to God unless we suppose darkness to be light men among the dead fit to guide themselves But so it is said of both Jews and Gentiles in those Scriptures Therefore sure they had not such a light within them as Quakers say is in all If they had such a light they should have been directed to follow it not turned from it the Apostles should have called them as the Quakers do to follow the light in them and not have called them out of darkness nor required them to awake and stand up from the dead that Christ may give them light Nor should we do as the Apostles did bid men leave the darkness in them but as the Quakers do look to the light in them 7. Arg. From Rom. 10. 14 17. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard And how shall they hear without a Preacher So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Heb. 11. 6. Without faith it is impossible to please God For he that cometh to God must believe that he is and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him Whence I argue That is not a sufficient guide in our way to God which cannot of it self make us believers for that is not sufficient to guide us to God that is not sufficient to beget faith sith there is no coming to God without faith as is told us Heb. 11. 6. But the light within us cannot of it self make us believers sith the Apostle saith How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard And how shall they bear without a Preacher So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God which were vain speeches if there were another ordinary way by a light within us to beget faith Therefore the light within us is not of it self without preaching a safe sufficient guide in our way to God 8. Arg. From Rom. 12. 2. And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minde that ye may prove what is that good that acceptable and perfect will of God Eph. 4. 23. And be renewed in the spirit of your minde Col. 3. 10. And have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him Whence I argue They who must not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of their minde that they may prove what is that good that acceptable and perfect will of God who must put off the old man and be renewed in the spirit of their minde who must put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge had not a light within them antecedent to this renewing which might enable them to prove what was Gods acceptable will nor be a sufficient safe rule to guide them to God For if they had what need such transforming renewing non-conformity to the world putting off the old man But all that