Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	darkness_n	glory_n	shine_v	2,497	5	9.0823	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45182	Christ mysticall, or, The blessed union of Christ and his members also, An holy rapture, or, A patheticall meditation of the love of Christ : also, The Christian laid forth in his whole disposition and carriage / by J.H. D.D. B.N.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing H374; ESTC R16159	67,177	294

of is verified that character which the divine Apostle gave of them long agoe Their foolish heart was darkned professing themselves to be wise they became fools and stil the best of us if we be but our selves may take up that complaint of Asaph So foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee and of Agur the son of Jake Surely I am more brutish then man and have not the understanding of a man I neither learned wisdome nor have the knowledge of the holy and if any man will be challenging more to himself he must at last take up with Solomon I said I will be wise but it was farre from me But how defective soever we are in our selves there is wisdome enough in our head Christ to supply all our wants He that is the wisdome of the Father is by the Father made our wisdome In him are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge saith the Apostle So hid that they are both revealed and communicated to his own For God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ In and by him hath it pleased the Father to impart himself unto us He is the image of the invisible God even the brightnesse of his glory and the expresse image of his person It was a just check that he gave to Philip in the Gospel Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known mee Philip he that hath seen me hath seen the Father And this point of wisdome is so high and excellent that all humane skil and all the so much admired depths of Philosophy are but meer ignorance and foolishnesse in comparison of it Alas what can these profound wits reach unto but the very outside of these visible and transitory things as for the inward forms of the meanest creatures they are so altogether hid from them as if they had no beeing and as for spirituall and divine things the most knowing Naturalists are either stone-blinde that they cannot see them or grope after them in an Egyptian darknesse For the naturall man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned How much lesse can they know the God of Spirits who besides his invisibility is infinite and incomprehensible only he who is made our wisdome enlightneth our eyes with this divine knowledge No man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Neither is Christ made our wisdome onely in respect of heavenly wisdome imparted to us but in respect of his perfect wisdome imputed unto us Alas our ignorances and sinfull misprisions are many and great where should we appear if our faith did not fetch succour frō our all-wise and all-sufficient Mediator Oh Saviour we are wise in thee our head how weak soever we are of our selves Thine infinite wisdome and goodnesse both covers and makes up all our defects The wife cannot be poor whiles the husband is rich thou hast vouchsafed to give us a right to thy store we have no reason to be disheartned with our own spirituall wants whiles thou art made our wisdome It is not meer wisdome that can make us acceptable to God if the serpents were not in their kinde wiser then we we should not have been advised to be wise as serpents That God who is essentiall Justice as well as Wisedome requires all his to be not more wise then exquisitely righteous Such in themselves they cannot be For in many things we sin all such therefore they are and must be in Christ their head who is made unto us of God together with Wisdome Righteousnesse Oh incomprehensible mercy He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him what a marvellous and happy exchange is here we are nothing but sin Christ is perfect righteousnesse He is made our sin that we might he made his righteousnesse He that knew no sin is made sin for us that we who are all sin might be made Gods righteousness in him In our selves wee are not onely sinfull but sin In him we are not righteous onely but righteousnesse it self Of our selves we are not righteous we are made so In our selves we are not righteous but in him we made not our selves so but the same God in his infinite mercy who made him sin for us hath made us his righteousnesse No otherwise are we made his righteousnesse then he is made our sin Our sin is made his by Gods imputation so is his righteousnesse made ours How fully doth the second Adam answer and transcend the first By the offence of the first judgement came upon all men to condemnation by the righteousnesse of the second the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous righteous not in themselves so death passed upon all for that all have sinned but in him that made them so by whom we have received the atonement How free then and how perfect is our justification What quarrell may the pure and holy God have against righteousnesse against his own righteousnesse and such are we made in and by him what can now stand between us and blessedness Not our sins for this is the praise of his mercy that he justifies the ungodly Yea were wee not sinfull how were we capable of his justification sinfull as in the tearm from whence this act of his mercy moveth not as in the tearm wherein it resteth his grace findes us sinfull it doth not leave us so Far be it from the righteous Judge of the world to absolve a wicked soul continuing such He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just even they both are an abomination to the Lord No but he kils sin in us whiles he remits it and at once cleanseth and accepts our persons Repentance and remission doe not lagge one after another both of them meet at once in the penitent soul at once doth the hand of our faith lay hold on Christ and the hand of Christ lay hold on the soul to justification so as the sinnes that are done away can be no barre to our happinesse And what but sinnes can pretend to an hindrance All our other weaknesses are no eye-sore to God no rub in our way to heaven What matters it then how unworthy wee are of our selves It is Christs obedience that is our righteousnes and that obedience cannot but be exquisitely perfect cannot but be both justly accepted as his and mercifully accepted as for us There is a great deal of difference betwixt being righteous and being made righteousnesse every