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	heart_n	shine_v	3,010	5	9.0570	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43051	The lying prophet discovered and reproved in an answer to several particulars in a book called The Quakers downfal, said to be written by Lawrence Claxton ... : with several of his damnable doctrines ... : also twelve particulars which he and his companion Lodowick Muggleton uttered ... / given forth ... by a Friend of truth, John Harwood.	Harwood, John.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1103A; ESTC R40951	15,593	23

all their blindness ever held forth such a doctrine here the Idolaters may Judge thee and thy cursed opinion yet the Spirit hath a body but according to thy own confession thou art none of the Members of it but such as are baptized with it knows his body nature vertue and life who was before man was formed Learn what that means the bodies of the Saints are the Temple of the living God 2 Cor. 6.16 and prove thy God which thou sayes is a man above the stars no where else in no Creature nor in this world by plain Scripture or confess thy gross ignorance and darkness for I utterly deny thy meanings and corrupt imaginations and if thy God be so far from thee thou hast a great way to go for Counsel but Moses said the Word was nigh in the hearts of Israels Children and likewise Paul to the Romans and the Word was God saith John so that thy doctrine and the Saints that gave forth the Scripture accord not which clearly evidenceth a contrary spirit in thee if thou hadst not confessed there were nought of God in thee so that thy commission the voice of words which thou pretendest is also judged and denied being seen by the light of devine glory in us to be deceit and hypocrisie and the delusion of Satan which thou professest who hast uttered such abhominable filthy blasphemies and railing speeches against the Lord and his onely people which will hasten thy downfal and destruction but our foundation stands sure not to be shaken or moved mark that and the sentence of eternal Condemnation which thou sayes five of us came under we stand clear from and under it thou thy self and thy Companion art and the great darkness you are in who deny and oppose the light of Jesus Christ within us in the reprobate state who know not the light Christ Jesus within you whom we confess in us as the Saints did the hope of our eternal glory and witness him against you the world and all men upon the earth who stand up against him who is our life rock refuge and the horn of our Salvation and the Condemnation of all that deny and oppose his light within L. C. Thou sayes in the 20 and 21 page Both Angel and man hath forms sutable to their natures and that it was their natures that gave them their form and after thou sayest towards the latter end of the 21 p. God created man in his own Image and likewise sayes God hath the same form that man hath and yet one is spiritual and the other natural c. Answ Mark The heap of confusion he has compacted by his confused sensual wisdom which he calls the Seed of Faith if God created man Gen. 2.7 John 1. then his nature gave him not his form but God and if by the word speaking came forth both Angel and man as thou sayes then their nature gave them not their form but God that spoke the word and if God hath the same form as man hath the not another as thou falsly affirment Is there no difference betwixt a spiritual and a natural form Herein thou hast contradicted thy self that all who have a true understanding may see thy darkness and confusion L. C. Thou also sayes When thou believest him onely an infinite Eternal spirit then thy faith is wavering like unto the God for a spirit without a body cannot be known c. p. 22. Answ The Faith God hath given me by which I see and know him to be an Eternal Spirit a devine substance is not wavering but sound and stedfast neither is God the infinite Eternal spirit wavering as thou falsly affirmeth but stands and remains in his own being nature and life for ever and the Saints knew God to be a Spirit as also Jesus Christ hath declared and confessed him John 4. and unto their Testimony I do bear witness against thy lyes and confusion and God who causeth light to shine forth of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give us the knowledge of his glory in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 so that we know God to be a Spirit of infinite power by his light in us as the Saints did that gave forth the Scriptures which knowledge thou and all the world wants who contemns and opposeth his light within And is not this the blaspemy against the holy Spirit to deny God to be a Spirit hast not thou here brought thy self under Eternal Condemnation is not this the unpardonable sin But we do not deny that God was in Christ and that in his body the fulness of the Godhead dwells Joh. 16.23 Christ is the same for ever now in his Saints and God in him the Father and Son we do not deny but confess to be one and he that hath the Son hath the life the Father also but thou hast excluded him from thee who sayes there is nought of God in thee and Christ hath but one Body one Church one Temple and yet there are many Members but thy corrupt sensual wisdom cannot see into this divine Mystery though the Scripture in plain words declare it So that for ever thou may stop thy mouth for boasting of thy knowledge in the Scriptures L. C. Who sayes Because we witness Christ manifest in us that he is but in one of us unless we can make it appear that Christ hath so many bodies as there is Quakers c. p. 25. Answ We do say and testifie in the fear of the Lord with a true and perfect understanding notwithstanding thy reviling that the true light Christ the spiritual body or Divine substance is manifest in us and also do bear witness of his descending and ascending for above all heavens and it was the same which ascended Colos 1. 2 Cor. 13.5 Eph. 4.10 1 Cor. 15.50 that descended according to the Scripture and do thou prove the descending of a body of flesh blood and bones flesh and blood enters not into the Kingdom of heaven learn what this meaneth John 1 14. the word was made flesh and the flesh suffered without the gate at Jerusalem but the life God died not which was in the body of flesh but entered into glory into the same glory it was in before the world was made Eph. 4.10 whose glory and presence filleth all things and is amnifest in us his beauty his presence and power is seen known and rightly understood and his spiritual body his pure Divine presence is but one yet in thousands it is manifest glory to his eternal name Jehovah for ever but this is beyond the reach of thy devilish sensual wisdom this secret is hid from the Magicians of Egypt the worlds wise men who want the pure wisdom and reason And this I affirm 1 Cor. 1.21 he hath no true ground for his faith so out of the true faith but what hast thou to do to boast of thy faith or speak of it who denies