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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
A57477	The preciousnesse of Christ unto beleevers. Or, A treatise wherein the absolute necessity, the transcendent excellency, the supereminent graces, the beauty, rarity and usefulnesse of Christ is opened and applyed. By John Robotham, preacher of the Gospel	Robotham, John, fl. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1733; ESTC R208474	115,896	303

furtherances of salvation Adde hereunto that adoption communion with God and with his Saints and assurance of eternall ●lory are all of them the blessed concomi●ants of sinne pardoned We recover the Image of God and in some measure the freedome of our wills unto good when our Consciences are washed and our sinnes pardoned We have a continuall feast in our soules and songs in the very night of affliction when our sinnes are pardoned Wee are freed from the spirit of bondage our hearts are strong we are as bold as Lyons and desire nothing more then the presence and comming of the Judge when our sinnes are pardoned Oh what a confluence of all blessednesse and happinesse is there in Jesus Christ if we have him wee are rich we are full we have all if wee be without him all that we have how excellent soever it be is as nothing we are miserable wretched lost and the very worst of creatures all the maledictions and curses of God lie upon us and death when it comes will gnaw upon us everlastingly Certainly Christ must needs be exceeding precious with whom wee enjoy such a world of blessings and without whom wee are so extreamely unhappy The Lord give us to know the things that belong unto our peace Christ procures for us the pardon of sinnes and the pardon of sinnes is not a solitary blessing it comes not alone but with a long traine of good things at the heeles of it Christ therefore that obtaines it must needs be precious and excellent in the highest degree Thirdly it is Christ alone that doth as it were unmask and unvaile the face of God and helps us to such a manifestation and sight of it as our nature is capable of his glory in the absolutenesse and perfection of it no creature can behold When Job had set forth the greatnesse of Gods wisdome and power expressed in his marvellous workes he concludes thus Loe these are part of his wayes but how little a portion is heard of him but the thunder of his power who can understand Job 26. last verse now that thunder of Gods power is the highest degree of it the Apostle expounds it when he saith that God is able to doe above all that wee can either aske or thinke we can aske much and we can thinke more yet wee can neither aske nor thinke so much as God can doe here 's the thunder of his power Zophar also saith that we cannot finde out the Almighty unto perfection he compares it in height to Heaven in depth to Hell in length to the Earth and in breadth to the Sea yea he makes it higher deeper longer and broader then all these And God himselfe tells Moses that no man can see his face and live We may see Jehovah's back-parts but his face that is his absolutenesse and perfection cannot be seen and therefore he is called the invisible God Yet howsoever this doth not a little set forth the excellency and worthinesse of Christ that Revelation which wee have of God we have it by him and hereof wee may see a notable figure in Moses The Lord proclaimed his mercy his patience his goodnesse his Truth and his justice before him these are his backparts and more then these he could not see and therefore it is said that the Lord covered Moses with his hand while he passed by But to come now to the point where was Moses when he had this vision and appearance of the Deity he was in a clift of the Rocke now verily that Rock was a shadow of Christ wee see the glory of God through him per speculum as it were in a glasse Christ is the lively Image of God 2 Cor. 4. 4. He is the brightnesse of his glory and the expresse character of his person Heb. 1. 3. There is no excellency in the Father which is not compleate in the Sonne and by the Sonne we come to know it so saith the Apostle God who hath 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 2 Cor. 4. 6. both this expression and that in the Hebrewes before-mentioned where Christ is called the brightnesse of Gods glory are a metaphor taken from the beames of the Sunne As the Sunne is manifested by his owne brightnesse viz. by his beames for wee cannot see the Sunne in Rotâ in his Charret or circumvolution but by his beames so the inaccessible Light of his Fathers glory is revealed tanquam per radios ac splendorem as it were by beames and brightnesse shining most clearely in Christ and the roote and Fountaine of that brightnesse is in Christ's God-head but darted upon us through the manhood according to that testimony Joh. 1. 18. No man hath seen God at any time the onely begotten Sonne which is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared him The bosome is the place and seate of secrets now it is Christ onely that opens the bosome declares the secrets and reveales the glory and brightnesse of Gods face unto Beleevers therefore hee must needs bee exceeding precious Thirdly if wee consider Christ in Reas III all his relations either as he i● man or as he is Mediator or as he is God wee shall find him in all these to be most precious and excellent First of all as Man he was holy and harmel●sse and separate from sinners Heb. 7. 26. a Lambe without blemish and without spot 1 Peter 1 19. The Apostle relates to the Paschall Lamb which was to be so conditioned it was behoofefull that Christ should not onely be man but also a man perfectly holy and righteous else he could not have been a competent and sitt●ng Saviour yea he had been so farre from satisfying for the sinnes of others that he must have dyed for his owne And besides it was requisite that there should be that beautifull analogy and proportion between him that lost all and him that recover'd all that as Adam who plaid the Bank-rupt was perfect so should the Redeemer be Christ indeed in a certaine place doth turne off from himselfe the appellation of good in a sense of perfection One called him good Master but he replyed why callest thou mee good there is none good but God Matth. 19. 16 17. But why doth Christ doe so was not he perfectly good yes but the other was not ware of his God-head when he cal'd him so he looked upon Christ saith Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as upon a meere naked extenuated debased man and yet he attributes unto him a more then humane goodnesse and perfection according to the errour of the Pharisees whose Disciple no doubt he was The Pharisees held that even men by a strict observance of the Law might attaine to perfection of Righteousnesse and sanctimony in this life and such a thought no question had this Schollar of theirs concerning Christ so that if wee looke well