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
A64774	The Roman Catholick converted, or, A testimony against the imagined purgatory with an exhortation to them of the Church of Rome to break off from their idols and images, and to believe in the light of Christ Jesus, who lighteth every man that cometh into the world / by one, who though formerly of them, is now made able through believing in the light of Christ to give testimony against their purgatory, idols, images, and all their dark inventions, John Vaughton.	Vaughton, John, 1644-1712.	1676 (1676)	Wing V159; ESTC R32918	7,344	12

THE Roman-Catholick CONVERTED OR A Testimony against the Papists Imagined PURGATORY With an EXHORTATION to them of the CHVRCH of ROME To break off from their Idols and Images and to believe in the LIGHT of Christ Jesus who lighteth every man that cometh into the World By one who though formerly of them is now made able through believing in the Light of Christ to give Testimony against their Purgatory Idols Images and all their dark Inventions John Vaughton He that feareth Man shall have a Fall but whoso putteth his Trust in the Lord is without Danger Prov. 24.25 They have no Rest day nor night who worship the Beast his Image and whosoever receiveth the Print of his Name Rev. 14.11 Printed in the Year 1676. THE Roman-Catholick CONVERTED WO be unto those that come not forth of Babylon and break not off from their Graven Images and cease not from Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils and that live in Rebellion against the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who gave unto Man Life Breath and Being and hath lengthned out a Day of his tender Visitation unto the Sons and Daughters of men whom in no wise he would have to perish in their Sins but his Will is their Sanctification Now none can be sanctified but by Obedience to the Will of God and this is the Will of God That men believe on him whom God the Father hath sent a Light into the World as Christ Jesus said I am come a Light into the World and he that believes in me shall not abide in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life Glory Honour and Everlasting Renown be unto the Lord God of Life for evermore who hath caused his Light to shine into the Hearts of a Remnant and hath given them the Knowledge of himself in and by the Shinings of his own Light and all the Nations of the World that are saved must walk in the Light of the Lord Jesus for Cleansing from Sin is known as there is a walking in the Light of Jesus and no where else that 's my Testimony as I have received it of the Lord. And therefore unto you that are of the Church of Rome and expect Salvation as you are Members thereof this Word is in my Heart from the Lord unto you all Destruction and not Salvation will be your Portion if you come not to believe in the Light of Christ Jesus as it appears in you manifesting the Evil of your Doings and hath and doth often strive with you and would gather you and bring you out of your own Wayes and Inventions which the Devil and his Ministers Emissaries and Agents have set up and have caused all that have believed them to bow unto the Image that they have set up and have caused all them who have believed their Report to receive that for Christ which is but a Wafer and made by the Hands which are Dust and must return to the Dust and this is the Work of your Pope Bishops and Priests whom you call Fathers and Father of Fathers and so you own your selves to be the Children of them who know not God nor Christ but have set up a Wafer and called it Christ's Body Flesh and Blood and Compel People to receive it as such and yet they that received it never knew cleansing from Sin by it nor never will And therefore Wo be unto you Priests and People which are Falling down Bowing and Worshipping that for God which is not God but the Works of your own Hands Behold and take notice of it You shall perish if you Repent not and your Crosses of Wood and Stone though never so finely gilded nay though they be made of the Gold it self and your Images though never so finely drawn by the Art of the Limner Bow ye and Creep ye never so oft unto them nor yet your Holy Ashes as you call them nor yet your Holy Water as you call it shall be able to deliver you in the Day of the Indignation of the Lord which certainly shall be poured forth upon you For your Water which you have made and washed People withal it s not the Water of Life and therefore it answers not the End which you purpose it for which say you It hath Power or there is Vertue in it to drive away Evil Spirits from those who are sprinkled with it and therein you are found to be Lyars for the Evil Spirit works and bears rule both in you that make the Water and sprinkle your selves and others with it And be it known unto you Priests and False Prophets who as you say have received Power to Absolve from Sin those that confess their Sins unto you and do that Pennance you enjoyn them to Behold you are found Lyars by one who in dayes past and years that are gone Confest unto some of you and did those things which you enjoyned him to do in hopes thereby he might obtain Peace with the Lord But behold and take notice I speak the Truth and Lye not That notwithstanding all your Absolutions and Pennances enjoyned by you and by me performed I was not Discharged from the Guilt that Sin being committed brought upon me and in that Day God's holy pure Spirit did condemn me for those Sins which I had committed and which I had Confest to you and which you had given me Absolution for and the Judgments of the Lord were then upon me and his holy Spirit strove with me and many times there were strong Cryes raised in me That I might know Power over Sin and that I might be set free from Sin but in that Day I did not certainly know that it was the Lord that strove with me because Darkness was over my Understanding and though the true Light did shine in the Darkness yet the Darkness comprehended it not and I being not turned from the Darkness to the Light did not receive Power over my Sin But in my Distress I went to you for Help but it was in vain and when I found no Help from you then did the Lord by his Spirit strive with me to bring me from amongst you and this that set my Sins in order before me some of you have called it the Devil and some of you told me I was in a Good Condition and the Devil you said was striving to get me out of the Church and said you You must believe as the Church believes for out of your Church say you there is no Salvation But I testifie for the Lord God that lives forever and for the sakes of those who among you may in some measure be in a Sense of that pure Principle of Life in themselves that strives with them against Sin and yet may depend upon Man or your Church which is made by Man That whilst they have any Dependency upon the Church or any Man of your Church let him be called Pope or Priest or what Name else soever it be or whatever Practice he be