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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75323	To those that sit in counsel for ordering the affairs of the nation, &c. a visitation, / by one of the Lords servants called a Quaker.	Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3083; ESTC R170303	6,789	8

TO THOSE that sit in COUNSEL For Ordering the AFFAIRS OF THE NATION c. A Visitation by one of the LORDS SERVANTS Called a QVAKER LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. To those that sit in Counsel for 〈…〉 the affairs of the Nation c. A Visitation by one of the Lords Servants called a QVAKER FRIENDS THE Lord will visit his Seed in righteousnesse that the Nations of the earth may know and see that its the determination of the Lord to exalt his Son upon the holy hill of Sion to Rule and Reigne in the Kingdoms of men untill all principalities and Powers are subdued and brought subject to his righteous Government the borders whereof shall reach from one end of the earth to the other and of the increase thereof there shall be no end And whosoever will not bend and bow to his righteous Scepter he will Rule them with an Iron Rod he will shake and overturn all the powers of the earth and scatter the wicked in their Imaginations he will turn the wisdom of the wise into foolishnesse and bring the understanding of the prudent to nought he will arise unto the prey he will gather the Nations he will assemble the Kingdoms and upon them will he pour out the vialls of his wrath then will he return and give his people a pure Language even the Language of Canaan where songs of deliverance shall be sung and everlasting peace and rest shall be known even in the Prince of peace who is now appearing the second time without sin unto salvation And the prince of this World must be Judged and all those condemned by the Ever●asting Light of the Son of God that obey not the everlasting Gospel now again to be preached to all Nations even that Light which is in the World but the World knows him not which shineth in the hearts of all men in the darknesse and giveth them that believe in it and follow it the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and brings them that are turned to it out of darknesse into the light of life from under Satans power into the power of God In such glory and excellency of power shall Christ Jesus the Light of the World appear that the Nations of them that shall be saved shall be gathered to the brightnesse of his appearance even those that love the light and bring their deeds unto the light to be tryed by the spirit of Judgement whether they are wrought in God through which all the redeemed ones must passe even through the sirey tryal that they may be purified and all their drosse done away and consumed that they may be a pure and holy people unto the Lord for ever a people of his praise the converts of righteousnesse that must inhabit the holy City of our God into which no unrighteous thing can enter where shall be peace and fulnesse of Joyes for evermore But with the wicked it shall not be so with them Wo and misery shall be their portion for ever even to such as obey not the Gospel of God but account the blood of the Covenant the life of Christ the Light of the world an unholy thing such as will not return at the reproofs of the Lord but cast his Counsel behinde their backs that continue the servants of sin unto death shall for ever have their portion with hypocrites in that lake that burns with fire and brimstone they that hate and will not turn to the Light shall know the torment of everlasting burnings their worm shall not dye their fire shall not be quenched Therefore let all men every where while it is called to day repent and return at the reproofs of the Lord which are the Instructions of life that so they may not perish but be saved in the Lambs light of Life The Master of the house is risen Strive therefore to enter while the door is open Neglect not the day of your visitation least you be for ever shut out of Gods Kingdom the time hastens the Spirit of the Lord is grieved and shall not alwayes strive with men Though ye have eaten and drunk in his presence and he hath taught in your streets yet ye would not hearken to his voyce Depart therefore ye workers of Iniquity shall the Lord say I know you not And now yee that are the Rulers and people of these Nations Know that our God is the mighty God of Jacob a God gracious long suffering and of great goodnesse who hath wrought wonders for the deliverance of his people out of captivity and bondage his promise being unto the Seed in whom we are the called of the Lord for whose sake the Lord hath lengthened out the exceeding riches of his love and unutterable mercies to the people of these Nations to the end that if they would yet at length after so many overturnings return and own the Lord Jesus Christ the light of the world to be their King and Lawgiver on whom the government is laid whose right it is to reigne in whom Reformation and Liberty is known even that wherein the Truth makes us free They might in him be the beauties of holiness the glory of Nations even the first fruits of the first resurrection from the dead forms and worships of the World which are abominable in the sight of the Lord yea they have been so long dead without the Spirit of life that they even stink in the nostrills of our God who is the living God and the dead praise him not Many have been the opportunities put into the hands of those in authority in these Nations to do the work of the Lord in their generations but alas they standing not in the Counsel of the Lord have had a prize put into their hands but have not had hearts to make use of it which shall be reckoned to their accounts in the day of the Lord Nay in stead of doing the work of the Lord which is to break the bonds of the wicked and to let the oppressed go free to punish and to be a terrour to evil doers and to encourage those that do wel they have for the most part strengthened the hands of the wicked against the Just which hath long cryed for Justice and righteousnesse in the earth they have formed terrible weapons against the Lords people but they have not prospered they have sought deep to hide their counsells from the Lord they would not have him to reigne over them unto whom all power and authority in heaven and earth is given but have taken counsell with the ungodly to put the Heir of life to death to crucifie and destroy his appearance in themselves and in his chosen ones unto whom all the Nations of the Earth must bow he who hath been from the beginning to the Greeks foolishnesse and to the Jewes a stumbling block at which the Great ones in the wisdom of the World which knows