Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	ghost_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,468	5	10.3762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59621	Antapologia, or, A discourse of excuses setting forth the variety and vanity of them, the sin and misery brought in by them, as being the greatest bar in the way to heaven, and the ready high way to hell : being the common snare wherein most of the children of men are intangled and ruined / by Jo. Sheffield ...	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing S3061; ESTC R11053	145,253	322

the Flock of Jacob if there were one not spotted it was none of his Laban's were all white Cattle The Lord had one Son only without Sin not one not him without smart Sufferings They who are now in their white Robes Rev. 7. 14. were once in their blacks and had waded through great Tribulations St. Chrysostome once was invited to a Marriage and was to go through a foul Lane but as he was going met a Malefactor going through the High-Street to his Execution whence he had this pious meditation How much better is it to go through the worse way if to a Feast then the fair to Execution Non qua sed quo said he No matter what way we go to Heaven so we get but thither Through many Tribulations was ever wont to be the way to Heaven Acts 14. 22. 11. But I fear saith one I have committed 11. Fear I have committed the sin against the Holy Ghost the Sin against the Holy Ghost and then what place for Faith or Hope It is like the Sin of Elie's House not to be purged by any Burnt-Offering or Sacrifice But dost thou fear indeed The more there is of that fear the less of this danger Such as fall into that sin are Leviathan like without fear Job 41. 33. Past feeling Eph. 4. 18. Have Eyes but see not Ears but hear not Sin but tremble not Know therefore that every sin even the most heinous and grievous is not the sin against the Holy Ghost otherwise Manasseh had been in it not all sin of Ignorance though pursued with greatest Violence otherwise Paul's had been it nor any sin against Knowledge faln into through surprise and infirmity and after repented otherwise Peter's had been it But if Paul had had Peter's knowledge of Christ or Peter Paul's rage against Christ both had had a sad account to make He that shall attentively read and compare those two places Heb. 6. 4 5. with Heb. 10. 26 27 28 29. will understand the better what this Sin against the Holy Ghost is and what Ingredients are in it 1. There must be Knowledge and Illumination in the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven It is not a sin of Ignorance 2. There is a sinning wilfully It is not every sin of Infirmity or relapse into a former sin 3. There is in it a falling away not every slip or stepping aside not every fouler sin bewailed and broken off but an absolute falling off 4. All these with a studied and professed opposition to Christ and his Grace and Spirit Thence they are said to Crucifie Christ again and put him to more shame as if he had not suffered enough before and to despight the Spirit of Grace So that lay all these together this cannot be thy case oh poor mournful distressed doubting and complaining Christian who dost lament mourn faint pant hunger thirst fear grieve which they never do who fall away as is here described but are given once to impenitency and obdurateness of spirit There are four kinds of Falls which may befal the Child of God each worse then other The first and lightest is that in our daily combate by reason of the sin that dwells in them they do what they would Rom. 7. 18. not and cannot do what they would but daily fall short In which respect we are none of Gal. 5. 17. us Supralapsarians but Sublapsarians and Relapsarians too This is but like the fall of a mist in Winter the Sun breaks out and a fair day follows The second is Gal. 6. 1. When a good man is overtaken with some more notable miscarriage as were they who dissembled in the business of Jud●izing Gal. 2. 14. They did not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walk strait these did Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 restore This is as a fall whereby a Leg is put out of joynt yet set again and all is well Let him that is free from these two take a Ladder as Constantine said to Acesius the Novatian and go Socr. l. 1. c. 7. to Heaven alone For in many things we sin all Jam. 3. 2. The third is more sad when a Believer falls into some fouler sin as did David and Peter into sins wasting Conscience This like the fall of Eutichus from the third loft dead for the present but after recovered by a Miracle of Mercy The fourth is a kind of Apostasy or insensible decay an abatement or loss of first love and may be never comes to former strength and liveliness or to regain their former peace Thus as David in his age grew cold and needed an Abishag to lie in 1 Kings 1. 3. his Bosome his natural heat being abated So his Sons spiritual heat abated by reason of the many Abishags that lay in his bosome and though he was beloved of his God yet did his Sun set in a Cloud This like the fall of the hair in old age waxeth thinner and thinner though life remains nature is not so strong and vigorous as formerly But there are four worse kinds of falls peculiar to wicked men The first proves final but is not total at first but sensim sine sensu by little and little Thus the thorny ground miscarried This like Elie's 1 Sam. 4. 18. fall backward to the breaking of his Neck The second Is a total and final but not voluntary at first but are beaten out of heart as the stony ground by tribulation arising This like the fall of Sisera he fell down Jud. 5. 27. dead with his nail sticking in his Temples The third A more fearful a total final voluntary and deliberate yet not malitious fall Thus Demas is supposed to fall who of a Disciple or Teacher formerly is said afterwards to have become a Priest in an Idol-Temple at Thessalonica so Dorotheus Esther 6. 13. Reports This fall is like the fall of Haman when they thus begin to fall no hopes of Recovery 4. Yet is there a worse The fourth is as the opening of the fourth Seal where appears Rev. 6. 8. the pale Horse and Death upon his back and Hell following a total final voluntary deliberate and malitious falling away Such was the fall of Simon Magus Hymenaeus Alexander Julian c. Upon such a fall the Gulph is fixed the Decree gone out Nulla retrorsum no renewing such to Repentance This fall is like the fall of Jerichoes walls which fell down flat Josh 6. 20. with a Curse annexed against Rebuilding or of Judas who falling head long burst asunder in the midst and all his Bowels gushed out or if you will as the fall of Lucifer himself who from an Angel of Light is become a Prince of Darkness This last onely is the Sin against the Holy Ghost upon which I have therefore the longer insisted from which they are far enough that are oft so much affrighted who are more afraid then there is cause when their case is at most but as Paul's Peter's David's