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
A65372	Believers priviledges and duties and the exercise of communicants; holden forth in severall sermons: preached on diverse texts and at severall occasions. By the learned, pious and laborious servant of Jesus Christ, Mr Alexander Wedderburne first minister of the gospell at Forgan in Fife; and thereafter at Kilmarnock in the West. Part first.	Wedderburn, Alexander, d. 1678.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1238; ESTC R219480	104,769	240

the Lord. Thus Nathan aggravats Davids guilt in his murder of Urijah 2. Sam. 12. I st gets him to confess this principle that the rich man who had wronged the poore of his one little lambe deserved to die Davids sin was contrair to the principle he himself had laid and from this Nathan aggrava●s it The like in the New Testament the Pharisees laid this for a principle that Moses and the Prophets should be believed and Christ frequently aggravats the guilt of their despising him and from this very principle So Peter aggravats the sin of Ananias and Saphira calling it a lying to the Holy Ghost they laid this principle that it was good to sell their goods and lay them done at the Apostles feet and yet keeped back a part had they never laid such a ground it had not bein a lying to the Holy Ghost Many such instances we might bring to confirm the truth of the point and there be these things which tend further to confirme it 1. To sin against professed principles hath in it all the aggravations that a sin against knowledge hath for to profess and acknowledge any thing for a principle necessarily supposes the knowledge of it now sins against knowledge are by some well resembled to cloath which hath an scarlet dy upon it it is the same sin an other commits but in the ignorant it is of an whit color in comparison of what it is when committed against knowledge there are two great aggravations sins against knowledge have in them i st there must be a predominant love to the sin and hatred to its contrary Though affections are not the guid of the mind yet they often bind it and it is from them men act contrary to known truth 15. John towards the close but now they have both hated me and my father Hated me why more now then before sie the reason why it must be hatred of me if I had not come and spoken to them Christ had convinced their understanding and yet they imbrace him not this must preceed his hatred 2dly sins against knowledge their greatness appears in this that they are not so easily pardoned as sins done ignorantly as Pauls persecuting the Church which he did ignorantly had he done it after he had changed his principles he had not so easily obtained mercy Secondly to sin against professed principles will make heathens in their religion's to witnesse against us often the Lord aggravats Israels sin from the practice of the heathen have any of the nations changed their God if we should look through all religions whereof histories are full we shall find the fondest and foolishest carefull to come up to their principle the Romans abounded in sacrifices because the principle they had drunk in from Numa Pompilius taught them so The Lacedemonians were famous for the like strict conformity to their principles and lawes Specially the Lacedemonians were famous for abstinence because Lycurgus lawes which were their professed principles led them to it Accosta the Jesuit in his Indian History tells us that among them the most tender-hearted Mothers would cut the throats of their own children because their Idolatrous principle led them to such sacrifices Do not Mahumitans abstain from Wyne Papists undergoe the most painfull peregrinations and scourgings multitude of Saints dayes and all that they may not contradict their principles Now all this witnesse against us when our professed principles contradict our way 3dly To contradict our professed principles makes a man a witness against himself The man who had the one talent is at a great disadvantage when his judge tells him from thy own mouth I condemn thee He had laid his principle that his Lord wes an hard man reaped wher he did not sow thou oughtest therfor sayes his Lord have put my money to the exchangers This stops a mans mouth at first and makes him utterly unexcusable when his professed principles depons against his practice Rom. 2.1 Fourthly to sin against acknowledged principles supposing the principles to be divine is the highest contempt of God that can be so Psal 50. Consider this ye that forget God least I aryse and tear you in pieces forget God who are these sie them in the preceeding part of the Psalm ye who take my Covenant in your mouth and yet when you fie a theef rune with him and become partner with the vyle adulterer They professed his Covenant and practised adultery and such are called forgetters of God and such he will aryse and tear in pieces when there shall be none to deliver To sin against acknowledged principles hath in it a despysing of the Law and he that despyseth the law sayeth Isaiah despyseth the law-giver Fifthly to sin against acknowledged principles hath affinity to the sins of those who are most signally marked for sin in the Scriptures Saul professed with tears David was Innocent and more righteous then he and professed he knew the Lord would make him King in his stead yet we find him shortly after in armes against him Judas knew Christ an Innocent and called him Master and yet betrayed him Pilat declared him an Innocent and yet delivered him to be crucified It evidenceth the rage and dominion of any lust in the heart when the accomplishment of it is driven over our very light like Saul to make a law to expell all witches out of Israel and yet himself to seek to one it evidences indeed the Lord had departed from him All these and many more might be brought to evidence the truth of the point that to sin against acknowledged divine principles is an great aggravation of our Guiltiness Application There is only one use of this I shall insist upon it serves for humiliatione and convictione of such as contradict in their practice their professed principles it is a sad complaint the Lord hath of Israel Jer. 2.10 11. Pass over to the Isles of Chittim and sie if there hath been done such a thing as this hath a nation changed their Gods caet but my people hath changed their glory for that which doth not profit Heathens follow their acknowledged principles and are ours any worse or any thing more questionable then theirs But that this point may be the more pressing I shall not insist in opening the contradiction of the principles which even by the light of nature heathens have been taught to lay which multitudes in their lives full of adultery drunkenness swearing lying make But there are these 4 things which by the Scriptures we are taught to lay for principles and let us enquire a little how they are contradicted in our lives 1. It is a principle in our religion that the great happiness of the creatur stands in communion and fellowship with the Creator Philosophers have wandred indeed so in the search of mans cheefe good that some have reckoned up some hundreth of opinions about it But there is none among us who can answer but the first question of our