Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	heart_n	sin_n	sin_v	1,544	5	9.4687	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40772	The faithfull pastor his sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock. In a letter written by a French minister to those over whom the Holy Ghost had made him an overseer upon their wofull defection, renouncing the faith, and joyning in idolatrous worship. Now carefully translated. Together with a word to mourners in Zion who by grace have kept the faith, to sleepers under the storm, and to the almost Christian; Sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock.		1687 (1687)	Wing F279; ESTC R216409	68,644	59

giving the least token of Repentance What and do you yet expect to recover yourselves How long will ye put off your conversion that is so necessary Who promised you that the patience of God would not be wearied out with your delayes but would attend your leasure Come out of Babylon my People too much estranged from God! Come out of Babylon that you may draw neer unto him If you will not do it for fear of her sins do it at least for fear of being partakers of her plagues You have time to escape seing vengeance is not yet begun but you cannot avoid it except you seperate from that impure Church on whom the justice of God who is the Protector of Truth is ready to be revealed You know there is a kind of wilfull sin after having received the knowledge of the Truth that is never pardoned a sin for which there remains no more sacrifice a sin that leaves no issue to sinners but a fearfull looking for of judgment and of fire which will consume without mercy I will not say that yours is of this nature I think and hope better things of you I would a wake your Consciences by just fears but I would not sound a mortall alarme to you I would grieve you but not put you into despaire Happy I if I could work in you a sorrow that conduceth to your salvation I would then bless the severity of my complaints I would rejoice to have made you sorrowfull not because you sorrowed but because your sorrow wrought Repentance in you Therefore I will not say that the sin that you have committed against God is that sin for which there is no remission I will only say they do not much differ Nor shall I aggravate your Crime tho I say there is but one step between you and death You have sinned against truth after you had handled the word of life and were enlightned with the knowledge of God Your sin is accompanyed with such circumstances as give ground to beleive you sinned wilfully and deliberately against the dictates of your mind and the motions of your heart Would you know if there be any ground to hope for pardon It is easily known there is one Character that distinguisheth the unpardonable sin from all others It is impossible for those that commit it to recover by repentance Repent therefor and you may be assured your sin has not yet proceeded to so dreadfull a degree but repent quickly I have already told you that Repentance delayed grows every day more difficult and if the freshness of your sin be not enough to strike you with horror and remorse you will come to it more uneasily when sin is rendred familiar to you by a long continued practice (a) Cypr. Ep. ad Pompon You must carefully with draw your ship from dangerous places lest it split against the shelves and rocks you must quickly save your goods from burning before the threatning fire reach them It is impossible to be secure if you remaine long on the frontiers of danger It had been glorious for you to have continued Stedfast and not to have given to your enemies the joy of vanquishing your faith But every one has not the courage to overcome by heroick actions it is necessary therefore for those that have stumbled and fallen in the way to the Heavenly Kingdom to recover and establish themselves by repentance Tho the Crown be properly for those that run the race without falling yet there remains praise and honour to those who rise by repentance (b) Cypr. Ep. 55. ad Cornel. The first degree of happiness is without doubt not to sin but the second is to acknowledge the fault amend And the second doth not so much differ from the first when the amendment is not delayed We do not find in other persecutions that all those who fell continued in their defection they very oft recovered before they departed from the presence of their Judges The faithfull of Lions gloryed that those whom fear struck down were raised with honour and returned to the Combat with renewed courage Bibliade a woman who denyed thorow weakness and whom the Devil thought he was already sure of regained her courage in the midst of her Torments and Confessed she was a Christian many others guilty of the same sin were restored with her Those who had already escaped death and were restored to their life and liberty by the Orders of the Emperours who then as it is now in use recompensed Cowardize and punished Constancy who were exposed in publick to be absolved of the reproach of being Christians those I say recovered their first zeal and made open Confession of the name of Christ loving rather to die in the communion of the truth than to enjoy life and liberty as the price of their denying it (c) Cypr. Epist ad Cornel. St. Cyprian congratulating Cotnelius Bishop of Rome for the Constancy of his Church writes thus How many fell who were restored by a glorious Confession and who became more bold and valiant in the battle even by the anguish of repentance It was without doubt a great joy to that faithfull Bishop to see his Church imitat his zeal who was so far from seeing it diminish'd by the defection of its children that he saw it encreased by the publick Conversion of those who had faln in the former persecution What a glorious spectacle in the eyes of God what joy of the Church in the presence of Christ to see her march to the battle offered by the enemy not souldiers singly but a whole army of generous Confessors You have fallen very short of this example You among whom not one would signalize himself by a single discovery of Constancy But do not add to the singular property of your fall which has been common to all another fault more shamefully singular by continuing in your defection It is enough that you could all fall but it would be a prodigy if in so generall a fall none of you should rise again Repent then and let your Conversion be as generall if possible as your sin You have hitherto had some pretence of not awaking from this sleep of sin The same affrightment that was the cause of your sin has made you persevere in it the same love of your estates that perverted you has detained you in your error the same complyance that made you forget God has deprived you of the courage of reconciling yourselves to God lest you should offend men since that time you have learnt of none who has laboured to bring you back or thought of curing the deep wounds that you pierced your souls with you have not been ashamed of your fall because there was none who reproached you with it But the case is now altered I come to awake you with my cryes and to call you to repentance Take heed that my Labour be not in vaine and that you be not offended with my