Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	holy_a	sin_n	sin_v	2,678	5	10.0260	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91367	The vvay to heaven discovered: and, the stumbling-blocks (cast therein by the world, flesh, and devill) removed. Or, The ready way to true happines: leading to the gate of full assurance. With a word of reproof to the scattered, discontented Members of the late Parliament. And a word of advise to the present supreme authority of England. / By Robert Purnell.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1653 (1653)	Wing P4243; Thomason E1489_2	94,272	222

understand his errours Then again for sins of omission thy barrennesse and unfruitfulnesse thy omitting of time that is so precious and omitting of occasions of doing good see Mat. 25. 45. Again let us consider the aggravations of sin first every sin is against the great Majesty of God the greater the person offended is the greater the sin committed is Again we sin against knowledge it was the great sin of the Gentiles that when they knew God they glorified him not as God to sin against knowledge is a resisting the holy Ghost tribulation therefore is first to the Jew that knew the will of God and then to the Gentile Now the Gentiles had but the light of nature see Rom. 2. 9. Again another aggravation of sin is this we have sinned against vowes and covenants made with God now sin after covenant is greater then it was before though in act it be but the same Again we sin against means yea against those means that God hath put as weapons in our hands to resist it as mercies or corrections of God or his word whereby we profit not Now all this that hath been spoken hitherto of our sinfull condition by nature and practise is but a taste of one drop to the Ocean to that bulk and body of corruption that lyeth covered in our hearts as fire under ashes see Psal 19. 12. Who can understand the errors of his life saith David I will set thy sins in order before thee saith the Lord Psal 50. The next thing to be considered is the judgements threatned against those sins Psal 50. 22. Now consider this saith the Lord lest I come and tear you in pieces Cursed is he that continueth not in every thing that is written Gal. 3. 10. and he that keepeth the whole Law and offends but in one point is guilty of all Jam. 2. 10. so that sin and punishment are linked together See the forementioned places Rom. 6 32. Rev. 14. 10. Psal 9. 17. Rom. 2. 9. Deut. 28. 16 17 18. Now when the soul seeth his sin and the judgements due to him for sin then the soul doth begin to make a stop and to consider where it is and whither it is going and as it looks up it seeth an angry Judge ready to pronounce his condemnation and as it looks down it sees hell mouth open ready to receive it If thou look before thee all the world seems in a flame of fire and behinde thee a hideous noise of an innumerable number of thy fellow sinners at their wits ends crying out with the Jaylor What shall I do to be saved or else with the four leapers 2 King 7. 3 4. If we should enter into the city the famine is there and we shall dye and if we sit still here we die also Now therefore let us fall into the hands of the Assyrians if they save us alive we live if not we shall but die Even thus is it with every soul a little convinced of his sinfull life lost and undone condition First if we should look back and enter into the City of all the good that we have done the famine is there and we shall die and if we sit still here in this state of nature not improving the opportunity nor ability that is in our hands we die also now therefore let us fall into the hands of the Assyrians if they save us alive we shall live if not we shall but die This third and last resolution of the Lepers doth shew and fully discover to all men that have their eyes in their heads that a man or woman once convinced of sin both originall and actuall of omission and commission both in flesh and spirit with all its aggravations and denominations this party seeks for healing but it goes to the Assyrians an enemy that could not help themselves so we even we the most of men awakened out of a secure estate of sin the soul seeks and comes to the Assyrian of his own righteousnesse and when he comes to the camp he findes that fled away then he returns to all his friends and relations and finds them unable to help themselves much leste to help him Then the soul comes to the Assyrian of his own duties and ordinances and so rests upon a form without the power and so we wil never come to Christ the true and only physician of the soul untill with the woman in Mar. 5. 25 26 27 28. we have spent all our money time and pains and left no stone unturned no means unattempted to get cu●e and healing in something beside the Lord Jesus Christ but when with this woman we have spent all and yet grow worse and worse then the soul begins to make a halt or stop again and so begins to reason with it self If I sit still here in the state of nature I shall die or if I should go into the City of my own works the Lord hath written death upon that no flesh shall be justified by that I will even fall into the hands of God the great Creator of the Assyrians Who can tell but that he may be gracious unto me that I perish not Jonah 3. 9. Joel 2. 14. Nay the Lord may be gracious to me and save me Amos 5. 15. Oh let me and all those my fellow sinners fall into his hands it may be we shall be hid in the day of the Lords wrath It is true we being wicked he may say to us as in Psal 50. 16. What hast thou to do to take my Covenant into thy mouth But for all this I am resolved saith one I am resolved saith another to go to him and cast my self upon him although it doth seem to be contrary to his law which is our Debt-book yet there doth seem to be a way opened in the Gospell which is the Pay-book where if I mistake not are Receipts for most of my debts if not for all Wherefore as Esther 4. 16. she resolved to go to the King though it was contrary to the Law So am I saith the convinced sinner resolved to go in to the King of Kings and if I perish I perish Now sometimes before the soul comes to this strong resolution even when once it begins to be throughly convinced of sin it makes a stop or halt like a traveller meeting with two waies and knows not which to take he stands still and takes neither of them for the present but continues inquiring of all that passe by and at last having silenced his own thoughts he hears a voice behinde him saying as in Isa 30. 21. This is the way walk in it and so the Lords gives a mighty turn to the soul by that secret voice but before the soul comes thus farre there is wrought in the soul the assenting act of faith but not the applying act now the assenting act is that whereby a man assents to the truth of the Scripture that he is such a miserable wretch as

are spirituall virtues green leaves which are good words and fruit which are good works Besides thou mayest know whether thou are sound in the maine by these things 1. Thou wilt walke more by rule then by example 2. And be willing to be searched in all things and not only to doe but to suffer for the name of Christ and to mourne in secret when God is dishonoured 3. Thou wilt do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10. 31. XV. The fifteenth stumbling block I have sinned that unpardonable sinne against the holy Ghost that God will not pardon in this life nor in the life to come there is no hope for me Mat. 12. 31 32. I have sinned against my light and the checks of mine own conscience I have sinned against the experimentall tastes of spirituall things I have crucified Christ afresh I have had many blasphemous thoughts in mine heart I have fearfully fallen away from my first love and I finde my heart as hard as a stone without all repentance for all this Answ Originall sin is the proper seed spawn and fountain of this sin aswell as of any other but every sinne against the light of minde and checks of conscience is not that sinne Rom. 7. 15 19. nor every falling away from the first love Revel 2. 4. Nay farther the sin against the Holy Ghost is not every blasphemous temptation for the dearest Saints and servants of God have been so as frequent experience doth prove not every sinne against knowledge is that sin against the Holy Ghost for the best of Gods people have so done Rom. 7. 19 20. Peter knew he ought not to deny his Lord and Master David knew he ought not to commit adultery nor kill yet strength of corruption drew him into both not every sinne against the truth of Christ and the Gospell is the sinne against the Holy Ghost as those in the Church of Corinth that denyed the Resurrection 1 Cor. 15. 12. and those in the Church of Pergamus that held the Doctrine of Balaam and the Doctrine of the Nicolaitanes yet are not accounted hopelesse but invited to repent of their opinions Neither is it every sinning against the gracious motions strivings and operations of the Holy Ghost for it is possible men may thus sinne and sometimes with an high hand and yet not sinne against the holy Ghost Act. 7. 51 52. Neither is it sinning against grace received for the most heavenly and gracious souls are daily perplexed with inseparable and invincible infirmities as doubts fears distracting thoughts distempered passions they may and doe too often quench the spirit 1 Thess 5. 19. and grieve him Ephes 4. 29 30. by suppressing his good motions nay a man may grosly fall and break his bones yet not quite fall away as Noah to drunkennesse Gen. 9. 21. Lot to incest Gen. 19. 33. David to murther and uncleannesse I suppose that these are recorded to caution them that stand that they fall not and to comfort them that are fallen that they despair not Now the Judgements of men are various as to the nature of this sinne some say it is despair others that it is presumption or an obstinate purpose of continuing in sinne or a fixed will never to repent an opposing of the known truth and an envying of our brothers graces c. Others say that the sinne against the Holy Ghost is this viz. An universall finall and wilfull falling away from the truth and common graces of the Holy Ghost once received and professed c. to a malicious obstinate and incurable opposition thereof c. 1 Here is the general nature of this sin a falling away 2 Here is the properties of this falling away 1. An Universall 2. Finall 3. Wilfull 3 The good from which he fals 1. From the truth once received and professed 2. From the common graces of the Spirit or Holy Ghost 4. The evill into which he backslides which is threefold 1. Blasphemous despiting of the Spirit of grace 2. Horrid contempt and malice against the Son of God 3. Violent persecution of the way of Christianity Now where these particulars dwell joyntly and act vigorously mark that man or woman for in Scripture sense that man doth commit the sinne against the Holy Ghost and this is the highest sinne against the saving remedy this is to sin wilfully m●liciously incurably this is to crucifie Christ afresh and to put him to an open shame and to tread him under foot and to count his bloud of the Covenant an unholy thing c. This sinne never can possibly be repented of for so the Apostle tels us Heb 6. 4 5 6. Again this sinne is impardonable so Christ tels us the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven n●ither in this world neither in the world to come Mat 12. 32. Heb. 10. 26. Mar. 3. 29. So this sinne is damnable for if it can never be repented and if it will never be pardoned it must needs alwaies be punished with eternall death and damnation but such is the love of the Almighty God that he hath placed that sinne in so high a degree that most men cannot commit that sinne if they would for there must be knowledge in the minde and malice in the heart and that not in an ordinary but in an extraordinary measure or else thou canst not commit that sinne Peter had knowledge in his minde but no malice in his heart when he denied his Master again Paul he had malice in his heart but no knowledge in his minde so that neither Paul nor Peter sinned against the Holy Ghost but take the malice in Pauls heart and the knowledge in Peters and joyne them both together in one man if that man deny Christ with cursing and swearing as Peter and persecute the Church of Christ with Paul then we may safely say that man hath sinned that unpardonable sinne But we may take notice by the way that those persons that are truly regenerate and born again cannot sinne against the Holy Ghost for the Scripture saith that the regenerate sinne not this great sinne Whosoever is borne of God sinneth not as in 1 Joh. 5. 16 17 18. For if the regenerate might sinne against the Holy Ghost then they might totally and finally fall away from God but that it is impossible as that Gods Promises Covenant and faithfulnesse should fail or that Gods Spirit grace and power preserving them should be overcome or that Gods immutable decree for their salvation should be shaken so that there is a vast difference between the sinning of a regenerate person and their sinning that sinne against the Holy Ghost 1. They that sinne against the Holy Ghost are not nor cannot be in any fear or trouble because they have sinned but are wickedly hardened for no person that ever sinned against the Holy Ghost either was or could be afraid perplexed or troubled in spirit about it such trouble being inconsistent with the nature of that