Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	jesus_n	light_n	shine_v	5,880	5	9.7269	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26272	A besome of truth, to sweep away the refuge of lies, or, Something in answer to one Francis Holdcraft (priest) a prisoner in Cambridge Castle ... also the ground of the difference shewed between the people (in scorn called Quakers) and some other separated people : with a few words of good councel unto all people into whose hands this may come / by a follower of the Lamb through the great tribulation, John Aynsloe.	Aynsloe, John, d. 1693.	1664 (1664)	Wing A4293; ESTC R11673	8,200	14

deceitful workings of Antichrist in thee and thy followers who confess him in words but in life and power and practice doth deny him and are the greatest enemies he hath in this Nation like as the Scribes Pharisees and High Priests was in the days of his flesh who put him to death though they looked for a Messiah and had Moses and the Prophets Writings which did declare of the coming of the just One yet by them they could not see nor believe in him no more then you now in this day of his second coming can believe and receive him though you have the Prophets and Apostles Writings for they only testifie of him but could not give the knowledge of him neither faith to believe in him for it is the Light that shineth in heart that giveth the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and Faith is the gift of God which cannot be received by the reading of the Scripture for it cometh by hearing not by reading And as for us we believe and confess unto all the world that there is no salvation in any other but in this Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary and was crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem and rose again the third day and did talk with his Disciples as they were going to Emaus but they did not know him and that he came in amongst them the doors being shut and that he said to Mary touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my father and the same that Descended Ascended unto the right hand of God in the Heavens and this also we believe That he is come again and coming for certainly we did not know him but as he was revealed in us And as for the Turk and Jews I know not what they believe I shall leave them to answer for themselves only this is my faith concerning them That many of them is nearer the Kingdom of Heaven then this man and such as he and will sooner enter into it for Whoremongers and Adulterers shall enter into the Kingdom of God before such Pharisees and Hypocrites And again in the same Page he saith The Turk and the Jew and the Quaker doth agree they disallowing in principle of that Stone which the Builders did refuse they deny that man Christ Jesus Emanuel God with us that is now at the right hand of the Father in the Heavens and presently after in the same Page he saith The Jews and the Turks look not for salvation in any other then in this Jesus of Nazareth the son of man The Quakers therein agree with them in principle they deny the Rock which is the Person of Christ Answ Oh heap of Confusion and Nonsence was there ever such Hodge podge committed to writing by any man that hath his sences surely he that hath but half an eye may see from whence this comes even out of the womb of confusion and a Brat of Babylon for it will not cover thy nakedness but it openly appears And I believe there is some of thy hearers will be ashamed of this ill-favoured Harlot And as for the Rock which thou saist is the Person of Christ the Rock Christ we own which was before he had a body upon which the Prophets and the holy men of God in the dayes past was builded and which followed Israel of old for they all did drink of the same spiritual Rock which followed them which Rock was Christ as it is written 1 Cor. 10. 4. as for the word Person which thou so often uses in thy Writings it is thy own imagination for I find it not at all Recorded in the Soripture and thou to lay thy own Imaginations for a foundation is an absurd thing and manifests thy folly and ignorance for another foundation can no man lay then that which is already laid which is Christ Jesus as in 1 Cor. 3. 11. And as for thy Groanings and Confl●cts which thou saist that thou hadst when the Lord did first appear in his glorious manifesting of himself in his people in the Northern parts The cause of thy Groanings and Conflicts was because thou refused his Appearance in thy self who would have done thee good and quickened thy soul from death as he hath done many in this day of his glorious Appearance and Visitation of the sons of men but thou with many more would not have him to rule over you and it is to be feared that such hath sleighted the day of their Visitation and thine and their sad state is to be lamented and you may be wept over even as Jerusalem was for the Beast and false Prophet which is seated in thy heart was lo●t to loose their hold or that the kingdom of Antichrist should fall who hath been so beneficial to all his Ministers in giving them such great Benefits and large Revenues so that many of them are like fatted Horses being fed with the fattest of the Meat and clothed with the finest of the Wool they may easily be known by their Idleness and delicious ●aring having many Benefactors for their bellies from every Quarter Among whom I find this Francis Holdcraft none of the least notwithstanding his fair speeches and pretended sufferings for so I may truly call them pretended sufferings for he hath no testimony to bear for the Lord for when he is called before the Rulers of this world he commits his Cause not unto the Lord but unto Lawyers and thus he betrays himself and his followers and gives their enemies an advantage against them having no other weapons to war against them then that which they have in their own hand Christ and his Apostles did not so they were bold and valient and pleaded their own cause and had the Lord also to plead for them and had a witness in every mans conscience to plead their Innocency and so is it at this day by those whom Christ hath raised up who are bold and valiant not fearing what man can do neither dare they go down unto Egypt for help nor put their confidence in the arm of flesh neither take thought what to say but as the Lord gives wisdom and utterance so they speak and they have a Witness in every mans conscience and their innocency pleads their cause so that the Lord God his appearance is much seen amongst them by their undaunted courage and meek behaviour and patient suffering all things giving their backs to the smiter and their Cheeks to those that have pulled off the hair And it is to be observed among this people that their countenance did never fall neither were they ever put to flight or in the least give way to any fear or deceipt whereby their enemies could have any advantage against them And it is further observed that in all these times of Tryal they have never removed their publick Meetings neither changed the time nor place but rather hath appeared more publick and the Lord God hath raised up a greater Zeal amongst them