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
A29118	Elijah's nunc dimittis, or, The authors own funerall sermons in his meditations upon I Kings 19:4 ... / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1669 (1669)	Wing B4132; ESTC R7187	60,180	133

my spirit Luke 23.46 in sense the same with the Prophet in the Text Lord take away my soule With such holy expressions as these did holy Men dying take their leave of the World and breathe out their spirits I could instance in many more Bishops Martyrs Confessors and other holy men and Women dying some in my own hearing others in the hearing of other Men and recorded in the stories of their Lives and Deaths with the gratious expressions utter'd by them in their death-beds in words full of faith full of hope full of comfort much to the edification of all that were present and it is a great advantage to be present with such men at such a time for then are they most serious then are their soules loosing from the prison of their bodies and are prominentes as it were looking out before they take their flight then have they clearer Vision of things then they had before when they were in the close prison of their bodies the light breaks in at the chinks and at the doores and windows opening to let out the soule then have many of the Saints had rare Discoveries and Revelations by which they have Prophesied of things to come and the words of dying men are much to be heeded and regarded But if you would have the Lord to draw neer unto you in these wayes when you are dying you must draw neer to God in his wayes while you are living You must acquaint your selfe with God and be at peace with him as Eliphas speaks in Job cap. 22.21 you must live in communion with him you must call upon his Name prayse him and give him thanks worship him and doe his will then will he own you and be mercifull to you at that time and draw neer unto you and have a care of your soule that it shall not miscarry but he himselfe will take it away But secondly If you would have the Lord to take away your soule you must keep your soul with all diligence and preserve it pure and undefiled that the Lord may own it and accept it and place it among the holy souls of his Saints and his redeemed ones The Lord our God is a holy God of pure eyes which cannot behold any thing that is impure but with indignation and there is nothing more odious to him then sinne and corruption nor which renders us more abominable in his sight Compared therefore to Leprosie to the Leopards spots to menstruous pollution If therefore our souls shall be presented unto him stained with sinne polluted with uncleanness defiled with spirituall leprosie of corruption spotted with noysome lusts and pleasures Will the Lord look at them will he own them will he accept them Can we desire the Lord or hope that he will take away such souls or imploy his good Angels to fetch them as he did to receive the soule of Lazarus and carry it into Abraham's bosome No there are other soule-gatherers ready to take away such souls even those which were imployed to fetch away the soule of the covetous rich Man in the Gospel Luke 12.20 If we would have the Lord to take away our souls we must present them pure unto him without spot and blameless They must be wash't cleane in the blood of the Lambe and cleansed by the sanctifying vertue of the holy Ghost our Consciences the highest faculty of the soule Must be purged from dead works to serve the living God We must purge our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit and grow up in true holiness in the feare of the Lord The Place which our souls are to goe to it holy the Company holy the exercises holy and so must our souls be also that they may be suitable to all the rest and then the Lord will take away our souls and place them amongst them in joy happiness and glory Thus of The Act. The Object followes My soule 2. Branch The soule is the spirituall part of Man the principall and essentiall part whereof Man doth consist the fountaine of life sense and motion which by the spirits vitall naturall animall the souls cursitors running into all the parts of the body actuates and informes it and useth it as an Organ or Instrument whereby to performe it's severall operations This soule of man is pretious in these seven respects First In respect of the Fountaine of it it proceeds originally from the immediate breathing of God himselfe For when God had made Man of the dust of the earth he breath'd into him the breath of life and Man became a living soul Gen. 2.7 Secondly In respect of the rare faculties of it the Understanding the Will the Memory the Affections Reason Judgement Wisedome Knowledge Conscience the highest of all the rest considered in both the parts of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one The Treasure the other The Soules Controuller c. Thirdly In respect of the immortality of it it dyes not with the body but being taken out of the body is preserv'd unto Eternity Fourthly In respect of the Image of God once stampt upon it which though miserably defac't since by the fall yet not so utterly raz'd out but there are goodly lineaments of that Image yet left upon it Neither is it so irrecoverable but that by the spirit of grace and the grace of sanctification it may be so repaired and renewed as that the soule may be and is said still Thereby to be made partaker of the Divine Nature 2 Peter 1.4 not in the substance of the Deity but in holiness and righteousness wisedome knowledge goodness love and light which are as the beames of the Image of God shining upon it Fifthly In respect of the purchase of it It is the price of blood not of Bulls and Goats but of the Divine blood of Jesus Christ our Redeemer 1 Peter 1.19 Sixthly The pretiousness of souls may appear by the pains and cost that Satan and his Instruments will be at to gaine a soule they will compass Sea and Land to gaine a soule give a Kingdome for a soule Mat. 4.8 All the Kingdoms of the world with the glory of them Omnia haec tibi dabo All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me ver 9. Seventhly By the great care that Almighty God hath taken to preserve souls and to save them from perishing he hath given his Word to direct them his Ministers to instruct them his Sacraments to confirme them his Spirit to guide them and his Angels to guard them and all this to preserve them and to save them from perishing In all these respects it appears that souls are pretious Our blessed Lord which well knew the price of souls lays one soule in one ballance and the whole world in the other against it and upon the tryall tells us That one soule weighs downe the whole world in the other scale What shall it profit a Man to win the whole