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
A65987	Vnto those people who are called Baptists.	Wight, Thomas, of Market St., Herts.	1659 (1659)	Wing W2109; ESTC R214793	4,236	7

Vnto those PEOPLE Who are called BAPTISTS FRiends in tender love to your souls is my soul drawn forth for I see there is a zeal among you but is your zeal according to knowledge whilst many of you are professing preaching praying and worshipping and yet stumbling at and contending against that in which alone all Worship Prayers and Sacrifices is accepted in the sighr of God therefore this is the word of truth which I testifie unto you that except your Worship Prayers and sacrifices do proceed and come from a measure of him in you who is the light of the world in whom alone the Father is well pleased you are but warming your selves at your own sparks which you have kindled for which you must receive of the Lord a lying down in sorrow Therefore ye who are crying out of deceit and delusion I say be not deceived for God will not be worshipped or served but with his own seed onely therefore weary him not with that which is yours and take heed of rejecting or slightting that measure of his own seed which he hath given you to serve him with even that in you which moves contrary to the world and breathes after the Fountain from whence it came that which searcheth the heart yea the secrets therein and makes manifest the deceit and hypocrysie thereof this is the seed of the kingdom in you which is like a grain of mustard seed and this is the grace of God which bringeth salvation and hath appeared unto all men for this end to lead out of the dark paths of sin and death and this is the light which shines in the dark heart of man but the darknesse comprehends it not but men loves the darkness rather then the light because it makes their cruel deeds manifest and are not many of you strangers to this light having your hearts vailed over with thick darknesse whilst you are professing and reading the Scriptures and yet are questioning where they declare of or direct to a light within Oh how hath the God of this world blind●d the eyes of many who are stumbling at that which is given them to lead out of darkness even that sure word of Prophesie unto which you might do well to take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts but how can ye professe that ye know God whilst you are denying the light of his son within in which the Father is revealed and by which that that may be known of God is made manifest in man or is there another way to come to the knowledge of God then by his light which shines in the heart and gives the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Was not this the Apostles Doctrine and the end of their Ministry to turn people from darknesse to this light that so they might come to know him in them who is the light of the world for they who know him onely outwardly after the flesh they murdered him in whom the fulness of Light Life and power dwelt because they knew him not that was from the beginning the word of life the rock of ages the bread that came down from heaven the flesh that was meat indeed and the blood that was drink indeed they knew not neither had they heard the voice of God or seen his shape at any time for they were erred and gone forth from that which would have made him manifest even the seed of that kingdome within them which they were seeking in observations without and in the Scripture without they did think to have eternal life but unto him that was the life of whom the Scripture testified they would not come but stumbled at the stumbling stone now ye that deny that Christ hath enlightened all men with a light sufficient to lead to salvation whose faith is that God hath appointed a certain number before the world was unto salvation and unto them he affords grace sufficient to bring them to the end appointed them and that all others are reprobated to destruction and yet say that God gives so much of his grace to them as may leave them without excuse and that may be sufficient to condemn but not to save them notwithstanding God declareth That he wills not the death of him that dyeth but rather that he would turn from his wickednesse and live and that he hath given his Son a light into the world that it through him might be saved and that he would all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth and that he is no respecter of persons but though your faith doth stand in respect of persons will you therefore make God to be like your selves surely if you will but come down and own the wisdome of God ye might in it see your Principles to be such that even strikes at the root of the Justice of God limits his mercy and makes him a respecter of persons and rherefore do I bear witness against it and do affirm that Election and Reprobation is not in respect or relation to persons but in the two seeds between which God hath put enmity there hath God past Election and Reprobation and all men as they are in the fall in sin and transgression are under the curse and in the state of Reprobation being joyned unto that seed where the curse and Reprobation is therefore hath God in his love given his Son to redeem man out of that state from under the power of the Serpent again unto himself and into his power and Dominion who is the seed unto which the blessing is and in whom the Election stands sure unto as many as are in him who is the light and of whose fulness all have a measure even of the grace that brings salvation which unto all hath appeared and the grace of God is one and is not divided though some in their dark imagination● distinguish between grace sufficient and grace not sufficient or saving grace and preventing or restraining grace but I say the grace of God is perfect and the least measure thereof is sufficient to save to the uttermost all those that give up themselves to be led and guided by it but the sloathfull servant hides his Lords Talent and then complains of his Lord but he receives his portion in utter darkness whilst he that had improved his two talents received his portion with him that had ten and this I testifie that it is onely by grace that salvation is wrought and not by any thing of mans own for where grace is truly owned there self is as truly denied in all its willing working for when that is owned and joined to which is Gods power then all mans work which he hath wrought and all his fair buildings which he hath framed in self in his own power and wisdome though glorious in appearance yet all must be pulled down and an