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
A93420	A Christian life manifested wherein is shewed who they are which follow the lamb in meekness and patience.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4294; ESTC R184391	7,932	10

A CHRISTIAN LIFE MANIFESTED Wherein is shewed who they are which follows the Lamb in meekness and Patience THe night of Apostacy having overspread the earth and the darkness of it having covered the people the wisdome below hath sought out many Inventions and the name of Christians have been taken up from something observed which the wisdome below hath invented and with this name people are satisfied though from the life they be alienated and such are Gentiles who know not God but are seperated from him through the darkness that is in them and whilst they profess to know God and to worship him they are ignorant of him and in works denies him though they have taken upon themselves the name of Christians yet they are not changed from the Gentiles nature but abides in darkness and walkes in darkness and knows not whither they go because that darkness hath blinded their minds and such errs from the way of truth notwithstanding they profess a Christian state and a Christian worship and the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ is hid from their eyes and they do not know the fellowship of the Gospel but walks in their own way and follows the devices of their own hearts and worships the works of their own hands after the manner of the Gentiles and though that which may be known of God be manifest in them yet they like not to retain God in their knowledge but likes to retain their own inventions better and so they forsake the Fountain of living water and hews to themselves broken Cisterns that can hold no water and this brings a famine upon the land because people feels not the Lord nor the springs of his refreshings and though they may assemble together and sit before him as his people yet their hearts are not towards him and therefore in vain they worship him Now forasmuch as that which may be known of God is manifest in people and that both Jew and Gentile are enlightened with the light of Christ and that there is no respect of persons with God then that which is manifest from God within people is to be chiefly minded in its manifestation for seeing that none can know God but by the Revellation of Jesus Christ and that none can witness salvation but by the power of Christ then is every one to mind that light with which Christ enlightens them that by the manifestation of it they may know God and worship him as he is God for as the light comes from God so doth it give the knowledge of God in the hearts of all that beleive in it and there is not any that are true Christians until they beleive in the light which is manifest from God within them for as the Apostasie is entred and the darkness overspread so with the light that shines in the heart is darkness expelled and then the light doth give the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus and in the light thus shining the Lord is known and truely worshiped for as blindness hath hapned in part unto the Jews until the fulness of the Gentiles be brought in the Lord willing to make known his loveing kindness unto a people that sought him not and that they might be his people which were not his people and that both Jews and Gentiles in fulness of time might be gathered together in one even in Christ so doth his power work both in Jews and Gentiles who in his light beleive by which power they come to be changed from all things which they have outwardly observed and comes to be renewed in the spirits of their minds and to feel the inward man restored into Christ who of twain maketh one new man in himself and so maketh peace for he is not a Jew which is one outward neither is circumcision that of the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inward and circumcision is that of the heart which is wrought by the power of Gods spirit within man and there is the seed of Abraham known both in Jew and Gentile for the love of God doth universally spread abroad unto all Nations Kindreds and People and in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him and Christianity doth not lye in any outward observation nor in any particular form which in any Nation or amongst any people is set up but it is in Christ the seed and if any man be in Christ he is a new creature and a a new creature is a Christian for Christ is his life and this is that which hath been witnessed by all the holy men of God in ages past who were pertakers of the Divine nature and had all things therein given them that pertained to life and godliness and there is none can come to a christian state but who comes to the light which from the life is made manifest for the light is given of God to search out all invented wayes and formed works and with the light they are all reproved and that which makes them manifest and reproves them that is the way which leads out of them and as the testimony of it is received so all invented waies and formed works comes to be denied and the mind comes actually to be disposed in the leadings of the light in its own way and then the judgement rises in the power which casts out the Idol and destroyes the inventor and they both fall together by the work of the power and then the nature of the Heathen dies and Christ appears in the glory of his own life and translates the beleiver into the immage of his own likeness and that is a christian state in which man comes into union with Christ and lives the life of Christ and there the Jew and the Gentile is made one and comes into the fellowship of the Gospel and Christ is then felt who is a christians nature and from the nature there is fruit produced in love and peace and meekness and gentleness and that which doth not bear this fruit it is none of Christs for all strife and envy and malice is from the darkness and they that live in such things are not Christians though they may take the name upon them but they are in the Heathens nature where God they know not and such destroyes one another who are not in the love and peace and unity of the spirit for where the spirit is not received the fruit of it cannot be manisested and therefore every mans way seeming right in his own eyes he would have all to walk with him in his path and there rises all contention from mens own opinions for which they persecute and destroies one another about their Religion but the life of a christian is not so for the birth born of God is love and love thinketh no ill but is kind and courteous and gentle towards all men and they that are born of this life they are true christians and