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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	know_v	sin_n	sin_v	3,589	5	9.2751	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87809	A looking-glasse for Levellers: held out in a sermon, preached at St. Peters Pauls-Wharfe, upon Sunday in the after-noone, Sept. 24. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometime chaplain to a regiment of curasiers in His Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K683; Thomason E465_30; ESTC R204195	16,473	21

the evidence of things not seen yet Segniùs irritant animos c. as the Poet speaketh a man will give more credit to his eyes then to his ears Saint Thomas would not go by hear-say except he might see he resolved not to believe But the chief Priests were so perverse that they would not believe their own eyes for they conspired against our Saviour though they saw him though they knew him though they knew him to be the Messiah and could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is the Heire From whence we may observe that as there is a zeale without knowledg so there is a knowledg without faith The very Devils knew our Saviour they knew him to be the Son of God Mat. 3.29 Jesus I know said the evill Spirit to those Exorcists Act. 19.15 But their knowledge was meerly historicall like their faith And just after this manner did the chief Priests know Christ There are indeed some places of Scripture that seem to contradict our Text and to say that the chief Priests knew not Jesus to be Christ knew not that he was the Heire For Saint John saith plainly that the world knew him not Joh. 1.10 And Saint Peter upbraiding the Jewes for killing the Prince of life useth these very words I wot that through ignorance ye did it as did also your Rulers Act. 3.17 And Saint Paul speaking of the wisdome of God which I take to be his Son telleth us in expresse words that none of the Princes of this world knew it for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory 1 Cor. 2.8 But I answer First to that of Saint John the world knew not Christ that is the greatest part of it to that of Saint Paul none of the Princes of this world knew him that is few of them to that of Saint Peter the Jewes and their Rulers slew him ignorantly that is some of them did so thus the ordinary glosse would have those places construed Secondly I answer that the ignorance of the chief Priests was not purae negationis but pravae dispositionis if they were ignorant of Christ it was because they would be ignorant as the people used to say to their Seers see not so these Seers seem to have stopped their eares and shut their eyes for otherwise they could not chuse but acknowledge Jesus to be the Messiah because all the Prophecies of his comming were fulfilled First that Prophecy Gen. 49.10 pointing at the time of his Birth the Scepter was then departed from Judah the Jewes paid contribution they were tributaries to the Romans Secondly that Prophecy Micah 5.2 pointing out the place of his Nativity he was borne in Bethleem of Judea which was the place assigned for Christs Birth as these very chief Priests or their Predecessours told King Herod But if neither the time nor place of his Birth yet his Miracles might perfectly assure them that he was the Messiah And therefore when Saint John Baptist sent two of his Disciples to aske him if he were Christ all the answer he would returne by them was this Go and shew John again those things ye doe heare and see the blind receive their sight the deafe hear the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the dead are raised up c. Mat. 11.4 5. And when Christ commeth some asked the question Shall he doe more Miracles then these which this man doth Joh. 7.31 Though the chief Priests then would not believe his words yet they might have believed him for his works sake But neither of these would prevaile with them they had eares yet would not heare they had eyes yet would not see Which was a most notorious aggravation of their treason for had they been stark blind their sin haply might have been remitted but because seeing they would not see therefore their sin remaineth And this sin of theirs seemeth to be no better then the very sin against the Holy Ghost for against conscience out of meer malice they conspired to put this Heire to death And I pray God the Ring-leaders of our rebellious Reformation be not guilty of the self-same sin for it seemeth to be out of a desperate inveterate malice that notwithstanding the present Treaty some of them persist in their conspiracy against the best of Kings But these Levellers shall bring up the rear of my discourse I passe therefore from the second part of the Text the Person that the chief Priests conspired against which was the Heire to the third which is the manner of their conspiracy They reasoned among themselves saying come let us kill him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they reasoned they argued the case Treason is a sin of deliberation a studied sin All sins are not cognita known sins there are sins of ignorance as well as sins of knowledge But there is neither ignorantia facti nor ignorantia juris in treason it is wilfully contrived and complotted it is a premeditated sin And herein appeareth the hainousnesse of it above other sins To sin out of infirmity or ignorance to be overtaken in a fault this is but as it were chance medley pardonable by the law of God and men But to sin with a full career of set purpose to consult about it this is no lesse then wilfull murder a sin that never must go unpardoned and yet this was the sin of these chief Priests in our Text they reasoned among themselves saying come let us kill him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Come Wicked men use to call and invite one another to commit sin they are a sociable sort of people that are unwilling to go to Hell alone they entise and engage as many as they can to be partakers with them they are in league and covenant there is a combination among them especially among Traytours such as these chief Priests were who conspired against Christ just as Joseph's Brethren against him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 come let us kill him Joseph indeed scaped with life thanks to his eldest Brother but Jesus had not one Reuben to speak for him none but a Woman and she could not prevaile the Kings of the earth standing up and the Rulers taking counsell together against the Lord and against his Christ for against the holy Child Jesus both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of the Jewes were gathered together they gathered them together against the soule of the righteous that they might condemn the innocent bloud they reasoned among themselves saying come let us kill him Kill him As the Devil is a murtherer so all those that are of his party thirst after bloud Shimei did a great deal of wrong to David in calling him so but otherwise Bloudy man and man of Belial may well go together for there is no man desperately wicked but he is a bloud-thirsty man It hath been thus from the beginning of the world and will be so to the end Caine was of that wicked one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉