Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	law_n	sin_n	sinful_a	1,296	5	10.4091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66469	A young man's fancy to the rising generation being a sermon preached upon the death, and at the desire of John Tappin of Boston, who deceased at Fairfield the 10th of October 1672, being in the nineteenth year of his age / by Samuel Wakeman ...	Wakeman, Samuel, 1635-1692.	1673 (1673)	Wing W279; ESTC R18408	44,372	48

silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self O did not men forget that God is as to any serious thoughts of his Being so who and what God is and what duty and acknowledgement they owe him men would not durst no Whore and S●eal and Slander and Lie c. We have not to stand upon i● the Scripture frequently g●ving in this as the reason of the vileness unreasonableness of men their forgeting their not remembring God Psal 14 7. Ezek. 22.12 Hos 8.14 Psal 54.31 c. The feare of the Lord as the Wise-man speaks Prov. 6.10 is the beginning of wisedome the knowledge fear the remembrance and acknowledgement of God is the fountain and well-head of Piety and Religion the beginning and maintainer of all holiness and honesty of heart and life and it is forgetfulness of God that is the root of all prophaness dishonesty wickedness Men are prone to flatter themselves as was before intimated that they are not gross sinners and men are apt to promise themselves that they will not be such though they do not apply themselves to the indeed remembring God but believe it Sirs that man doth not know whither he shall be left or what wickedness he shall be given up to whatsoever he may hope or think or perswade himself that sets not himselfe to the indeed remembring and acknowledging God alas how many such have been sadly left that as little thought it by themselves as any of you can do who had they been foretold what they should be and do would have answered with Hazael Am I a d●g that I should do such great things flatter not thy self man If thou wilt not remember God indeed be throughly godly be ●●od in good earnest thou canst not tell how bad how vile and wicked thou shalt be 6. And lastly there is yet this more manifesting the exceeding greatness of this sin that it is against the light and law of nature it self Such as forget and disacknowledge God sin against their very Reason it self against their certain knowledge against the clearest light and strongest conviction of a naturall Conscience That there is a God that made us and we ought to remember him that there is of duty and acknowledgement due to him is a truth generally deeply and indelibly engraven upon the hearts of all whosoever he be therefore whosoever thou art that forgettest and disacknowledgest God thou art convicted by thy own Conscience thou art condemned by thine own heart thou art going against the shining light and strongest evidences of thy own reason and sure when God shall Judge thee according to the Law of the remembrance of him written in thy heart thy sin will be found to be so much the more sinfull hateful inexcusable by how much thou hast gone against the very light of Nature thy own certain knowledge and reason it self But so much of the greatness of this sin Secondly A few words of the danger of it Possibly some that are little or nothing aff●ct●d with the greatness of this sin in it self may be somewhat awakened with the con●●deration of the ●●●ger of it to them selves Consider then 1. The forgetting and disowning God will prov●ke him to forget disown you 2 Chron. 15.2 The Lord is with y u ●●chile ye he with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye fors●ke him he will forsake you Remember God and he will remember you own him and he will own you but disacknowledge him and he will disacknowledge you Relations are mutual and the due of Relates each to other is reciprocal if thou dost not remember and own him as thy Creator he will not remember and own thee as his Creature and what can be worse then this S●e what God threatneth Jer. 23.39 Behold I even I will utterly forget you and I will forsake you and it is spoken of as you may see by the Context as the forest doom the heaviest burthen that can be laid upon the back of a poor creature Forget God and it will come to that which the Prophet speaks of Isa 27.11 He that made them will have no mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour It is an Argument much made use of in Scripture moving the Lord to remember us in mercy moving him to compassion towards us to tell him that we are his creatures that he is our Maker and we are the work of his hands Job 10.3.9 Psal 118 8. Isa 64.8 but not to own him as such invalidates this Argument such forfeit the favour and merciful regard of the God that made them and if this be the doleful condition of such as do not remember him that he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour it is high time for every one to look about him A day may come man dost not thou think so when thou wilt be glad to plead the Priviledge of a poor Creature with the God that made thee but will not God stop thy mouth with thy not remembring thy Creator Dost thou not know or dost thou think thou shalt never know what it is in a day of extremity to have no where else to fly but to the mercy of the God that made thee to the favour and pity of the God that formed thee and to have this way blockt to have God shake thee off and forget and disown thee as thou hast done him as to shewing thee any favour Thinkest thou the time will never be as little as thou carest for or standest in need of God now when thou shalt know thou standest in as much need of God as he doth of thee thou standest in as much need of his merciful remembrance his beneficence as he of thy dutiful remembrance and obedience 2. Consider the not remembring the forgetting God will provoke him to blow upon and blast you in all your Enterprizes rendring them fruitless and unsuccessful rendring them vain and empty and vexatious it is Gods favour and presence that is the happiness of every condition that sweetens all our enjoyments and succeeds all our undertakings and it is the absence of God his disfavour that makes all but a meet heap of vanity and vexation and such as forget God though the world smile upon them for the present shall at last finde this so to their sorrow Isa 17.10 11. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants and shalt set it with strange slips In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow The plain meaning of it is that howsoever those that forget God pursue the world may go smoothly on for a while yet vexatious