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	sinner_n	2,820	5	9.3094	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34850	Vindiciæ veritatis, or, A confutation [...] the heresies and gross errours asserted by Thomas Collier in his additinal word to his body of divinity written by Nehemiah Coxe ...	Coxe, Nehemiah.	1677 (1677)	Wing C6719; ESTC R37684	130,052	153

destruction and many there be which go in thereat Because strait is the Gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto Life and few there be that find it Beware of false Prephets Mat. 7. v. 13 14 15. But saith he It would be beneath the spirit and charity of the Gospel to allow no salvation during the old Covenant to any in the world besides the elect Church of the Jews and contrary to the Scripture Act. 10. 34 35. In what sense the Nation of the Israelites was chosen of God I shewed before That all are not Israel elect of God to eternal life that are of Israel according to the flesh is certain and I grant also that in the time Mr. C. speaks of God had his remnant though we have reason to think not many in other Nations unto whom he did by means ordinary or extraordinary manifest himself and these did fear God and work righteousness by which their Election of God was manifested But that these did not belong to the number of the special Elect nor were of that Church which is Christs Spouse is utterly untrue neither doth he attempt to prove it He saith moreover Or to allow no salvation now under the Gospel to any among the Gentiles that have not heard of Christ and contrary to the Scripture Rom. 2. 14 15 16. Mr. C.'s notion about this matter we shall meet with again and examine afterwards At the present I must tell him that without the Spirit and Grace of Christ which may not be separate from the knowledge of him and Faith in his name all that persons can do is from a principle of self-love to yield some obedience to the Law of God externally and so live honestly among men But by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified in Gods sight for by the Law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 21. and that the Law of nature where the written Law is wanting will so far supply the place thereof as to convince of sin and leave the sinner inexcusable in his disobedience is the design of the Apostle to evince Rom. 2. 14. When the Gentiles which have not the law viz. written do by nature i. e. by a knowledge and conscience which God causeth to remain in mans nature though corrupt do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the offiees of the law viz. condemning evil and in the●r consciences approving good not so as to love good and hate evil but this they did sufficiently unto full inexcusableness These having not the law are a law unto themselves c. So Mr. C. closeth this Chapter without proof of his opinion CHAP. III. Of the Extent of Christs death I Return now to his second Chapter where he discourseth of the extent of the design of God in the death of his Son wherein he is so extreamly confused contradictious to himself Scripture and Reason that I fear the censure of my Reader for abusing him with the repetition of Mr. C's absurdities that can justly plead for no answer and also for imploying my own precious time to no better purpose But that which first engaged me in this task mus● be my plea for proceeding in my reply to this and the remaining part of his Book In the beginning of this Chapter p. 13. After he hath minded us of differing apprehensions among men concerning the end of Christs death That he may be sure to outstrip all he tells us That Christ dyed for the world that is the Vniverse the Heavens and Earth all things therein the whole six days Creation that fell with man for the sin of man c. Certainly whatsoever the Scripture holdeth forth concerning the curse brought upon the Creation by the sin of man and the future deliverance of the Creature from the vanity it now groans under it cannot but sound very harsh to Christian ears to hear That their Saviour dyed for the Universe yea for all things in Heaven or Earth for every silly Bird that flies in the Air yea and every Creature known in nature even the vilest most perishing and contemptible thing Yea how ridiculous might this notion be rendred But I fear God and therefore dare not dally with those things wherein the dying of my precious Lord must be mentioned This woful mistake he is cast upon by the ambiguity of the word World which he supposeth must always intend the Universe but the absurdity of that Hypothesis abundantly appears if we look into divers Texts where the word is used and can in no wise bear that sense Mr. Collier doth also assert universal Redemption in the Arminian sense in the next Section Because this word and the term All is sometimes used in Scripture where Redemption by Christ is treated of And so do others more sober than he For an answer therefore unto his abuse of divers Texts even all that are with any colour pleaded by him and fully to deliver the weak from his snares as also that my Reader may not complain of the utter loss of his time I will briefly give an account of those two terms from the Reverend Dr. Owen his Treatise of Redemption which I the rather insert because that excellent Treatise is now grown scarce and in the hands of few of those for whose benefit these Lines are especially designed Thus he writes Two words there are that are mighti●y stuck upon Dr. O. Treat of Redemp p. 180 c. or stumbled at First the World Secondly All. The particular places wherein they are and from which the arguments of our adversaries are urged we shall afterwards consider and for the present only shew that the words themselves according to the Scripture use do not necessarily hold out any collective universality of those concerning whom they are affirmed but being words of various significations must be interpreted according to the scope of the place where they are used and the subject matter of which the Scripture tre●teth in those places First then for the word World which in the New Testament is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for there is another word sometimes translated World viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that belongs not to this matter noting rather the duration of time then the thing in that space continuing he that doth not acknowledge it to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a word of various significations need say no more to manifest his unacquaintedness in the Book of God I shall briefly give you so many various significations of it as shall make it apparent that from the bare usage of a word so exceedingly aequivocal no argument can be taken until it be distinguished and the meaning thereof in that particular place evinced from whence the argument is taken I shall pass over the Scheme inserted by the Learned Author because it is contained in what followeth which is more accommodate to mean capacities He proceeds The word World in the Scripture is in general taken four way● First pro mundo