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	transgression_n	3,416	5	11.8881	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01629	The true tryall and examination of a mans owne selfe wherein euery faithfull Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainely behold his spirituall deformity by nature, described, his actuall rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptisme, by ordinary transgression apparantly proued, his lamentable estate through sinne discouered, his wilfull obstinacie by dayly disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentaunce, and faith in Christ Iesu, he is from all the same clearely pardoned, forgiuen, released and reconciled / done in Englishe by Tho. Newton.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1587 (1587)	STC 11761.5; ESTC S4316	74,045	216

caytife as a treacherous recreant as a faithles promisebreaker as a false hearted wretch vnto God the father as a bloudy cutthrote haling drawing Christ vnto the Crosse anew as an enimy to the Holy Ghost as a mocker of the blessed Aungels as a Traytor to the whole Church as a shamefull runne-away from the holy congregation and finally as a cruell manqueller of thine owne selfe What canst thou now do What way wilt thou take What hope or trust cāst thou haue What land what ground can patiently beare the burthen and weight of thy wretched Carcasse What heauen what sunne what planets what starres can quietly looke on thee or willingly giue shine vnto thee Or what eies rather canst thou or darest thou lift vp vnto heauen The time was when thou wast in excellent good state and wast adorned and endued with right excellent giftes but now through thine owne fault and wilfulnesse thou hast altered thy case and caused those thinges which of themselues were good holsome and to thee most profitable to turne all to thy harme and confusion Truely it had beene better for thee neuer to haue heard of the will and promise of God neuer to haue beene washed and cleansed by the bloude of Christ then after all these to forsake the holy commandements and like a filthy swine to returne to thy wallowing in the mier and as a dogge to lap vp his old vomit Beholde nowe wretched creature that thou art vnto what a dangerous staie thou hast brought thy selfe ● and with what maner of gaping gulf thou art euen ready to be swallowed If the Lord God vouchsafe not in time with mercy to releeue and succour thee it will come to passe that thee by wicked vncleane spirit which was once banished and cast out of the washing of thy newe birth and by the holy ghost will come and take vp his lodging againe in thee and not hee alone but hauing with him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe whereby thy case will be farre worse in the ende then it was in the beginning O wofull case O wretched plight O moste miserable estate Looke well to thy selfe therefore I beseech thee cōsider what thou art acknowledge thy grieuous sinnes and manifolde offences remember the lamentable ende whereunto they will bring thee and therefore bethinke thy selfe night and day and in time seeke for remedy CAAP. 4. Th● 〈◊〉 not be any better way for the true triall and examining of our selues then the diligent and exact consideration of our dealings by the 2. tables of the laws of God commonly called the tenne Com●eundements IT is not ynough for thee to confesse thy self in a generality to haue grieuously offended to haue lewdly violated and broken the couenaunt and promise made with God to haue consented to the suggestions of the Deuill and thine own flesh but it is most expedient for thee if thy minde and purpose bee thoroughly and fully to trie and examine thy selfe to rip vp all thy actions and dealinges to the very quicke and precisely to examine and discusse all those sundry wayes and meanes whereby thou haste any way offended either God or thy neybour Heere be thou sure there will bee layd open before thee a large volume a big booke in the which thou shalt prefectly see all thy detestnble sinnes which bee infinite plainly set down clearely written and apparantly discoucred Heerein shalt thou see store of witnesses against thee and heereby beeing brought to thine aunswere and drawne to the barre of Triall thou shalt bee enforced and will thou nill thou driuen to yeelde accompts for euery seuerall fact in particularty And therefore so much as hytherto hitherto hath beene yet spoken may wel seeme small and of little account if wee well weigh and diligently compare the same to that which yet remaineth vntold and which now shal● be by Gods good grace particularly handled This tryall or examination cannot any way be so commodiouslie and orderly made as by exactly calling vnto our consideration the written lawe o● God with all and singular the members braunches and circumstaunce● thereof For the lawe of God otherwise called the Decalogue or tenne Commaundementes is as it were ● cleare and bright Glasse wherein we may by and by and at a blush perfectly beholde our spirituall deformitie And of this lawe the Scripture setteth downe vnto vs three speciall vses First as a most wise Guide of our life it teacheth vs what we are to do and what wee are to leaue vndone what wee are to desire and seeke and what we are to loath and forsake The lawe is giuen to the disobedient to the vngodly and sinners c. Teach mee O Lords the way of thy commaundements Secondly the lawe plainely setteth downe before our eies our manifolde sinnes and transgressions and worketh in vs a sorrowfull griefe and earnest repentaunce for the same By the lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne And againe I knewe not sinne but by the lawe For I had not knowen lust except the lawe had saide Thou shalt not lust And a little after O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this sinne And in the same Chapter When the commaundement came sinne reuiued but I dyed Thirdly the lawe conuincing vs of most manifest guiltinesse and malediction and no way able to satisfie and pacify the wrath of god for the breach of the same biddeth vs for succour to flee vnto our Mediatour Christ who onely and alone deliuereth vs from malediction and damnation and taketh the curse due vnto vs vpon himselfe And againe The lawe is our schoolemaister to bring vs to Christ LET vs nowe therefore in order run ouer the whole preceptes and commaundements of the lawe of God and let vs pause a while at each falling thee to thine answere for euerie particular Commandement how carefull thou haste beene to keepe them and howe truely thou hast discharged thy bounden duety in obseruing and performing them that when thou haste thus sundry wayes founde thine infirmities and throughly considered thy manifolde transgressions thou mayest certainly knowe that vnlesse the Mediator Iesus Christ vouchsafe to cloth thee with his righteousnesse and to impute vnto thee his obedience and performaunce of the Lawe there is no remedy but that thou must needes bee eternallie damned The first Commaundement therefore is this I am the Lorde thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage Thou shalt haue none other Gods before my face HEre first I wish thee well and throughly to consider what inward sinnes of minde and conscience lodging only within the secrete corners of thy heart be directly committed against this commaundement Then the outwarde sinnes such I mean as openly break out into action and engender many times great disorders and offences And last of al enter into diligent consideration of all such sinnes as seeme to proceede