Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	life_n	sacrament_n	tree_n	1,539	5	9.0601	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77503	A looking-glasse for good vvomen, held forth by way of counsell and advice to such of that sex and quality, as in the simplicity of their hearts, are led away to the imbracing or looking towards any of the dangerous errors of the times, specially that of the separation. / As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great-Yarmouth, by John Brinsley. Octob. 9. 1645. Imprimatur Ja: Cranford.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing B4717; Thomason E305_23; ESTC R200330	44,390	54

Greek Critick did of the Bow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The name of it signified life but the work was death that are in name Light but in truth Darknesse 5. In the last place 5. A promise of some great good Holding forth new-light to the woman withall he maketh promise to her of some great good that should accrue to her from following his Counsell specially of a great increase of knowledge and of atchieving an excellent and transcendent honour and dignity A practise imitared by all Sectaries Your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods knovving good and evil And is it not even such ayre that the Heresiarchs the heads and prime leaders of all schismes and factions in the world have in all ages used to feed their Sectaries their Disciples with In case they will but hearken to their counsell and put themselves upon the vvayes whith they hold forth unto them they promise them some great good that shall accrue unto them In particular hereby they shall come to knovv that which they never yet did nor others do nor can do being out of that way Besides they shall hereby be translated to the highest forme of Christianity attaine to such honour and perfection as without this they are not capable of These things I do but touch being very willing to dismisse this second head of particulars taken from the quality of the instrument which Satan here maketh use of and the Arguments which he putteth into his mouth Passe we now to the third which I shall dispatch with all convenient brevity 3. The Object the Apple presented to the Woman which was being as willing to dismisse this Text and this subject as possibly some of you would have me In the third place then looke upon the Object the Apple it self which is here presented to the Woman And therein we shall take notice onely of three particulars You have them all together in the beginning of the sixth verse of that third of Genesis Gen. 3.6 1. She saw that it was good to eat 2. That it vvas beautifull pleasant to the eyes 3. That it vvas desirable to make one vvise Each appliable to our present purpose A word of each 1. 1. Good to eat pleasant and nourishing It was good to eat pleasant and delectable to the palate and withall usefull for nourishment Such she apprehended it to be and such no question in truth it was Not but that there might be and most probably were some other Trees in the Garden equalizing it in both these respects As for instance The tree of life which how ever it was so called as Augustine determines it well not effectivè but significative not in regard of any such operation or vertue that it had to give life or preserve life to Eternity but in regard that it was a Sacrament a Signe and Seal of life and immortallity to man upon his obedience Yet in all probability as Mercer conceives of it the fruit thereof was both most delectable and nutritive most pleasant to the palate and nourishing to the body But yet such properties there were also in the Tree of knovvledge and happily the Woman apprehended more then there was And these inticed the Woman the rather to taste of it Applied to the times And truly such are the arguments that do much prevaile with many of those who are drawne aside to the imbracing of nevv vvayes specially that of the Separation They apprehend a great deal of sweetnesse a great deal of goodnesse in that way Much svveetnesse in the Communion of Saints Much goodnesse both in the Persons that go that way and in the means which there may be had for Spirituall edification No sweetnesse in the way of separation but may be injoyed without it and soul-nourishment And we will not deny but it may be so But withall may there not be as much both sweetnesse and goodnesse in another tree as in this forbidden one May not both these be found in some other way as viz. in that one way which the Church is now holding forth in this Kingdom As for that sweetnesse in the Communion of Saints which is indeed a true sweetnesse that cannot but relish well to a gracious palate What letteth but that it may be injoyed as well in this way as in any other Let but any judicious Christian give me a reason for it and I shall be silent In the mean time know we that if it be not so it is the fault of the Persons not of the way For the Persons I shall not in any wise detract from their reall goodnesse in this I shall desire to have and use as much charity as some of them want But if we may take the boldnesse to move the question where did they get that goodnesse Was it not in the Church of God and under the Ministery in this Kingdome I presume there are few very few that are now adopted into any of these new wayes incorporated into any of these new bodies but they will do the Church of England this right as to acknowledge it their Mother and some of the Ministers of this Church their Fathers in Christ by whom they were begotten unto God And if so seeing this wombe bar them why may not these breasts give them suck You will not allow it that Mothers which are able should put forth their children to nurse What would you think of those children that should put forth themselves why may they not expect sufficient nourishment from those meanes from which at the first they had their spirituall subsistance Obj. But there is more full and more liberall means and maintenance in that way Ans Pretence of better means no sufficient warrant for seperation Should this be supposed yet cannot this be conceived to be a sufficient warrant for any presently to forsake and renounce that Church where God by his Providence and Ordinance hath cast them No more then it would be for sheepe or other cattle to break their fence because there is better feeding in the next pasture But as for the means which through the goodnesse of God may be in the Church amongst us injoyed let me say this of them and I will speake it with confidence that such is this pasturage that if the sheepe of Christ will but take their feed here is enough not onely to keep them life-ward but to feed them fat Such are ●h●se means as if Christians be not wanting to themselves in the use of them here is sufficient not onely to maintaine the life of grace in them but to make them rich in grace But I hasten 2. The second thing which inticed the Woman in the fruit which she saw 2. The beautifull outside of the Apple was the faire and beautifull outside of it she saw that it was pleasant to the eyes And surely is not this one thing that dayly inticeth and carrieth away many to the imbracing of new-wayes