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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	light_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,662	5	9.9466	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25473	A sermon preached at the funeral of reverend Mr. Will. Whitaker, late minister of Magdalen Bermondsey, Southwark by Samuel Annesley.	Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1673 (1673)	Wing A3237; ESTC R29041	19,740	37

sow John 4.37 38. So that whether you are glad or sorry that God takes away your Guides the words they have spoken in the name of the Lord shall to your sorrow or comfort certainly survive them Proposition 3. Though persons to whom God vouchsafeth the Means of Grace withdraw themselves from under it and remain willingly ignorant of their sin and duty yet the Word will overtake them and find them out and they must stand or fall according to their entertaiment of it How dexterously do many persons distinguish themselves out of their duty and how industriously do others remain wilfully ignorant of it little considering that sins of wilful ignorance are in some respects worse than sins against knowledge e. g. Sins against knowledge are many times striven against and so through grace more easily pardoned than sins of wilful ignorance which are alwayes industriously committed and never striven against Besides sins of wilful ignorance are also sins against knowledge for there 's so much knowledge and sense of duty that they think if they knew more they must do otherwise or their sin would be aggravated and therefore they shut their eyes against the light that they may sin more freely So that here 's sinning against knowledge in their wilful ignorance and so there 's a double guilt each kind of which is very dreadful James 4.17 To him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin Sin with a monstrous aggravation And Job 21.14 15. for those that say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit shall we have if we pray unto him God answers him that for this his wilful ignorance his eyes shall see his destruction and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty God will reward him and he shall know it Verse 19 20. Do but see at what a rate men are willing to compound with God so they might but keep their sin Mic. 6.7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or with ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl All this for one transgression A dear bought sin sure but he 'l not stick at more than all this Shall I give my first born for my transgression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scelus meum my Rebellion the fruit of my body for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 peccatum my error or mistake of my soul Lord if I may not compound with thee for greater provocations yet I hope thou wilt compound with me for my lesser sins the sin that my soul is loth to part with is but a little one I 'le do thee as much service as shall make amends for such a peccatillo let me keep but this small sin and I 'le stick at nothing else Wicked men will pretend well and promise fair and plead hard so they may but keep their sin so God would but let them do what they have a mind to but if not they care not for hearing from him Take notice of a doleful instance of this in a reserved remnant wonderfully delivered from several sweeping Judgments those Jews I mean that were preserved from the Sword Famine and Pestilence by which so many were destroyed that had escaped being carryed captive to Babylon and were delivered from being carryed captive by Ishmael we might rationally think the sense of these mercies being so fresh and present they would be very much afraid of displeasing God and that they would not venture upon a known sin to prevent danger But see the story Jer. 42.2 6. they would have the Prophet tell them from God what they should do when as they were before hand resolved what they would do Yea further they are so impudent as to call God to be a true and faithful witness to what they nothing less intended than what they so solemnly professed and pretended They seemed resolved to do what ever God directed were it never so disadvantageous and dangeous to them but when God forbids what they have a mind to then Jer. 43.2 they say to Jeremy Thou speakest falsly the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say Go not into Aegypt to sojourn there Whereas the plain truth is had they not been resolved even to pick a quarrel with God himself they would never have proposed a case so expresly already determined in Scripture as this was Deut. 17.16 You shall not return to Aegypt forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto them ye shall henceforth return no more that way Whence the Hebrews have a saying That it is lawful to dwell in all the world save in the Land of Aegypt and therefore the Prophet might easily tell them whence it was they pickt quarrels with the message Jer. 42.20 21. Ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the Lord your God saying pray for us unto the Lord our God and according to all that the Lord our God shall say so declare unto us and we will do it Verse 21. And now I have this day declared it to you but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God nor any thing for the which he hath sent me to you And when they were a little heated by the Prophets unwelcome message they plainly tell him Jer. 44.16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee When once it comes to this 't is time for God to tell them Jer. 44.28 You shall know whose words shall stand mine or yours They shuffle all they can before they come to tell God to his face they will not obey him but God tells them all along what they must trust to God will neither be flatter'd nor hector'd to any gratifying them in sin Proposition 4. Former threatnings and the execution of them should excite us to repentance though the Prophets that denounc't the one and the people that felt the other are dead and gone long since The Apostle Peter tells the Israelites of Sodoms case 2 Pet. 2.6 how God turn'd the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemning them with an overthrow making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly And the Apostle Paul tells the Corinthians of Israels case 1 Cor. 10.5 6 c. With many of them God was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the Wilderness Now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted c. Christians you have the Scripture Records in your hands how God hath dealt with such sinners as you are In the very sins you are guilty of you have instances of Gods displeasure Is God more favourable to sin now than formerly If he be not so quick in temporal vengeance you have the more cause to fear eternal God is infinitely holy and cannot be less holy than he is unless he cease to be God which is