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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	know_v	see_v	4,021	5	3.2352	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64004	The art of salvation preached first at Saint Maries in Oxford, and now published by Thomas Tvvittee ...	Twittee, Thomas, b. 1596.	1643 (1643)	Wing T3426; ESTC R32884	17,921	26

persons demanded Sirs what must I c. 2. The more miracles Pharoah saw the more was he hardened as appeareth plainely in the 8 9 10 of Exodus that great earthquake that was at our blessed Saviours resurrection Math. 28. when an Angell came and roled away the stone for feare of whom the Keepers did shake and become as dead men did not so astonish them but that they durst afterwards report that lowd lie That his Disciples came by night while they slept and stole him away if they slept how knew they that they were his Disciples If they did not it is not probable a poor company of unarmed fishermen should rescue the body from a guard of Souldiers But so ineffectuall is the greatest meanes if God worke not with it and that heart cannot but be hard which he doth not touch and mollify by his spirit But here a man by nation a Gentile by condition a Jaylor a kinde of profession that doth usually make men barbarous obdurate and irreligiously hard hearted like the grand keeper of that infernall prison the Divell himselfe yet is so confounded and wrought upon by this one miracle as that he becomes truly compassionate unto the persecuted Apostles pious and solicitous of his owne salvation Sirs what must I doe c. By way of paraphrase as if he had thus enlarged himselfe That you are the servants of the most high God and shew unto us the way of salvation the very Devills could acknowledge though I vile wretch worse then a Divill would not beleeve it this way many of our Citty have learned and imbraced though I miscreant did neglect and contemne it But now I am amazed convinced confounded I would goe to heaven I know not the way I would be saved I know not what to doe and therefore good Sirs helpe me informe me direct me tell me what must I doe c. Here the points come thick upon us but we shall only pitch upon these two First you see the state of man by nature unregenerate and carnall before God doth call him unto the knowledge of his truth ignorant of the way to heaven or what to doe to save his soule Secondly you see of whom you are to seeke direction namely of the Ministers the doctrine of salvation must be learned of those unto whom God hath committed the word of reconciliation For the First it is apparent in the present patterne we are all of us in the very same case naturally may perhaps have some defire but are meerely ignorant for Nascimur universi Civitatis prosus ignari saith a Father we are borne all of us ignorant of that City that is above all the light of purblind nature is no more then that of blinded Sampson as he without a guide could not find out one pillar of the house no more can the naturall man without the guide of Gods spirit finde out one article of faith S. Basill therefore compares carnall men to Howlets that see something in the night but nothing in the day wise to compasle things temporall but carelesse for things eternall nence it is that before the knowledge of Christ the people are said to sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death and in 2 Cor. 2.10 There is a vaile on the heart a vaile of ignorance and infidelity and there it remaines untill it turne unto the Lord and Ephe. 5.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye were sometimes darknesse so long as ye served Diana so long as ye were without the Gospel untill Christ Jesus ransomed you from your vaine conversation ye were not only darke in the concrete but darknesse it selfe in the very abstract And this came upon us by the fall of Adam man in the state of innocency had entire and perfect knowledge both of God and his will with an universall conformity thereunto internall and externall Justice inhaerent in him as a proper accident in it's subject but while he did desire that which was forbidden he lost that which he had he affected a higher straine of knowledge and so brought ignorance on himselfe and his posterity Secondly Christ Jesus he is not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the brightnesse of his fathers glory and expresse image of his substance but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that true light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world all that are without Christ walke in darknesse Egyptian Cimmarian darkenesse a man unregenerate must needs be ignorant an ignorant man must needs be a prophane man for he that wants knowledge cannot have grace And this discovers and justly reproves the folly and impudence of too many in these times who were never truly acquainted with God in his sacred Ordinances still wrapped up in the common vaile of infidelity and ignorance and yet blush not to maintaine that they need not instruction they know as much as any can tell them they beleeve as well as any hope to be saved aswell as the best and are as confident of heaven as if they were allready in fruition thereof but you know the Proverb None so bold as Bayard for the truth is they know nothing as they ought to know having their understandings darkened through the ignorance that is in them and because of the blindnesse of their heart Eph. 4.18 But as the hoodwinckt foole because he seeth no body thinks no body seeth him so these because they know nothing thinke there is nothing to be knowne some have not the knowledge of God I speake this to your shame saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15. but is this possible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the invissible things of him are seene by the creation of the world Rom. 1.20 Oh but they have not the saving knowledge of him in Christ some have it not and some refuse it the first are in a pittifull the second in a fearfull both in a damnable case for though simple ignorance may extenuate the sinne and make it lesse yet doth it not quite abrogate the guilt and make it no sinne at all because every man is bound to know his makers will and a competent measure of saving knowledge is required in every Christian who must be able and ready with meekenesse to render a reason of that hope that is in him I must confesse here the Schoole-men mince and are doubtfull especially Aquinas in his 2 dist 22 q 7. ● 2. would not have this native ignorance to be sinne but by the same reason he may deny originall sinne and therefore S. Austen in his 5 contra Juliannum 3. thus states it that Caecitas cordis quam solus removit illuminator Deus est peccatum paena peccati causa peccati That blindnesse of heart we have by nature which only God the fountaine of life and light doth remove is not only sinne and punishment of sinne but the cause of sinne also and as for affected and sinfull ignorance that is so farre from extenuating as that it doth every way aggravate both the sinne