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evil_n	darkness_n	good_a	sweet_a	3,257	5	8.2420	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02032	The light of the world A sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire. By Thomas Granger, preacher of Gods word there.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12179; ESTC S103386	23,817	39

past feeling haue giuen themselues to wantonnesse Custome in sinne hardneth the heart and the heart being hardned rebelleth against the mind and putteth out the light of reason which bringeth a curse vpon the conscience and taketh away all remorse of sinne which is a token of reprobation The Apostle calleth it a seared conscience that cannot bleed 1 Tim. 4. 2. Thus haue I shewed what it is to walke in darknesse which is to liue not according to the knowledge of God and his waves but according to the imaginations and corrupt affections of our owne hearts And thus doe all men naturally liue though neuer so wise learned ciuill and great in the world their whole life is foolish fruitlesse vnprofitable and their end is eternall death For the further clearing of this point I will shew in what particulars the vaine and foolish life of the ignorant is compared to darknesse First darknesse is a priuation and want of light so spirituall darknesse that is the ignorance and blindnesse of the heart is a priuation and want of the light or knowledge of God Secondly in darknesse all things are inuisible one thing cannot be discerned from another Blacke and white good and euill hurtfull things and profitable things are not discerned So in spirituall darknesse men call good euill and euill good sinne is delightfull and sweet to them yea they coun tit abhomination todepart from euill 1 Pet. 4. 4. Wherein it seemeth strange vnto them that yee run not with them to the same excesse of riot therefore speake they euill of you Thirdly in darknesse a man knowes not the right way though he be neuer so quickesighted and although he be set in it yet will he soone goe astray running into by-paths and dangerous wayes like a blind man so in So in spirituall darknesse ignorance of God in his word a man knowes not the way of life this narrow way he can not finde though he be neuer so subtill politicke wise and learned well may he grope for the streight gate as the men of Sodome did for Lots dore but he shall neuer be able to finde it and though he daily looke on it yet shall he not discerne it All his wayes are the wayes of death and the good and right way seemeth to him to be the worst way Fourthly if this light of the sunne were not the earth should be a very picture and resemblance of hell a confused masse or heape of beasts foules and men one thing treading other vnder foot nothing but hunger thirst cold nakednesse feare terrours sorrow despaire mourning and wailing continuall dying one thing deuouring another Euen so in spirituall darknesse where the knowledge of Gods word is not there is a resemblance of hell and men are like diuels there is nothing but disorder and confusion no dueties towards God nor towards man put in practise Where this glorious light of the Gospell shineth not in the hearts of men they are like to beasts and Serpents yea they degenerate into the natures of all noisome and venemous beasts First they hatch cockatrice egges that is whatsoeuer commeth from them is deadly poyson Esay 59. 5. The poison of Aspes is vnder their lippes Psal 14. 5. Destruction and vnhappines is in their waies verse 7. Secondly they are vipers children deuouring parents and parents their children Mat. 3. 7. Thirdly They are as fed horses of vnbrideled and adulterous lusts Ier. 5. 8. Fourthly Reioycing and neighing in the victory and downfall of their neighbours like to strong horses Ier. 50. 11. Fiftly destroying their Prophets teachers instructors and the poore like to Lyons Ier. 2. 30. Psal 10. 9. 22. 13. Sixtly subtile and wilely to deceiue like Foxes Luke 13. 32. Seuenthly Girning and running about like dogges if they be not satisfied in their vnsatiable desires Psal 59. 14. Esay 56. 11. Eightly rauenous and greedy of the prey full of cruelty and without all mercy like to wolues Mat. 7. 15. Where the light of the Gospell shineth not in the hearts and mindes of men what can there be but pride vaineglory drunkennesse excessiue drinkings oppression deceiuing one another and being deceiued euery Superiour treading his Inferiour vnder foote politicke and craftie circumuenting one another wily intrapping and insnaring one another cousenage fraudulent dealing dissembling and lying in bargaining bloodsucking by cruell oppression hatefull and heathenish rent-racking vaine and prodigall spending voluptuous liuing and licentious gaming murthers enuy ill will contention and trouble whoredomes adulteteries and wantonnesse These and such like are the workes of darknesse euen of them that are aliue in body and dead in soule But Christ is the light of the world they that follow him shall not liue in such darknesse but shall haue the light of life Thus much of the negatiue reason the affirmatiue followeth IIII. But shall haue the light of life There be two lights of life or liuely lights First the knowledge of God in righteousnesse and holinesse participated by the sonne of God to Adam in the creation is called liuely light I say the naturall knowledge of God in Adam before the fall was the light of naturall life which life stood in absolute holinesse which was his perfect obedience to the first Table and absolute righteousnesse which was his obedience to the second But this liuely light by the fall was extinguished yet not wholly but so buried in ignorance and impurity as it is of no force to bring forth in vs any pure worship of God or holinesse of life but serueth rather to bridle and restraine vs from outragious sinne and to giue vs some light to discerne our ignorance and malice to our owne accusation and condemnation so that it is a deadly and not a liuely light The second light is a new knowledge that is the knowledge of God in Christ Of God in Christ reconciling the world to himselfe of God in Christ our mercifull and louing father of God in Christ redeeming and purchasing vs againe when by sinne we were vtterly lost of God in Christ restoring vs to sight that were vtterly blinde and ignorant of God in Christ abolishing the body of sinne and corruption in vs of God in Christ renuing vs into his owne image and likenes from which by Adams transgression we fell of God in Christ turning the curse of the earth with all afflictions and troubles into blessings and meanes to eternall blisse of God in Christ preparing a kingdome and heauenly Citty for vs whose pauements walles and buildings are of Golde Pearle Emeraldes Chrysolites Carbuncles and all costly ornaments a thousand times excelling the Sanctum Sanctorum of Salomons Temple in glory He that followeth Christ hath this liuely light in him he that followeth him not hath no light in him but is shut vp in ignorance and darknesse Hee I say that denying carnall wisedome and fleshly lusts doth follow him is enlightned to see and behold the glory of God in sauing