Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	good_a	know_v	knowledge_n	3,077	5	7.3450	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39886	Nehushtan, or, John Elliot's Saving grace in all men proved to be no grace and his increated being in all a great nothing by J.F.	J. F. (James Forbs), 1629?-1712.; Elliot, John. Saving grace of God.	1694 (1694)	Wing F1444; ESTC R29851	45,242	37

super bi ambitiosi solent qui sibi videntur plus sapere quam revera sapiant Let no one be immoderately tickled with a fancy that he hath more in him than really he hath Let no one think himself wiser than really he is but to think soberly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed sapiat ad sobrietatem but let him be wise to sobriety Sobrietatem hic intelligit non corporis sed animi i. e. modestiam quâ sibi nec arrogat quod non habet nec de eo quod accepit gloriatur quâ etiam vitat ea quae curiositas stultitia scire avent Let every one of you think modestly of himself Modesty will not suffer a Man to say he hath that which he hath not or to boast of what he hath and it restrains him from seeking after and studying such things as Curiosity and Folly covets to know That this may be as a Nail driven to the head and fastened by the great Master of the Assemblies I judge it neither impertinent nor unuseful to present you with some weighty Considerations which by the Blessing of God may keep every Man low in his own eyes as long as he lives I. When Man was in his best estate at first endowed with Knowledge Wisdom and true Holiness there was even then a possibility of his Apostasie Impeccability was no part of his Essence that is essential only to God As Adam had a posse non peccare so also there was a posse peccare He was not placed so high but he might fall and that low enough This should have kept him low and so it should us to this day II. As often as we call to mind that that possibility was reduced into act that 's enough to humble us as long as the World lasts That may remain a standing Demonstration to the Universe That the best of Creatures is but a Creature at best liable to sin and to br●●●●nisery upon it self Our Proto Parents did sin in eating the forbidden fruit and that sin of theirs did virtually and interpretatively carry all sin in it It was monstrous Ingrati●●●●e it was the Creature 's lifting up it self against its Creator it was questioning the Truth of God's Word and hearkning unto the Dictates of the Devil the great Enemy of Mankind and a Lyar from the beginning rather than unto God who is a great Lover of Mankind and who is Veracity and Truth it self It was not only tampering with the Temptation but also complying therewith and yielding thereunto It was the hazarding the loss of all Temporals Spirituals and Eternals for a Trifle for a matter of Nothing for an imaginary not a real pleasure It was discontent with their present Condition without any colour or shadow of Reason their Sin was intolerable Pride The Worm that was newly crept out of the Dust aspired after a Deity they must forsooth be like God knowing good and evil but by climbing too high they got a fall Curiosity was their Sin they must pry into the Secrets of God and meddle with matters too high for ' em Wantonness was their Evil though they had all the choice that Paradise afforded yet their over-dainty Palates lusted after the forbidden Fruit. Sacrilege was their Sin the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was of a sacramental and significant Use and to alienate Things sacred to another use than what they were instituted for is a great profanation of the Ordinance of God They were guilty of Murder in the highest degree in murdering not only their own Bodies and Souls but also the Bodies and Souls of the whole Race of Mankind Presumption was their Sin they ventured to violate an express divine Precept presuming that God would shew Mercy to them when they had so done III. The first Man became not only guilty of eating the forbidden Fruit but also that act of his was imputable and to be imputed to all that were in his Loins by natural Generation Rom. 5.12 By one Man sin entered into the World and death by sin Vers 19. By one Man's Disobedience many were made Sinners Muscul In Adamo omnes fuimus in lumbis ejus We were all in the Loins of offending Adam As Levi is said to have paid Tythes in Abraham before he was born Heb. 9.10 So we sinned in Adam before we had a Being Omnes in Adamo peccaverunt August quia omnes unus ille fuerunt All were entangled in Adam's Sin because all were folded up in Adam's Person Adam was one Non tantum in individuo sed in specie He was not only an Individual or single Person but also the common Root Parent Head and Representative of Mankind As soon as his Issue are in a Capacity to commit sin they do by their actings approve of what he did The Language of their Lives if not of their Lips is this If that which Adam did were to be done again we would do it and if we had been in his place we should have done the same as he did IV. As in one all sinned and became liable to Death so now we have sin in our Nature by propagation from our more immediate Parents We come now from the Womb not only divested of the Image of God which we had in Adam before the Fall but also invested with the Image of the evil One which Adam and all our Parents have had ever since the Fall No Toad is more full of Venom nor Serpent of Poison than our Nature is now of Sin O how should this cause us with the Leper to cry out Unclean unclean we do even loath and abhorr our selves that our Nature is so prone to that which is evil and so averse from that which is good Gen. 5.3 Gen. 6.5 Job 14.4 Psal 51.5 Jer. 17.9 Matth. 15.19 V. Nature being so deeply depraved in all and Sin being propagated by Parents to Children from Generation to Generation it must necessarily follow from hence That Sinners in their lapsed estate can do nothing towards their Restoration or Redemption from that unfathomable Abyss and profound depth of Sin and Misery into which they have plunged themselves When Man comes from the Womb he is the most helpless of all Animals as to things of this Life much more as to the things of a better Life Rom. 5.6 When we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pol. Syn. cum essemus infirmi morbo peccati variis peccatorum languoribus detenti When we were sick of Sin that was the sad spiritual Disease which had siezed om Souls when by reason of so many Sins that had taken hold of us we were in a Consumption and languishing Condition Cum ess●mus nullis viribus Spiritualibus donis viribus penitùs destituti sicut cadaver dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 15.43 when we are wholly destitute of Spiritual Gifts and Strength as a Carcase or dead Body is