Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	eye_n	faith_n	reason_n	3,499	5	6.1498	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67742	Carnal reason, or The wisdom of the flesh how foolish, deceitful, dangerous, reprobate and divilish; together with rectified reason, or the wisdom of the spirit, how divine, transcendent, safe, profitable and delightful: as also, how many was at first created; how he is now corrupted, and how he may be again restored: being three fundamental principles of Christian religion; which few do indeed know; and yet he who knows them not, cannot be saved. By Junius Florilegus. Licensed and entred according to order.	Younge, Richard.	1669 (1669)	Wing Y142; ESTC R218076	22,612	22

holiness truth righteousness and th● like ornaments wherewith we had been cloathed there hath succeeded these and the like 1. This sin hath so corrupted our whol● nature that we are utterly indisposed and made opposite to 〈◊〉 that is spiritually good and wholly inclined unto all evil an● that continually 2. It hath made us very Vassals to sin and Satan 3. It hath disabled us from understanding the will and observing the Commandments of the Lord. 4. It hath made our person● and actions unacceptable to God 5. It hath cast us out of God● favour and made us liable and subject to all the plagues and miseries of this life and to endless easless and remediless torment● in the life to come For proof whereof read Gen. 6.5 6. Rom. 3.9 to 20. Mat. 15.19 Gal. 5.19 20 21. Iames 4.1 Tit. 1 1● Rom. 7 .14 to 25. This was the fruit of their unsufferable pride and ambition in that they could not content themselves with being Lords of the whole Vniverse but they must be equal with God and every way like their Maker Of their horrible unbelief when they gave more credit to Satan than to God of their unparalel'd and unexpressible ingratitude in that they thought Paradice and all that was therein too little except they had also that one thing which God reserved and from which they were prohibited namely the forbidden fruit of their wilful murther of themselves and all their posterity whom they knew should stand or fall with them of their ●●●ful Apostacy from God to the Devil and sundry the like Bad work ●●d wages And as man lost his light when he sinned against his light so his blindness remains Insomuch that unto this day when Moses is read there is a vail or curtain drawn over every natural mans heart which is never removed or taken away until he turns to the Lord by repentance Nevertheless when he shall turn to the Lord the vail shal be taken away in Christ 2 Cor. 3.14 15 16. And so much of the first Reason for ● study all possible brevity lest the pages should grow like fish into a multitude Secondly Another reason is These men are Unregenerate and so want the eye of Faith which onely can see and discern spiritual objects and also the Spirit who is the giver of all true wisdom Faith most clearly sees and beholds those things which are hid from the eye of Reason John 12.46 Vnregenerate men who want the eye of Faith are like blind Sampson without his Guide We must have mindes lifted above nature to see and love things above nature heavenly wisdom to see and discern heavenly truths or else that truth which is saving will be to us a mysterie Mark 4.11 if it seem not foolishness 1 Cor. 2.7 8 14. To them that are 〈◊〉 the Gospel is hid 2 Cor. 4 3 4. Whereas the Believer discerns all things even the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2.10 12 15 16. Reason discerns natural objects Faith spiritual and supernatural We may see far with our bodily eye Sense ●arther with the mindes eye Reason but farther with the souls eye Faith than with both And the Believer ●ath the addition and advantage of Gods Spirit and faith above all other ●●n John 8.12 So that as meer sense is uncapable of the rules of Reason so Reason is no less uncapable of the things that are Divine and Supernatural Ier. 10.14 1 Cor. 2.14 15 16. Ephes. 5.8 And as to speak is onely proper to men so to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven is onely proper to Believers Now of Natural and speculative knowledge the wicked have as large a share as the godly but of Spiritual experimental and living knowledge which is supernatural and descendeth from above James 3.17 and keepeth a man from every evil way Prov. 2.12 The wicked have no part with the godly Whence all men in their natural condition are said to be blind and in darkness Mat. 4.16 15.19 Ephes. 4.18 19. 5.8 Whereas Believers are called Children of the light and of the day 1 Thess. 5.5 1 Pet. 2.9 But that you may see what a mighty and vast difference there is between Natural men and the Regenerate in their knowledge hear what the Word speaks of each severally for I will lay down their several Characters in the very expressions of the Holy Ghost First Natural men in Scripture are said to have uncircumcised hearts Jer. 9.26 Rom. 2.29 Gross hearts Mat. 13.15 Brawny hearts Isa. 6.10 Fat hearts Acts 28.27 Hearts without feeling Ephes. 4.18.19 Foolish hearts Rom. 1.21 Blind and dark hearts Rom. 1.21 Beasts hearts Dan. 4.16 Jer. 51.17 Dead hearts 1 Sam. 25.17 No hearts Hosea 7.11 Evil and wicked hearts Gen. 6.5 Vnclean hearts Ezek. 14.3 Impure hearts James 4.8 Hearts Slow to believe Luke 24.25 That cannot repent Rom 2.5 Feigned hearts Jer. 3.10 False hearts Jer. 5.23 Deceitful hearts Jer. 17.9 divided hearts Hosea 10.2 Double hearts 1 Chron. 12.33 Psal. 12.2 A heart and a heart Jer. 32. Proud hearts Deut. 17. Froward hearts Prov. 11.20 Stubborn hearts Hosea 13.6 Obstinate hearts Jer. 52. Hard hearts Exod. 9.12 Stony hearts Exek 11.19 Reprobate hearts Rom. 1.28 2 Tim. 3.8 and Satani alhearts Acts 5.3 26.18 whereof not a few by the custom of sin harden their own hearts Heb. 3.8 yea make them as hard as an Adamant Zach. 7.12 Lest they should hear the Law and be converted by the Gospel Isa. 6.10 Whereupon God in iudgement hardens them Exod. 7.3 22. 10.20 14.8 So making them more hard and brawny Isa. 6 10. Iohn 12.40 And so much of their hearts Then Secondly The same word does further acquaint us that Natural and unregenerate men are stark blind to spiritual things especially to what might make for the good of their souls Whence they are said by the Holy Ghost to be blind and in darkness Psal. 69.23 Iohn 12.40 Mat. 4.16 15.14 Ephes. 4.18.19 5.8 1 Pet. 2.9 Whereby is meant the darkness of their understandings To be Foolish Isa. 56.10 Rom. 1.21 22. Iohn 3.19 Ignorant Ier. 4 2● Revel 3.17 Drunken and asleep not knowing what they do Luke 23.34 Mad Luke 15.17 2 Pet. 2.16 No better than Beasts in their knowledge of spiritual things Ier. 51.57 Psal. 49.11 As the Horse and Mule which perceive nothing Psal. 32.9 Acts 28.26 Yea they are every where in the Word likened to the very worst of Beasts and Serpents as namely Lyons 2 Tim. 4.17 Dragons Revel 12 7. 16.23 Wolves Mat. 7.15 Tygers Bears Wilde Bores Vnicorns Leopards Dogs Phil. 3.2 Swine Foxes Serpents Vipers Adders Aspes Cockatri●es Phil. 3. Mat. 23.33 Dan. 7.4 5. 6.8 Psal. ●0 13 Zeph 3.3 Cant. 2.15 And many the like And as if all this were too little many of them blind their own eyes with their wickedness Psal. 2.1 to 6. and their prejudice 1 Cor. 2.8 yea mink with their eyes that they may not see the truth Mat. 13.15 Acts 28.27