I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

¹But for Answer hereunto, you must know, it is one thing for a man to sin knowingly, and another thing for a man to sin out of knowledge, or against his knowledge. As in case the of Ignorance; it is one thing for a man to sin ignoranter, and another thing to sin ex ignorantia. A man sins ignorantly when ignorance is the companion of his Sin only: A man sins out of ignorance, when ignorance is the only cause of his Sin, and not the companion only. As for example: Suppose a man be in fight, in a great Battle, and he kill another; he kills him because he did not know him, if he had known him in the Battle, he would not have killed him; here his ignorance is not the companion only, but the cause of it: So that it is one thing to sin ignorantly, and another thing to sin out of ignorance. A man sins ignorantly, when ignorance is the companion of his fact: A man sins out of ignorance, when ignorance is the cause of it. So a man sins knowingly, when knowledge is the companion of his fact: but a man sins out of knowledge, or he sins against knowledge, when knowledge is the cause thereof; as when a man doth use his knowledge to make distinctions and shifts for his sin, whereby he is emboldened to it, and continues in it: Knowledge is sometimes only a companion of sin; ⟨p. 385⟩as when a man knows that the first risings of Sin are evil; this knowledge is no cause of them, but merely a companion: Sometimes knowledge is the cause of Sin; as when a man doth know that his way is naught, and he doth deliberately consult and devise excuses and lies to hide the same; here his knowledge is the cause of those Sinful excuses, and the man doth not only Sin knowingly, and with knowledge, but out of knowledge, and against his knowledge; and this cannot stand with infirmity, but the former may: for the Disciple knew that it was evil for them to sleep; yet their Sin was a Sin of Infirmity.

¹But for Answer hereunto, you must know, it is one thing for a man to sin knowingly, and another thing for a man to sin out of knowledg, or against his knowledg. As in case the of Ignorance; it is one thing for a man to sin ignoranter, and another thing to sin ex ignorantia. A man sins ignorantly when ignorance is the companion of his Sin only: A man sins out of ignorance, when ignorance is the only cause of his Sin, and not the companion only. As for example: Suppose a man be in fight, in a great Battel, and he kil another; he kils him because he did not know him, if he had known him in the Battel, he would not have killed him; here his ignorance is not the companion only, but the cause of it: So that it is one thing to sin ignorantly, and another thing to sin out of ignorance. A man sins ignorantly, when ignorance is the companion of his fact: A man sins out of ignorance, when ignorance is the cause of it. So a man sins knowingly, when knowledg is the companion of his fact: but a man sins out of knowledg, or he sins against knowledg, when knowledg is the cause thereof; as when a man doth use his knowledg to make distinctions and shifts for his sin, whereby he is emboldened to it, and continues in it: Knowledg is somtimes only a companion of sin;