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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	love_n	truth_n	1,575	5	6.0356	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93781	Spiritual infatuation, the principal cause of our past and present distempers. Or a serious caveate to the many seducers and seduced who under the specious pretences of reformation and conscience endeavour the subversion of Church and State. In several sermons on Isa. 9,10,11,12. By W. Stamp D.D. late minister of the Word at Stepn[e]y near London.	Stampe, William, 1611-1653?	1662 (1662)	Wing S5195; ESTC R229850	116,158	268

the same senselesnesse and stupidity they have all e●s alike and see not ears and Ps 115. 8. hear not feet and walk not They that make Idols are like unto them and so are all such us put their trust in them Had not this charm of Infatuation a strange power upon the m●nds of the English Nation when that notorious cheat of King and Parliament began to commens●… and walk the world with such gen●ral reception and entertainment a●d did not the juglers of this age belie●e as much when men did not blush to ●reach and print That the opposing the Kings power was the justest way of ●efending it That the fyring ofCano● at his Royal person was to be underst●… sor his defence and preservation ●hat an Army was necessary t● bring h●m to his Parliament when ●e was there before as was pretended in his ●est capacity and that an Army was as necessary to keep him from his Parlia●ent when he would have been there personally for the just satisfaction of hi● people And now that men have seen how well his power and his person h●th been defended now that they have seen the r●ine of Religion and goo● laws in the murther of their Soveraign and the Liberty of the subject resolved into the arbytrarie pleasure of the Souldier is not the delusion as strong at this day as ever Is not our Infatuation together with our miseries encreased almost into a miracle Is there any man almost that for fear of himself dares thus expostulate with himself what have I been doing now these 7. or 8. yeers what contributions have I given to the present miseries and confu●…on of my Nation Gods Truth is still the same but is not my understanding strangely changed from what it was Is there not a ly in my right hand To say there are none in this hopeful way of recovery were durus sermo an hard saying which I dare not own But yet let me tell ye the paucity of those who own their errors as they ●…ould be owned that is with repentance and satissaction is enough to proclaim to all the world that the blindnesse o● these times is not much unlike to that of Sodom all old and young all Gen. 18. 4 from ev●ry quarter almost involved and for ought I know may be as nigh destruction too though not by a judgement sent immediately from heaven And now I am speaking of Insatuation it may fall under a question whether the most violent and virulent part of the English Rebels do at this day discern the error of their way or not I know much may be said on the affirmative and most men believe that how ever they pretend Gods cause and the like yet they have many a secret check within themselves for what they do But I am clearly for the Negative and I think I have Scripture grounds for my opin●on I shall easily grant there was a time when they did see their error though now I believe they do not For men are no longer masters of their own eyes when once the hand of God hath closed them such as rebel against the light of Gods word knowing it to be so it is most just with God to obstruct the way of his truth and to close up their senses for ever lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and be convert c. And that this is not a private guesse of my own vouched with as little warrant as charity you shall hear S. Paul speak to it Now the spirit speak●th expresly that in the latter times 1 Tim 4. 1 2. some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrine of divels speaking lies in hypocrisie having their Consciences seared with an hot iron Where 't is easie to observe the method and progresse of Gods justice upon such as do see and will not First they shall depart from the faith which they have once professed Secondly they shall give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of divels Thirdly they shall speak lyes in hypocrisie speak sor truth what they know to be lyes there 's the wilfulness of their sin and then sollows as a just reward their consciences shall be seared and there 's the irrecoverablenesse of the judgement And from the strength of this delusion it comes to passe that men shall think they do God good service when they shall murther his own Ambassadours Ioh. 16. 2● according to our Saviours own predictio● So that as we read in the hystory of Henry 7. of that famous impostor Perkin Warbeck that he cosened the world so long by personating a King that from his accustomed Majestick garb and deportment he began at length to believe himself to be so indeed till his high thoughts of himself were confuted by the base service of the Kings kitchin And as it fares with some melancholy constitutions who by dwelling over long upon their own thoughts and Phantasmes have believed themselves to be beasts and behaved themselves accordingly so the inuring of a mans self to speak lies meerly in hypocrisie to promote imposture is the high way at long running to believe in earnest that to be a truth which at first w●s known to be but a lie For it is not enough that the intellect be acquainted with Divine Truth but that the heart be warmed also with love of that truth the want of which is the cause of the grossest error and deception This is cleared also by an express assertion of the same Apostle Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be s●ved sor this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believealy 2 Thes 2. 10 11 12. that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure i● unrighteousness So that if these men of whom I speak have adventured upon so bold a sin as to hold the truth of God in unrighteousness that is by their own phari●aical malice and perversness have manacled and chained up Gods truth from having any dominion over themselves or acti●ns if their eys have bee● fixed more upon the spoyl and advantage that m●ght be gain'd by a war then upon any true Evangelical grounds in commencing a war if their hearts have been pre●resolved to exp●nge or abuse any Text of Scripture that might stand in their way and to imprison any prophet that shall seasonably admonish them of the error of it al which I speak by way of suppositiō leaving the world to determine of the truth of my suggestions I say it is no wonder at all if these men having sorfeited the benefit of al the fair warnings convincements they have had by their wilfulnesse and obstinacy at this time of day mistake darkness for light Belial for Christ and their own whimseys delusions sor the secret inspiration of the holy Ghost But leaving these men with the Sodomites to grope at noon day and to reflect a