Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	accurse_v	angel_n	let_v	1,908	5	4.1837	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61251	A vindication of the divine perfections illustrating the glory of God in them, by reason and revelation: methodically digested into several meditations. By a person of honour.	Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount of, 1619-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5181; ESTC R221836	207,616	368

and Reason No Man could know there were any real thing existent beside himself nor what or whence himself were Atheists are come to that height of Impudence as to pretend that they are the Wits of the World who will believe nothing but what is certain and evident and will not believe that there is a God because they see it not evident in which they are evidently the grossest Ignorants as well as the most imprudent Fools Ignorant they are because they found all their Interest upon an inconsistent Lie supposing certainty of Knowledg from themselves when yet they find themselves often deceived yea supposing themselves undeceiveable whereas it is impossible to attain to any certain Rule of Man's Life without supposing a Deity abounding in Truth and which cannot lie or deceive How could any be sure of any outward Impression of Sense for the same Impression may be in the Sense or Brain not from an extrinsick but from an intrinsick Cause Those whose Eyes are vitiated with any unnatural Tincture think they see all Objects painted with certain Colours but falsly Yea the Hypochondriack think they see not only false Colours but even Bodies and Shapes without any extrinsick Impression What strange Sounds doth the disordered Ear represent Taste and Smell may not only be depraved but deprived how then could Certainty be inferred from Sense if it were not presupposed that the Author of Sense were true and would not deceive and therefore hath given his reasonable Creatures Understanding distinct from Sense which can reflect upon its own Apprehensions and perceive the Condition of the Organs and Medium of Sense and make use of the concurring Testimonies of other Senses and the natural self-evident Principles in the Mind and thereby rest in perfect assurance which must explicitly or implicitly rest upon this ground that God the Author of these Faculties is true and cannot deceive and therefore the Creature may securely rest in the Concurrence of them This is yet more evident in the inbred first Principles of Knowledg contemplative or practical How could any certainly believe that these were true if he did not believe the Truth of God that gave them The concurring Testimony of Men through the World could not suffice for that Testimony is known by Sense by Word or Writing yea tho one Man could travel through the whole World and speak with all the Persons in it that were yet by Sense which needs those inbred Principles of Reason to secure it against Error there could no more be firmly concluded than that these Notions being common among People that keep no Intercouse they cannot be from Men but from a superior Cause which yet would not conclude if that Cause were not infallible which could neither be deceived nor deceive As the Truth of God is a necessary Foundation of the Certainty of natural Knowledg it must be no less necessary for the Certainty of revealed Knowledg For if God could lie or deceive how were it possible to know the truth of Revelations and distinguish them from the Illusions of Devils or Men not from Miracles which might be from God's Omnipotence and could not conclude without his Veracity not from the Assertion of the greatest Apostle and most glorious Angel For Paul saith If we or an Angel from Heaven shall preach another Gospel to you let him be accursed which necessarily implies that if a contrary Doctrine were preach'd from God it behoved to overturn his Veracity for otherwise the posterior Testimony of Paul or of an Angel would be derogatory and preferable to the prior It were not possible to know that God were Holy Benign Just Merciful Faithful Wise and Soveraign if he were not absolutely true for it is clear that these could not be believed because God said it if he were not unchangeably true nor could any part of his Holiness or Godlikeness be believed without believing that he is true there being nothing more sutable to the Deity than Truth which being surely believed all his other Perfections must be believed because God that cannot lie hath declared them by Reason and Revelation I am not moved with that Objection against the Apostle's Assertion that God altered the Constitution and Order of the Jewish Church and why might be not then without incroaching upon his Veracity alter the Christian Church The Reason is clear because in the Christian Religion it is a chief part that there is no Name given under Heaven by which Salvation can come but by the Name of Jesus and that there is never another way to be accepted or expected tho by the Annunciation of an Angel from Heaven this was never said of the Jewish Oeconomy The Truth of God being so fundamentally necessary to be believed God in his Wisdom and Goodness hath given the strongest Evidences of it There can be nothing more contrary to the Principles of natural Light than to imagine a lying or deceiving God There is nothing so powerfully and peremptorily asserted in the Scripture as the Truth of God who is called the God of Truth and Christ calleth himself the Truth in abstracto In the Character and Description God gives of himself to Moses he declareth himself merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in Goodness and Truth and he is a God full of Compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in Mercy and Truth his Mercy is everlasting and his Truth endureth to all Generations Seldom is the Truth of God mentioned but with his Mercy for Mercy could be of no moment if God's Truth were not absolutely sure By Mercy and Truth Iniquity is purged saith Solomon and Mercy and Truth preserve the King God's Word is frequently called the Word of Truth But that which is most signal to convince us of the Truth of God is that he declareth it is impossible for God to lie Truth doth import 1. The Conformity between the Signs instituted to express Thoughts and the Thoughts whether these Signs be by Word or Writ or by other Signs as beckning with the Hand or the Head or the raising a pleasant Aspect in the Countenance to signify Assent Approbation or Acceptance which is more properly called Sincerity and Truth by such Signs is called Veracity Truth doth also extend to the Conformity between the Thoughts and the Objects thereof and so Truth is said to be in the Heart and to the Conformity of Words spoken or written or other Signs unto things signified tho not conform to the Thoughts or Judgment of him that expresseth them so there may be Veracity without Verity when Words are conform to the Judgment of him that speaketh but not to the thing signified yet both may concur with design to seduce or lead into Error or evil Practice when the Premises are expressed and the Conclusion is left to the Hearer whose Principles or Opinions are known that thence they would infer a wrong and inconsequent Conclusion which when done with design to seduce is no less Deceit than