Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	let_v	lord_n	1,884	5	4.0046	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03735	The sufficiencie of the spirits teaching, without humane-learning: or A treatise, tending to proue humane-learning to be no help to the spirituall understanding of the Word of God. Written (if it may be) for the silencing of such false and scandalous reports, as have been rumored about concerning this matter; and also for the affording of true information to all such as desire to know the truth. By Samuel How	How, Samuel.	1640 (1640)	STC 13855; ESTC S104246	42,052	46

then come to make themselves equall with them of the * Rom. 12.26 lower sort the foolish vile and unlearned for those be the true ‡ Isay 51.1 heyres of it and therfore it was not in vaine that Iames sayd † Iam. 2.5 Hearken my beloved Brethren hath not God chosen the poore he well saw that the rich and carnall were dull of hearing of this matter but yet he tells them God hath chosen the poore of this world to be rich in Faith and upon this consideration it is that he wisheth the § I am 1.9.10 Brother of high degree to rejoyce in that he was made low that is brought in his mind and account equall with the poore accounting himselfe never the higher for any such excellencies and so the Brother of low degree to rejoyce in that he is exalted that is that he was made a † Rev. 1.6 King and Priest unto God and was set in heavenly places with Iesus Christ so as the one is made low in respect of any fleshly considence he hath in such things the other is exalted being out wardly poore by being in Christ Iesus and so they both meet in one but now by reason of the smoke that is risen out of the bottomlesse pit and that the Devil is * Ephes 2.6 cast out of heaven and all his Angels with him to the Earth which Angels were the fallen ‡ Rev. 12.9 Starres that he drew after his tayle that now he hath by reason of them hatched since a Religion in the world as that he would have the wise the rich the noble the learned the onely ones and the poore must be beholden to them whenas this is like himselfe directly to oppose Iesus Christ so as that we may truly say with the Prophet Lord who hath beleeved our report or to whom is the arme of the Lord revealed Object 7 But it is yet further Objected to be the manner of such as canot themselves attaine to that excellencie that is in another to disparage that in them that so they might advance themselves Answ This I confesse is a carnall course that such as are themselves fleshly are subject to take and it may as well be my fault as anothers But yet I professe in the presence of the Lord that I doe not allow my selfe in any such course Neither doth such an exception as this beseeme a man that is led by the Spirit of Truth for to make against any servant of God that professeth opposition to such things as professing to be led thereto by the word and Spirit of Truth For it savours strongly of the flesh and is too sutable to the practise of Reprobates whose practise is to take things in the evil part wheras love by which all the Saints should judge judges the best of things till such time it can espie any cause so to doe And for the lifting up of my selfe to be sure if I so doe Gods word it is that he will plucke the mighty from his seat and then you may be sure that according to his word my fall will be farre greater then my exaltation can possibly be and therfore it were best for all such as so conceive to commit the judgement to the Lord and themselves judge nothing before the time not speake no more presumptuously let not arrogancie come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and by him enterprises are established But yet after this manner of reasoning carnall men may overthrow the whole Gospell For whereas the Scripture shews that Iesus Christ was without forme or beauty or any such thing wherfore he should be desired the carnall man will soon say no other but such a one would be so foolish as to part from honours riches credit and such like to indure so much sorrow and need not and whereas the Apostle * Phil. 2. saith that he tooke on him the forme of a servant the would soon answer and good reason why because he could not be a Master and wheras it is said he chose the poore that will they say he must needs do and the foolish for none of the rich and wise would be so simple as to follow him and wheras he saith love not the world nor the things in it good cause why will they say for such fooles as you know not how to get it or else to be sure you would love it as well as others And thus have I given you a glympse how that by this manner of carnall arguing we might overthrow our own salvation and sit down in the very vale and shadow of death as full of darknesse as this argument is destitute of Truth And thus having Answered to such exceptions as I know of made against this truth I come now to such Uses as it shall afford us 1 Vse The first is To discover to us the depth of the great Woe that the world lyes under set forth and “ Rev. 9. from 1. to 11. revealed to us in which the word of the Lord is fulfilled and men see it not and this you know the Scripture in sundry places makes the depth of a judgement as in Hosea Ephraim is said to have here and there gray hayres and yet he saw them not and in this we know was the strength of that ‡ 2 Thes 2.11 great Iudgement that men should confidently take lyes for truth this is there made the depth of their woe 1 Tim. 42. And the like is manifested § else where by the same Apostle declaring that though they speake lyes yet they were so seared in their Consciences as that they felt nor feared no danger that they were in no more then the man that lying drunke did though he lay sleeping on the top of the Mast Pro. 23.35.35 and so ready to be drowned yet he feared it not and yet such is the case the Sun and the Ayre being darkened their condition must needs be wofull and yet this is the case of the inhabitants of the Earth that they cannot be brought to beleeve but that they are in a very good case though that the light of the glorious Gospel which is the Image of God doe not shine unto them as * 2 Cor. 4.4.6 saith the Apostle Now that by which this Sun is said to be darkened is the smoke of the bottomlesse pit and that we shall find to be the glory and power of the false Church called by the name of the Bottomlesse pit And that this may the better appear we find many “ Isay 6.4.1 King 8.11.12 with 15. Rev. 8 place in the Scripture manifesting the glory of God and his power to be his smoke Now because God hath smoke in his Temple so hath Gods adversary in his Temple also or rather his bottomlesse pit After his smoke in Revel 9.2.3 there follows power and if you looke in the 7 8 and 9. verses there is their glory and