Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	aaron_n	bell_n	copper_n	15	3	10.6401	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63071	Theologia theologiæ, the true treasure, or, A treasury of holy truths, touching Gods word, and God the word digg'd up, and drawn out of that incomparable mine of unsearchable mystery, Heb. I. 1, 2, 3 : wherein the divinity of the holy Scriptures is asserted, and applied / by John Trappe ...	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing T2047; ESTC R23471	163,104	402

and now he was desirous to goe into the Pulpit that thence hee might comfort others with the same comforts wherewith he had been comforted Melch. Adam de Theol exter page 139. He shewd his good will to have spent his last breath in preaching according to Saint Austins wish that Christ when hee came might finde him aut precantem aut pradicantem praying or preaching O happie is that servant whom his Lord when hee comes Mat. 24.46 47. shall finde so doing Verily I say unto you that hee shall make him ruler over all his goods Section 2. SEcondly let Ministers be called upon and exhorted to deliver the Word sith it is Gods Word with all faithfulnesse 1 Cor. 4 1. 1 Cor. 3 10. 2 Tim. 2.15 2 Cor. 6 1. Rev. 19 10 and 22 9. as good stewards as wise master-builders as workemen that need not be ashamed as co-workers with God and fellow-labourers with the Angels in the matter of mans salvation Tit. 1 4. 2 Cor. 2 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or it is a metaphor from deceitfull Vintners who for gaine mix water with Wine 2 Cor. 4.2 Hold fast the faithfull word yet not concealing nor corrupting it not handling it deceitfully or Huck-stering it as men doe their wares caring rather to beguile then benefit the buyer but by manifestation of the truth commending themselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God He that hath my word let him speake my word faithfully Jer. 23.28 1 Cor. 4.2 Heb. 3 2. Ezech. 13 12 22 Rom. 16 17. 2 Iohn 10. And in Stewards it is required that they bee found faithfull as Moses was faithfull in all Gods house Delîver they must the will of GOD his whole will nothing but his will neither pleasing or false or strange doctrine nor for vaine glory contention or envie Phil. 1.14 15. but purely sincerely seasonably giving to every one his owne portion Not as he in the Emblem that gave straw to the dogge Theologus Gloriae dicit malum bonum bonū malum Luther and a bone to the Asse not calling good evill and evill good not walking in craftinesse but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speaking in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 Let Saint Paul be our patterne for fidelity in his ministry What he delivered to others he first receaved of Christ 1 Cor. 11.23 And as hee received what he delivered so hee delivered what he receaved he kept nothing backe Acts 20.17 of all the Counsell of God This hath many particulars in it 1. Those ministers that would be found faithfull must deliver the truth only Aarons Bels were of pure gold not of copper or other baser mettall 2. Wholly not budging for any mans greatnesse nor balking any thing necessary to be knowne Acts 20.24 2 Tim 4.5 3. Plainly to the capacity of the Hearers Mar. 4.33 Iohn 16.12 not in a stately stile or Roman English Acts 22.2.4 Powersully and with all authority as Christ did Tit. 2.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 compelling men to come in charging and commanding them to consent and obey ' that Gods house may bee full 5. Constantly being ready for to teach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Saint PAUL Acts 26.29 the more and the lesse laying downe line after line precept after precept Isa 28.10 prooving if at any time God will give men Repentance 2 Tim. 2.25 that they may awake c. Holy Zachary tooke not his dumbnesse for a dismission but stayd out the eight dayes of his course though he ceased to speake yet hee ceased not to minister 6. Lastly and chiefely the man of God must preach his Word boldly as Isay who was very bold Rom. 10 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 q. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 4.13 as Peter and Iohn who used great freedome of speech as Michaiah who after hee had seene GOD on his throne feared not before 2. Kings in their Majesty Not budging a whit nor yeelding an haire no not for an Angels authority as Paul but witnessing a good confession Galath 1 8. 1 Tim. 6 13. as the Master did before Pontius Pilate and keeping his Commandement without spot 1 Tim. 6.13 14. unrebukeable which is Bee strong and of a good courage Iosh 1 4. have not I commanded thee be not afraid neither be thou dismaid for the Lord thy God is with thee hee will not faile thee nor forsake thee Psalme 45. Philippians 2. Esay 3 10 11 Esay 58.1 2. Ride on therefore because of the word of truth hold forth the word of life amidst a perverse and crooked generation Tell the wicked from God it shall go ill with them shew the people their transgressions and the house of Iacob their sinnes I know men are naturally sicke of a Noli me tangere the earth would gladly sit still and be at rest that they might goe downe to hell without disturbance Zach. 1 11. Amos 5 10. they bate him that reproveth in the gate as Ahab hated Michaiah because hee never spake good to him It is probable that Michaiah was that disguised Prophet who brought to Ahab the fearefull message of displeasure and death for dismissing Benhadad And Ahab hates him and hath him fast in prison ever since From thence he is now sent for and sollicited by the way to speake good to the King But he was at a point for that to speake whatsoever the Lord should say unto him though he were sure to kisse the stocks for his stoutnesse The other Prophets prophecied placentia like Squirrels they had a trick to build evermore and have their holes to the Sunne-shine to keepe themselves on the warmer side of the hedge Ad latus navis saelicius pro temporum ratione sese inelinant Buchole to incline to the happier side of the ship to hold in with Princes and great ones howsoever But Ezek. 13.10 to 15. God threatens to rent the wall of securitie which those caementarij Diaboli as one calls them the Devils dirt-dawbers had dawbed with untempered morter Non ad veritatem solum sed etiam ad opiniones eorum qui audiunt accomodanda est oratio Cicer Partit and there shall bee an over-flowing showre in his fierce fury to consume both it and them that dawbed it Rhetoricians have a rule to fit their speech not to the truth of things only but to the opinions and fancyes of them that heare them This is by no meanes to be practised by a Preacher Saint Austin repented him of nothing more than that being yong he preached ut placeret non ut deceret more to delight the care then to smite the heart Vt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui ab omnibus gratiam inire cupit quem quidam per incum placentam dixit For if I yet please men as once when I was a Pharisee saith Paul I am no more the servant of Christ Men be they