Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	abundant_a	gracious_a	lord_n	1,650	5	4.2037	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49178	The ascents of the soul, or, David's mount towards God's house being paraphrases on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees / written in Italian, by ... Gio. Francesco Loredano ..., 1656 ; render'd into English, Anno Dom. 1665.; Gradi dell'anima. English	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; Coleraine, Hugh Hare, Baron, 1606?-1667.	1681 (1681)	Wing L3065; ESTC R6897	69,621	80

frights me with the thoughts of thy comeing with thy Holy ones to judge the World lest I be then found in the number of such profane wretches as shall be shut forth of thy Caelestial Mansions I therefore dread that last and great Assizes of thy Saints most glorious God I fear that general Summons and the Assembly of thy first born least when that Bench sits upon the examination of my Actions and Omissions how I have neglected the directions of their Doctrine and not imitated the goodness of their Manners nor traced the footsteps of their Charity nor admired the proofs of their Patience I being so vile a sinner such reprobate silver may be rejected for if I am apprehended without the wedding garment of Christs righteousness I have nothing to say for my self no plea to make saving the inexpressible desire of my poor Soul not to be excluded with Doggs but to enter into the Holyest City the new Jerusalem I confess good Lord that I have neither worth nor will to follow the conducts of thy grace nor to arrive at thy Favour all the courses of my Life have been great aggravations of my guiltiness for I have slighted thy Omnipotency by prideing my self in thy extraordinary gifts The very sight and heat of the Sun have appeared not the Loanes of thy peculiar bounty but things made on purpose for my convenience The return and pleasure of each season hath been reckon'd the unavoidable actings of sublunary Creatures Thunder Lightning and storms of Hail were too often counted the necessary effects of second causes Thus Brutish have I been thus blind and yet I knew full well there would not be a Breath of Air nor so much as a lease wag unless it were by thy appointment that makes every Creature live and move and have a Being Yet alass for all I can so speciously declare this I must confess also that many a time when my tongue undertook to disclose thy Name with the due Attributes of thy greatness my wild heart hath then witheld its assent and been ready to give the lye to my speech Since therefore all that I can say of my self speaks me very guilty before thee O Lord I Plead not any Merits but those of my Saviours Passions not any goodness but that of thy Divine Nature afford me these through thy Grace and then I shall have that peace which is an inseparable accident to it I shall have such a Magazine of blessing as may render my Soul like a strong fortress well provided against the assaults of the World and the snares of the Devil Gratious Lord I have often begg'd the favour of thy mercy to draw me out of that wretched state of my prevarications and from the slavery of Concupisence and from the Tyranny of evil habits I know how weak how blind how false or infirme our own Nature finds it self at the best and therefore he that supposeth without the assistance of thy goodness without the armour of thy Grace without the incouragement of thy Love either to quell the impetuousness of his Lusts or to get up to the holy Hill destroying like a Jonathan all his enemies in his way such a one must surely be more then a Man or mistakes himself grosly for he should know 't is only from the excess of thy pitty that a sinner is turned from the evil of his way The prodigal soul that hath long strayed can never make up its losses nor mend its condition unless it be by the inexhausted treasures of thy Grace Help me therefore and redeem me from the power of Satan unto God that being intrusted with thy Talents I may shew forth to all thy manifold goodness and tender Bowels of Compassions so that sinners many with my self may be farther converted unto Thee and by my example inflamed with thy Love renounce Earthly Toyes and pay thy Clemency the due Tribute of penitential Tears And from whence dear God! art yet more glorified then by forgiving us poor sinners Thy mercies are likewise a guide for ours since all the Acts of thy goodness and kindness may in some degree be imitated by man He was formed after thy Image and the more just and holy he is the more doth he approach unto Thee That Prince who best resembles God on Earth must own his power to reward or to punish from thy special grant O Jesu The Martyrs have essayed to copy out thy patience the Virgins thy purity Confessors thy truth and Hermits thy Innocence But alass How far short are they of the Original They have represented thy image as St. Paul speaks but as in a glass very darkly and deficiently For as the Heavens are higher then the Earth so far more excellent are thy operations and affections then ours The proofes of thy goodness are infintly Transcendent and inexpressible rather to be admired then exemplifyed and did not all the Prerogatives of Heaven and Earth concur to set forth thy greatness and to speak thee the Lord of Hosts Yet thy goodness alone would describe thee most admirably according as thou declaredst thy self unto Moses the Lord the Lord merciful and gracious slow to anger and abundant in truth and goodness Therefore extend these glorious attributes towards my relief and advance thy lovely Titles by the forgiveness of my sins I have no farther cause to urge but that by how much the more unworthy my Soul is of pardon by so much the more will thy pity be ador'd in the pardoning of me The fourth Step on the fourth PSALM of Degrees being the 123 PSALM Ad te Levavi c. COme Lord O come and and help my sinking Soul that being sear'd with many troublesom Illusions will let me fall I doubt into the dark of sin I have experienced to my cost how much the ill propensities of my Nature corrupt my sentiments and habituating me to the relish of tentation almost perswade me 't is impossible to resist I live indeed with my self far from my self at such a distance from a good mind as to be without the neighbourhood or acquaintance of my own bad one Self love deludes me with false reflexes and gives to vice it self the surname of Vertue it makes me a self-deceiver and a gross flatterer of my own opinions so that I am apt to spare and connive at my self in the midst of my greatest delinquencies but not to entertain my self any longer among the miseries I contract nor to cast away my life too blindly amongst errors I lift up the Eyes of my Soul to the light of thy divine Presence and with a steady Faith a lively Hope a most ardent Love a fixed Contemplation a strong Patience and a sincere Indeavour I implore thy Assistance and intreat thy Mercy My sight hath lost its ability in regarding worldly Objects and I would not injoy any other Visive faculty but that which thy wonderful grace may afford me let him aim and look at dirt who full of earthly