Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	holy_a	scripture_n	2,400	5	5.5262	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65239	An humble apologie for learning and learned men by Edward Waterhous, Esq.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1653 (1653)	Wing W1048; ESTC R826	172,346	272

Atheism and irreligious Desperation that rears such Principles for when the heart is courted to believe nothing good or bad but what is fortunate or unfortunate then relucts it the Counsels and restraints of Divine Precepts and consciencious checks and flyes only to a fond and blind Chance or Oracle of Contingency accounting every thing that 's prosperous good and that 's dejected naught Faelix faustumque scelus virtus vocatur T was a damnable lewdness of Aruns his wife who to enjoy lustfully her Brother tells him that when a Kingdom is in pursuit small Evills as she called them were not to to be boggled at This leads then upon Designes in themselves rash though sometimes by the permission of God successfull as it did Regilianus the more bold then Judicious Emperour whose spirit being too great to buckle under the Command of power kindled towards an adventure of enlargment either by loss of life or gain of Honour Crowns the Meta ultima of Humane Felicity he judg'd not Profferers of their service to Men irresolute And therefore his Conclusion was to try what Witt and Boldness would offer him as the Trump that should carry the Game into that hand which held it In a Bravado he makes a Banquet and to it invites his Fellow-soldiers There he feeds them high and they to testify their acceptation drink freely In the midst of their mirth One probably appointed by him propounding whence the word Regilianus was derived a Grammarian by chance there was asked of the Company to give the etymologie of Regilianus who replyed Regilianus à Rege nomen ortum habet the Souldiery warmed with good liquor cryed out Meritò itaque Rex eris and so it passed for currant and he was Emperour which was by means not probable to such an end no more then a Cockle-shell is likely to empty the Ocean O Ambition thou art coccle in the goodly Corn of a virtuous mind thou art the wild Vine which bringest death into the pot of fairest hopes thou art the Harlot whom whosoever embraceth goeth down to the Chambers of death thou art the Divel that courtest men up to the pinnacle of the Temple that thence they may be hurled down to irrecoverable ruine They who are deserted by God and applauded by men fall into thy snares Thou hast traps for thine admirers of all sorts all ages in all Countries There is none that thy madnesse precipitates not but he that is kept by the Keeper of Israel who neither slumbreth nor sleepeth And therefore every man should look about him to keep this fury from his elbow as the great exciter to disorder and ruine This put Alexander upon invasion of others Dominions his own bounds were too narrow to limit his emulation Alexander great in the world thought the world a little ease a cage to him This Ambition made Absolom rebel Pompey fire Rome with quarrels Herostratus an obscure fellow that hee might be remembred burn the famous Ephesian Temple nay it endangered a crack in the glorious Eutaxie of Heaven which could not be expiated but by the dejection of Lucifer that first quickned it This is usually the companion of Changes distracted times and alterations produce this Monster Those who think they deserve better then God knows they do and have lesse then they are in their own opinion able to manage make out to the prey and rather will have it as Simeon and Levi had reparations for the indignity offered their Sister by force then not at all To these who would build when God is demolishing and plant when he is eradicating that is applicable which was said to Baruch Seekest thou great things for thy self seek them not It is a mercy to the soul more indicative of Gods indulgence to be restrained from accomplishing swelling Designes then to have Kingdoms Wealth Learning Beauty or what-ever is the darling of this mutable and pompous World It was good counsel which Turktill Abbot of Croyland gave his Monks Keep that fire Let O man of God this holy Lamp of zeale never go out in the Temple of thy soul cherish it with daily supplyes from that Ocean which is never dry but abounds and will increase thee while thou seekest in humility to be enabled to a devout lustre and calefaction of others True and well-ordered zeal will purifie and purge the soul from all restivenesse and stupid indifferencie and inflame it to a revenge on beloved sins On this score Moses abhorrs the golden Calf Abraham quits his Country the Saints and Martyrs their lives nay this to do did our Lord Jesus descend from heaven to earth as he testifies Iohn 18. 37. This is the ballast that keeps the soul from tottering and losing way in its steerage to heaven This keeps it close to old truth and makes it mistrust new as false lights though they glister never so amazingly This carries the soul to Christ with earnest and vehement petitions to be kept safe amidst temptations This will perswade the soul to esteem highly of holy Truths and holy men who speak according to the Law and testimony and to reject whatsoever comes with Nicodemus in the night undiscerned and stealingly upon us not daring to abide the test or the examen of Scripture 't will weigh glorious Nothings the Wens and Excrements of Religion in the balance and if they bee not weight publish them to be light matters of Deceit 'T will separate 'twixt the Sheep and the Goat the Chaffe and the Corn and in all things carry it self gratefully to God whose mercy has onely made the difference for what has it which it hath not received 1 Cor. 4. ver 7. Were this as much in deed as in word amongst us we should not huckster it in Religion as we doe nor could we thus dishonour the nobility of our souls by mean and vulgar regards of them as in the loosenesse of our principles and practices we not onely seem but really shew we do while we prefer our bodies before our souls our corruptible before our incorruptible selves When we are sick in body we send for the most noted learned and experienced Physician we can meet with No Quack no Emperick no barbarous Farrier-like practiser will serve the turn we cry yea and that wisely too Best is best cheap but in Affairs 'twixt God and our souls in the resolution of doubts about heaven and that conversation which must bring us thither through the Mercy of God any one serves the turn Ioane as the Proverb is is as good as my Lady the most rude and illiterate most acceptable rather chuse we the Bramble then the Vine rather those that know nothing but pride and prattle then those Bees of glory the learned Ministers who are laden with honey and would be glad to lodg what they have pluck'd by the assistance of God from the Flowers of Study and Meditation in the hives of humble