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	word_n	2,175	5	3.9389	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42544	A caveat to the standing Christian, and to him that thinketh he standeth by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.	1666 (1666)	Wing G433; ESTC R14121	41,281	62

of man frequent labours though but little beget an aptitude to endure greater a little rent in a garment makes it fit to receive a wider every nail and thorn is apt to take hold of it and to make the rent broader Qui minima contemnit paulatim decidit he that takes no heed of lesser sins falls by degrees into greater absurdities I think that more go to Hell for smaller sins then for great ones lesser sins persisted in provoke the Divel to assault us with stronger temptations as a maids easie yielding to some lesser toyings provokes the Wanton to tempt her to greater indecencies The beginnings of sin saith a Learned man are modest Principia peccati modesta sunt Satan tempts us but to small matters at first but if he find us give way to him therein then like bold beggars he sets upon us for greater courtesies Men are more apt to commit lesser sins then greater for if a man fall into a great sin 1. It is always in his fight it stares him in the face his Conscience often bites and stings him for it Medica sunt qua perdunt and 2. Lesser sins are often committed and quickly forgotten therefore they are small sins that destroy most men Therefore let me tell those that think their case well if they can be taxed but for one or two sins and being told of it they answer it is all their fault That as small sins destroy so will a few small ones one knife in thy throat is enough to dispatch thee one bullet in thy guts will kill thee and one sin in thy heart is enough to destroy thee 2. To what we must take heed 1. Take heed to your heart In all thy keepings keep thy heart Prov. 4.23 he only that knoweth the sinfulness and deceitfulness of the heart saith it is deceitful above all things Men are deceitful sin is deceitful the Divel is deceitful but there 's no such deceitfulness in them as is in our hearts every one of us carrieth his own supplanter within his breast Be sure to keep sin out of your hearts if Satan can get and keep possession of our hearts he hath won the main fort of the soul no part of man can sin without the heart the heart can sin without all the rest the Fox goeth to the flock purposing to devour a Lamb and is prevented by the vigilance of the Shepherd yet vulpes exit vulpes egreditur he goes forth a Fox and cometh home a Fox the heart intendeth a sin which is never brought into action yet it sinneth in that intention He that looks upon a woman to lust after her saith our Saviour hath committed adultery in his heart Math. 5. The heart is like a Mill if the wind or water be violent the Mill will go whether the Miller will or no yet he may chuse what kind of grain it shall grind if the affections be strong and violent the heart will be working Be sure to keep sin out of your hearts and suffer not one known sin willingly to root there It is said of Creta that no serpent nor venemous thing will live there but dye as soon as it cometh into that Island such an antipathy there is between them and the nature of that soil so let us be affected toward sin let us labour to keep it out of our hearts knowing that a bad guest is more easily kept out then thrust out of doors but if we cannot do that let us labour to smother and stiffle it as soon as it cometh there 2. Take heed to your affections It is the Wisemans advice When ye go into the House of God take heed to your feet Eccles 5.1 take heed to your feet wheresoever you go if a man hath a love to sin he will fall into sin when opportunity serveth the affections are the feet of the soul see that your affections be ordered according to the dictates of faith sincerely and constantly cleaving to all good in an holy order and shunning all evils in their several kinds and degrees as they are discovered to be evil by the power of faith judging according to the word of truth see that your affections be moved by sound reasons cleerly apprehended then you will not love what you should hate let your affections keep within the pale of sound Reason and move according to her information it is very dangerous to give way to loose affections if once they have broken the bands of reason they will hurry us up and down into many inconveniences 3. Take heed to your outward senses especially the ear and the eye Greg. Nazianzen Greg. N●●●ianz said That if a man would live in the world he must have a vail on his eyes a lock on his ears and a compass on his lips If these two senses be not watched they will be like Simeon and Levi brethren in evil the senses are the out-works if Satan once take the out-works he will quickly master the fort within 1. Take heed to your ears do not listen to the voice of hellish charmers charming never so sweetly corrupt communication dum aurem afficit animam interficit while it affects and pleaseth the ear it killeth the soul Joseph would not hearken to the sollicitations of his wanton Mistress though she spake to him day by day Gen. 39.10 2. Take heed to your eyes Prov. 23.26 David prayeth Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity Psal 119. The first sin that ever was committed entred in by the eye Gen. 3.6 Physitians observe that death first seizeth on the eyes because sin first seized on them at these windows most sins creep into our souls looking begets liking in the heart therefore it is not good to look where we may not like The Romans did ill provide for the keeping the Law which they made that Virgins should drink no wine when they permitted them to see it Solomon's wisdom exceeded theirs when to a man that loveth wine well and is apt to be ensnared by it he giveth counsel not to look upon it when it giveth its colour in the cup and moveth it self aright Prov. 23.31 Et licet quidam putent majoris esse virtutis praesentem contemnere voluptatem tamen ego arbitror securioris esse continentia nescire quod quaeras Hier. Ep. ad Laetam Cassian institut lib. 5. c 32. So Hierom in one of his Epistles to Laeta where he giveth direction how to bring up her daughter virtuously among other things adviseth her not to suffer her daughter to see those meats which seeing she might be moved to desire and this his advice he shuts up with these words Though some there be who think it a point of greater virtue to contemn a pleasure when it is present yet I judge it to be a thing of more security not to know or see that thing which one may not safely desire Cassian also reporteth of a certain young man that after he had left