Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	faith_n	work_n	2,131	5	5.9364	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55301	Armatura Dei, or, A preparation for suffering in an evil day shewing how Christians are to bear sufferings, and what graces are requisite thereunto : suited for all good Christians in this present time / by Edward Polhil ..., Esq.	Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694?	1682 (1682)	Wing P2750; ESTC R3431	68,313	156

a man of meer Leaves but had a root of Knowledge and Grace in him It is with Christians as it is with Trees the more the Tree is rooted in the ground the faster it stands in a storm the more a Christian is rooted in Evangelical Truths the firmer he stands in a time of Persecution Those of the stony ground received the word with joy but fell off in time of perpersecution because they had no root in them selves Math. 13.21 The Heavenly Truth did but lye upon the face of their Hearts and never sunk into them to become a virtual Principle in them The Truth that we would suffer for had not need be a loose Notion but Truth in the hidden parts fastned there as a nail in a sure place sealed up to the heart by the holy spirit ingrafted and innaturalized in the mind that we may not let it go We had need be grounded and setled in the faith as the Apostle speaks Col. 1.23 Grounded as an house upon a sure Foundation and setled as a man sitting fast in a Chair We had need have a good Scripture bottom and be firmly seated in the Truth that we may be capable of suffering for Religion The Scripture tels us that there is but one God one only to be worshipped and served that his glory may not be given to another nor his praise to graven Images that Idols are silver and gold the work of mens hands that they have mouths and speak not eyes and see not ears and hear not noses and smell not hands and handle not feet and walk not that the Makers and Worshippers of them are like unto them as stupid as the senseless Images are that an Idol is nothing a thing of no moment or power at all a meer nothing to be it self made a God or so much as to represent one If such truths as these of which St. Cyprian hath given a great Catalogue in his Exhortation to Martyrdome be intimately radicated in the heart they will strengthen it against Idolatry Magd. Hist Cent. 4. cap. 12. The glorious Martyr Eulalia seemed to be full of them when in her great sufferings she sung that Isis Apollo Venus were nothing and Maximianus the worshipper of them was himself nothing O let us adhere to the holy Truths in the Word these came down from Heaven and like their Original are nothing but pure Truth without any mixture of Error in them these appear to us in the light of the first Truth and lead to the bliss-making Vision of him in Heaven and as we desire to be there let us firmly adhere to them especially to the word of Christs Patience The Truth that must be suffered for at such at time as this to that we must cleave closest because in that will be the greatest stress and trial It is good to be established in all Truth but now it is in a special manner necessary to be well fixed in the Truth that concerns the Pure Religion which runs very low in the Christian World while in the mean while the Idolatrous one is like to be triumphant 2. It must be a right estimating Knowledge that will prepare us for suffering Every Notion of the things of God will not do it he that hath an high notion of them but a low estimation hath but a knowledge falsly so called he knows them not as he ought to know them because he knows them only to know them but not to value them We must so know them as to rate them above a World this is of great moment in order to Suffering A man is capable to suffer or not according as his estimate of Spiritual things is higher or lower When the Martyr Polycarp was urged by the Proconsul to deny Christ Eustb Lio. 4. cap. 15. his answer was A potioribus non esse transeundum ad pejora we must not pass from better things to worse He esteemed Christ better then the World and therefore he suffered for him But if he had esteemed the World better then Christ he had never been a Martyr As the estimation is so is the man We know the Evangelical Truth but if we do not rate it higher then all the World we shall never be able to suffer for it It is indeed in itself a glorious Beam let down from Heaven a pure discovery of the great Salvation that is in Jesus Christ and in that respect incomparably more worth then all the World but if we do not so account it we shall fall from it to embrace the World as being better in our eyes It is very remarkable that when the Emperors Presect allured the great Basil to the Arrian Doctrine Tneod b. 4. cap. 19. as being but a small thing the holy man answered That he would not part with one syllable of Scripture no not to save his life Such an esteem of Truth is of excellent use to make a man adhere to it in an evil day We know the pure worship but if we do not prize it above all earthly things we shall never be able to suffer for it It is in itself a thing exceeding pretious it is the choicest part of life that is spent in it the honor of God is more immediately concerned in it then in other things That noble Convert Galeacius Caracciolus who left all for Christ prized one days Communion with Christ more than all the Gold or Silver in the World And if we can rate it so we shall never turn aside from it to the Idolatrous World nor be carried into sin by the stream of the Time Or say as one going to Mass did Eamus ad communem errorem let us go to the Common Error We know the Glory of Christ is to be promoted but if we do not value it above our own Reputation we shall never suffer reproach for him Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt Hebx 11.26 Reproach in itself is a vile thing no way estimable but the reproach of Christ hath an honor in it and outshines all the glories of the World Marsacus a French Souldier being adjudged with others to the Fire and for his Military service not having as others had Thuan Lib. 12. An. 1553. a With put about his neck demands the reason why he might not be permitted to wear such a Chain as his Fellows did and to be made of the same illustrious order as they were of If we have such a Divine Spirit as this is in us we shall count in an high honor to suffer reproach for Christ A right estimation of things is an excellent help to bear sufferings for Religion 3. It must be a tasting or Savouring Knowledge that will prepare us for suffering Treat of Faith cap. 9. It is the taste of God's Word saith Dr. lackson that sweetens sufferings to us and makes us couragious to adventure upon all difficulties that are objected to deter as from entring into the