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	heart_n	word_n	1,929	5	3.9161	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56656	Divine arithmetick, or, The right art of numbring our dayes being a sermon preached June 17, 1659, at the funerals of Mr. Samuel Jacomb, B.D., minister of the Gospel at S. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbardstreet, London, and lately fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge / by Simon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing P792; ESTC R11929	59,678	90

He did not grow up by degrees as we do but all on a suddain me-thought he was a man He acted and preached when his hottest blood boiled in his veins as men do in their coole age with great seriousnesse gravity and a certain majestick humility which commanded reverence to his youth It is no wonder therefore that God hath gathered him so soon seeing he brought forth fruit so early and was ripe when others begin to bloom or but to put forth a tender bud He had runne half of his course and seemed to be in his Meridian when it was but day-break with us his Contemporaries and we did but begin to peepe above the Horizon with a timorous light And besides this is not to be forgotten that though he was of excellent good learning and had all this work to do yet he lived not alway among his Books which is to die among the living and to live among the dead a dying to all and perhaps not a living to a mans self But he was exceeding free to all good good converse and let his Ftiends enjoy so much of him that sometimes he could scarce enjoy himself but only in them Yea I doubt that he was better to them then to himself and disregarded his own health to satisfie their desires The Arabick Proverb is Si amicus tuus sit mel ne comedas totum If thy Friend be Honey do not eat him all up I wish that it had been known more familiarly in England for I fear the sweetnesse of his society did tempt his friends to devoure him among them After he had been in Cambridge between a eleven and twelve years and had preached much both there and in the Countrey the Providence of God so ordered it that coming to London about threee year and a half ago upon another occasion he was desired to preach in this place and instantly was chosen to be Pastor of this Congregation I remember that he was not received with lesse joy then now he is carried forth with sorrow Nor was he lesse esteemed as far as I can hear in other places of the City then in this Parish who I know had a very great affection to him His Brethren in the Minstry did highly value as I have heard from some of them his excellent endowments and looked upon him as one like to be very instrumental in the work of the Lord. And so I hope he hath been for you have fully known his Doctrine his manner of life his purpose Faith and Charity as the Apostle saith concerning himself to Timothy 2 Epist 3.10 I will but remember you a little of the first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Solen in Laert. viz. his Doctrine and speech for by that you may judge of the rest it being according to the ancient saying The Character of a man and the Image of his life His Sermons were stings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato rather then words They were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 winged words in a diviner sense for they were the Arrows of the Almighty shot with a strong arm into mens hearts His Discourses were so rational and demonstrative that they were able to convert an Atheist to the Faith So clear and full of light that they might turn the most ignorant soul unto wisedome So awakening and lively they were that it will be a wonder if he have left one soul asleep among you So perswasive and moving that they might charm the cup out of the hand of the Drunkard and intice a sinner out of the most delicate embraces So cordial likewise and reviving that if any persons droop who heard him they never drank them down but only lickt the glasse So considerate and digested that as he beat down confidence in mans proper strength so he rouzed them from their lazinesse and an idle indifferency about their souls So discreet and fervent that as he affrighted cold formality so he tempered zeal that it might not be frighted out of its wits And as the Apostle hath married Truth to Charity so he endeavoured to keep this bond inviolable For his degree of Batch in Divinity that they might never be divorced either in his heart or word But the Text upon which he preached the last Commencement before the University was his constant practice Eph. 4.15 Speaking the truth in love He was a Preacher indeed that sought to find out acceptable words and written upright even words of truth as the great Preacher speaks Eccles 12.10 And whereas there are too many Sermons that are full of words without matter and not a few that have excellent matter without words to set it of and convey it into mens minds God had given him an excellent faculty to dive into the bottom of the truth and then to adorn it with such good and rich expressions that it should loose nothing for want of one to commend it There was a sweet vein of Eloquence that ran through his reason His Arguments were interlaced with handsome illustrations And after he had drawn the Picture of the truth he intended to represent he had the art to hang it in a convenient light so that it should look upon every body in the House Nazianzen compares a mans mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orat. Vices that cannot utter its mind to the motion of a man whose joynts are struck with a benumming disease And I may compare a mind which speaks without any understanding to the motion of a Puppet that frisks and skips most nimbly but hath no soul within But he of whom I speak was not frozen and benummed so that his mind could not flow forth neither had he a flood of words and a drop of sense but he rapt away his Auditors with a double torrent of Rhetorick and reason sweetly mixt together And truly if a Divine could stirre up all kind of affections and passions by his Sermons as well as a Comedian can do by a play yet unlesse there be a sound and substantial truth at the bottom they will be but like the scorching flames in straw which will quickly expire for want of something to foment and feed them It is possible that a man may by earnestnesse and violence exprimere affectus as Erasmus I think speaks express and squeeze out affections from his Auditors but he will never impresse them with any unlesse there be the strength of reason and weight of Argument to presse and perswade mens understanding into obedience I am sure his Sermons were of this sort that were apt to imprint something both upon mind and heart and I hope he hath left some such seal upon you that will never be blotted out But it pleased God that he had many ill fits since he came hither which were but spurres I believe unto him to make him runne the faster And especially the last September he was encountred with a most dangerous disease which assaulted him with such a violence that it made all