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	jesus_n	spirit_n	1,784	5	4.7285	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82301	The English Catholike Christian, or, The saints utopia: by Thomas de Eschallers de la More, an unprofitable servant of Jesus Christ: of Graies-Inne barrister, and minister of the Gospel of eternall salvation. In the yeer of grace and truth, 1640. A treatise consisting of four sections. 1 Josuah's resolution. 2 Of the common law. 3 Of physick. 4 Of divinity.	More, Thomas, d. 1685.	1649 (1649)	Wing D884; Thomason E556_21; ESTC R205814	40,520	48

blindnesse of their heart who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousnesse to worke all uncleannesse with greedinesse But ye have not so learned Christ if so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts and be renewed in the Spirit of your minde and that ye put on that new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse And the same Apostle saith 1 Cor. 6. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind c. shall inherit the Kingdome of God And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Now if these and such like places of Scripture will not worke upon prophane worldlings and excite them to repentance and amendment of life I mean such riotous persons as have beene lately posted in our Streets being styled the Sucklington Faction or Sucklings Roating boyes I leave them to that dreadful doom pronounced by the Preacher Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heartche are thee in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee unto judgement Eccles 11. Because sentence against an evill works is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the sonnes of men is fully set in them to do evill Though a sinner ●o evill an hundred times and his dayes be prolonged yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that feare God which feare before him But it shall not be well with the wicked neither shall he prolong his dayes which are as a shadow because he feareth not before God There is a vanity which is done upon the earth that there be just men to whom it happeneth according to the worke of the wicked againe there be wicked men to whom is happeneth according to the work of the righteous I said that this also is vanity Eccles 8. But yet for the comfort of the godly which suffer for the Name of Christ and for righteousnesse sake we read in the 2 Pet. 2. When the Cities of Sodome and Gomorrah were destroyed being made an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly that God delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawfull deeds The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished But chiefly them that walke after the flesh in the lust of uncleannesse and despise Government Presumptuous are they self-willed they are not affraid to speak evill of dignities whereas Angels which are greater in power and might bring not railing accusations against them before the Lord. I am perswaded that if godly understanding Preachers were sent abroad into the severall parts and corners of his Majesties Realms to tell the people of their sinnes and if good laws were put in execution for the punishing of offenders wickednesse and prophanesse would not be so much in fashion as it is I have often wondered that albeit the Parliaments of England which like learned and wise Physicians have alwayes been very diligent to provide choise Antidotes against the distempers of the Common-wealth by making good Laws and Statutes yet they never truly tooke into consideration and seriously weighed the miserable and deplored state of the Church so as to apply apt remedies for the redresse of those grievances before mentioned Surely I am even ashamed to thinke what horrible contempt and disgrace is cast upon the meaner sort of the Clergy those Reverend Pastors that have the charge of our souls and whose Callings are sacred How vilely are they accounted of in the Countrey by ignorant scoffing irreligious vaine persons who can afford them no better titles then these viz. poore journey-men schollers ragged priests sillyratts and the like But I am so far from casting the least blemish or aspersion of infamy upon the noble Professors of the liberall Arts and Sciences and especially I am so far from dishonouring of the Tribe of Levi the lot of Gods own inheritance that the Elders which rule well I account worthy of double honour especially they who labour in the Word and Doctrine For the labourer is worthy of his reward 1 Tim. 5.17 18. I could wish that the large possessions and the superabundant extravegant revenues of Bishops Deanes and Chapters or at least that part of them were bestowed towards the erecting of Churches and Chappels of ease in the severall parts and places of our Kingdomes where they are wanting And towards the maintaining of learned and godly Preachers for the better growth and increase of Religion And I could wish that those lay Parsons that hold Impropriations that the Lords and Tenants of Abbey Lands who pay no tythes and that That Ignavum pecui the Fraternity of sluggish Drones in our Universities I mean those Masters and Fellows of Colledges who mis-imploy their wealth which their Founders endowed them with all for the advancement of Learning and Religion And they themselves are no better than Sots whose filthy and ungodly lives I compare and paralell with the wickedness of the Monks and Epicures of old And I hold them fitter subjects to serve such a Master as that beast and monster of men Heliogabolus was than to lead such Frier-like and Monastick lives as they do making a vain profession of piety and learning under the most religious Christian Prince in Europe To say no more These men are guilty of one very soule fault which I will not mention for shame But they may guesse at my meaning in these old Verses as I finde them in Chaucer in the Monks Prologue which each of them may apply to himself as the case stands with him in particular And it is thus Thou wouldst be a trede foule a right Hadst thou as great leave as thou hast might To perform all thy lust in ingendrure Thou hadst begotten many a creature In truth I could wish that all those above-mentioned especially and that every one of us besides according to our severall abilities c. would contribute cheerfully and freely to this pious work of providing things honest for our spirituall Pastors and give them due honour and necessary allowance who do labour in the word doctrine And last of all I could wish that the honourable Court of Parliament by the direction of almighty God would consult about the promoting establishing and maintaining a faithful learned painful preaching Ministry

of lies though he that made it trust in it c. Habak 2.18 Shall then the Book full of lies vanities and errour be so good a book and remembrance to Lay-men Shall that which endangereth the learned nothing hurt think we the unlearned O that we knew not by experience into what fond and wicked opinions of God poore people have been brought by these painted and carved books How many hearts lament their folly and how many tongues to the praise of Gods mercy in visiting them with his light can and do tell what fond conceits they had of the Lord and heavenly matters seduced by the sight of their eyes Therefore since God hath said it and experience found it that they are so dangerous let them be books for Pagans and Heathens Surely for Christians they should not be Which of the Prophets or Apostles went about ever to have Images made either to put themselves in minde of any thing which the Lord had taught them or the people of any thing which they delivered to them from the L●●d But they used the admonition of their brethren and especially by writing down what they taught they helped this infirmity of ours signifying even by that their practise what means ought now to be to put us in mind of God and heavenly things chiefly his word The Lord himself saith Ye saw no Image but heard a voice only therfore make no Image And again You saw that I spake to you from heaven therfore you shall make no Gods of gold nor silver Deut. 4. As if he should have said my practise in speaking to you by voice not by image should teach you that by my Word and not by Image I am to be remembred And it is a notable place in Esay That when the Word shall take place with his then they shall abhor images Isai 30.21 Now hereupon it followeth that we ought to serve the Lord according to that Rule which himselfe hath laid down and prescribed only You shall not do every man what seemeth good in his own eyes for in vaine do men worship me with traditions of men saith the Lord. Deut. 12. Moses did nothing in building the materiall Tabernacle beside that was comanded and shewed him Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron died for presuming of themselves to serve the Lord with strange fire Levit. 10. The very heathenish Romanes had this reason with them that it was better for them to be quite without Christ than to worship him and others with him against his will and liking And ad placandum Deum in opus habent homines quae ille jubet that is To please the Lord saith Lactantius men have need of those things that he himselfe comandeth And a Christian minde doth not finde a sure stay but when it heareth Hoc dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord If Saul breake the course that God doth appoint and of himselfe devise to serve the Lord be his necessity to do so as he thinketh never so great and the intent of his heart never so holy-like certainly Samuel both must and will tell him to his face he hath done foolishly for the Lord hath more pleasure in that his will is obeyed than in all the fatlings of the Amalekites offered up unto him of our own wills and heads 1 Sam. 13. and 1 Sam. 15. Intents will not serve neither voluntary religion stand accepted And therefore let us even weigh and follow the counsell of Solomon and look to our feet when we enter into the house of God being more ready to heare then to offer the sacrifice of fooles Eccles 4. Read Babington upon the second Comandement Thus we see that Popish Religion is grounded upon unwritten Traditions But no man is to follow or admit a Religion whose grounds are either contrary to Scriptures or to themselves or are new and uncertain or else depend on the credit of man as most of their Traditions do Whosoever therefore either regardeth the Laws of God or abhorreth falshood and heresie cannot choose but abhor all the abominations of the Massing Religion and never suffer any such thing within the Realm of England if he can hinder it Those Kings of Israel that together with the Law of God retained Groves and hill Altars and other Reliques of superstition never prospered The mingled Religion of the Samaritans to the ancient Jews was most odious Emanuel Commenus that linked himself with the Turke and cancelled the curses publiquely set out against Turkish Religion became afterward in all his action most unhappy and after his death most infamous If we may have no good Conditions in Spaine and Italy the Papists may do well to forbear to speak of England where Christians are better resolved of their Religion than Papists can be of their new Superstitions especially considering the diversity of our grounds And albeit France doth threaten their Protestants with like measure as is meted unto Papists here in England yet we believe and know that the same God which delivered our Nation from the bondage slavery and the Egyptian darknesse of Popery The Lord which doth continue his mercy unto us and the liberty and light of the Gospell unto this day amongst us is both able to preserve those that are godly and he will deliver his people out of the jaws of the Lion when and wheresoever they do call upon him in truth Me thinks that fatall end of Sennacherib King of Assyria who sent such a reviling Message by Rabshakch unto Hezekiah King of Judah should be a warning unto all proud spirits and vaine boasters of their Arme of flesh 1 King 18. and 19. Chapters Thus having finished this Treatise which I composed in fourteen dayes I 〈◊〉 on the whole discourse for I have laid a side two or three sheets of the Originall Copie not having leisure nor occasion for the present to transcribe them I shall humbly pray thee charitable Reader to interpret favourebly this birth of mine according to the integrity of the Author and not looking for perfection in the Worke it selfe And I hope by this modest and humble profession of my piety and good intentions to the Republique aut laudatus ero aut excusatus I shall either be approved or excused and by thy candide and impartiall judgment of me and thy pious censure of these my labours I shall be held either worthy of praise or not blame worthy or at least if I shall be no gainer let me be no loser by thee For in truth I deeme it far more unseemly and indigne to lose praise than praise-worthy to attaine it This being admitted I may confidently averte under correction and say with Tacitus Verba mea arguunt●r adec factorum innocens sum Tacit. l. 4. Annal. I shall onely now in the last place cleere an Objection and so conclude It may be objected thus What have young heads novices in Religion Learning and Knowledge to doe to meddle in the weighty affairs of the