Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	bear_v	jesus_n	spirit_n	1,757	5	5.1751	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90968	The pulpit incendiary: or, The divinity and devotion of Mr. Calamy, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Mr. Cranford, and other Sion-Colledge preachers in their morning-exercises, with the keen and angry application thereof unto the Parliament and Army. Together with a true vindication of the Covenant from the false glosses put upon it, and a plain indication of Covenant-breakers. Published according to order.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3346; Thomason E438_10; ESTC R203205	55,372	67

that which they call a testimony to the truth of Jesus and against error heresie blasphemy c. though they tender unto us no argument for the truth of Jesus nor against any error heresie blasphemy c. they will set forth a testimony to their testimony c. And we presume their countrey preaching is like to these mens ●itie-preaching and so Sion Colledge or Sion Colledge-men for the court is not alwayes kept in one place endeavours to steere about the whole Kingdom It is no pleasure unto us to be ingaged in this displeasing subject and long it hath been before we would be provoked hereunto hoping that these men would at last have recovered themselves out of this snare of death viz. railing accusations bitter speeches and perverse language against their brethren that they would at last have seen that their town shall not bee built with blood nor their citie established by iniquity that it is of the Lord that they have laboured in the very fire a great while about the same and wearied themselves with vanity for alas the Sunne is too much up and the earth is too much fill'd with the knowledge of the Lord then that thus we should be charmed into a meer footstoole unto the throne of the Clergy and most confident we are that the Prophets imprecation will ever light upon all attempts of this nature viz a barren womb and dry breasts and therefore waving our further complaints we shall addresse our selves in the most earnest requests of our soules unto these men Reverend Sirs THe long observation of your general proceedings your pulpit-work from day to day your diligent improving of all your interest to advance your selves suppresse your brethren directs our thoughts and troubled spirits in the sad tender of our wofull complaints unto your selves Are you the Ministers of Christ Why are you then the fomenters of trouble Did hee come to setle the world in peace and do not you disturb the peace of the world Your masters worke and designe in the earth was to bring glory to God in the highest by setling on the earth peace and good will towards men but is this your practice Your Lord was humble in mind lowly in heart courteous in his wayes meeke in his words of a lovely kinde and affable deportment towards all men filling the earth with righteousnesse and peace doe you act according to this pa●erne His Kingdome was not of this wor●d neither did He seek for great things here Is i● thus with you Hee went about doing good healing the sicke curing the lame the blinde the deafe the dumb making glad the most miserable in the earth are you like Him Is this to walk as you have Christ for an example to stirre up brethren against brethren and neighbour against neighbour to revile Parliament Army Magistrates Ministers all sorts whatsoever that cannot come up to the full length of your desires and judgements Your Soveraigne Lord gave unto the sonnes of men beauty for ashes but you baldnesse for beauty He the garment of praise for the spirit of heavinesse you sad the hearts of those whom God hath not made sad He took away sack cloth and girded men with joy and gladnesse you endeavour to take away joy and gladnesse and gird them with sack-cloth He preached peace in the earth you stirre up trouble He sild men with principles of love you with principles of wrath Is it not thus with you If not what means your daily invectives your rigid harsh and bitter speeches morning after morning Your Lord did beare with the weak support the feeble instruct teach direct not inveigh declaime revile We know your objectione Object Did not John call the Pharisees and the Sadduces generation of vipers Moses the Israelites Rebels Jesus the Scribes Hypocrites Paul Elimas the child of the Devill why then may not Mr. Cawton call the Army and Independents a generation of vipers Mr. Jenkin an Army of Rebels c. Reply First can Mr. Cawton Mr. Jenkin c. plead that authority as Christ John Paul could Can these say We came downe from the besome of the Father as Christ did That which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes c. declare we unto you as Iohn did that which we have received from the Lord we have delivered unto you as Paul did Can they plead the infallibility of the Spirit as these could if so let them evince it unto us for if other men as godly as learned as wise every way as good as themselves pleading the same authority the same commission c. declare to us in the name of God of Jesus Christ as speaking by the Spirit things contrary unto these mens sayings which of these shall we beleeve Is Christ divided Nay is Christ against himselfe Did he command Peter and the rest of the Apostles to feed his sheep and Mr Cawton Mr. Jenkin c. to worry his sheep Did he command his Apostles to preach peace and Mr Cauton and Mr. Jenkin c. to propagate warre in the earth must others provoke one another to love and may M. Cauton M. Jenkin c provoke one another to revile to abuse to slander one another Must the Apostles and Disciples of Christ doe good to them that hate them pray for them that persecute them and may Mr. Cauton Mr. Jenkin c. hate them that love them persecute them that pray for them Must others of the Disciples of Christ render good for evill and may Mr Cawton Mr. Jenkin c render evill for good raile against the Army and Parliament calling the one Rebels the other covenant breakers for all the good they have received by the courage of the one and the counsels of the other Was it evill in Canterbury Wren and others of the Prelacy to persecute their brethren for non conformity to Episcopacie and is it commendable for Mr Cauton Mr. Jenkin c. to doe the same things for non-conformity to Presbytery Was it a sin in them to abuse raile against and revile their bre●hren calling them Heretickes Schismatickes Sectaries c. and is it a vertue in Mr. Cawton Mr. Jenkin c. to doe the same is this to follow the truth in love to beare one anothers burthens to restore one another fallen with the spirit of meeknesse to be kindly affectioned one towards another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another is this to walk in love is this to cause your faith in Christ Jesus and your love not to some of your own judgement but to all the Saints to be heard abroad in the world is this to be ROOTED and GROUNDED in love are these like the treatings of God with you were they not his soft words which brake the bones of your stubbornnesse against him in your unregenerate state And as you are Embassadours for Christ is it not your duty to BESEECH in Christs stead and to PRAY men to be reconciled unto

warre and alarms to battle heightning divisions differences and distempers that are too high already amongst us Thirdly Doe you complain of the increase of sectaries you multiply them by your carriages towards them the persecuting Papists made Protestants the persecuting Prelates made puritans and the railing Presbyter that sharpens his tongue to utter bitter words to call men a generation of vipers a viperous brood the remnant of Baal c. These make Independents whom you call sectaries Fourthly Doe you complain of the growth of errors doe not you cause 〈◊〉 by casting mudde and dirt at the root of these bulrushes i●stead of plucking them up by arguing reasoning and debating the same It is true about 58 Ministers of London 84 Ministers of Lancashire 43 Ministers of Warwick shire subscribes against error heresie blasphemie but you shall have one sectary in a corner will give it may be or pretend at least to give more arguments to maintain his error than 185 Ministers to maintain the truth in opposition to these errors you shall have it may be one sectary pretend to offer 185 arguments to maintain an error and to give testimony to it when 185 Ministers of London Lancashire and Warwick-shire give testimony indeed to the truth of Jesus by asserting such and such things for truth and by calling such and such things errors heresies c. as so many Leather coats may doe but not one argument among them all to assert the truth of Jesus or destroy error withall had we more of your pains and lesse of your passions more of your arguments lesse of your anger more reasonings and lesse railings would you be pleased to set up Lectures of confutation of errors in a soft meek wise and Christian manner and decline these fiery fierce and furious Lectures of strife divisions reproach and contempt upon Parliament Army brethren c. How quickly would error be cast upon the dunghill and truth get up into the throne Error is seated in the imaginations of men and they are high thoughts that exalt themselves against the knowledge of Jesus Christ those means therefore that are effectuall for the suppression of error heresie c. must be calculated for the casting down of imagination● or reasonings and strong holds in men exalting themselves against the knowledge of Jesus Christ stout railing will never demollish strong reasonings the weight of the little finger of truth and sound reason doth more effectually crush error heresie c. than the very loyns of railing and raging at them one sound argument coming against error in the name and according to the will of God will be unto an whole host of errors as the Angel of God unto the host of Senacherib viz. scatter and slaughter them that the place thereof shall not be found any more one sound argument from the holy Scriptures wisely and skilfully managed against a capitall error doth often prove like Davids stone slung at Goliah viz. strike it dead in the face of many abettors thereof making them quickly throw down their weapons at the feet of truth and become captives unto it bitter invectives without arguments against errors heresie c. are unto them as the Egyptian persecution was unto the Israelites the more they be thus dealt withall the more they grow the spirit of conviction doth not usually appear in whirlewinde blustering stormy tempestuous railing raging and wrangling exclamations but in the still and soft voice of brotherly meek ●ollid and Christian debating reasoning and arguing out the truth it is most true it is good to be zealously affected in a good thing yea that our zeale should even eat us up but we must be zealous according to knowledge not to eat up our brethren it is reason and not railing that conjures errors out of mens judgements why should the sonnes of error be wiser than the sonnes of truth they insinuate errors into their proselytes they watch to deceive they come under the vizard of humilitie meeknesse and sweetnesse to seduce the simple if you will undeceive them you must be that in sincerity which deceivers are in hypocrisie viz. truely humble truely meek and kinde 't was Pauls rule especially towards fallen brethren to restore them with the spirit of meeknesse it was his practice to catch men by guile it s no marvaile that errors abound amongst us when men instead of rooting them up by a strong hand of arguing doe onely tread upon them as upon Cammamell by lowd reproaches reasonlesse declamations c. making them indeed rather to grow and multiply God if we may so say doth often need mens patience meeknesse humility but never needs mens passions frowardnesse perversenesse this is to goe down into the Land of darknesse to fetch light to apply our selves to Satans Magazin to furnish us with weapous to fight the Lords battles this is for vice to correct sinne When men come to heare reason against error and finde nothing but railing what is this but to feed men with stones instead of bread and with serpents instead of fishes would men endeavour to convince men by arguing and reasoning as Christ did and not as the Scribes it would make men astonished at their doctrine and error and heresie like Dagon before the Arke would not stand before the truths of God so mannag'd and asserted Fifthly Doe you complain that the worke of reformation is hindered Sanballads and Tobyasses obstruct the building of the Temple wee have been a great while in expectation of setling Religion but alas all is in vaine wee have nothing but an empty shew of reformation Presbytery is despised sleighted we are farther off from reformation than wee were severall yeares since Who hinders your reformation but your selves have you not all incouragements unto a reformation were ever any of you troubled for the exactnesse strictnesse or purity of your reformation may you not keep any man how great soever he be from your Communions who lives scandalously loosely or in grosse ignorance is it not evident as the Sunne at noone-day that nothing stands in your way but your selves may not all men of discerning spirits see and perceive what it is that hinders your reformation shall we dictate unto you the common observations of seeing men viz. that you take not a right method for a pure reformation for is not this your Custome you call in all your Parish if house-keepers to choose your Elders your Elders they admit of your members to the Sacrament and so your reformation is made up is it not too notorious that the most of men are not the best of men nay have not you often told us that the most of men are the worst of men and can the worst of men bring about the best of reformations will the worst of men make choice of the best of rulers except it be through the wonderfull providence and interposition of the hand of God doe not wee plainly see that the most of men have not principles leading

prosper Psal. 45. 4. Men doe seldome contend for truth in a railing Dialect it is mastery more than truth that is so sought out passion envy hatred malice are the fruits of the flesh and can these contend for their destroyer the spirit of truth Consider how doth it gratifie the designes of the adversarie that the Saints should thus wrangle each with his brother how doth this cheere up the Popish Episcopall Presbyteriall Independent Antinomian Anabaptisticall Jesuite For we presume the Jesuite personates them all and whose ends we prosecute by our unhappy divisions amongst our selves how is this told in Gath published in Askalon how do the daughters of the Philistims rejoyce and the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph how do they jeere at our discord that we our selves prove thorns in one anothers eyes and goads in one anothers sides boasting that they lasht us with rods but we our selves with Scorpions and that our own little fingers will we heavier upon one another than their loynes were upon us all They opprest us and we were pitied of all we oppresse our selves and then who pitieth us They ruin'd us by an usurpation and shall we strive to ruine one another by a law They crusht us by the heavie sentences of the high Commission and Star-chamber and shall we endeavour to doe the same by the authority of Parliament If we love not one another let us love our selves for each undermineth his own security by circumventing his brothers peace How doe Saints lose in each others hearts when they gall and grieve and vex one another in each others pen To give milk and hony for vinegar and gall blessing for cursing kinde words for bitter language this is indeed our duty but hereunto who hath attained And shal we tempt one another with bitter provocations Sorrow and trouble persecution and affliction envie and malice evill speaking and rail●ng we expect from the world but better quarter from better people the Saints should be each others shelter we doe not gather grapes from thornes nor briers from vines men doe not gather figges from thistles nor prickles from figge-trees Churlish language I expect from a Nabal not from a David scoffes from an Ismael not from an Isaac railing from a Rabsheika not f●om an Hezekiah Dungeons from an Ahab not from a Michaiah prisons from an Herod not from John the Baptist chaines from a Nero not from a Paul banishment from Flavius Domitian not from John the Evangelist jeeres from a Julian not from a Christian Consider the deare relation wherein we stand each to other in Jesus Christ have we not the same Lord the same Faith the same Baptisme Did we not all lie together as it were in the same womb of the Almighties gracious purpose Are we not all the price of the same ransome the redeemed of the same Saviour Doth not the same Spirit of Jesus breathe in our hearts the same blood of Jesus run in our veins Are we not all brethren in the faith and shall brethren reproach brethren brethren raile against brethren What! brethren without bowels without naturall affection to brethren Who but a Cain will seek the ruine of a brother Abel because his holy services a●e more acceptable than his own Who but a Ham will betray the nakednesse of his own family God put enmity between Satan and Saints but Satan puts enmity between Saints and Saints whose works they doe that foment the same An ungodly man diggeth up evill and in his lips there is a burning fire and a froward man soweth strife and a whisperer seperateth chief friends Pro. 16. 27 28. And it is awicked man that walketh with a froward mouth Pro. 6. 12. And shall such be found among the Saints Oh where is that Spirit that should knit our hear●s together in love Are we we not all members of the same body If one suffer doe not all suffer and shall we persecute one another if one be disgrac'd doe we not all blush and shall we shame one another Is love the sign of a disciple of Christ and shall we hate one another Doth not each member need his fellow and shall each destroy each other Is the body of Christ the horrid monster of these monstrous times Is it thus amongst Turks and Pagans Mahumitans Atheists or Papists Doe Malignants thus rail against Malignants Cavaliers against Cavaliers Are there such bitter words or biting language such harsh sayings or hard speakings to be heard in the camp of our adversaries Deare Sirs is it truth or trouble you thus pursue if the truth sight for it in its own way it calls for your love to it selfe and children and not for your rancor for your pains and not your passion it calls for help and not for hindrance if Truth doth reigne why scratch you her with a crown of thornes giving her vinegar and gall to drink If Truth be Queen her Royall attendance Maida of honour should be love and meeknesse gentlenesse and goodnesse kindnes mercy forbearance and pitie Why do men vex her with pride and passion strife and contention frowardnesse and anger Her kingdome is peace her commands are love her Royall law to her loyall subjects is Follow the truth together in love Eph. 4. 15. Lyons and Wolves Beares and Tygers Dragons and Vultures with such hurtfull creatures becomes the shady wildernesse of the wicked world but none that doe destroy should approach the Lords holy mountain It becomes Toads to belch out venome and hellish Furies to spit fire each at other and not the Saints of the most high God shall they dig out one anothers bowels rend one anothers name Dearest Sirs Turn your swords into plow-shares and your sp●●rs into p●uning hookes and learn no more to warre one against another Esay 2. 4. L●t the Wolfe dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard lie down with the Kid and a child by truth lead them both Let no corrupt communication come out of your mouth but that which is good for the use of edefying that may administer grace to the hearers and let all bitternesse and wrath and anger clamour and evill speaking be put away from you with all malice and be ye kind one to onother tender hearted forgiving one another as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Ephes. 4. 29 31 32. We beseech you Sirs have mercy upon your own native Kingdome and doe not sacrifice it upon the sinfull service of carnall interests we come to heare you preach the Gospel of peace do not cast amongst us the seeds of warre we come for bread do not give us stones for fish do not give us Scorpions for the waters of life do not put into our mouthes the waters of gall for the Apples of Eden feed us not with the Apples of Sodom shall our reformation be reformality have we sworn against Prelacie only in title We shall say no more but referring all that hath been said unto your most candid and Christian