Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	christian_a	faith_n	3,911	5	5.5853	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39307	Rogero-Mastix A rod for William Rogers, in return for his riming scourge, &c. By Thomas Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1685 (1685)	Wing E625; ESTC R215518	17,848	31

demand Thy proofless Affirmation will not stand ●…ch less dark Hints Come name the man that went A preaching at G. F's commandment Without an inward Motion from the Lord To sound abroad his everlasting Word 〈◊〉 solemnly profess I do not know One Friend amongst us all that e'er did so Thou sayst The Church hath cry'd once and agen 'Gainst Black-Coats for their being sent of men Thou Envy-blinded art and much unlearn'd 〈◊〉 Truth nor hast thou Right from Wrong discern'd See'st thou no odds Put'st thou no difference then 'Twixt those that run as only sent by men Who neither waited for nor yet believ'd The Spirit 's motion was to be receiv'd And did 〈◊〉 Mission too from such men take As have against the Spirit 's sending spake And them that ●…wait for and in Truth rejoyce At hearing in themselves the Spirit 's Voice Giving a certain Echo to the sound Of the same Voice when in another found Hast thou not read how in the purest state Of Christian Faith as Scripture doth relate The blest Apostles sometimes others sent And sometimes also sent by others went How oft did Paul send Timothy and Titus Beloved Tychicus Epaphroditus Onesimus Erastus and some others True Gospel-Preachers and beloved Brothers Was this like Black-Coats sending Blush for shame That e'er thy Envy did thy Black-Coats name Canst thou imagin they who thus were sent On the meer Motion of th' Apostle went No They no question in themselves did find The same good Motion stirring up their Mind With what the good Apostle did advise The holy Ghost in them did harmonize Titus his case so clearly is exprest That it may serve to open all the rest Him Paul to Corinth had desir'd to go He thereunto a Readiness doth show But why God put it in his heart to do What the Apostle did exhort him to Peter and Iohn Luke tells us being sent By the Apostles to Samaria went The Church too after Stephen's fatal Stroke Sent Barnabas as far as Antiock Examples of this kind are many found The holy Scriptures do therewith abound One Instance more is in my mind to give Of some that in the purest Age did live Ev'n holy Barnabas and blessed Saul Whose Christian Name was after called Paul That these were sent by Simon and the rest In Scripture positively is exprest Yet in the very words that follow next It is recorded in the holy Text That they were by the holy Ghost sent forth Whence plainly follows and indeed 't is worth Our Observation that what those men did Is to the holy Ghost attributed And there 's great Reason that it should be so Since what they did did from the Spirit flow Yet think I not the other two did go Without a Motion in themselves thereto But William that which frets thee most of all And makes an overflowing of thy Gall I●… that the Church hath Money to supply The just occasions of her Ministry When they to preach the Word are mov'd to travel Beyond the Seas At this thou thus dost cavil S●…h Church men unto Christ's Church strangers are And most rely upon their Churches car Unlike those whom Christ sent i' th' Ministry Without a Scrip to sound the Gospel free ●…d therefore when her Cash was empty'd she ●…v'd Money for to serve the Ministry Hence prating Preachers turn'd the Silver Bait ●…ught not a few o' th' Church with zeal to wait As favour was obtain'd by Parasites They labour'd hard to ga●…n more Pro●…elites Thus like a troubl'd Sea thou ' castest up The Mire and Dirt that 's in thy filthy Cup Then in a paltry kind of Bal●…d Tone Like scoffing Ishma●…l thou thus go'st on At length her Papers like to Briefs did e●…y For Money Money for the Ministry A●…d in th●… fifth page having given a yerk A●… R●…chardson for being an hired Clerk Thou sayst It s true that some do frequent say Both Cl●…ks and Priests from th' Flock obtain their pay Thy envious term of Priests as 't is apply'd To Friends is by the Truth in Friends deny'd Th' Apostle Peter call'd the Saints of old A Royal Priesthood We no other hold But that Christ's Ministers should be supply'd With necessaries by the Church his Bride Is such a known and certain Truth as none Perhaps hath e'er oppos'd but thou alone Read but the Scriptures in the Margin set And thou 'lt be forc'd to grant though with Regret That 't is the Churches duty to supply Th●… needful wants of all her Ministry I know these Texts which I have here inserted Have oft been misapply'd and much perverted B●… Parish-Preachers who these Scriptures strain To draw unto themselves dishonest Gain But what of that Truth must not be refus'd Because it is by Evil men abus'd And truth it is too plain to be deny'd Christ's Church should for Christ's Ministers provide What carp'st thou at then William Would thy Muse Plead that St. Paul did not his Priv'ledge use I grant he did not in some special cases And that too only in some factious places And I perhaps if need requir'd could name Some scor●…s of Friends too that have done the same That at their own charge have a Warfare gone And crost the Seas being chargeable to none But what of that Th' Apostle Paul we find His Right assert●…d though he had no mind To tak●… it there And else-where doth declare That other Churches did of him take care That what was lacking to him privately The Macedonian Brethren did supply Thus it appears th' Apostle did partake Of that Provision which the Church did make And what but Envy hath bewitcht thy Mind With what was then approv'd now fault to find Pretend thou canst not that the stock is given To such as have no need thereof for even Thy self here sayst The Church supply'd the need Of those that wanted Monies to proceed To go beyond Seas What a groundless Cavil Is this of thine How should such Preachers travel Beyond the Seas whom Christ thereto doth move And whom the Church as faithful doth approve If neither have they Monies to proceed Nor Church may with her Stock supply their need May none beyond Seas go but who can spare Sufficient of their own the charge to bear Must Christ be so confin'd he may not send Any but such as have Estates to spend God bless us from such Doctrine and such Teachers As will admit of none but wealthy Preachers Peter we read nor Silver had nor Gold So he the Cripple at the Temple told Yet after that he travell'd far and near By Sea and Land pray who the Charge did bear Unless the Church And is that now a Crime Which was a Virtue in the purest time No sure Though Dissolute Apostates slight Her care the Church then did and now doth right Christ's Messengers to furnish and their need Supply when they want Monies to proceed In