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
A45432	Daily thoughts, or, A miscellany of meditations holy & humane by Jos. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1651 (1651)	Wing H57; ESTC R25711	25,049	128

thy comfort that thou shalt one day dye to wish thy selfe ever upon earth is to wish thy selfe ever out of heaven BE imploy'd onely in such waies as thou wouldst not blush to bee met in Thamar goes disguis'd when to play the harlot tell nothing of another which thou wouldest not have told him believe nothing of another which thou mayest not tell doe not construe seriously what is spoken but in jest and forbeare those jests which may bee construed to earnest heare no ill of a friend but reply and speake no ill though of an enemy IN thy house let thy entertainement be free not costly bid thy friends welcome to thy ability not beyond it never make one meale so as thou must bee faine to fetch it up out of many bee hospitable but provident thinke nothing too much for thy friends which is not too much for thy estate hospitality bids thy friends welcome and providence makes thee able to bid them welcome if hospitality bee the life of neighbourhood providence is the life of hospitality hee is not thy friend that expects more than thou art well able thou art not thine owne friend if thou doest lesse to live above thy meanes is folly to live too far below thy means is a disparagement doe all like thy selfe so as may neither weaken thy respect nor thy estate LOve not ill company lest thou learne the ill of the company it is hard not to be like the company thou keepest it is rare if we deny not Christ in Caiphas his house with Solomon it is hard having the Ethiopian without her Idols wee see people change their complexion with the Climate Vessels smell of the liquor they containe by ordinary communication in the wayes of sinners without a great deale of care you will communicate with their sinne With the froward thou wilt learne frowardnesse he that goes to the meetings of wicked men will come a wicked man out or to say the best worse than he went in for thy conversation let this be thy rule if thy company be better imitate them if worse convert them if equall and as thou art joyn with them FEed the poore often at thy dooro sometime at thy Table whatsoever thou givest to Christ in his members hee will one day give backe againe to thee in thy person it is but just if God deny thee thy daily bread if thou daily deny him the crums LEt it not trouble thee what is talk'd of thee when thou art absent more then what will be talk'd of thee when thou art dead an ill report doth not make thee an ill man be careful to do no nothing that deserves to bee ill spoken of let it not trouble thee to be ill spoken of undeservedly LEt thy prayers bee frequent thy wants are so and thy thanksgivings frequent thy blessings are so pray daily at home and if thou canst at Church God is every where but there hee hath promised to be misse not the confession and abosolution unlesse thou hast no sinnes to confesse or carest not to bee forgiven them THinke not the worse of the ordinances of God for the sinnes of the Preacher those that are ill themselves may yet be instruments of good to other s God hath promised his blessing to the thing not to the person the sacrifices of Elies sonnes were effectuall for the people it is not the peoples fault that the Preacher is wicked and as it is without their fault so it is without their prejudice it was our blessed Saviours of the Pharisees After their sayings doe ye we must follow their sayings whose deeds we may not thou mayest not refuse the word of God from any if they teach what they should though they doe not what they teach the wickednesse of the messenger doth not abate the power of the meanes as the intemperance and debauchednesse of the Physician doth not hinder the working of the Physick REmember often that thou art a Christian and do nothing that may disprove it be not a law to thy selfe but bee regulated by that which is a law to us all the Word of God study not how much to make thy life longer but better consider that the longer thou art here here the longer thou art from God let it be thy care rather to lead a good life than a long endeavour to thy ability to doe well and grieve that thou canst not doe better doe not wrong to others forgive the wrongs which others doe thee strive what thou canst to keep a good name but rather a good conscience if men mistake thee comfort thy selfe that God which shall reward thee doth not looke upon the necessities of others not as a stranger but a member as thou wouldest have God looke upon thine be good to all God is so but with a difference Especially to the houshold of faith cherish no sinne in thy selfe and countenance none in another acquaint thy selfe rather with the commandements of God than the decrees and conclude of thy salvation to thy selfe rather by a diligent observing of his revealed will than by searching into his secret will let not the changes of this World to preferment or want make thee either sond of thy life or weary of it be contented to live but bee desirous to die To bee dissolved and to bee with Christ And though thy body bee not yet in heaven let thy heart be there LEt thy first care bee to bee good thy selfe thy next care to make others so be not a Christian in shew only yet in every thing shew thy selfe a Christian doe nothing but what is good and speake nothing but what is truth hee is the best Christian that speakes well and doth as hee speakes He is the true and reall Christian whose Most holy words are seconded with deeds Who lives Religion over and well knowes Christianity consists not all in creeds Pinns not his life nor faith to others sleeve Beleeves what 's writ and lives as hee beleeves Slow to revenge a wrong not to forgive Whose goodnesse is not onely to the eye Thinks rather how to die than how to live And yet is dead to sin before he die And who lives here on earth and dies to sin When he is dead his life doth but begin Who doth not what he likes but what he may And asks what may I to not of himselfe But of Religion and the Scriptures say Who is his own rule runs upon a shelfe Who though he might he would not bee deboise Is good not of necessity but choice That makes not opportunity his bawd Occasion sometime doth invite a sin To may and will not is the Christians laud He 's guilty that is out and would be in But being tempted or but not withstood Not to be evill it a double good That can revenge a wrong but doth forbear it And to be slow to malice is not sloth Speaks only what is truth but will not sweare it Nor second every trisle with an oath That