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	damn_v	delusion_n	1,893	5	11.0930	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12551	The bright morning starre: or, The resolution and exposition of the 22. Psalme preached publikely in foure sermons at Lincolne. By John Smith preacher of the citie.	Smyth, John, d. 1612.	1603 (1603)	STC 22874; ESTC S113474	48,228	204

nation it seemeth that noble men haue some priuiledge that way that they die not as other sorts of persons die And lastly the death of the tree hath no curse in it selfe we reade of diuers men that were godly men that died vpon the tree as the penitentiarie that died with Christ Christ himselfe also and experience teacheth vs that eeuery yeare for many men betwixt their condemnation and execution haue beene deepely humbled for there sinnes and so haue died the true seruants of God where fore the death of the crosse which Christ suffered was not thus accursed how then was it accursed surely by the iudiciall and ceremoniall lawe of Moses and not otherwise that lawe which Moses gaue from God the lawgiuer of the Iewes Deut 21.23 conteyneth a prohibition with a reason annexed thereto The prohibition is in these words Thou shalt not suffer his bodie that is hanged vpon the tree to remaine all night vpon the tree and this prohibition is a meare Iudiciall law of Moses the which the people of the Iewes onely were bound to obserue which lawe if the people of the Iewes had violated they sinned so against God that the land was defiled with the sinne Deut. 21.23 The reason of that prohibition is in these words For the curse of God is on him that is hanged and this reason is a meere ceremoniall lawe for it hath bin prooued that neither by the lawe of nature by ciuill or positiue lawe or of it selfe to be hanged vpon a tree is accursed it is therefore a meere ceremonie but we know that Christ is the substance of euery ceremonie wherefore the Lord foreseeing that Christ should die vpon a tree vpō the tree suffer the curse of the lawe due vnto our sins as our suretie therefore he typically figured out this curse in the death of malefactours amōg the people of the Iews that were hāged vpō the tree so that euery malefactor that was hāged amōg the Iews was a type of Christ and therfore was accursed not really for it is want of charitie to think so but ceremonially and typically represēting vnto vs Christ who was truely and really accursed for vs in that he sustained gods wrath which is the curse of the lawe which we should haue sustained wherefore seeing Christ was really accursed as hath beene prooued by this discourse therfore he vndoubtedly suffered gods wrath which is the curse Yet they behold looke vpon me Whē they had nailed Christ to the crosse and wrackt his ioynts so as that his bones might bee numbered they heape vpon him all other indignities they can and therefore first they behold look vpon him alas it was a pitifull fight for one that had any manhood in him to see a man nayled hands and feete with great nailes as they must needes be seeing the hebrue word signifieth such a pearcing as was more like diggig or such a pearcing as a lyon maketh with his clawes to see the blood issue abounly out of the woundes to see his bodie strecht so as that one ioynt was seuered from an other which is an extreame torture for a bodily torment and yet they behold and look vpon him without any pitty at all nay they mock and derid him as appeareth plaine in the historie of the Gospell when he would haue had a litle drinke to asswage his thirst they gaue him viniger mingled with gaul to increase his thirst the more gaull beeing a thing biter of it selfe all these shamefull outragies they offered to Christ nowe in dying whence we may cōsider not only the barbarous crueltie of these persons but further the nature and property of him which is to grow one from degree to degree till it come to an heigth and a fearefull excesse these persons first contemned Christ a doctrine depraued his life cōsented to his death now most cruelly murder him and yet that doth not satisfie them but they mock at him in the middest of his misery will not affoard him any ease at al It is good to gainstand sinne at the first least if it get groūd of vs at length it conquer and subdue vs for the Lord sometime accustometh to punish one sinne with another and when men will not preuent small sinnes they shall bee plunged into a sea of fearefull impietie as the Gentiles because when they knewe God they did not glorifie him as God fell to Idolatrie and after that to sinne against nature and they in the seate of Antichrist because they receiued not the loue of the truth therefore are giuen ouer to strang delusions to beleeue lies that they might bee damned Rom. 3.2 Thes 2. when they had thus shamefully handled Christ They part my garments and cast lottes one my vesture they proceede to the deuiding of his garments for they stript him of his cloathes when they crucified him and here wee may obserue diuers points worth our noting for what should be the reason that the holy Ghost should thus carefully expresse this practise of the souldiers in deuiding his garments casting lottes for his vesture no doubt this is some speciall matter euen in this their practise especially seeing the Euāgelist also testify the same thing to be done by the soldiers some allegory the matter after this manner the garmēts of Christ say they are the scriptures the vesture of Christ is his Church the souldiers are heretiques For although the heretiques rend the scriptures with false exposition c. yet they cannot dissolue the vnitie of the Church with there errours This doctrine is true but it is not intended in this place It is a meere folly and dotage thus to abuse the scriptures though the allegorie be neuer so wittie But we are to knowe that one reason why the Euangelistes expresse these things is for the verifying of the prophecy that the euent might declare the truth of the prophecy other profitable considerations may hence be raised 1 The souldiers deale as theeues which haue gotten a bootie they make no conscience of robbing a man yet they make a scruple in deuiding the spoile the soldiers make no bones to kill Christ and rob him of his garments yet they are curious in the deuiding his apparrell amongst them for it is a right propertie of an hypocrite to swallow a carnell and to strayne at a gnatt to tith mint cummin and annise seed and to neglect Iudgement mercy and faith the soldiers neuer strayne curtesy to iniury Christ but they wil not iniury one another 2 Againe the Holy Ghost seemeth to laie another fault among the soldiers that they cast lottes for trifles as if men should card and dice for a coate we neuer read in all the scriptures that lottes were vsed but in waighty matters and it seemeth to be to take the name of God in vaine to sport our selues with his immediate prouidence as lots are 3 Furthermore if that bee not assented vnto yet here is another thing flatly