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
A88104	The a fury of vvarre, and b folly of sinne, (as an incentive to it) declared and applyed. For caution and remedy against the mischiefe and misery of both. In a sermon preached at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne and publike fast, Aprill 26. 1643. By Iohn Ley Minister of Great Budworth in Cheshiere.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1879; Thomason E103_1; ESTC R11792	61,846	83

put betwixt them which to them was a bright Cloud but to these a Cloud of darknesse Exod. 14.20 So the Lord will enlighten his people to see and to know what is good for their safety but those that list not to take him for their teacher as the wicked doe not are left to the blindnesse and darknesse of their own understandings and by that being no better then bruitish for every man is bruitish by his own knowledge Ier. 10.14 we may say of them as the Lord doth in my Text they are a foolish people sottish children they have none understanding Secondly for the Booke which is the treasurie of sound and saving instruction to wit the word of God wherein as “ Aug. confess l. 12. c. 14. S. Augustine said there is a marvellous profoundnes and he trebles his words of it by way of admiration it is that which maketh wise the simple purifieth the heart and enlightneth the eyes Psal 19.7 8. and makes a man wiser then his enemies Psal 119. ver 98. yea wiser then his teachers ver 99. if he ply that Booke more diligently then they But the wicked hath no liking of it takes no delight in it and if sometimes he reade or heare any part of it he never learnes it by heart but so little remembers or respects it as to doe quite contrary to it and they that reject the word of the Lord and therein they reject him also what wisedome is in them Jer. 8.9 if they be such Rebels against the light Job 24.13 God can and in Justice he may make their Sunne is goe downe at noone Amos 8.9 and make all their wayes darknesse Prov. 2.13 he can smite the Horse with astonishment and his rider with madnesse Zach. 12.1 he can make Iudges that should excell in wisedome fooles Job 12.17 Diviners mad turne wisemen backward and make their counsell folly Esa 44.25 as he did Achitophels 1 Sam. 15.3 he can and he hath threatned to doe it and he hath done it smite the wicked with blindnesse madnesse and astonishment of heart Deut. 28.28 At least when they reject God for their teacher and his Booke for their lesson and like not to entertaine or retaine the knowledge of God in their minds he will give them over and such wilfull fooles well deserve it to a reprobate mind Rom. 1.28 Because they receive not the love of the truth this they may be saved God sends them strong delusions to beleeve a lye that they may be damned 2 Thes 2.10 11. and he may justly and often doth give them up to his impostures who of fooles will make them mad-men as he did the Scribes and Pharisees Luk. 6.11 and who when he hath them wholly in his power will use them like to mad-men keeping them in darke lodgings under chaines and scourges Now for the causes of the folly within themselves they areas deficient concerning such as would conduce to their prudent direction as in their want of a good teacher or of such good lessons of his Booke as would make them wise if they did not very unwisely reject or neglect them both their defect in themselves which increaseth their folly is manifold as Their want 1. Of Intelligence 2. Of Memory 3. Of method 4. Of Diligence 5. Of Consideration concerning those things which are of greatest moment to make them truely wise and happy for their wise wickednesse for the Prophet saith they are wise to doe evill we shall speake of that under the other generall part of the verse which is the exception For the first if we consider the godly and the wicked in their physicall temperament which hath an influence I confesse upon the operations of the mind the observation of * Gentes septētrionales sunt plurimùm ingenio inferiores sed rebore superiores Australibus cujus ratio est quod sub frigido ext membra indurentur ad quidvis telerandū sed ab inclusum interius calerem babent sanguinem crasstorem contra quā usa venit australibus quippe quibus in calere illo externo sanguis spiritus subtilior unde ingenio sapientis prevalent Ioh. Gerard Voss de orig progressu Idolat Iib. 2. cap 34. Tom. 1. p. 484. Vossius belongeth equally to both which is that the Inhabitants of the Northerne Climats are more strong in body but inferiour in wit to the Inhabitants of the South because the heate in those is more kept in and so the blood groweth thicker and the spirits grosser in them then it is in those of the Southerne parts whose spirits being more subtle make their wits more sharpe But as in this respect the godly and wicked who live under the same elevation of the Pole may be even so the godly have an advantage for understanding above the wicked by the help of piety and temperance for the wicked being destitute of divine light as hath beene said before that which is but meerely humane in them is too dimme and weake towards the most excellent objects to denominate them wise or understanding men For as the Apostle saith the naturall man receiveth not or as the Geneva readeth the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greeke word perceiveth not and that will beare both interpretations the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishnesse unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 and with the want of divine illumination concurreth many times a mist of satanicall illusion blinding the minds of the wicked 2 Cor. 4.4 as was intimated before And if he did not so farre benight them by putting his darke veile upon their intellectuall eyes their understandings would yet be and certainly are ecclipsed many times by the excesse and disorder of their unruly passions and corrupt affections as the light of a Candle is obscured by puffs of smoake from the pipes that tooke fire from it I will give instance in the particulars as In 1. Love 2. Desire 3. Anger 4. Hate 5. Hope 6. Feare 7. Sorrow 8. Ioy. All which if they exceed moderation as they are hinderances to the health of the body and hastners of death as “ In my Moni●●r of Mortali●● p. 14 15 16 〈◊〉 elsewhere I have shewed so are they great impediments in the mind to true apprehension and so great causes of errour and folly and this most of all in wicked men in whom they are commonly most predominant As for the excesse of Love how it be-mists and misleads the understanding we may see by its working severall wayes the love of beauty is a Pearle in the eye of the mind hindering it from discerning the difference betwixt Love and lust and sometimes pursuing its own contentment untill it bring forth the meere contrary affection as we find in the story of Ammon and Thamar 2 Sam. 13.15 it makes a man though not otherwise unwise to be easily deceived and after deceipt deiscovered to be taken again and again in the