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
A97247	The cure of preivdice, or, The doves of innocency and the serpents subtilty wherein the originall, continuance, properties, causes, endes, issue and effects of the worlds envie and hatred to the godly is pithily laid open and applyed. By R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1641 (1641)	Wing Y149B; ESTC R230928	73,141	127

understand all things Prov. 28.5 and 3.32 They which observe the Commandements have a good understanding saith David Psal 111.10 the rest have an ill understanding and a vain an understanding like that of the Scribes and Pharisees which was enough to condemne them but not to save them Thus as no man can see God and live so no man can see Christ who is God sitting at the right hand of his Father in heaven so long as he lives a meer naturall man 1 Cor. 2.14 God will not powre new wine but into new vessels Matth. 9.17 Christ is said to have expounded all things to his Disciples apart to shew that if we will have Christ to teach us we must go apart from the world If any will do Gods will saith our Saviour he shall know the Doctrine whether it be of God or no Iohn 7.17 So that no man can learn this doctrine but he that doth it as no man could learn the Virgins song but they that sang it Revel 14.3 Yea if the fear of the Lord as Solomon speaks is the beginning of wisdom how should they have wisdom that have not the fear of the Lord All unrepentant sinners are enemies to God servants to Satan now we men do not tell our secrets to enemies neither will an Artificer teach another mans servants his trade but the righteous are Christs friends and brethren and fisters and father and mother between whom there is a kinde of familiarity so that he makes them of his counsell His secrets saith Solomon are with the righteous Pro. 3.32 And again Psal 25.14 The secrets of the Lord are revealed to them that fear him and his Covenant is to give them understanding See this in Abrahams example Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do saith God Gen. 18.17 As if this were an offence in God if he should tell the righteous no more then he tells the wicked Besides What should he do with a talent that will not improve it And let a wicked man know never so much he is resolved to be never the better man And they that are unwilling to obey God thinks unworthy to know which is but equity Indeed if they will put off concerning their former conversation the old man with his corruptions and deceiveable lusts and be changed by the renewing of there mindes and by putting on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephe. 4.20 to 25. Col. 3.10 2 Cor. 5.17 1 Iohn 4.7 Then they shall see what the good and acceptable and perfect will of God is as Saint Paul and our Saviour Christ shewes Rom. 12.2 Matth. 5.8 For God in the person of wisdom hath made a generall promise to all that will serve him Pro. 1. If thou wilt turn saith God at my correction I will power out my heart unto thee and make thee understand my words Verse 23. But else they shall blindly go on in persecuting Christ and his members perhaps to the killing of his prophets and thinke also that they do God good service Iohn 16.2 3. For as they like not to retain God in their knowledge saith the Apostle so God shall give them over to vile affections and to a reprobate minde Rom. 1.28 And because they will not teceaue the truth in love that they might be saved therefore God shall send them strong delusions that they might beleeve lies that all they might be damned which beleeve not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes 2.10.11.12 And is it not just with God to say they would none of Christ let them welcome Sathan and Antichrist Quest What instruction from the premisses Ans As it ought to stop all wicked mens mouthes so it may both serve for direction and comfort to the godly and to informe all First If it be so that all naturall men are uncapable of divine and supernaturall knowledge that they are blinde touching spirituall things let not any carnall wretch hereafter dare to speak evill of the things actions and persons which are out of the reach of his capasity but silently suspend his judgement untill he is better informed For as it pertaineth not to the rusticke to judge of Letters so it belongeth not to naturall men to judge of spirituall things And in matters of censure nothing but a certaine knowledge should make us give a certaine judgement and in the meane time confesse that Ioseph may know his brethren although they know not him Hee which is spirituall discerneth all things yet he himselfe is Iudged of no man 1 Cor. 2.14 that is of no naturall man 2. Let those that have used to speake evill of the way of truth learne to kicke no more against the pricks lest they bring the same curse upon themselves that those did which brought up an evill report of the holy Land viz. that As they never entred into the terrestriall Canaan So these never enter into the Celestiall Yea put case they shall thinke to doe God good service in it for there is a way saith Salomon that seemeth right to a man but the issues thereof are the wayes of death Pro. 14 12. 3. If all who deride and persecute the godly are ignorant persons as hath beene proved then let not Gods Children be discouraged maugre all slander and opposition nor thinke the worse of themselves if such reproach them never so The Corinthians exceedingly slighted Paul he was this and he was that But what saith Paul With mee it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you 1 Cor. 4.3 4. Alasse the best of them saw no more than St. Paul soutside the grace of his heart the raptures of his soule the ravishing delights of the inward man and the like spirituall priviledges more glorious than the states of Kingdomes were to these sensualists as a covered messe And indeed naturall men are as fit to judge of spirituall matters as blind men are fit to judge of colours We know little Children will often laugh at wise men when they are about serious and necessary affaires and businesse which notwithstanding is not an argument of the unworthinesse of the things they laugh at but of the folly of them which laugh Will the Merchant be discouraged because his Wine pleaseth not a sicke mans palat when those that are in health commend it and himselfe knowes it to be good Much lesse cause have we to be discouraged having more certainety to rely upon Our enemies have Sense Reason and Experience to confirme their judgements but wee have them with an advantage of three infallible witnesses Gods Word and Spirit and Faith Wherefore henceforward let us take our Saviours Counsell and seeke to justifie our judgements to the children of Wisdome of whom she is justified and not to fooles by whom she is daily crucified Neither let any thinke the better of such whom they extoll for the blinde eate many a flye 4. This shewes that they suspect much because they