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	unrighteousness_n	2,037	5	11.2658	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29171	The necessity & use of heresies, or, The third and last part of The great question about indifferent things in religious worship containing an answer to the objection against liberty of conscience, from the growth and spreading of heresies / by Edward Bagshaw ...	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing B419; ESTC R9550	18,228	28

Snares i. e. Psal 11.6 scatters Traps and Snares in their way that they may be taken There are some men who in Scripture are stiled the People of Gods curse the Vessels of his wrath Isa 34.5 Rom. 9.21 Jude v. 4. and by Jude Forewritten unto condemnation To whom Gods greatest methods of Goodness prove only means of hardning them to sin more desperately thus did Gods Word prove to the Israelites It was saith the Prophet Line upon Line Isa 2.8 13. and Precept upon Precept that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken And Christ to the unbelieving Jews became a Sione of stumbling and a Rock of Offence unto which 1 Pet. 2.8 saith the Apostle Peter they were appointed So the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to lost and perishing Wretches is a Savour of death But what these things do only by accident that Heresies do in their own proper nature 2 Cor. 2.15 i. e. they harden Unbelievers and make them more resolute in their opposing of the Truth As when God did intend Ahab should go down to battel and perish there 1 Kings 22.22 he let a Lying Spirit of Prophesie be in the mouth of all his Prophets For saith he thou shalt perswade him and prevail also So when God sees a company of lazy vicious men who are weary of the Powerful plainness of Truth then he lets some corrupt Doctrines be scattered abroad which may fit those Inclinations they are already principled with and likewise when others have curious itching Ears and sound Doctrine will not rellish with them then God suffers some lofty airy speculations to be broached by study of which they may grow drunk with Pride and Prejudice against more wholsom Tenets 2 Thes 2.10 12. It was this just Judgment of God upon mens willingness to be deceived that God gave them up to Antichristian i.e. to Papal Delusions As the Apostle hath it Because they received not the Love of the Truth that they might be saved For this cause God shall send them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the active power and efficacy of Errour Mat. 18. that they should believe a lie i.e. a false and feigned doctrine That they all may be damned who have not believed the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness i.e. in false and unrighteous Tenets And therefore as our Saviour sayes Wo to the world because of Offences so Wo to the world because of Heresies because as we set traps to catch Vermine so God appoints these to ensnare arrogant and self-presuming or vicious and self-defiling men Cause 2 2. The second Cause which concurs to the producing of Heresies is Satan exciting That evil Spirit whom our Saviour cals the Prince of the world and the Apostle the ruler of the Darkness of the world out of that innate hatred he hath to Truth by which his Kingdom is overthrown scatters the seeds of Errour and ignorance every where up and down the world and as he set upon our Saviour with misse quoted Scripture in which he appeared so dexterous and ready as if he intended to puzzle and non-plus his eternal wisdom So the most deadly and poysonous heresies have by him by a strange kind of Chymistry been extracted out of the same holy Scriptures Thus he brought in the practise of needless rigour and austerity of Life Col. 2. under pretence of Christian strictness and severity in those Precepts Touch not tast not 1 Tim. 4. handle not Thus brought he in the Doctrine of forbidding marriages under pretence of Christian Chastity and Abstinence 2 Cor. 11.3 which the Apostle in express words cals the Doctrine of Devils Thus he brought in Superstition Will-worship and idle Ceremonies under pretence of Christian Decency and Order thereby as the Apostle complains the Serpent beguiling many through his Subtilty Rev. 13. so that their minds were corrupted from the simplicity which was in Christ Thus lastly brought he in the cruel and incompassionate killing of men that would not worship the Image of the Beast and in some outward and visible manner acknowledge their conformity under pretence of Christian zeal and care of Truth In short as the greatest Cordials if not rightly prepared do prove the most deadly and killing Poysons so the most dangerous and destructive heresies have been compounded by Satans malice out of the most Soveraign Drugs of Sacred Truth but by him purposely ill mixed and tempered And here I desire to observe that though the Devil likewise doth stir up Persecution as our Saviour felt in himself when he said of his own Sufferings that then was the Power of darkness i.e. Hell was then broke loose Luke 22.53 and wicked men in crucifying Christ acted the Devils businesses so he foretels to the Church of Smyrna Fear none of those things thou art to suffer behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison Rev. 3.10 that you may be tried Yet this is but Satans After-game for his great design is to eclipse the beauty of Truth by the Mist of Errour And if he finds that his Heretical Tares will not take root then under pretence of Faction Sedition and the like old charges which were laid both against our Saviour and his Apostles he destroyes those careful Husbandmen which would sow better Seed and leave no room for the Devils Cockle The Art and Policy of Hell lies in the quiet spreading of Heresie for this gains him souls whereas violence never got him any thing but the bodies of men that is it made them obsequious Slaves but not real Converts WE find therefore in the Revelation Rev. 12. that when the Woman under which the True Church is emblemed had brought forth the Divel stood by ready to devour her Child as soon as it was born and for some time endeavoured to maintain his footing in Heaven and till he was cast down from thence did not think of making war with her Seed The Moral of which Representation I take to be this That when Christian Truth begins to break forth then the Devil for a time endeavours to destroy it by disputing the case and venturing his cause upon Argument but when he finds himself mastered at that weapon then he changes the Subtilty of the Serpent into the Roaring of the Lion and with open mouth devours his Opposers But this way the Devil doth not ordinarily try till his False Doctrines have been baffled and foyled and he hath no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no Wile no craft left to countenance the grosseness of his Impostures Cause 3 3. The third Cause concurring to the necessary Being of heresies in the Church is Man himself begetting and ingendring of them For as the most fruitful and pregnant Seed if it be not cast into a warm and prepared Soyl soseth all its Vertue so those Seeds of Errour the Devil sowes if the heart of man was not a fit soyl for them would never