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	delusion_n	unrighteousness_n	1,978	5	11.2673	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34433	The font uncover'd for infant-baptisme, or, An answer to the challenges of the Anabaptists of Stafford, never yet reply'd unto, though long since promised wherein the baptisme of all church-members infants is by plain Scripture-proof maintained to be the will of Jesus Christ, and many points about churches and their constitutions are occasionally handled / by William Cook, late minister of the Gospel at Ashby-Delazouch.	Cook, William, Minister of the gospel at Ashby-Delazouch.	1651 (1651)	Wing C6042; ESTC R1614	62,529	56

cut-throat may give a wound or stab in a moment which the most dexterous Chyrurgion cannot heal in a short time An incendiary may set an whole Town on fire suddenly which cannot be built up by many Carpenters and Masons in few years Yet the cause and work of the later is much better then of the former I have been willing therefore to be somewhat large as my poor ability small leisure time allowed and others importunity would permit You conclude your Paper thus H. H. J. Br. If you therefore or your Ministers have any thing to say or write herein we desire you for the truth and your promise sake to do the same else we must necessarily conclude that neither you nor they have any thing to gainsay it but by your silence justifie both our principle and practice You see I hope by this time that we have something to say and write herein and for the truths and our promise sake have done the same in part and are ready by the grace of Jesus Christ to do more when duly called thereunto therefore you have no cause to conclude that we have nothing to gainsay or that by silence we do justifie your principle or practice against which we have born witnesse in love to the truth And now Sirs you which have subscribed the Papers here answered let me intreat you seriously to peruse what hath been here returned to you in Answer and acknowledge what is of God and agreeable to his truth and if you finde any thing dissonant thereto discover it and spare not and let me have a punctual and particular reply to the several parts of this answer and till then forbear your high confidence in promoting your opinions and practising answerably then will you give us good ground of perswasion that your profession of desire to have the truth discussed is reall But if you shall be unable to answer this as I am perswaded you will not be able with any shew of truth and yet proceed in your opinions and practice let me tell you God will be certainly avenged of those which abuse his people ordinances and truth speaking evil of the things they know not if not with visible and temporal yet certainly with invisible spiritual and eternal punishments Reade I pray 2 Tim. the third Chapter 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of Jude As for you dear Brethren that mourn for what you cannot amend and endeavour to contend for the common salvation once delivered to the Saints and not to be as children carried about with every winde of vain doctrine I exhort that you will hold fast the truth which you have received Rev. 2.25 and 3.10 keep the word of Christs patience that he may keep you in this hour of temptation that is befallen the whole world to try them that dwell on the earth Be sure that you receive the truth in love knowing that many for want of this are given over to strong delusions to beleeve lies that they may be damned because they had pleasure in unrighteousnesse Remember the counsel of Christ and his Apostles in these following Scriptures Mat. 7.15 16. Rom. 16.17 18. Gal. 5.1 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 c. 2 Pet. 3.1 2. and 17.18 1 Joh. 4.1 2. Jude 17 18 19 20 21. Thus I have answered these Papers hoping that I shall be ready by Gods assistance to give a reason of my faith and hope herein either by word or writing so far as I may have a good call thereto may do it with safety and may deal with men that will hear and speak reason and Scripture pertinently applied and may observe those rules of the Apostle 2 Tim. 2.16.23 Tit. 3.9 10. Thus desiring that the God of truth will more and more clear his truth and subdue thereto or break in pieces all the ignorant and wilfull opposers thereof I end William Cooke FINIS

the Ranters that abominable rotten blasphemous and hellish Rout. Warwickshire and the Counties adjacent know whom I speak of and the truth at large of what I briefly touch Yea this wretched man is notoriously known in the chief City of the Land so true is that of the Apostle speaking of hypocriticall flagitious Deceivers 2 Tim. 3.5 6 7 That have a form of godlinesse but deny the power thereof Which creep into houses leading captive silly women laden with lusts ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth But saith he 9 13. their folly shall be made manifest to all men And again Wicked men and seducers wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived It might seem strange that they who so much depend on the answers of providence in outward successe as irrefragable arguments to demonstrate the goodnesse or badnesse of causes and persons should not acknowledge and tremble at Divine providence by this and many thousand such like spirituall plagues warning all men that have any care of their souls to beware those waies that lead thereto But it is not strange that they thus preposterously judge for those whom God hath given up to a sensual judgement a reprobate minde and hard heart do alike cry down those waies that are attended with outward disgrace and misery in a course of strictnesse and conscientiousnesse though accompanied with riches of spirituall graces which usually is the lot of the godly and admire and greedily embrace the waies of sin and licentiousnesse which for a time visibly prosper in the world though accursed from heaven with invisible and spirituall plagues which is the common condition of the wicked It is a sad and shamefull thing that evil men should be more industrious active and bold to study plead for and promote errour and falshood then Gods servants are for the maintaining of the truth and particularly that these men should do more to cast themselves and their children others and their posterity out of Covenant then the godly will do to clear to themselves and others theirs and their childrens interest in the Covenant but it is so The best see know beleeve and love but in part Whereas corruption lust and errour wholly reign in every unsanctified man and have too strong a party in the most sanctified Divine truths and Evangelicall mysteries are strangers to our corrupt mindes and receive but cold entertainment there Errours and lies are connaturall to mankinde and soon closed with when men speak lies they speak of their own Honours pleasures and filthy lucre fleshly liberty and ease have a mighty influence upon carnall hearts to carry them on in promoting and receiving falshood and resisting and rejecting truth Nothing out pure zeal for God love of Christ and his truth care of our own and brethrens souls can stir up earnestly and sincerely to contend for the truth especially when it lies under outward discouragements disgraces and frowns from the world and alas how rare are those graces amongst men and how weak in the strongest Christians Yet surely in other respects Holinesse and truth though as a spark of fire in the midst of a sea of corruption or as a Pearl in the bottom of a dunghill or as a little glimpse of light under a dark chaos of naturall and acquired sinne and ignorance have the advantage for being of a divine originall they are of prevailing invincible power and therefore beleevers that have this unconquerable truth in them and on their side cannot be excused if they do not stirre up the grace of God in them and take care and pains that they may be able to contend for and maintain the truth that was once delivered to the Saints especially in these times of so great light wherein besides the Scriptures in a known Language and plentifull publike Preaching in Catachism●s and larger Treatises the Truth is so fully cleared It may be that God hath as for other causes so for the correction of our sloth and carelesnesse suffered these Controversies to break out that he may quicken us to the more diligent use of all holy means to grow in grace and knowledge If for this use dear brethren this my poor labour may be serviceable to you or others to whom at your desire upon the consent and approbation of my brethren in the Ministry it may be made common I have my desire But before I leave you let me intreat you and others that may make use of it that you will not content your selves with a slightly looking on it but be serious as the matter handled concerning yours and your childrens interest in the Covenant of Grace requireth deserves howsoever in the manner you may finde sundry imperfections in the instrument yet let not that be any prejudice to the truth whereof God is the author Because I was forced at the first to quote Scriptures briefly for speed which their importunity called for and since I have not writ them out at large to prevent bulkinesse which might deter many from looking on it let me intreat you to turn over to every proof in your Bibles and read and observe the same carefully and if you would write them out in the margin or some paper it might be time well spent without pains and diligence no profiting can be expected he that deals with a slack hand will come to poverty but the hand of the diligent maketh rich Thus committing this service and your use thereof to the blessing of God desiring that he may have the praise if you shall receive hereby any increase in the knowledge of the truth and stability therein and that I may have the help of your prayers who remain Yours in Christ for the service of your souls to my power WILLIAM COOK AN ANSWER to two PAPERS subscribed by Henry Huggar and James Brown Wherein they endeavour to maintain their own Opinion and Practice of Anabaptism and oppose the Practice of Baptizing INFANTS They begin their first Paper thus Gentlemen YOu having avoided publick dispute by your selves so much prest for at first H.H. and J. Br. and since rather paper conference We to gratifie your desire herein have written these few lines hoping thereby to beget some discussion of the truth Wherein we affirm That the Baptism or sprinkling of Infants whereby the National Churches of Spain England France and Rome c. are constituted and from thence called Christians and Christendom is not the Baptism or dipping of Beleevers which Christ Jesus ordained and his Disciples practised for the right constituting of Churches under the Gospel whereby they rightly became and were truly called Christians Answer IN this your stating of the Question Ans divers things must be animadverted that you deceive not your selves and others through darkning the truth by words without knowledge 1. Here you take it for granted that we hold That by the Baptizing or sprinkling Infants Churches are constituted This we deny For 1. As faith or

baptizing goes before saving Nay though Christ saith peremptorily He that beleeveth not shall be condemned you will not I think hence conclude that all Infants which you say cannot beleeve must necessarily perish in their Infancy though this might far more probably be concluded from the text then what you would conclude The words therefore are not to be taken so generally as to admit of no restriction but must be limited according to the subject-matter viz. that when professed infidels such as the Apostles were sent to are preached to they must be made disciples and beleeve and then be baptized and such as are quite out of Covenant and have no means of being taken into Covenant but by actual faith of their own must be condemned if they beleeve not 2. These Scriptures make much against you for while you urge them for your warrant you not only use no endeavours to go to the poor Nations and Heathens to preach the Gospel to Jews and Infidels as these Commissions require but are altogether unable for such a work For let me ask you Can you speak the tongues of all the people in the world of Indians Ethiopians Turks Scythians Jews c. Or can you work miracles which were so necessary for the laying of the foundation of Christianity amongst Infidels which power Christ promised to his Apostles to whom he directly gave this Commission and accordingly inabled them thereunto If you cannot do these boast no more of these Scriptures 3. Yea though you would insinuate that these Scriptures are much against our judgement and practice yet I hope it will appear anon that they are much for us Only let me first prevent an objection which is this Ob. If these Scriptures make not for the Anabaptists surely they cannot make for you The forenamed reasons hold as strongly against your selves as them for do you lay new foundations of Churches any more then they can you speak with all tongues and work miracles do you go amongst infidels to preach any more then they The difference of our judgement and practice from theirs Ans frees us from this objection which must necessarily press them For 1. Whereas they talk of constituting new Churches and so would lay a new foundation as if they were to deal with Jews and other Infidels We Ministers of Christ in this Nation and our brethren the Pastors and Teachers of Christian Churches in all other Nations build still on the old foundation laid by the Apostles and labour for the reformation increase and propagation of those Churches which were constituted by them or did flow from those first constituted Churches as branches from a stock so that we by virtue of these Commissions preach the word and baptize in all Nations where God is pleased to continue his truth not each one severally in all Nations but all of us distributively in several Churches and collectively in the whole visible Church each one looking to his proper charge and yielding mutual help upon occasion by which means the whole is provided for not inchoatively by way of founding or constituting but successively by way of edifying and propagating 2. Whereas we require of you to shew miracles speak strange languages because you profess on these Scripture grounds to constitute new Churches and lay the foundation of Christian Religion we have good reason for it sith miracles and tongues were necessary for this work to the Apostles and surely no lesse necessary for those that will undertake the same work now But seeing we build on the foundation laid by the Apostles labouring for the edification and propagation of the Churches constituted by them or at least which have by propagation flowed from those which they founded and seeing those Churches or that Church which we labour to edifie were first founded by them which had the gifts of languages and miracles and we teach a people that already professe Christ and are convinced of the truth of Christian Religion miracles are not necessary to us nor can be rationally required of us The same I may say of strange tongues 1 Cor. 15 2● of which the Apostle saith that they are a sign not to them ●hat beleeve but to them that beleeve not We therefore that preach to Christians Beleevers and Church-members need them not but you who pretend to constitute Churches look on those that are not dipped by you as Heathens Infidels and without Christendom should speak with tongues that you may convince these Infidels of the truth of your doctrine 3. You bring these Scriptures as directly and without deduction or consequence belonging to you we argue from them so as to apply them to our selves by deduction and consequence By this it appears how justly we make use of these Scriptures being Ministers of those Churches which by a continued flux have been propagated from those founded by the Apostles and so may humbly boast of Mat. 16.18 Mat. 28.20 and lay claim unto those promises Mat. 16.18 On this Rock will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it And Mat. 28.20 And to I am with you alway even to the end of the world which promises could not belong to the Apostles only for they continued not unto the end of the world in the work of the Ministry but to them and the Churches and Ministers which should succeed them For Christ promiseth to the Apostles that he will be with them in discipling baptizing teaching the things which he had commanded them unto the worlds end which work when the Apostles died they delivered up to succeeding Ministers I come now to shew how these places make for us 1. In Mat 28.19 That which you reade according to our Translation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Teach is properly Make disciples or scholers Now not only aged persons which are come to discretion may be made scholers or disciples of Christ Isa 54.13 Ier. 31.34 Deut. 30.6 but also children 1. As God hath promised that in his Church where his Gospel and Covenant are dispensed he will teach his people from the least to the greatest all the Churches children shall be taught of God Gods Spirit shall not depart from their seed nor seeds seed c. 2. As they are with and by their parents devoted to God to be brought up in his School by outward instruction when capable and we know that little children which yet cannot learn being sent to school are called scholers Deut. 6.7 Eph. 6.4 2 Tim. 3.15 because they are in the school and intended for learning when capacity shall be given Thus children of Beleevers are from their infancy devoted to to Christs School to be brought in the nurture and information of the Lord and we know no age is uncapable of Gods teaching 3. It is said Act. 15. v. 1. compared with 10. that the false Apostles which urged Christians to be circumcised according to the law of Moses which we know was that children