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	faith_n	reveal_v	5,457	5	8.8529	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43071	A sermon preached at St. Olave Southwark, September the 8th, 1700 occasioned by the recantation of Dr. Joh. Spire, lately a Quaker : which said recantation is added at the end / by John Haslewood ...	Haslewood, John, b. 1647.; Spire, John. Oration at the parish-church of St. Olave-Southwark.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1132; ESTC R14553	11,771	28

A SERMON Preached at St. Olave Southwark September the 8th 1700. Occasioned by the Recantation of Dr. Joh. Spire lately a Quaker Which said Recantation is added at the end By JOHN HASLEWOOD D. D. Rector of St. Olave Southwark Published at the Request of the Persons concerned and several others of that Parish LONDON Printed for Abel Roper at the Black Boy in Fleet-street over against St. Dunstans-Church 1700. TO THE READER IT is not a trifling desire of appearing in Print to which possibly I have as great an averseness as any one can conclude from what he shall here read I ought to have that hath prevailed upon me to publish this following Discourse which labours under a double disadvantage of being composed in hast and upon a Text chosen for me by him at whose Request it was Preached but a sincere endeavour to inform some mistaken honest People of the dangerousness of those Principles which are here laid open that they may leave them and to establish others who have already left them to both which purposes some who heard it have been so favourable as to think it may be useful But whether it will or no I must leave to your judgments However such as it is I offer it up to you hoping that if it fall short of other Peoples expectations it may reach my own design which was to be as helpful as I could to any that should need such assistance And if by that means I can contribute in the least to the advancement of God's Glory it is no matter for my own Isaiah 55.3 Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your Soul shall live and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David THis Chapter is made up of Precepts and Promises for in it God not only makes his will known and declares after what manner he will have Men to address themselves to him but encourageth them to Obedience by the assurance of a Reward which though in the Letter it be carnal yet in its true meaning is spiritual for though God promiseth his People that upon the forsaking of Idols he would bring them out of Babylon and make them as successful as they had been unfortunate that there should be such a change in the face of their Affairs as should affect even Nature her self and make an alteration in her for in the two last Verses it is said Ye shall go out with joy and be lead forth with peace the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands instead of the thorn shall come up the firr-tree and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle-tree Notwithstanding these expressions which relish only of temporal satisfactions we are to conceive that such Blessings are signified by them as are too high to stoop to sense and a Redemption from Babylonian Bondage did intimate a much more glorious deliverance from the captivity of Sin and the power of Hell So by the Waters in the first Verse we are to understand the Grace of God and the thirsty are those who have a lively sense of the want of it and an eager desire of a supply who have all the violent cravings after God and Goodness which that appetite is wont to produce towards its proper object and when they that have no Money are called upon to buy and eat the meaning is that they who could not gain this good of themselves might have it gratis for it would be no chargeable thing to them to learn true Doctrine which is oftentimes compared to Meat and Drink because it feeds and nourisheth the Soul so Jer. 15.16 Thy words were found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoycing of my heart and Prov. 9.5 Come eat of my bread saith Wisdom and drink of the Wine which I have mingled and in my Text God inculcates the same thing which he had urged in the first Verse and exhorts poor Sinners to embrace Christ by a true and lively Faith together with those unspeakable precious Benefits which are tendered in him and for the exciting them to a diligent attention and careful obedience to his heavenly Instruction he promiseth to make with them an everlasting Covenant not like that which he had made with the Jews which was to endure for a while and then be abrogated but such an one as should out-last time it self even the sure mercies of David i.e. that Mercy which God had promised to David that he would give him a Son who should Reign over his Church and People for ever which Promise was to be fully completed in Christ who though he were crucified yet should he be raised again never to dye any more for of his Life and Dorninion there should be no end and for this Exposition I have St. Paul's Authority who quotes this very Passage for a Proof of Christ's Resurrection at Acts 13.34 And as concerning that be raised him up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he said on this wise I will give you the sure mercies of David And if Christ who is the Head of the Body the Church be the first-born from the dead we also who are his Members if we walk in newness of life shall rise after him to a glorious and immutable State But every Man in his own order Christ the first-fruits and after they that are Christ at his coming The Words thus explained contain in them these two parts 1. A Precept or if you please you may call it a gracious Invitation to Mercy Incline your ear and come unto me 2. An Encouragement to observe the Precept or to accept of the Invitation in these words and your Soul shall live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you even the sure mercies of David i. e. Those who served God faithfully should be made partakers of a joyful Resurrection And 1. Of the Precept or Invitation Come unto me and here there will be nothing else needful then to inquire how we are to come to God which we must do two ways 1. By Faith 2. By Repentance 1. We must come to God by Faith i. e. We must believe all those Truths which he hath revealed in Scripture more especially that grant fundamental point of belief which is a Crucified Saviour And this was that Article upon which St. Paul rested as he told the Church of Corinth I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified and upon this Confession did our Saviour build his Church viz. upon St. Peter's Creed which was no more than this We are sure that thou art Christ the Son of the living God And for the sake of this Article were the four Gospels given us For all these things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God And if the Evangelists be found to be