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	whole_a	2,315	5	5.6911	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79552	Saint Chrysostome his Parænesis, or Admonition wherein hee recalls Theodorus the fallen. Or generally an exhortation for desperate sinners. / Translated by the Lord Viscount Grandison prisoner in the Tower.; Parænesis. English	John Chrysostum, Saint, d. 407.; Grandison, William Villiers, Viscount, 1614-1643.	1654 (1654)	Wing C3980; Thomason E1531_2; ESTC R208923	51,851	141

has no answer left he is now denuded of such apologies hee might have made for his purgation in those times hee scarce knew who created him and was ignorant of his power whose omnipotencie had plac'd him in that seat of Majesty though in that very darknesse he might well have seen and resented both the power and providence of the Almighty in those great things he had done for him and his progenitors But after God had convinc'd calld him to true heavenly understanding manifested himself unto him in such evident demonstrations of his wisdom and praescience as he did in the discovery and overthrow of all the diabolicall delusions of the Magicians when he had open'd and display'd all the colours of their cunnings and deceipts God rests not here but proceeds yet farther with him For that dream which the Magicians the Astrologers the Caldeans and the Southsayers could not expound in the which were those things as they confest themselves exceeded humane learning this vision God interpreted to him by the mouth of a boy The youth Daniel unriddles what surpasses the wise mens knowledge The miracle so convinc'd his judgment That he did not himself believe alone but proclaim'd and promis'd that faith through the whole world imposing it by his edicts on all Nations If before this illumination of grace by miracles reconciling him to faith hee were unworthy his indulgence though hee knew not God much more unworthy of it was this wretched King when he had seen him in these wonders which our Lord wrought purposely to call him when hee knew his Omnipotent power and ratified his belief by declaring and imposing it on others without all doubt he that so much honor'd the Lords servant profest no mock-mock-faith but really believed in that God whose Prophet he was nor had he enjoyn'd it to others if he himself had not been first truly convinc'd in his soul that it was that truth to which the whole world ow'd their obedience yet falls he into Idolatry against the perswasions of his soul his own confession to Daniel when he answer'd him Of a truth it is that your God is a God of Gods and a Lord of Kings and a revealer of secrets c. Dan. 2. 47. Hee that of late prostrate on the ground ador'd the servant of God is at last possest with such a fury against them that hee commits them to the firy Furnace because himself they would not worship as their God And pray observe the sequell Did not our Lord think you as he so justly merited punish the Apostate No! hee begins anew with him and gives him still greater arguments of his Deity indulgently and like a like a loving Father reducing him from his stupid arrogance to a modest knowledge of himselfe and an humble obedience to him And what was more to be admir'd God never show'd his omnipotency and love more to him then in this tryall for certainly the greater the miracle was the greater ought his faith to have been therefore our Lord did never more exalt his convincing powers then in preserving the children flung bound into that fierie Furnace which the Tyrant himselfe had kindled with most malitious and studyed fury The flames burnt to so great a wonder that they threatned quicker destruction then the beholders imagination could fancy possible Which God most meekly suffered to encrease to the height of miracle that so manifesting his greatnesse in his wonders he might strike him with fear and terror to reclaim him and startle his obdurate heart from that obstinate denyall of him and what he had done for him The Tyrant stands insulting ore the innocent sacrifices prepar'd for his rage he laugh's and rejoyces to see these unparalel'd flames still encrease which without the Almighties permission could not have burnt or been a fire at all But God contradicts not his desires shewing his power moderated by his wisdome which renders the attempts of his Enemies against his servants vain and ridiculous when they are at the greatest height And that the flames might not be thought fictitious or fantastick delusions he lets their power be seen in consuming the men commanded to cast his Servants into the Furnace What power can be compar'd to the command of the Almighty God to whom the nature and essence of every thing that has being is obedient and to him which made them out of nothing return their nature and become what he would have them as did this fire whose flames devour'd the bodies of the Officers which cast them in yet added beauty and lustre to the children who walked in the very midst of them unconsum'd and untouch'd Nay they return'd from out of the fire triumphant ore the flame and with such Majesty as Kings out of their stately Palaces march'd they out of the Furnace No man affords the King one looke every ones eyes are fix'd upon this unparalel'd object Neither his crown nor Royall robes with all the Ornaments of his stupendious Pomp do move the peoples admiration as did the beautifull appearance of those faithfull Children who seem'd rather to have suffer'd the punishment of a dream then to have past through substantiall and reall fire Their hair the lightest catching part of their bodies not so much as sing'd remain'd as perfectly intire as if every hair had been harder then an Adamant while the flamedevouring heat consum'd all about them Nor do thou consider that alone but likewise how insensible of any pain in the middle of the Furnace they continually discours'd whilst the standers by every moment expected their dissolution Yet are not the spectators onely fill'd with this wonder but as far as letters could carry it the astonisht world believ'd it with amazement whilst the unconcern'd and ●mov'd Tyrant who had on lesse reasons publish'd his former edicts to command the World the worship of the true God passes this neglectedly by and peruses his old impieties Nor did our Lord for all this powre out the full Vialls of his wrath upon the head of this desperate wretch but proceeds in his purpose to reclaim both by dreams and the warnings of the Prophet And when nothing prevailes to reduce him then he brings his rod forth though not as a revenger for his past sinns but to prevent his future calamities by taking away the remaining rancor of his inclinations For God destroy'd him not utterly But after a few years discipline and correction restores him to his former honor The punishments of our mercifull God make us no losers but exceeding gainers in the end and are to be reckon'd as his greatest blessings when they bring us to a sure confidence in Christ Jesus our Redeemer and a sincere repentance for the sinns wee have committed against him CHAP. V. That sincere repentance is alwaies acceptable to God declar'd out of holy writ by example precept and parable HOw surpassingly great is the kindnesse and love of God to us who never after the greatest provocations rejects our