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	word_n	14,132	5	4.8692	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03092	Ros cœli. Or, A miscellany of ejaculations, divine, morall, &c. Being an extract out of divers worthy authors, antient and moderne. Which may enrich the mean capacity, and adde somewhat to the most knowing iudgement.	Hearne, Richard.	1640 (1640)	STC 13219; ESTC S103993	75,668	380

world from any further ouerflowings of waters continueth which if it should fail yet his Covenant with his people should abide firm for euer though the whole frame of nature were dissolved GOd simply considered is not all our happinesse but God as trusted in and Christ as we are made one with him The soule cannot so much as touch the hem of Christs garment but it shall find vertue comming from him to sanctifie and settle it God in Christ is full of all that is good when the soule is emptied inlarged and opened by Faith to receive goodnesse offered there must needs follow sweet satisfaction NOne can know the truth of God so as to build upon it but by the Truth it self and the spirit revealing it by its owne light to the soul And that soul which hath felt the power of truth in casting it downe and raising it up againe will easily bee brought to rest upon it Wee must apprehend the love of God and the fruits of it as better than life it self and then chusing and cleaving to the same will soon follow Perfect faith dares put the hardest cases to its soule and then set God against all that may befal it There is no readier way to fall than to trust equally to two stayes whereof one is rotten and the other sound God will be trusted alone or not at all those that trust to other things with God trust not him but upon pretence to carry their double minds with lesse check WHen the darkenesse of the night is thickest then the morning beginnes to dawne deep extremities are to the wicked a ground of utter despaire but to him that is acquainted with the ways of God they are a rise of exceeding comfort for infinite power and goodnesse can never bee at a losse neither can Faith which looks to that ever be at a stand in a hopelesse estate a Christian will see some dore of hope opened because God is ever neerest to us when we stand most in need of him Gods truth and goodnesse is unchangable he never leaves those that trust in him AS God commands us to trust him in doing good so should wee commit our soules to him in wel-doing and trust him when wee are about his owne works and not in the works of darknesse wee may safely expect God in his waies of mercy when wee are in his waies of obedience THe heart is never drawne to any sinfull vanitie or frighted with any terrour of trouble til faith first loseth the sight and estimation of divine things and forgets the necessitie and excellencie of them when the great things of God are brought into the heart by faith what is there in the whole world that can out-bid them Faith preserves the chastitie of the soule and cleaving to God is a spirituall debt which it oweth him whereas cleaving to the Creature is spirituall adultery WE cast away floures after once wee have had the sweetnes of them because there is not still a fresh supply of sweetnes in them whatever comfort is in the creature the soule will spend quickly and looke still for more whereas the comfort we have in God is undefiled and fadeth not away Outward things are onely so far forth good as we doe not trust in them Thornes may be touched but not rested on for then they will pierce wee must not set our hearts upon those things which are never evill to us but when wee set our hearts upon them WHere affections to any thing below get much strength in the soule it will by little and little bee so over-growne that there will bee no place left in it either for Object or Art God or Trust in him which is as it were the mother root and great veine whence the exercise of all graces have their beginning and strength An Heire doubts not but his father will provide him food and nourishment and give him breeding sutable to his future condition It is a vaine pretence to beleeve that God will give us Heaven and yet leave us to shift for our selves in the way PLants move not from place to place because they finde nourishment where they stand but living creatures seeke abroad for their food and to that end have a power of moving from place to place and this is the reason why trust is expressed by going to God with an humble boldnes which carries the soule out of in selfe to rely wholy upon his all-sufficiency THose that take liberty in things they either know or doubt will displease God shew they want the feare of God the want of feare shews their want of dependancie and therefore want of trust Dependancie is alwaies very respective it studieth contentment and care to comply and therefore he that commits his soule to God to save wil commit his soule to God to sanctifie and guide in a way of wel pleasing Not only the tame but the most savage creatures will bee at the becke of those that feed them though they are ready to fall violently upon others Disobedience therefore is against the Principles of Nature GOd can convey himselfe more comfortably to us when hee pleaseth without means than by means and true Trust as it sets God highest in the soule so in dangers and wants it hath present recourse to him as the Conies to the rockes patiently waiting his leisure for God seldome makes any promise to his children but he exerciseth their trust in waiting long before as Abraham for a sonne David for a kingdome the whole world for Christs comming c. A Ship that lies at anchor may be somthing tossed but yet it still remaines so fastened that it cannot be carried away by winde or weather the soule after it hath cast anchor upon God may bee disquieted a while but this unsetling tends to a deeper setling the more we beleeve the more we are established Faith is an establishing grace by faith wee stand and stand fast and are able to withstand whatsoever opposeth us for what can stand against God upon whose truth and power faith relyes IT requires a great deale of selfe-deniall to bring a soule either swelling with carnall confidence or sinking by feare and distrust to lie levell upon God and cleave fast to him Square will lie fast upon square but our hearts are so full of unevennesse that God hath much adoe to square our hearts sit for him notwithstanding the soul hath no true rest without this A spirit set in tune and assisted by a higher spirit will stand out against ordinary assaults but when God who is God of the spirits of all flesh shall seem contrary to our spirits we shall then find small relief elsewhere Needs must the soule be in a wofull plight when God seemes not onely to be absent from it but an enemy to it SIn is nothing so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning There is not the stoutest man breathing but if God set his conscience

are such as their institution Infancy is led altogether by imitation it hath neither words nor actions but infused by others their full growth in good or ill is but borrowed and the shame or thank is due to those that lent it Next to being good is the happinesse of conversing with them that are so for if we be not bettered by their example yet are we often blest by their protection THe contempt of honest callings in those which are well borne argues pride without wit humble resolutions are so much the more heroicall as they fall into higher subjects We may freely come to God but wee may not come too neare him when we meditate of the great mysteries of the Word wee come to him we come too neare him when we search into his Councels A man may be too lowly in his dealings with men even unto contempt with God hee cannot but the lower he falleth the higher is his exaltation And I never finde that any man bragged to God although in a matter of truth and within the compasse of his desert and was accepted IT is a great skill to know what is enough and great wisdome to care for no more As in words much talke argues a braine feeble and distempered so affectation of superfluity is in all things a signe of weaknesse IN all humane things indifferency is safest if our doubts be equal to our desires our disappointment shall not be grievous because our expectation was not peremptory DEceit is gracious company for it alwaies studies to be faire and pleasant but then like a theefe having trained us from the road it robs us where all the benefit we have left is this that if we have time to see how wee are couzened we may have so much happinesse as to die repenting SEeming wise men may make shift to get opinion but I would wish no man to choose them for imployment for certainly you were better to take for businesse a man somewhat absurd than over-formall THere is but one way wherin a man may commend himselfe with good grace and that is in commending vertue in another especially if it bee such a vertue whereunto himselfe pretendeth HE that resteth upon gaines certaine shall hardly grow to great riches and hee that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes breake and come to poverty It is good therefore to guard adventures with certainties that may uphold losses FINIS A description of true Happinesse LOng have I sought the wish of all To finde and what it is men call True happinesse but cannot see The world has ought which it may be Or vvith it hold a sympathie He that enjoyes vvhat here belovv Fraile Elements have to bestovv Shall finde most svveet bare hopes at first Fruition by fruition burst Sea-vvater so allayes the thirst Whoever vvould be happy then Must be so to himselfe for vvhen Iudges are taken from vvithout To judge vvhat vve fence close about They erre judge not but guesse and doubt He must have reason store to spie Natures hid vvaies to satisfie His judgement So may he be safe From the vaine fret for fooles vvill chafe At that which makes a vvise man laugh Wealth to keep vvant avvay and feare Of it not more Some friends still neare And chosen vvell Nor must he misse A calling yet some such as is Imployment not a Businesse His soule must hug no private sin For that 's a Thorne hid by the skin But Innocence Shee being nurst Plants valiant peace So Cato durst Be godly good when Rome was worst God-built he must be in his minde So deeply that his faith no winde Can shake when boldly he relies On one so noble he out flies Low Chance and Fate of Destinies Life as a middle way immur'd 'Twixt joy and griefe to be indur'd Not spurn'd and wanton'd hence he knowes In crooked bankes a spring so goes 'Ore stone mud weeds yet still cleare flowes And as springs rest not till they lead Meandring high as their first head So soules rest not till Man ha's trod Deaths height then by that period They rest too Rais'd as high as God Summe all He happiest is that can In this worlds jar be honest Man Be since perfection is so high Beyond Lives reach he that would try True happinesse indeed must die Laus Deo