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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19906	Yehovah summa totalis or, All in all, and, the same for euer: or, an addition to Mirum in modum. / By the first author, Iohn Dauies.	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.; Davies, John, 1565?-1618. Mirum in modum.	1607 (1607)	STC 6337; ESTC S109347	39,757	86

Stearne be torne and Keele be split VVith Thornes he Hedgeth in his Minions VVay That if they tread awry they prick their feet So thus Hedg'd in they cannot go astray Or if they do their feet with Thornes do meet That make thē strait go right through sharp regreet But with the Reprobate it is not so Their waies are wide faire and smoth and sweet So that in all lose liberty they go Through VVorlds of Pleasure to a World of VVo. Thus is this Povv'r diuine to Grace connext For those that are to Glory preordain'd Yet by that Povv'r and Grace they stil are vext for want of Pow'r and Grace to haue refrain'd Some Synne which they perhaps haue intertain'd But touching the remorceles Reprobate This Povv'r to Iustice euermore is chain'd yea often Gifts of Grace through secret hate Do fat them vp for death in frolicke state Now on this Povv'r of his Almightines Hangs that greate Question in Religion For which so many with rare hardines Their Liuelihoods and Liues haue erst forgon But though Mens Faiths be diuers Truth 's but One. To vrge his Pow'r our Faith to strengthen still In that wherein his will is simply show'n We iustly may else do we passing ill To presse his Pow'r against his holy Will Hence may we take incoragement to giue with open hand to those that are in neede For supernaturally he can releeue Those that fast oft the hungry Soule to feed Sith they are rarely constant in their Creed But now alas this free Beneuolence Is shunned as a superstitious deede To offer as some weene the Poore our Pence We make an Idoll of their Indigence yet nought's more sure then that that Members dead That hath no feeling of his Fellowes paine So if this fellow-feeling once be fled From those that Faith professe their Faith is vaine And they in Death insencibly remain A faithfull Heart doth make an open Hand And in all harts an open Hand doth raigne For they by Reasons rule should most command That like God most releeue on Sea and Land Riches like Thornes laid on the open Hand Do it no hurt but gript hard wouud it deepe So while a Man his Riches can command He may command the World and safely sleepe For all men bound to him to him will stand And from all Wants and Woes him safely keepe But they whose hands are clos'd by Auarice Ly open to all Hate and Preiudice From this almighty Povv'r in deep'st distresse We fetch our Anchor Hope our selues to stay Where safe we lie though plung'd in wretchednes For well we wot we neuer can decay While neuer-falling Povv'r our Sterne doth sway And sith it 's mighty most in Clemency If wilfully we do not fall away We are secur'st in greatest iobardy Sith on that Povv'r alone we then rely All that GOD promiseth he hath a Will A willing will to make good euery way And what his Wil is willing to fulfill His Povv'r performes and so his Will doth sway Almighty Povv'r which freely doth obay Then none can feare his Promises can faile That his Omnipotency well doth waigh Sith as he wils that Povv'r doth still preuaile Then Crosse we both when we in Crosses quaile It that of Nothing onely with a Word Made this huge twy-form'd Fabrick which we see Can all assure that is by It assu'rd For what It wils it can what ere it be Who doubts hereof denies the Diety Then as we would not Athiests be in fact We must like God to all his Likes be free For though our Sanctity doth seeme exact If nought we giue nought is our holiest Act. For to beleeue alone God died for Man And not to liue as we in God should dy Our Faith is thus but an Historian Liuing to Truth and dead in Verity For Faith liues not if dead in Charity VVho speake like God and yet like Deuils do Speake Truth to their Damnation for his Eye That sees their VVords and Deeds are euer two Doth doom them by their words and damne them too Whose Povv'r doth muzzle Lions Deepes deuide Make forceles fire from scath to saue his Frends And none that euer on the same relide Had worse then heav'nly if vntimely ends For it in death from Death his Saints defends It from the dust of the obscurest Graue Doth raise to Glory What on It depends And from the deepnesse of the swelling Waue Doth lift to Heau'n all those It wils to saue In Summe sith nothing is impossible That good is to his all-performing Povv'r We should with Hope and Frailties Spectacle Which that Sea-damming Monster did deuou'r Depend thereon and so in Death be sure But now the greatest Taper in the Sky Doth like a Candle in the Socket dure Which seemes as it were at the point to die Then die a while dul'd Muse for Company NOw in the the resurrection of his Light That late lay buried in the Ocean Lake Arise dead Muse resume thy wonted Spright And once againe with Him thy Iourny take Through Heau'n to find him out that All did make yet knowes he more then he did ere create For all created Was when as he spake with Time whose Tearme had no eternall state But he knowes more then Time can circulate He knowes those Things that are not nor shal be And cals That which Is not as though it Were For in him Selfe he more then All doth see And thogh they be not there he knows them there That is he knowes them though they ne're apeare For sith his Knowledge and himselfe are One He knowes well what he can though will do nere So That may in his knowledg Bee alone That neuer shal Bee by Creation This knowes he simply by his Intellect As That which here shal be but in his might But That which he doth purpose to effect Is euermore existing in his sight For all is present to his VVisedoms Sp'rite And though of that That which Is not nor shal Be Can be no Notion so no knowledge right yet Creatures onely know in that degree But God knowes Notionlesse Essentially Those Things haue euer an vn being Beeing which in his Vnderstanding onely Bee And neuer obiect made to his All seeing But Them he intellectually doth see As though they were yet are but virtually As Pictures are in Painters Fantasies Although they neuer make them actually Só without Notion sith all in Him lies These are in Him as Thinges he could deuise So then we must obserue a difference Betweene the knowledge of what once shall Be And that which shall not for as t' wer by sence God sees the first the last he doth not see But as they are in Possibility Yet some may vrge what truth can be of Those That ner'e shall be Yes They with truth agree That truely are in Gods pow'r to disclose So in that Pow'r with truth

יהוה Summa Totalis OR All in All and the same for euer Or an Addition to Mirum in Modum By the first Author Iohn Dauies Those Lines vvhich all or none perceiue aright Haue neither Iudgement Art Wit Life or Spright LONDON Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in Barbican 1607. To the right Honourable mine approued good Lord and Master Thomas Lord Elsmere Lord Chancellor of England and to his Right Noble Lady and Wife Alice Countesse of Derby my good Lady and Mistresse be all felicitie consisting in the sight of the Obiectiue Beatitude THe Time my duty and your deere desert Deseruedly Right Noble do conspire To make me consecrate besides my Heart This IMAGE to you forg'd with heauenly Fire The Backe-parts of his FORME who form'd this ALL Characterd by the Hand of louing Feare Are shaddovv'd here but ah they are too small To shevv their greatnesse vvhich ne're compast vvere But though that Greatnesse be past quantity And Goodnes doth all quality exceed Yet I this Forme of Formelesse DEITY Drewe by the Squire and Compasse of our CREED Then vvith your greater GVIFTS accept this small Yet being right it 's more then ALL in All Your Honors in all duety most bounden Iohn Dauies of Here ford SUMMA TOTALIS MY Soule sad Soule now sommon al thy Povvres To seeke out Misteries past finding out But first inuoke the Heau'ns to stream their Showres Of Diuine Graces on thee to disrout The Clouds of darknesse which ingirt thy Towres And that vncompast Round thou go'st about If trauelling by Night we pray for Day Now must we going blind a wailesse Way O Thou great Kindler of Diuine desire Deere Light of Lights without which all is Hel Before me go with Flames of Heau'nly Fire By which I may my Compasse keepe so wel That on these groundlesse boundlesse Seas that swell To ouerwhelme me I may safely go The Wonders of those Deepes abroad to tel Calme Fancies Stormes and let my Course be slow For hast therein may speed mine ouerthrow Erect my Thoughts direct my Iudgement so That neither either do misgo or tire And let my Numbers with that fury flow Which thou alone in Wisedome set'st on fire Make all my Measures meet in Truth intire That is in thee Sole Truth for out of Thee Are nought but Errors Rockes and Vices Mire To wracke al those that trauel Truth to see Without thy Compasse wherein compasse me First forthy Name sith It al Thoughts transcends Much more all Words here at my setting out Sith thy WORD onely thy name comprehends I le balke It as a Gulph of deepest doubt Therefore a further way I le go about To seeke thy nature so thy name to finde And as I go I le send forth Care my Scout To see my passage cleare before behind Wherein my Muse must glide to know thy kind Then at thy Properties I will begin Now blesse my Course for I am laūcht from Land Which are as they eternally haue beene Of thy meere Essence where they do not stand As Accidents in Substance for thy Hand Thrusts from thy Substance Accidents and all That seeke to bring thy boundlesse Pow'r in Band For thou art free and holdest that in thrall How euer great that seeks to make thee small Thy Porperties and Attributes are one For all is proper that attributes ought To thee if free from imperfection Hate Anger and the like in vs are nought But in thee good and iust and as they ought Thou can'st loue ardently and neuer dote And hate extreamely without hatefull thought But they in vs can neuer scape the note Of both when both those Passions are aflote Thou giu'st thy selfe those Titles in thy Stile And not so much to stoup to vs thereby To make vs know thee by ourselues the while But for they are in thee most really yet not as in vs Ill and diuersly In vs they Qualities and Vertues be But in Thee they are most essentially Many in vs but onely one in Thee Sith with thy simple Essence they agree Thou art omnipotent iust gratious wise yet not as they are diuerse but as one For these be thine essentiall Properties Which in thee meete in perfect Vnion To make Thee simply great and good alone Then from thee great Good now I le turn my speach Vnto mine Equals in Creation Sith Folly feares to Wisedomes Sp'rit to preach Myselfe and others teach me then to teach Then euen Christians let an abiect one With your allowance spend his powrelesse might In ernest search of this Trin-vnion As farre as of himselfe he giues me sight Either by Natures or diuiner light Whereby I see his Actions fixt are still Vnto his Properties which act aright For through Loue he doth loue wil through VVill And so he doth what he doth else fulfill Which Properties are two fold some there be Eu'ry way proper to his nature blest As his Omnipotence Vbiquitie Eternity sole Wisedome and the rest With these nor Men nor Angels can be drest Others in part and by Comparison As Wisedome Iustice Mercy may inuest Man his viue Image Brother of his Sonne But not as in Them in perfection For sith they are Substantially in God And not as in Man casually they be They must be odly eu'n sith eu'nly odd Is He in whom they are no Trinity Though so He be in strictest Vnity But being of Him wholy infinite They must be One by their infinity For were they many they were definite And for the waight of his Worth too too light Who is a NATVRE supernaturall So say Diuines so sayes Phylosophy Which call God Nature naturizing all That was or is or shal in nature be The Creature then is so of Him that he Is not his nature nor may he be Stil'd Nature her selfe though as she is a She Shee 's but a Creature now with sinne defil'd Yet makes she All for God and Man 's hir Child So Nature made the Maker made to make All Things beneath his Seat for him alone Not that He after toyle need rest to take Nor can He toile though still in Action Yet acteth by subordination To NATVRE nature 's then subordinate That made to that without Creation The first makes by the last in loue or hate What is in naturall or monstrous state In which respect some wicked Ones there were Affirm'd two Natures in the Diety That 's good and bad sith so it seemes t' appeare In things created vniuersally But vnto GOD they did great iniury To multiply his nature being One And so make Gods by such plurality Then in that Nature purely good alone To put in Ill doth put him from his Throne Though to him often Hate ascribed be Yet that in him is simply good and iust For hee thereby impugns Impiety And in his wrath he doth what Iustice must Scowre Ill from Good sith Euill Good

lesse be'got Sith it 's lesse then Priuation in degree Though He of Nought made all Things perfectly Yet could he cause that Christ Is not and Is Then could he cause Nought Men should instifie Which were repugnant to that Truth of his That flat affirmes Christ cheefely worketh This. His Povv'r to two Things He hath fastned then That is to Nature still for Orders sake And to his WORD for his Words sake to Men That so they might his VVord the rather take VVho can aswell himselfe as it forsake yet NATVRES Bounds his Pow'r doth oft trāscend VVhen it works Miracles Men good to make But past his VVORD it neuer can extend Sith it is That which neuer can haue end So then he can do whatsoere he will But yet he will not do what ere he can For he could melt the Heau'ns the Earth to spill But will not nor destroy the righteous Man Though all the VVorld a Deluge ouer ran He will not do so sith he will not so The reason of his Will his Will doth scan But he that would the same yet further kno Looke in his VVord but no step further go He can do nought but what is good and iust And though that all he doth be simply so yet doth it not ensue that needs he must Do what he doth and likewise do no mo Lest he his Grace and Iustice should forgo No if he would do more or otherwise All should be good and iust which he should do For hee 's the fount of GOOGDNES whence doth Pow'r infinite all good to exercise rise But some affirme that he can do no mo But what he did foresee he should performe By his Pow'r actuall the same is so But his Pow'r Absolute can that reforme And make much more in much more better forme So though he through his Purpose did foresee VVhat he would do yet did himselfe informe That he could do much more then now can Be Because his Purpose is as fast as free But he saw all he made was perfect good Then could they not by nature better be He must haue chang'd their Essence with their mood If he had made them better in degree Sith in their kinds he Them did perfect see No Pow'r can multiply a Numbers Store But it must change the Number really So Man as he was made his Fall before VVas good if better then a Man no more VVe meane as he was good essentially For accidentally no doubt he might Haue bin complish't much more perfectly VVith neither Will nor Povv'r to do vnright And haue continued in that perfect plight yet as Immortall Saints are Men no more Then we so we though made more exquisite Should be but Men as we were made before For Fooles are Men aswell as Isidore But O! had he so pleas'd t' haue made Man staid Man had beene staidly-blest till his remoue For hence at last he should haue beene conuai'd To stay for euer Motion farre aboue But how remou'd God knowes I cannot proue Assumpted some suppose but howsoe're It should haue bin as best should Man behoue The Way could not haue bin throgh Death or Fear For Sinne made Them els they had bin no where But why he made Man to His constant Forme yet made him changeable so most vnlike And why his Sonne endur'd his Anger 's Storme Sith so Man chan'gd I am heerein to seeke But sure I am for It Hee Him did strike Could He resolue before he gaue the VVound with his owne Paines past Paines to heale the Sicke when with more ease he might haue keptthem sound He did and what he doth hath perfect ground Though he were GOD yet suffe'rd he in Flesh Such Agonies as made that Flesh to sweat Both Blood and Water which came streaming fresh From all his Parts to coole his Anger 's heat As he was God which is as hot as great Nay it was such that though true GOD he were yet that the Cup might passe he did intreat So much he did ensuing Torments feare which he came to sustaine yet fear'd to beare His Glory was the Marke whereat did ayme The Shame and Torments which he did sustaine yet why sith he all glory wel might claime As his owne Right without so strange a Straine As to endure for Glory shamefull paine But O! the depth of al Profundity His Iudgements ô who can attaine To know his Councels ful of mistery Not one not God as Man then much lesse I It was his suffrance and it was his will That man made stailesse so should fall and rise So he permitted not desired ill Or if he Ill desir'd t' was Good precise For ill he cannot will that 's onely wise Damnation's ill but in respect of vs But in regard of him quite otherwise Then if he will'd it it were righteous which makes as well as Grace him glorious Mans Free-vvill was the Cause of all the ill Beneath the Sunne which God did well fore-see yet sith Mans dignity requir'd Free-vvil No Man without it could his Essence be Much lesse with Gods Forme could his Form agree For by his Free-vvil and Intelligence He is the Image of the Diety And hauing ouer All preheminence T was fit he should command his Will and Sence And though the Diuine vvisedome did foresee He would abuse Free-vvil to his decay yet with that VVisedome it doth well agree To let him on his owne Supporters stay To stand vpright or downeright fall away That so Gods Grace and Iustice might appeare which due Revvards and Punishments bewray Both which as vselesse quite extinguisht were If Man from his foule Fall had stil bin cleare He knevv that through temptation Man would sinne yet made him apt in foulest sinne to slide Sith he fore-saw the good that Ill within Made for his greater Glory sith he dide That Man then dead might still in life abide Deeming it better ill should still consist That he through it might more be glorifi'de By doing highest Good for Euill high'st Then that there should no Ill at all exist yet he gaue Man not onely freest Will But with it Reason and Intelligence To choose the Good and to reiect the Ill Sith he had heard t' would wound his Conscience And Diuine Instice mightily incense So had he Meanes the force of Ill to foile Had he but vs'd them with ful confidence But willingly he fel before the Broile So freely did though charg'd to fight recoile yet was he framed so that if he had On God relide as he both might and should He had o'recome in fight but being mad With Diulish pride fell as the Deuill would Sith willingly of God he loost his hold That man might see God could not be distrest For want of him or what performe he could He made him free to serue whom he likt best So Sinne he seru'd at his Freewils request But yet the good which we by Sinne

receaue Doth farre surmount the Ill that comes from thence If God the VVorld of Ill should quite beraue There were no Tost to try our Sapience So might want Reason and Intelligence But we haue both to know the Good from Bad So know we God and our Soules safe defence Then sith by Ill we are so well bestad We cannot greeue for ill but must be glad For were there no Temptation then no Fight And if no fight no Victory could bee No Victory no Palmes nor Vertues white No Crosse no Crovvne of immortality And thus from Il comes good abundantly For by the Conquest of it we are Crown'd VVith glorie in secure felicity So from great Ills more Goods to vs redoun'd As oft most Sicknesse maketh vs most sound Ill like a Mole vpon the WORLDS faire Cheeke Doth stil set forth that Fairenes much the more She were to seeke much Good were Ill to seeke For Good by Ill increaseth strength and store At least in our Conceit and Vertucs Lore There 's nought so euill that is good for nought God giuing vs a Salue for ev'ry Sore The Good are humbled by their euil'st Thought So to the Good al 's good that Ill hath wrought Then better say some things cannot be done Then that he cannot do them For he can Do al that can be done whose Povv'r is One VVith his owne Essence infinite and than He can do more then can be thought by Man If he could sin could feare could Weare could Dy These Coulds are sicke no Paraclesian Can cure them of their great infirmity For to be able so 's debility And not so able highest Potency So can his Povv'r his Wil nor straine nor bow How ere it seemes to do it to our Sence Nor can it do it truely but in show If truely vve could see the Cause from whence That shew proceeds by our Intelligence For he is reall and doth hate to seeme Sith it doth strongly argue Impotence But when he seemes to mis do we misdeeme That still his workes of Iustice disesteeme Nor chang'd he state when He in firy Tongues Descended on his Darlings for that Show To vs as Men not him as God belongs Who cannot see him otherwise then so But He in forme confined cannot go For if he were confin'd he were no where Sith by the same he should his state forgo But he to vs doth often so appeare His state vnchang'd as our weake state may beare Nor chang'd he mind when as his Will reueal'd He altred as he did for Niniuy Because he chang'd not then his Will conceal'd Which was to saue it through his Clemency VVho knew they would repent er'e they should die And touching him for whom the Sunne went back To crosse his will erst show'n apparantly His secret VVill did That reuealed wrack That one might firmely liue by th' others lack Heere am I Clouded with a Mistery That makes my Muses Eyes quite lose their fight O Heau'nly VVisedome Sonne of Verity Disolue this Cloud and lend those Eyes thy light To find this Truth which is obscured quite For onely Goodnesse can no Euill will Yet Ill it wills but turnes that wronge to right But how he should a Wronge a right fulfill Here lies the Maze my Muse amazing still Yet by the Clew of his directing Word W' are led to say he suffers Ill to Bee With right good will to make Ill more abhord When it is Parraleld with Piety yet wils what he permits vnwillingly For Ill he wils not that good thence shouldspring Which to his Will and Word were contrary And yet against his Will can Be no thing So wils a crosse in crosse considering Yet Contradictions in one kind of Sense He cannot though he most almighty be Cause to exist for that were violence To Nature Truth and his owne Equity Which in great Pow'r were great Infirmity But sith the Rule of Goodnesse is his Will Ill is not Ill that he wils willingly Because his VVill to good conuerteth Ill So ill is good if he performe it stil. He did commaund him who did hope past hope To kill his onely Sonne which was not ill Because that euill hath no euill Scope That is confin'd by his exact good Will The Iudge that doomes death iustly doth not kill Shimey Curst Dauid by the like commaund And yet the same he iustly did fulfill For in the Bidders will no Ill can stand Sith by it Right is rul'd with vpright Hand In Synne two Things we chiefely must respect The Act it selfe and Its deformity The Act though it be euill in effect yet hath a Beeing so is good thereby For GOODNES Beings made most righteously But as it is deform'd t is a Defect So not of GOD free from Deficiency Who is an ACT and works without neglect All Beings Being be they low or hye So though we lie in Him He doth not lye For as one managing a Courser lame Doth put him too 't to vse those Limbs of his That he doth stirre his Rider works the same But that he lamely stirs his fault it is That through his lamenesse stirreth still amisse So That we doo of God the cause is still But that we doo Ill we too blame for This Then not for dooing but for dooing Ill We are condemn'd as Steedes that stumble will We are condemn'd and iustly so we are Sith Synn's the high contempt of his good Will Synne is the Cause effecting all our care And with Confusion all the World doth fill Which is the Ill producing eu'ry Ill All breake-backe Crosses which we vndergo Are cast vpon vs by this Euill still In Summe it makes this VVorld a Sea of Wo VVherein we fincking swim tost to and fro VVhen I behold a Towne erst fairely built Which Time dissmantling doth in Heapes confuse Thus say I to my selfe Here Men haue dvvelt And vvhere Men dvvell there Syn to raigne doth vse And vvhere Syn raignes Confusion still ensues Thus from beginning to the End I fall Of this rude CHAOS whereon moues my Muse And all the way I see Sinne ruin'd all So Synn's the Soule of Ills in generall The Plague which late our Mother-CITTY scour'd And erst the KINGDOME made halfe desolate The HEAV'NS through Aire contagious on it pour'd For odious Syns which them exasperate For which they oft dissolue the Crownes of STATE Likewise the DELVGE that did rince this ROVND Came sith foule Synne did it contaminate To make it cleane and so to keepe it sound Else filthy Synne that BALL would cleane confound Then ô how blest are they that dye to Sinne And liue to neuer dying Rightousnesse They in this Sea of Misery begin To enter in the Hau'n of happinesse Though ouerwhelm'd the while withall distresse For in a Calme we fall to frolike it Or sleepe secure in Pleasures idlenesse VVhich doth peruent the Wil corrupt the Wit Vntill our