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	heart_n	word_n	3,669	5	4.1745	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02144	Seasonable thoughts of divine providence affording comfort to those who are in danger. Instruction to all that are delivered from the late sad visitation. Wherein we are inform'd whether our preservation be a fruit of God's special love, or of his common providence.	Chishull, John.	1666 (1666)	Wing C3903B; ESTC R176572	27,160	97

of thy sins This will be a greater judgment then the Pestilence which thou hast escaped The Apostle speaks to such an one as thou art Rom. 2.4 Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance Mark what is the issue of such a frame as this is ver 3. But after thine hard and impenitent heart treasurest up wrath against the day of wrath It had been better for thee that thou hadst been taken away and sent to hell long ago then thou shouldst live to treasure up more wrath against that day of wrath and to make thy eternal condition so much the more intollerable Let me therefore perswade thee to look back again and again how it hath been with thee under this dreadful visitation and consider thy self how hath it left thee Did it find thee stupid and insensible of danger as many have been or timerous if so Whether did thy fears drive thee only to the Physitian to their directions for thy security and not unto God And now the danger is something blown over thou art left as vain as unfruitful yea as prophane as before thou sayst in effect as they did Jer. 7.10 We are delivered to do all these abominations If this be thy case thou art amiserable man or woman thou art none of those whom Moses magnifies in this place whom he admires as a happy people And if thou believest this to be a truth stir up thy self to seek after an interest in this divine providence Labour for a life suitable to a saved one then shalt thou indeed have cause to rejoyce in thy deliverance for the good of providence is not seen by the visible effects of it but is legible in the hearts and lives of the saved The Use that you should make of this truth all you that are under these gracious impressions of providence or sincerely labouring after them should be First Look upon your mercies as they are be sure to acknowledg God in all that you have and enjoy give him the glory of his goodness and truth take your lives out of his hand and say it is the Lord that hath saved me alive this day Set up your Eben-Ezer hitherto the Lord hath helped me Call nothing common that you have though your lives and preservations may seem common mercies because many have been preserved as well as you yet if you consider what hath been said you will find cause to account your lives singular and special mercies because there is more in them than there is in others you have been preserved by a gracious providence whereas others have escaped by a general providence you have been saved in mercy whereas others have been reserved in judgment Nothing will conduce more to the quickning of your spirits and to raise them up to live like your selves than a true estimate of your mercies for this will make you sensible of your engagements and these considered will quicken you to your duties Secondly Love God There is nothing more natural than this that we shall love those who love us and take the most care of us in our greatest dangers This is that which David urges upon all the people of God not onely to love him every one for the care that God hath of him but every one to love him for the care that he hath of all the faithful Psal 31.23 Oh love ye the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithful And let it seem but a reasonable thing to you to grant 〈…〉 God a peculiar interest in your hearts and lives who have a special interest in his providence Thirdly Be careful to pay your vows that you have made to the Lord in the time of danger Consider as well the duties which spring out of your promises made to God as those which arise out of his providence towards you and make conscience of both Time was when you valued your lives and the lives of your relations at a great rate you offered freely and largely for your selves and them when trouble was near O do not undervalue them now think that enjoyment of them now to be as much worth as ever you did esteem them Seeing God has taken you at your word and has given you what you desired be sure you make your word good and give him what you promised Fourthly 〈…〉 Be of good courage strengthen your selves in God from the experience that you have had of his goodness and truth and live in a constant dependance upon him and hope in him for the time to come that will be an evidence that you believe this truth and it will be an honouring of Gods providence Nothing can be more rationally deduced from this truth than a comfortable reliance upon God It is the inference of the Holy Ghost from the Premises Psal 31.24 When he had asserted the Providence of God over his people in these Words The Lord preserveth the Faithful He exhorts or infers this Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your hearts all ye that hope in the Lord. Last of all This truth speaks to every man after this manner You see nothing can make a man happy which cannot render him safe a great part of our happiness in this life lying in a freedom from evil rather than in the enjoyment of good which 〈◊〉 the happiness of the life to come And there is nothing so much contributes to our safety as an interest in Divine providence Can riches honours art interest in men say thus to thee and make it good Psal 91.5.6 Thou shalt not be afraid of the terrour by night nor for the arrow that flyeth by day nor for the Pestilence that walketh in darkness nor for the destruction that walketh at noon-day But God can speak thus to thy soul and cause thee to walk without fear in the valley of the shaddow of death Make hast then and interest thy self in God and improve this by Faith and prayer it is the best preservative thou canst provide for thy self and Family Prov. 18.10 The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous runneth into it and is Safe Nay here is shelter for Thine as well as Thee Prov. 14 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and his Children shall have a place of Refuge Would'st thou be good to thy self and to thy Family make God thine That thou mayest dwell in the secret of the Lord and abide under the shaddow of the Almighty And time and experience will confirm thee in this truth that they are safe whom God keeps and happy whom he saves and with David thou wilt conclude Psal 144. verse 15. Happy is that people that is in such a case Yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord. FINIS