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	holy_a	scripture_n	4,755	5	5.8970	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01347	The mourning of Mount Libanon: or, The temples teares A sermon preached at Hodsocke, the 20. day of December, anno Domini, 1627. In commemoration of the right honourable and religious lady, the Lady Frances Clifton, daughter to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cumberland: and wife to the truly noble Sir Geruas Clifton of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, Knight and Baronet, who deceased the 20. Nouember, 1627. By William Fuller Doctor of Diuinity, one of his Maiesties chapleines in ordinary.	Fuller, William, 1579 or 80-1659.	1628 (1628)	STC 11468; ESTC S102826	23,698	50

repine at our friends promotion and for our pleasure to debarre his preferment when there is more then hope that wee shall meet agayne with vnspeakeable ioy and comfort Iacob I suppose was more refreshed at the newes of Iosephs life and greatnesse then deiected with the sorrow of his conceyued losse Non moeremus quòd tales amisimus sed gratias agimus quòd habuimus immo quòd habemus We doe not lament those we haue lost but giue thankes because wee had them nay still haue them sayth S. Hierome And in another place bewayle your dead but such as hell receiueth not such as angels doe accompany to heauen and Christ meeteth and there bringeth in God himselfe thus speaking Thou denyest thy selfe meat not out of a desire of fasting but of sorrow Non amo frugalitatem istam I like not this frugality your fasts are both aduersaries to mee and to your friends Nullam animam recipio quae me nolente separatur à corpore I receyue no soule but such as with my will is seuered from the body But alasse it is a Cedar the hieroglyphicke of greatnesse aswell as goodnesse and the cutting downe of such make those deep impressions both of griefe and wonder Vanity of vanities The heathen themselues that implored as many dieties as they conceiued chimaeraes in their fancies yet were neuer knowne to erect an Altar to death because that was euer held implacable What is my birth right seeing I am almost dead sayd Esau What profit is there in my blood when I goe down into the pit sayd Dauid Philosophers make sport with great Alexander as hares may play with the beards of dead Lions being intombed in a poore vrne whose ambition before the whole world sufficed not And Nature maketh no other difference then doth the potter that of the same clay maketh vessels of honour and of dishonour the one more polished but as brittle as the other Or the Mason that from the same quarry diggeth stones both for the pauement and for the Altar although wee trample the one and kneele to the other The same wood may make some goodly image and a plough or fewell and the figure is the same that stands for one and for one thousand they being meere ciphers nothing in themselues that alter the accompt The Prince is as corruptible as the poorest beggar lay aside dying and dressing painting and pruning and all are but earth the wormes meat and graues inheritance Diadema non fanat caput nec annulus digitum The crowne cannot helpe the headache nor the ring the finger What then is the Prophets meaning to aduise this sadnesse It must be truth vnquestionable that such men vtter All the Scripture being credibilis vt credibilis to bee beleeued without a reason Holy men inspired did but pen what God did dictate It is most true and for all the premisses there is great cause of howling not because the Cedars fall was the Cedars harme but the whole mountaynes both losse and danger like the comet portending ruine to Ierusalem A good man is a common good that brings not blessing for himselfe alone but for all about him Themistocles setting his house to sale prized it much deerer then ordinary propter bonum vicinum because seated by a good neighbour and Christians alwayes accompted their peace more sure by the life of Saynts as knowing that the world it selfe must fayle when the elect are finished Sodome must necessarily perish when Lot is out of it Tenne righteous could haue guarded it not against the powers of men and earth only but of heauen and angels also Whilest Iacob serued Laban he and his prospered once parted the one grew rich and the other poore And his sonne Ioseph was not Putaphars only but all Egypts blessing The righteous like Moses stand in the gappe and hold the Almighties hands from striking the very chariots of Israel and horsemen of the same Iudges on earth cut off offenders to secure the innocent holding it a cruell mercy to spare one to manies ruine but God in heauen cuts off his children for the wickeds sorer punishment that their defences being surprised hee might haue none to giue stoppage to his intended vengeance Troy they say was impregnable whilest they had the Palladium or Hector liued But it may bee better auerred that families cities kingdomes for one is the modell of the other are more prosperous whilest they inioy the godly For it is presupposed that God remoueth them but from the anger to come And therefore no maruell if Dauid cryeth Salvum me fac Domine Helpe or saue me O Lord. Giuing such a pregnant proofe of imminent danger quia defecit sanctus there is not one godly man left the faythfull are minished from the children of men The Physitian sometimes letteth the arme blood to cure and correct the head and God did as much in the three dayes pestilence sent to the people for Dauids numbring them Hee crying I haue sinned yea I haue done wickedly but these sheepe what haue they done But when the head is wounded all the members are likewise smitten with it as the sheepe are scattered when there is no shepheard the eyes grow dimme the armes weake the tongue doeth falter and the legges doe tremble If the bushes bee stubbed vp the Cedars prosper more and flourish better but if the Cedars fall eyther the shrubs are beaten downe with the weight or standing are likely to bee blasted by the stormes and tempests for want of shelter I need not trouble you with further application since hee that runnes may read the meaning I haue beene tedious in a theme that rellisheth not neuerthelesse I must proceed without apology or crauing pardon loue and sorrow admit no ceremony And you I know will not be weary to heare me descending to particulars which more affect then do all generall eyther notions or instructions but sometimes accompany me with sighes if not teares and all the way with sad attention whilest I relate with griefe how our Cedar is fallen A subiect in which a iust Orator might incurre the imputation of flattery with strangers did they not in charity and iudgement remember that God is his spectator and angels auditors But to men acquaynted with the person and her vertues all will fall short that one man can speake and euery one may affoord some thing worthy memory omitted by the Preacher Nazianzene commending Athanasius sayd that commending him he should commend vertue Idem enim est illum dicere quod virtutem laudibus efferre I might well applie it yet neyther sow pillowes vnder the elbowes of the liuing or shoulders of the dead She was the Lady Frances Clifton well were it for most heere could I speake it in the present tense a Lady of those endowments as might bid detraction it selfe Belch her poyson she would so liue as Socrates once answered a backbiter that none should credit it The cupping glasse which draweth