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	know_v	knowledge_n	3,488	5	6.8962	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93880	The teachings of Christ in the soule. Opened in a sermon before the Right Honble House of Peers, in Covent-garden-Church, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, March 29. 1648. / By Peter Sterry, M.A. sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge: and now preacher of the Gospel in London. Published by order of that House.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1648 (1648)	Wing S5486; Thomason E433_30; ESTC R204205	36,001	61

of colours It must have pleni-potency an all-sufficiency a Divinity of certainty and clearnesse in and of it self No other thing can ever make the soul fully sure without trembling or wavering A man must be of necessity double-minded and like a wave of the Sea as Saint James speaks Iames 1. till he come to the Corner stone the Bottom reason of truth because the whole Building of truth stands on this That only is a Demonstrating Principle an assuring a quieting truth which is so first of all that there lies no appeale from it to any it self being the Fountain which gives testimony to all truths but receives or needs a testimony from none 2. Immediate truths These are such as have an immediate Vnion with the Soul that there may be no dispute about their Evidence or diminution or danger of corruption by any second hand Saint Paul calls it a Demonstration of power when the first Light the first Truths communicate themselves nakedly to the naked soule of man both being uncloth'd of any intervening representations or reports Thus the Soul receives the Light of truth in the dignity of its strength in the excellenty of its might as Iacob speaks of his First-born The power of Truth is the first and highest Appearance which is proper perfect substantiall All inferiour appearances are Truth in its weakness and shadowy God made man and woman One that they might have a Holy Seed a Sead of God in the Hebrew Malac. 2. 15. The first Truth as the Man the Soule as the Woman must be espoused and married joyn'd without a Deputy or a Third they must be immediately entirely One that they may have a Seed of God a race of Truths cleer and Sure having the full brightnesse of a Demonstration shining in their faces If any thing come between your understanding or belief and the first Truths you doe not trust to their Testimony but to the report of some other thing concerning them The men of Samaria said to the Woman Now we believe not because of thy saying For we have heard Him our selves and know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world Iohn 4. 42. If thy Soul will have any one truth in the demonstration of power it must be able to say to the Principle of Truth the highest Truth Now I believe not because of any other testimony proof or evidence For I have heard and seen and handled thee in my self and so I know that thou art indeed in substance and power the anointing Truth the only Light and Anointing of all truths 2. Quest What is the Spirit Answ The Spirit is a name of essence or subsistence in God of the divine Nature or one of the three divine Persons I wil speak of it now as it signifies the essence or nature of God God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth Iohn 4. 24. The Spirit is God unveil'd and shining out in his true Appearance above all the shadows types and Images of him in the Creatures The Flesh profits not but the Spirit quickneth Ioh. 6. 63. Thus our Saviour opposeth the Created and Uncreated part of things in his owne Person under the names of Flests and Spirit Divines say that every Creature even the highest A●●el hath something of materiality darknesse grosnesse composition carnality and so it is Flesh compared with God who only is a Spirit as the Spirit is a name of unity simplicity purity The Spirit then is God in the simplicity of his own Person abstracted from all mixture or composition with the Creature 3. Quest What is the Demonstration of the Spirit God in his Spirituall appearance to the Soul is the first Truth For He is above All. He is the Immediate Truth For he alone is most intimate with all things Nothing can unite it selfe to the Soul so inwardly so immediately as God For all things are by Him This is the onely Demonstration of every of any Truth the Spirituall appearance of God in the Soul holding forth that Truth in his own Light When Saint Paul had spoken of the Demonstration of the Spirit he adds that your faith might be not in the Wisdome of men but in the power of God 1 Cor. 2. 5. The Demonstration of the Spirit is above nature reason and all Principles of Wisdome or Truth in any Creature It is the power of God as God bringing forth the discovery of himself and all Truths as particular discoveries in that Vniversall One like branches in the stock of a tree or beames in the body of the Sun In thy light shall we see light Psal 36. 9. In the manifestation of God within us shall we see the manifestation of each Truth You are Light in the Lord Ephes 5. 8. Every Person every appearance is Light hath a power of evidencing and manifesting it self so far only as it is in the Light of God 4. Quest How is the Demonstration of the Spirit appropriated to Jesus Christ Answ Saint Paul shall answer this question Acts 3. 3. Having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which we now see The Spirituall manifestation of God is the onely distinguishing character the demonstration of every spirituall truth This appearance is the Promise the great and last promise of the Father the great and last expectation of all the Saints The Lord Jesus received this manifestation of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost immediately We all receive it or wait for it in the Person of Jesus Christ by His Mediation This Spirit or this Spirituall shining out of the divine Majesty is the onely Seale of truth Ephes 1. 13. Ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise in the former part of the Verse were these words after that ye received the word of truth They were sealed that is the truth of the Gospel was sealed in and to and on them by the Seale of the Spirit which is the Ingraving of the first Truth upon each truth or heart The Lord Jesus is the Angel that hath this Seale of the living God in his hand Revel 7. 2. For He himself is first sealed with it and all other Members of this Truth or Disciples of this Master are sealed by and in Him Him hath the Father sealed Joh. 6. 27. The Father is the Sealer primitively by power and authority The Son as he is the second Person in the Trinity is the Image which the Father sets on when he seals Heb. 1. 3. the expresse Image of his Person the Sealing Image The Holy Spirit is the Impression of this Image in and by the Father In this sense the Holy Ghost is said to be received as the Wax receives Impression of the Image in sealing So he is called the Sealing wherewith we are sealed in that fore-quoted place of the Ephesians The Person of the Lord Jesus as he is Mediatour God-man is the Sealer by place and

cried My Lord and my God his eye being on the Divinity while his hand was upon the Humanity But he that attributes any thing in Spirituall things to man in the other consideration as he is in himselfe he makes him a member of that man of sin who sets himself up in the Temple of God shewing himself 2 Thess 2. 4. The Text being thus opened is easily divided into two parts a Rule Be not ye called Masters the reason of the Rule for ye have one Master even Christ The Doctrine THe Words thus opened and divided afford us from both parts this one Doctrine Doctr. Jesus Christ is the onely Master in Christianity Jesus Christ is Emmanuel God with us Mat. 1. 23. The Creatour in union with the Creature The Divine nature joyned with the Humane in one Person God living in the nature and forme of man man living in the person and power of God This Christ is Lord of all as the Scripture speaks and so he is a Master But I speak not of him now in this sence as a Master in power but in precepts as a Master over servants but Disciples I will give you one Proofe of the Doctrine and one Reason for it Proofe The Proofe is that place Matth. 11. 27. All things are delivered to me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him There is nothing worth the knowing but God alone Let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth me Jer. 9. 24. There is nothing capable of being Known but God or by the Knowing of him first For all other things are meer Representations of him and relate to him Prov. 16. 4. God hath made all things for himself that is to resemble him and returne to him No knowledge can bring into your soules substance or satisfaction life or immortality besides this This is Eternall life to Know thee the only true God John 17. 3. Thou art a good Christian if thou Knowest thy God thy Father from whence thou camest in whose house thou dwellest to whom thou must returne But no man can Know the Father except he be taught by the Son Reason The Reason of the Doctrine is the Office of Christ Our Saviour hath a three-fold Office of 1. King 2. Priest 3. Prophet It belongs to him by all these Offices to be our onely Master 1. Christ hath the Office of a King Psal 2. 6. God saith I have set my King upon my holy hill of Sion Christ is a King of God's making and appointing the King of Saints a King in his Church which is the true mount Sion Saul the first King of the Jewes was taller by the head than the rest of his Brethren Jesus Christ is higher by the head than all the Creatures his head is ever above all Clouds in the light of the Divine nature The head of Christ is God 1 Cor. 11. 3. Thus is Christ crowned King by the Godhead And by this Title hath he the Law of all Truth and Goodnesse in his own Breast For he is an absolute supream King God calls Christ my King a King in my likenesse in my stead Therefore Moses speaks to Jesus Christ in a Figure after this manner Deut. 33. 3. All his Saints are in thine hand to be trained up and form'd by thee O Lord Jesus they sate at thy feet as Paul at the feet of Gamaliel they received the words from thy mouth It is a Spirituall Kisse from the mouth of Jesus Christ upon the soul that can alone set the stamp of a Truth or a Law upon any thing there They received the words from my mouth Christ is our only Master by his Kingly office 2. Christ hath the Office of a Priest Psal 110. 4. Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedech Some Divines tell us from the 7. of the Hebrews that this Melchisedech was the Holy Ghost or Jesus Christ in the Spirit appearing to Abraham in the Form of a Man Both are much at one But however this be it appears clearly from the Chapter that this Order of Priesthood was absolute incommunicable immortall The Priesthood and Kingdome of Christ are both peculiar to himself For he hath a peculiar anointing to them both Psal 45. 7. God thy God hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse above thy Fellows The anointing which Jesus Christ hath is the powring forth of the Divine nature upon the Humane This makes him both Priest and King after an eminent and singular manner Now it was one of the Principall works of the Priest to teach men the Knowledge of God So you may read Mal. 2. 7. For the Priests lips should keep Knowledge and they should Seek the Law at his Mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hosts This was the duty of Priests under the Law as the Type But this is the dignity of Christ alone in the Gospel as the Truth to that Type He is the Messenger the Angel of the Lord of Hosts This is the living Spring of Knowledge which is ever full and flowes forth upon those Soules that hang on his lips even the Spirit of our Lord Jesus The Office and aptnesse of Christ to Teach his Communicative nature in Divine things is sweetly exprest Cant. 5. 13. His Lips like Lillys dropping sweet-smelling Myrrhe The Appearances and Discoveries of Christ to the Soule are those Lips with which he Kisseth the Spirits of Men. Lillys are Flower-de-luces Flowers of Divine light Myrrhe is an Embalming spice of sweet savour preserving from corruption The Lips of Christ his layings forth of himself to the Soul are exceeding faire with the brightnesse of heavenly Truths They drop upon the Soule in the pretiousnesse and power of those Truths like Myrrhe carrying the sweet savour of Life and Immortality along with them This is the second Office of Christ his Priesthood by vertue of which he is our only Master 3. Christ hath the Office of a Prophet Act. 3. 27. Moses truly said to the Fathers A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from among your Brethren like unto me Him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you The Lord Jesus is a Prophet like Moses because he is a Man but unlike him because he is God as well as Man He is like Moses because Moses was the shadow of this rising Sun which went before him Yet he is unlike because he is the Sun it self The name of a Prophet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Signifies two things in the Office 1. To fore-tell things to come 2. To tell forth the Hidden truths of God from the Secret of his Spirit to the Ears or Souls of Men. A Prophet in the latter of these senses is that Prophet of which I now principally speak And in this sense are Prophets spoken of 1 Cor. 14. 29. Let the Prophets