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	lie_n	unrighteousness_n	2,384	5	11.3357	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53304	The father of the faithfull tempted as was more concisely shewed August 31, 1674, at a solemne funeral in the church at Wotton under Edge in the countie of Gloucester / by Giles Oldisworth ...	Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.	1676 (1676)	Wing O251; ESTC R15932	41,531	84

The Knowledge of the Lord covereth our Island as the waters cover the Sea He was ye were not the unclean Children of unbeleeving Parents He could not say Thou hast loosed my bands for I am the Son of thy hand-maid but Ye were by praier and by baptisme consecrated to your God in your infancie and were from your infancie nurtured up in good knowledge 2. He was like S. Paul in journeyings often Abiding citie he had none but was ever unsetled As for you ye in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places have retirednesse and leisure to devote your selves to praier meditation c. 3. Eight or nine times did Jehovah converse with Him with you he converseth eightie times nine times Twice or thrice was the Gospel preached unto Him and that too very darkly To you it shineth as clearely and in a sort as frequently as day-light What a small pittance of saving knowledge could he glean from the traditions of his fore-fathers in comparison of what may be learned by you by you who may all know the Lord from the least to the greatest by you who are in Gods Scriptures all taught of God 4. Christ is the vision the visage of the father of mercies the Gospel is the image the face of Christ Of this Gospel of this face of Christ more is manifested unto you then ever was revealed unto Abraham 4. As zeal without knowledge is the mother of persecution idolatrie superstition enthusiasm schism heresie sedition rebellion c. So knowledge without zeal begetteth atheism profaness hypocricie pride c. But that which maketh mans knowledge of God to be mans salvation is the spirit of faith sanctifying unto him what he knoweth For. 1. By faith we understand one office of faith is to enlighten the understanding 2. By faith Moses refused chusing rather viz As faith discerneth what is good so faith embraceth what good it discerneth 3. A third effect of faith is to purifie the heart 4. By faith they subdued and obtained When faith hath so instructed the heart that it no longer beleeveth a lie and hath so corrected the mind that it holdeth not the truth in unrighteousness When a Knowledge of the truth of the whole truth yea and of nothing but the truth freeth the head from errour and when a love of that truth freeth the heart from disobedience when we like to retain God in our Knowledge then do we apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus When ye seeke not your own wills but your Gods will when ye with meekeness and with earnestness search wait and watch and trie whether by his word of life God will make your heart as Abrahams was faithful then ye sow to the spirit And as what was born of your flesh was flesh so what is born of Gods spirit is spirit For such as wait upon God in His waies them God meeteth and whom God meeteth in them by his spirit of adoption he formeth the quickning spirit of Christ Jesus Brethren Hereby may ye know whether ye have with faithful Abraham believed unto righteousness If unto righteousness ye have beleeved then have ye passed from the death of unbeliefe wherein ye were born to the Life of faith whereunto ye were baptized 5. To whom God giveth a power to them he also vouchsafeth a habit of beleeving Having therefore obtained like precious faith with Him imitate ye the Patriarch in my Text. of this good and perfect gift which cometh down from above May ye ever make ye seasonable and sanctified Uses 1. That in you the righteousness of God may be revealed from faith to faith add to your faith Knowledge For this end let the word of Christ dwell in you richly and in all wisdom There can not in Heaven be a higher object of Knowledge then the God of Heaven neither can there be upon earth any Knowledge of the God of Heaven equal to what we learn in Holy writ No truth is worthy to be compared unto Scripture truths neither is any Scripture-truth comparable to Gospel revelations Gospel revelations are mysteries great misteries Misteries which immediately concern a reconciliation between God provoked and man offending Lay up therefore in your heart as Manna in a golden pott store up in your memorie as Oracles in the Ark of God the Gospel-treasures of spiritual truth and wisdom The best object of mans best understanding is that truth which is in Jesus 2. That that spirit of truth which is the spirit of Christ may free you as well from the errour of your way as from erring thoughts that ye may be renewed as well in practice as in Knowledge that ye may be as wel un-corrupted in your mind as un-deceived in your judgment Receive with every truth a love of that truth that a love of every revealed truth ye may receive purifie ye your heart by faith that by faith ye may purifie your heart seeing there is no example threat promise or rhetorick like unto Scripture examples threats promises and rhetorick Let these let all these have a due force and a full power over your sincerest affections so consult Holy writ as who are therein consulting even God Himself So obey Holy Writ as the Word of a God as the word of a God speaking to you as the voice of the gracious Jehovah so speaking with you as he some times spake with his friend Abraham even face to face Oh Sirs as the best object of your best understanding so the most delightful object of your purest affections is the good nature of Emannuel Jehovah Jesus Therefore 3. Whereas from Abrahams self denials I pressed a self-denial upon all such masters parents concerned officers and Magistrates as may and should befriend Souls under their tuition Old things are passed away I now urge the example not of Abraham representing but of the true father of many nations by Abraham represented The father of all men when there was no Arm to help spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all And shall worldly favour or neighbourly kindness prevent you from imitating the merciful example of a compassionate God If the Love of God if the example of God findeth faith in your hearts O ye Rulers neither let Souls stupidly ignorant escape untaught and unchatechised neither tollerate ye those unlawful meetings which wrest Holy Scriptures to the hazard of themselves and of this Kingdom 1. Witness our late civil Warrs As evil words corrupt good manners so a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump A cancer in the mouth is a pernicious disease even so much that Christ hateth that we should suffer among us the doctrine either of the Pharises or of the Nicolitans 2. When the Son of man took a farr journey he gave authoritie to his Servants If Law-givers Lawes and Judges protect mens cattle lands and limbs from violence much more let them guard mens memories affections understandings and consciences from the subtiltie and power