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	love_n	unrighteousness_n	1,721	5	11.1941	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86016	The agreement of the associated ministers & churches of the counties of Cumberland, and VVestmerland: with something for explication and exhortation annexed.	Gilpin, Richard, 1625-1700.	1658 (1658)	Wing G774; Thomason E498_3	47,341	61

labour among you but also in their Ruling-work when they admonish you And though the effect of this might be sometime displeasing to you yet notwithstanding he chargeth you to esteem them very highly in love {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} very abundantly more then exceedingly for their work sake Oh! then take heed of that rebellious voice which cost Korah and his company so deer Numb. 16. 3. Ye take too much upon you wherefore lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord 2. If ye refuse and rebell you do not so much despise us as Christ who hath imployed us the cause is not ours but his and the contempt is principally against the king of peace he fully tels you all this Luk 10. 16 that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Say not in your hearts as those wicked ones VVe will not have this man to rule over us 3. Consider the issue will ye think to gain any thing by rejecting his Government Do you not remember that he hath an Iron Rod as well as a Scepter of Mercy If ye refuse the yokes of wood can he not put an iron yoke upon your neck think not to bear out in a bravado against God though like the wilde Ass in the wilderness you should snuff up the winde and traverse on your way or bend your brow against him yet will the Almighty be afraid of your frown Or will he make supplications to you Oh vain man bethink thy self how thou wilt answer thy contempt if thou dost continue 4. There is nothing in the Government of Christ that should make a rational man refuse it we speak of Government and discipline in the main and not of the controverted points of it That there must be rulers and ruled in the Church is not questioned and that the ruled must submit to the direction admonition and reproof of their rulers and that in some cases sinners must be sharply dealt withall by publike rebuke 1 Tim. 5. 20. and sometimes by excommunication Matt. 18. 17. 1 Cor. 5. 4 5 13. All these are evident Now though these thwart the carnal interests of men and are no wayes pleasing to flesh and blood yet seeing all is for edification and not destruction 2 Cor. 10. 8. 13. 10. for the destruction of the flesh that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Iesus 1 Cor. 5. 5. What man is there that prefers heaven before hell or the safety of his soul before bodily ease and credit that will turn his back upon these necessary though sharp Medicines How then can you profess Christ and yet refuse to submit to the righteous Scepter of his Kingdom 3. Beware lest you also being led away with the Error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness be not children tossed to and fro with every winde of Doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive 'T is the glory of a Christian to be steady and unmoveable holding fast the faith once delivered to the Saints We would not be over-tedious and therefore shall set before you but some of those many Considerations which might here be urged 1. God doth permit these swarms of Errors for the tryal of his people and the discovery of Hypocrites and rotten Professors Paul in 1 Cor. 11. 19. tells us Heresies must be they are not only possible but necessary that they which are approved might-be made manifest and that they that went out from us might be made manifest that they were not all of us 1 Joh. 2. 19. 2. Do you not see it frequently that they who make shipwrack of faith make also shipwrack of a good conscience Do not erroneous principles in wicked and licencious practices It is too visible in the carriage of many already and of others you may easily guess what will follow when they are more hardened in error And dare you take that for truth which hath a natural tendencie to looseness and liberty How far these principles of following the Light within and of absolute perfection which will at last bring in either a denyal of Fornication and Lying c. to be sins or to be theirs that act them and several others are directly improveable this way we need not tell you 3. Have you not observed how fickle and uncertain error is when once men are turned off from the truth they readily fall into a dislike of the errors which at first they doted on after they are stale for the entertainment of a new Error when grown into fashion and so from one Error to another till they arrive at Atheism if God in pitty stop them not like a stone when once set a going down the hill it rowles still till it come to the bottom 4. Consider the dreadful threatning of the Lord against those that received the truth but not in the love of it Read and study wel that text of 2 Thess. 2. 11. For this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness And forget not the danger of Apostacie see Heb. 6. 4 5 6. 10. 26. 'T is a sad sentence though we should take the most favourable construction that is given of it to say There remains no more sacrifice for sins and that 't is impossible to renew them again by repentance 5. The hand of God is so visibly against them that they that will not see it are inexcusably blind What God hath done in Germany and of late in New-England ought not to be slightly passed over And how heavy spiritual Judgements are upon Apostates several of our own Counties are sad and sufficient Examples when God suffers Error to draw men beyond the bounds of Reason Modesty and natural conscience when that which they seemed to have is taken away their gifts withered and their former seeming religious observation of duty quite dryed up by the roots surely his minde is that we should take warning by their dreadful fall As for the quakers one would think their actions and principles would make a man that had any of common reason left to abominate and abhor them Sure we are the prevalency of that madness is not from any strength of rational or scriptural satisfaction we have seen many strongly and passionately possessed with that who yet neither understood it nor could give a reason for it but from an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the efficacie and strength of delusion through divine judgement upon them Shall we need to put you in minde of that which your selves know so well and are eye and ear-witnesses of as well as we How visible is the devils 〈◊〉 in the beastly nakedness of men and women in our Assemblies in what a strange unchristian temper of railing reviling 〈◊〉 and