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
A86503	Plain dealing or the cause and cure of the present evils of the times. Wherein you have set forth, 1 The dreadful decension of the Devill. 2 His direfull wrath. 3 The woeful woe to the wicked world. 4 The mystery of all. 5 The history and computation of times devolving all upon this age, and downward. 6 The art of resisting temptations, in this house of temptation. In a sermon before John Kendrick Lord Mayor of London, upon the Lords day after the great eclipse (as the astrologers would have had it.) Upon occasion whereof, something was spoken touching astrology: By Dr. Nath. Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1652 (1652)	Wing H2572; Thomason E1315_1; ESTC R209201	39,652	125

the Revelation that all those should be and saw all save the last come to passe hath ever since beene wroth opposing all he could upon all opportunities mans welfare as we heard afore But now the time being neare that the last also must be fulfilled man must be restored to his Adam-ship his pristine perfection and originall happinesse in a larger and better Paradise on Earth and in Heaven as may bee seene in another Treatise SATAN hath saith that twelfth of Revel 12. great wrath and the rather because the time is short ere it be done and so his time is short to bestirre him to endeavour it bee undone So his anger is now doubled First That man through Christ must bee compleatly happy Secondly That he hath so little time to hinder it ere he himselfe bee compleat in Torment his sinne being the sinne not of Atheisme the Devill is no Atheist Jam. 2.19 But of the sinne against the Holy Ghost malicing Gods goodnesse Christs Mediatorship the truth of the Word and the salvation of man of which hee hath been fully convinced and by him partly confessed in the Gospel touching their truth and excellency and hinted in that 12. of Revel 12. That HE KNEW his time was short and therefore knew the rest why wherein it was short I say fully convinced by the Holy Ghost in the Word though the Holy Ghost in its effects was never in him savingly infused or inherent even as it was not in those men that sinned that sin Mat. 12.24 to 33. CHAP. III. BUt why may some ask seeing Satan is so maliciously wroth as hath beene said would God permit him to come downe among the Inhabitants of the world and especially NOW towards the approaching of the great restitution of all things as hath been shewed 1. He doth it in justice upon wicked men whether open or hypocrites even as he did upon Ahab and Saul and that with a double justice one on the soule the other on the body also That as they loved not the truth in the mouthes of the truth were therefore justly left to bee seduced in soule by Satan and their persons to goe and to be slaine in warre because they would not receive warning by that truth so the Lord in justice deales with the wicked of the world in this interval of Satans coming downe upon the earth Paul tels us as relating to this space of time 2 Thess 2.9 10 11 12. That that wicked one the sonne of perdition shall come after or according to the WORKING of SATAN with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved And for this cause God shall SEND them strong DELUSION that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse To which St. John addes that in Revel 16.13.14 with Chap. 19. v. 19.20 21. To compleat the Narrative of the destruction of soule and body of such wicked ones And I saw three uncleane spirits like frogs come out of the Dragon and the Beast and the false Prophet for they are the spirits of Devils working miracles which goe forth unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battel to the great day of God Almighty And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their Armies gathered together to make warre against him that sate on the Horse and against his Army and the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet and cast into the lake of fire c. and the remnant were slaine with the sword So that the justice of God is most righteously executed upon the said wicked both on soule and body as Pareus well coucheth the matter together in a few words on that sentence The Devil hath descended unto you saith he Nunquam quidem non grassatus est in mundo Satan c. i.e. There was never a time indeed wherein the Devil did not assault rob and spoyle the world being once thrust downe from Heaven But this commination is Propheticall concerning his imminent machinations with which sometime after hee should bring to destruction all the inhabitants of the world that had beene by Antichrist made mad with superstition Which words will comprehend the state of the said time if we take the word Antichrist as signifying all against Christ and Superstition to signifie all that is not according to the pure truth of the Word For our times the Interpreter of that Rev. 12.12 shews that great and various are the horrid defections Apostasies and Abominations that should bee the dreadfull effects of the Devils coming downe all that time 2 God permits Satan to come downe out of mercy you will wonder to the Godly For the beginning of the Verse doth sufficiently testifie that the Lord in his direfull providence to the earth of the ungodly had not the least intent to prejudice the Heaven of the Church of true Saints for it is expresse Rejoyce yee Heavens and yee that dwell therein which cannot bee meant of the Empyrean Heaven above the starres for the rest of the Song or Anthem of praise in two former verses is NOW is come SALVATION and strength and the Kingdome of our GOD and the POWER of his CHRIST and the Saints overcame the Devill by the BLOOD of the LAMBE and by the WORD Where it is manifest that Christ at this time hath a Power or Kingdome on Earth The mercy of God to the Saints on Earth in this unlikely looking providence is 1 The manifestation of his might power and prudence to preserve as in a Goshen his true Israelites whiles the Egyptian world round about is filled with plagues Herein his Providence exceeds his Creation that he maintaines a glory amidst hellish oppositions and keeps alive sparkes in the midst of a Sea 2. That the Saints might have their desires faith and hope c. after a blessed triall gloriously fulfilled For Satan with this his great wrath doth but pull downe the old house of the wicked world about his owne eares breaking the parts thereof all to peeces whereupon God the great Landlord removes the rubbish burnes the rotten timber and beginnes to build New Jerusalem CHAP. IV. Men must not be mistaken as if there were no such thing as the Devils coming now downe upon the earth by speciall permission THe first Coro'dary upon the Premises is that the Prophesie afore opened clearly and mainly relating to these times our first prudence can be no lesse then to perceive the performance If Satan bee now come downe then legite vestigia read his footsteps and be afraid to tread in them towards his den as the creatures were of that of the Lion giving this reason Quia me vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retrorsum That is I dare not trach other beasts