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	receive_v	unrighteousness_n	1,743	5	11.2223	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60679	Directions for seeker & expectants, or, A guide for weak Christians in these distracted times wherein the language of Sions-builders is confounded : as it was delivered in a sermon at Wickham-Market ... published at the earnest entreatie of many, for a more publique good / by Zeph. Smith, Minister of Wickham-Market in Suffolke.	Smyth, Zeph. (Zephaniah), fl. 1646-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4362; ESTC R37570	24,293	39

professe themselves to be Gods people there is so much divisions and dissentions and strange opinions and that they are so contrary one to another in judgement when we consider this wee cannot conclude that it is such a dignitie to be taught of God Answ It is true amongst professors at this day there is much difference in judgement some are of one opinion and some of another some are falne into strange and corrupt opinions but this comes not to passe because God teacheth his people severall wayes but first because they doe not learne of God for God is not the Author of the errors that abound amongst professors but the Author of truth and that he teacheth the soule is truth and nothing but the truth nothing but that which is agreeable to his will and therefore it is not because God teacheth them corrupt opinions but because they do not learne of God Secondly it comes to passe that amongst professors they hold strange opinions because as God teacheth the truth and nothing but the truth to his people so the Devill sows the seeds of division amongst people where God sows wheate the Devill sowes tares where God makes knowne his truth there the Devill seeks to infect people with errors Thirdly it comes to passe by permittance God is pleased to permit it he permits it for two causes first for the good of his people the Lord lets his owne people many times run into strange opinions for a time that he might bring them back againe and establish them the more firmly in the truth and there are none to such Christians as these when the Lord hath brought them back againe then they will acknowledge their weaknesse and how subject they are to be misled Ah says the poore soule I had like to have miscarried and been carried away with such and such corrupt opinions had not the Lord in mercy brought me back againe now they will walke more humbly and now they will stand up for the truth and defend it more boldly then they did formerly they will advise their friends and bid them take heed of being seduced they will try the spirits for the time to come whether they be of God or no they will be more earnest with God for the time to come to establish them in the truth And thus the Lord doth it for the good of his people Secondly the Lord permits it out of a just judgement to others who though they be glorious professors yet because their hearts are not sound he will discover them by this means when they come to forsake the wayes and truths of Jesus Christ and run into this and that error and then from one thing to another till at the length they come to deny the Scriptures and live prophanely Thus many come to be discovered in these times And secondly he gives them up to their corrupt opinions and this is a great judgement when the Lord says to them as to Ephraim He is joyned to Idols let him alone Hosea 4.17 So when the Lord says to them they are joyned to their corrupt opinions let them alone let them hold Atheisme if they will let them hold Arminianisme Arianisme Marcellianisme Nicolaitanisme Mahometisme Anabaptisme Antinomianisme if they will let them hold that the soule is mortall and dyes with the body and that the Word of God is written traditions and when they have received the Spirit the letter should cease let them alone I will give them over to these opinions because they refuse to be guided by the rule of truth I will give them up to strong delusions 2 Thes 2.11 12. Because they received not the truth that they might be saved therefore God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeve lyes that they might be damned which beleeve not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse But how is it possible you will say that they should fall from one corrupt opinion to another do not their own consciences check them I answer the conscience of an hereticke is a seared conscience their conscience is seared with an hot iron 1 Tim. 4.2 Who doth the Apostle meane there you may see in the first verse such as give heed unto spirits of errours and doctrines of devils their consciences are past feeling When God hath once given a man or woman over conscience very seldome troubles them though they fall into horrible blasphemies yet seldome or never their consciences trouble them why so because God hath given them over and this makes the condition of a man or woman miserable the Apostle saith Heb. 10.31 It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God but it is a more fearfull thing to fall out of the hands of God and therefore their condition is very fearfull Use 2 The second Use is for reproofe Seeing God is the best teacher and instructor of his people it reproves them that rest in mans teaching onely thinke it enough if they come to the Word and Sacraments and can cry The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord this is the Temple of the Lord and their rest and thinke all is well with them they shall most certainly goe to heaven but alas poore soule thou must know that the outward Ministry of the Word will doe thee no good without the inward operation of the Spirit it is God that ●auseth his people to profit and if thou be not taught of God as well as of man thy outward teaching will doe ●●ee no good thou thinkest it will carry thee to heaven 〈◊〉 it will make thy condemnation the greater if thou be ●ot bettered by it Our Saviour Christ did many great ●orkes amongst them of Chorazin Bethsaida and Caper●●um they might as well as thou blesse themselves they ●e in a good condition why so because they might say Christ hath preached wrought many miracles amongst 〈◊〉 and walked up and downe in our streets wee have had 〈◊〉 company surely we are a happy people but see what our Saviour Christ saith of them they repented not and what follows Woe to thee Chorazin woe to thee Bethsaida and thou Capernaum that art lifted up to heaven shalt be throwne downe to bell Mat. 11.21 22 23. And it shall be more easie for them of the land of Sodome at the day of Judgement then for you So a people may be lifted up to heaven with meanes and brought downe to hell for not profiting by it and their condemnation will be the greater This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse Joh. 3.19 This is the grand damning sinne this damnes people with a witnesse to live under the meanes of grace unprofitable and unfruitfull Secondly It likewise reproves them that take all their Religion upon trust never with the men of Berea search the Scriptures Acts 17.11 But if one come with one Doctrine and another with another he knows not but that they may all speake truth And