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
A85953	Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nye. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1660 (1660)	Wing G6083; Thomason E1029_1; ESTC R208881	280,310	387

is when a man shall resolutely give up himself to all manner of wickedness Thus it is said of Ahab 1 King 21.20 Ahab sold himself to work wickedness that is Ahab in a resolute way was set upon any manner of wickedness that might serve his own turn When a man shall bee set upon this that what ever way of wickedness may bee subservient to the attaining of such and such designs that I have I will venture upon it I say this man sells his soul in this case to the Devil Ahab sold himself to work wickedness Sixthly And then a sixth way of mens losing their souls it is by being poisoned their souls are poisoned and so they come to bee lost now the poison of the soul it is either wicked company or wicked errours either of those two By keeping of wicked company thou keepest in an infectious Air thou goest from home sometimes and meetest with such wicked company thou gettest thy bain thy poison there and poison works divers waies sometimes it will cause one to swell mightily how many when they come from their wicked company come home with such swelling hearts in such an outragious way swearing and fighting and blaspheming and scorning and contemning at all waies of godliness now these have been abroad and have gotten poison and so they shall and are ready to burst with it Now there are other kinds of poison that will not work till a quarter or half a year after A man may go into company and get his bain and yet not work till a quarter of a year after As I remember a Philosopher seeing two women that were wicked talk together Oh! saith hee now the Viper is taking of poison from the Asp and indeed it seemed to bee a Proverb in Tertullians time for I meet with such a proverbial speech in him as that the Viper borrows poison from the Asp so when wicked company are infusing wicked principles here is the poison gotten from the Asp wicked company perhaps they come with their sweet cups and perhaps thou drinkest down the Wine merrily but together with the Wine wicked things are infused into thy spirit that are poisonful When thou art in wicked company and hearest the waies of God spoken against and hearest the Saints of God railed on and the good Word of God spoken against and this thou drawest into thy heart oh there is poison goes down in this cup it is like to poison thy soul and to be thy undoing for ever And then there is another kind of venome and that is wicked errours and heresies when men drink off the Cup of Fornication as when they are taken with the great errours of Popery this poisons the soul that place in the Thessalonians is a most dreadful place even for that very errour 2 Thessalonians 2.11 Speaking of Antichrist that hee should come with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might bee saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeve a lye that they all might bee damned who beleeve not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse This is a most dreadful Text against those that shall drink in the errours of Popery But you will say that they are learned men and have a great deal of shew of truth with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness But how art thou deceived by them because thou receivest not the love of the truth that thou mightest bee saved And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions to beleeve a lye that they might bee damned to that end God sends strong delusions that men might beleeve those errours and drink in that cup of fornications that they might bee damned for ever If it were but onely that one errour drunk down in the grosness of it that is that the righteousness that I must tender up to God for satisfaction to divine Justice and for my eternal salvation must bee mine own righteousness mine own works Here is enough to poison a soul to eternal perdition and many other waies there may bee that may indanger the soul extreamly and very ill consequences may bee gathered from good principles As for that principle of our Justification by free Grace in Christ That it is onely by Christ that wee are justified that principle is exceeding good but from thence such dangerous venomous consequences may bee drawn as may extreamly indanger and I make no question do invenome and poison many thousand souls upon which they draw consequences for looseness and against humiliation for sin and against obedience to the Law as by Moses All the principles and errours that are against the strict waies of God that tend to any looseness certainly they are invenoming principles Oh take heed of any doctrine of any conceits of any opinions that do any way tend to looseness they will certainly poison and invenome your souls so that your very errours may bee enough to damn you eternally Many lose their souls by poisoning Seventhly And there are many that lose their souls by venturing of them there are many ventures upon which many come to lose their souls there are four cases wherein a man may lose his soul by venturing of it First As first by rashnesse men that are inconsiderate and rash in their waies that will suddenly fall upon things before they examine them that rashnesse and suddennesse of thine to fall upon things before thou dost examine them and to go on in a rash way the most part of thy life as many do this indangers the loss of thy soul Secondly And others venture the losse of their souls by doing things that are doubtful that their consciences mis-give them in and tell them Oh this is not right I doubt I sin against God in this and yet they will put on and venture before they satisfie their doubts but take heed of doing any thing with a doubtful conscience for you know what the Scripture saith in the 14. of the Romans the latter end Whatsoever is not of Faith is sin If thou doubtest thou must not venture to do a thing till thou hast examined thy doubt and there see upon what ground thy doubt is built for if thou wilt presume to do a thing doubtfully it may cost thee thy life Thirdly A third venture it is to venture upon Gods patience why the Lord is a patient God and hee hath spared mee so many years all this while I have been spared and have done well enough why may not I hope that God will spare mee still and bee patient with mee still how many wretched sinful creatures venture upon this they perhaps have been brought up in wickednesse and prophanenesse God hath been patient towards them and yet they can to their sin again and again and live very merry lives Now all this time thou livest upon the meer patience of God and thou thinkest because God hath been patient