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	strong_a	unrighteousness_n	1,917	5	11.2143	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56599	Angliæ speculum a glass that flatters not : presented to a country congregation at the late solemn fast, April 24, 1678, in a parallel between the kingdom of Israel and England, wherein the whole nation is desired to behold and consider our sin and our danger / by a dutiful son of this church.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1678 (1678)	Wing P744; ESTC R33026	21,160	44

wonderful thing that hath been mentioned we are threatned with the danger of losing our Religion than which nothing ought to be dearer to us I should not have presumed to say it if His Majesty had not told us so in his Proclamation for the last general Fast before this Feb. 4. 1673. where we are invited to the same Duty we are now about because the restless practises of the Romish Recusants whose numbers and insolencies His Majesty there declares are lately increased threaten a Subversion both of Church and State So the words are in that Proclamation without whose Authority my small acquaintance with the state of affairs would have forbidden me to frighten you with so dismal a Calamity which all considerate Persons cannot chuse but look upon as the most fearful Plague that hath yet befallen us It puts me in mind of the swarms of Locusts which covered the Face of the Earth and filled the Houses of Pharoah and the Houses of his Servants and the Houses of all the Egyptians Exod. 10.5 6. which immediately preceded the Plague of thick and palpable darkness which overspread the whole Country And it may justly be thought a prodigious thing that we should be so sleepy so stupid or so negligent and indifferent as to suffer those Romish Sorcerers to come so freely to bewitch us again with their Inchantments Are we become so sottish as to believe the Bishop of Rome ought to have any Authority in this Kingdom There are no stripes severe enough for such Fools backs VVhat in this Age of Light and Learning and in this Kingdom where his Instruments have been so often convicted and stigmatized for Cheats and Cozeners Are these Romish Factors come again in a confident and open manner to play their tricks and to put off their pitiful VVares among us as if we were blind Indians that will take their painted Glass and Bugles for some great Jewels and Precious Stones I cannot but say again that this exceeds all wonder It amazes my thoughts and I cannot tell what to call the blindness wherewith we are struck if we let our selves be deceived by them Beloved the Usurpations of the Pope have been so visibly exposed to all Mens view in these later times it hath been so manifestly proved that he hath been the greatest disturber of the Christian VVorld by his incroachments and the Maxims of the Jesuites who are the chief sticklers for him are so apparently horrid and destructive to all Government nay and good Manners and their pretences that the Church of Rome is the sole Catholick Apostolick Church have been proved to be so frivolous or rather ridiculous that our Divines in the Reign of the last King of blessed Memory thought their Pranks to be discovered so plainly to the Eyes of all the People and all their frauds and fooleries so fully detected that they would not venture to appear here again with their Impostures and holy Trumperies but rather go and play their Parts upon the Stages of Japan and Mexico among their new silly Converts and not here in this Kingdom where an Ass is easily known from a Lion I find these very words in an Epistle to the Keeper of the Great Seal in those dayes And yet it seems they are as busie here as ever or rather more active and they brag and vapour we are told in some places as if we were all ready to submit to them by a blind obedience and were but as so many unclean Beasts that will swallow all their Morsels without chewing O God! what Spirit of slumber is this that is fall'n upon us VVhat a Mist have they cast before our Eyes that we cannot discern between things which so vastly differ but are become such tame and easie Fools that they hope it seems to impose upon us that heavy Yoke which our Fathers threw off with so much reason and Christian resolution This looks like a kind of fatal stupidity that we so far follow the old Israelites as to imitate them in their first provocation by entertaining so much as a thought of returning back again into Egypt VVhat shall we assign to be the cause of all these Divine Judgments and that there is so little hope to see any conclusion of them But after all this is come upon us his anger is not yet turned away but his hand is stretched out still and shakes such a Rod over us that all the former are no more to be compared with it than the VVhip of Solomon to the Scorpions wherewith the Israelites were threatned to be chastised by Rehoboam It can be none else but our foul ingratitude to our most gracious God and merciful Father and our bringing forth no better Fruit than that Vine-yard did which his own right hand had Planted We are a sinful Nation a People laden with Iniquity as Isaiah complains of them chap. 1.4 a Seed of evil doers Children that are corrupters who are gone away backward which may justly provoke him to continue our punishments and to send us such strong delusion that we should believe a Lye seeing we received not the truth in the love of it but had pleasure in unrighteousness There are few if any of those sins against every one of which you heard a most terrible VVo denounced that are not to be found among us and if we will not forsake them no not when God hath begun to strike as well as threaten he may in his righteous judgment after all his Plagues on our bodies and goods inflict the greatest of all upon our minds and strike such obstinate Sinners with an incurable blindness V. Now what signs are there that we see of our repentance and turning from those evil wayes in which we have proceeded to such an heighth of provocation what do we do to prevent those judgments which we say we fear VVhat effectual course do we take to avert such an utter destruction as the Israelites brought upon themselves by their continued wickedness You have seen in too many things how little difference there is between us and that People The Lord their God I have shown you cast them into a most excellent Order and admirable Form of Government and Religion in which we have been praised by the Nations round about us Many wonderful deliverances He granted them from those that hated them wherein He hath not been wanting to us neither And all the Bible shows how ungrateful they proved to him as all the VVorld knows and Posterity I believe will be astonished at it how wickedly we have behaved our selves since He hath done the most marvelous things for us And therefore He hath made us you have now heard as like in our punishments as we have made our selves like them in our sins And for any thing yet appears to complete the parallel we are like to imitate them in their impenitence and hardness of Heart notwithstanding all Gods Judgments upon them And so at last to fall under that