Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	better_a	doubt_v	great_a	88	3	2.0647	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19777	Doubtings dovvnfall first, prouing the communitie of the Saints assurance. Secondly, disprouing Bellarmines and his fellowes false allegations and friuolous exceptions against that truth. By Edvvard Dalton, preacher of the Word, &c.	Dalton, Edward.	1624 (1624)	STC 6204; ESTC S115432	25,476	66

DOVBTINGS DOWNFALL First PROVING THE COMMVNITIE of the Saints assurance Secondly DISPROVING BELLARMINES and his fellowes false allegations and friuolous exceptions against that Truth BY EDVVARD DALTON Preacher of the Word c. Aug. Pessimae matris ignorantiae pessimaeitidem duae sunt filiae scil falfitas dubietas Nazian de modest in disput Vt in Creaturis primariae dona non aliquorum nostri sunt sedomnium vt vnius Creaturae communis est gratia ita in fide quae saluant non eorum tantum sunt qui magis possunt sed eorum qui volunt Aug. l. de ouib Ille apud Deum plus habet loci qui plus attulit non argenti sed fidei 2 PET. 1.1 To you which haue obtained like precious faith with vs c. IVDE vers 3. Beloued when I gaue all diligence to write vnto you of the common saluation c. 1 PET. 1.9 Now the saluation of your soules is the end of your Faith LONDON Printed by B. A. 1624. TO THE RIGHT Honourable IOHN Earle of Annandale Viscount of Annand Baron of Lough-Mauban c. and one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Bed-Chamber RIGHT HONOVRABLE IF that ground bee truly iudged barren which receiuing seede and partaking of the heauens dew and the Suns reflexion affords no fruit then much more that man into the surrowes of whose distressed estate a religious hand casts the seede of compassion and vpon whose disconsolate heart a charitable minde sparkleth the rayes of consolation may iustly be deemed ingratefull if he bury in obliuion such especially if vndeserned fauors Euer since one beame of your Honors bounty ministred cōfort to my languishing spirits I haue desired desiring endeuoured and endeuouring attempted to expresse my duty by presuming to present vnto your Honour this little Plant and to transplant it into your Honours Vineyard little it is yet beares it fruit already and such fruit as I hope will yeeld contenting comfort and comfortable Content to each spiritual taste for the present leaue the rellish of assured expectation for the time to come It striues to ouer-top the weeds of wants wrongs and woes which would weaken a Christians patience to preuent the blasts of discontents and distrusts which would supplant a belieuers hope and confidence and to frustrate the stormes of doubting and coniecture which would hinder the growth of faith affurance Pleaseth your Honour to vouchsafe one hand and to water it with a few drops of your fauourable approbation it will thriue the better and that here you may so flourish in Gods Courts that branches be neuer wanting to your stocke nor fruit to your branches and that hereafter root stocke branches and fruit may flourish in the Celestiall and eternal Paradise he shall pray who resteth euer Your Honours humbly deuoted EDVV. DALTON To the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court especially of the Temples GENTLEMEN THE meanest of you may claime so much and the greatest of you is not disparaged by that lowest Title of Gentilitie Without you we must confesse not any in our Gouernment which the Lord in his Mercy grant long to flourish continueth or recouereth a certainty in his Estate Temporall as you doe and will I hope acknowledge that you your selues attaine to and finde comfort in that certainty of your future well-fare by the Ministery which as a Conduit pipe conuaies it to you from the Sacred Word Es 12.3 that Well of Saluation The greater your care is for establishing others or your selues in terrestriall endowments the greater corasiue it is to the Conscience if it be not paralelld with an equall measure of studie and endeuour to gather assurance of your owne Coelestiall inheritance the more expence wit strength and time is imployed about vsing the meanes to dispossesse intruders vpō others or our owne right the deeper is the heart wounded if some expence wit strēgth time be not set apart for the wresting out of the hands of the truthes aduersaries those weapons whereby they goare the same in gulfe the Soule What I haue done to iustifie the point of the Communitie of the Saints assurance and to remoue an vncertaine doubting of Gods loue in Iesus Christ I referre as my selfe also to the censures and acceptations of you among some of whom I haue sometime liued and whom I haue found alwaies both iudicious and generous Praying that you may all be so frequent and expert in the Law of man that you Day and Night meditate vpon the Law of the Lord Psal 1.2 to your internall Peace here and eternall Consolations for euer Ro. 10.4 Your Worsh to Command in Christ who is the end of the Law EDVV. DALTON To the Reader desirous of Resolution FOr thy sake Christian Reader haue I compiled the euidence of thy present right to eternall happinesse in a compendious maner Neither multitude of Leaues nor greatnesse of the Bole nor number of the Branches but the goodnesse of the Fruit is that which commends the Tree Of thy confident hope which is the Anchour of thy Soule Heb. 6.18 19. and of the assurance of Faith which is thy Shield Ephes 9.16 the Romish Pyrats and Babilonish Fencers would depriue thee and in their places intrude vpon thee doubting and coniecture In thy behalfe I haue entered the lists and for thy better satisfactiō fuller persuasion through Gods assistance haue wrested out of their hands the chiefest weapons which they haue vsed to wound this Truth and win the credit in this cause so as I trust thy conscience being good will tell thee to thy comfort that The Truth is great and hath preualled and that thou maist wrap thy selfe in the mantle of an humble assurance concerning the saluation of thy soule aswell though not so much as any of the Saints which euer were or shall be This I wish thee and for this commending thee to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build further and to giue thee an inheritance among all them that are sanctified Act. 20.32 I rest Thine and the Churches deuoted seruant EDVV. DALTON To the seduced Reader COnsideration of the vncertaintie of thy case seduced Reader hath wakened Compassion compassion hath called vp Care and care hath set on worke my thoughts head and hands according to the measure of my spirituall strength to attempt thy help and to recouer that Hope which is vniustly by those who pretend to be thy Ghostly Fathers held from thee Thou wilt not build thine house vpon the sands and shall thy holy confidence be a Castle in the Ayre This cause haue I brought to the Barre Reade the pleadings on either side wilfull ignorance is a double euill Hauing read them censure indifferently thou thy selfe wilt exclaime against a preiudicious partiall Iudge Take heed of wounding thine owne Conscience in slighting the Truth for if thy Conscience accuse thee God is greater and as he can condemn thee so he will cleare it