Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	doctrine_n	error_n	4,723	5	7.2521	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74649	An entertainment of solitarinesse or, the melting of the soule, by meditations, and the pouring of it out by prayers. By Sir Richard Tempest, knight and baronet.	Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing T625; Thomason E1410_1; ESTC R209519	28,217	157

the similitude of favour but hath altered its inward nature Some late Philosophers have proved that Syllogismes are not sufficient to evince Physicall Verities but that the subtilties even of Natures workings evade it subtill formes how much more Sacred Divinitie which lyes not levell with Reason It being no more able to fathome or reach its transcendencies and sublimities then a little thred can by the arme of man be throwne about the heavenly Pole seeing it can be proved by Reason that Religion is above it and to be left to mens beleefes Boetius saith excellently well That Reason to see the truth of those things must goe out of it selfe and that the minde should be lifted up to the height of that supreme intelligence which should there behold what in it selfe it cannot that is how certain and determinate prevision may go before the uncertaine events of things He who is the Truth and the Light though not comprehended by the darknesse of the World converst with men on Earth in the depth of humilitie in the exactnesse of obedience in the constant practice of each holy Vertue There is a pure and heavenly Light annext to the devout aspirations of the Soule for the blind eye of the minde doth not know how to looke up to the God of glory if hee from above shine not upon it with the inward beames of his Grace and though Light descends from above from the Father of Lights yet a holy innocence and true humilitie sends clearer Lights of Knowledge up to the braine than any speculations can send downe the warmth of Charitie to the heart for the Sonne of God the Light it selfe descended covered as it were with humilitie and the heart is the seat of it and so that inaccessible Light is conveyed to us in the darke coverings and habits of Humiliations One may imploy the braine with loftie and ayrie Contemplations and yet let his Soule slip away for want of Charitie which is the Soule of Religion by the infusion of which we are animated and spiritually live Religion is a practicall Syllogisme whose premisses goe for nothing if there be not the active conclusion of well-doing Therefore Lord while others cannot agree in what order to range and ranke good workes and Faith let it be my Faith that the doing of thy will is necessarie and thy will is our holinesse and the practice of good workes and make it part of my workes to pray for Faith and the encrease of it Grant Lord that while others cannot agree about the manner of thy Comming that my heart may be so taken up with the Faith and joy of thy beloved presence that it give not my head leysure curiously to question the manner of it These are the sweet Composures the blessed Reconciliations when the disputes of good things are swallowed up in the heavenly fruition executions of them in this calme Harbour doth the Vessell of a Soule tost with the windes of Controversie safely reside And now Lord the Ship of thy Church tost amidst the furious waves of Controversies seemes to stand in danger of Ruine but we know the Gates of Hell have all their powers here defeated though we crie in the tendernesse of our passions Master carest thou not that we perish It is not so easie to give a Reason of some Opinions in the Church sitting in ones Studie as to goe abroad and see that great fabrick of Power and the vast Treasures which are built upon the foundation of this nice Schoole-Divinitie if the Church seeme to seeke in some Doctrines it s but occasioned as the Fever of that sick man in Martial was who was onely sick to take occasion to shew the braverie of his house-hold-stuffe Faciunt hanc stragula febrim Error is many times more magnificent in its structures than Truth yet as its Gates perhaps may be more gilded and shine more gawdily yet they are like that Doore of Sleepe in Virgil the fine one being that which let out all the false Dreames while Truth had its passage out of those that were plainer Reformation in Religion is like distill'd waters which being too much endevoured to be heightned being once at their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they relapse and lose of their spirit and force and mens spirits not knowing where they have deserted that Centre and point of Truth which should have fixt them stagger and reele in the circumference and round of their owne fancies Religion fires mens hearts with holy zeale making them mourne as it were in the dissolutions and ashes of their past sinnes but it s no incendiarie to delight in those of Townes and Cities Religion proclaimes a holy Warre against Sinne and Vice but never blowes the Trumpet of Sedition Religion exacts from its subjected hearts homage to the King of Power but disclaimes all earthly Crowns My Kingdome saith he is not of this world Religion hath its power and force to the destruction of its enemies but he hath said it should be with the word of his mouth and that the wrath of man fulfils not the justice of God Religion is like the Sunne it gives light and life to all while it keeps its owne heavenly course but being made to incline to earthly ends it causes a conflagration What ever good effects are produced from any false or erronious Religions it s by vertue of those Opinions and Tenets mixt with it that beare a conformitie to Truth and what ill actions seeme to flow or be occasioned from the true Religion they are the effects of those erroneous Opinions that they have mingled with their Divinitie and beare a proportion with the malignitie of mans nature rather than the others paritie Let me not seeke Lord thy living Word among the dead acts of naturall Reason neither in the Calentures of unruly Zeales nor from among the Glories Wealth and Ends men have on Religion but let my Soule suck from the brests of my Mother Truth and Salvation thy Church converting thy Word to my foode and nourishment Of enjoyment of Pleasure MUsick sounds best to one in the darke because no other outward object distracts his attention and to heare the Musick of those Precepts delivered against Pleasure one must shut up from his eye the delightfull objects of the sense which other wayes would perhaps steale away his thought Yet this is onely a remedie fitted for the weaknesse of the eye which so readily recommends to the minde the flattering Courtships of these Curtizans of the Sense But to fortifie and strengthen the minde against them it s better to view them all in the light looking upon them with the eye of Reason and there all their false splendours would not shew so brave Hee who hath converst with them most freely hath soonest found that their inward dispositions and qualities give not him leave to live so happily in their enjoyment as their outward beautie flattered him with the hopes of he hath soonest pierc'd through that thin