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	faith_n	fundamental_a	2,204	5	10.1723	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85735	A demonstration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and therein of the Christian religion. Very usefull for the further satisfaction and confirmation of all good Christians; as likewise for the confutation and conviction of those that have a Jewish or atheisticall spirit in them. / Written by Richard Garbutt, Bachelour in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Sydney Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards preacher of the Gospel at Leeds in Yorshire [sic].	Garbutt, Richard.; Jackson, Nathaniel, d. 1662.; Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1656 (1656)	Wing G207; Thomason E1693_1; ESTC R202150	67,066	193

that weight value as to add the least grain of allowance or acceptance to this or any other the like performance yet being requested to deliver my opinion of it I could not but say thus much that the learned and pious Author hath herein at least to my apprehension approved himself * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2 8 a workman that needed not be ashamed yea * Cor. 3.10 a wise Master-builder in the Church of God as having very solidly and judiciously stated and asserted that grand fundamentall article the main pillar indeed of our Christian faith our Saviour Christs Resurrection the truth whereef he hath undeniably prov'd and demonstrated as well by invincible arguments and strength of reason as also clear and evident testimonies and texts of Scripture and that both for the further confirmation of all true Christians and the fuller conviction of all gainsayers whether Atheisticall Jewish or Hereticall Spirits And truly I do not remember to have seen so much Scripture and reason better improv'd in so narrow a compass nor more artificially enterwoven and twisted together and helping one another by a mutuall compliance for the strengthening and support of so substantiall a truth In a word I look upon the Treatise as verifying and performing exactly what it promises in the Title if not more It being a * most perfect and complete Demonstration Demonstratio potissima or rather a twofold Demonstration as Logicians distinguish the one proving the thing * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was so the other the finall cause or end * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why it was so the one cleering the truth and reality of it as in it self the other declaring the fruit and benefit of it as to believers the one in the former the other in the latter Point or Observation And in both these the Authour shows himself to have been a man singularly well skill'd both in the Theory and Practice of true Christianity of an able head and an honest heart of a strong brain and a gratious spirit The Doctrinall part of the Discourse being not more solid and sinewy in confirming the truth and settling and informing the judgment then the Practicall wholsom and savoury in speaking to the conscience and pressing holiness and purity of life and the power of godliness In which regard I heartily recommend the perusall of it to all good and sober Christians especially in these wavering warping and back-sliding times wherein so many have degenerated and * Turned Apostate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 4.1 departed from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and * 2 Pet. 3.17 being led away with the errour of the wicked have fallen from their own stedfastness and I conceive for want of thorow conviction and sound instruction in these main fundamentall truths of the Gospel JAMES DUPORT READER I Wondred not when I met with those expressions of holy triumphing in Gregory Nyssen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nys Orat. 5. de Resur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id Orat. 1. de Resur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Hier. Catech. 14. let us extol the Resurrection of the Conqueror the joy of the world the life of all Nations since as he elegantly tells us the Divell our destroyer gaping to devour the bait of Christs flesh when he dyed was struck through and caught with the hook of Christs Divinity when he arose from the dead and as Cyril expresseth it he who by suffering was free among the dead by rising again manifested that he both could and would free the living The asserting of this blessed truth is the noble subject of this learned Treatise I wish I might have been allowed the secret tasting of its Divine delicacies without proclaiming to the world how well I rellish'd them and the rather because this excellent discourse is as far from wanting as are our slight pamphlets from deserving Commendation T is too low an Expression to say this work deserves my prayses worth of a middle size may be so commended I rather judg that my prayses are not worthy of it and may hope that my testimony will rather finde acceptance from it than it from my Commendation When first it came to my hands it found me in such a croud of business that I hardly could finde time to begin the reading thereof but truly when I had once begun to peruse it I as hardly knew how to make an end of reading till I came to the end of the book with such an honest delight did it rob me of the thoughts of my other employments and yet neither must I call it a robbery it was but a change and that an advantageous one for it brought me more benefit by its perusal than I parted with by forbearing for a time my other reading And reader I assure my self if thou art a friend to Christ and thy self thou canst not but with sweetest contentment view the Exaltation of thy dearest Lord and Master in his Resurrection and thereby thine own from the grave both of sin and earth so clearly and fully demonstrated The Authour of this Treatise I never knew and he is now above the resentment of earthly Commendations and therefore tentation I had none either by receiving or expecting any friendship from him to speak so freely of his book but might I dear Christian prevail with thee to read love and live the truths thereof all that good is succesfully obteyned which is I trust sincerely endeavoured by the testimony of thy servant for thy Souls good WILL. JENKYN Pastor of Black-fryers London Nov. 27. 1656. Christian Reader BEing desired to peruse this ensuing Treatise concerning the Resurrection of Christ and to expresse my thoughts of it though my testimony can adde nothing to the worth of it and very little to its acceptance in the world yet the excellent contexture of Scripture and reason which I have found in it requires me not onely to approve it but commend it The subject treated on is that of highest concernment the great pillar of our faith hope as the great Apostle argues 1 Cor. 15. and the maner of handling it is in good measure answerable to the weight and worth of its subject Some may possibly think that this great article of faith needs no Demonstration And I have sometimes been of that conceipt that some principles were so cleare they needed no confirming and some opinions so absurd they needed no confuting but I find my self deceived for in these dayes wherein our lot is fallen there is no truth so cleare and fundamentall but it meets with them that doubt it and deny it and no errour so ridiculous and unreasonable but finds them that will embrace and maintaine it Therefore I cannot but judge the publishing of this worke very seasonable both for confirming the faith of believers for faith despises not reason but