Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	commandment_n	keep_v	liar_n	1,680	5	11.3944	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30153	A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be holy by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5537; ESTC R30867	84,448	237

thy self First Those that religiously name the name of Christ should must depart from iniquity because else our profession of him is but a lie If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie And walk in darkness that is and walk in iniquity and depart from a life that is according to the course of this World He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a lyer and the truth is not in him The truth that he professes to know and that he saith he hath experience of is not in him Every man that nameth the name of Christ is not therefore a man of God nor is the word in every mans mouth truth though he makes profession of that worthy name It is then truth in him and to others with reference to him when his mouth and his life shall agree Men may say they are Apostles and be lyers they may say they are Jews that is Christians and lie and be lyers and lie in so saying Now this is the highest kind of lying and certainly must therefore work the saddest sort of effects Thus mans best things are lies His very saying I know him I have fellowship with him I am a Jew a Christian is a lie His life giveth his mouth the lie and all knowing men are sure he lies 1. He lies unto God he speaks lies in the presence and to the very face of God Now this is a daring thing I know their lies saith he and shall he no● recompence for this See these Scriptures in the Margent and take heed I speak to you that religiously name the name of Christ and yet do not depart from iniquity 2. He lies unto men every knowing man every man that is able to judge of the tree by the fruit knows that that man is a lier and that his whole profession as to himself is a lie if he doth not depart from iniquity Thus Paul called the slow bellies the unsound professors among the Cretians liers They were so in his eyes for that their profession of the name of Christ was not seconded with such a life as became a people professing godliness They did not depart from iniquity But again 3. Such a man is a lier to his own soul. What ever such an one promiseth to himself his soul will find it a lie There be many in the world that profess the name of Christ and consequently promise their soul the injoyment of that good that indeed is wrapt up in him but they will certainly be mistaken hereabout and with the greatest terror will find it so when they shall hear that direful sentence Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity Christ is resolved that the loose-lived pr●fessor shall not stand in the judgment nor any such sinners in the congregation of the righteous They have lied to God to men and to themselves but J●sus then will not lie unto them He will plainly tell them that he hath not known them and that they shall not abide in his presence But Secondly Those that religiously name the name of Christ should depart from iniquity else as they are liers in their profession so they are self-deceivers I told you but now such lie to themselves and so consequently they deceive themselves But be ye doers of the word not hearers only deceiving your own selves 'T is a sad thing for a man in and about eternal things to prove a deceiver of others but for a man to deceive himself his own self of eternal life this is saddest of all Yet there is in man a propenseness so to do Hence the Apostle says be not deceived and let no man deceive himself And again If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans Religion is vain These words But deceiveth his own heart I have much mused about for they seem to me to be spoken to shew how bold and prodigiously desperate some men are who yet religiously name the name of Christ desperate I say at self deceiving He deceiveth his own heart he otherwayes perswadeth it than of its own self it would go Ordinarily men are said to be deceived by their hearts but here 's a man that is said to deceive his own heart flattering it off from the scent and dread of those convictions that by the word sometimes it hath been under perswading of it that there needs no such strictness of life be added to a profession of Faith in Christ as by the Gospel is called for or that since Christ has died for us and rose again and since salvation is alone in him we need not be so concerned or be so strict to matter how we live This man is a self deceiver he deceives his own heart Self deceiving and that about spiritual and eternal things specially when men do it willingly is one of the most unnatural unreasonable and unaccountable action in the world 1. It is one of the most unnatural actions For here a man seeks his own ruin and privily lurks for his own life We all cry out against him that murthers his Children his Wife or his own body and condemn him to be one of those that has forgot the rules and love of nature But behold the man under consideration is ingaged in such designs as will terminate in his own destruction he deceiveth his own soul. 2. This is also the most unreasonable act there can no cause nor crum of cause that has the least spark or dram of reason or of any thing that looks like reason be shewen why a man should deceive himself and bereave his soul of eternal life Therefore 3. Such men are usually passed over with astonishment and silence Be astonished O Heavens at this and be ye horribly afraid for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out Cisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water But above all This as to this head is the most amazing place where 't is said that the self deceiver makes his self deceiving his sport Sporting themselves with their own deceivings These are a people far gone to be sure that are arrived to such an height of negligence carelesness wantonness and desparateness of spirit as to take pleasure in and make a sport of that which will assuredly deceive them forever But this is the fruit of professing of Christ and of not departing from iniquity The wisdom and judgment of God is such as to give such over to the sporting of themselves in their own deceivings Thirdly Those that religiously name the name of Christ should depart from iniquity because of the scandal that will else assuredly come upon Religion and the things of Religion through them Upon this head I may begin to write with a sigh For never more of this kind than now There is no place where