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	know_v	liar_n	1,903	5	11.5902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97247	The cure of preivdice, or, The doves of innocency and the serpents subtilty wherein the originall, continuance, properties, causes, endes, issue and effects of the worlds envie and hatred to the godly is pithily laid open and applyed. By R. Junius.	Younge, Richard.	1641 (1641)	Wing Y149B; ESTC R230928	73,141	127

out These men are drunk with new wine Untill we be born again we are like Nicodemus who knew not what it was to be born again Iohn 3.4 Untill we become zealous our selves we are like Festus who thought zeale madnesse Acts 26.24 Untill we be humble our selves we are like Michal who mocked David for his humility and thought him a foole for dancing before the Arke 2 Sam. 6.16 Yea to such as shall perish or are for the present in a perishing condition all religion seemes foolishnesse 1 Cor. 1.18 And thus you see in grosse that Ignorance is a main cause of hatred and persecution We shall more clearly discerne how it comes to be so if we note The Root Ignorance Stem Suspition or Iealousie Sap Hatred Fruit Persecution severally and apart for ignorance causeth Suspition and Suspition Hatred and Hatred Persecution But I cannot stand upon these Que. If Ignorance be such a generall cause of hatred and persecution as you have shewne What is the reason that so many great Scholers and wisemen do also hate and persecute the godly Ans Great scholers they may be and wise men also in the worlds esteem but in the maine and in Gods account they are nothing so for admit they have inlightned heads sufficient to leave them without excuse yet because they withhold the truth in unrighteousnesse and do not glorifie God with there knowledge neither are thankfull but become vain in their imaginations their foolish hearts are darkned and so while they professe themselves to be wise in changing the truth of God into a lie they become fooles and expresse it by thus hating God and his children Romans 1.18.21.22.25.30 So that Ignorance is the cause even in them also And indeed if they were wise they would foresee the torments of hell and prevent them as Bernard speaks Or if they knew God they would keep his commandments for herby saith Saint Iohn is it known that we know god if we keep his Commandments 1. John 2.3 but he that saith I know him and yet keepeth not his Commandments is a lyar and there is no truth in him Ver. 4. Yea these have sworne to keep the commandments and to deny the world and yet are not content with there own disobedience unlesse they cast aspersions upon them that obey Again thirdly if they knew Christ they could not but love him and loving him they must needes love his members not persecute them for it is the very first part of our conversion to love them that love God 1 Joh. 3.14 4.7.8 and Ioh 13.35 But so many as are enemies to the Crosse of Christ shew that they never knew God in Christ As for their wisdom and learning you must know that men may be exquisitely wise and incomparably learned in the worlds opinion and yet very fooles in Gods account 1 Cor. 3.19 As sharp-eyed as Eagles in the things of the earth and yet as blinde as Beetles in the matters of heaven And knowledge consisteth not so much in the quantity as in the quality not in the greatnesse but in the goodnesse of it For as a little precious stone is of more worth then many other stones of greater bulk so one drop of wisdom guided by the fear of God is more worth then all humane learning One sparke of spirituall experimentiall and saving knowledge is worth a whole flame of secular wisdom and learning One scruple of holinesse one dram of faith one grain of grace is more worth then many pounds of naturall parts But learning and grace do not alwayes keep company together Yea O Lord how many are there that have a depth of knowledge yet are not soul-wise That have a Library of Divinity in there heads and not so much as the least Chatechisme in their consciences no rare thing for men to abound in speculation and be barren in devotion to have full braines and empty hearts clear judgements and defiled affections fluent tongues and lame hands Yea you shall here a flood in the tongue when ye cannot see one drop in the life For example I might instance in Balaam whom the holy Ghost stiles a fool 2 Peter 2.16 And Iudas Mat. 27.3.4.5 And Paul before his conversion who even while he was a persecuter like these men was eminent among the Pharisees for wit and learning but a very Iddiot among the Astostles And lastly the Priests Scribes and Pharisees who were matchlesse for their wisdom and learning as wanting nothing that either nature or Art could inrich them withall yea and they were cheifly learned in the Scripture Gods Oracles which will make a man wise or nothing and yet our Saviour who could not be deceived calles them four times in one Chapter blinde and twice fools Mat. 23.16.17.19.24.26 Because they wanted faith and holinesse which are the sinewes and nerves yea the sould of saving knowledge inlivening feeding and strengthening the same for in the dialect of the scipture a fool is a naturall man and a wise man a man sanctified Alas God regards not lip-learning and tongue-wisdom and braine knowledge except it ceaze upon the heart also and lead captive the affections to the government of the Gospel whereby we are changed and transformed into new men after the image of Christ 1 Cor. 2.12 Ephe. 4.20 to 25. Col. 3.10 except we digest our knowledge into practise and imploy our wisdom to his glory that gave it our neighbours good and the furthering of our own salvation For with him wickednes is folly and the greatest sinner is the greatest fool and he most wise that is most religious and that offends least Prov. 1.7 Ioh. 28.28 Pro. 9.10 12. and 11.3 Deut. 4.6 Hosea 14.9 Iames 3.13.17 2 Tim. 3.15 And he that is truly wise thinks that to be wisdom and folly which God thinks so Neither is that worth the name of knowledge which may be heard onely and not seen Good discourse is but the froth of wisdom the pure and solid substance of it is in well framed actions What saith the Scripture Keep the Commandements of God and do them for this is your wisdom and understanding before God and men Deut. 4.6 And again He that is a wise man and indued with knowledge will shew it by his conversation in good works Iames 3.13 For Rightly a man knows no more then he practiseth It is said of Christ 2 Cor. 5.21 that he knew no sin because he did no sin in which sense he knows no good that doth no good And certainly they who wander in the by-paths of sin and errour declare themselves ignorant of the right way of salvation Rom. 3.17 Saving knowledge of the truth works a love of the truth known it is an uniform consent of knowledge and action Ioh 28.28 He onely is wise saith Solomon that is wise for himselfe Pro. 9.12 He whose conscience pulleth all he hears and reads to his heart and his heart to God who turneth his knowledge to faith his faith to feeling and