Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	commend_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	17	3	9.5072	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03966	Lot's little one. Or Meditations on Gen. 19. vers. 20 Being the substance of severall sermons sometimes delivered by William Ince Mr in Arts, late senior fellow of Trinitie Colledge Dublin. Published since his death, by R.I.	Ince, William, d. 1635.	1640 (1640)	STC 14073; ESTC S119304	53,982	176

piscem some frailty or foul slip like Philip's boy tels them they are but men subject to like infirmities as we are sinne it selfe not excepted No marvell then if we finde righteous Lots arguments against Gods counsell and direction guilty of weaknes and folly for all his confidence in his Behold now this City is neere to flee unto c. Seest thou a man wise in his owne conceit there is more hope of a foole than of such a man Saith Solomon Prov. 26.12 The opinion of our owne wisedome is the greatest argument of our folly Multi saith Seneca pot●issent pervenire ad sapientiam Seneca nisi put assent se pervenisse many men had been wise if they had not beene too wise and if they had not prevented themselves with the swolne dropsie of selfe-opinion had made a wholsome growth in solid wisedome Many men had gone farre if they had not look't backe on their progresse in a multiplying glasse and so thought they had gone farre already This overweening conceit of our owne knowledge as in all other learning so especially in the height of divine speculation things I meane which transcend the reach of reason is most dangerous I dare in those commend a faith implicite and prefer caecam obedientiam fidem the blind and budling faith of Papists before the most nice and oculate of the most learned Credulity there takes the place of reason and that without usurpation where we have a new Logicke and authority becomes the best argument To oppugne Gods truth or counsell with our reason is no lesse than the extremity of folly and impudence we must deny our reason become foolish nay absurd to our owne wisedome believe above against it To defend Gods truth or counsell with our reason or arguments is a foolish and unwarranted zeale and which action doth more question our judgment than commend our zeale Though the Arke of Gods truth seeme to us to be shaken by the opposers and enemies of it so that it appeare to be in danger of falling yet ought not we to be so indiscreetly zealous 2. Sam. 6.6 7. with Vzzah to uphold it with the weake hand of our reason Our obedience is then best when it seemes most absurd when it lookes only on the authority of the commander and yet that without more examination concludes an equity of the command It was the triumph of Abraham's faith Rom. 4.18 19 20. that above against hope he beleeved God when Sara's womb was now dead It was the triumph of his obedience to be ready to obey God in sacrificing of his own and onely sonne Gen. 22.10 when nature and reason had the fairest plea that could be against it and might judge it unnaturall unreasonable monstrous and wicked But he look't rather to the author than matter of the command and measured not the justice of the action by the rule of reason but considered the reason of his obedience in the will power and justice of him who commanded who is a law to himselfe and to all others It had beene well with Lot if his obedience his faith or thankefulnesse the first to Gods authority commanding the second to his wisedome directing the last to Gods mercy delivering had made him follow the Angels direction and gone unto the mountaine but while he will be so wise to teach his teacher God shewes him his folly by experience and makes the mountaine which if he had gone when God bid him a place of safety God I say makes it afterward when he goes on his own errand the place of his punishment You have heard before Lots negative request with the reasons of it not so my Lord for I cannot Now it remaines that we come more particularly to handle his affirmative request and reasons of it O let me escape thither to Zoar In the affirmative request we observed First the order of it and Secondly the matter of it 1. The order of it that it comes in the rere of his arguments under the lee and shelter of them we will therefore reserve to it the last place and here first take notice of his Asteriske or note of attention before which betrayes his confidence in the equitie of his request Behold now sayes Lot How weake is our wisedome yet how strong our confidence and opinion yet obstinacie and pride beare up our opinions even against God himselfe so that with a sawcy presumption we dare capitulate and indent with him nay even chalk him out the way with a not so for I cannot but behold now Behold now When man lookes through the false medium of his owne affection and passion what monstrous errours and solecismes doth he count The intellective part of the soule is like a cleare and undisturbed fountaine wherein the forme of things is truely represented but when once the affections which are the muddy and earthy parts of the soule are stirred up it becomes a dirtie puddle wherein things are represented blindly lamely and falsely The istericke eye wonders that others see not all things yellow as it selfe does and calls that others blindnesse which is indeed its own infirmitie This City is new Yea 't is so neer thy affection that a just distance being wanting a condition of perfect sight thine eye must needs commit an errour If God therefore behold he shall but see thy errour rather then any thing that may move him to condescend to thy request Behold now Why as though thou saw something that God saw not or as though He that had power to deliver thee could want wisdome to direct thee but He must be directed by thee with a not so my Lord but behold now He that made the eye shall not be see Psal 94.9 10. He that made the soule and invested it with that noble and royall facultie of understanding shall not He understand Natura agit per line as breviores saith Phylosophy Nature is never superfluous in her actions but goes the neerest and most compendious way to worke and shall the God of nature not doe so much more God is in Heaven and thou on the Earth saith Solomon if then He hath the advantage of the ground Eccles 5.2 as much as the heaven is higher then the earth needs He to be lifted up on the shoulders of us dwarfes needs that Sunne of light our candle that Ocean our spoonefull or that first intelligence our information or direction of not so my Lord but behold now must He be beholding to thee for thy behold now Behold now Why as if God saw as man saw Our eye is hindered by darkenesse by distance by interposure of a grosse body Being not hindered what sees it but colour It is terminated in the outward surface and superficies never penetrating into the inmost and retired essence But Gods eye is not as mans neither doth He looke as man looketh Within without hidden covered darke light are words and things to which onely mans weaknesse hath