Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	consent_v	husband_n	privity_n	27	3	16.1320	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77503	A looking-glasse for good vvomen, held forth by way of counsell and advice to such of that sex and quality, as in the simplicity of their hearts, are led away to the imbracing or looking towards any of the dangerous errors of the times, specially that of the separation. / As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great-Yarmouth, by John Brinsley. Octob. 9. 1645. Imprimatur Ja: Cranford.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing B4717; Thomason E305_23; ESTC R200330	44,390	54

the good way Enquire we for this And is not this the way which the Kingdom is now seeking The old way now sought for in and by the Kingdom To which end the best course that can be thought of hath been taken It was the course which King Herod took and it was the wisest course that he could take when he would be rightly informed concerning Christ himself The best means used to finde it out Matth. 2.4 5. touching the place of his Nativity he gathereth the chief Priests and Scribes of the people together consulting with them about it Like course hath Authority in this Kingdom taken to finde out the Way of Christ They have to this purpose gathered together some many let it be spoken without Flattery and heard without Envy of the Chiefe Priests and Scribes of the people Scribes instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven such as in probability should be best acquainted with the Mysteries of that Kingdom Men of known Piety Integrity Ability And with them they have now for a long time consulted And what more likely course can be taken for the finding out of that way Now far be it from us Take heed of causlesse preiudices against the way of the Kingdom before it be known for any of us to entertain any causlesse Prejudice against that way before we know it much more by any inconsiderate preingagements by putting our selves into New wayes aforehand to render our selves incapable of it when God shall hold it forth unto us though with never such clear evidence of truth Nay rather as for these New wayes how sweet and pleasant and plausible soever they may seem to be yet it will be a great deal more wisdom to deal with them as Vintners do with their Wines which they let stand and settle before they pierce and use them Let not Affectation of Novelty of New wayes inordinatly transport any of us least thereby unawares we be brought to reject and renounce old Truth as some of late times have done Much lesse suffer we our selves to be carried on with a spirit of opposition Beware of a Spirit of Contradiction to swim against the stream of Authority so as to like any way the worse because Commended and Commanded or yet the better because prohibited and oppugned True indeed it is possible the way of God may be every where spoken against as the Jews tell Paul concerning his Sect. Acts 28.22 But it is not therefore the way of God because spoken against Much lesse is it ever the better to be liked because every where spoken against True indeed were it so that it were spoken against onely by wicked and ungodly men or by Time-serving superstitious Formalists this might be like a dark shadow to a beautifull Picture that maketh it the more Lightsome or a dark foyle to a fair Diamond which maketh it sparkle the more But when a way shall be oppugned by good men holy men learned and judicious men and that not by a few private spirits but by the generall consent of the Churches in this case certainly such opposition renders it at least very suspicious Let not any of us then like a way the better for this Much lesse because Lawfull and Christian Authority strikes in against it In this case Christians should be very wary and tender Rom. 13.1 2. least in opposing and resisting the Powers which are of God they also resist God in them I have done with the third Particular Take but one more 4. And that was the Womans Incogitancy or unadvisednesse in Parleying with the Serpent 4. The womans unadvisednesse in parlying with the Serpent in the absence of her husband and consenting to him without his privity entring dispute or conference with him about a received Truth and that not onely hearing of him but hearkning unto him nay yielding and consenting and ingaging her self by an Act of her own and all this without the privity of her husband whom God had set over her and who might have been able to have Resolved and Informed her better This saith Pareus this unadvisednesse or Rashnesse call it as we will was the beginning and first occasion of her downfall And surely so it hath been in many of her Daughters who have been deceived and seduced by the very same means Parum consultò se certanimi periculoso committit marito absente vel inconsulto Ista sive incogitantia sive temeritas principium fuit occasio sequentis lapsus Pareus in Gen. 3. ver 2. viz. through their own Adventrous Rashnesse in hearkning to subtile Deceivers and Dangerous Seducers these tearms when ever I use them let it not be conceived that I have the least thought of reflecting upon any of our Reverend and Godly Brethren of the Congregationall way whose persons I respect and honour but in reference to some others who by their smooth and subtile insinuations have drawn some of the weaker Sex into dangerous and destructive Errors and not only hearkning but yielding consenting ingaging themselves in their wayes and that without the consent or privity of their Husbands or without advising with any other who might have been more able to inform them This latter clause I cannot but take notice of and let you know that I do so The unwarrantablenesse of womens ingaging them selves in new waies without the privity or consent of their husbands Not but that I might also take just occasion to deal with the former viz. the unwarrantable rashnesse and presumption of some women in imbracing and ingaging themselves in new vvaies without the privity of their husbands and so of children without the consent of Parents to whom they are so far in duty bound as to take their advice specially if they be able to give it however to acquaint them with their intentions and the reasons of them desiring their consents But letting that passe now Peoples ingaging themselves in new waies without conferring with their Ministers which probably I may have occasion to touch upon again hereafter The latter I cannot but take notice of as being a matter which somewhat concerneth my self and my fellow-labourer in the Ministery here whom God in respect of our Ministeriall Office hath appointed to be as Counsellors to his people in things appertaining to himself So runs that old Statute They should seek the Law at the Priests mouth Mal. 2.7 Such is our Office and such use our people ought to make of it But how few are there that do it Herein let me appeal to the consciences of those that are gone aside into any of the Errors of the times how sew are there of them that ever addressed themselves to either of us to be resolved in their doubts and scruples of this kinde Some I will not deny but have done it who through the blessing of God have been at least stayed if not satisfied But how few Reply I know what will here presently be replied