Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	2,493	5	8.8882	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

no man Doth true honour consist in such hollow deceitfull unwarrantable titles inventions of the beast as are given by the world one to another * Is not your Lordship your Honour your Worship and the like a flattering Title Ester 3.2 How contrary art thou to Elihu who said Let me not accept of any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I may not give flattering titles unto man in so doing my Maker would soone take me away And Mordecai he would not bow unto Haman though the Darling of a King * Mind that you idolatrous and dissembling complementers who are bowing to and sawning on one another when in your hearts you are fit to murd●r one another Psal 2. But while thou feeds thy Magistrates with such food as their crazie carnall stomacks gape after while thou feasts them with such fare I say thou fattens the enemie and pines the pure but read thy reward and take it with thee The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psal 123. Thou tells them Full 28 years are run out since thou was called to this City by the general vote of all the godly in it It seems this was all the call thou had'st the vote of men Thy confession makes it manifest thou had'st no call from God How hast thou proved thy generall vote of all the godly in this Citty Must thy bare word be taken when thou hast already been proved a lier Was there not one whose heart was towards the Lord not one Child of God in all the Citty but those that gave their vote to thee The Baptized people will not credit thee in this thing but look upon it as an uncharitable censure a presumptuous Boast and will ranck it amongst the rest of thy Lies Full 28 yeares are run out c. all which time together with my spirits and strength I have pent amongst you and upon you but for about 2 yeares in the heat of the late unhappy broyles when the good hand of providence removed me to a Citty of Refuge to wit Norwich Thou art Master of thy Trade A smooth tongue oylie words thou wantest not But this will not doe thy varnish must be washt off under this painted stufflies Poyson Hast thou spent 26 yeares upon those to whom thy book is dedicated with thy Spirits and strength what 's that which speaks so lustily in the Pulpit and walks so lively in the streets Is it not Edward Reyner his own self Hath the Mayor and divers more to whom thou dedicates thy book lived 26 yeares in Lincolne If they have not and I am sure t is so how hast thou spent thy spirits and strength amongst them and upon them all that time Besides hast thou had no journeys out of the Citty in all these 26 yeares Hast thou spent none of that time in bowling musick feasting at home or abroad If thou confessest then that time was not spent upon thy freinds for the good of their Souls whilst thou was Pampering thy own body Dives like with dainty fare and carnall pastimes not becoming a Minister of the Gospell But if thou denies this many in Lincoln can witness against thee So that turne which way thou wilt the hand of the Lord is against thee thou art found out a lyer in this particular also Wee to the Idoll Shepheard that leaves the Flock c. 11 Zecha 17. verse Then thou talks of the good hand of providence c. Deale honestly with thy own heart was it the good hand of Providence or the left hand of slavish feare and self ends that made the Hireling leave his Flock when the Wolf came What an unkind requitall did'st thou make them for their generall vote to preach amongst them Was thou so honest or so hardy to stay and desire their generall vote to leave them Was there not many a Soul in that Citty who thought well of thee yet knew not of thy flight till the Bird was flowne Hee 's blind that sees not this to be Blasphemy Thou goes on calling an Abridgment of thy Doctrine heart renewing life reforming soule saving truths Here 's three lies in a little roome canst thou prove that the Bible much less thy Babell book can renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule of any sinner Is it not the living God alone can do these things The leaest Child in the Schoole of Christ that reads this stuff of thine sees thy sottish error but 't is just that thy lying spirit should be laid open O that ever such a lying man as thou art should take upon him the name of a Minister of the Gospel What a Saviour is it which thou trustest in cannot he renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule Then surely thou art in a sad condition being so great a sinner and hast so lame a Saviour But if he can then see what wrong hast thou done him to make a meere useless Cypher of him and place salvation in printed leaves and abominable lies But this makes it manifest thy heart is not renewed nor thy life reformed nor thy soule saved were it so thou would'st not have printed such dark Popish stuff in such a time as this when light breaks forth in aboundance Soone after thou begs leave of them to leave that little Peice of thine in their hands as a light to guide them c. John 8.12 John 19. Christ Jesus is the light of the world does not he inlighten every one that comes into the world is he a perfect light or not wilt thou say there is imperfection in Christ Jesus Luke 1. 79. John 16.13 2 Pet. 1.19 What need is there of thy dark Lanthorne when the glorious Sun it self shines so comfortably doth not Christ give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and guide their feet into the way of Peace And John saith when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth and Peter saies we have a more sure word of Prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawne and the day star arise in your hearts Away thou blind guide that book which thou begs leave to leave with them as a light to guide them will lead all such as are guided by it into the ditch there 's a multitude of lies contradictions false doctrine and blasphemies in it of the Serpents invention mixt and interwoven with severall places of Scripture which thou wrests and pervertest explicating of them according to that deceitfull principle that is predominant within thee thereby hoping more plausibly to put off thy counterfeit ware and false doctrine for current truth but the light hath discovered thy delusions and thou art seene and judged Is thy book able to preserve from errors in opinion and looseness in conversation as