Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	devil_n	father_n	liar_n	1,960	5	10.7881	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27633	The true state of Gospel truth, established upon the free election of God in Christ the agreement, and yet difference between law and Gospel, so, that the Gospel cannot be stiled law : the inconditionateness of the Gospel salvation : the procedure of the day of judgment : in the way of a conciliatory discourse upon Mr. Williams his concessions / by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1693 (1693)	Wing B2185; ESTC R19088	45,331	46

Universal Obedience and Perfected him in a Conformity to God in Love Humility Dependence Self-resignation Love and Care of his Posterity Righteousness Justice and not invading what was not his Sobriety Temperance Universal Holiness and Goodness being some way drawn up into it on which account it might justly be stiled the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 2. The Tree of life being a Sacramental Type plainly and undoubtedly looking to Christ by the so often use of it and Application to the Eternal Wisdom Prov. 3. and in the Revelation It argues strongly The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a Sacrament of Adam 's Subsistence for the Preservation of his Integrity and Happiness in the Eternal Word to come in Humane Nature or the Second Adam Represented to him by the Tree of life For seeing these two Trees were coupled one to the other such as the One such was the Other If one looked to Christ so did the other Now the greatest Temptation to the Forbidden Fruit was to be as God knowing Good and Evil that is having the full Dominion over Good and Evil in himself and so securing that holy and happy State by himself and in himself and not in Christ his Head the Image of the invisible God the First Born of every Creature the Second Adam to Come the Head of every Man as the Apostle stiles him referring to the first Constitution And I have not the least doubt Jesus Christ in so many great Expressions that have no Reference to the Sin of man was proposed as the Surety of Creation and the mediator of it and not only as to men but to Angels But as I remember Zanchy on John 8. Expounds the Devil was a murderer from the Beginning and abode not in the Truth that is not in Christ the Mediator who is the Truth Before All Angelical and Humane Being By whom All were made and consist So that Confirmation of both the Angelic and humane Nature was in Him and even as the Devil Fell by not abiding in Christ so he Tempted Man deceived Them on the same Point of not abiding in the Truth that is in Christ but coveting to have All in Himself by the Delusion of the Lyar the Father of Lyes Now this I have thus far insisted upon to open so great a Truth in such a way as may most shew the Conspiring of the Law and the Gospel in the same grand Point of the Salvation of the Elect as shall be further shewn how great Influence this stating of the Original Constitution hath upon it But we must yet further consider the Relation this Command of not Eating the Forbidden Fruit or the Eating it had to the Posterity of Adam or to All in Him For it is most plain from Scripture Adam by having kept the Command of God in not Eating the Forbidden Fruit had convey'd Holiness and Happiness even Life and Glory from God and Christ the Image of God to all descending from him This may be undeniably argued from two Things 1. He could not have coveyed Sin and Death if he had not been first appointed by God to convey Holiness and Life For he was ordained by God to be a Common Head Else though the Parent of the World he could not have been so He could not be Ordained of God First a conveyer of Evil That came in by his own Sin God indeed in highest Justice as he continues the descent of Mankind from him continues the Sanction of Conveyance of what he was and had which was Righteousness and Life as he was by God Established to convey when by his Sin he had lost that both Righteousness and life as God does not cut off that Power of Propagating the World given him in that First Blessing of Fruitfulness and Multiplication So he does not reverse the Sanction of his conveying what he should make himself a Root and Original of by the special Ordination of God upon his Obedience or Disobedience in that one single Act of Eating or not Eating having then by that Act of Disobedience plunged himself in Sin and Death he conveys it with that derivation of humane Nature from him to the very End of the World Christ alone coming into the World under a peculiar law of both Generation and Holiness of Nature 2. He could not have been a Type of the Him to Come if he had not been appointed by God a Conveyor of Righteousness and Life For Christ is so alone After the Transgression Adam was a Type of Christ only in Conveyance as a Common head not as of Sin and Death For so he is an Opposite to him who conveys Righteousness and Life So therefore must Adam needs be as from God that he might be a Type the nobler part of his being a Type he lost by Sin and is now become only an opposite Type He conveys but contrary to Christ not Righteousness and Life but Sin and Death and so he Begat Seth not in the Image of God who is Christ but in his own Image Gen. 5. 3. But thus in every Thing as the Apostle says the Scripture Foreseeing God would do All he does in Eternal Grace and Love by Jesus Christ Preached before the Gospel to Adam in that Tree the Symbol of removing him from the Thoughts of being a God to himself in the Dominion over Good and Evil Called the Knowledge of it according to the great Importancy of the word Knowing in Scripture but that he should Trust in him shadowed to him by the Tree of Life Again he Preached the Gospel to him by making him a Type of one to Come as a Second Adam by way of Appearance but he was before him For he was before All things as the Eternal Word to be made Man and by him They all consist So the first Man was to be an Adam or Universal Original of Righteousness and Life subordinate to Christ dependent upon him and to be Confirmed by him by such an Experiment given of the Obedience of Trust and not taking upon himself For so the Apostle Pourtrays Lust 1 John 2. by its First Parent Lust The Lust of the Eye The forbidden Fruit was fair to the Eye The Lust of the Flesh It was good to Tast The taking upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Pride of Life we shall be as Gods c. Adam therefore taking upon himself and not Trusting in Christ to be sustained for ever lost himself and his Posterity excepting Redeemed by Christ as first offered a Head of Confirmation Now of Recovery And though this making Adam a Common head as it hath proved is a Scandal to proud Reason Yet it was first an Ordination of Grace and Wisdom and as I may say a Compendious Contrivance for Happiness and Blessedness to Mankind by one Man the Common Parent and Head having by Faith in Christ Represented by the Tree of Life trusted in him and not taken upon himself and saying with the Prodigal