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
A96039	Wisdome and innocence, or prudence and simplicity in the examples of the serpent and the dove, propounded to our imitation. By Tho. Vane doctor in divinity and physick.	Vane, Thomas, fl. 1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing V89; Thomason E1406_1; ESTC R209492	46,642	189

others posterity who like Jaacob and Esau struggle in the worlds womb the earth as if so little a room were too streight a dwelling for so great enemies Which enmity unveiled it self in the worlds infancy betwixt Cain and Abell who as the Poets feign like the serpents teeth sown by Cadmus were no sooner grown up but the one destroyed the other Ismael scoffed at his brother Jsaac Micol laughed at her husband David and king Ahab hated the Prophet Micaiah and the reason was because he told the truth It is the godlies goodnesse that purchaseth them hatred for as likenesse is the cause of liking so the contrariety of manners produceth contrary affections God is light the godly are enlightned God is truth the godly are true the devill is the Prince of darkness the wicked are darkned the devill is the Father of lyes the wicked are lyars what communion then betwixt light and darknesse truth and falshood Christ and Belial John 15.19 God and the devill Because yee are not of the world saith our Saviour therefore the world hateth you Now this hatred discovers it self either against our bodies or our souls either as the Scripture speaketh like the great Bulls of Bason they encompasse us on every side or like the little foxes they destroy Gods vineyard Thus in the dawning of the Churches day by the tyranny of the wicked did the Prophets and holy men of God fall like the morning dew and the seeds of grace which themselves had sown they watred with their own blood Thus the holy Christian Martyrs in the noontide of the Churches day when the sun of persecution reflected on them as hotly as the noon-sun on Jonas head did calmly bleed oyl to the Apostles lamps whose bright flames yet serve to light Posterity to heaven Thus also these latter ages in some places and at some times have paid as large a tribute of patience to heaven and sufferance in the world as any that went before them and have constantly kept the faith untill they lost themselves in keeping it like Naboth who kept his possession with the losse of his blood And thus in all ages have the diamonds of the world the godly who were made to be pretiously set in the esteem of men been brought to the extremest degree of calamity that witty cruelty could invent or unrelenting malice execute And thus also did the non-such of well-doing and evill suffering our Saviour Jesus Christ by the malice and cruelty of the Jews surrender up a life more spotless than innocence unto a death most shamefull and ignominious even to the death of the Cross the horror of whose torments left not where to adde unto it by the wishes of his enemies And if they doe these things in the green wood saith he himself Luke 23.31 what shall be done in the dry Nor doth the malice of the devill and wicked men stint it self here or satisfie it self with the suffering of our bodies then were their assaults little their victories less seeing that the vertuous like the palm tree spring up by pressing and like the Vine spread further by pruning The rod of persecution like Aarons rod that budded doth encrease the godly both for number and goodness making them both more and better Therefore doth the devill lay siege unto our souls by the temptations of prosperity and pleasure also hoping that as it is in the fable of the Wind and Sun striving who should make the wayfaring man put off his cloke what foul means cannot fair means may effect In which his two main engines are the flesh and the world the flesh within us the world without us The flesh he corrupteth with bliss-promising suggestions which like a treacherous Citizen betrayeth the fort of our will into the hand of him our enemy and thus a mans enemies are as our Saviour said they should be Mat. 10.36 those of a mans own house But with no better success then Tarpeia the Vestall Nun betrayed the Capitoll bargaining for the bracelets on the enemies hands who when they were entred did not cast their bracelets only but their bucklers also into her lap which with their weight prest her to death Even so the devill many times over-satisfying mens unlawfull fleshly desires with their sinfull weight presseth their souls into the pit of destruction The world also I mean the wicked men thereof he sets like so many lime-twigs and snares to entrap our souls and as fisher-men doe make one fish a bait to catch another so the devill doth make a bad man a bait to catch a good Wicked men are most pernicious creatures and easily pull down vengeance upon others either by the desert of their sin or by the infection who like men that have the plague out of a malignity of disposition which attends upon their disease desire to infect others and to draw them as the scripture saith to the same confusion of luxury 1 Pet. 4.4 with themselves Vicia ad vicinos serpunt contactu nocent saith Seneca Sin amongst men is like the rot amongst Sheep of a catching and infectious quality and he that thinks to partake the company of wicked men and not participate of their vices multiplies the miracles where walkers on the water with Peter are not drowned and in the fire with the three children are not burnt The nature of things is such saith S. Chrisostome that where a good man is joyned with a bad the bad is not bettered by the good but the good corrupted by the bad As sickness by accompanying the sick is derived to the healthy but not so health unto the sick And as the Salamander extinguisheth the fire and is not burnt therein so the wicked amongst the godly are ready to quench the heat of their vertue and not to be enflamed thereby Therefore saith the Apostle S. Paul Be not companions with them Joseph by living in the Court learned to swear by the life of Pharoah and Peter when he was amongst the high Priests servants denyed his master The warmer hee was by the high Priests fire the colder he grew in love towards God Psal 105.35 They were mingled among the Heathens saith the Prophet David of the children of Israel and what was the issue They learned their works Therefore as our Saviour adviseth us Beware of men First of men whose cruelty no meekness can asswage of men whose blood-thirstiness no lives can quench of men from whose persecutions no place is secure and if they persecute you in one City fly into another let a discreet fear give wings unto your feet and a godly confidence steel unto your hearts If opportunity open a way unto your flight refuse it not if not let an unrebated resolution arm you for sufferance Beware also of the company of wicked men who like bemyred dogs defile with fawning For howsoever fishes living in the salt water retain a fresh tast and savour not of the brinish quality of