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	lie_n	3,415	5	9.0726	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80832	God's arraignment of Adam: declared in a sermon preach'd at St Pauls, Septemb 5. 1658. before the right honorable the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Council. By Thomas Cartwright, M.A. of Queens Coll. Oxon. and now vicar of Walthamstow in Essex.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1658 (1658)	Wing C698; Thomason E960_1; ESTC R207676	18,353	29

selvs for the onely way possible to hide our sins from him is to lay them open before him from whom indeed they can never be hid When he call us to confession we must answer at the first word if we do expect the benefit of an absolution That the Chirurgion might search his Patients sore and so apply a suitable plaster to it he bids him open it and thus did God deal with Adam saying Adam where art thou which words may fourthly be look'd upon as they are 4. Verba creatoris creaturae suae sortem commiserantis The words of a Creator commiserating the condition of his lapsed creature and so they are Verba dolendi words of pity and as much as if he had said Alas thou art upon the brink of destruction thou art become the most sad object that ever eye shall bedew with tears of pity Thou wert cloathed with innocence but now art thou naked What 's becom of that image after which I form'd thee Who has robb'd thee of those graces with which I beautify'd thy soul What witnesse rises up against thee Quis test is adest quis detulit who pursues thee what 's the meaning of those blushes those fig-leavs I left thee in one place but I am now to seek thee in another Whither fliest thou Adam where art thou From whence we may infer Conclus That a just man is alwaies in Gods presence but a sinner flies from it Cain had no sooner stain'd his soul with his brothers Abels blood but he went out of the presence of the Lord. Adam had no sooner committed the trespass but he fled for it when he was just and upright he walkt before God but now having transgrest he is sought out by God Adam where art thou There is this evil which indeed is the cause of all other entailed upon sin that it makes a sinner as it were a stranger to God it blo●s such out of the book of his remembrance and when he comes to make up his jewels he casts them aside with a Nescio vos I know you not depart from me ye workers of iniquity Is not sin a strange defacing of the soul when he that first made it does not then know it Desperate must needs be the condition of that creature of which the creator himself seems to be ignorant and were there no other Hell this would make it a kind of damnation to be a sinner Amongst others of Gods names in Hebrew Machon is one which signifies a place and therefore the question was most pertinent whereby God enquires of Adam where he was since he moved not in his proper orbe since he was not to be found in his right place Locus enim hominis Deus est extra quem nusquam bene est He Rupertus that is not in God not interested in him is not in his proper place and the farther he strayes from him the nearer does he draw to misery T is a sign he is not where he would be when God and his conscience or any other messenger propound this question to him that he did to Adam saying Adam where art thou which may be considered fifthly as they are 5. Verba prophet● veritatem conditionis suae indicantîs The prophetical words of the God of truth declaring to Adam the truth of his condition Adam where art thou And so the interrogation is a most keene and vehement form of assertion whereby God does not doubt himself but labours to certifie Adam of the truth of his condition viz. Conclu That no place could be safe for a sinner but when he thinks himself most then indeed is he least secure There 's is no corner can secure or priviledg him from the arrest of Gods judgments but he who searches all will find him out in any place so that he can never be safe till he be at peace with his maker for there is no peace sayes my God to the wicked Qui in peccato est in perditione est He that drinks in iniquity like waters is plunged over head and eares in miseryes and this was that Doctrine which God here preacht to Adam so soon after his fall As if he should have said in other terms Adam deceive not thy self with those fig leaves let the woman no longer beguile thee nor the serpent both of you for you have lost your innocency and in that your happiness Do you not now see what a cheat the Divel has put upon you and how by crediting the father of lyes before the God of truth you and your posterity are fallen into his hands do you not perceive what a change is wrought in you for the worse Heu Quantum mutatis ex ipso I made you but you have mar'd your selves consider what I did for you and how your have undone your self I left you in a far better condition then I now find you turn your eye into your own brest and there read the truth of your present condition let not your heart deceive you deal impartially with your self what a strange alteration has a few hours made in thee Adam where art thou And thus I am come to the last acception of which the words seem capable viz. as they are 6. Verba monitoris culpam suam in memoriam reducentis the words of a monitor putting the offender in mind of his offence for God does not ask as if Adams iniquity were hid from his eyes but that he might lay it open to his own Compare this former with thy present condition Qualis ex quali factus What 's become of the serpents promises and thy vain confidence in them What Pannick fear is that which has now seized upon thee Thy flight proclaims thy guilt thou didst not seek such starting-holes as these during the time of thy innocency see what a kindness thy sins has done thee to turn thy love into fear and to teach thee to flye from thy God whom before thou didst seek will all thy heart compare thy former happiness with thy present misery that so thou mayest regain by repentance what thou hast already lost by disobedience Adam where art thou so that two things may we learn from hence the one from the matter the other from the form or manner of this reproof Conclus 1 1. That God does earnestly desire the repentance and life of a sinner and therefore he checks him in the career of his sins and puts him in mind how if he do not stop his course he will quickly run headlong into the bottomless pit God goes but slowly when he goes about to punish that so the sinner repenting of his sins may escape his judgments like a tender father he enquires after his prodigal son when he had lost and forgot himself and having found him puts him in mind of the ruine into which his riot will bring him and if he will be woo'd to a return he will meet him half way and embrance him When the sinful off-spring of