Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	divine_a	reveal_v	revelation_n	1,705	5	9.2853	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47321	A rational, compendious way to convince, without any dispute, all persons whatsoever, dissenting from the true religion. By J.K.	Keynes, John, 1625?-1697.	1674 (1674)	Wing K393; ESTC R200380	33,446	158

suppose that it is true That there is something better than another this being an evident Truth assented unto by all rational men and whoever denies that there is something better than another must necessarily deny himself to be better than an ass or a block For if he be better then there is something better than another And certainly whoever comes to deny himself to be better than an Ass or a Block is either a mad-man or a fool and consequently unworthy to be discoursed with any further Now if there be something better than another there is something the best of all Things For one thing is better then another because it comes nearer that which is the best of all things And how can it come nearer that which is not It is a common Maxim amongst Philosophers Supremum in unoquoque genere est mensura reliquorum in eodem genere The best and greatest in each kind is the measure of the rest in the same kind For one thing is said to be better than another in such a kind because it comes nearer that which is the best A Duke is better in Dignity than an Earl because he comes nearer the King who is the best man of the Kingdom in Dignity So that unless in each kind there be admitted something that is the best there can be no rule nor measure whereby one Thing may be judged better than another in such a kind Wherefore if it be true that there is something better than another there must be something the best of all Things and if so then there is a True God For the very notion of a true God is Ens Optimum Maximum the Best and Greatest of all Things as all even Atheists do confess as we suppose for unless we agree about the notion of God there can be no Dispute between us Yea what is the Best of all Things that exist is also the best of all Things that are possible For nothing possible can exist or be produced but by virtue of something that does exist and nothing can produce what is better than it self Nemo dat quod non habet No body gives what he has not I conclude therefore that if it be true as certainly it is that there is something better than another there is a true God II. If there be a True God I prove that there is some True Religion For if there be a True God we ought to worship him in what manner he will be worshipped by us and obey him in what matters he will be obeyed by us Subjects ought to reverence and obey their Sovereign and Servants their Masters in what manner and in what matters they require and if there be a true God the Best and greatest of all things Ens optimum Maximum certainly he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and Supreme Governour of the Vniverse and we are his Subjects and Servants as no Body who grants a True God can deny We ought therefore to respect and obey God Yea what is to be respected or who is to be obeyed if God be not the Best of All things the universal Monarch If we ought to worship God in what manner he will be worshipped by us and obey him in what matters he will be obeyed by us there must be some Doctrine teaching us in what manner God will be worshipped by us and in what matters he will be obeyed by us For how can we worship or obey God if we neither know in what manner we are to worship him nor in what matters we are to obey him For whether God will assign by Himself the particular manner of the worship to be given to him or will leave the assignation thereof to men and he must necessarily do either the one or the other we must obey his will and to obey it we must know it And how can we know it unless there be some Doctrine that teaches it If there be some Doctrine teaching us in what manner God will be worshiped by us and in what matters he will be obeyed by us there must be some true Religion For by a true Religion we understand according to the common notion thereof a Doctrine that teaches men in what manner God will be worship'd by them and in what matters he will be obeyed by them Wherefore I conclude that if there be a True God as has been proved there is some True Religion III. If there be some True Religion I prove that there is some true revealed Religion For if there be some true Religion there is some Doctrine teaching us in what manner God will be worship'd by us and in what matters he will be obeyed by us for this is the notion of a true Religion as we have seen If there be some such Doctrine it must be revealed unto us by God For how can we know Gods will unless he reveal it unto us either immediately by himself or mediately by others commissioned by him Natural Religion or the Light of nature teaches us only in general That we are to worship God in what manner he will be worship'd by us and that we are to obey him in what matters he will be obeyed by us But it does not tell us as is manifest the particular manner wherewith he requires we would worship him nor the particular matters wherein he requires we should obey him which doubtless may be very different And of what concern is it that we know we are to worship and obey God if we neither know how we are to worship him nor in what we we are to obey him Yea should God be pleased to leave to every one the choice of the manner wherein he is to worship him yet since this would certainly be a very particular manner of worship not intimated unto us by the Law of Nature God must reveal it God therefore must reveal unto us in what particular manner he will be worshipped by us and in what particular matters he will be obeyed by us And if so then there is some true revealed Religion which is nothing else but a Doctrine teaching men in what particular manner God will be worshipped by them and in what particular matters he will be obeyed by them revealed by God Wherefore I conclude that if there be some True Religion as has been proved that there is there is some true revealed Religion IV. If there be some true revealed Religion I prove that Christian Religion is true For if there be some true Revealed Religion certainly That among all Religions that pretend to be revealed by God must be true which can evidently shew that it has been miraculously propagated For a miraculous propagation cannot be effected without true and real Miracles and True and Real Miracles are Gods Broad Seal and manifest proofs of the Truth in whose Confirmation they are wrought and a certain kind of Divine Revelation Because God can speak as well by works as by words All professors of revealed