Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	doctrine_n	scripture_n	spirit_n	4,135	5	5.3138	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03426	Credo resurrectionem carnis a tractate on the eleventh article of the Apostles Creed / by W.H. Esquire sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge.	Hodson, William, fl. 1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 13552.5; ESTC S5090	28,339	192

of their Resurrection shall bee different the one to glory the other to shame which was properly figured in Pharaohs two servants Gen. 40. the Baker and the Butler both of them were taken out of prison but the one to bee restored to his office to minister before the King the other to bee put to death So shall both the godly and the wicked come out of their graves the one Rapi in occursum to meete their Saviour in the clouds the other verti retrorsum to be turned down to hell with all the people that forget God But I will not straine this note I have the rather touched upon it because it is one of those Quantuor nocissima which wee should still have in remembrance for after death commeth judgement whose forerunner is the universall Resurrection The day of death and the day of doome are the two Pole-starrs on which wee pilgrimes and travellers on earth should fix our eyes May my soule still keep on this wing Dan. 6.10 may my heart be like Daniels window which was open in his chamber toward Ierusalem may I oft repose my selfe on the rose bed of this contemplation for they that never have any holy whisperings with God that never walk up to Mount Tabor into some retired place of meditation and prayer such as Isaacks field Cornelius his Leads Davids Closset carry their soules in their bodies as Iosephs brethren did their money in their sacks and know not what Treasure they have And here for methode have I occasion given to treate CHAP. 5. Of Sadducisme and other heresies which flatly oppose this Article of the Resurrection SVperstition and Atheisme are the two extreames of Religion the Pharises ran on the Rocke of the one and the Sadduces sunke in the Sand-beds of the other This grosse errour of Sadducisme crept into Moses chaire many of the high Priests themselves as Ioannes Hircanus with his sons Alexander and Aristobulus and likewise Anaus the younger were of this Sect. To shew the originall occasion of this heresie I must open an antiquity and take up a story as I finde it already related to my hands The Sadduces were so called from Sadoc the first Author of this heresie this Sadoc lived under Antigonus Sochaeus who not long after the daies of Nehemial was the chiefest Rabbin in the great Synagogue at Ierusalem this Antigonus gravely instructing his Disciples that they should not be of servile mindes or doe their duties for hope of reward His Schollers hearing this desired him to expound his mind more fully whereupon hee added that men must not expect the recompence of a good life in this world but stay for it untill the world to come To these words Sadoc a chiefe disciple of his tooke exception and said Hee never heard of any such thing as the world to come whereupon hee with his fellow Baithu● turned Apostates and repaired to the schismaticall Temple built upon Mount Gerizim and became principall Rabbins of the Samaritans Amongst them did Sadoc first broach his heresie and taught them that there was no Resurrection of the dead because no immortality of the soule and spirit and so consequently no judgement to come Will you have a fuller relation of their impiety shall I present you with the picture of a Sadduce as I find it curiously penselled out Castly our eyes on the Table of that counterfeit Salomon where you have him lively set forth in his proper colours In his second Chapter of his Booke of Wisdome hee recounts at large the sensuall thoughts the earthly conceits of all such Epicures and Atheists Qui non agnoscunt saeculum nisi praesens and at length hee windes up all on this clew such things doe they imagine and goe astray for their owne wickednes hath blinded them verse 21. yea so blinded them that as they live like beasts so they imagin they shal dye like beasts that they shall not onely mori but per mori dye like Oxen knocked on the head that they shall be annihilated and therefore they dance after this pipe Let us eate and drinke for to morrow we shall dye 1 Cor. 15.32 Nay the Apostle hath it in the present tence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 morimur to not the sensuality of these wretches who think that their soules and bodies shall bee quite extinguished together But on rotten joists is this foūdation laid Our blessed Saviour with the modesty of truth hath long since confuted this bold broad fac'd heresie of the Sadduces Wee reade Math. 22. That he put them to silēce the Originall is significant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee bridled their mouthes which is a phrase borrowed from fierce and stomackefull horses which beeing held in by a strong bit become subject perforce to the wil of the rider Hee that spake as never man spake so resolved their doubts and dissolved their sophismes that they were tongue-ride had not a word to returne upon him It is farther observable how our Savior in that place fits his Answer to the Questionists and concludes most evidently against thē by pressing them with their owne principalls Concerning the Resurrection of the dead he prooves it not out of the Prophets but drawes his Argument out of Exodus Exod. 3.6 For wheras the Sadduces rejected all Scripture save onely the Pentateuchi Christ disputes with them in their owne Canons and makes Moses give them an answer whose authority was sacred with them The Pharisees in their Doctrine were much neerer the truth than the Sadduces for they confessed that there were Angels and Spirits they acknowledged the Resurrection of the dead Hereupon Saint Paul perceiving that in the Councell the one part were Saduces Act. 23.6 the other Pharisees cryed out of the hope id est of the reward expected and of the Resurrection of the dead I am called in question yet though these Sectaries had a branch of the Tree of knowledged they bowed the sprig the wrong way They taught that the soules of evill men deceased departed into everlasting punishment but the soules said they of good men by a kinde of Pythagorian transmigration into other good mens bodies Of which Opinion Herod may seeme to have beene for when newes was brought him of Christ hee said that Iohn the Baptist being be●…ded was risen againe thinking that the soul of the Baptist was passed into the body of Iesus Hence againe arose the like different opinions concerning our Savior some saying hee was Elias Mat. 16.14 others Ieremias as if Christs body had bin animated by the soule either of Iohn Elias or Ieremias It were a world to rake up the old errors of all such as have drawn in the same line it were infinite to traduce the fond conceits of the Saturnians Basilidians and those whom Tertullian calls Partiatios Sadducaeorum or Semi-Sadduces But I forbeare to set down fancies for truths I willingly spare that oyle for as it was noted by some as a token of Gods