Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	good_a	word_n	4,521	5	4.1218	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60146	Resignation to the divine good pleasure in every condition recommended as the duty and happiness of every good man in a sermon from 2 Sam. XV, 26.	Shower, John, 1657-1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing S3682; ESTC R10146	17,860	35

ordering all the issues of time we shall never have any Reason to distrust the care of his Providence to question his Faithfulness or dispute his Soveraignty or impeach his Righteousness or Wisdom in any thing that befalls us And if we can have no Reason for any of these we may safely resign our selves to him in the words of the Church Psal 47.4 Lord thou shalt chuse our inheritance for us By a Reflection on God as Creator and Governour of the World we may argue our selves into this Resignation Did he make and doth he govern the Universe and can he not order my affairs to the best advantage Hath exquisite Wisdom Goodness and Power fram'd all things out of nothing and will he not rule all things which he hath made in the best manner Hath his Providence preserv'd and guided his People in all Ages and can he not direct me Is his Arm shortned that he cannot deliver me or his Understanding darkned that he knows not how Hath he conducted so many Saints to glory by an unerring Wisdom and never-failing Mercy and can he possibly mistake the best way of bringing me thither From the belief and consideration of this merciful Providence of our Heavenly Father we may leave it to him to chuse our allowance and dispose of us and all our affairs as it shall seem good in his sight 2. 'T is necessary that we often contemplate the Divine Attributes and Promises which are proper to engage our Resignation to his Will and dependance on his Word We ought seriously to consider what a God he is and what he can do for us and how far he hath promised that he will that in all the emergencies of life he is able to give us suitable relief and help that he knows all our needs and how to supply them and is willing to do so when 't is most seasonable and fittest to be done Such an apprehension of his Almighty Arm is necessary as may dispose us at once to trust him in a way of duty and yet to despair of success in an unlawful undertaking Such a believing consideration of his Wisdom as will prevent our questioning whether that be best which his holy Will declares to be so and of his Truth and Faithfulness as will strengthen our Faith in his Power to extricate us out of every distress Such a perswasion of his love and kindness as will excite our gratitude and preserve us from doubting of the good issue of what he shall please to order Moreover such a review of his gracious promises as may encourage our dependance on his word That he will grant the desires of those that fear him and be ever mindful of his covenant That his grace shall be sufficient for us That all things shall work for good to them that love God That we shall not be tempted above what we are able That they that fear the Lord shall want nothing that is good That in a publick storm he will be a refuge and an hiding place to his people That the rod of the wicked shall not always rest on the lot of the righteous That the God of Israel who is the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble a God working Salvation in the midst of the Earth can take the wicked in their own craftiness insnare them in the works of their own hands make them perish by their own counsels and fall into the pits which they have dig'd for others baffle their policies prevent their designs alter their purposes blast their expectations and defeat their Plots and bring to light the hidden things of darkness and save his people when no other arm can bring Salvation c. 'T is necessary to believe that not only he can but will accomplish what he hath promised and His Attributes are the ground of our faith in this particular For if any others do will our good they may want power to effect it but Omnipotence is here our security They are mutable and may recal their word or alter their mind but God's Truth is as inviarable as his Power is infinite Men may find a necessity to fail their promises by reason of somewhat they did not foresee their knowledg being bounded as well as their strength but unsearchable Wisdom can never be mistaken The most intricate occurrences of time being open and naked from eternity to the view of his Omniscience no occasion can be supposed why God should not be faithful to his word The consideration whereof will have a very great influence on this resignation of our selves to his good pleasure 2. Some things are necessary with respect to our selves 1. That we expect sufferings troubles and disappointments in the World Religion will not exempt us from the ordinary calamities of human life to which every man is incident tho we abstract from the consideration of the Gospel and Conscience What sensible afflictions had David by his nearest Relations how frequent occasions of sorrow did he meet with in the time of his Father-in-law Saul from Michaels folly and her Father's hatred what breaches in his Family and divisions in his Kingdom afterwards his Subjects revolt from their obedience and his own Children in the head of an Army against him He is forc'd to make War against those whom he would not hurt How smart an affliction in his Tamar and Ammon and his beloved Absolom during his whole Life one instance whereof the context relates and at his death too and after that in the combination of his Son Adonijah with Joab 2 Sam 18.22 23 ● c. And why should we expect to be exempted Let us count upon it as our Lot and Portion if we would be able under actual sufferings to resign and submit to the will of God As to the case of suffering for conscience sake we are bid to expect it and have reason to prepare for it 'T is the voice of Heaven That through many tribulations we must enter into glory Christianity injoyns us to look for persecution and the Cross and hath made a Covenant of Sufferings and promis'd blessings to it Most of our graces are passive and adapted to a suffering state and as followers of the Captain of our Salvation we must expect our share But for the most part we are unwilling to hear of calamities before they come and then we cannot bear them because they come suddenly 't is the unexpectedness of the Cross that is the subject matter of our complaints in the day of adversity We think it irksom and unpleasant to forecast how the case would be if God should try us in such or such an instance if he should call for such a blessing we value snatch from us such a relation whom we tenderly love or frustrate our designs and hopes in such a particular and therefore we will not consider it beforehand and then the surprizal adds a sting to the calamity For no kind of evils are so amazing and terible as those