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	justify_v	object_n	1,744	5	9.2095	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44244	Against disloyalty fower sermons preach'd in the times of the late troubles / by Barten Holyday., D.D., Arch=deacon of Oxford, and chaplain to His late Majesty, Charles the First, of blessed memory.	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2530; ESTC R43257	56,607	145

they can not be divided without the injury of the Spirit so can they not be join'd without the Unity of it Take Unity out of a Kingdome and it remains a Body rather large then sound nay which sometimes falls into such a diseas'd state that the unwilling Soveraigne cure as the Chymiques prescribe is a mummy made of its own tainted blood Take Unity out of a City and it is sooner conquerd then beseeg'd the surest and first triumph being not over the walls but the men T is discord makes the Battery the Canon but reports it and easily must they fall by an Enemy that fall without him Take Unity out of a Family and Divorce soon enters which is the unhappy palsy of marriadge deading the one side and grieving the other Unity then is that which should be kept yet as we must keep it so we must not mistake it the only Unity which we must keep being the only Unity the Unity of the Spirit There is a Spirit that rules in the aire but this Spirit is but an unruly one onely working an unhappy Obedience in the Children of Disobedience And sometimes it so works that it may rather seeme Flesh then Spirit swelling man into a tympany of Ambition which at last discovers it self to be not fruitfulnesse but disease Sometimes it works by such potent suggestions that as if it disdaign'd to informe a single natural body it dares venter to animate a People a whole body politique unnaturally striving to make it an unnatural body a body either without a head or weary of it Sometimes This Spirit works most potently by possession as it dealt with the madman in the Gospel that toar off his clothes and lay amongst the tombes a madman indeed that cast away so much as a winding sheet being so neer a grave And yet may there be no other Found as unhappy if not more unhappy who though they tear not their rayment yet esteem not a whole skin calling danger glory and peace sloath But unhappy Spirits they are that are more the Enemies then the companions of their own bodies as if they gave them life only to lead them to more infamy of death Unhappy Spirits that would leave no body behind them to remember them or not so much to remember them as to disclaim them Unhappy Spirits whose union is conspiracy and whose strength is Outrage As then the unity of the Spirit must be kept so must it be a true unity of Spirit and therefore of the true Spirit that is the unity of the Spirit of unity This is that Spirit whose wisdome teaches us that though we can not decide many things we must not differ in many things nay because we cannot decide them that therefore we must not differ not differ beyond opinion the difference being but from opinion This is that Spirit whose perfection teaches us that we can heere no more attain to a perfection of knowledge then of Holinesse that some ignorance in the arguments of Religion implies not an imperfection in Religion but a perfection in God that the Divine Law has indeed God for the Authour yet various man will be an outward Interpreter This is that Spirit whose providence teaches us that the Government of the World is like the structure of it it being founded upon imparities the naturall creatures having a Locall subordination the rational having a politicall and sometimes a sacred which differences as it it the Divine will to appoint so is it the Divine power to Compose This is that Spirit whose love teaches us that though he once appeared in the likenesse of firy Tongues yet that th●y took not their flame from the fire of Hell but of Charity that though they were divided it was not to Preach division but a Gospel that love is the soul of the soul uniting though not the parts of the naturall body yet the many bodies as so many parts of the mysticall body of the Church If then we would find the true subject of this Spirit we must seeke the true nature of this Spirit Where then we find wisdome withdrawing the will from the quarrels of the understanding and more esteeming of Peace then of opinion there is this Spirit where we find perfection rather Endeavourd then pretended and the Divine Law unanimously expounded not by Children but by Fathers there is this Spirit Where we find providence that does as willingly maintain as easily distinguish just imparities not more readily acknowledging a diversity in the Lights of Heaven then in the lights of the Church and making those differ in honour whom God has made to differ in gifts there is this Spirit Where we find love more tender then the eye it sees with looking upon Wife and Children as on the Instructive and deputy pledges of God himself looking on its Country as on a feat though not as pleasant yet as dear as Paradise being a place not of choyse but lot and so made sweet by the hand of the Patrone looking upon the Church as on the type of Heaven and studying the Peace of the Citty of God the God of Peace there is this Spirit there is the Unity of this Spirit This Unity then of the Spirit can not be preserv'd with a violation of the Spirit the Unity of the Spirit must not be preserv'd with the breach of Peace We may not doe evil though good might come there 〈◊〉 may not do evil that good may 〈◊〉 there of Not only carnal good from evil does not justify but no good no not a purpos'd good can make evil good Royalty then must not down for the advancement of Religion Nay the violation of that is alwayes the violation of this in being not glory but blasphemy for a Rebel to enstyle himself Defender of the Faith The old truth was object ingratitude and ye object all crimes and is it not as old a truth is it not a higher truth object Rebellion and ye object all crimes It being in effect neerer to a flout then a truth to call a Rebel a Christian Is not Christ our Lord the Prince of Peace And can men of blood the Children of Disobedience be the Subjects of that Prince Shall Christ give the Name and Mariana the Heart Shall Christ Character the forehead and Junius Brutus the Brain He is of a bad profession and so but a bad Professour whose profession is Disobedience The Pharisie was the precisest Artist in the Devotion of the Jews his pretence was the mastering of his passion his practice was the mastering of his Prince Let Saint Paul describe such he will call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a most exact sect such a sect as made Paul a Sectary nay a Persecuutor till he was Persecuted Let Hegesippus describe them and he will call them a sort of Men zealous subtle busy covetous Let their wise Josephus describe them and he will tell us that their authority with the people was so great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉