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	life_n	word_n	4,700	5	4.1090	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66712	Honest plain dealing, or, Meditations and advertisements offered to publick consideration by John Winter ...	Winter, John, 1621?-1698?	1663 (1663)	Wing W3080; ESTC R38147	25,168	35

a Wildernesse and the people into wild beasts as by laying waste the places of Gods worship and making them desolate But who so shall attempt it may justly fear to be smitten with the keen Arrows of the Almighty both in person and posterity yea and to be destroyed even by those brute creatures which they shall nourish and cherish to Gods dishonour And therefore as some people would have the King giveliberty to all mens consciences which is impossible where consciences look so many contrary wayes so I hope their Civility will give them to suppose that of all consciences his Majesty will be most tender of his own And then they may be well assured that he will never grant any thing prejudicial to that Faith whereof he writes himself Defender or to that Church whereof God hath made him the nursing Father And most infallibly it would conduce more to the glory of God and the Nations happinesse that all the Subjects would rather look to the exactnesse of their own consciences then to presse so much upon their gracious Sovereigns to increase their own remissnesse This would be a work that would save the King much labour and his Honourable Parliament many an hours consultation And in Gods name where judgment by divine appointment must begin there let conscience begin also at the house of God 1 Pet. 4.17 Let those whom he hath appointed over his houshold as faithfull Stewards of the manifold grace of God give unto those under their charge their souls meat in due season that they may be found hoc agentes so doing that the Ministry may not be blamed by reason of blame-worthy Ministers Let them value the flock more than the fleece and know that if Jacob for twenty years together Gen. 31.38 40. was consumed as he said with the scorching heat by day and the sharp frost by night and the sleep of his eyes departed from him and all to save the brute creatures of his uncle Laban then the pains cannot be small the care cannot be little which must be taken nor the accompt ease which must be given up to Christ by the Pastours Act. 20.28 for that immortal flock of souls which he hath purchased with his own bloud They had need be thrice well assured that they love Christ who undertake to feed his Sheep and Lambes Joh. 21. seeing he made St Peter make a three-fold profession of his sincere affection Fidelity and dexterity must be resulgent in the Pastours that they may feed Sheep and Lambs have milk for babes and stronger meat for men And that they may teach their people to the lise their life must teach their people To the prayers of faith and Word of truth they must adde the lively Oracles of Charity for as with such performances the poor are benefited and with such examples the Church is profited Heb. 13.16 So with sach Sacrifices God is well pleased They had need above all things put on charity Col. 3.14 Lu 12.15 and take heed and beware of covetousnesse whom God hath taught so to teach others Let them not climb into the Fold and make a shift to get into the Church 2 Cor. 11. last as St Paul did to get out of Damascus at a window in a basket Nor like Ariosto's young shaveling with three ends of Latine a letter of Command and the Devil in a bag St Augustine did not love to see men passe per laicalem portam by a back door And as the unworthy should study to deserve before they aspire at preferment so conscience ought to rule the most worthy both informing them when they have enough and signifying to them that it is possible for them to have too much of this worlds honour wealth and dignity And then as the Herdsman said If the Devil get the Duke what shall become of the Archbishop of Colen Vt honos it à onus as the honour and emolument increaseth so should the Pastors care his pains his diligence otherwise the world will easily see that pride and covetousnesse are the only qualifications two qualities as commendable in a man of the Church as those I once heard a plain Countreyman give a Knights Tobacco who being asked his approbation answered Your Worships Tobacco is excellent good for it hath the two right properties of Tobacco it makes a great smoke and a filthy stink Pluralities and unions came into being and fashion in the Christian Church by sad mischances As by depopulations spoils and invasions made by prevalent Barbarians Hist Conc. Trid. and hostile Adversaries and their intendment ex parte Ecclesiae was in favour and benefit of the generality of souls and not designed for the meer advance of particular persons wealth and dignities And let not the Rivers rob the Sea nor the main end be lost in the pursuit of the lesse principal There are no question double Honours due to the Reverend Ecclesiasticks but they must be such as rule well and especially labour in the Word and doctrine And God increase such men 1 Tim. 5.17 and their Honours to his own Glory and his Churches happinesse And as Conscience doth well in the Incumbent so likewise in the Patron For were there no Receivers there would be no Thieves It was never Christs mind surely that Simon Magus should have to do with those Keyes which he gave to Simon Peter But there are such Patrons now in the world or Latrons rather that if St Peter himself should come to them for a presentation in the words he used to the Creeple Silver and Gold have I none They would soon bid him Walk Act. 3. and be gone Thou that abhorrest Idols dost thou commit Sacriledge And thou that teachest a man should not steal Rom. 2. dost thou steal Well fare the resolution of the Emperor Severus no lesse prudent than noble who would never suffer preferments to be bought Because said he they who buy will sell And so they will sell indeed when opportunity serveth their place their office themselves and their Benefactors And conscience would do well at Court too among Lords and Ladies except it be either out of fashion for its antiquity or too mean as being worn by poor Plebeians They who wear soft raiment and are in Kings houses in Princes favours and profitable Offices should do well to think upon those who want cloaths and habitations of whom not a few perhaps for merit and vertues might have vied with many of them had not Fortune parted them with a bare pair of sheers They should do well and God expects it at their hands to promote and further such persons suits and supplications gratis and not to be like Vultures ready to seize upon the dying and as brambles to rend off their skins whose fleece was gone long before What shall men be all complements and no conscience God deliver us from such a high point of breeding as to despise the poor or to