Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	false_a	religion_n	true_a	4,673	5	5.0261	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15866	A guide unto Sion. Or certaine positions, concerning a true visible church Wherein the nature of a true church is so plainely described, as all men may easily decerne the same from false assemblies. Written by a learned and judicious divine.	Learned and Judicious Divine.; Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?, attributed name. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 26125; ESTC S102219	15,484	34

A GUIDE UNTO SION OR Certaine Positions concerning a true visible Church Wherein The nature of a true Church is so plainely described as all men may easily decerne the same from false assemblies Written by a learned and judicious divine Jer. 50. 5. They shall aske the way to Sion with their faces thitherward saying come and let us joyne our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that cannot be forgotten Printed at Amstelredam in the yeare 1638. A GUIDE UNTO SION OR Certaine Positions concerning a true visible Church THis our English word Church through custome of speech is commonly used for the Temple or place where people come together for the worship of God but they that are any thing exercised in religion know that it also signifieth the People which gather together for divine service and this is the first and proper meaning of the word Church as it is used to expresse the original Scripture termes Kahal Ecclesia 2. This name Church we Englishmen which came of the Saxons have received from the Saxon German and Dutch names Cyric Kirch Kerck whereby those nations now do usually cal their Temples or meeting-places but the people which come togither in them they cal the Gemeine and the Gemeinte that is to say the Comunialtie and we in our first English Bibles caled it the Congreation 3 As all religion is learned out of holy scriptures so the name and doctrine of the church is from thence to be deduced and there the Church is called in Hebrew Kahal or Kehillah which signifieth a Convocation or Assemblie of people Ghnedah that is to say a Congregation in Greek it is named Ecclesia that is in like maner a Convocation or people called forth to an assembly and sometime Synagogue that is a Congregation which word is also vsed for the place wherein the people assembled 4. The Hebrue word Kahal is diversly used sometimes more generally for a great or universal multitude as of nations and of peoples sometimes more particularly for an assembly of one nation as of the Israelites sometimes for a part of them as the Elders and Governours of some of the tribes of Israel a part or some of all the tribes even men women and children and indifferently for any assembly and this not onely of Gods people but of heathens also and infidels 5. Likewise the Greek word Ecclesia is of as large extent and signification used sometime for the Church generally sometime for a particular church or congregation in a citie sometimes more particularly in a house or familie sometimes in the Greek version of the old testament for an assemblie of Governours or company of Prophets or congreation of the people and finally for any assembly lawful or unlawful of good men or of evil 6. These words thus general are in more special sort both by the scriptures by use of speach among all religious people restreyned and appelied to such Assemblies and Congregations as are called and gathered for divine exercises and so our English name of Church is attributed peculiarly to spiritual or religious assemblies called ecclesiastical and not to any other assemblies civil or political 7. Of religious or ecclesiastical assemblies generally considered there any many sorts in the world all disallowed of God save one sort onely which he acknowledgeth to be his hath separated to him self from all the rest 8. The many false sorts may be reduced unto fowr 1. The assemblies of Pagans or heathen people which professe some God Gods or Goddesses whom they do worship ignorantly having changed the truth of God into a lie and so serving creatures not in deed the creator which is blessed for ever Amen 2 The assemblies of Iewes who professe the true God after a sort and allow the writings of Moses and the Prophets but abhorre Christ Iesus our Saviour and reject the new Testament 3 The assemblies of Mahometists as Persians Turks Moores c. Which professe also after their manner that one true God of whom Moses and the Prophets wrote and acknowledge Christ to be a Prophet sent of God yea and the breath or Spirit of God yet beleeve they not that he is God or the sonne of God or Saviour of the world but follow the lies and fabels of their false Prophet Mahomet 4. Finally the church or assemblies of false Christians which professe God and his sonne Christ into whose name they are baptised but by their works doe deny him and by their errours heresies doe overthrow the truth of religion 9. The first three sorts Pagans Jewes and Mahometists because of their so open and manifest denyall of Christ and salvation by him are generally of Christians reputed as no Churches the latter are reputed no true but false Churches and so also do they esteem of true Christians and one of another Hereupon is continual controversie between true and false Christians which is the true Church and how it may be knowen 10. To help the weak and doubtfull in this case I will so truly and plainly as by the grace of God J can describe the true Church which in holy Scriptures is called the Congreation and Church of God consisting of godly holy people named Saints opposed to the wicked or malignant churches the Synagogues of Satan 11. The true Church is a People called of God by the Gospel from the world unto the Communion or followship of his Son Iesus Christ in whom they are coupled and built togither to be the habitation of God by the spirit 12. The Church is said to be a people nation or generation because it consisteth of many persons or of a multitude little or great for though a particular Christian is called of the church yet no one man is a church or congregation 13. It is a people called because every concourse or assemblie is not a true Church none of themselves can come unto this estate unlesse they be called or drawen thereunto and they are sayd to be called of God because he onely calleth and draweth men unto Christ with a holy calling and addeth them to his Church no humane power or authority is able to doe it 14. The Gospel noted to be the meanes of our calling he maketh knowen unto his people outwardly by his word spoken and written and inwardly by his holy spirit and thus the Church are all the taught of God 15. The estate out of which the Church is called is sayd to be out of or from the world whereby is meant first Satan the Prince of this world from whose power they are turned unto God Secondly the wicwicked people of the world called the Children of the Devil from whose communion and followship in their religion and all