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truth_n	father_n	liar_n	lie_n	1,848	5	8.8730	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02762	The burning bush not consumed wherein (either vnder all deepe sense of wrath; or hardnesse of heart, one may iudge, whether he be the childe of God, or not, &c. Chiefly receyuing satisfaction concerning the sinne against the Holy Ghost. Perused by I.D. and diuers other diuines.	Hart, John, D.D.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 12891; ESTC S103842	61,708	194

I be not strucke with any extraordinary terror yet haue I extreame discontentments not reioycing in any thing Minist Certainly there must bee some causes of your discontentment you must banish doubting and carnall reason beleeue in God and you shall find ease Sch. If there be a God this is my infidelity that I cannot beleeue in him and then is my estate a great deale more feare full in this that all my actions haue bin hypocriticall that now I finde my selfe to be giuen ouer to a hardhart with a reprobate sense ioyned with an impossibilitie to fight or striue for grace or which is more fearful to haue no desire to striue for the same Minister Before wee passe any further let vs lay this infallible foundation that most certainly there is a God Schol. My infidelity and doubting is such that I shall neuer bee fully of your minde vnlesse by reason I be conuinced of the same Minist There must bee no disputing against receiued grounds and principles chiefely against this the ground of all Schol. Yet as you remember I beseech you shew me some reasons prouing a Deitie or that there is a God Minist Nature it selfe fully prooueth the same 1. From the Creation for if the world be without beginning so is it also without ending and so it and all therein is God hauing made it selfe which were most absurd to thinke but since it shal haue an ending all the creatures thereof tending to corruption hence it followeth that it must needes haue a beginning the Creator whereof is God 2. The excellencie of all the creatures shew the same so infinite in formes shapes colours diuers dispositions chiefly the supernaturall spirit of man not satiate with any thing in Nature 3. Man himselfe sheweth that there is a God for one man leadeth vs to another vntill by degrees we come vp to the first Here I aske where he had his beginning Eternall he was not which his miserable nature so subiect to alteration change well sheweth chiefly his dissolutiō Eternitie change like light and darknes being so directly contrary If it be said this change came by his fall then I ask whence he fell So still all we can thinke it must leade vs vnto God the Creator of all 4. The wel ordered gouernment in the worlde things inferiour seruing still things superiour vntil all things ioyne in mans seruice shewe that there is also some supreame power vnto which he must obey 5. The harmony of contrarie Elements whereof all bodies do consist so farre from destroying one another that they preserue all and agree prooueth a superiour causing power 6. The naturall instinct of all nations rather adoring stockes stones and beastes then no Deitie at all proueth the same 7. The conscience of all being as it were a law against vs in giuing both testimony and iudgment is a most strong proofe for it testifieth neither to men nor Angels neither feareth them Therefore it must bee God himselfe Further would not our reason tell vs by and by if wee were in some faire built ruinous countrey or citie that there had some people dwelt that some hands had built the same So may we say of this world when we see it so replenished with so many goodly creatures that some great power did make the same that must needs be God Moreouer the place of God proueth that there is a God for as one saith euery place is in regard of somwhat contained in the place So the Earth is full of wormes and such like things the sea containeth fishes faire houses containe men women Hell it is the place for diuels Heauen likewise must not bee emptie it being the goodliest of all the rest when wee looke vpon the same we must needes say that there dwelles the Lord of the countrey there dwelles God himselfe Lastly but it were too tedious I might adde how abundantly the Scriptures shewe the same as also the euent of things contrary to reason Miracles Prophecyings continuall mercies of fruitfull seasons c. Which Paul mentioneth punishments in this life with strange iudgements on diuers wicked men as Herod c. with the wonderfull power of the spirit in the experience of the faithfull Further as one obserues that no volume hath euer bin written directly in confutation of the same Sch. My mind is no lesse perplexed cōcerning the authoritie of the Scriptures whether they be the word of God or not Minist The insufficiencie of these doubts may soone bee shewed vnto you Because admit once that there is a God then of necessitie it will followe that hee is King of kings and that as subordinate temporarie Princes haue Lawes and statutes whereby they rule their states so must needes the supreame Lord of all much more haue lawes and statutes wherby to gouerne the whole world And these must needs be the holy Scriptures Scholler Perswasions are no proofes therfore shew vnto me how I may rest assured that the Scriptures are the word of God Min. There bee many reasons to proue yet none are powerfull to perswade vnlesse God ioyne with the same by the effectuall working of his blessed Spirit Schol. So farre as you can remember I intreate you giue me satisfaction Minist The Antiquitie Harmony Consent Sinceritie Miracles and Martyrs testimony of the Scriptures might be sufficient proofes to satisfie any indifferent person But if vnto them we adde 1. That great generall inward change which suddenly it makes in men when but some plaine sentences thereof are dropped into their hearts filling them with horrors so that when the heart is thus wounded no other medicine can comfort or cure the same saue the same word when all mens eloquence will not serue the turne 2. That great power it hath to cast down all the strong holds of sinne and Sathan when they ioyne for destruction of the soule 3. That humble and rich pouertie thereof that in a sober yet loftie stile it farre surpasseth in excellencie of Eloquence all the best Orators of the world containing therein the foundation of all sciences wee may rest fully assured thereof Further our owne doubtings when Satan and our owne corruptions would perswade vs that it is not Scripture strongly proue the truth thereof for Satan is a liar and the father of lies therefore if it were forged he would contend for maintenance thereof As also wee may see those who most study and practise the same most holy and wise Contrarily the others most prophane It were tedious to reckon vp all how miraculously it hath euer beene preserued in all ages how truely all the Prophecies therof haue bene and are accomplished both in the reiected wandering of the Iewes the calling of the Gentiles Incarnation of Christ comming of Antichrist c. How though it were written many hundred yeeres agoe it meeteth with all new sinnes How powerfully being alledged in prayer It wrastleth with God