Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	father_n	worship_v	worshipper_n	5,153	5	12.8389	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59599	Adam Abel, or, Vain man a discourse fitted for funeral occasions, but serviceable to men in all ages and conditions of life to make them humble and heavenly-minded / by Samuel Shaw ...	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3034; ESTC R9572	39,662	130

of ones Mind with Solomon Who knows and who can tell Lord what a Disease is this in the human Nature and what a state of Vanity does it argue but this I pass by as having spoken something of it before Lastly This Knowledge we get by all our Enquiries is very poor mean and imperfect in comparison of the Visions and Intuitions of the other World when we shall see as we are seen and know as we are known feast upon Truth itself and behold all things in God and him in the pure Rays of his own Divinity The Apostle Paul knew much but he did not know the whole and that which he did know he knew but in part 1 Cor. 13. 9 10. We know in part but when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away But this also I toucht upon before What shall I say of vain Man It is impossible to enumerate his Fatigues and Vanities In short therefore Does he work Then he wearies himself and exhausts his Strength Does he play Then he forgets himself and emasculates his Spirits Does he Trade by Land Then he is either tempted to cheat or liable to be cheated either to get another mans unduly or to have his own got from him deceitfully Does he Traffick by Sea He may indeed see the Wonders of the Lord in the Deep but no greater Wonder than that he himself is not there Who but vain Man would expose his Life to so eminent Dangers for things not necessary to Life yea some that are more hurtful than useful and all the Sweets of his Family and Country for a few foreign Spices Does he go into Wars He lies at the Mercy of every random bit of Lead shot by a Fool or a Child or a Mad-man If he conquer and kill here is no cause of glorying one would think to have sent his Brother's Body to the Grave and it may be his Soul to Hell Does he purchase He is either mistaken in the Title abus'd by the Law envy'd or hated by his Neighbour However would he but be patient and stay a while he should have Earth enough to serve his turn without any Cost or Charge at all Does he marry He does certainly fall into Incumbrances Does he vow a single life He does as certainly fall into Snares If he marry he is fain to endure the Yoke if he do not he has much ado to endure to be curb'd Does he study Day and Night Poor man with a great deal of Pain and Weariness he comes to understand that all things are Uncertainty and Vanity a thing that one had better never to have known And after all How dyeth the wise man even as the fool dyeth Eccles 2. 16. Does he arbitrate differences and make peace blessed is he saith Christ But for all that he shall be sure to meet with many a Curse To go about to please both Parties is as if a man should undertake to serve two Masters which no body can well do Does he court the Favour of great men by Fawning and Flattery It is a great Slavery to an ingenuous and generous Mind the Favour of wise Princes will not be so gotten And if they be foolish and inconstant it will be soon lost Is he active and brisk and a lover of business He disquiets himself yea active Tempers that cannot manage their own Metal many times disquiet the World about them He that does much will certainly sometimes do amiss if he should do all things well he will yet be accounted a Busie-body Is he idle careless and unconcern'd He is then a selfish Sot an unprofitable Member of the Universe He that regards nothing does not himself deserve to be regarded In a word Cast your Eyes over the World and behold the Diseases and Distresses of some and what will you call it but an Hospital Behold the Distractions and Disorders of all the rest in one kind or other and what will you call it but a Bethlehem And so I come in the last place briefly to consider Man in the highest acts of Human Life viz. his religious acts and to shew that even in them also he walketh in a vain shew or to give it you in the Psalmist's words elsewhere Every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Now these Religious acts are either outward or inward As to outward acts Men do not only work and trade but even pray and come to Church in a vain shew Not only Markets and Fairs but even religious Assemblies and Congregations are a shew too which men walk in whilst they pretend to walk with God Those make a great noise in the Ears of Men and these are little better than a noise in the Ears of Heaven Who can deny but that the Worship of the Prophane is a vain shew who to day swear by the Name of God and to morrow call upon the Name of God to day eat unto Gluttony and drink unto Drunkenness to morrow eat the Flesh and drink the Blood of the Son of God to day pray to God to damn them and to morrow pray him to save them to day behave themselves so reverently as if God were in the Head and to morrow live as if there were no God in Heaven Who can imagine but GOD and Men too must loath such impious Vanity as this is Who can deny but that the Idolatrous and Superstitious Worshippers walk in a vain shew who worship either they know not what or they care not how offering up strange Fire to God and indeed affronting him whilst they pretend to adore him Who can deny but that the Worldling who has set up the World in his Heart for his Idol walks in a vain shew who sits before God as an attentive Hearer of his Word and makes much love to him with his Lips when his Heart is far from him and runs after his Covetousness Who can deny but the Hypocrite walks in a vain shew who comes with his God I thank thee in his Mouth when he has no love for him in his Heart who confesses the Sins which he has no mind to part with who begs the Grace which he has no mind to receive who seems to condemn and humble himself before God in the mean time is great in his own Eyes and ceases not upon all occasions to magnifie and applaud himself before men But some one will say All men are not prophane worldly idolatrous hypocritical there are some substantial Worshippers that worship the Father in Spirit and Truth Answ It is true indeed The father seeketh such to worship him Joh. 4. 23. but I doubt he findeth few for not to strain the Apostle's words to the utmost and most uncharitable sence 1 Joh. 5. 19. Totus mundus positus est in maligno though Prophaneness may be easily discerned yet sure I am predominant Worldliness and Hypocrisie are in many Hearts where they are not discover'd nay it is to be feared