Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	6,613	5	5.5143	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50402	The law of God ratified by the gospel of Christ, or, The harmony of the doctrine of faith with the law of righteousness wherein many of the types and rites of the ceremonial law are unfolded, and the moral law adjusted a rule of holy living to all, though justified by faith / as it was delivered in several sermons preacht to the parochial congregation of Mayfield in Sussex by Mr. Mainard late rector thereof, publisht since his death.	Maynard, John, 1600-1665.	1674 (1674)	Wing M1450; ESTC R33505	161,259	298

and that for this cause he delivered Himeneus and Alexander unto Satan He sheweth that Heresies are doctrines of devils and Lyes spoken in Hypocrisie and foretelling the perillous times that should come in these last dayes that men should be lovers of their own selves c. then he addeth of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts ever learning c. He compareth them to Iannes and Iambres that withstood Moses meaning I suppose the Egyptian Sorcerers or Juglers so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith and afterwards he sheweth the miserable progress that they shall make scil from bad to worse Evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived Yea he sheweth the folly of those that hearken to seducers The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth an● shall be turned unto fables He calleth fals● teachers unruly and vain talkers and deceivers whose mouths must be stopped who subvert who●● houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre sake And he giveth this charg● to Titus concerning such a man that is a● Heretick after the first and second admonition reject knowing that he that is such is subverted and sinneth being condemned of himself It is conceived that the Epistle to the Hebrew was written by this Apostle and how largely doth he there confute the corrupt doctrine of them that maintained the necessary use 〈◊〉 legal cremonies and giveth this admonitio● Be not carried about with divers and strang● doctrines and saith We have an Altar where● they have have no right to eat which serv● the Tabernacle shewing they have no pa● in Christ which obstinately prefer the sh●dows of the old Testament before Christ the● substance Secondly to these Examples may be add● divers Arguments or Reasons whereby it m●● appear why Heresies false doctrines opinnions that oppose or corrupt the truths 〈◊〉 Christ are odious to the godly and abho●red by them First because the glory of God is exceedingly wronged by false doctrines and Heresies an● the grosser any such Heresies are the more 〈◊〉 God dishonoured by them God the Fathe● is such as Christ witnesseth of him he th●● sent me is true yea he cannot lye God the Son is Truth God the holy Ghost is the spirit of Truth Now what a high disho●our is it to the God of Truth when lyes are fathered npon him and attributed to him errours and false opinions in matters of Religion are taught professed received as Truths of God What is this but to go about to derive darkness from light lyes from the Fountain of Truth The Apostle disputing against that great errour of them that denyed the Resurrection of the dead bringeth this Argument amongst others that Christ is risen and the resurrection of the Head proveth the Resurrection of the Members and sheweth that divers absurdities would follow if the resurrection of Saints should be denyed among the rest this We are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom be raised not up if so be the dead rise not They that maintain any falshood in point of Religion as a Truth they bear false witness of God as much as in them lies they make him a lyar the Author of falshood Which tendeth highly to the dishonour of his great and glorious name and therefore all that are born of God all that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity abhor errours and Heresies Secondly There is a contrariety in the hearts of the godly against errours and Heresies They have in them a principle of opposition against false doctrine A stranger will they not follow but will flee from him for they know not the voice of strangers There is something within them which suiteth not with strange doctrine but is averse from it For 1. They are begotten with the word of Truth Of his own will begat he us with the word of Truth As they are new creatures they have their original from the word of truth it i● as it were one of the ingredients of their new nature and so in that regard there is a natural antipathy and contrariety betwixt them and false doctrines The Apostle Iohn saith o● the godly we know that we are of the Truth They do as it were derive their new being from the Truth and therefore errour and fals● doctrine is hateful and abominable in their sight 2. They are the children of the God of Truth they are united unto Jesus Christ who is ful● of grace and truth they are led by the spirit of Christ who is the spirit of truth and therefore abhor and detest lyes spoken in Hypocrisie Thirdly The godly have learned that errou● tend to the destruction of poor Souls and therefore Peter calleth them damnable Heresies Paul calleth them doctrines of Devils It 〈◊〉 said they eat like a canker or gangrene whic● is such a malignant disease that it require●● the cutting off of a limb otherwise the who● body is in danger to be destroyed Now 〈◊〉 people of God being tender and compassionate toward immortal Souls How can the● chuse but abhor such deadly poyson when the● find it offered by Seducers and readily swallowed down by the simple Is it not strange that some would have protection and encouragement given to all false doctrines and to those that spread and propagate them and that under a pretence of tenderness Is it not rather a high degree of cruelty to protect any in destroying Souls to give them full liberty to wander about with their Plague-sores running upon them freely to spread their contagious and pestilent Errours to the infecting of thousands Fourthly one errour begetteth many one false principle may be the cursed root of many rotten branches and a spring of many streams How many gross absurdities as the Apostle sheweth follow as conse●uents from that one grand errour of denying the Resurrection of the body as that Christ is not risen the preaching of the Gospel is vain the faith of believers vain and they still in their sins under the guilt and power of them and when they die they perish and that they have hope only in this life and so are of all men most miserable because they expose themselves to the scorn and malice of the wicked in hope of a better life And doth not experience shew how people when once they depart from the truth fall from errour to errour and with giddy heads run about in a maze of vain delusions Satan the Father of lyes having once seduced and gotten them into his circle leadeth them from one by-path to another Now how can a man