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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	great_a	know_v	world_n	4,002	5	4.4108	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43743	The Protestant mirrour, in proper postures and principles: or, The careful resident, and the careless non-resident	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1943B; ESTC R213455	3,987	1

The Carefull RESIDENT The Careless NON-RESIDENT The Protestant Mirrour in proper Postures and Principles OR The Careful Resident and the Careless Non-Resident The Tryal of DOCTRINES Its Necessity and the Sure way For the Service of the Church and Strengthning of Believers By Samuel Hieron Minister of the Gospel THe course of seeking Holy Knowledge at the mouths of those whose Lips by their calling ought to preserve it is tearmed by Solomon a buying of the Truth As therefore in buying it is every mans Wisdom to consider the Wares which are tendered to him how they are conditioned and as Chrysostom saith pithily to this purpose To go from Shop to Shop and from Chapman to Chapman to look where he may have the best before he make a through bargain so it ought to be the care of a prudent Christian to consider of particulars which are taught before he give them entertainment Take heed how you hear said our Saviour doth not this take heed in hearing intend a tryal of things heard Some purpose to deceive whom the Apostle tearmeth Lyers in wait to deceive and whom he compares according to the nature of the Greek Word used to Cheaters and false Gamesters who have devices by cogging Dice to deceive the unskilful These speak perverse things and privily bring in damnable Heresies It hath been an antient practice of the Devil to be a lying spirit in the mouths of some Prophets There have been ever some misleading leaders causers of the people to err by their lyes and Saint Peter hath assured us that in this particular the latter times will-hold proportion with the former Still there will be some Seeds-men of Tares amongst them that sow the purer Wheat some temperers of Leaven with the sweet Lump of Gods sacred Truth A Man might so lap up the poisonous drugs of Popery and so gild them over with the seeming Allowance of Scripture and of hore-headed Antiquity that even the greatest part would soon swallow them down without suspition We disclaim all Lordship over your faith We are set on Work for the service of your Faith not for commanding it We leave it to Papists to Tyrannize over Mens Thoughts in matters of Religion and to require the people to lap up their faith in the general believing of the Church We desire you to Try we beseech you to enquire we would fain bring you to stand in the ways and ask we know you can never till then have stablished hearts The main Touch by whch all Doctrine must be tryed and by which it must either stand or fall is the will of God revealed in the scriptures Bring them to the Law and to the Testimony said the Oracle of God of old and consider whether they speak according to that word By this our Saviour himself was content to be Tryed by this the preaching of Paul and Silas at Thessalonica was tryed Religious Doctrines are Gods matters and shall we have a better then God to be tryed by in the things of God and how shall we know what is Gods mind in a matter of Doctrine but by the Scriptures Excellent spake he who called the Scripture the Heart and Soul of God and he who affirmed that God hath left for us in the Scriptures a Fortress against Errors Let Papists if they will needs persist in their blasphemous disclaiming the tryal of the Scripture accounting Traditions to be the Touchstone of Doctrine and foundation of Faith We will ever account them the Divine beam and the most exact ballance and approve that course of that great Constantine exhorting the Fathers assembled in the Nicene Council to take the resolution of things in question out of the divinely inspired Writings And let Men learn here by the way how necessary it is for them if they would be rightly grounded in religion to be well acquainted in the Scriptures Our Saviours rule can never fail You are deceived not knowing the Scriptures God forbid we should under any pretext dishearten you in your care to turn over Gods Book Let profaneness and Popery cast reproaches upon diligence and ordinariness herein we the Ministers of Christ shall rather call upon you as Chrysostome of old did upon his hearers Hear O ve men of the World get you Bibles It is saith another of the Antients of all torments the greatest to the Devils if they see a Man given to Reading of the Scriptures We wondred of late times to see so many not simple people onely but Learned Clerks and Rabbies to turn Papists we needed not if we had considered that their hearts were gone to Rome before and now their heads followed after Were they well examined many of them it would be found they first put away a good conscience before they made shipwrack of the Faith their hearts betrayed their heads Many of them were it s known they were Covetous Ambitious Voluptuous and Popery hath baits of all sorts to catch them that great Harlot and Mother of Fornications hath a Golden Cup full of Preferments Profits Pleasures and this made mens heads Drunk and Giddy to embrace the grossest Errors and Obsurdities for Truths Christ cannot be taken nor overtaken Hunt and Catch and lay Snares who will Saul Judas or all the Violent Crafty Hypocrites in the World A Bow of Steel is broken by his Hand Hell is naked before him not onely open but naked as a thing without all strength or force to hurt When the Kingdom is destroyed by hearkening to flatterers and self-seekers what will ye do If you shall to please fawning Men or froward men displease God and betray all into the hands of his wrath what will these unworthy persons advantage you when the guilt of the blood of thousands lies upon your consciences will you send them for those Clergy-men or States-men which mislead you why you may and miserable comforters will they be The Ram was caught behind him Genesis 22. 13. The pleasure of the Lord doth prosper at his pleasure and as his pleasure sometimes before us that is in ways which we can reach and serve Gods providence in sometimes again behind us that is in such ways as we cannot reach to lend him the least Concurrence in to teach that our expectation should be purely plac'd upon his word and that we should say to our Souls in all straits The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand Abraham had no hands behind him neither do men ordinarily go that way to catch things yet there was the Ramm caught If ever England shine or any Instrument in England 't will be as in his hand by whom alone all shall prosper Expectation pure the Spirit is solid very high and yet very low never at a loss Nothing makes the way of a Mans Spirit so wide and sweet within him as fidelity to God and to his Conscience 't is so in bigger bodies nothing makes the way of a Kingdom more quiet and prosperous within it self then faithful dealing