Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96416	Joshua's resolution; or the duties of houshold-governours discoursed of, and fairly stated; their failures therein mildly consider'd, and without favour or affection impartially weighed. The subject suited to the capacities of tamworth auditory, and preached there, and elsewhere, by John Wagstaffe, A.M. and rector of Little Wenlock, in Shropshire.	Wagstaffe, John, rector of Little Wenlock.	1684 (1684)	Wing W199B; ESTC R186141	18,928	34

And when once you have tasted how good his Service is * Psal 34. you will then out of more noble generous principles as I hinted to you before it being not only an easy pleasant profitable but an honourable service so that if you love your selves and who is there that does not then thirst after your own real good and happiness love God with all your Souls and Minds and serve him with all your strength and might express it in your Christian Charity in your hearty love and service to one another and to love your Neighbour as your self * Jam. 2.8 Non habet charitatem Dei qui Ecclesiae non diligit Vnitatem I met with this in that inoffensive Learned Author Dr. Barrow on Unity and as you do expect and would fain have the like from him and to the utmost endeavour for Unity * Eph. 4. to be of one mind so great is the advantage of it but if that is almost impossible and that offences must and will come as the Saviour of the World informs you * Luke 17. but give none and then you 'l be sure to save your own Souls having charitable thoughts of all construing every thing in the most favourable sense that it is capable of * 1 Cor. 13.7 and if there must needs be Emulations and Contentions among you at any time let them be of the better stamp strive which shall out-strip each other in the ways of Piety and real Holiness and frequently offer to overcome one another which is the best sort of Conquest by abundance of love and condescension by frequent acts of kindness and repeated favours to weary out your very Foes with love to load them with Gratuities and Courtesies to do good Offices for bad ones and the like Thus to persevere and hold out to the end is in good earnest to serve the Lord our selves our Families all that we have to do withal the place we are in the Neighbourhood the Country the King and the Kingdom But in the next place Vse 2 by way of Reprehension to calm it with some Advice and to shew you how we have grosly mistaken the service of God Now if miserableness and covetousness if domestick Jars and Discords if little Pikes and Quarrels with our Neighbours if taking that for sin which is duty * 1 Pet. 2.13 if looking upon that to be duty which is none * Jam. 2.9 as for Instance If fondness to a Party and disgust to a contrary Persuasion if hating and disdaining if proud humility and phantastick conceitedness if throwing our selves upon the ground like a Tennis-ball with a design to rebound so much the higher if base Apostacy and downright Revolting if notorious Hypocrisie and famous Dissembling if this be serving of God we have whole shoals of such Professors to produce daily If discontents and murmurings if whining and being on the complaining key if disobedience and untowardness to Superiours in Office Age or Gift to Parents Ministers Magistrates c. if burlesquing and buffooning if miscalling and nick-naming if raising false Reports and spreading them for true ones * James 3. if lying and back biting if blasting mens Credit and plundering them of what is more dear to them than their lives their good Names if censuring casting darts and firebrands at one another as Solomon's Proverbs phraseth it * Pro. 26.18 19 20. if this be serving God we have enough of this Tribe and counterfeit Stamp to present you withal If scandalous Reflections and boldly speaking evil of Dignities * 2 Pet. 2● Jude if inveighing and letting flie at the Government after a strange rate and saying as it is in the Book of Ecclesiastes * Ch. 7. 10. What is the cause why former times were better than these we do not do wisely in so doing as that place informs you yet if all this be serving of God as 't is matter of fact there 's many too too many do this to some purpose that do or should know better And those too that are pleas'd to stile themselves the only true Protestant Christians thô they act clear contrary thereto they will think me surely never the worse Friend or greater Enemy * Gal. 4. for speaking the Truth but to reprieve your dying Fame transgress sin no more in this kind or any other be no more superstitious lest a worse thing befall you * John 5.14 than ever you dreamt of yet by losing of both worlds the present Canaan in possession and the eternal one in reversion * Deut. 30.19 20. But again to direct my Discourse to those who in their Judgment are for Church-Discipline but in their practice against it which truly does the greatest disservice more by far than the most enraged of our Enemies Now if prodigality and intemperance if rioting and drunkenness if dallying and fornicating if cursing and banning if swaggering and swearing hectoring and rallying at those that are not of their Judgment in every nicety and punctilio and when did we ever see two faces so alike but that they might be distinguisht by a Mole feature a look or the like If this be serving of God there are those that do it with a witness thinking themselves too the best Loyalists but ah poor deluded Souls 't is neither to God nor their Soveraign Those that are bad to themselves cannot be good to their great Lord and Master Take away the wicked from before the King saith King Solomon * Pro. 16.12 13 14 15. and his Throne shall be establisht for ever in Righteousness * Prov. 25.5 So that it is our sins that do most prejudice our Dread Soveraign and do undermine his Government shake his Kingdom and unless we be truly penitent 't is well if we and our most glorious King do not perish * 1 Sam. 12.25 which the Lord long preserve Him and all his that are truly Loyal whatever Convictions may be upon their Spirits to leave that to God and themselves But how can it be imagin'd they that are false hearted treacherous and disloyal to their own Souls that they should be either true or constant to God in Heaven or to Man on Earth How can it be possibly expected that they that carelesly destroy their own lives should take care of and charily preserve Him His or any others Therefore instead of condemning Providence for being too exact and severe with the poor Church of England or with the King or Kingdom at any time Let 's strive to be religious that 's the only way to appease it to be successful and prosperous * Prov. 11.11 and most serviceable to all three 'T is Righteousness that that great Politician Solomon says exalts a Nation * Prov. 14.34 'T is our backsliding and revoltings that is the downfal and overthrow of any people 'T is sin sin that makes breaches in our poor Protestant walls overturns our bulwarks and

lie in my power to set them at Christ's left and right hand if they would but unking Kingdoms and set the World it self in a combustion * Act. 17.6.6 and on a flame and then would have them with Pilate wash their hands in innocency * Mat. 27.24 wipe their mouths too and say What have they done that should so incense all Parties against them I would further strive to make them believe that they did God good service thereby * Joh. 16.2 that they should at last have a Coronation instead of meeting with a Damnation day * Rom. 13.2 If they would but like the Evil one in the Gospel * Mat. 13.24 25 28. sow Weeds and Tares in the Protestants Wheat not only in private Assemblies but in the Publick ones that are allowed by Authority and when they had done that to bundle them up Wheat and Chaff all of us together especially the most remarkable opposers as the most combustible matter fittest for the Papists Bonfire or to take that easy plausible way as to throw Bones of Contention amongst us and then glory in it * Phil. 3.18.19 which some I am afraid already have effectually done making us to bite tear devour one another * Gal. 5.14 without so much as putting to their helping hand and then such shall be said to do God good service thô they were immediately imploy'd in Satan's Drudgery Thus thus would I do were I to serve my self or the vain World thô not so bluntly as I have done it here for this was done designedly to let you see through the thin Vail that was drawn over a little to disguise varnish it dele ovee but remembring remembring that I am a Servant of the high God therefore as Heaven's Ambassador I bespeak you beseech you in his most glorious Name having to do with a better Pay-Master than such Bragadosia's or meer puffs of Wind can pretend to promise me or any other do roundly not mincingly tell you over again by way of general direction 3. In the last place If you do not repent you shall all likewise perish * Luke 13.3 It is not enough that you have Abraham * Matth. 3. Isaac and Jacob for your Father I mean no more by it than this thô you be born of Christian Parents and bear so honourable a Name of being Protestants and would continue so from one Generation to another yet that will not serve turn thô you be of the Church of England of Rome of Geneva or of the Brotherhood or of separate Congregations * Gal. 3. Col. 3. it will be no acceptable service at all * 1 Cor. 7.19 unless you do the injoyned Will of your Father in Heaven be Israelites without guile in deed and in truth And that you may be throughly known whatever Names you may go by 't is demanded from the Church-Party to see their Faith by their good works * Jam. 2. of all others to know the Tree by its Fruit * Matth. 7. this takes most thô both Scripture expressions and the sense partly the same the former to see their Principles by their Practices the latter to know their lives by their fruit bearing I mean by their upright honest conscientious living Therefore this is known for a great truth to be the Lords Livery wherever 't is worn throughout the parts of Europe Cease to do evil learn to do well * Isa 1.16 17. If you 'l be stil'd the Lord's Servants a great deal is coucht under those two short Sentences as to the particulars I refer you to what hath been already offered to you but if you would have it over again in other words look in the Prophet Micah * Mich. 6.8 What does the Lord require of you but to do Justice love Mercy and to walk humbly with thy God That is in short let Sobriety and Temperance be practised on your selves Righteousness and Justice to your Neighbour Piety and Godliness to your Maker and you will find * Luk. 13.13 that you are not then to be found in Rioting and Drunkenness not in Chambering and Wantonness not in Strife and Envy c. but imitate the Lord Jesus as he hath already given us an Example I can only now touch on things and as it were dart Truths at random yet as you have it in the first Book of Samuel * 1 Sam. 17. a stone being slung by a contemptible Stripling what effect it had Now God's Spirit and your own Conscience levelling this and the other Truth that it may hit the white the mark sink down into the heart and kill a Goliah a Gigantick sin whatever you may tearm me for throwing my poor Mite into the Treasury and Corban of the Lord's Service * Mark 12. I 'le not go on in reparteeing as to call you uncircumcised Christians whilst I am upon serving England's living God but accost you with all the respect and tenderness that the Subject is able to bear I 'le treat you yea address my self to you not as you are the poor despicable Subjects of a great Prince but as if ye were so many Grandees and Monarchs of several little Worlds and Countrys which was the first Original of Families as you may see at large in the Old Testament every Head of a Family being a kind of a petty God or King and still in many respects you are so within your Precincts and Provinces within your own proper Stations and Boundaries within your own Dominions and Domestick Territories if you do not forfeit your right and title thereto by a false Religion by Rebellion Sacriledge or the like which is cry'd out against as much as the deadly sin of Sorcery or Witchcraft * 1 Sam. 15.23 Therefore 't is to you pious Parents and worthy Governours of your Families thô you have never so mean thoughts of your selves the more you are so for being humble meek lowly and submissive that my suit is in the behalf of the great Majesty not only of Earth but Heaven that you and your houses would resolve * In what manner Dr. Calamy has done 't you may see on that Text Rom. 3.8 pag. 28 29 30 31. 't is with that confession solemnity protestation nobleness of spirit that it deserves to be ingrav'd in Letters of Gold if it would but excite all others to take up the same Christian alike resolution in the behalf of God the Church the King the present Government the Country against either Popery or Fanaticism to serve the Lord There There there you are so many petty Kings to controul and command according to your own private will and pleasure and your dutiful Children are as so many little Princes about you and your trusty Servants are as so many Lords not Slaves attending on you Now is it not great pity that such a glorious Equipage heavenly Retinue should be badly imploy'd in Satans drudgery