Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hate_v	sin_n	swan_n	40	3	16.3177	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53271	Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.	Oldfield, James.	1687 (1687)	Wing O218; ESTC R28747	141,831	348

most dear unto us the Gospel bids the Drunkard leave his drunkenness the Swearer leave his swearing the Covetous man to leave his Gold and Silver the Proud man to despise honor and embrace humility in a word it bids every man to leave his own Iniquity O this is an hard saying who can bear it flesh and blood can never endure it Away with such a Gospel as this is cry men this will turn the World upside down Let John Baptist Preach what he will before Herod he can like his Doctrin well enough but when he comes to tell him he must part with his beloved Herodias away with him to Prison 't is not fit such a man should live upon the earth Paul may Preach as long as he please at Ephesus till he come to Preach down Diana then will Demetrius presently raise a tumult against him so the Young Man in the 19 th Chap. of St. Matthews Gospel what Christ said to him from the 16 to the 20 verse was all well Christ had not as yet touched his sore place he spake nothing of his beloved sin well but you shall see what follows verses 21 22. here the shooe pincht him when Christ comes once to tell him of his beloved sin to touch that he had enough away he goes Sinners turn their backs on Christ assoon as Christ bids them turn their backs upon their own Iniquities We are all of us like Naaman in the 2 Kings 5. 17 18. God must bate us an ace if he expects us to be his Servants we make our terms with God to have our liberty in one sin or other which we like best O we think that God is a very hard Master and that he is too strict and severe with us to debar us of every sin like Agrippa we are contented to meet Christ above half ways to be almost Christians i. e. Christians in every thing save in one thing i. e. in keeping still our own sin but that we can by no means part withal Now I hope you see the Reason why so few are converted and why all our Preaching proves no more profitable unto you blame not us but blame your selves for it we may say as David said these Sons of Zerviah are too hard for us as to other things we may perswade you and prevail somewhat but when we come to speak against this sin your own sin there is little or no hope to prevail with you This sin is the Beelzebub the Prince of Devils and 't is not all the Apostles of Christ unless Christ himself come powerfully into your hearts can cast him out 3. Here we see the folly of sinners who for the short pleasure of some beloved sin or other will venture to undergo the pains of the damned the torments of Hell and the Wrath of an Almighty God 21. Ex. 1 2 5 6 verses the case is the same here the Gospel is nothing else but a proclamation of liberty to the Captives all that will leave their sins may come to Christ and be made free well but their are some like the Israelites servants that will say I love my sin which is my Master and as dear to me as Wife and Children I will not go out free oh these are the Persons that have their ear boared never shall Sermon do them good never shall ordinance do them good they shall serve sin for ever God will fulfill their desires as they are unwilling to part with sin so shall they never part with sin they and their sins shall live and dye and go to Hell together O the folly and fondness of sinners that are so unwilling to part with their sins let such know this before sin and they part they shall have enough of it you that tast the sweet of sin remember that you must tast the sour also sin like St. Johns Book though it seem to you as sweet as honey in the mouth yet it will be as bitter as gall and wormwood in the Bowels O let us remember this that our Souls are our own as well as our sins and one of them we must part withal here is the tryal which we love best our own Sins or our own Souls that which we love best we will not part withal 3. Acts 19. No sin shall be blotted out at the day of Judgment but those sins that are cast out here cast them out of your hearts and God will soon blot them out of his Book O that sinners were but as wise in preventing as they shall be woful in undergoing the everlasting sorrows which shall follow their short sinful pleasures 'T is but a foolish bargain that every sinner makes to purchase eternal pains for momentary pleasures to chuse rather to be turned out of Heaven then to turn one sin out of thy heart 4. Here we see likewise the Reason why People are so in love with sin which is so ugly in its own nature and so odious in the sight of God. If we had the true picture of sin drawn to the life before our eyes together with the Judgments of God in this life and the Torments of Hell in the other life carrying up its train we could not but sit down and wonder at the madness of our hearts that we should so much dote upon it or fall in love with it O but wonder not here 's the Reason every man loves one sin or other because 't is his own sin Do not some of you wonder why David should love Absalom so well a Murderer a Traytor what not one that in many respects dealt worse with David than ever Saul did one that was a continual grief to David yet he loved him dearly for all this would you know the Reason see it in the 2 of Sam. 19. 4. why he was his own Son that was the Reason Do you wonder that men can love sin so well which is a Traytor in their bosoms the Destroyer of their Souls the only hindrance of their Eternal Happiness oh here 's the reason 't is their own sin a Babe conceived in the womb of their own hearts nursed up and suckled in their own Breasts All men are mightily taken with their own things the Proverb is every mans own goose is better than his Neighbors swan so is it with sin we do hate sin others but we love it in our selves nay the very same sins that we hate in others we hug them while they are in our own bosoms the truth is this when ever a wicked man hates sin he doth not hate it as it is sin but because it is not his sin if it were his sin he would love it as well as others nay and perhaps this man that hates one sin in his Neighbour may as dearly love another sin in himself see an example in the 38. Gen. 24 25 26. we look not upon our own sins with the same pair of spectacles that we look on other mens sins withal Men will never think