Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01382	Communion vvith God. in two sermons preach'd at Paul's: the first, Sept. 3, 1654, the second, March 25, 1655. / By Samuel Annesley L.L.D. minister of the gospel at John Evangel London.	Annesley, Samuel, 1620?-1696.	1655 (1655)	Wing A3227; ESTC R223508	33,565	54

Pack Maior Thursday the 27. of March 1655. ORdered that Dr. Annesley be desired from this Court to print his Sermon at Pauls on the last Lords-day together with his former Sermon there the last year SADLER Communion vvith God IN TWO SERMONS Preach'd at PAULS The first Sept. 3. 1654. The second March 25. 1655. By SAMUEL ANNESLEY L. L. D. Minister of the Gospel at JOHN Evangel LONDON EPHES. 3.19 That you might be filled with all the fulnesse of God London Printed by Evan Tyler and are to be sold by Nathanael Web and William Grantham at the signe of the Black Bear in Pauls Church-yard 1655. To the Right Honourable CHRISTOPHER PACK LORD-MAYOR of LONDON And the Right VVorshipfull ALDERMEN of the same Famous City My Lord AS you had nothing besides the naked amiablenes of the subject to render these Sermons acceptable so I have nothing but my Obedience to Magistracy to preface their publication Must I not by your eies see by your faith believe these truths thus clouded in their discovery profitable But seeing you Surprise me with an Order Give me leave to follow your Order further then perhaps you thinke it leades me and that is to retort it back upon your own consciences Your commands for such are your desires all superiours desires being commands enamel'd with humility give a Solemn avouchment of the Truths you heard and therefore if you do henceforth in the least depart from God or preferre any thing I speak the word againe Any thing before him you transgresse not onely Gods laws but your own and such kind of Sinning against your own concessions is more haynous then barely to sin against God Your order Virtually recommends these truths to others I cannot sufficently assert and therefore intreat you to enquire what will be the aggravation of walking contrary to them Iehosaphat sent his Princes to teach that is to encourage the Ministers to teach in the Cities of Iudah and by such Orders as these you preach to the world what is preach'd to you at Pauls Let me crave leave to be plain You may easily be ensnared by casting your eye upon this subject for if you read no more you have read too much if you read on expecting embroydery you lose your labour if with neglect your soules Either embrace such truths heartily or abjure them speedily be not deceived God will not be mocked the more gracious his condescension for acceptance the more grievous his indignation for refusall and your refusall of God can neither be more nor lesse then a Choise rejection I beseeh you therefore resolve upon something and let not our resolutions come to nothing As you are Christians make Religion your businesse that you may enjoy God and as you are Magistrates walk as becomes if I may so speak Earthly deities as those that are called Gods I do not charge you in the least but humbly prompt your consciences to demand of you an Account what have you done like Gods and for God since you came into places of Authority When you stood upon lower ground did you not think magistrates might do more then they did do you now do what you then thought If you say you have performed the commandment of the Lord a by-stander wil perhaps reply What mean then the Blasphemous swearing the roaring drunkennesse the common whoredomes the rambling Sabbath-breaking c. may these Sons of Belial plead liberty of conscience If you cannot reach those that pull the crown from the head of Christ in way of Spirituall wickednesse pray hold their hands that would stab the heart of Christ by morall wickednesse If reason of state leave God to vindicate his own glory in matters of religion let not Laws of state lye dormant at your doors for want of execution If you cannot do what you would do what you can do something something which may proclame you Deservedly-renowned Christian-Magistrates No more words but wishes that I could tempt you or fright you into Communion with God 't is the very desire of MY LORD and Gentlemen Your Soul-Servant SAMUEL ANNESLEY Apr. 11. 1655. The First Sermon PSAL. 73.25 26. Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever WEre Phylacteries in use among Christians I would recommend this Scripture to be bound about your necks or written upon the table of your hearts This is a Scripture whereon we may well say AMEN to Augustines Confessions O the wonderful depth my God the wonderful depth of thy Word though there be superficies blandiens an out-side sweetnesse tempting us to taste it There 's an inside excellency forcing us to admire it its matter of horrour to view its dimensions but 't is horror honoris tremor amoris an horrour of honour and a trembling of love For Whom have I in heaven but thee q. d. who is there in heaven for me to trust in or call upon besides God or thus What is there that is precious in heaven which I desire without thee or before thee Whom have I in heaven but thee And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee Tecum nolui in terra lo caphatsti the word is used of Shechem Gen. 34.19 he had delight in Jacobs daughter So q. d. can I so much as wish much lesse dote upon any thing on earth nothing lesse my acquiescence in God renders all things without him nothing worth there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee My flesh and my heart faileth here he interweaveth his former complaint with his present comfort q. d. my body and spirit are almost overwhelmed with grief when I see my self so variously miserable and the wicked so triumphantly happy But God is the strength of my heart in Hebr. it is the rock of my heart a rock implies strength and safety q.d. Though my trials be so great that no human strength can prevent or sustain them yet God is my Rock the Rock of ages In him I have never failing support and safety God is the strength of my heart And my portion it is a Metaphor taken from the ancient custome of dividing inheritances whereby every Heire had his allotted portion q. d. Let the men of the world share the world among them let the Ziba's of the world take all so I may have God to be my portion My portion for ever not for a time but for ever tantum habeo nunquam non habeo I have so great a portion and I shall never not have it Whatever befals me this is enough to uphold me God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever And thus you have the words singly opened I must confesse I am loath to make any further division because our happinesse is bound up in their strict conjunction Therefore without any more adoe this Observation smiles upon you