Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	holy_a	spirit_n	word_n	12,159	5	4.3929	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91988	The picture of the conscience drawne to the life, by the pencell of divine truth. VVherein are set out 1. Its nature. 2. Infirmities. 3. Remedies. 4. Its duties. Consisting first in the truths to be beleived [sic]. 2. The vertues to be practised. 3. The vices to bee avoyded. 4. The heresies to bee rejected. All seasonable for these distracted times. By Alexander Rosse.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1980; Thomason E1195_1; ESTC R208720	46,614	212

Ghost otherwayes distinguished but by generation and procession and if the Sonne be the Wisdom and Knowledge of the Father and the Holy Ghost the love of both he must doubtlesse proceed from the Sonne because Love proceeds of Knowledge 18 Wee must beleeve that there is one Church universall in respect of time place and person which neither hath erred nor can erre in things fundamentall and absolutely necessary and that the head of this Church is Christ only both in respect of eminencie dominion efficacie and perfection as containeing al those graces of spirituall sense motion life and other good things which he imparts to his members and the Church of Rome is not this Catholick Church but a mishapen and lame member therof and that neither her antiquity nor multitudes nor succession nor miracles nor continuance nor unity nor outward splendor c. are true markes of a true Church 19 Wee are bound in Conscience to beleeve that there is a Communion and Fellowship of the Saints among themselves here on earth consisting in their mutuall loves in imparting spirituall gifts and supporting each other with their mutuall helps as also with the Saints in Heaven they praying for us and we earnestly desireing to be with them and with Christ also as the branches with the root builders with the foundation the wife with the husband the members with the head he imparting to us his righteousnesse merits and prerogatives and we imparting againe to him our sins punishments and infirmities 20 We are in Conscience to beleeve that God doth forgive sins and that he alone hath this power the Minister only pronounceth the pardon and that all sins are pardonable though not actually pardoned by reason of impenitency unbeleife that our sins are pardoned not for our merits but for Christs obedience 21 So we are to beleeve the resurrection of bodies because otherwayes the members cannot be conformable to their head nor can God bee the God of the living but of the dead Christ rose in vaine our faith is vaine we are of al men most miserable and this resurrection must be of al because al must be rewarded or punished but this resurection shal not be the work of nature because naturaly from the privation to the habit ther can be no regresse and though there may be a natural disposition in the matter to bee reunited to its forme yet there is no active power in nature to cause this union and though there is an inclination in the soule to bee united againe to its body yet in the dust there can bee no naturall inclination to the soule of man 22 We are also to beleeeve that besides this life of Nature and of Grace here there is a life of Glory hereafter eternall in the Heavens which in Scripture is called Peace a refreshing a rest our Masters joy our Fathers house the Kingdome of Heaven Abrahams bosome Paradise the new Ierusalem this life must be Eternall because God is Eternall the soule is immortall and we that suffer for Christ without it must be of all men most miserable the testimony of Scripture the translation of Henoch the rapture of Eliah and the ascension of Christ doe confirme the truth of this doctrine 23. Our Conscience also bindes us to believe the truth of Gods Word and that the Scripture which we cal Canonical are the dictates of the Holy Ghost if either wee consider the majestie of the stile or the efficacy of the phrase in working upon the heart like a sharp two edged sword deviding betweene the soule and the spirit the joynts and the marrow or if we looke upon the Antiquity of the Scripture or upon Gods providence in the miraculous preserving and divulging of them against all opposition or if upon the inveterate hatred of Satan and of the world in persecuting and labouring to falsifie them if they could or if upon the fearefull and horrid ends of those men who have hated and persecuted the Scripture or again if wee take notice of the divine matter which is contained in them of the truth of their predictions and accomplishment of their Prophesies of the wonderfull harmony and consent of doctrine through all the parts thereof of the generall consent of the Church through all the world maintaining and preserving the Scripture of the transcendent miracles recorded in them of the Constancy of the Martyrs in suffering all kind of tortures for maintaining thetruth of them if lastly we consider the miraculous calling the selfe insufficiency and yet the extraordinary abilities of the men that penned them our Conscience wil assure us that the Scripture were indicted by Gods Spirit Wee must are beleeve that there are ministring spirits which in Scripture are called Angels Gods Sonnes of God morning Starres Seraphim Cherubim men of God c. These wait upon the Throne of God are imployed by him to comfort instruct defend and deliver from danger the children of God to carry their soules into Abrahams bosome to gather their bones together in the last day to pnnish the wicked here and to separate these Goates from the Sheep hereafter these were created in the beginning all good some of which persevered in their integrity partly by the goodnesse of their owne will partly by Gods decree before time and by his assisting grace in time and partly by reason of the excellent knowledge they have of God both naturall experimentall and supernaturall or revealed and some of them fell by pride and envy affecting equality with God and maligning mans felicity for which cause they were thrust out of Heaven and strucke with blindnesse in their mindes and perversenesse in their wils yet much knowledge they have both naturall experimentall and revealed and much strength also by which they worke upon the bodayes the minde and senses of men yet they know not our thoughts nor things to come except by revelation or conjecture We are bound also to believe that God made man after his own Image which consisted in righteousnesse holinesse and immortality which Image being lost by sinne was restored againe by Christ and that mans body was made of earth but his soule of nothing and not of the Heaven or the fire or the ayre or the divine substance And that there is not one soule of all men nor a transmigration of soules out of one body into another nor that the soules were created before the world or that they are mortall being they are simple and uncompounded substances and not made of matter or contrary Elements besides that the Word of God the Consciences of men the excelency of the soul the inorganicall faculties thereof and the consent of all ages and nations do prove its immortality therefore it is not educed out of the matter as other formes are but introduced and infused by God immediatly who breathed into Adam the breath of life and albeit the Soule is infused pure by God yet no sooner enters it into the body but is