Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	jehu_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	12	3	9.5100	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81893	The great corruption of subtile self, discovered, and driven from it's lurking-places and starting-holes And the contrary grace, self-denyal commended, as an indispensably necessary requisite to the acceptable and successfull performance of all commanded-duties, and as notably fitting for taking up of the cross, and following Christ. In seven sermons. By master James Durham, late minister of the gospel in Glasgow.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1686 (1686)	Wing D2814; ESTC R231467	103,007	176

what it is in any other case in the world Or 3dly We may consider it as it looks to our Lords high Indignation at the nature and kind of the Tentation as being plaistered over with fair words and specious shews of respect to him which Indignation is manifested by these very sharp words Get thee behind me Satan on which follows the Exhortation Then said he c. Whence Observe That there is no sort of sin and more especially no sort of selfishness that Christ abhorres more than that which is palliated with pretended respect to him Albeit Peter offered this advice to his Master from some kind of respect to him yet we will not find a more severe check and sad rebuke given to him or to any other than that which he gets here because selfishness was in his counsel and the professed respect was but carnal and byassed wherein he prefers either his own or his Masters bodily wellfare to the Will and Honour of God For clearing the Doctrine yet a little further ye may take it up in these two Branches 1. That there is a selfishness even among Christs Disciples that comes in and covers it self with the shew of respect to Christ 2ly That there is no selfishness more dangerous and more detested and abhorred of God than this sort of selfishness I shall instance the subtility and danger of this sin of Selfishness shreuding it self under pretended respect to Christ shortly in some particulars It comes in one of two ways either when men do that which is right as to the matter and yet it 's but Self that they are seeking or when they do that which is wrong and yet they cover it with profest respect to God There are several kinds of both First We may see it in things lawful and first in these Men will have a kind of Zeal for God and yet be seeking themselves as it was with Jehu who boasts that he is zealous for God and yet in truth it was mostly for the Kingdom 2ly As Selfishness vents it self under the pretence of Zeal so under th● pretence of honouring God when yet i● is only or mainly respect to Mens Selves tha● is sought after by that pretended respect to God what greater respect could readily have been pu upon Christ when so despised by the Rulers than to offer to make him a King as the people did John 6. and yet sayes he to them Ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled That is ye seek me not out of respect to me as God but because ye conceive ye would have a good life under me for ye think if I were your King ye would have an easie life of it and that ye needed not plow nor sow nor work otherways for your Bread This is a subtile sort of Self-seeking when men profess and pretend to seek to have Christ Great and yet in the meantime there main design is to make themselves great 3ly Selfishness vents it self in following that which is Duty on the matter under the pretence of doing it in obedience to a Command and yet it is not really the Command that puts on to it but Self or Selfish respect as the Lord chargeth his professing People Zach. 7. v. 5 6. When ye did fast did ye at all fast unto me did ye not do it unto your selves And Matth. 6. v. 5. c. Christ charges this on the Pharisees That they gave Almes Fasted and made Long-Prayers as out of obedience to Gods Command when in the mean time all was done to be seen of men Secondly Selfishness comes in and vents it self in things unlawful by covering them with a professed respect to Gods honour as we see it was with Saul 1 Sam. 15. Who when he is challenged by Samuel for sparing the best of the Cattel and Sheep sayeth These are to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God But sayeth Samuel v. 22. Obedience is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams for rebellion is as the sin of witch-craft and stubbornness as iniquity and idolatry There is nothing more abominable in the sight of God than to shreud a selfish end and design under the specious pretext of honouring him But more of this afterward The First Use of this serves for warning to take good heed to our selves when things look and promise fair we would try and examine well from what root they spring and on what bottom they stand for many things fair in appearance may be rotten and corrupt at the root and bottom many things may look like respect to and zeal for God which yet he will reject and cast as proceeding from no true zeal nor respect to him Therefore in all things but more especially in publick matters do not think that the honesting and plaistering over of a thing with pretended respect to Christ is enough to make it passe current As for instance amongst the men that have invaded us there are two things much talked of and cryed up and they have indeed a fair outward shew viz. The interest of Christ and the interest of his People and this they pretend to be the main design of their actings That Christs Kingdom may be advanced and that his People may be the only great men of the World and the only Rulers of the Kingdom and this once being pretended as the end and design they are apt to conclude that there is no mids or mean that can come readily wrong to compasse it by But if we try this by the Rule it is to be feared that there is very little of Christs honour or the true good of his People in the matter indeed when men keeping themselves in their own stations are found to have abilities for and Gods call to Rule and Govern they are in that caice to imbrace that imployment but while men pretend to exalt Christ and the interest of his People take heed that it be not Self-seeking or seeking to make themselves Great which is really their chiefest aim and that they might have a better life of it The Interest of the People of God as they are the People of God never leads them to seek after Greatness in respect of earthly Priviledges and Dignities Therefore look well to your steps and upon what principles and grounds ye move toward such an end and withall take heed that in prosecuting this end ye out-shoot not your selves that ye go not beyond your line and that ye move not without your own Sphear interest in Christ and true respect to his interest will never prompt nor nor advise you to such exorbitant stretches nor warrand you in the breach of any of his Rules The passions of men work not the righteousnesse of God The 2d Use serves to be as a mark and evidence whereby we may try what sort of duties actions and worship will stand before God none but such as are singly for God and