Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	john_n	spirit_n	worshipper_n	1,614	5	12.0333	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86400	The [H]istory of the [l]ife and death [of] that antient father of the church, [D]r. Joh. Thauler [who] lived at Colen [sic] in Germany in the year of [Ou]r Lord, 1346, where he was in a [m]iraculous manner turned from his vain conversation to an extraordinary degree [of] holiness of life : [toge]ther with many of his precepts ... / [f]aithfully translated out of Latine.		1663 (1663)	Wing H2167A; ESTC R43640	67,974	161

light and savour be withdrawn from them do not in any wise therefore depart from God these are the true internal ones Verily whoever after this manner now spoken of have denied themselves and with a willing mind have penetrated through the sweetnesses aswell of Spirit as of Nature and have got above them these certainly have made a profitable and fruitful thorow progress and have penetrated through more than can be spoken But afterwards such have need of very much vigilancy and watchfulness whereby alwayes they must diligently observe themselves be circumspect and careful that they may ever persevere in very great humility For their hellish enemies cease not then but continually endeavour by all means they can to draw them back Believe me Beloved profound resignation and voluntary denial of our selves through our whole nature is a certain good beginning if so be it be joyned with true humility Even as St. Peter saith Dearly Beloved humble your selves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in the time of visitation And O that we could learn how we might attain to true subjection of spirit in profound humility that when God doth withdraw from us sensible Grace we may be able easily to resign it to him and to restrain our appetite or desire so as not willingly to cover it This is that which St. Dionysius saith When God makes his abode sensibly in my soul I am filled with such joy and it is so well with me that if he should bestow upon me such authority that all creatures that very hour should no lesse obey me than himself it would not go so wel with me as it doth by his presence only But when his sensible presence is withdrawn from me I confess then some desire of it layes hold on me But when that happens to me my weakness surely is the cause of it Seeing Solomon saith that in all the Works of God we ought to have rest and peace Behold that breathing and languishing desire holy Dionysius accounts his weakness Why so but because the holy man clearly understood that himself was not as yet fully resigned to God when as he so desired the presence of God seeing it is the greatest resignation to resign our selves to desertion and in all manner of desertion to be resigned Which thing doth chiefly belong to them who have deliciously experienced the sweetness of God It behoveth us truly Beloved so manfully to strive that we may be made so prudent in God that we may be able having divine assistance to transcend and penetrate all creatures untill we attain unto God himself There now we are taught in the Holy Ghost to tread upon by our reason and get above all natural things that we may be able with St. Augustine to say All creatures are unto us an high-way unto God So as what ever we happen to see or hear of what nature soever it be we may have the skill to bend all to our own use and turn it to the best and to draw some good out of it Certainly a Christian ought by his reason so oft and so humbly to exercise himself and so often to penetrate all creatures until he hath lost all created things and he should so strongly and manfully and that not once but many times abstract himself from all things until he find God alone the joy of his soul and the beloved of his heart of whom the blessed Apostle speaks when he saith 1 Cor. 6. Who adhereth to God is one Spirit In which transformation the spirit of such a one is transformed and is made one with the one If any one in this matter would venture himself and perfectly renounce both himself and all creatures he surely would by Gods help or by the power of God overcome all things which thing Paul witnesseth where he saith Philip. 4. I can do all things in him that strengthneth me Go to now Beloved make speed be doing hasten learn to live being also sure that a man may in this present time attain to that condition that he may experience so immense supernatural joy such as all creatures cannot afford even until Dooms-day Lastly Come on then and let us all endeavour to learn by what means we may be made true Worshippers John 4. worshipping the Father in Spirit and Truth But I fear lest I am too tedious sith those Incluses have entreated me that I would declare unto them what is the duty of a true Incluse What the Duty of Inclusis is And now this I shall dispatch in a few words and will tell what manner of one every true Incluse ought to be It belongs therefore to every Incluse that she be simple and both in mind and body that is both inwardly and outwardly to be an Incluse It doth not become her to look out at the windows and be inquisitive what is or what hath been transacted here or there it is meet that she should lead so pure so abstracted a life that if she should pour forth prayers for all the Souls that are detained in places of Purgatory she may be found worthy sufficient and able to free them all from thence Truly an Inclusory life is no small matter It behoveth plainly an Incluse so sincerely and purely to live that she may be able to obtain all that of God which the Universal hely Church by the seven told grace of the Holy Ghost doth obtain If she do otherwise she is not a true Incluse She ought also to lead such a life that if all Ecclesiastical Laws were taken away it might not at all prejudice her to God-ward The corrupt state of Incluses But alas things are now come to that pass that Incluses entertain Guests in the evening and in the morning administer to them many things which is not the Office of Incluses but of Hospitallers Incluses must keep silence And moreover it belongs to an Incluse diligently to observe silence except only upon reasonable and real necessity as also purely and earnestly to pray It belongs not to her to perform the office of an Hospitaller and to discourse with men but this rather is her duty that she perpetually persist so resolutely and immovably in true and divine resignation that she may be able even with a sensible delight and joyful consent alwaies to wait the sensible presence of God and nevertheless persevere faithful unto him and therewith to renounce all creatures for his sake To whom it belongs to serve the Poor But now you may hear some Incluses say That it is their duty to exercise themselves in vertues towards their neighbours but such ought to have betaken themselves not to an Inclusory but to an Hospital rather and there humbly exercise themselves about the Members of Christ which then had properly belonged to them as their office for this they ought faithfully to do who live in Hospitals Again others say I must serve and succour my neighbours for