Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	love_n	receive_v	unrighteousness_n	1,627	5	10.8118	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07215	The anatomie of sorcerie VVherein the wicked impietie of charmers, inchanters, and such like, is discouered and confuted. By Iames Mason, Master of Artes.	Mason, James, M.A.	1612 (1612)	STC 17615; ESTC S112409	64,423	108

dry ground onely and it should be turned into blood and in the 7. cap. of Exod. vers 17. he commaundeth him to stretch out his hand with the rodde in it ouer the waters they should be blood yea God doth bring to passe contrarie things by one and the selfe same meanes as in the 14. cap. of Exod. the sea is both made dry for the Israelites to go ouer and the waters returne againe to couer the Egyptians when Moses stretcheth forth his hand ouer the same as before Nay seeing the Lord is omnipotent he can doe what he will as well without as with meanes but that it pleaseth him to exercise his children to attend vpon his ordinances and not to feine vnto themselues deuises of their owne braine which the Lord alloweth not as doe the cunning men and women in these our daies thinking thereby to worke those wonders which they desire The which although the Lord permitteth the diuell to bring to passe for them yet is it not therefore a necessary consequent that God is the author or allower of this their worke for God doth it other-whiles to try them as he saith in the 13. cap. of Deuteronomy So the sorcerers of Egypt in the 7. cap. of Exod. did bring to passe some things by their inchantments as did Moses and Aaron by the finger of God whereby the heart of Pharaoh was hardened And if it be so will some say how shall we discerne the seruants of God from the seruants of the diuell in this behalfe To these I answer that albeit it be not very easie especially to the children of disobedience as the spirit of God by Saint Paul 2. Thess. cap. 2. speaking of Antichrist the man of sinne saith that his comming is by the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and in all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse among them that perish because they did not receiue the loue of the truth that they might be saued And therefore God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeue lies that all they might be damned which beleeued not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse And our Sauiour Christ in the 24. cap. of the Gospell after Saint Mathew saith that there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders so that if it were possible they should deceiue the very elect Yet they may be discerned by three especial means and notes viz. First by their vocation calling Secondly by their manner of working And thirdly by the end and intent of their working As for the first it is euident that in the primitiue Church the gift and grace of miracles working was annexed vnto the Ecclesiasticall function as it appeareth in the 12. cap. of the 1. epist. Cor. vers 28. where Saint Paul saith that God hath ordeined in the Church first Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly teachers then doers of miracles after that the gifts of healing helpers gouernours diuerse tongues And therfore the Papists least they should seeme any thing to be inferiour vnto the primitiue Church haue like apes appointed Exorcistae as they tearme them for one of their ecclesiasticall orders albeit in vaine they hauing not their inward calling from God Who at the first planting of his Gospell did bestow this grace vpon his Church that whereas the onely preaching of the word tooke little or none effect yet by those miracles which they see done in the Church they might be conuerted and acknowledge the truth Thus the Lord when he sent Moses vnto the children of Israel to tell them that by his hand God would deliuer them out of their bondage in Egypt because that Moses seemed to doubt least they would not beleeue Therefore the Lord appointed him to worke miracles before them at the sight whereof they beleeued Exod. cap. 4. And Sergius Paulus in the 13. cap. of the Actes of the Apostles when he did see the miraculous striking of Elimas the sorcerer blind is said to beleeue and to be astonied at the doctrine of the Lord. So also the Iaylour in the 16. cap. of the Actes was conuerted to the faith when he saw the miracle wrought in the prison where whilest Paul and Silas prayed and sung psalmes in the night suddainely there was a great earth-quake so that the foundation of the prison was shaken and by and by all the prison dores opened and euery mans bonds were loosed And the ruler in the 4. cap. of the Gospell after Saint Iohn with all his houshould beleeued in our Sauiour Iesus Christ when he had seene the miracle which he had done in healing of his sonne To these I may adde that which Saint Paul saith in the 14. cap. of the 1. epist. Cor. vers 22. where affirming the miraculous gift of languages to be a signe vnto those that beleeue not seemeth to insinuate the like end and effect of other miracles And experience doth approoue the same For since the time of Constantine the great that the Christian religion hath bin publikely professed and by godly Emperours maintained the gift of miracles hath ceased Many more proofes might be alleadged to this purpose but because this matter hath beene handled before in a fitter as I take it and a more conuenient place I wil therefore passe it ouer and returne to the point which I had in hand against the which it may be obiected that Tertullian in his bookes de Idololatria and de Corona militis seemeth to affirme that marchants and souldiers did miracles in his time and therefore this gift is not alwaies annexed to the Ecclesiasticall function To this it may be answered That although their outward vocation seemed to be meere laick as they tearme it yet were they inwardly and extraordinarily called of God to the working of miracles to the which no doubt was ioyned the preachin of the Gospell either by themselues or els some other of the clergy So Saint Paul albeit a most excellent Apostle and preacher of the Gospell in the Church of God is said to be a Tent-maker and wrought of the same trade for his liuing as it is set downe in the 18. cap. of the Actes vers 3. so that a mechanical trade or any other honest and lawfull profession of trafficke in marchandize or warrefare doth not exclude them altogether from being of the clergy But as for our cunning men as we tearme them what ecclesiasticall function haue they or how doth their profession belong thereunto Seeing that for ordinarie callings we haue none such in our Churches except as I said it be among the Papists wherein how ridiculous they are who seeth not which is not wilfully blinded And that they haue no such like extraordinarie calling it appeareth plainely both by reason and experience For as our Sauiour Christ in the 4. chapter of S. Marke vers 21. and Saint Luke the 8. cap. vers 16. saith that a candle is not lighted to be put vnder a bushell