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
A33078	The Church of Rome unmask'd, or her false principles briefly detected with some reasons of so many retaining or returning to communion with her, and the great danger of everlasting destruction, that such persons, especially after separations from her, return to her communion, do run themselves on / written by a learned divine, by way of letter to a friend in the country.	Learned divine.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4196; ESTC R18501	78,331	77

and the too many miscarriages found among us especially in some transactions of the late times which those Emissaries want neither skill nor will to improve to the furtherance of their designs and also the fair flourishes that she by them makes especially in these Countries where being in the midst of oppositions they put on greater appearances of Piety Patience Charity as they call their Almsdeeds and pretensions of greater Unity and Prosperity and what was lastly said also of her wiliness in accommodating her Doctrines and carriages toward them to mens different humors But besides these things there may be other causes that are more principal assigned which in conjunction with these are of great power and influence so as there is great danger of the fall of many into her embraces As for instance 1. Mens own former and hitherto Carelesness to acquaint themselves with and seek to be established in the truth and to walk in it according to its Instructions and that hath been and is the case of too many both of our Gentry and of others of both Sexes that though they have for many years had the Scriptures and Gospel Doctrines among them and many Learned and Solid disocurses published to discover the deceits of the Romanists yet they have not set their hearts toward God and Christ seriously to know and walk in and be obedient to his truth but have rested in a bare form of Godliness denying the power of it more minding the World and the things of it their Estates Riches Honours Pleasures Ornaments Gallantry or Intemperancy and what their corruptions lead them to than how to serve and please God and make such right improvements of his truths made known to and among them as wherein they might be fitted for and accounted worthy of its utmost Benefits especially in these late and present days in which loose and licentious principles and practises of Atheism infidelity and debauchery take great place and have wonderfully in a few years thriven so as to overcome the Nations Now God is marvailously jealous of his glory and the glory of his Name and truth and will not hold them guiltless that take or receive them in vain that is so as not to be made good by them and therefore will punish them that so do for this cause it was that he gave over the Gentiles to vile affections and to gross Idolatry because when he had in and by his works of creation and providence made known himself to and among them they did not glorify him as God nor were thankful to him but became vain in their Imaginations and their Foolish Hearts were darkened so as professing themselves to be wise they became fools c. Rom. 1.21 22 23 24 25. For this cause God also threatned us Christians that he would give way to the man of Sin to come in upon the World with power and signs and lying wonders after the manner of Sathan and send strong delusions that men might believe lyes and be Damned even because God had first sent the truth of the Gospel among us and men received not the love thereof that they might be saved namely from their Sins nor believed it heartily so as to obey it but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes 2 8 9 10 11 12. Which horrible threatned judgment he hath sadly executed in the World after the Christian faith being spread abroad in it hath not been duly entertained partly by leting loose Mahomet and seting up a Kingdom in the World as to its Eastern parts that received and propagates his delusions what they can and partly by suffering Rome in these Western parts so to exalt her self with all her corruptions and abominations and surely this is one and the main cause of the falling off of so many to her bad communion after such detection of her so fully made to which way hath also been the rather made by 2. The sad debauchings of the Nations and filling them with Profaneness uncleanness irreligion from the one end to the other thereof which hath doubtless been the project and work of some that hold the Doctrine of Balaam and follow his pernicious ways who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the Children of Israel to eat things sacrificed to Idols and to commit Fornication Rev. 2.14 Or rather as Jezabel that painted Strumpet who seduced Gods People to commit fornication first and then to eat things sacrificed to Idols first to commit Fornication and then as a fruit thereof to which they might that way be the easier drawn to eat things sacrificed to Idols Rev. 2.20 According to some Machivillian principles to make men first of no Religion and then they may easily be drawn to embrace any false Religion how much bodily Whoredom and Fornication overspreads the Land is too sad as well as easy to observe and surely its just with God when men give up themselves to that to give them over to Spiritual Fornication also that they might fill up the measure of their Iniquities and his greater and severer wrath might come upon them and especially it s the direct way to promote the Popish Religion and its spiritual Whoredoms because it gives such indulgences to and dispensations for the beloved Sins of bodily Fornication promising to those that practice such Sins Pardon and impunity at least after some penances and Purgatory Pains for their Sins and Heaven and Happiness to at last if they will but joyn themselves in fellowship with that Church and uphold its claims and Pretentions though for others of a devouter complexion as we have noted she can take some precious truths of God compared in Scripture to Gold yea fine Gold or to Silver seven times Purifyed in the fire and his precious promises which are as precious Pearls more precious than Rubies and mixing them with her own superstitions make up pretty taking medals and formes or Images of devotion and composures of Croizons and religious exercises to allure and bewitch them 3. Yea the familiarity and Friendship with Persons of that Religion or being yoked up with them especially in Marriage proves a great inducement to diverse to turn to them for even such correspondencies and conjunctions with any false worshipers have been allways pernicious as may appear even in Solomon who though a wise man and of an exceeding large understanding so as that as Nehemiah observes among many Nations there was no King like him who was beloved of God yet even him did outlandish or strange women of a corrupt Religion cause to Sin Neh. 13.26 1 King 11.3 4 5 6 7. For his Women inclined or turned away his Heart so that it was not right with God but he followed other Gods and built high places for them and who may presume to stand under a temptation when he voluntarily casts himself into it that Solomon could not stand upright under though so wise a man therefore God forbad Israel to joyn themselves in affinity with

to reclaim any of them But the time is hastening when as she is fallen into the Dregs of Impiety Error and Apostacy from her Primitive Faith and Worship in its purity multiplying as many false Objects of worship as ever Pagan Rome did with her Pantheon so she must because of her obstinacy and impenitency fall under Gods most severe and terrible Judgments forethreatned that as she is become a very Sink of sin and wickedness spiritual and corporal so she may sink into an Abyss of woe and misery eternal 10. In all that I have said and shewed it appears that she is also a false Church or a lying Harlot so far is she from being Infallible though I shall evince it still further in speaking something to what she pretends very much as an undeniable proof of her being the true Church at least Namely the multitude of her Miracles wherewith She endeavours to establish all other her False doctrines and practises as her doctrine of Images and Saint Worship her doctrine of Purgatory and of Transubstantiation and what not almost She pleads Miracles for confirmation of and this being added to her other Notes of her Antiquity Universality and Unity make her to glitter mainly in the eye of many simple people concerning which I may shew her to be a false lying Church too in a two fold respect 1. In her pretending such things as She calls Miracles the signes and strange wonders that she boasts of to be a good and undoubted note of a true Church owned of God and that the doctrines which they tend to confirm are true that this is false we have manifold evidences For 1. The Lord himself by Moses supposeth the contrary when he saith If there be a Prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he give thee a sign or a wonder and that sign or that wonder come to pass that he foretold of saying let us go after other Gods thou shalt not hearken to the words that Prophet Deut. 13.1 2 3. Such signs and wonders then are no true Note or sufficient evidence of the rightness of a person or of a people that doth or listens to them that do them or of the doctrines confirmed by them 2. The Apostle Paul also tells us that the man of sin that wicked one whose coming is after the manner of Sathan shall come with power and signs and lying wonders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wonders of falshood partly so called because done to confirm falshoods and he shall also have a great number of followers after him even the generality of those that have not received the love of the Truth that they might be saved 2 Thes 2.8 9 10 11 12. 3. And our Saviour himself warning his Disciples of the false Christs and the false Prophets which have been creeping into the world and among the Churches ever since the Apostles time such their Antiquity that should shew great signs and wonders so as to deceive if possible the very Elect who being the fewest it s most rational to suppose that the generality of those that have not Elect or chosen out of the world are deceived by them and so that there is a great over-spreading universality of them also and they at unity as to their following these Impostors and deceivers of them by their great signs and wonders Math. 24.24 25. 4. And in Revelations 13. we read of a Beast after whom the whole world wonders so great the universality of his power and of them that approve him unanimously before whom a second Beast shall do or doth so great signs and wonders and miracles as to cause fire to come down from Heaven in the sight of the Beast and in the sight of Men that is he shall do such things in the sight or judgment of men as do as clearly in their judgments testifie Gods approvement of him in what he propounds to them as he did Elijah when he caused Fire to descend from Heaven and consume his Sacrifice offered to Jehovah and yet he is a false Prophet for all that and his Image that he sets up to be worshipped and all the Marks and Characters that he causeth people to take by which they may be known to be the Beast worshippers and the worshippers of his Image it is certain are naught and most displeasing to God who therefore threatens the worshippers and receivers thereof with most dreadful punishments Rev. 14.9 10 11. and yet he by these Miracles and other exercises of his power causes them that dwell on the Earth to submit thereto yea all both small and great rich and poor to give some way or other an acknowledgment of it such their universality and unity therein And it s of great Antiquity if the judgment of the most learned and judicious Expositors may be taken who judge that the 42. months or 1260 days of the continance of that Worship signifies one thousand two hundred and sixty years a day for a year as is sometimes the reckning of the Prophets as in Num. 14.34 Ezek. 4.4 5 6. Rev. 13.12 13 14 15 16. so that this worship hath been in the world as Mr. Mede hath learnedly hinted in his Apostacy of the last times since between the Fifth and Sixt Century 5. How early in the world began the Pagan Idolatry how far and near did it spread it self and that for many ages and generations the Nations of the world unanimously agreeing therein for though its true that they worshipped diverse Gods and had in several places different rites and ways of worshipping yet they might for all that be said to have as great an unity and unanimity in their worship as the Papists have seeing they also worship divers Saints and some of them are more pecularly addicted to one Saint and some to another and observe divers aind different Orders in their different Devotions some being of the Order of St. Dominick some of St. Benedict some of St. Francis some of Ignatius Loyola some Votaries to one Saint and some to another Now the Pagans also had their Signs and Wonders to confirm them in their Religion by the operation and working of Sathan witness what Celsus aforementioned writes of them as it is recited by Origen to this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. what should I reckon up how many things partly the Prophets and Prophetisses namely of the Pagans partly other persons Lib. 8. contra Celsum both Men and Women inspired with a Spirit have divinely foretold what strange and wondrous things they have drawn out of their secret Cells or Temples how many things they have also foretold from the Entrals of their Sacrifices to those that have consulted them How many things have been foreshewed by other Prodigies to some there have also been granted manifest apparitions of the Gods the life of men is full of these matters how many Cities have been built by the direction of these Oracles how many have escaped Pestilence and Famines