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
A47199	The way to the city of God described, or, A plain declaration how any man may, within the day of visitation given him of God, pass out of the unrighteous into the righteous state as also how he may go forward in the way of holiness and righteousness, and so be fitted for the kingdom of God, and the beholding and enjoying thereof : wherein divers things, which occur to them, that enter into this way with respect to their inward trials, temptations, and difficulties are pointed at, and directions intimated, how to carry themselves therein ... / written by George Keith in the year 1669 ... : whereunto is added the way to discern the convictions, motions, &c of the spirit of God, and divine principle in us, from those of a man's own natural reason, &c.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1678 (1678)	Wing K235; ESTC R33462	109,527	235

her Man-child she remembreth it no more for her gladness swalloweth it up so that she doth not rue nor repent of her Travel and Labour she indured Now methinks I as it were hear some poor souls objecting after this manner which indeed hath been of the objection of my own heart and I know also of others Oh! say they that we could find this Divine fire kindled in us for the consumption of our sins and the purification of our Souls therefrom we are so weary of sin and have such a desire to be rid of it that we would rejoyce with great joy to feel this sacred fire burning in us tho it should pain us as if our outward bodies were cast alive into outward flames We find say they somewhat as Light from God in our hearts letting us see many vile and abominable things in them but as for this fire we do not as yet find it To which I Answer that ye find that which discovereth and maketh manifest these evils in your hearts is matter of encouragement for that is indeed the true Light Eph. 5.13 Joh. 3.20 Now turn in or convert your minds unto it and persist therein as aforesaid and ye shall find in due time that this Light shall become a fire in you according to these words which I may well apply at least by way of Analogy unto this matter Isa. 10.17 And the Light of Israel shall be for a fire and his Holy One for a flame and it shall burn and destroy his thorns and his briars in one day For this self same Light of God which ye find in your hearts hath in it the vertue and property of fire no less than of Light yea much more at first and for a good time following but the reason why ye do not find its operation of fire to burn and consume the evils in your hearts as ye find that of Light to discover them is because your hearts are not so nearly and intimately applied and converted thereunto as is requisite even as it is in relation to the outward fire for if we stand at a distance from it and but look to it afar off it will only make us perceive its light so as to give us a discovery of things but we will know nothing of its fieriness more than if it were not fire at all but if we come nearer unto it so as to hold our hand or any other member of our body nigh unto it we will then find it to be a fire and be very sensible of its fiery operation so that if we take not away the member applied the fire will kindle in it and consume it which is a plain and fit example of this thing to represent it by Therefore it thou wouldst find this Divine Principle and the appearance of GOD and of CHRIST therein to be as a fire in thee turn in thy mind and heart unto it yet more nearly and intimately and persist therein and thou wilt find it not only to be in thee a shining Light but a burning Light also yea at first and for some time following rather burning than shining Wherefore turning in and converting not only thy understanding unto it but thy will and affections thou wilt find its Power even to kill and destroy the evils of thy heart no less than to discover them and hereby thou wilt receive not only an informed judgment and understanding but a reformed will and affections And this Divine Principle will work mightily in thee to work out the errours as well out of thy will as out of thy judgment for the errours are great in both And now many are greatly deficient in this matter who do somewhat apply their understanding unto the Divine Light and thereby they receive some discoveries of things far beyond others but they do not apply their wills unto it and so they remain as bad and evil in heart as the most ignorant yea many times they are worse for what they know naturally as brute beasts they corrupt themselves therein these are they who hold the Truth in unrighteousness more then any others they imprison it in their understandings but will not permit it to sink down into their hearts and diffuse it self into their wills and affections These are they also of whom the Apostle speaks who receive not the Truth in Love they would have it to shine in their heads but cannot endure it should burn and diffuse its sacred flames in their hearts yet the knowledg of all such persons though even from the openings of the Principle of Truth is not the solid substantial pure knowledg which those have who receive this Divine Principle into their hearts and suffer it to diffuse it self into their wills and affections as aforesaid for the solid substantial and holy knowledg is only received from the Light of that Life which is seated and implanted in the most inwards of the will and affections and from thence diffuseth it self into all the powers of the Soul CHAP. IV. Shewing How the Soul after its converting unto God and Jesus Christ in the Divine Seed must in its persisting and continuance therein stand in great passi●eness stillness and quietness bearing and forbearing before it enter upon its operative exercises I Say the Soul after its first converting unto the Divine Presence in the Divine Seed must in its persisting and continuance therein stand in great passiveness stilness or qu●terness otherwise called Silence for that its place at present is more to be passive than active yea excepting only its simple act or acts of Conversion for sometime as much as possibly it can to be wholly passive The reason of which is very evident and demonstrative as I do thus make appear If it would be active and give it self unto operative exercises as to matters of Holiness and Religion it must first be somewhat delivered and freed from the positive impediments and lets which hinder all such actions and operative exercises which belong or pertain unto Holiness 2. It must be cloathed or endued with such a power as whereby it is impossible for it in some measure more or less to perform them as for example I cannot perform the operations of sense but I must be endued with the ●ensual powers as I cannot see but I must be endued with the power of seeing also I cannot walk or go but I must be endued with the loco-motive ●aculty or power without which also I can not move my hands to write or do any other bodily occupation also without the power of speech I cannot use my tongue to express or declare my mind Moreover I cannot exercise my self in operative acts of Reason unless I be endued with the power of Reason Hence it is that a tree cannot perform the sensual operations of a beast because it hath only the life of vegetation and not of sensation therefore tho by its growth it can shoot upwards from the vegetable life yet it cannot remove