Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	worship_n	worship_v	yield_v	59	3	7.4690	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57733	The fire upon the altar. Or Divine meditations and essayes containing the substance of Christian religion	Rowe, Cheyne.	1679 (1679)	Wing R2061A; ESTC R218415	226,122	405

water out of the wells of salvation Which promise I conceive extends to all duties of Religion and so to this a-among the rest But sure I am that without this a man cannot be well disposed nor well perform any other with comfort the more we make use of this the more joy we have in us and this is to be alwaies performed others cannot be so Psal 4. Commune with your own hearts and in your Chamber be still What comfort and satisfaction doth it yield to the virtuous mind to contrive and meditate how to do well holily and according to vertue the very Idea of the action hath beauty and delight though peradventure we are not able sometimes to do according because of our infirmities and likewise the evil mind delighteth in evil Jer. 11.15 And this delight in good and the impression of the beautifulness and decency of the action excites to the Act. Although evil be present with us when we endeavour our selves to do the thing by reason of our corrupt nature and our Ghostly enemy If this were not a clear truth it might be sufficiently demonstrated by its contrary The contrivance or remembrance of any unseemly or impious action how full of loathing and horror is it or if they be but vain thoughts that lodge in us as they must needs do in those who read ludicrous vain and scurrilous books or spend their time in the Theatre the mind and manners will be formed accordingly unless we disgust them I mean not that the sins of God's people are often premeditated for if they did premeditate them I suppose they would avoid them but yet sometimes they do consider of sin but most commonly break off their consideration and purpose with loathing of it and themselves too for their thoughts and assayes of sinning but those sins which they committed before their conversion they remember after their conversion with the contrivance of them with loathing and the sins which they see others contrive or read or hear of And often the wickedest persons that are when they remember their foulest sins they abhor them and tremble and endeavour to put out of their minds the remembrance of them for the horrible foulness which they then perceive in them and for the offence which they yield them This Duty then being enjoyned us by God as most necessary and powerful for attaining and improving of every grace and for the avoiding of all and every sin and temptation that our nature is inclined to or liable to be drawn to Let these reasons be sufficient to convince us of the necessity and utility of it and the delightfulness of it both to God and our selves and put us upon the practice of it that we may be Royal Priests to God and our bodies may be the Temples of the Holy Ghost and our hearts God's holy Altars upon which the fire shall ever burn and Incense without ceasing Exod. 30. v. 73. The Corrolary Holy Meditation is the thing whereby we edifie our selves and holy life and conversation is that whereby we edifie one another in the most holy Faith Of the Worship of God in general THAT God is and that he is to be worshiped is written in the heart of man with indelible characters for it appears that before any Law was given the Light of Nature did not only instruct men of the Being of God and of the necessity of Divine Worship but also afforded them such plentiful instruction of the manner of the Worship too that he that had an honest sincere heart might and did perform it in an acceptable manner as Abel did without any other Instructer And Cain might also have done the like as is intimated in those words which God spake to him If thou do good shalt not thou be accepted How far did Cornelius the Centurion go by this light and when by this he could do no more God sent his help Rom. 1. v. 20. The invisible things of him that is of God from the Creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal Power and Godhead so that they are without excuse because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God but became vain c. and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of man and beast and birds and creeping things Nature then is a Mistress that teacheth us of God and of his worship else the Gentiles had not been given up for not glorifying him as God Nor would Cain have been reproved for mis-serving him Neither would Cain being a wicked person have done it at all But like as he mis-served God so all doubting and unbelieving sensual and hypocritical and vain persons do only offer that which cost them nothing that which they can best part withal easie service and cheap And this corruption growing more and more upon them and they more and more corrupt themselves till at length they become abominable in their wickedness as it is in Psal 53.2 When they have changed the Truth into a Lye and worship the Creature more than the Creator They are driven to that absurdity of denying the being of God that they may avoid the greater viz. a confessing a Deity and yet to yield him no worship Remarkable it is that there hath never been any people or Nation in the world so barbarous but they have both acknowledged a Deity and had a solemn manner of Divine Worship established by municipal Laws the violation whereof hath been punished capitally And if there be any individual person or persons who do or doth deny God or his Worship the same have nothing of the Image of God left in them nor any thing of the holy Spirit of God in them That wisdom and knowledge which they have in them thus corrupted is the Image of the Devil or the Image of the brute beasts as St. James calls their wisdom carnal sensual and devilish And what they know naturally as brute beasts in those things they corrupt themselves as St. Jude speaks Their chief study care labour and industry all their designs providence and all their wisdom is to satisfie their sensual appetites and to provide for back and belly therefore the Apostle saith of them their God is their belly and they mind earthly things This wisdom doth expel and extinguish the wisdom which is from above So that they become Atheistick The Apostle Pet. 2 ep cap. 3. Hath prophecied that such scoffers shall come in these last daies he saith that they are willingly ignorant Ignorance makes them fearless shamless and hopeless That these Atheistick principles are not from our Nature nor born with us but the contrary are from the light of Nature and by our corrupting of our selves we become Atheists is further proved by this That to us who live under the preaching of the gospel and have liberty to read it our selves the glorious light thereof would shine into our hearts if we