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Truth hath noble Effects. Truth is the Seed of the new birth. God doth not regenerate us by Miracles or Revelations, but by the word of truth, Jam. 1. 18. As truth is the breeder of grace, so the^* feeder of it, 1 Tim. 4. 6. Truth sanctifies, John 17. 17. Sanctify them by thy Truth. Truth is the Seal that leaves the print of its own Holiness upon us; it is both speculum and lavacrum, a Glass to show us our blemishes, and a Laver to wash them away. Truth makes us free, John 8. 32. it beats off the fetters of sin, and puts us into a state of Sonship, Rom. 8. 11. and Kingship, Rev. 1. 6. Truth is comforting; this Wine cheers. When Davids Harp and Viol could yield him no comfort, Truth did, Psal. 119. 50. This is my comfort in my affliction, for thy Word hath quickened me. Truth is an antidote against error Error is the Adultery of the Mind; it stains the Soul, as Treason doth the Blood. Error damns as well as Vice. A man may as well die by Poison, as Pistol; and what can stave off Error but Truth? The reason so many have been trapanned into Error, is, because they either did not know, or not love ⟨p. 13⟩the Truth. I can never say enough in the honour of Truth. Truth is basis fidei, the ground of our faith; it gives us an exact model of Religion; it shows us what we are to believe: ²Take away Truth, and our Faith is Fancy. Truth is the best flower in the Churches Crown: We have not a richer Jewel to trust God with, than our Souls, nor he a richer Jewel to trust us with, than his Truths. Truth is Insigne Honoris, an Ensign of Honour; it distinguisheth us from the false Church, as Chastity distinguisheth a virtuous Woman from an Harlot. In short, Truth is Ecclesiae praesidium, the Bulwark of a Nation: