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The saints guide, in three treatises
The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercy, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnal mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercie, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnall mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.
London: printed for John Stafford over against Brids Church, 1645
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, what is meant by truth: by truth here is meant, the remainder of light, that was left in Man kind, after the fall, that rubbish that was left upon the fall of that first glorious building, that Common light, that is in every mans conscience, since the fall of Adam that serves to show him what God is, in His Power, Glory, ⟨p. 95⟩Majesty, and Bounty, and that he is to be worshipped, by adoring and fearing of him above all, sometime truth is put for the efficacy and power of truth. Gal. 2.14. Paul reproveth Peter, and the rest for not walking according to the truth of the Gospel, because the truth had not been so efficacious with them, as to drive them from those beggarly elements of the Ceremonial Law, but they would have had the Gentiles for to have come up unto the Jewish practise.
Secondly, what is meant by truth: by truth here is ment, the remainder of light, that was left in Man kinde, after the fall, that rubbish that was left upon the fall of that first glorious building, that Common light, that is in every mans conscience, since the fall of Adam that serves to shew him what God is, in His Power, Glory, ⟨p. 95⟩Majesty, and Bounty, and that he is to be worshipped, by adoring and fearing of him above all, somtime truth is put for the efficacy and power of truth. Gal. 2.14. Paul reproveth Peter, and the rest for not walking according to the truth of the Gospell, because the truth had not beene so efficatious with them, as to drive them from those beggerly elements of the Ceremoniall Law, but they would have had the Gentiles for to have come up unto the Jewish practise.
Thirdly, What is meant by holding the truth in unrighteousness. To hold the truth of God in unrighteousness, is either by a kind of violence, and strong hand, to suppress it, and keep it