Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	know_v	write_v	3,047	5	5.1180	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56434	A shield of the truth, or, The truth of God cleared from scandals and reproaches cast upon it by scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the devil in all ages did make use of, whereby he blasphemed the truth of God, striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people, that so he might uphold his own kingdom, but the day hath made him manifest, & the Lord is come, & is coming to make war with him, and bind him, and cast him into the bottomless pit and all who bears his image, and under his dominion is written by ... Iames Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P533; ESTC R20838	39,279	50

part knew not wherefore they came together and so it is the same amongst you but it is good for you to know certainly what you speak against before you speak lest you speak evill of that you know not calling good evill and evill good putting darkness for light and light for darkness against whom the wo from the Lord is pronounced and it is written in the book of Conscience and there you shall read it with weeping tears therefore take heed of treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath and remember you are warned And now something to all you tender hearted ones who are convinced by the light of God in your consciences which tenders you consciences for whose sakes I have laide open my self freely and so I desire that you may mind that Light of God to which I speak which is my witness which hath convinced you that it may be your guide which will leade you to conversion into the Life to witness with me against the world that my labour may not be in vain and look not out at scandals false accusations or reports for this is the reward that the righteous ever received of the world and Christ our Lord and Captain shewed the example as it is written They who wil live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and they that depart from iniquitie make themselves a prey but that which cannot bear those things is not of God but turn your ear inward to that measure of light in you which is without guile that is gentle that can bear all as it did both in the Prophets and Apostles and all the holy men of God This led them through good report and evil report through persecution and through death and this is the way to life and who enters must enter this way and here is the tryall of faith and the tryall of faith is more precious then gold so fear not but be willing to give up and to part with all though it be never so near and dear yea though it be thy bosome friend and darling for he that loveth any thing better then me is not worthy of me saith the precious pearl and he that wil not forsake all and follow me is not worthy of me Moses thought it greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of Pharoahs Court for a season for the pleasures of this world and the afflictions of this world endures but a time and passeth away For all things visible passeth away but the joy of the Righteous endures for ever but if our hopes was onely in this world we were of all men most miserable but he that endures to the end shall have a crown of glory as Paul witnessed so fear not little flock but be faithful valiant and bold for it is your fathers will to give you the kingdome and a hundred fold shal you receive of what you lose whether Lands or Livings Wife or children or whatsoever it is the promise is to the faithfull and your joy and advancement shal be in the destruction of your enemies when the Lord doth make your enemies your foot-stool but this is witnessed through the War and he that endures to the end of the War shal witness this and this in my measure I witness and out of tender love from my soul to your souls do I declare it and desire that you may all endure to witness with me for Love is Charity and the Light leads through all and so I rest in my habitation known to all who can Read me in Spirit J. P. Farewell Heb. Io. 33. Psal. 102. 6. 1. Cor. 3. 13. Rev. 9. Rev. 12. Gen. ●1 ● Ioh. 16. 2. Luk 12. ●1 Isa. 51. 7. ● Jer. 32. 37 38 39 40. 1. Pet. 2. 25. Rev. 14. 4. 5. 1. Cor. 15. 49. 2 Cor. 6. 14. 1 Pet. 4. 8. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Bzek. 2. 2. Rev. 13. 14. 15. Rev. 19. 2 Pet. 2. 14. Matth. 16. 21. Chap. 29. Acts 4. Acts 5. Isa. 33. 22. Rom. 8 31. 32. to 37. Isa. 54. 18. ●eb 10. 31. 32. Matth. 25. 41. 42. 43. Gen. 27. 33. Heb. 12. 21. Ier. 23. 9. Hab. 3. 16. Dan. 10. 7. Acts. 9. 6. Psal. 22. 14. Job 4. 14. Ezek. 12. 18. Prov. 19. 29. Prov. 3. 33. 34. Phil. 2. 12. Matth. 7 15 16. 17 18. 1 Pet. 3. 3. Mat. 23. 5. 67. Isa. 56. 11. Acts 20. 33. 2 Cor. 12. 14 Matth. 5. 4. 2 Thes. 3. 10. Mich. 3. 5 Ezek. 13. 18 19. Hos. 6. 9. 2. Pet. 23. Ezek. 34. Jam. 5. 5. Mat. 10. 16. 17. Acts 8. 20. Gal. 1. 16. John 14. 6. Phil. 3. 17. 1 Tim. 2. 2. Jer. 10. 15. Col. 1. 11. Ver. 24. Phil. 1. 18. Rom. 8. 5. Acts 20. 20. Acts 16. 13. Mat. 18. 20. Ex. 7. 11. 12 Jer. 23. 31. 1 Cor. 3. 13. 1 John 2. 20. Titus 1. 16. Rev. 13. 34 ver. 12. Rev. 16. 30. Joel 2. 28 29 Mat. 10. 35. Acts 17. 6. J●hn 3. 19. Phil. 2. 10. Rev. 19. 20. Is 30. 33. 1 Cor. 10. 11. Luke 8. 10 Joh. 10. 1. 2 Pet. 1. 20. 21. Jer. 23. 28. Joh. 1. 1. Jer. 1. 1. Jer. 2. 1. Jer. 1. 4. 8. Ezek. 1. 3. John 1. 14 Rev. 19. 13. Heb. 4. 12. 13 John 1. 6. 7. 8 9. 10. 11. 12. Joh. 5. 39. 40. Luk. 1. 73. 19. 15. Joh. 16. 13. Rom. 8. 14. Joh. 7. 15. Mat 11. 25. Mat. 13. 11 Job 7. 48 49 Luk. 15. 15. 16. Mat. 3. 11. Ephes. 4. 5 6. Rom. 6. 3. 1 Cor. 12. 13 2 Cor. 5. 17. Mat. 15. 4. Joh. 6. 54. 55. 56. 57. Acts 4. 32. 1 Cor. 10. 16. 1 Cor. 6. 9. 10 1. Cor. 10. 2● 1. Cor. 11. 29. 1. Cor. ● 14. 1. Ioh. ● 15. Rom. 8. 6. 2. Tim. 3. ● Pro. 15. 8. Gen. 4. 34. 5 1. Pet. 3. 12 Iam. 5. 16. Pro. ●58 29 Exo. 40. 12. 13. Luk. 1. 3. Haba 1. 13. Matth. 12. 34. Job 14. 4. Gen. 3. 15. 2. Sam. 2. 22. Joh. 4. 22. 1. Sam. 15. 22. Isa. 1. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17 Pro. 22. ●6 Jer. 2● 12. 13. Matth. 6. 21. Rom. 8. 26. Mich. 3. 10. Jer. 23. 29. 30. 31. 32. Isa. 35. 2. Mark 16. 25. Amos 3. 7. 8. Amos 7. 14. 15 Gal. 1. 11 12. 1. Cor. 1. 17 18. 19 c. Cap. 2. ● Pet. 1. 21. Acts 2. 4 c. Acts 20. 3● 1. Thes. 9. 6. as in Acts Acts 24. 5. 6. Acts 22. 22. Witness the town of Cambrige the well head Ioh. 10. ● 2. Tim. 3. 5 1. Ioh. 3. 4 Gal. 3. 29. 1. Pet. 2. 14. Rom. 7. 12. Rom. 4. 15 Rom. 8. 1 Gal. 5. 23. Rom. 8. 8. 2. Sam. 23. 3. Pro. 28. 15. 16. Pro. 25. 18. Pro. 29. 10 Isa. 14. 15. Iam. 2. 9. Hos. 4. 18. Est 3. Dan. 1 3. Isa. 23. Isa. 5. 27. 10. Psal. 82. 1. 3. Zeph. 3. 3. Hof 4. 18. Mar. 6. 17 c. E●t 3. 8. Rom. 13. 3 4. Gen. 1. 26 27 28. Ex. 4. 10 11 12 13. Acts 9. 5 6. 2 Thes. 2. 4. Obad. 3. 4. Jam. 4. 1. 2. 3. East 6. 1. 2. Gen. 25. 3. Exod. 11. 9. 2 Thes. 2. 4. Rev. 19. Dan. 3. Dan. 16. Acts 7. 6. 2 Cor. 5. 16. 17. Gal. 6. 14. Col. 1. 18. Mat. 20. 25. 26. 27. 1 Cor. 12. 12. 13. Acts 4. 32. Rom. 6. 4. 5. Rev. 19. Rom. 13. 7. 1 Kings 19. 19. Amos 7. 24 15. Deut. 32. 3. Deut. 37. 5. Mat. 13. 55 56 57. Acts 7. c. Mat. 23. 8 9 10 11. Joh. 5. 44. Mat. 7. 12. Ezek 8. 16. Mat. 5. 37. Rom. 8. 5. Phil. 2. 9 10 11. Psal. 149. 8. Rev. 13. c. Rev. 149. 10. Rev. 18. 6. Mat. 22. 21. Math. 20. 25 Prov. 22. 7. 1 Cor. 9. 19. Jer. 5. 30. 31. Prov. 1. 23. Prov. 19. 4. Acts 10. 3. 4. 2 Joh. 9. Isa. 30. 1. Luke 16. 19 20. Acts 17. 26. Iam. 2 6. East 3. Ezek. 4. 10. 2 Pet. 2. 12. Jude 10. Gen. 1. 27. Gen. 3. 24. Gen. 3. 15. Luke 4. 18. Mat. 10. 11. Rev. 21. 27. 1 Cor. 15. 5. John 8. 13. Rev. 21. 27. Rom. 6. 6. 1 Cor. 4. 15. 1 John 1. 8. Rom. 3. 23. 1 John 1. 9. 1 Joh. 3. chap. 1 Joh. 1. 5. 6. 7 1 John 3. 3. Acts 15. 9. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Eph. 4. 22. 23. 24. Col. 3. 9. 10. Rev. 3. 9. Eph. 2. 2. Psal. 101. 1 Pet. 1 15 16. Rom. 6. 18. v. 20. Mat. 22. 29. 2 Tim. 36. 7. 2 John 10. Ezek. 22. 28 Jer. 14. 13. 14. Ezek. 13. 18 Isa. 9. 16. Rev. 19. 20 Rom. 8. 3. Joh. 1. 14. 2 Cor. 5. 16. 1 Cor. 2. 2. Rom. 6. 6 7. 1 Cor. 12. 13 Gal. 6. 14. Gal. 5. 24. Luke 11. 21. 2 Tim. 2. 19. 1 John 2. 4. 1 Cor. 6. 2. John 9. 39. 〈…〉 Joh. 16. 8. 11. Acts 1. 5. John 14. 17. Joh. 7. 7. Joh. 3. 19. 20. Rev. 19. 15. Rev. 5. 5. Hos. 5. 14. Mat. 8. 29. Jer. 6. 14. Ezek. 13. 18. Rev. 12. 1 Thes. 1. 1. Isa. 54. 13. John 14. 26. Ephes. 4. 4. 1 Cor. 8. 10. Acts 7. 1 Cor. 6. 19. Heb. 14. 10 Col. 2. 16. Gal. 4. 29. Gen 2. 3. Isa. 58. 13. 1 Cor. 1. 20. 1 Cor. 3. 18. 19. 20. 21. Mat 23. 27. 1 Cor. 1. 29. 30. 31. 1 John 3. 7. 5. 19. Rom. 8. 16. 11. Phil. 26. John 10. 3 1 John 4. 17. John 14. 6. Mat. 12. 13. 1 John 5. 12. Gal. 5. 17. Jam. 1. ●7 2 Cor. 6. 17. 18. 2 Pet. 2. 22. Heb. 6. 6. Rom. 1. 26. Heb. 6. 4. 5. Mat. 8. 7. Rom 8. 1. Gal. 5. 13. 15. 16. Heb. 1. 13. Joh. 16. 13. Jam. 1. 27. Mat. 12. 28. Acts 4. 25 26. 27. Joh. 3. 19. M●t. 26. Act. 17. 4. 1 Thes. 5. 5. Acts 4. 32. 2 Cor. 5. 2. John 3. 20. Galat. 1. 10. 2 Cor. 6. 8. Luk. 6. 22. Rev. 13. Rev. 14. 9. 10. Mat. 23. 30. 31 c. John 7. 51. Acts 19. 32. Jude 10. Isa. 5. 20. Isa. 4. 15. Rom. 2. 5. Heb. 12. Jam. 5. 10. 1 Pet. 1. Mat. 10. 37 Heb. 11. 25. 26. Rom. 8. 10. 1 Cor. 4. 17. 1 Cor. 15. 11. 2 Vim 4. 7 8. Rev. 2. 10. Luk 12. 32. Rev. 19. 1 2. Mat. 24. 15

the unlearned which are strangers from his conditions who reads them with the carnal eye now perverts and wrests to their own destruction and this we witness who through the Lamb our Saviour do reign above the World Death Hel and the Devil but none can witness this whose eye is outward looking at a Redeemer a farre off and still live in sin but who cannot witnesse this Redemption here must never witnesse it for as the tree falls so it lies and sin is the mark of the Beast and who lives in sin hath the mark of the Beast and bears his Image and it is written that the Beast and false Prophets and all that have his Mark or Image must be cast into the Lake that burneth and must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture But as for that Scripture that saith If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us All have sinned and fallen from the Lord and he that hath sin and saith he hath no sinne deceiveth himself and is a lyar but if he confesse and forsake his sin God is faithful and just to forgive him his sin and to cleanse him from all unrighteousness and this John witnessed and he that can witness this is no lyar if he say he is cleansed from all unrighteousness but witness forth the truth and a perfect Redemption and the same John sayd He that is born of God sins not neither can he sin because his seed remaineth in him and he that sinnes is of the Devil and n●ver knew God By this are the children of God and the children of the Devil made manifest this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself but spoke the truth and the same John said God is light and in him is no darkness at all If we say we have fellowship with God and walk in darknesse we lye and doe not the truth but if we walk in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself and this John sayd He that hath hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure and faith in God purifieth the heart Now try your Faith and hope who plead for sin for sin lodgeth in the heart and while there is sin the heart is unclean now here you may see al your faith is vain your hope which doth not purifie the heart and so it is feigned hypocrites faith not faith in God and so perisheth and who can witness Christ died for them have passed through death for none can live with him but those who dye with him and this is the true Baptism to be baptized into his death by one spirit into one body and how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and who can witnesse this hath faith in him which purifieth the heart and removes mountains and the pure in heart sees God and this the Apostles witnessed that he was made free from sin and more than Conqueror through Faith in Christ Jesus he was no lyar and said that Christ was come to redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinkle and though once they were sinners like the world but they were washed and cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus and the spirit of our God and had put off the Old man and put on the New which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness but this you are strangers from who plead for sin are such as call your selves a Church and are not but the synagogue of Sathan in whom the Prince of darknesse reigns which ruleth in the children of disobedience and as for that which blinde people calls Scripture who sayes The righteous man that is sins seven times a day there is no such Scripture for it is false but though the righteous fall he riseth again by repentance and this the holy men of God witnessed and though David through lust disobeyed the Lord and forgot his God yet he rose again by repentance and after witnessed that he walked in the midst of his house in the purenesse of his spirit and though Peter sinned through weaknesse yet he rose againe by repentance and afterward exhorted the Church to be holy as God is holy but this you cannot witness who plead for sin and are not yet come to repentance but denies Christ daily and are convinced but doth not repent but they who dwel in the righteousness of Christ sin not for they that are alive in righteousness are dead to sin and they that live in sinne are dead to righteousness but how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and this is the Devil which pleads for sin the enemy of the soul for by sin did he obtain his kingdome and so his kingdome stands in sin and your Teachers which tels you you can never get out of sin nor be cleansed from sin here erres not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God but denies the end of Christs coming and brings another doctrine which they have from their Father the Devil and so are the deceivers which Paul speakes of who creep into Steeple-houses leads silly people captive full of sin and corruption ever learning and never come to the knowledge of truth and so are not to be received but held as accursed for they daub you up with untempered mortar seeing vanity and divining lyes who saith the Lord saith when he never spoke to them they have healed the hurt of the people slightly and have sowed pillows under their armholes crying peace when there is no peace because they put into their mouthes and they are not ashamed neither doe they blush therefore they shall fall amongst them that fall in the day that I visit them saith the Lord And these are your Teachers that makes you habitation in your sin while you are upon the earth and so your Leaders cause you to erre but when the day of account comes wherein the bookes must be opened and every one judged out of the books according to their works by him who sits upon the white Throne and all must be cast into the Lake that burneth but those whose names are written in the book of life and then you will finde those the utter enemies of your soules who perswades your hearts in sins and he that hath no sin will be in the best condition and here all your feigned formed faith is unbottomed and all your Priests found lyars deceivers and Anti-christs in whom the false Prophet rules which deceives the Nations who must be cast also into the Lake that burneth and there tormented for ever and all that uphold him We are accused to deny Christ come in the flesh We witness the same Christ which ever was

manifest to us is God himself for God is the Fountain of all truth and truth is Religion and Religion is truth and this truth we witness made manifest by God the life of truth and here is the Religion which we witness forth and here is the ground witnessed forth from the ground and this Religion is pure unspotted and springs from the light which is pure wherein there is no deceit neither can be for it discovers all deceit and leads out of it both within and without but deceit discovers not deceit for Satan divided against himself cannot stand but all sects and opinions ariseth out of darkness and the end is confusion and so as darkness is opposite to light and death to life so is all sects and opinions against the true Religion and all will side together against the truth though they be opposite one to another in judgement as Pilate and Herod did against Christ and the Scribes and Pharisees and High Priests and Saduces and the rude multude so it is now both Papist and Protestant as they call them and all other sects and opinions which ariseth out of the fall for though they differ in judgement yet they spring from one root and no difference in life but the light strikes at the root which is darkness and lays open the hidden things done in darkness so darkness cannot endure the light and this is the condemnation of the world who love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil and this is the cause why our Religion is spoken against more then any profession besides all Drunkards Swearers Lyars Whoremongers Adulterers Thieves Murtherers proud covetous lustful ones and all unrighteous persons will speak against it and call it delusion and heresie and witchery and all manner of evil which the Devil can invent and those stands up for the Priests and persecutes the truth as it was in the time of Christ and his Apostles times and this wil all Pharisees and Professors do as they ever did for they can wink at one another and bear with one another in deceit but truth cannot at all bear with deceit because there is perfect enmity as there was ever in all Ages and it is no new thing and here all your Sects and Opinions is shut out of the light and are in darknesse and so is confusion both Popery and all other but the truth is but one and who dwels in the truth dwels in the light and are the children of the light and there is no confusion but all of one heart and one mind Epistles written in one anothers hearts and there is that in every conscience which shall witnesse it to be the everlasting truth which ever was is and is to be for ever both in them that beleeve and in them that perish though to the condemnation of them that hate it and this I witness by the infallible spirit of the Lord which cannot lye And now I have discharged my conscience before all people in the behalf of the truth of God not that I would have any to speak well of it but from the ground of it for the love and the hatred of the unrighteous is all one to me but for some simple ones sake I have layd open my self and freely discharged my conscience and I doubt not that my labour is in vain but whosoever owns the truth of God must own it through good report and evill report and must be content to lose their good name in the World as both Christ and his Servants did and the Servant must not be greater than his Lord And now a few words to all you Heads and Rulers and Magistrates in what degree soever who have the Power in your own hands who by your power persecutes and imprisons the Servants and Messengers of Jesus Christ as deluders and deceivers witches and vagabonds and have no ground for it but onely by heresay and the evil thoughts and immaginations of your own hearts and because they cannot please nor satisfie your corrupt proud wils which is your Law by which you prosecute them not weighing nor searching the ground of things You are they in whom the Beast reignes and his Image you bear which upholds the false Prophet and tyranizes over the Nations by his corrupt will and causeth them to bow to and worship his Image and you oppress and persecute those who cannot You must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture for in the bloudy generation you are found filling up your measure of your Fathers wrath upon whom must come all the Righteous blood shed from Righteous Abel until now and this I say in the presence of the living God by the Spirit of the living God that all you who have had a hand in persecuting of them guilt shall follow you in the conscience until you come to judgement and therefore I charge you all by the Lord to take heed of medling about Religion or to lay your Law upon any tender conscience but see that your Law be according to that in the conscience which is pure and perfect and meddle with such affaires as you are set about and rather give Liberty to Religion than take it away as you own the grace of God you will and see that you discharge your consciences there lest that while you are persecuting the truth you neglect that which you are set about for you will both persecute them your selves and suffer the bruits to stone them and strike and buffet them which is all contrary to your own Law neither when they are brought before you can they have the liberty of the Law to clear such accusations as is laid against them but you will hear the Accusers and not the Accused and this is contrary to the Heathenish Law and you are more unjust than the very Heathen who said doth our Law judge any one before it hear him and so for shame profess no more love to Christ in his nature who executes your Law upon his servants upon such a fallible ground which no Judge ought to doe by the Law of God especially about Religion but to search out the ground of the matter on both sides before he judge but this he cannot doe about Religion except he have the Spirit of the Lord therefore take heed of meddling about spiritual matters lest through ignorance you call Christ Belzebub and persecute him as a Blasphemer and Deceiver as many of you have done which is written in the book of conscience and there you shal read it to your sorrow And all you blind people who persecute rail and revile and reproach the truth of God and have no ground for it but by here-say and the evill thoughts and imaginations of your own hearts one imagining one thing and another thing as the tumult which gathered together against Paul one crying one thing and another another thing and the most