Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	faith_n	scripture_n	1,902	5	5.6869	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B23122	For the King and Council, these	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing F1822	4,905	8

we be numbred amongst Plotters and Fighters who never were any Plotters which was never our Principle yet in truth we are the Sufferers and have suffered all things for Christ the Elect sake and do keep to Yea and Nay in all our Communications who desires that our lives onely may preach to all people upon the Earth So this we desire stop the violence of the rude people this will not be to Your disgrace Stop the violence of the Souldiers that wee may not be made a prey upon nor abused who cannot defend our selves against them for you have our Tribute and Assessments And you know this we might have our liberty in Turkey as both Christians and Jews have and other parts of the world And let not our Meetings be broken up but let us have our Meetings peaceable in the fear of the Lord God and edifie one another to pray in the Holy Ghost and to build up one another in the holy Faith For what good will it do you to cast us into Prison and to make your selves Examples to other Nations and Kingdoms for so doing Would you separate us from the love of God which we have in Christ Jesus London 16 day 11 Month 1660. From friends of Truth and Innocency G. F. J. S. Oh KING WE would have thee to do nothing against thy Prosperity and Nobility Oh! Hath the like ever been done as is done to us who are an innocent People and Thy Friends and not Thy Enemies among all the Princes in Christendom to mingle the Innocent among the Transgressors Oh! thou shouldst have sent for half a dozen or half a score of us and have examined us that Thou might'st have been further satisfied concerning our Fidelity and Principles and that would not have been against Thy Nobility But oh how is the Innocent mangled by merciless men as though they neither feared God nor man Oh! limit not the holy One and quench not the Spirit nor go about to take away the Lives of the Just and Innocent from the earth Let none perswade Thee to root out the Saints of the Most High God nor to destroy the Meetings of such who meet in the fear of God and call upon his Name from a pure heart and are gathered together in the Name of Jesus Nor let none perswade Thee to destroy the Heritage of God for that will not be for thy own comfort with the Lord in the end for to destroy and waste and let up the rude people upon the meek and innocent Neither lay the Law upon such as it was not made for tha seek the Peace of Thee and all Men upon the Earth Oh stop those hasty Decrees Declarations or Proclamations and call them in that doth offend the Righteous and upright in heart for what could You have done more against us if we had been as the Plotters and Fighters and such as wil take Covenants and swear and break them upon occasion For our Principle is known I believe throughout all Christendom and many other parts of the World That we can neither bear Arms nor Swear And I believe that Thou in Thy Conscience hath a Testimony so for us and believes the same And now the Prisons in every place is filling and many now full with the innocent and meek of the Earth and the Lambs of Christ which cannot defend themselves which many now in Thy Name will dishonor themselves with or through their violence and cruelty against them and honest men coming out of the Countrey about their business being Tradesmen are taken up and the Oath put to those whom they know for Conscience-sake cannot swear and so are cast in prison and made a prey upon Oh that any such things should proceed from those called Christians seeing that the Christians in the primitive times were not to swear at all being forbidden by Christ Matth. 5. and by the Apostle as Jam. 5. But the Lord is our God who will plead our Cause who hath the hearts of all Kings and men in his hand But oh that we should find such things among you that have been sufferers by the same as we have suffered before you And oh that such cruel imprisonments havock should be found amongst them that are called Reformed Churches But we do appeal in our Cause to God and to the Witness of God in all your consciences that these things will not be to your honor in the sight of God in the end Nevertheless if thou wilt do that favour as to let half a dozen or half a score or what number thou pleasest come before Thee that Thou mayest be further satisfied concerning us before You act so against us Oh the violence that is acted in the Countreys and Cities for now have the wicked people their hearts desire this is the day they looked for they would have had this of the changeable Powers that were before Thee though under cruel sufferings and whippings and banishments and imprisonments until death which we suffered by them and many Petitions and Addresses there were to them against us whom God did restrain from a general falling upon us Nevertheless we cannot look that these things are altogether in thine own heart to be inflicted upon us For if thou didst but know the usage of men and women which is not within the bounds of modesty to mention and if thou didst but know what a prey we are made of it could not but break Thy heart or the heart of any Christian Prince upon the Earth Is not the Seed of the Church known in Persecution Consider what wouldst Thou have done to Peter and John when they spoke in the Name of Jesus after the Council had forbidden them and they met in several Houses which is called the Infancy of the Church But that these things should be found amongst them that think they are in fuller age Oh that Christians should stop Christians for meeting together to worship God! Oh that ever it should be said that such things should be amongst Christians in Christendom that they should be restrained from meeting together to build up one another in the most holy Faith which is according to God and Christ and the Apostles Commands as it is declared in the Scriptures of Truth Therefore let these things be considered for Prisons and Dungeons are so full that Friends can scarce sit or lye Therefore oh that honest men and such as love Peace and Righteousness and Thy good and all mens should see this day We are against violence and plots and we that be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Wars and Fightings Strife and Plots are not but they are below and in the Fall from God And this we say which is more to us then an Oath Henry Fell. THE END