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	law_n	word_n	1,924	5	4.0207	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61230	To the representatives of the people and nation of England assembled at Westminster at their session begun Octob. 20, 1696 : grace, wisdom, and understanding be communicated forth unto and multiplied amongst ye.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5148; ESTC R23658	4,288	4

thus ye will find it when ye come to appear before his Judgment-seat In the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly but then it will be too late because the time of your Trial will be over God is displeased in that ye will not execute true Judgment between man and man in the Instances beforementioned For Your selves assent that true Judgment ought to be executed between Man and Man as to those of low Degree so God expects from ye and will call ye to an account That ye should execute true Judgment between Man and Man as to those of the highest Degree As the Scripture saith One sinner destroyeth much good Ecles 9.18 So it is now seen that the unlawful and unreasonable Ambition of one Man doth hinder the Peace of Europe When the Lord maketh Inquisition for blood Psal 9-12 He who is All-knowing will impute all the Murder Bloodshed Outrages Cruelty Desolation Devastation and all the manifold Evils and Mischiefs of this long present War unto them who were the first Beginners and true Occasions thereof for it might have been all prevented at first and may be so still if ye would execute true judgment between man and man For if ye would admit K James peaceably to the Inheritance of his Father's Violence would be no more heard in our Land as proceeding from Him nor yet any fear of Wasting and Destruction in our Borders But a way would be again made for this Nation to be at Unity Peace and Concord with all the Countries round about It appears evidently and clearly from the written Word of God which best discovers the Nature of Things for who can better know them than that same Word that made and established them that the way to peace is by Righteousness And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever Isa 32 17. which is true all one to outward as to inward Peace And from what is written Offer the sacrifice of righteousness and put your trust in the Lord Psal 4.5 So that Ye may boldly say and upon sure grounds put the same in practise We will do Righteous things and Trust our God with ● Event of all The Lord is our help we will not fear what man shall do unto us Now the Lord is none of their help who will commit sin or evil as so it is to refuse to do according to his Law to help or save themselves By the words of Truth Meekness and Righteousness this Nation might be yet Healed But when they are laid before the Chief Men and Rulers thereof an unseen Enemy doth subtilly work in their Minds either to despise and not receive the knowledge of them or to Refuse and Rebel and to do yet more earnestly and violently to the contrary But there was none like unto Ahab which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord. whom Jesabel his Wife stirred up 1 Kings 21.4 5. In the Margin there it is incited So though there is a great deal of wickedness in the heart of Man by reason of original sin and in-bred corruption for Flesh and Blood will imagine and practise evil yet this corrupt Nature would never proceed and tend so far especially in immediate Rebellion against and provocation of God for what is shewed forth against his Word is against God himself as will appear at his future Judgment altho' this may be besides the mind and intention of the Creature in the meanwhile unless this infernal Jesabel whose right Name is Beelzebub did initiate and stir them up But this is the fault of the Reasonable Creatures at present and will be their Punishment hereafter that when they do or may know this yet they willingly give way to the Devil herein Such as obey the Truth of God shall be saved But they who continue in an hard and impenitent Heart do treasure up to themselves Wrath against the day of wrath Because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved And for this Cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a Lye that they all might be damn'd who believe not the Truth but had pleasure in Vnrighteousness To all Rulers Magistrates and Officers of Justice and to all other People whom this following may in any wise Concern WHereas I do only Reprove Trangression and Exhort people to come again into the way of God's Commandments I do set his Laws before Mankind and I do Publish his Eetrnal Truth I do nothing more beyond or besides this Which again I do not out of mine own head but only from the Statute-Book of the Lord God If Ye think that I deserve to be Imprisoned for this Doing and ye will be instrumental to Confine me God will judge that ye and the other People do deserve Damnation for not obeying those his Laws and Commandments which from out of the same Book of Scriptures I have set before ye and them And when your Breath is out of your Nostrils and your Souls are departed from your Bodies ye will receive yet greater Condemnation and be beaten with more stripes for your thus doing unto me his Creature who was sent and employed by him in the Ministration of his Word and Truth So Warneth and Witnesseth RICHARD STAFFORD