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truth_n	according_a	lord_n	word_n	3,012	5	3.9367	3	true

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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

ordained by their parents or some other and their meanes are imediate and the Apostles imediate and the way is but one saith Christ he that hath an ear to hear let him hear and see if they be not Blasphemers who say they are the Ministers of Christ and some of them drunkards some proud some covetous and are evil examples to all that follows them contraty to Christ or his Apostles who said walk as you have us for examples and here they abide not in the doctrine of Christ and so hath not God as in 2 John 9. and this is blasphemy to say they are the mouth of the Lord but are the mouth of the Devil teaching lyes and blasphemies telling the people that are of their flock they are Christians and of the flock of Christ when as they are all manner of unrighteous persons who live without God in the World and tels them their children are the flock of Christ when they are sprinkled on the face with a little water when as they grow up in all manner of ungodlinesse without the fear of God or the knowledge of God and they are heathen that know not God and this is blasphemy to say Christ is the head of heathens for he is the head of his flock and they tell people that a house of Lime and Stone is the Church when as the Church is the body of Christ and this is blasphemy now see whether we or your teachers be more like deceivers lyars and blasphemers and let every ones life preach him forth and judge him and see if they be not lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God who delight in Musick in bowling in carding and diceing and hawking and hunting and all manner of pleasures and delights now see whether they or we be like Apostles who never used any such thing but all their delight was in the work of Christ but they that are of the flesh mind the things of the flesh and they that are of the spirit the things of the spirit Now see if they have not a form of godlinesse but deny the power and life which the Apostles lived in therefore from such turn away and if you finde that our lives be contrary to what we profess from us turn away also but of this sort are they who creep into houses and leads silly people captive now see if they doe not creep into steeple-houses and say that 's the place and no where else and leads silly people captive laden with sinnes and divers lusts ever learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth some learns thirty some sity some sixty yeares and above and still full of sin and as dark and blind and ignorant of the things of God as ever and they will teach you shall never be made free from sinne so long as ●● are upon the earth and here they set up their rest in the Devils kingdom And if you doe alledge we creep into houses I answer the Apostle witnessed the same where he sayd I have taught you publikely from house to house and our meetings are publike to any who will come amongst us sometimes in no house but in the fields or commons as the Apostles witnessed and we finde the Lord amongst us being gathered in his Name according to his promise now see by their fruits if your teachers be not the deceivers which are foretold of in the Scriptures who as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so doe they withstand the truth by all the wayes they can as it is before proved for Jannes and Jambres were the Magitians of Aegypt that imitated Moses so those University men by their Magick Arts inventions and imaginations and studying old Authors hath gotten the form of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles words to trade with but denies the life and power and so are Traytors to Christ who are men of corrupt minds and reprobates concerning the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest to all men now he that desires to see may see and let all who are wise hearted judge But if you do alledge they have been long and have reigned long and we are now come up and it is a new way and we come to breed divisions and dis●ention I answer the more is their shame and by that the more they are seen to be those that run and the Lord never sent them therefore they profit not the people at all who have reigned so long and wrought no better reformation in the land but it flows as much in iniquity and all manner of ungodlinesse as ever and the people that are taught by them as ignorant and as dark to the things of God as ever and here they would keep them by an outvvard power but the day hath made them manifest and the Scripture fulfilled which the Apostle spoke of who said it was the last times then and since they have continued you may know them by their frnits they profess Christ in words but in life deny him and the mystery of iniquity hath reigned a long time and there hath been a time of cruel darknesse and all the World hath wondered after and worshipped the beast and his Image and he hath reigned and by him the false Prophet hath reigned which hath deceived the Nations but now light is risen out of darkness and shines forth now in these latter daies in the sons and daughters of men according to the promise of God whereby the wiles of Sathan are made manifest to the glory of God and now is the separation the Sheep from the Gorts the Wheat from the tares and Christ is come to set at varience father against son and son against father and wife against the man and the man against the wife and to turn the world upside downe and this is the cause why the world rages and this is the condemnation of the world light is come into the world and they love darknesse rather than light because their deeds are evil and so to those who are in darkness it is new but we witness it is no new way but the same which was is and is to be for ever and the same signs follow but the adulterous generation cannot see it but they that believe shall see and be healed and though the beast and false prophet and those that bear the mark of the beast doth now make war with the Lamb and the Saints for to uphold their kingdome yet the Lamb the King of the Saints shall overcome and to him the Nations shall bow and the beast and false prophet and all that bear the mark of the beast into the lake for them prepared of old shall goe and for this end we are come out of our countries and outward habitations and possessions to preach to every conscience the eternal truth as it is in Jesus the everlasting Gospel as we have received it

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

freely freely we give and as we preach the Gospel we live of the Gospel and this is our end and no other end God is our witness We are accused to deny the Scripture which is false for we witnesse the life thereof and by the same doe we witnesse the Scriptures to be truth and serviceable in its place and was written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world is come and to us it is given to know but to the world in parables and he that would goe about to unfold the parables to the dark mindes by the serpentine wit and imagination he must be kept out of the Scripture and he who takes the Scriptures and makes a trade of them professing to interpret them and so gets a living by them which was spoken forth freely he is a deceiver and must be shut out of the Scripture and who reads or takes the Scripture to talk or discourse of and is ignorant of the life must be kept out of the Scripture for all those runs in with their serpentine wit and imaginations wresting them for their own ends adding and diminishing to their own destruction and so he must be shut out of the Scripture for hence arises all these sects and opinions in the world running into the Scripture with their wit imaginations and dark mindes one imagining one way and another another way and one of this opinion and another of that opinion but opinions is no assurance but are fallible and every one out of the way because they want the life which is the mystery and this is the difference between all sects and opinions and the infallible truth and so they come not in by the door but are climbing up another way and so are shut out of the kingdom but the same which gave them forth the same can open them and to it they are no mystery nor parable nor needs any meaning for they are of no private interpretation nor came not in the old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost neither can the will of men open them but the same which spake them forth the same can open them and spake them forth freely so let him that hath a dreame tell a dreame and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully What is the chaffe to the wheat saith the Lord so he that hath the letter let him speak the letter and he that hath the life let him speak the life what is the husk to kernel and what should swine doe with pearles whose life is in husks and there they feed he that can receive let him the same which gave it forth the same can open it and he who saith the Letter is the Word is a deceiver and erres not knowing the Scripture for the Scripture saith that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word of the Lord came to the Prophets and they spake from the Word of the Lord and the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst the Apostles and they saw the glory thereof as the glory of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father full of grace and truth and the Word is quick and powerful sharper than a two-edged sword and the Word is immortal and this the Apostles in whom the word dwelt bare witnesse of and hath left it upon record and we witnesse the same the word is the same which was is and is to be for ever and who putteth the letter for the word is blind and putteth the shadow for the substance and must be shut out of the Scripture and he who saith the letter is the light is in darknesse and erres not knowing the Scripture which declareth of the light which John came to bear witness of who was not the light but testified of the light which was the true light which inlightneth every one that cometh into the world he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not nor knows him not and he came unto his own and his own received him not but as many as received him to them he gives power to become the sons of God and this we witness and by the same light doe we discerne and testifie against him to be in darkness and blindness and is a deceiver who putteth the letter for the light and so draws peoples mindes off from the light within them to the letter without them seeking the living amongst the dead thinking to find life in the letter without them as the Pharisees did and will not come unto Christ that they might have life and also that must be shut out of the Scripture as the Pharisees were and he also saith the letter is the rule and guide of the people of God is without feeding upon the husk and is ignorant of the true light which was before the Letter was which all the children of God were and are guided by and spoke and speaks the letter from which was before the letter was and with this the letter witnesseth and who is guided by this cannot walk contrary to the letter nor deny it but they know how to use it in its place and see in what condition it was spoken and it witnesseth with them both in words and actions and they that have this have 〈◊〉 the mystery within though they cannot read the letter without nor ever learned as it was with Christ which confounded the Scribes and Pharisees and they who are never so learned without and can read and understand all tongues and languages without and doth not read the Scripture within only feed upon the husk and are ignorant of the life which is the mystery which is hid from the wise and prudent and revealed unto the ignorant as it was from the Scribes and Pharisees and high Priests and was revealed to those whom they counted ignorant and cursed and knew not the Law and they who take the Letter to be their rule cannot walk according to it because they are ignorant of the light which opens and leads into the life which they who spake them forth lived in but drunkards and swearers and proud and wanton 〈◊〉 and covetous lustful envious ones and all manner of unrighteous persons will take the letter to talk of and say it is their rule and guide but are out of the life thereof and so by it are condemned and those are the swine that are feeding upon the husk without and have gotten the form but are out of the life and power and put the shadow for the substance and so lives in darknesse and knows not whither he goeth but they that read with the single eye may understand for the Scripture is within and was read within before it was read without Now silence all the study and wisdom of man We are accused to deny the Baptism The Baptism we own which