Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	amen_n	jesus_n	lord_n	1,685	5	3.6084	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56599	Angliæ speculum a glass that flatters not : presented to a country congregation at the late solemn fast, April 24, 1678, in a parallel between the kingdom of Israel and England, wherein the whole nation is desired to behold and consider our sin and our danger / by a dutiful son of this church.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1678 (1678)	Wing P744; ESTC R33026	21,160	44

For God will not be moved by our constant show of Religion and Devotion if we want the truth and sincerity of it and how are we religious how dwelleth the love of God in us when we mind no more what we do in religious Offices Let me beseech you again to reform these things thorowly and instead of accusing others of their carelessness and negligence gird up the Loins of your own minds and go about that effectually which you know you ought to do and which you can do by Gods assistance for the healing of those Wounds which are not yet closed in the Body of this Church and Kingdom It is not too late I hope nay I am sure it is not if we be in good earnest For the Lord as the Prophet Jeremiah speaks is in the midst of us and we are yet called by his Name and if we will return to him with all our heart and with all our soul He will not leave us So Moses declared to the Children of Israel long before all those evils befell them which I have related If when all these things are come upon thee the Blessing and the Curse which I set before thee Deut. 30.1 2 c. thou shalt call to mind and return to the Lord thy God and shalt obey his Voice in all that I command thee thou and thy children with all thine heart and with all thy soul Then the Lord thy God will turn thy Captivity and have compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from among the Nations whither he hath scattered thee and the Lord thy God V. 7. will put all these Curses upon thine Enemies and on them that hate thee which persecuted thee We need not doubt but the same gracious Lord will do the very same for us when we in the vexation of our spirits and the anguish of our souls cry unto him if we also turn unto him with all our heart and with all our soul Let us but thus reform our selves and others as far as our Power extends and we may comfortably hope that our Prayers this Day will become prevalent for all the Nation Such Supplicants may do much to the turning away Gods wrath from us or to the obtaining a forbearance that it may not come in our dayes or if it do that it may be as it is admirably expressed in the Prayer after Sermon effectual to our Correction and not to our Destruction And if the Reformation of our Lives were any thing General throughout the Kingdom I perswade my self it might quite avert Gods Judgments notwithstanding the great and desperate Provokers which will still remain among us They might only bear their own Burden but He might graciously spare the Kingdom for the sake of those many pious Supplicants that are in it Though we stand so guilty before him that for our evil deeds we do worthily deserve to be punished yet He might hear the earnest cryes of such Penitents which sue unto him that by the comfort of His grace we may be mercifully relieved He might have a regard to our constant Litanies or Supplications that He would mercifully look upon our Infirmities or afflictions and for the glory of his Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved Or if such a Blessing could not be obtained those devout Souls would still be able in all their troubles to put their whole trust and confidence in his mercy and rejoice in the midst of tribulations in hope of his glory To which God of his infinite mercy bring us by such wayes and in such Methods as He sees best And let us never cease to pray to him according to the daily Collect for this Week with which I conclude Almighty God who shewest to them that be in error the light of thy truth to the intent that they may return into the way of Righteousness Grant unto all them that are admitted into the fellowship of Christ's Religion that they may eschew those things that are contrary to their Profession and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen FINIS