Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	anoint_v	spirit_n	teach_v	2,134	5	7.1881	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89829	Antichrist in man, Christ's enemy: who hath been pretending for Christ in notion, but now at his appearance stands up with all his power to deny his Light, and preach him unsufficient. Clearly discovered in an answer to a book titled, Antichrist in man the Quakers idol: set forth by Joshua Miller, wherein he confesseth Antichrist to be in man, but denies the light of Christ within to be sufficient to reveal him, and to witness Christ to be the onely means to salvation, he cals an error, if not damnable. With much more such confused stuffe, discovered for the sake of the simple who are led blind, with such blind guides, to their destruction: that such as will may beware and turn to the Lord, that with his Spirit of truth they may be guided into all truth, and out of this great deceit and enmity, wherein they are led and knows not. By a lover of the seed of God, and one that seeks the peace of lost souls, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N263; Thomason E869_6; ESTC R202979	13,662	19

hast made up this bundle of confusion sayes thou I hope we may safely distinguish where the Scripture doth when the Scriptures say no such thing but thy blind imaginations to put out the light of Christ within and keep people without in thy imaginations Thy next thing thou goes about to prove is that the Scriptures is the Word and Mind of God to you thou sayest it must either be the word of the Devil the word of Man or the Word of God To which I say if thou intend the letter of the Bible it is not one of these but a declaration of the words of all these and then thou goes on in thy blind Logick to prove it and thy Argument is thus much If one Command be the Word then all the Scriptures is the Word c But who taught thee this Logick to prove Generals by a Particular if God spoke some words in Scriptures is that which the Devil spoke the word also because it s in the book Because that was the Command of God that said Thou shalt not bow nor worship any thing but God alone was that the word of God also that said If thou wilt worship me all shall be thine Luke 4. 7 8 This is thy arguing and with such as this thou leads them blind who knows no better yet thou can find no Scripture that saith so onely thou instanced that Mark 7. 10 11 12 13. which hath relation to the first Commandement but if that be thy word to wit the letter written and engraven in stone which if it be taken in the letter as it can be no other in thy sense then the Apostle tels the 2 Corinth 3. and also to the Hebrews that it is done away so thou hast lost thy word if that letter be it and so thy Argument is fallen and a place is left for me to set another in its stead thus That which one may have and not have the Mind and Word of God is not the Mind and Word of God but one may have the Letter of the Scripture and not have the Mind and Word of God Ergo the Major cannot be denied and the Minor I prove by plain Scripture Acts 13. 27. they that dwelt at Jerusalem had the Scriptures read every Sabbath day yet knew not their voices and so had not the Mind of God John 5. 38. 39. The Jews had the Scriptures and thought to have eternal life in them yet Christ tels them they had not the Word in them also John 8. 37. he saith the Word hath no place in them and verse 43. he tels them they could not hear the Word therefore they could not understand his speech and this Word it was they had made void by their traditions and so have you also and so know no Word but the letter which never Minister of Christ pleaded yet had they the Scriptures and did not make them void in the letter Another thing thou wouldest prove if thou could that Spirits are to be tried by Scripture and with thy vain Phylosophy thou wouldst prove this also for the Scripture will not onely thou quotes that Isaiah 8. 20. which may serve to overturn thy whole Argument To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it s because there is no light in them Wherein the Prophet shews that none can speak according to the Law and Testimony but from the light in them the Law and Testimony being bound up and sealed amongst the Disciples as in the 16. verse therefore who are Disciples and follows Christ the Light know the Law of the new Covenant to be written in the heart Hebr. 8. 9 10. and the Testimnoy of Jesus to be the Spirit of prophesie Revel 19. 10. John 15. 26. but they that are spiritually blind knows not this whose eyes are abro●d and therefore set up the Letter instead of the Spirit and such by searching the Scriptures could never know Christ although they testifie of him who are not first taught of the Spirit and therewith led into the Scriptures such cannot read the Scriptures but wrest them to their own destruction as is plain 1 Peter 3. 16. and so are farre unlike to try Spirits therewith yea wiser than thou had the Scriptures but knew not their voices Acts 13 27. no not the Disciples themselves till Christ with his light had opened their understandings Luke 24. 25. but this is the Serpent who would be trying of Spirits with the letter as he tried the Spirit of Christ by the letter of the Law as is plain in John 19. 7. And by such tryers hath the Spirit of God been condemned and his People suffered in all ages where Men without the Spiritual light wrested the letter out of its place to set it above the Spirit which doth but testifie of the Spirit And thou sayes as God and Christ are one so is Christ and the Scriptures for they cannot be broken but if you have not broken the Scriptures let the Spirit of God that gave them forth judge who have changed the way of God and set up such a worship as no Scripture will own without wresting and breaking in upon it with your own meanings And thou sayest How must we try the Spirits by a light in us Oh strange unheard of doctrine I say yea by the light in us and he that hath not the light in him can try no Spirits but as the blind guides have ever done for those who are bidden to try Spirits had the annoynting in them who need not any man to teach them but as the same annointing did teach them all things in which is the whole truth and no lie and this onely is able to try the Spirits which we have received of him 1 John 2. 27. And thou brings that 2 Peter 1. 19 We have a more sure word of prophesie c. and this thou would have people beleive is the letter of the old Prophets so by thy doctrine the letter of the old Prophets which never saw Christ on earth is a surer testimony than the Apostles who was eye-witnesses of his Majesty saw him transfigured and heard the voyce of God testifying unto him 2 Peter 1. 16 17 18 19. and such dark stuffe as this is the fruit of thy literal Ministry and in this mud and darkness would thou be an opener of Scriptures and art pleading for thy self and the rest of thy brethren therein mentioning many of the Saints practices but not one of them will own your way of opening and therefore proves nothing for you further than that you are wholly out of their way And thy next work is to prove that a Man may be justified without Christ and his righteousness within which being searched is but a justification imagined for he that knows not Christ in him is a Reprobate and so not justified 2 Cor. 13. 5. for it is receiving Christ and his righteousness by which Man is justified and not by