Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	doctrine_n	scripture_n	3,000	5	5.6215	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29612	The prophet approved by the words of his prophesie coming to passe being a declaration of the message which Daniel Baker received from the Lord to the Parliament ... met together the 6th day of this 8th month in the place falsely called Christ-Church in London, which day was set apart for thanksgiving, but proved a day of persecution and voluptuous feasting to the grief of Gods spirit : also a letter from Daniel Baker to the mayor and recorder of London / published by Thomas Hart.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.; Hart, Thomas, 1629-1704.	1659 (1659)	Wing B484; ESTC R9326	8,222	8

the Preacher and because her Law was not severe enough for the Priests Oliver Cromwell and his Councel added three moneths more to it but I have fulfilled that Law by suffering under it with many more as a testimony against it and the Founders and Builders up of it for ever but this late Parliament have made this Law null and void However thou oughtest to be had to prison and to suffer what without a Law because thou disturbest us and we cannot believe that it is according to Christ or his Apostles doctrine though we call the Scripture our Rule may ye say in your hearts and God is a God of order and he is not the Authour of confusion To which I answer he that speaks true and sober words in obedience to the moving and commandment of the Lord without respect of persons dayes place or time is not disorderly nor the Authour of confusion and if you were in all things guided by Moses Christ his Prophets and Apostles spirit yet opprest in bondage in you ye would know it but they are disorderly that break forth into confusion and are like Bears Lions Dogges and wolves in their devouring nature to rent tear and devour knock down dragge and offer violence and buffeting a poor single Lamb or Friend of Christ both in and out of the Synagogue or Masse-house and dragge the poor Saints before the Judgement Seat Neither is it contrary to the Apostles doctrine who spake by the Spirit of Christ Jesus the light in him who said if any thing be revealed to another that sits by let the first hold his peace and as many poor wise men that were among you even they might have seen and felt that I was not out of the Apostles doctrine neither spake contrary to the pure spirit that gave forth the Scriptures of truth but stood up a certain time in the fear dread and power of the Lord God before I spake forth the words so that the Priest had time to have stopt held his peace if he had done so together with the bruitish People or rude multitude it would have been good order and according to the Apostles doctrine and Scriptures of truth and after I had spoken the words of the Commandement of the Lord forth I know I should have departed in Gods fear and peace orderly as I came in yet notwithstanding I neither resisted nor offered violence to either man woman or child and it would have been a noble thing of any of you Magistrates chief Captains Colonels or Souldiers and according to your place to have called out or used means to have restrained the disorderly rude bruitish people from dragging pulling or tearing me to pieces or from buffeting me in the face and from pulling my hair and beating and dragging me See Act. 23 9 10. Even in and forth of your high place of worship and from dragging me to prison contrary to your Laws without Mittimus or being called before any of you who should without delay have heard a lawful triall and true witnesses with due accusation that you might then have signified the crimes to the Goaler and this had been but reasonable and in such a matter him whom the Priests and professors and profane of England call a Heathen Namely Festus was more noble and will judge you See Acts 23.27 verse but they who all of them are called Christians but more like yea and far worse then Heathens that know not the dreadfull God among them in their rage and enmity dragged and threw me into the Goale New-gate after they had thus thrown me into the Goal as if I had been a dead dog or swine they beat me there with a staff besides one unreasonable merciless man struck me over the bare head with a staffe even in the Idols Temple being at the same time dragg'd between four or five men And Friends this was disorder tyranny cruelty oppression and injustice and it had been better you had been found executing true and sound justice and judgment without respect of persons gifts or rewards when shal it once be then to have thus met to feed your selves without fear over the oppressed seed and Magistrates that are to rule for God will and in his pure noble principle in them should be just men of truth a terrour to evill doers that offer violence in the devouring nature against the innocent whose praise is not of men but of God and such as rule for and with him and for these and a multitude of such like things will the everlasting God of truth visit the haughty oppressors and persecuting priests and Magistrates of Englands Nation and dominions whose day of visitation of salvation is hastening over their heads who to this day have rejected its appearance And although there was not found among all the multitude after I had waited two dayes before your Judgement Seat one man woman or child that did or could accuse me of the breach of any Law except it were one or two of you that sate upon the Judgement Seat did accuse me Now consider if you be a little coole with the spirit of wisdom meeknesse and of sound judgement whither I have done or spoken any thing contrary to any Law or Decree if you can make it appear do it without delay for behold I am yet under your hand and behold here 's a body in which I am prepared to suffer as I demanded before all the people assembled before your Judgement Seat that it was but reasonable and an equall thing to shew and convince me by the Law before the people what evill I had done either in word or action but no Law was brought or admitted to be read to or against me and so this reasonable thing was denied me and herein you cannot be said to be noble while you thus turn the sword against the innocent and the Lord God will plead with you for it for the Lord is nigh at hand to try you and to judge and reward for all your deeds done in every of your particular body And thou John Ireton instead of doing Justice and executing true and sound Judgment after true searching and enquiring into the nature and ground of a matter and so to plead the cause of the innocent whose consciences are exercised towards God this would have been thy honour but even thou replyedst and sayedst Take him away he is mad Alas poor man thou knowest not what thou hast done and surely I perceive thou dost not yet know or believe against whom thou together with the rest of the persecuting Magistrates and Priests of England Scotland and Ireland have lifted up your hands and behold this testimony I give forth whether you can believe or receive it or nay that here is three of us in bonds in New-gate Goale namely Humphry Bache Anne Gould and Daniel Baker committed by your order and wills who as sure as the Lord God hath given you and all men breath and life and all things so sure are we his Servants and Friends and worship him in spirit and in truth for he who is a most pure invisible eternal spirit hath sought and found us and we are in him that is true and so is our testimony and therefore cannot lye nor swear nor give flattering titles to any man if we should the Lord our God whom we serve would condemn us and we assuredly know that the whole world lyeth in wickednesse and therefore in love to the world on the Lords behalf as his friends we testify against the deeds and friendships and honours thereof for they are evill and its enmity to our God who is the living God And this know assuredly from my hand that is guided by the good spirit of the Lord to write these things that I am this day in bonds for the testimony of him that saves from sin and for the exercise of a pure conscience who desires that in the day and time of your tryal when the tribes of the earth shall mourn and they shall look upon him the Light whom they have rebelled against and pierced That these things where Repentance unto life is truly witnessed may not be laid to your charge who yet sit in the habitations of cruelty and darknesse and I am with that which is the condemnation of the unjust but is the life of the Just New-gate this 17. of the 8th month and 2. of the week 1659. DANIEL BAKER Something after to the Officers of the Army Friends in love to your soules and bodies is this desiring you to call to Remembrance the many warnings which the Lord our God hath given by his servants to Protectors so called and to Parliaments that they might escape his judgement which because of their hard-heartedness and carelesness towards Gods Councel hath overtaken them at unawares And unlesse ye repent and turn to the measure of Gods Grace and doe the things that are Right ye shall not escape The Righteous lives in everlasting peace but the wicked are shut up in darknesse till the great and terrible day of our God which is at hand wherefore whilst you have part of a day prize it and believe the warnings of the Lord to you left ye also suffer THE END