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	faith_n	gospel_n	1,967	5	6.2363	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63486	A faithful and true witenss to the light of Jesus Christ, or, Word of faith within in the heart and conscience proving that God alwayes did, and doth reveal himself in it, and through it to the sons and daughters of men, that they may believe and be saved ... : also a postscript in answer to some base lyes and reflections cast upon me by William Haworth, an independent preacher / Christopher Taylor.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1675 (1675)	Wing T264; ESTC R25802	11,574	18

Generations the Lord hath afforded the Means of Salvation even in the Dayes of the greatest Ignorance that ever was in the World which he is said to wink at yea amongst the Gentiles that which might be known of God was manifest in them for he shewed it unto them Rom. 1. 19. even the Light of his Son Christ Jesus that true Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World which was the Cause of the Revelation of the Wrath of God from Heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men who held the Truth in Unrighteousness Rom. 1. 18. For the very Gentiles were l●st without Excuse because when they knew God they glorified him not as God c. Ver. 21. Here therefore is the Means to all Mankind in general the Word of Faith in their Hearts that they may believe and understand what God requires of them in their Day and Time and they in all Ages that have feared God and eschewed Evil so far as they were convinced in their Hearts by this Principle of God's absolute Requirings and joyned their Hearts to this Principle trusting in it and refusing the Evil though they did not know the Name of it in such Clearness as we do in this Day yet in Measure they were Believers and Partakers of the Vertue of it by Means whereof they received Strength and were kept from Evil and were God's Witnesses and reproved the Wickedness of the Times they lived in and in that they knew not so much of God as after-Generations had revealed unto them yet they wore accepted in their faithful Obedience to what they knew in their Day and was necessarily required of them So that the Word of Faith was testified unto by Moses in his Day Deut. 30. 11 12 13 14. And it was the same Word of Faith which the Apostles preached Rom. 10. 6 7 8 c. And therefore it was the same in the Day of Moses the Word of their Faith that they might believe and obey the Lord's Commands and in all Times Ministrations and Dispensations it was the same and it was God's spiritual Witness in the Apostles Dayes when they preached their Spiritual Powerful and Heavenly Gospel there was a Witness in Peoples Consciences when they preached their Gospel mark that they had their Witness in every Man's Conscience which evidenced and witnessed the Truth of the Apostles Doctrine though they rejected it and therefore with this Light they were condemned for their Unbelief and the Apostle was clear of their Blood and of the Blood of all Men because they would not hear or regard the Gospel preaching though they were capacitated by this Word of Faith to have believed and obeyed it but they whose Hearts did not believe to Righteousness were such as loved their Evil Deeds and hated the Light and it was their Condemnation O the malicious Sottishness of some professed Preachers of that they call Gospel who are notorious Wicked against the Truth and in my hearing have called this blessed Light of Jesus Flesh and altogether Darkness whither will not Malice transport People so that what Blasphemy will they not utter who hate the Lord 's Christ and his blessed Appearance Oh Rebellious Teachers and Blind Leaders of the People who drag the People into Mischief instead of bringing them unto Christ or turning them to his Light that they may believe and be saved the Hand of the Lord is against such vain Bablers and filthy Teachers who deny the Lord that bought them and tread his precious Blood under their wicked Feet and will neither enter themselves into the Gospel-Faith that they may be saved nor suffer others to enter whom they can hinder I speak this of such wicked shameless Zealots as have sold themselves to do wickedly and are not ashamed in the Face of the whole World to oppose the Light within in Malice and Hypocrisie whatever it costs them yea they are as wicked as the worst of Christ's Enemies ever were who cryed Away with him Crucifie him his Blood be upon us and our Children with what Force have they endeavoured in like Manner to destroy the Truth and quench the Spirit Breath and Life of it And it may be some of those in former Times were by this very Principle they so perfectly oppose convinced of Sin and then had some Sence of the VVeight of their Iniquities upon them and in that Day there might be some Tenderness wrought in them and they might have Openings of Light and Truth so far as to let them see there was a Necessity of separating from the Sin of the Times they lived in and from their VVayes and VVorships and the Lord owned them as they feared him and were an enquiring People after him then and they had some of them Openings of further Discoveries at Hand and glorious Times to come and they would speak of the Teaching of the Spirit within and a VVork within and were a breathing People and there was some Greenness amongst them and they were in Measure hated and persecuted and all this and if they had had a Thousand Times more Experience of God it was by and through this Light and pure VVord of Faith as God opened to them in it but departing from this Inward Light and Teaching and sitting down in the Form of that which in some Degree they had had some Tast of and not waiting in Tenderness in that Light and Spirit which opened good Things unto them and let them see that blessed Things were at Hand to be revealed and further Manifestations of God in Christ they fell from their State and departed from the Light and Spirit within and lost their Strength to withstand the Enemy and so he got Power over them and in Heart they have backslided and in that State they have rebelled against the Lord and his Truth in their own Particulars and found out a VVay to excuse themselves by calling themselves Believers in a State of Sin and Christ dyed for them and they are the Elect of God and the like and God imputes Christ's Righteousness to them and sees no Sin in them but looks upon them in Christ though the Enemy bears the Rule and p●ss●ss●s the Heart a meer Cheat but if they had stood in God's Heavenly Light and Counsel he would by his Eternal Almighty Power soon have subdued Sin under them and they would have witnessed Christ in them the Hope of Glory greater then he that is in the World and have known the VVork of true Regeneration and Peace and not have needed such vain Covets and Beggarly Shifts as now they are got into and with the Pharise●s say they see and yet their Sin remains in their Hearts spiritually persecuting the dear Lord Jesus yea if they had kept to their first Integrity and waited in the Light they would have been able to have read God's pure living Dispensations with his People in this the Day of his pure Power but it is hid from the Eyes of