Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	appear_v	believe_v	zion_n	12	3	8.9735	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86560	A caveat to all true Christians against the spreadings of the spirit of Antichrist, and his subtile endeavours to draw men from Jesus Christ / propounded to them by J. Horn, one of the unworthiest of Christs servants in his gospel, a preacher thereof in South Lin, Norfolk ; together with some brief directions for their orderly walkings.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2796; ESTC R42677	162,184	341

minded you of the state both as men and as Saints in the head and in your selves consider yet a little further with me that as in your selves you are yet imperfect and subject to weakness so it would be minded that in respect of some others you are in a state of enmity hatred too though beloved of God Christ yet hated and rejected of men and Angels that love not God and Christ and so you are in a state of warfare here you have enemies to incounter with and that will be sure to incounter with you within and without and they will set upon you because ye are Saints though ye be called to glory and vertue ye must not think to have that glory or walk out in that vertue but with some sufferings you must fight for what is given you or else you cannot enjoy it you shall meete with Canaanites that will incounter you before you can sit down in rest in the good land promised you and if you yeeld to them or be overcome of them as indeed you shall not be overcome but by yeelding they will dispossess you here is the faith and patience of the Saints and of them that keep the commandments of Jesus Revel 14.12 Here you are as a Lily among Thorns as a ship in the midst of the swelling waves as a partridge hunted by the ravenous birds hence the difficulty of obtaining what is given you the straitness of the gate and narrowness of the way to life herein consisteth ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake saith the Lord your head Mat. 10.22 other men may hate one another but all will hate you Manasseh against Ephraim and Ephraim against Manasseh but both against Judah Isa 9.21 one sect against another prophane against zealous and zealous against prophane Edomites against the Ishmaelites and Ishmaelites against the Edomites but both against Israel all against you that are Saints indeed and that not for injury done by you but because of his name that is in and upon you because of the holy unction and because of the sincerity of your profession some because ye will not do as they in all excesse of riot some because ye condemn their works of Religion and evidences for heaven and tell them they must not inherit upon those terms with you 1 Pet. 4.4 Gal. 4.2 some because their works are evil and yours good and you reprove their evil by your good 1 John 3.12 John 7.7 All that will live godly in Christ must suffer persecution 2. Tim. 3.12 yea the wise and zealous potent and chief Commanders will set against you yea under pretence of the law and Temple even out of misguided zeal for God they will brand you and speak all manner of evil against you for his names sake that is beleeved in and confessed by you for your good-will they will reward you evil and hatred for your love while you seek to save them they will seek to destroy you and roote you out of the land of the living the Herodians that seek to establish their greatness and usurpe the power of the Kingdom of Israel to themselves will seek to slay you the Scribes and Pharisees that arrogate to themselves the chaire of Moses and to be the only Rabbies in Religion and pillars of the Church will seek to crucifie you they that deny your Lord and master wil go about to undermine and pervert you many will fight against your Liberties and outward welfare because of your faith many against your faith it self seeking to poison you there by corrupting you from the simplicity of the truth beleeved by you So that you are in no small danger in your journey toward Sion to be beaten off before you there appear in its glory especially seeing also you have an enemy within you strong and subtle and that so much the more dangerous because so near you and as it were a part of you mortifie your Members that are on the earth Col. 3 5. They are as the very members of your body lust in your hearts the flesh with its wisdom will affections appeties these will be often solliciting you to close with present earthly objects and neglect the better things to which God hath called you many strong men have fallen by her and many though not quite deprived yet have been so maimed by her counsels that they have gone halting to their inheritance ever after this kept back many of the old Church in the wilderness from the earthly Canaan this keeps back many of the Church in the wilderness now from the everlasting Kingdom this is an enemy within ready to open the gates of the soul to any that shall conspire against it from without and it mindes nothing else but to betray the Saints to them its life is in the world and in self and it s as death to it that the soul be pulled from the world and from it self therefore it loves and prompts the soul to go back to the flesh-pots and provisions of the world or to confidence in its self If the world and its authority frown and threaten it bids yeeld and by no means hold up arms against so potent an adversary whispering in our bosoms master save thy self let not these sad things befall thee it suggests weakness in us power in it the harshness of persecution the inability of the flesh to indure under them not at all regarding God or savouring the things of him If the the world smile it counsels by all means to listen to it and embrace friendship with it and thi● proves no small disadvantage to the Saints in their spiritual travel that they have such a clog to retard them such a spy to betray them such 〈◊〉 bosom-Traytor to conspire with the world against them O ye that love the Lord hate thi● flesh Psal 97.10 shake it off and all its subtile inticements Abstain from fleshly lusts after profits honors pleasures promotions c. which war against the soul 1 Pet. 2.11 He that sows t● the flesh shall of it reap corruption but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6.7,8 But yet neither is here all you have to war against there are other enemies still of another nature that in and with these improve all their subtilty and skill of which they have no want with all their force and power to supplant you For we fight not only with flesh and bloud but also with principalities and powers against the Rulers of the darkness of this world and against Spiritual wickednesses in heavenly things Eph 6.12 There are invisible essences which are more subtile and forcible then those that are visible such as are Angels and Spirits which by how much they are the purer in essence then any bodily being by so much the more forcible are they and able to penetrate having not that earthly grossness in them that dulls and abates the force of other creatures besides