Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	bear_v	lord_n	testimony_n	1,675	5	7.3490	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60658	A tender visitation of the Fathers love, to all the elect-children, or, An epistle unto the righteous congregations who in the light are gathered, and are worshippers of the Father in spirit and truth, to be read amongst them in the pure fear of the Lord God, when they are assembled and met together in his name / by Wlliam Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4336; ESTC R2609	12,935	18

you rest in Peace and blessed are you for evermore And let not that eye be opened which would be looking forth but in your Tent abide with God that in his gathering you may Stand and in his Rest your dwelling-place may be and heed not man nor his doings for some hath been hurt with looking there and hath lost their vnion with the Life having looked so much Abroad untill they have suffered loss at Home and whilest the eye hath thus beheld it hath been dazled more and more and when the end could not be seen then in the astonishment they have sunck down and into much sorrow have been plunged let not your minds be so abroad but keep your habitation within and see mans time and day and what it is and neither regard his Way nor Doings for if he do well he is Accepted but if evil he will be Scourged so man is not to be heeded for the Lord is above him and all his waies and hath his heart in his hand and at his pleasure can turn it and what comes to pass is by his Permission and unto all that love him it works for good therefore let none say why hath the Lord done this or why is it thus comite pass but all know your gathering unto God and with him abide and let pationce be your covering and meekness the girdle of your loynes for the Lord hath a work to do and it must be done by whom he will if he bring up the ASSYRIAN to be a Rod and make the CALDEANS an ovenflowing Scourge who shall say unto him why doest thou so they have their time he layes them by and they pass away that all may know there is a God in Israel Oh dear hearts be ye all Faithful unto the Lord God for large is his Love towards you he will not leave you or forsake you but will stand by you and deliver you out of all your troubles for he is Israeli strength and the Salvation of his Chosenones trust in him alone and in his Power beleive for he is able to Save though the Destroyer pursue and violently assault yet is he near to be a present help unto you infinite is his Loving Kindness unto you who are upright in heart his Arm hath gathered you his Arm preserves and saves you that the wicked one doth not touch you he hath Succoured and Releived you when the storm hath blown sore upon you he hath quietted the Wind and the Sea when it hath Raged to overwhelm you his everlasting Power you have felt and his renewed Mercies from day to day Oh wait in the Light that all his Mercies you may read and every Visitation of his Tender Love may be alwaies fresh upon your hearts that you may be kept sensible of his everlasting Kindness and manifold Mercies from time to time bestowed You are the blessed of the Lord who in his Power are kept Faithful and have not Erred from his way though often tempted yet by him preserved that your Confidence in his Power doth abide which gives you victory over all the Powers of Darkness for in you is the seed of Life raised who is both Lord and King and though the Enemy do pursue you and casts floods of wrath and fury after you yet in the Authority and Power of your King you have Dominion over him therefore look not at Temptations when they come but keep your eye to the Lord and be stayed in that which doth discover them so will he make away for you to escape them and keep up your Heads above them and though your troubles may be great yet will the Lord deliver you out of all and through the Exercise of Faith and Patience he will establish you in his Holy Hill and Seal you up in the Covenant of Eternal life there to rest in the bosome of his dear Love for evermore So let not the thing seem small in your eyes for it is the Arm of his Mercy which unto you hath reached therefore above all things to be prized that you should be called and counted worthy to believe in his Holy Name and in his everlasting Truth revealed and also overcome by him to be followers of him in Love and to know the operation of his Power by which your minds are renewed and Translated into a measure of his pure Life which in you is made manifest by the Revelation of Jesus Christ who in you hath appeared Sin to destroy and Everlasting Righteousness to bring in of which you are partakers through the Riches of his Grace by Faith wherein ye stand The everlasting God of Life and Power keep you all who in the measure of love received lives up in the pure obedience to answer the Lords kindness dayly waiting upon him that in his wisdom all the works of his hands may be ordered to his everlasting praise And all Dear Friends who in the Lord service stands to bear forth a Testimony in bonds and sufferings or any other way therein do witness to the Truth of God in your measures and against all Deceit Oppression Cruelty and Wrong a Visitation of the Fathers Love reacheth unto you all Oh feel the living Power your Souls to refresh and your strength dayly to Renew that none may be weary or faint in your minds but all in faithfulness may be upheld to God keep your eye out of the world and those things which you have left behind for thither will the Enemy oft be drawing and enticing your minds to Entangle you but all be watchful that out of his Snare you may be kept for the Lord is exercising your patience to wean you from the love of the World and all the things that is in it that your Part and Portion may be in his Life and your hearts in him alone may delight that for his sake all other things may be given up freely into his Will that nothing may be a Bondage to the Just or Imprison the Righteous Seed but that in his Power he may Raign all other things to put under his Feet that nothing may be a Cumber to your mind so will your bonds be sweet unto you and work together for your good for dear is the Fathers love unto you his living presence wait to feel and that will make your Consolation to abound above all your Sufferings and lift you up over all that would cast you down and in waiting the Lord will give you strength to bear and patience to endure untill Iniquity have had its day and the Sufferings be filled up And be contented with your present states and none grudge or murmure in your minds but all stand freely given up that you may willingly serve the Lord in what he calls unto or permits to come upon you so will his Blessing and Peace abide with you for Ever For now is the Lord trying all the wayes and doings of the Children of men and what is not of Him must fall before Him for

them from the needful thing that no Life is possessed nor Power enjoyed but Antichrist Exalted and the Temple filled with a dry spirit that deadness and drowsiness is over the living the oyl being stope the spirit of slumber entred the Lamp is filled with it that when he comes he is not regarded nor no Readiness to receive him for there is no delight in waiting for him so have many lost their First Love and are Erred from the Way of Life Oh Friends there was a time in which he was more Brettous unto you when in the day he called you and in his love did visit you then was your hearts upright towards him and your joy did abound in him that you could have left all to follow him and nothing was deare unto you for his sake then was the Oyl powred forth freely and the favour of it was sweet unto you and your Lamps in brightness burned in that day and Life and Power you truly enjoyed and in sweet tenderness you was alwaies kept waiting his presence in you to feel and the brightness of his glory to behold your earnest was so much unto him that nothing could satisfie but the enjoyment of him Oh how sweet was his Word unto you in that Day how was you quickned and enlarged in it that you could have run and not been weary such was your delight in his Commandements how did you then attend to his Counsel and from his mouth received Instruction it was your Meat and Drink to do his Will whilst the tenderness did abide upon you and that which God had raised was fresh and living in you then was your eye kept single to him and was not after other Lovers your delight was in him placed and in sweet Union with his Life you lived in the measure which then you had received and therein was your lives refreshed and every morning your strength renewed that there was not then a feeble Person nor no weariness nor saintness was upon you but the living Power quickned and revived you and a sweet savour of life was then felt amongst you Oh consider for it was better with many in that day then now who have forsaken their first Love and are again come under the vail and doth not feel the springs of life in freshness to keep them awake and living unto God Oh come within my Friends for this Book is opened to be read divide a right feel in the Power see to the Root what springs up what is the fruit taste and see how it is search to the bottom mind Gods Witness it will not deceive you it will let you all see your conditions plainly it will not bring one thing to Light and hide another but it will bring all up that you may read thorrow with an understanding from the first day untill now for the Witness is true and will bear witness unto the Truth in all and what is out of the Truth it will reprove without respect of Persons so may all see your present states as the witness is minded and taken heed unto and it will keep all down to the measure of Truth and then none will seem to be above what they are And upon whomsoever the Witness smites hearken to it and as it opens your present states turn not away your ear that whoever have erred and from your first Love departed may again return Oh he is near you he waits for you come he will not Reject you but will freely heal you for yet is the Day of his Mercy to you for verily many are cooled and many slumber who in the day of tenderness truly tasted of the Word and Power from which the Oyl was poured forth that caused their Lamps to bear a glorious shew and this is a Lamentation in Israel this day the glory thereof in many seems to fade and a dry covering comes over in its place all may read as you mind the Light so will every one know your present states for the eyes of many hath been abroad and things hath been looked at and reasoned about and in the visible the mind hath run untill the Vail hath been secretly drawn that fears hath entered and their faith Surprized and then hath wavered that they have been driven back and their strength spoiled and so are many gone astray and neither finds springs nor pasture So all be diligent search out the Matter the Light will find it where it is and let all see where you are and what you feed upon for the Fathers Love sends to you all that the strayed may be gathered and the faithful established and though there may be some which will not hearken yet shall Israels glory stand and all that are willing thither to come though you have erred it shall not be remembred but the healing virtue of life you shall all taste and feel Oh hearken come delay not the Matter is weighty And all you dear and tender ones born of the Immortal seed sweet and pretious are you all the Fountain opens freely unto you the Fathers love cannot hold from you for you are his own he hath Chosen you and over you is his Arm stretched out your feet stands in a sure place and your Foundation none can remove happy are you that be in such a case yea blessed for ever who hath chosen the Lord to be your God you have stood in the Judgement and in the Cross hath walked and nothing could turn your feet aside you have not been Entangled though often allured you have been kept out of the Fowlers net and from him have you been preserved so in your stations you have stood and hath not swarved from the Lord but in his Power hath been kept and your Integrity you have Retained you are the living branches who in the Immortal knowes your Life your Leafe shall not wither neither shall your Blossom fade but glorious shall your Fruit be for in the River of Pleasure your Root is placed he hath weaned you from the world his life to delight in he feeds you dayly with the fatness of his House and gives you to drink of his Fulness freely Oh what is like unto your Portion ye tender Plants your Bread is sure and your Water faileth not your dwelling place is full of Pleasantness and your peace no man can take away the Lord hath formed you in the womb and in his Power hath brought you forth to make you a Holy People to himself and a Generation to take delight in Children of his Love you are and his mercy is Endless unto you his Seed he hath raised in you to Raign and made you Subjects to his Power in the Covenant of Life he hath Sealed you up and who shall separate you from his Love Who is sufficient for these things or Who can shew forth his Mightie acts Oh let not his mercies be forgotten nor his loving kindness slip out of your minds for his own Arm hath wrought his Work