Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	life_n	4,645	5	4.9113	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

got power by letting some carnal thing in upon you to press you down which Spirit waits upon you continually to ensnare the Heavenly Life and get above it in your minds and so as a weight beset you in your way lest that which comes from Heaven should have free passage through a clear Vessel to Heavenly Seed free from cares cumbrances and earthly pleasures and from Earth to the Heavens for it 's he that comes from above which declareth to man his way and his wants presents his prayers and receives the answer and by him alone doth God work all his Works in you for you in Heaven and in Earth Now if you join to another and give your strength of heart and mind to his Enemy then the Work of God ceases the way being stopt for the Adulterer the Covetous the Idolater the Wanton the Sloath or what ever of that Nature you join to your consent giveth him strength to stop the Way of Life And this is your condemnation witnessed with the Light and herein had Death its power at the first which can be no Head but where he is hearkned to let in or obeyed but being resisted flyes but being let in he seateth himself in the Heavenly way with much policy and power and is not easily got out nor seen to be what he is so when you feel your way darkned or affections grow cold towards Heaven then take heed with all diligence in the pure Light to search for your Enemy hath got some entrance which by faithful and patient waiting in the Light you will come to see and through the power of the Cross to kill that life and cast out that in which it was conceived for that must not abide in the House with him that is Heir of the Heavenly Inheritance but is an Enemy to his coming for it is he that letteth till he be taken out of the way which while he is in the way dulls the affections and clogs the Heavenly mind that it cannot ascend wherefore that which you have received of the Holy One his Unction hold fast till he come and with it stand armed against whatever would enter to lead out to any outward observations but with all diligence observe that which you have of his in Spirit which the adversary seeks so much to draw you forth from least you should encrease your Lords money and herein you maintain your daily watch and war with that you have of Life and Power and not with that you have not so are you faithful Stewards and are accepted in what you have and not in what you have not for the World is in darkness and so wait for they know not what and have no ground for their Faith nor power to prepare his way to his coming further then words of others or their own conceivings but are not in him who is true but you are in him who is true who have his Light received and are in it to observe hhis appearance in all things and the Messenger of his Covenant you know who goeth before his face to prepare his way turning your hearts from every evil way and out of the paths of the destroyer that you may be fruitful upon earth that so he may receive you into himself vvhen he cometh to smite the Earth vvith a Curse which that which brings forth Bryars and Thorns is nigh unto whose Seed is not of himself his root and off-spring at his coming which is begot in the Adulterous mind For the mind feeding from without upon any knowledge form or observation but what the life leads to in Spirit and power is the ground of the mystery of iniquity the woman of Witch craft which hunteth for the precious life of the holy Child seeking to draw your strength of affections from him after the harlot that so he may fall die daily in your hearts and affections while the Lust goes out to another covered with some fair pretence whereby the worldly Spirit gathers strength daily as you shal feel who are watchful and diligent in the Spiritual War so shal that Truth appear to you That as your love waxeth cold so wil iniquity abound with an unresistable power whatever you know to the contrary which is not in the life Or whatever you believe without that faith which works by love to the life of Truth more then to the knowledge of Truth So let your wrestling be into the power and life of God and thereon feed and your life shal indure for ever and your strength and virtue shal be daily renewed But you read of some who had the form of Knowledge and of the Truth but being out of the life of Truth held the Truth in Unrighteousness and such when they knew God did not glorifie him as God in life So he gave them up who became vain in their imaginations who retained not the life in the knowledge turned the Truth of God into a Lie So that knowledge could not keep them from being filled vvith unrighteousness which stood not in the life and povver of righteousness and who received not that Truth in that Faith which loves to live the life of it Wherefore let your food be in the life of what you know and in the power of Obedience rejoice and not in what you know but cannot live for the Life is the Bread of your souls which crucifies the flesh and confounds that which runs before the Cross So let your labour and diligence be in that which presseth into the Heavenly Being and seeketh a Conformity to Christ in obedience of what you believe and hearken in love to that not in that mind which would save your own lives nor feed you where you are but in love to that which seperateth you from self-life and changeth you into his life whom you wait for from above so in receiving his commands in that which loves to be like him in life your Faith works by love and his Commands are joyous through love That Faith worketh obedience quickness and willingness it worketh out the old and worketh into the new and so through the hope of that which you love and obedience of Faith the entrance is made with the Life into the holy Kingdom and the Immortal Glory is put on which in the Light is seen and in the Life obtained as with the Word of Faith the separation is made and the Life that 's Mortal put off whose Life is without the Vail and is for death with that Life who makes the entrance through his Blood and through his Flesh a living Way a Way of Life a new Way to all who are seeking the Door in old Ordinances and Traditions and outward Observations feeding their minds with thinking or talking of what others did long since or what may be done in times to come and so are in Times but out of that Life which endures for ever and onely hath the promise of the Father and Power to make the

entrance to him from whom all the World are driven who are in the Lust and in that Nature which loves it self and worketh iniquity yet wearying themselves to find the Door without the Light of that Life which is not of this World And as you mind onely to feed on the Plant of Life you will come to know the Work of the Father in his Vineyard and who the faithful Labourer is and what must be his Work and the sloathful servant and what his Work bringeth forth and the cause why the field of the sluggard is over-grown with evil fruits and why his Vine bringeth not Fruit to perfection For you will find many Plants besides the Tree of Life all which seek to be fed and strengthened in the mind and affections and many grown Trees tall and strong which have got fast rooting spread and bring forth abundantly after their several kinds and all these present themselves to the eye of the mind to be fed from thence which is as the feet fetching food from far without which they cannot live long but must pine away and fall as they dye in the affections and as the mind is withdrawn from such objects as they are fed withall So the Work of him that is faithful is to number these to the Axe and to the fire and not to suffer these any place in the mind how strongly soever they tempt and try every way to spread Root to keep life that so through the death of these the Vine may grow alone in the clean affections and holy mind and honest chaste heart which is the good ground and where the pure Plant will bring forth of it self in all where it is not cumbred with that which is contrary to it Which contrary fruits all that mind the Light may see but the sluggard not being diligent to dig up the Root as well as to condemn the Fruit therefore they are daily growing and the good ground ever cumbred with them and such ever know what they should do but are never able to abide there their life being lost in the midst of this Wilderness and over-grown with wild Plants But you being diligent in your Watch you will see that the cause of all your troubles and confusion when you come to the true labour indeed is not for nothing for you will find many plants of several kinds for the World is in the heart of man as he is droven from God And every kind hath its several life which lives have their several feedings all which you may feel in the Light by their temptings to lead out your minds and though they are of several motions and live upon several objects yet the least of them being fed by consent in your mind will over-run the Vine and in time bury it by growing up in your affections Wherefore all must down that Truth alone may rise in your affections and the Word of Life have place in your hearts who is purer then to dwell in the Adulterous minde and whose eye cannot behold iniquity who hath no communion with darkness nor fellowship where any Idol stands in the Temple So this is your faith in your labour even that which overcomes the World and suffereth nothing thereof to take place in your minds but with the Spirit of Life to watch and wrestle against every lust and kill every affection that would go out for food for what-ever goes out betrayes the innocent and every pleasure of the flesh as a Canker doth eat out the Life of the holy and just one but by Faith the Just lives and in faithfulness doth he judge and make War against all his Enemies in every one who are exercised therewith And in this Work mind what you follow follow nothing rashly but prove all things with the fire and that which will not endure the Temptation and bear the Cross is the Adulterer who will look out every way for ease and the Serpent wil present many likely wayes to her under fair pretences which she that would live at ease will hastily hearken to and if you hearken to her you will betray the Work of Life which is bringing forth in hard travel and labour which is flain in the birth where ease and sloath is consented to and with living at ease and pleasure hath the Life been slain from the beginning of the world and hath been kept under by her Sorceries who fares deliciously upon Earth and by consenting to her pleasures hath the Election been lost and covered with the Seed of Wickedness which God hates which Wars after the flesh and lusts after the flesh to strengthen it self above the holy spiritual Seed but minding to make that sure to you which calls in your mind and being obedient thereto it will lead down by the Power of the Cross through that which is above to the feeling of the Election and a separation being made betwixt that which God chuseth in this Working-Power and what he condemneth you will come thereby to know to what to join and from what to withdraw that you may be Workers together with him and not against him which the subtile one will lead you to do till with the Light the separation be made and so joining to it in faith and obedience the Election will arise and by diligence thereto it will be made sure And once feeling the Innocent to move under the Oppressor give your selves no rest until the strong man bow for with great Plagues upon that Nature and with a strong hand against that will must the Seed of Promise be redeemed from under his Power which like Pharoah if he get but rest will not let Israel go from under his Power and if you keep with the Spirit and hearken low it will let you see what must be the Plagues you must pour upon him till he be brought dovvn that a little Child may lead him and reign over him and he that was oppressed by the Beast may ride upon him And as that Nature got head and strength by having its Lusts fulfilled so it must be subdued by having its Lusts famished which if you be not faithful to the seed of God herein you sell your Birth-right and betray your own redemption and are found deceitful Workers against God and your own Souls Wherefore run not with that which is in hast but lye down in that which is meek lovvly and patient that vvhich is vvilling to vvait the Fathers time and seeks to obtain by the obedience of Faith and not in the Will that vvould have in its ovvn hand For a Nature there is vvhich runs out for help and raveneth abroad to be satisfied vvhich God vvill famish And this vvill seek to lead the mind if it be follovved and vvill hunt about and murmure if it be not satisfied This goeth about the Citie but entereth not and this must suffer hunger and feel the Lambs wrath and plagues upon the head thereof what vvay soever it turns till it bovv and

and given you a Name amongst the living for in him is my Hope and Confidence concerning you all for the Adversary is near you but to him that is true and faithful I commit you all whom many of you have known from the beginning and as you dvvell and vvalk in his Power of Life and Holiness Love and Peace God vvill keep you from all evil bear you and lead you into grovvth and improvement of vvhat he hath commited to you and in Faith and Peace you wil be kept from running to the Hills to save you or 〈◊〉 making a refuge of a lye but with the everlasting Truth will you all be girded and armed with the Word of Life against all Wickedness of Flesh and Spirit within and without And God Eternal kill the World in you all and throughly crucifie you to it in every affection and out-leading Power so that you may all witness him come who is the end of the World and Eternal Life and in him walk in the singleness of your minds as freeborn-Children redeemed into perfect liberty with him And dear Friends meet often together and so build up your selves above visibles that you may enter into peace and life everlasting The day of God hasts on apace which will try every mans Spirit and every mans Work of what nature it is and none will be saved but who are of God and such he receives into himself who is builded up to him in that which is from above But the wandering and unstable spirit he will shut out and punish with perdition from his presence evermore Wherefore dearly beloved in my soul above what I can write this I lay upon every one of you in particular and warn you That you prove and examine your selves herein what spirit you are of and what is your freedom herein and note that Spirit which steals your minds into earthly things and wandering thoughts for that is not of God but is of this world works after the power of the Prince of the Air and in this Spirit all have fellowship with the world are in the Power wch works against God and the Lamb nor can any in that Spirit serve God nor have fellowship with him in the Light for it is carnal and devillish and shut out from God the Father of Light and so becomes a Vagabond wandering chaffie Spirit not capable of God's Counsel nor Service nor can you have fellowship with the Brethren in the Light and Power of Truth so long as this reignth and is followed by you and so this must be judged in every motion of it that it may be subdued and put under foot lest being once enlightened you become wandering Stars from God's presence for ever So be you faithful to God who judgeth you and gird up the loyns of your minds and wait for stable heavenly Spirits that you may be born thereof and rule therein over your selves and so overcome the world that you may walk at liberty in God and in Christ Jesus whom he hath sent and herein is life eternal and rest to your souls what ever befall you and onely blessed is he that enters thereinto and it is the faithful that enters and in faith and obedience is the Covenant kept which keeps quiet the mind and in perfect peace in all Conditions the purchased possession of every redeemed soul thorough the blood of Jesus So God cover you all with his Spirit being buried into his Death and the Almighty arise among you and judge every evil root in its first motion and give you the knowledge of himself in Love and build you up above all strife and enmity and fill you with his Grace and season your hearts therewith and make himself your delight and bless you all and encrease you my dearly beloved ones to whom bowels of dear Love runneth even unto the least of you all in your innocent simple desires I am one with you all and with my God for you all that not one of you that ever have tasted of the Call or Power of God may be lost or offended or driven away God Eternal build you up into his Life and give you an Inheritance in him that seeks the lost and brings back that which is gone astray Dear Friends read me here and feel my Bowels towards all that are tempted or fallen and treasure up Mercy against the day to come even as ye look to be forgiven so forgive one another unfeignedly and keep your selves separate from the world and every pollution O fear not the world neither covenant with man nor say A Confederacy but fear the Living Powerful God of Heaven and Earth who is a Sanctuary to every clean and faithful heart and to him I commit you all who is over the world and worketh in you to make you eternally as he is that you may be his Sons and Daughters for ever to whom give thanks and praise for evermore Amen You are often in my remembrance J. N. This Epistle fore-going was given forth since the former part of the Book about the fifth day of the fifth Month 1660. THE END