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	hear_v	see_v	2,202	5	3.2179	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29607	The guiltless cries and warnings of the innocent against injustice, oppression, cruelty, false-swearers, envious men, and such like witnesses, arisen up against a plain man, or, A living and true witnesse condemned, through want of sound (yet through unjust) judgment : together with the unequall and unreasonable proceedings of Humphry Wildey, Mayor, and Edward Solley, and Robert Sollers, Aldermen, and Justices of the city Worcester, as may plainly appear by what followeth, besides the unjust sufferings of the guiltlesse ... / from the hand, mouth, and very heart of a true Friend, and not an enemy to the person, or well-being of any man, woman, or childe within thee, O city, or upon the face of the earth, throughout the whole creation of God, or of that which lieth under the cruel bondage of death and corruption, for which I suffer, and labour, and travail, with, and among many brethren, for its perfect freedome, and restauration, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (as in the beginning), whose servant, witnesse, and prisoner for the elects sake, I am called by men Daniel Baker, by scorners, a Quaker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B482B; ESTC R22840	14,464	20

of justifying any thing or Witnesse or Testimony which the Everlasting Witnesse the Light of Jesus in thee condemns or on the contrary that thou persist not to condemn any thing which the Pure and True Witnesse of the God of Truth in thee justifyeth For he was a wise Man that said by the Spirit of the Lord He that condemneth the Just and justifieth the Wicked even They both are an Abomination to the Lord. And O Ye Rulers wisely consider whether you are so or a praise to the Lord who is our All God blessed for ever I commend my Testimony freely to the witnesse of God in Your consciences to be answered in the Day of God whether you now hear or forbear Know Ye that I am a Servant of the Living God and a Friend and not an Enemy to any one mans Person upon the Face of the whole Earth therefore not an enemy to the King God is my Witness that I am a Friend also to sound Justice and Judgment Good Magistrates Good Government Good Lawes and am subject to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake called of men who am clear of Your Guilt and False Accusations and Swearings DANIEL BAKER by Scorners called QUAKER Worcester Prison This 22d of the 8th Month 1660. From the Lords Prisoner for the Testimony of Truth D. B. To the MAYOR of the CITY c. Friend FOr so much that thou art chosen and called MAYOR or Chief Magistratte of the CITY bear with me a little and suffer the eye and ear of a good and perfect understanding in the Spirit of Meekness as a Man of Truth to be opened in thee that from henceforth if haply the Almighty God in whose hand thy breath is lengthen the Dayes of this Life to the end thou mayst glorifie fear and honour him only that thou also mayst be honoured with the true honour which comes from him who is the Eternal Fountain of Life for which end Life and Breath is freely given to all men and not that any man or any in the Authority of God especially of them called Christian Magistrates should dishonour him or turn aside the needy from or have respect of Persons in Judgment or condemn the Just and justifie the Wicked or hearken to Lies neither to let a False Witnesse go unpunished or to do speak or act or consent to any of these or such like Abominations And Friend let me ask thee again Was not he a wise Man that spake by the Spirit of the Lord in his Wisdom saying He that Condemneth the Just and he that Justifieth the Wicked even they both are an Abomination to the Lord Mark that who is my Witness that I am as Innocent and as clear whether thou canst beleeve me or nay even as a suckling Child Now in the fear and dread of the living God who is higher than the highest Consider whether thou O man and them that sate on the Judgment Seat by thee have been a praise to God to good just reasonable men or not a good savour in your Proceedings And concerning the matters falsly Charged against me which as yet you have not Condemned and the very Truth and Reason is through neglect or for want of making diligent Inquiry and Search into the Nature and Ground of the matter as it becomes men of Truth so to do but on the contrary have you not Justified evil envious men that fear not the true God by casting my Body into Prison and as it were gladly receiving false Testimonies from false Swearers and ungodlike men as it were in the dark and behind my back also and this was not right when as the Accusers and the Accused men of Truth would have caused to appear face to face and some called Heathen Rulers stand Justified before the Lord and in the sight of good men in such matters But behold how you have erred in this matter and Lo it s not hid from the God of Heaven who will certainly bring you to Judgment and plead the Cause of the Guiltlesse and not Condemned although ye do and yet may through evil counsel prejudice or enmity which proceeds not from the Spirit of Life of Innocency make light of and condemne it Wherefore I yet Cry to you Repent and suffer Gods faithful and true Witnesse even the Light of the Lord Jesus in every of your Consciences to arise and answer me for to that only can I freely commend my Testimony because even in that true and sound Judgment is placed And O ye Rulers how well would it be with you were ye in all things subject to and freely guided by it even in you and in all men it s to have its Authority and Preheminence to Guide Order Direct and Teach them in all true sound right wholsome words wayes and actions For according to its Testimony in every man Male or Female which is was and for ever will be the same to wit Truth so shall every mans Words Thoughts Wayes and Actions be Tryed and Judged Justified or Condemned according to the Nature End and Ground of all the Deeds done in the Body of Male or Female for this is the everlasting Truth from which I speak And it s an undeniable saying to wit That evil is joyned to within before it come forth either into Word or Action Wherefore I Cry in the dread of the living God Let all be warned to cleave to the Good and eschew or abstain from the Evil in its first appearance for certainly so shall be the reward of every man Male or Female And this is not contrary but according to the true and faithful sayings of Jesus and the holy Scriptures of Truth And lo every Tongue shall confess to the Equity and Justice of the Pure God who is Light and to the Spiritual and Eternal Light of the Lord Jesus the faithful and true Witness Gods Righteousness that Justifieth not but Condemneth the sin where it is joyned to or conceived to wit in the flesh where the Prince of Darkness of the power of the Air hath his Seat or Throne but the Light of the Lord Jesus reveals or makes him manifest and comes to Dis-throne Overturn and Destroy both him to wit the Devil and his works in man And behold these are the true and faithful sayings of the living God Whether you O you Rulers or any to whom this shall come can receive or beleeve them or not or hear or forbear Lo its love to the Meek Innocent Spirit yet Oppressed and Imprisoned even in you of which this Body in which I am is a true figure if ye can read with a good and noble Understanding and beleeve in the Truth which yet lieth hid in you and if you have Ears to hear you may hear the Cry of the Poor and Needy the Prisoner of Hope the Oppressed within and without you whose Cause is but one which the God of Heaven will certainly Plead whether the lofty Oppressors hear or forbear And Friend

Gomorrah that suffered the vengeance of Eternall Fire greater Let the Wise in heart consider and judge and let all be warned as once and again yea and many times within thy Cities and Towns and chief Places of concourse O England In singleness and uprightness of my heart in obedience to the Lord of Heaven with my precious life in my hand which often through the loving kindness of the Lord I have received power to lay it down and to take it again according to the perfect Example of the Captain of my Salvation and Elder Brother to cry Repentance I say it to the end that all may be warned to bring forth fruits meet for Repentance unto life as it becometh all that make mention of the Name of the Lord which I also freely cryed within thy Gates O City And what is this Crime worthy of Bonds or Imprisonments within thy bowels O Nation How often has the Scripture been fulfilled within thy Borders Truth is fallen in the Streets and Equity cannot enter and Iudgment is turned away backward and he that departeth from evil and reproveth Sin in the Gate maketh himself a prey and becomes a signe and a wonder to an evil gainsaying and adulterous Generation And the Lord saw it yea and hath seen it and it displeased and yet displeaseth him because there is no judgment as in the Ancient dayes A Lamentation Wo and Alas for thee O England O Shrewsbury Lo thy crying Sins together with the multitude and variety of thy Abominations have reached Heaven even up to the very Throne of God and verily his Eternall Eye from above hath beheld and looked down and to his wounding hath long and many a time refrained himself and sent his Word of Life in his Lambs freely to warn and visit thee to Eternal Judgment and Salvation Wherefore Let the Wilde Brutish Unstable Double-minded Hard-hearted Inhabitants within their Dark Habitations of Cruelty and of thy strong Holds O SALLOP O Sodome Remember and forget it not if happily yet it may be for their good Before your Day passe away over your heads even as the Wind which bloweth where it listeth and Lo the sound you have heard yet it obeyeth the Lord But Do Ye yet know O Ye Men without a good and perfect understanding whom my soul pittieth from whence it cometh or whether it goeth Yet Blessed are and shall they be that Read and lay it to heart for good But to return to what I was speaking of before Know Ye O Magistrates and Inhabitants of this City again That the Testimonies of the Swearers that rise up against me are wickedly false and therefore judged and condemned with the True Eternal and Spiritual Light Christ in me and not any other but the same that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and the True Living God who is Light knoweth and behold I testifie again that I had not no not so much as an evil thought in my heart against any man from the time I began to sound forth my Message which the God of heaven put into my heart to sound freely forth whether people can believe me or not which in obedience to the Lord I freely did declare till I was violently pulled off the Beast I rode on nay nor then neither But as to what these Wicked men have falsly sworn against me again I say Lo I am even as a Babe born as it were but yesterday and it s my desire in the truth and nakednesse of my heart if haply they may find a place of Repentance unto Life and that they and all may be warned from henceforth not to do act or speak contrary to the Light of Jesus in their Consciences and that what these men have done against me may not then be laid to their charge who simply have not known what they have done for they have hated me without cause Father forgive them that know not what they do and let them know My Innocency stands justified and not condemned before the pure presence and Throne of God the Light the Judg of all Whether you O men can believe me or not it s even so though I am with and among many Brethren Sons and Daughters of the same Family or Houshold of Faith condemned of wicked ungodlike unreasonable men who are out of the Faith of Gods Elect that 's a Mystery held in a pure conscience and respects no mans persons without which Faith its impossible to please the Living God and thus it hath happened from Generation to Generation they who were out of the Faith of Gods Elect in the respect of persons giving and receiving honour with flattering Titles one to another which is from beneath earthly and sensual and not that which is from above True Heavenly Eternal and Spiritual alwayes since the beginning hated and persecuted them that were born of the Spiritual Birth from above and so it is at this day That which is born of the Flesh is Flesh and from beneath persecutes that Birth that is born of the Spirit which is Spiritual Heavenly and from above and not from beneath or of the world that lyeth in wickednesse and therefore do they hate us without a cause even as they did Gods Lamb who is our perfect and compleat Example and Captain even of our Salvation So that we marvel not at the matter to see or feel the Birth born of the Flesh Death and Hell that 's from beneath persecute that of the Spirit of Life from above And behold it cometh to passe That the true Witnesse in your Consciences and also in many more in Englands Nation the Land of my Nativity or Place where my first birth was begotten and brought forth and as a cloud consumed away and dyed yet behold I live shall be awakened and arise to justifie and not condemn and answer to the words of my Testimony given forth and declared now and within thy Gates O City Worcester wherein I delivered forth the Message which the Lord of heaven had put into my heart to give forth A certain sound and warning to thy Inhabitants O bloody City of the mighty terrible and Glorious Day of God come and coming even a Resurrection Day and behold it s begun to dawn and break forth in England first and it 's shining forth over all Nations Blessed is the eye that beholds it And this Day is and will be a day of joy a day of peace a day of Gladnesse of heart and of eternal Life to all the upright in heart that turneth from Ungodlinesse the Darknesse But on the contrary it is a Day and yet will be a Day of Vengeance a Day of Calamity and Distresse and Perplexity a Day of Wo and Misery a Day of Blacknesse and Darknesse and of Astonishment ●●art yea a Day of burning even in the bowells of such that reject the day of their visitation who turn not from Ungodlinesse and so bring not forth Fruits meet for Repentance which I also