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	receive_v	unrighteousness_n	1,743	5	11.2223	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86651	A lamentation for the scattered tribes, who are exiled into captivity, and are now mingled among the heathen, and are joyned to the oppressor, and refuses to return. Presented unto all the separated congregations, under what name or form soever, in love to the lost. Shewing, the difference betwixt them that were separated by the word of faith, and them who have separated themselves, in imitation from the letter: ... / By a servant of truth, and a friend to righteousness, who suffers with the seed, which is held in oppression, waiting and labouring for its return; called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3170; Thomason E885_1; ESTC R204835	28,211	39

and the briers and thornes in bundles and cast them into everlasting fire where where is perpetuall exilement from the presence of God and from the Lamb for ever and ever and from the light of his countenance and this as the Lord lives will come upon all who are not cleansed from sin and purged from your iniquity and destruction is of your selves it is not because there it no balm enough in Gilead nor no Physitian nor because you have no grace nor power but because you despise it and will not come to Christ who is the light least your deeds should be repoved nor mind that which is given into you to lead you out of sin and so the one thing needful you heed not and you that doe not will lie down in everlasting misery and sorrow world without end And now to you that are tossed and finde no rest for the sole of your foot but are still led aside into pollutions and sin and knows not how to come forth nor where the Power is CEase gadding abroad and seeking in that principle which leads you further from God and from your own wisdom and reason which is in the fall and in the disobedient nature for there can you never finde peace nor the way that leads unto it all that you have heard you see still there is one thing lacking and you are unsatisfied and while your eyes are without his power you know not that gave the Saints dominion and the further you inquire in the natural fallen wit and reason the further you are off the first principle that leads to know God Now I say unto you all Christ Jesus who is anointed of God to preach glad tidings to the poor and to the captive who in the days of his flesh declared and preached the Kingdom of God was neer yea in them I say unto you now he preaches by his Spirit in the world and he is now in the world and this is he that convinceth the world of sin and shews thee thy evil deeds by his light in thy conscience and as thou waits upon that light that is given from God it will open thy understanding and let thee see all that ever thou hast done and will bring trouble upon thee and a true sensibleness of thy condition and will bring wrath upon that nature in thee which is corrupt and contrary to the light for the light is of the nature of Christ Jesus and so thou wilt come to see as thou waitest in the true light wherewith Christ hath enlightned thee withal two seeds and each of these seeds hath a nature and they are one contrary to the other in their natures the nature of the one is to work unrighteousness and of the other to bear witness against sin and also works righteousness and these two are contrary the one leads into bondage the Just and the other leads into bondage the Injust the one is the Image of God the other the Image of the devil and if thou wait in the light thou wilt see two striving in the wombe and here is nation against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and these are at variance and the life of the one is the death of the other Now that which lets thee see that Cain and Ismael are goodly children who are of the first birth yet they must not enter nor have any share with the seed of the free-woman but must be cast out and therefore another seed must be witnessed which the promise is to who are born again are born of that which is pure of the living water and that washes from sin and uncleanness and also of the Spirit which is life they that are borne of this enters into the City where no unclean thing enters for God takes nothing into Communion with himself but that which is made holy and cleansed and purged and purified by the operation and working of his Spirit which Spirit is life to them that receive it and it reproves them that receives it not and this is in the world and reproves the world yet the world receives it not and so lies wholly in wickedness in darkness and blindness Now unto you that hath but any stirring or desires begotten in your hearts after God or his truth that so you may know the power of God which gives dominion over sin hearken a little and I shall declare unto thee if thou have an eare to hear Christ Jesus who is the light of the world and hath lightened every one that comes into the world by his true light and this is it that shews thee thy evill deeds and the vanities of the world and shews thee what is evil and discovers unto thee all things that ever thou hast done and will check thee when thou doth any thing contrary it and Judge thee for that which is past and this is the gift of God and as thou turns thy mind to it It will turn from sin and evil unto Jesus Christ from whence it comes and this is present with thee and as thou hearkenest to this thou seest God is pure who is present and by the light takes notice of all thy actions and performances with what heart thou dost them and offers them up in and this will let the see if thou regard iniquity in thy heart all is abomination to the Lord therefore keep into this and it will shew thee sin and evil before thou commit it and as thou stands in the Counsell of the light thou stands in the Counsell of Christ and his power preserves thee for the light is power all that hearken not unto another is preserved out of sin and temptation and pollution and sees an overcoming by the power of Christ which is present and here is a guide to all your minds who have wandred here and there and have found nothing here you come to know the Doctrine and teaching of Christ which leads into all truth all that believe in it and receive it and so it will change you out of pride and wantonness out of covetousness and earthly mindedness and from sin it will lead you and from the pathes of unrighteousness into righteousness which is the pure path of the Lord which all comes to injoy peace in who walk in it but the cross of Christ must be taken up daily or else you cannot walk in the way of the Lord and so to the Cross all come and to the Yoak that you may see the wild nature bound under and limited and your vain thoughts Judged out and you may come to see the straight way where no lyer can enter nor no ravenous beast nor no unclean but they come all to be kept out and so as you love your soules and the way of the Lord mind the witness of Christ in you and if you go from it and despise it it will follow and pursue you and you shall never know peace while you stand in disobedience to the Grace of God and the free Gift of God you can never see redemption nor know Gods power which he gives unto all that receive him and you cannot receive his gift but self and self-will must be denied and so the will of Christ which is the will which wills in the light and works in the light and reveales sin by the light and declares righteousness through the light and here the coming of Christ comes to be seen and his day comes to be known which Abraham saw but through death this comes to be read and known and so turne all to this here the word you will hear which is pure and powerful it separates as you hearken unto it and divides between the pretious and the vile in you all who love it and it 's nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and discerns thy thoughts and here thou wilt learn as thou waitest in patience of the Son in whom the Father is well pleased and if thou hearken to any other it 's the false Prophet which leads thee to Error and so the displeasure of God will come against thee for ever until thou return Blessed is he that hears and receives and considers and prizes the offers of grace and the day of Gods everlasting love and ownes the gift of God in him revealed which leads to repentance and works a change in the heart and mind of all that believe in it and gathers up into its nature all that waits in diligence and believes in it and so the day of redemption comes to be seen and known out of death out of the grave and immortality comes to be brought forth and incorruption comes to be put on and they that witness this can truely say we have found him whom our soul loves and doth not look for any other Blessed is he that hears and considers and waits to be made partakers of Gods righteousness revealed Justifies all that receives it and believe in it and they by it comes to be Pillars in the house of God for ever and follows the Lamb whither soever he goes where Pure Peace is injoyed for ever and ever FINIS