Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	body_n	bread_n	wine_n	4,141	5	8.0622	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44799	The mouth of the pit stopped and the smoke that hath arisen out of it scattered by the breath of truth in answer to a lying story called Hell broken loose, or, The history of the Quakers, published by Thomas Underhill, a seller of the whores merchandize otherwise called a book-seller : his lyes returned upon him, his accusations answered and his envie decleared and truth cleared from all his reproaches / by one that waits to see death and hell cast into the lake of fire, with the beast and false-prophet, Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3172; ESTC R6601	19,385	26

improvement and your intrust which you have in God and in Christ will but amount to a small dram you all of you hitherto as you have said have improved your intrust and hath sought God as you have said by your prayers and humiliations for the suppressing of that which you call heresie and yet you have had no answer neither hath he listned nor will he listen nor bow down his ear unto you because your hearts is full of abominations and as for relapsing into Popery you never came out of it witness the Priests Popish Ordination their Popish Attire your Popish Mass-houses your Cross and Bells your Popish Tithes Easter-reckonings and Mid-summer dues your Popish Colledges your Popish Crosses and your Popish Images in and about your Idols Temple and because of the holding up of these things the hearts of many of Gods people are made sad and because you would hold up your Religion by swords and clubs and persecute others who discent from you in this you are one with the Papists And is this all thy Reformation that thy godly Ministry can bring forth You have travelled in vain spent your strength for nought and because of these things the hand of God is against all in the Nation who hold them up and who is he that can alter the Councel of the Lord and God will not be reconciled to the Nation till these things be done away because of these things and many more grievous oppressions which hath been holden up therefore God hath broken them in the midst of their Councels and confounded them in the midst of their devices and will confound and overthrow all deceitful workers and unprofitable talkers such as thou art and one hill shall fall after another till there shall be a great plain that the ransomed of the Lord may walk over and worship the Lord together in spirit and love and truth in joy and gladness of heart even as when Israel kept the feast of Tabernacles And now I shall come to let the Reader see how thou hast falsified our words which thou hast added thy own imaginations to and then hath quoted our Books to make people believe they are our words when as they are thy own forged lies the which I shall return upon thee First Thou sayes George Fox In truth defended saith that Preaching the Word Praying and singing are no appointments of Christ when as he saith no such thing but the hireling Priests divination and feigned Prayers and other mens words in rhime and Meeter are the inventions of men and not the Ordinances of Christ Secondly Thou saith E. B. In truth defended saith The Priest taking Tythes in the time of the Law was evil and proved them to be false Prophets and deceivers When as he saith quite contrary that the Priests took Tythes under the Law according to the command of God but ●ow the Priesthood was changed and the Law was changed and them that Preach for hire and seek for their gain from their quarter or take Tythes are in the steps of false Prophets and deceivers and no Ministers of Christ Thirdly That its dangerous for the ignorant and unlearned to read the Scripture and the Ministers of it are the Ministers of death Now thou hast detracted from the words There it is said that it is dangerous for thee to take the Scripture to War against the Saints withal and to make a trade with it and give carnal Exposition and then sell them for money Fourthly Thou tells of one Master Kellet in Lancashire and his queries Whether did not Christ Institute his last Supper with bread and wine and R. H. saith The bread which Christ called his body is his Church which words thou hast mangled and perverted as thou hast done the most thou hath medled with there is no such man as Master Kellet the words are these in Truths Defence 103. Christ did not speak of bread and wine but he took bread and brake it and said This is my body and we witness the breaking of the bread which is his body and in this answer there is not one word of Church Fiftly E. B. In answer to Firmin his words thou hast perverted and would bring this as a contradiction of R. H. thou saith he allowes onely the wicked and ungodly to read the Scripture such as the Scribes and Pharisees and not the godly And not the godly is thy own adition he spoke concerning the Scribes and Pharisees who thought to have Eternal Life in the Scripture he saith this was spoken to the Pharisees and not to believers yet believers is not excluded from reading the Scripture for them it pertains to and they understand it but thou are like the Spider where the Bee gathers honey gathers that which is corrupt and in thy conclusion of thy story thou takes in hand to supplicate God and thou saith it is for the help of them that need it this thou might have spared till the old Prelates had come up again it may be some Synod of them will add to the Book of Common-Prayer thy late service and worship dost thou think the Lord will hear thy hypocrisie lies without returning his judgment on thy head Thou tells of some that sets light of Christ and his blood and Word thou art one of them that sets light of Christ and counts his blood as a vain thing as thy own words in thy Book shall testifie where the Reader may observe when we have testified of the true light wch lighteth every man that comes into the world who is the way to the Father thou hath set down our words for blasphemy and errour when divers of them are the words of Scripture and none of them but the Scripture will testifie unto against thee And as for the blood of Christ and the blood of the everlasting Covenant thou accounts a vain thing and an unholy thing even which cleanseth from sin and and bears witness against it and subdues it and makes them that receive it conquerers over sin but thou that cries out against perfection or freedom from sin and counts this errour and blasphemy ●hou denyes that which sanctifies and cleanseth from sin and counts it unholy and vain and so if the Lord should hear thee and grant that thou prayes for destruction would come upon thee and thou art one of the formal professors that had need to repent of thy deceit before thou can pray unto God either for thy self or others but enmity and wickedness lodges in thy heart against the Lord and the way of truth and thou hast resisted the Counsel of the Lord against thy self and therefore woes plagues thunders and storms is truely thy portion and nothing else must thou expect which undoubtedly will come upon thee except thou repent and it will be hard for thee to find a place of repentance for it is yet hid from thine eyes So I have answered thy lying History by which thou would inchant peoples minds