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	spirit_n	worship_v	2,550	5	9.5500	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69544	The Lambs government to be exalted over all in Israel ..., or, The glory of the Lord risen like devouring fire ... with an exhortation (from God) that none ... seek to physitians ... without his leadings ... / given forth in the movings (at the commandment) of the Captain of Israel, by one that followeth him, William Baily.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1531; ESTC R24857	28,238	40

wax old glory unto him in the highest who hath wrought all our works in us and for us Amen So remember the Spirit of truth is thy proper Leader O Israel in all things concerning soul and body at all times places and occasions and not any other Nay though an Angel see thou do it not for they are but ministring spirits sent forth for them that are heires of salvation and are fellow-servants with them who are led by the Spirit of truth and are not to be worshipped or followed any further then is agreeable to the leadings of Gods Spirit in thy own heart for unto him thou must give an account and not unto Angels or men Now I do not hereby limit the Lord nor his people from exercising their pure faith in any thing concerning their state either inward or outward And as for the things before mentioned concerning the health or weakness of the outward man I do know that there are natural and accidental causes of weakness sickness or distempers which are incident even to Gods dear Children while in these earthen Tabernacles for which naturall things may be applyed in the leadings of the life and wisdome of God by which they were created I say my intent is not neither am I joyned to such a spirit as to impose or limit the motion of Gods Spirit in any thing whatsoever but onely to limit the contrary even the hasty minde and spirit and that all may come to be guided by the Counsell of God out of ignorance and doubtfulness into clearness and a perfect knowledge of their own state as it is in Gods sight and of the vertuousness of the power of the resurrection of the holy Seed in themselves and not be led in blindness and unsensibleness in which state is the error and mistakes and wherein people are destroyed for lack of true and sound knowledge and here they have many things applyed and are apt so to do even naturall and visible things for spirituall and invisible causes I do not mean an invisible distemper meerly of the outward man which may proceed from a visible or naturall cause But when God by his Spirit strives with man in him and smites on his Conscience by reason of sin or some disobedience or other through which the Lord beholds guilt and cannot but punish which causeth even the countenance to change and brings judgement upon the very creature because thereof I say this shall never be removed in the ground by any outward or visible thing the Lord hath spoken it For it is striving against the Creator and the good end of his gentle chastisements with the creatures which he hath created for his praise and to be used in his counsell and wisdome by which they were all created and have their being so this ignorant wilfull impatient spirit which cannot trust God this is to be limited and bound down by the dread and power of the Lord that the innocent Seed which can trust in him which hath long suffered under oppression may arise in whose resurrection and life is the healing and blessing of the Nations that are saved which are for ever to walk in the light of the Lamb. So let all be subject to him that gives life and breath and all things and be not hasty when any trouble or distemper comes to be delivered or to get ease from under it till thou in patience hast seen the mind of God therein and be delivered by him that comes out of Sion to turn away ungodliness from Jacob blessed is the eye that sees and the heart that understands and contrives not any thing in the will but as led and guided by the Shepherd of Israel who will not suffer his Lambs to lack any good thing for their body nor soul which in his wisdome he sees meet for them And that which is not subject is the carnall mind in which the enmity lodgeth the death trouble and condemnation here the Lyons lack and suffer hunger but the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord and they that wait upon him shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint And know this for infallible truth that whosoever useth or applieth the creatures of God even naturall things which are good in themselves and places to a condition not suitable even when God smites upon the Conscience for any disobedience or wickedness by which as I have said the outward man comes also to suffer being partaker with the spirit that transgressed that this state is parallel to that mentioned Isaiah 22.12 13 14. When God called for fasting weeping and mourning behold slaying of oxen and killing of sheep c. which was iniquity that should not be purged till they dye Therefore dear friends think on these things which are but as a touch of what might be spoken but a word to the wise is sufficient and waite upon the Lord alone to be guided in all things and do nothing hastily out of his fear and counsell which onely is known understood and stood in in the still and quiet waiting in the retiredness of mind and spirit staid upon him out of all your own willings and contrivings or runnings in the sinking down and subjectedness to his holy will alone that he might be all in you all and you as nothing before him but vessels of his honour praise and glory to whom be it given over all Amen No Babe in Israel to study for the attaining the Lawes of men to make their defence c. AND my dear friends who have no knowledge in the Lawes of men or Nations which are in the fall and are in such things ignorant as children this is my advise unto you from my God and your God do not now study or strive to attain the knowledge thereof in any case to make your defence when you are brought before Rulers and Governours or their Judgement-seats for the Name sake of Christ Jesus for if you do it will prove like Sauls Armour which David the Seed cannot go out to war with unless you have the knowledge of such things already as a servant to use in the dominion and pure wisdome of God for this I have found who am also ignorant of such things as a babe That the Innocent Seed of Jacob need none to plead its cause but God alone who giveth strength and wisdome in the same hour Therefore my dear and tender Friends Look not out from your own measures received of the grace of God which is sufficient neither consult with flesh and blood by reasonings disputings or premeditations but stand single and innocent eying the Honour and Glory of God in his pure fear and true humility for in this alone is the Victory Wisdome and Blessings obtained and God will not give it to another for the Battel is the Lords and we are to stand still in the Seed to see his salvation and then keeping low this will glorifie its Father alone as the Father hath

God but of the world and the day of tryal is now come in which things that have been hid shall be manifest There is a spirit that can satisfie it self with the profession likeness or image of the Truth but its cross and burden is the very Truth it self which doth discover it judge it and cast it out Therefore take heed and beware of that spirit believe it not but judge it in every appearance it is the leaven of the Pharisees which can never enter but shuts up the Kingdome of God with all its Righteousness Comprehension and Profession This spirit is without the vail and cannot see the end of those things which God will abolish being shut out of the Holiest of All in which the secrets and wonderful works of God are manifest to them that fear him so this spirit judgeth according to the outward appearance and not with righteous judgement This is that Bastard or Son of the Bond woman which shall not inherit with the Heir the Son of the Free-woman This is a knower of men after the flesh the flesh is the vail and a respecter of persons and loveth the praise of men and esteemeth the rich in this world more than the poor whom God hath chosen rich in faith and heirs of his everlasting Kingdom Therefore beware of it let it have no place in thy Bosom or within thy Borders O Israel for it is abomination unto the Lord thy God and a great Oppressor and Griever of his seed and a contemner and secret despiser of his mean appearances in his babes and little ones in and by whom he will confound the wisdom and glory of all flesh Again There is a spirit that thinks or conceits better of it self than of others because of outward things which it seems to possesse or because of the knowledge experiences or tryals which it hath had in dayes past through the dealings of God in his love to the Seed and with these things decks it selfe and through which the heart is lifted up out of Gods fear feeding it self with the Manna which corrupteth this is a disobedient spirit an imprisoner of the Seed and Life of God in the particular and an oppressor and wounder of it in the general and it is a lover of this world secretly in its heart though it seems to have a beautiful out-side or covering the sower of discord lodgeth as a couched Beast in its bosome and the back-biter lyes within its breast which as Arrows it will send forth against the upright and simple hearted which doth discover see and fathome the ground and foundation thereof therefore beware of it judge it and cast it off for ever for it is of the old leaven of malice and wickedness It hath a life in giving heed to reports yea false reports against others entertaining them and reporting them thereby to cover it self as with a garment that so it might be esteemed and have the preheminence and that others whom it pleaseth may be dis-esteemed slighted or undervalued This spirit the Lord God will cast down and abase unto the nethermost Pit it is a Robber of God and a despiser of his neighbour it is very neer unto the chains of darkness in them to be reserved unto the day of great Judgement Therefore O Israel follow thou the Lord thy God alone who discovereth the very secrets of all hearts and is the searcher tryer and finder out of every false spirit before whose presence and in whose sight all things that have been hidden shall be sought out evidently seen and made manifest unto the ends of the Earth For the day is come in which no shadow of death or dark covering shall hide the worker of iniquity and wickednesse though never so secret Therefore remember with whom thou hast to do for all things are naked open and bare before his pure eyes And see thou walkest in the Light of the Lord which is the Light of his true Israel and remains their standing dwelling-place which shall be for a flame and an everlasting fire in the hearts of all them who wilfully and contemptuously transgress against him and comes not to be humbled because thereof before him This is thy God and Lord which brought thee up at first out of Egypt the dark Land and hath led thee by a way thou knewest not who gave thee water in the desart and Manna in the wildernesse who was as a Gloud by day and as a Pillar of fire by night and who by little and little did drive out the many strange Nations that thou mightest inherit the promised Land which remains for ever a Rest for the People and Seed of God Now he called thee not out of Egypt in the day of thine afflictions and grievous burthens sighs groans and tears when thou cryedst to go forth to sacrifice unto him that thou shouldest return or make thee a Captain to go back again to the house of bondage but that thou shouldst be a redeemed holy peculiar people unto himself zealous for truth righteousness and every good work And thou mayst remember that thou wert charged in that day of thy entrance into the good Land that thou shouldst not worship nor bow down to any of the Gods of the strange Nations whom he drove out before thee neither give your sons to their daughters nor your daughters to their sons in Marriage least it become a snare unto thee and steal away thine heart from wholly following the Lord thy God which brought thee up from the land of darkness or out of the North Country where thou wert driven and scattered upon the cold cloudy and barren Mountains as sheep without a shepherd Was not this thy state O Israel in which thy God sought thee and found thee and was not this the acceptable year and the appoynted time or day of salvation Didst not thou rejoyce as a poor captive bound in chains to be delivered what wouldst thou have promised or what couldst thou have done or left undone in those dayes for his sake who then appeared for thy deliverance Didst thou not say in thine heart that this God should be thy God if he would but give thee bread to eat and raiment to put on when he called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit when thou couldst have put thy mouth in the dust if there might have been but hope When thou fattest trembling upon the ground and lookedst every way without for a comforter and when thou wert as at thy wits end in thy wearisom toyls troubles and anguish of spirit then did not the Lord hear thy cryes and remember his Covenant which was made to Abraham and to his Seed for ever and see thine afflictions and come down to deliver And didst not thou rejoyce like them in Harvest at the appearance or breaking forth of this Morning wert not thou ready to call in thy neighbours to rejoyce with thee when the Lords money on which his Image is was found