Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	call_v	lord_n	name_n	4,012	5	5.2726	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86674	A true testimony of the zeal of Oxford-professors and university-men who for zeal persecute the servants of the living God, following the example of their brethren of Cambridge. Also the leudness of those two great mothers discovered, who have brought forth so many children, and never had a husband. With a few words to magistrates that persecute the saints, calling them vagabonds; to shew them who are the vagabonds, and to take off their heat who are so much troubled, that they want the honour of a hat. Richard Hubberthorne.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3240; Thomason E806_8; ESTC R207175	10,969	17

revile you and persecute and speak all manner of evil against you falsly for my names sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets that were before you Mat. 5. 11 12. and saith Christ They shall put you out of the synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they know not the Father nor me John 16. 2 3 4. And now both sons and daughters of the Lord comes to witness these things fulfilled and you Magistrates Priests and people do fulfil the Scriptures against the servants of the living God as you have done against these And herein is made manifest your tyranny and persecution the chief Priest being the chief actor in it yet there was many in the City that have so much of the light of Christ made manifest in them as to acknowledge them to be servants of the living God and to own them in their sufferings and to confess the appearance of Christ in them before men and in love did accompany them out of the City and did own them in their persecution And this testimony is true to testifie to all people and to all the world the cruelty of unreasonable men and that the Maior had no hand in any of this cruel usage and persecution The names of the two women who suffered persecution for righteousness sake is Elizabeth Heavens and Elizabeth Fletcher Who are vagabonds discovered THis is the word of the Lord to all you Magistates who calls your selves who persecutes the righteous and the just which comes to declare the eternal truth among you in your streets and in your assemblies as vagabonds Cain was the vagabond and the fugative who turned from the commands of God and slew his brother and so had no habitation in the Lord so woe from the Lord proceeded against him and doth against you who are in Cains way in wrath and envy for saith the Lord to Cain If thou dost well shalt not thou be accepted if not sin lies at the door So he turned from the command of God and did not well and so was the vagabond and fugative And all you that do not well but turnes from the light within which lets you see that sin lies at the door are vagabonds and fugitives The children of Israel which passed up and down and dwelt in their tents they were no vagabonds nor fugatives The Prophets of the Lord which passed up and down as Jeremiah who was sent to cry out against them who bear rule by their means Jer. 5. And Isaiah which was sent to cry against them which fought for their gain from their quarter Isai 56. And Ezekiel who was sent to cry against them that fed themselves with the fat and made a prey upon the people Ezek. 34. And Micah which was sent to cry against them that preached for hire Micha 3. And Malachy which was sent to tell the people their blessing was cursed All these travelled up and down yet were no vagabonds nor fugitives but did abide in their habitations in the Lord and cried against them that were out of their habitation And the Son of man that had nowhere to lay his head cried woe against them that were called of men Masters and that had the chief places in the assemblies and went in long robes he was no vagabond nor fugative though he gave his back to the sinister and his face to be struck upon by such as were vagabonds And he called his Disciples from their trades and callings and sent them into the Townes Cities and Villages and said If they persecute you in one Citie flye unto another and told them they should be brought before rulers for his names sake and be beat and scourged and hailed out of their synagogues These were no vagabonds nor fugitives but did keep their habitation And the Apostle Paul which said woe to him if he did not preach the Gospel which went up and down into the Synagogues on the Sabbath-day and into the Markers and Schools He was no vagabond and fugitive though he said He had no certain dwelling place And certain vagabond fellows bound themselves under an oath to kill Paul as Cain did Abel And these are the vagabonds that lived in envy and wrath Now all you Priests Magistrates and People who lives in envy and wrath and beats and stones and hales out of your Synagogues you fulfil their words and are in Cains way and murther and not in Abels and you are the vagabonds though you have great habitations in the earth And this I was moved of the Lord to write forth that you might see your ignorance and may know what a vagabond or fugitive is though they may be great and have habitations in the earth He is the vagabond and the fugitive that hath no habitation in the Lord but brings the curse upon the earth and for whose sake the earth is cursed He that sins in envy is a murtherer and he is of Cains genetion and is the fugitive or vagabond Doffing hats worse then a heathenish vanity To all you that say the Scripture is your rule and touchstone to try withal and with it desire to be judged proved and tried with it you shall be judged proved and tried WHat example have you in the Scriptures of any Magistrate King or Ruler or Noble or Judge or Officer that ever commanded any people which came before them to put off their hats and if they would not set a fine upon them and send them to prison tell them they disturbed them as you do when men stood patiently by you here you shew it is your pride that is disturbed and that which acts contrary to the Law of God which saith Thou shalt respect no mans person Did ever Pharoah King of Egypt whom Moses went before and Aaron command them to doff their hats or did ever Pharaoh to Joseph command him to doff his hat or fine him imprison him if he would not did ever Nebuchadnezzar or Darius command any such thing to any to doff their hats fine them if they would not did ever Herod command any to doff their hats which came before him and fine them if they would not did ever Agrippa or Festus fine any that came before them that would not doff their hats or imprison them or any of the heathenish Kings or Rulers in the Scriptures shew one example else you outstrip them all Pharaoh who oppressed the children of Israel was destroyed and Haman who made a Gallows for him that would not bow on it himself was hanged Nebuchadnezzar which made an Image and would have others to bow lost his kingdom So shew an example among all these Heathens else you may see You exalt your selves far above them and must have their portion And as touching the children of God who were in the truth whom God exalted