Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	ground_n	pillar_n	16,417	5	10.6783	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86445	A discovery of two unclean spirits. Or, Two priests by their fruits made manifest to be out of the way of truth, and out of the life of godliness, in the broad way of destruction, therein working deceitfully the works of errour. A warning unto all scattered people that call themselves Protestants and Christians, yet are out of the faith and life of Christ, in vain traditions, and dead forms, wherein the blind-guids are leading them in the pit. Also a declaration of the light of Christ now appearing in every man, even in the conscience, by which all men are left without excuse. With a plain and true direction into the good way, which from everlasting hath been prepared to lead all that abide therein, out of transgression through death into eternal life. A short discovery of the Lords great fury and heavie indignation that will suddenly break forth upon all the disobedient. Written by one, who loves the seed of God, which is unknown to the world, A.H. in the county of Gloucester.; Discovery of two unclean spirits.	Holder, Anthony.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2383; Thomason E919_5; ESTC R207502	15,288	25

of him you deny who came from the living Father and hath life in himself whose life is the light of men and as many as believe in the light are in their measures raised from the dead and are joyned to the godly life according to the measure of the grace of God the truth and doctrine of Christ the word in the beginning by whom the world was made wherein God is worshipped let him that hath an ear hear the truth where the Devil abode not the Devil abode not in the truth he is out of the truth and hath it not the lyar and deceiver is out of the truth and all the wicked who are born of corruptible seed and walk not in the doctrine of Christ they hath not God but are out of the truth And thou Henry Hean who hast persecuted and imprisoned the innocent which hath broken no law but are in the doctrine of Christ thou art out of the truth in the ungodly life joyned to him that abode not in the truth who art out of the protection of God and hast joyned to Petition men to avenge thee against the children of God who seek the good of thy soul and are in the godly life witness that of God in thy Conscience which hath made thy heart to fail and thy lips to quiver it s the worm that will never die and the fire that will never be quenched even the breath of the Lord which is the life of the Sons of God is as a river of brimstone kindling in the wicked who persecute the seed of God and make Petitions against the innocent breathing out threatnings against the Church which is in God the pillar and ground of truth wherein is the godly life whom you are found persecuting of and when any of the servants of the Lord hath from the mouth of the Lord in love to thy soul warned thee to turn from the evil of thy wayes perswading thee to believe in the light of Christ which convinceth of sin and calleth to depart out of the ungodly life that thou mayest be turned from darkness to light from the power of Satan to God and receive remission of sins and an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified and these hast thou shamefully entreated and they have been by thy command cast forth of thy Steeple-house and by some of them thou callest Christians plucked by the hair halled forth by the neck and their mouths stopped with their hands and thy own servant abusing in the street and hath given out threatnings against them that live in the truth and thou thy self hast had others before Magistrates who hath committed them to prison against whom could not be proved the breach of any Law let that of God in thy Conscience judge what image thou dost now bear what mark is on thy hand whether thou art not in the way that Persecution went before where the Dragon that old Serpent was head before and on thy forehead is the mark found by which the Beast is known that makes war with the Saints the seed of God in whom the godly life is persecuted by the Beast which is out of the godly life I judge the not there is one nigh that seeth and judgeth whose judgement is just unto him return that by him thou mayest read the number of thy name which is the number of a man who is in the ungodly life unto whom thou art joyned while thou art an example of pride and haughtiness of spirit and of covetousness who hast filled thy holes with prey and thy dens with raven thou art an example of strise and contention of malice and revenge of winebinbing and of pouring in of strong drink and of suing at the Law of respecting persons and of much idleness and thou knowest that thou dost love the things of this world which is joyned to another seed which is in the ungodly life which keepeth not the commands of God but eateth of the forbidden fruit let that of God in thy Conscience judge whether thou art not feeding on these things Serpent-like and seeketh to intice perswade and draw the simple to partake with thee in the transgression that so they might never come to know the innocent garment nor never come to have the pure eye opened but keep the evil eye open which cannot see God that so the curse and plague of God might come on them to the utmost even hardness of heart and blindness of mind and so be wholly turned away into the earth where the presence of God is not seen nor his pure life enjoyed nor the holy image of God known and there their nakedness doth appear and so the heart lusteth after and coveteth evil which is then become the husband by whom is conceived in the lust an image like to thy self whose fruits are evil and so thy fruits feedeth and strengthneth the wicked that is born of the earth and so the bands of iniquity and chains of darkness is by thee dubbled but assuredly the day is come and coming wherein the good and bad the just and the unjust shall arise to judgement wherefore awake and come forth unto the light from which thou canst not hide that thou mayst receive according to thy deeds done in thy body and know assuredly that the power of the Lord which is now appearing is greater and stronger than all the powers of the world and all the plots and policies in the earth cannot deliver thee out of the reach of the hand of the Lord who is mighty against whom thou dost rebel but thou shalt not prosper for his hand takes hold of judgement the sword of his mouth is sharp and keen and in battel thou canst not stand against him from whom thou hast had sufficient warning but still refuseth counsel therefore if thou perish destruction will be of thy self and thy bloud be on thy own head And a Warning unto thee William Wilton who professeth thy self to be a Minister of the Gospel sent of Jesus Christ unto the People at Elburton unto thou I say in the name and fear of the Lord consider what Message thou hast there delivered Did Jesus Christ send thee thither to daub with untempered Morter to sew pillows under the peoples arm-holes to preach Peace to the wicked to whom there is no peace to strengthen the hands of evil doers that they may not turn from the evil of their ways and so thou healest the hurt of the inhabitants of Elburton slightly saying Peace peace and so cause them to trust in lying words that cannot profit like unto them that cryed The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord and although they should steal murder and commit adultrey and swear falsly and burn incense unto B●ll and walk after other gods they might yet come and assemble together to whom thou hast spoken smooth things as though they are delivered to commit all these abominations Who sent thee to say the foulest sinner is in the fairest

way for Grace and such like licentious and unwholsom Doctrines as I have heard thee speak seeing Jesus Christ is the way of Grace the high way of Holiness the strait and the narrow way wherein the unclean cannot walk therefore thou who art unclean hast also said that the Gift and Grace of God will not satisfie or Gifts and Graces out of Christ will not satisfie as I have heard thee speak seeing Christ is the Gift and Grace of God and out of him or beside him there is no Grace given to him is the Promise made in him dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily and of his fulness have all we received Grace for grace which is sufficient by which Salvation comes and satisfaction in due time is made for and in all that hunger and thirst after him therefore thou that saidst The Gift and Grace of God will not satisfie art out of the truth never sent by Jesus Christ who hast preached another Gospel than what Christ himself hath Preached who said to his Disciples Except their Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees they should in no wise be saved but thou hast said Though we sin against the Lord and depart from him yet he loveth us and accepteth us in Christ let the mouth of the liar be stopped Doth not sin where it is not killed in the flesh and taken away by Jesus Christ yet separate between God and man in every particular as much as ever it did and is the cursed seed of the Serpent which is the evil doer that is born after the flesh in whom every man is whose image every man doth bear in whom every man is lost and is without help or hope till Christ the true light be received and so thereby his Image who is the image of God in the particular restored through the death of the mortal birth or body of sin I say is that seed and that nature wherein sin lives joyned unto Christ and so presented before God without fault doth God love the liar that must never enter or the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolators which shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and hath no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God and knowest thou not that the wicked shall be turned into hell and all nations that forget God Christ hath no communion with Belial that man of sin Christ w●ll destroy and not save and they that know not the body of sin in the particular by the cross slain and putting of they know not Christ put on in whom God is well pleased in him is his love placed and out of him God is not at all pleased and let shame cover thy face who art found a false witness that hath brought another Gospel contrary to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ by whose light thou art seen and denied and thy spirit judged who through hypocrisie and deceit art glorying singing and boasting of Davids experiences amongst a people before thou or they are come to live Davids life and superstitiously art worshiping the unknown God in the idols Temple whereas the living and true God dwelleth not in Temples made with hands nei●her is worshipped with mens hands but they that worship him doth worship him in spirit and in truth God is worshipped in the truth where the Devil is not the false Prophet the liar and deceiver is not our God is worshipped in the spirit of life in the truth out of the Idols temple out of the Synagogues and Steeple houses which were made with mens hands even the bloudy hands of the Papists and are now the idols of the heathen who deny the light of Christ and therefore know not God but doth worship the Idols and call them Churches unto this day but they are dead images out of the spirit and out of the truth and they that build them and they that repairs them and worship in them are like unto them having ears and hear not eyes and see not and hearts but doth not understand Ah foolish man and unwise thy inscription is to the unknown God if thou hadst an eye to see thou mightst read it how thy worships stands in thy own will and thy own time out of God and his will and for thy own ends dost greatly dishonor the living and true God who is onely known and enjoyed in that truth and not at all known nor enjoyed in the ●doll nor found amongst Idolaters though they cut themselves and cry aloud yet there is no answer let that of God in thy conscience witness even the light of Christ which light doth condemne thee for taking of tythes and selling of tythes seeing that Christ hath changed the Priesthood and also changed the Law and is come the Mediator of a better Covenant even Christ the second Priest not made by the Law of a carnal Commandment but by the oath of God after the power of an endless life he is the resurrection and the life in which the second Priesthood stands which live of the Gospel which is the power of God the power of an endless life if thou hast an care to hear thou mayst hear I say the power of God which hath abolished the first Priesthood which could not continue by reason of death even Levi to whom tythes was paid a figure serving for the time then of Christ the second Priest which according to the flesh came of the Tribe of Judah which by the Law never received tythes of the tribe of Judah there is nothing spoken of Priesthood neither of tythes Now thou and all you Priests that by a carnal Commandment doth take tythes are not in the power of an endlesse life which is the power of the Gospel the second Priesthood the wisdom of God and power of God a Cross to the first Priesthood to tythes sacrifices and offerings and all things in the changeable in that that cannot continue by reason of death is all that that is out of the power of an endless life but now the first Priesthood that takes tythes and all that run for filthy lucre and preach for hire and divine for money are out of the power of an endless life all false teachers liars and deceivers that run before they are sent that use their tongues and saith the Lord saith when the Lord never spake to them are in the lusts of covetousness which is idolatry and are out of the power of an endless life therefore own shame upon thy head who takes tythes glebe-lands and such like gain thou seekest from thy quarters for telling of dreams false visions and lying divinations of thy own brain not according to the Oracles of God therefore thou couldst not say when in thy Steeple-house before thy Congregation I asked thee Whether thou didst own Jesus Christ to be thy only teacher guide and leader I say thou couldst not say he was but