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	know_v	scripture_n	6,716	5	6.3200	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94719	The snare broken: or light discovering darknesse. Being an answer to a book intituled, Foot yet in the snare; published by James Naylor. Wherein his treachery and back-sliding from the true faith is brought to light, and his untrodden paths discovered. With some of his divided language and deceitful lyes in short laid open, and his spirit proved to be the same which appeared in all the false prophets, who say the Lord saith, when he spake not unto them; plainly to be seen by the impartial eye, in all those whose eyes are in their head, least the wolfe should devoure the lamb, under a shadow of love to the truth. / By a lover of truth and peace, called, John Toldervy.	Toldervy, John.	1656 (1656)	Wing T1770; Thomason E865_7	27,522	30

THE SNARE BROKEN OR LIGHT discovering DARKNESSE Being an answer to a Book entituled FOOT yet in the SNARE Published by JAMES NAYLOR Wherein his treachery and back-sliding from the true Faith is brought to Light and his untrodden PATHS discovered With some of his divided Language and deceitful Lyes in short laid open and his Spirit proved to be the same which appeared in all the false Prophets who say the Lord saith when he spake not unto them plainly to be seen by the impartial eye in all those whose eyes are in their head least the Wolfe should devoure the Lamb under a shadow of love to the TRUTH By a lover of Truth and Peace called John Toldervy Isaiah 58.1.4 Shew my people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins Behold ye fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickeknesse ye shall not fast as ye do this day to make your voice to be heard on high James 2.1 My Brethren have not the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory with respect of persons In vain is the Snare laid in the sight of any Bird. London Printed for N. Brooks and are to be sold at the Angel in Cornhil and at the three Bibles neer the West end of Pauls 1656. The Snare broken OR Light discovering Darknesse GOOD is the Word of the Lord who by his Spirit hath foretold of the Heathen raging and the people fancying and imagining to themselves vaine things thereby to subdue the true appearance and exaltation of the King of Righteousnesse in every age of his coming into the world who hath also foretold of such whose coming should appear as the Angels of Light being transformed in the outward shape or discovery of the Image of God and in this his appearance as a special end for the effecting of his bewitched design he intrudes into the comprehension of words even words that are sound and perfect words of Life and Power which came forth from the Spirit whose way is truth and whose end is life but being ignorant of that Spirit from whence they came they change them into fables and so are become blasphemers of that Immortal Seed by which they were brought to light As also for the maintaining of their corrupt practise being not possessors of the perfect truth they desire to make a fair show in the flesh and to that end they seek to give place to some Self-humility that they may be distinguished by men that therein they may glory as though in the sufferings of Christ but from that spirit and light in which there is no deceit but the perfection of truth let such learne reproof and suffer rebuke who boast of the Light to be their Guide and yet are found in the Pit of Wa●ps watching to afflict the children of my people saith the Lord and are searching secretly for a stumbling stone to cast for a Rock of Offence in the streets of the Holy Jerusalem even for a shelter for the accursed seed not only in those who are brought into the way which guides to Salvation and that have received in their knowledg a measure of the infallible truth but also in such who have something of the simplicity arising to life in them by which they are guided in love to seek after the way of truth if that for Sions sake they might come to know where they might find the sufferings of the Crosse for the restoration of the Righteous Seed which maketh free the City of God But the Word of Scripture hath foretold that such Heresies and Schismes must be in the Church that the approved of the Lord might be made manifest and now it will plainly appear to those who are in any measure of the Light and Faith of Christ such a one hath been found in that blasphemous work the Answer of that Book set forth by me entituled The Foot out of the Snare for that from the root of bitterness and envy there is brought to light a bundle of unclean venomous things and filthy deceitful lies confusion and rashness in evil speaking against the truth yet notwithstanding are they all sought to be justified in the deepest subtilty of the Serpent by going about to intrap the simple mind with much using those words which were spoken from the simplicity in such a life for such an end that he which abides in a lye knoweth not Now unto such who for a perswasion have and do satisfie themselves in things which those that are by them judged to be before them in the faith doth believe and declare for truth unto such I say read and see your vanity for herein is the Deceiver greatly upheld you being not eye-witnesses to what you believe in your selves and though the Leaders and you people are both joyned in one to speak against imitation yet in your hearts are you both confederate in this whoredome and birth of fornication in that the one imagines and frames in his mind a certain belief that what is spoken from the other must be true rooted and grounded in him from a perswasion in himself that his Leader is in the enjoyment of the Covenants in the Redemption and purchased possession of the Blood of the Lamb a spiritual man moved and guided to speak in by and from the Spirit and the other which is the leader concludes in himself that such a belief in a weak Brother who is not yet come to that measure of Spirit or Resurrection of Life with himself is in the faith and power of truth but for this cause many are sick and weak and many sleep Who is there in whom there is any knowledg that will not condemn this Faith the Truth in this practise of taking things upon trust being sold for Usury The Spirit of God saith Follow us as we follow Christ but it doth not say Follow us because we believe or do so but herein thou who art in this practise art witnessed to be in the corrupt nature in self-worship where all the blind guides in the world are leading silly people who know not the perfect wayes of truth to say as they say and do as they do though the end of such a worship is death And for thee James Naylor thy madnesse and folly is made manifest in what thou hast done and thy vain deceit discovered yet not unto the Adulteresse eye but unto that light which is of God the witnesse of Truth against Deceit in all consciences and thy Troops of Lyes which are sheltered under thy great swelling words of vanity are here laid open before thee and turned back again to their own habitation even into thy own bosome and though thy envy had a respect to what scandal and reproach thou couldest cast upon me on purpose that thou mightest make me to appear odious yet do I not value thy deceit therein neither am I in the least dissatisfied as to my person yet sorrow and a lamentation there hath been because