Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	commandment_n	know_v	liar_n	1,903	5	11.5902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91119	A testimony of the Light within. A glorious truth, which all the holy men of God did bear testimony unto, and from which they spoke forth the Sciptures, and the end of all preachings and writings was to bring to Light within, to worship God in spirit and truth, and to Christ within, the hope of glory. The truth cleared from scandals, and some of the errors and false doctrines of two Cornish teachers laid open and testified against. With a description of the true ministers of Christ, and of the free ministery both under the law and Gospell administration; ... Also a testimony of the dawning of the glorious day of the Lord, ... Here is likewise, in short, declared the differences between the old Covenant, ... & the new covenant, ... Given forth from Christ the light within in love to the souls of all people, ... that they may have union with me in my fathers love ... whose name according to the flesh is Alexander Parker. Written chiefly to the inhabitants of the town and parish of Austell, in the county, of Cornwall, but may serve for any others who are in the same nature and condition with them.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1657 (1657)	Wing P385; Thomason E909_6; ESTC R203124	42,617	54

and many opinions and their minds are earthly and carnall so I say That which a man may have and not have the mind of God is not the mind of God but a man may have the Scriptures Luke 1.1 1 Iohn 5.10 and not have the mind of God so the Scriptures are not it but a declaration of it and so I own them and bear testimony unto the same Truth that the Scriptures bear testimony unto and have the witness within my self according to Scripture testimony He that believes hath the witness in himself And the said Halls being asked if he knew God and he made a scoff at it because such a question was propounded to him and he said he knew God and I asked him if he kept the Commandements he said No Now try him by the Scriptures and we shall find him to be a lyer read 1 Iohn 2 3 4 verses Hereby do we know that we know God if we keep his Commandements He that saith I know God and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar Iohn 8.44 and the Truth is not in him And here out of his own mouth he is proved by Scripture to be a lyar and so no Minister of Christ Then he propounded the same question unto me whether I knew God and kept his commandments Mat. 11.30 1 Iohn 5.3 Psal 119.143 which things I answered and witnessed to truth being made able by the power and life of Christ dwelling within me by whom all things are made easie and his commandements are not grievous but joyous they are my delight Then he said there was none perfect in this life therefore none can keep the commandements of God But his first thing I deny and it is false as I shall prove by Scripture Read Job 1.8 And the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evill Here you may see the Lords own testimony and he that saith there is none perfect in this life is a blasphemer Psalm 37 37● 1 Cor. 2.6 Col. 4.12 Phil. 3.15 who would make God a lyar And David saith Mark the perfect and the upright man for the end of that man is peace And Paul said We preach wisdom amongst them that are perfect And again one prayeth in another place That they might stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God And let us as many as are perfect be thus minded Here are many Scriptures that witness the truth of Christs pure Doctrine of perfection For if any be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 Phil. 5.24 old things are passed away and all things are become new and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Then wo to all them that live in sin and plead for sin while they walk on the earth they be enemies to the Crosse of Christ Isai 3.11 1 Cor. 6 9. 10 Iohn 3 8. Heb. 11.14 Eph. 5.27 Luke 1.74 75 1 Iohn 3.8 and deny the end of Christs coming who came to take away sin and to purifie the heart and purge the conscience from dead works that his people may be a holy people to serve the Lord in purity holiness of life For for this purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he might destroy the works of the Divel and all sin is a work of the Divel and defiles the Temple Isai 51.2 Isai 48.22 Maark 7.22 Eph 2 12 Iohn 8 34 44 Isai 1 17 Mat. 11 28 29 and separates from God and breaks the peace with God and there neither is nor can be any reconciliation to God untill there be a separation from sin For all who live in sin profess what they will they are enemies to God and strangers from the covenant of promise and are of their Father the Divell who is the author of all sin and unrighteousness therefore cease from sin and learn to do well that you may live and enjoy rest and peace Now whereas it is said in one place of Scripture 1 Iohn 1 8 Heb 10 16 17 18 1 Iohn 3 9 If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us This is the refuge for all the Divels Ministers and servants to flye unto who live in sin in the old nature and in the unconverted state to plead against the new Covenant and new Birth where sin and iniquity is done away And this Scripture did Priest Halls bring to maintain his argument against persecution Then I instanced another Scripture in the same Epistle of John chap. 5. v. 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God And this he would give a meaning to and I told him 2 Pet 1 20 the Scriptures were of no private interpretation An he asked me how I would reconcile those two Scriptures I told him I owned them as they were set down for they were spoken to severall conditions And then he began to boast and would have turned the truth which was spoken by me into a lie and said I owned the Scriptures as they are and then takes them upon condition and thus impudently stood in a lye and after I spoke my former words and told him the Scriptures were spoken to severall conditions and instanced some Scriptures to prove it as in Acts 26.18 where the Apostle declares how he was sent forth and to what end which was to open the blind eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they might receive forgiveness of sins c. Here you may see they were in a condition of sin unconverted Again read 1 John 2.12 where the Apostle writes to them whose sins were forgiven Col 2 13 I Write unto you little Children because your sinnes are forgiven you Here you may see another condition Again read Col. 2.13 And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickned together with him Rom 9 20 Rom 6 22 1 Cor 15 49 1 Cor 15 22 Eph 2 1 2 3 1 Pet. 1 23. 1 Iohn 5 18 1 Iohn 3. 6 7 8 Gal 6 7 Mat 7 21 Rom. 8.13 having forgiven you all trespasses Here again as your understandings comes to be opened you may see the conditions and times they were in to whom the Scriptures were written there was a time when they were dead in trespasses and sins and there was a time when they were quickned and their sins were forgiven them And there was a time when they were the servants of Sin and free from Righteousness and there was a time when they were free from sin and become servants of Righteousnesse There is the first man and the second man The first Man is of the earth earthly and the second