Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	darkness_n	light_n	walk_v	4,073	5	8.1342	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

given that your lives might shew forth the life and death of him by whom you were called to the praise and glorie of his grace and for which end he have given his Light that with it ye might see all what is darkness all what loveth and maketh a lie all what is falne from God that ye might comprehend the depth of Satan and all the secret bonds of iniquitie and here is the Rock Christ before whom all shall fall and this Rock this Light is your defence in whom abiding the false Prophet the Beast and the Deceiver is seen and rejected and not onlie in your selves but also in the persons of those in whom he doth appear wherefore stand fast in that libertie whereunto you are called that your obedience being wrought in that faith which giveth life ye might in the end obtain the Crown To the second sort Those who in their hearts are convinced of the way of truth but finding it straight to their carnall pleasures and profits not loving the truth more then the world but taking pleasure in unrighteousness and serving and loving the creature more then the Creator to you I say watch while as yet ye have time and please not your selves with vanitie and the work of lies that ye stumble not in the way which leadeth to life and so he swallowed up of corruption for if while you seek to be justified by Christ you are found in the transgression and so frustrate the Grace of God there remains no more sacrifice for sin wherefore call to mind your former condition when you were strangers to the true Faith and so kept in bondage under the Law and learn from him who is true to receive the love and grace made known that ye might walk worthie of that calling whereunto you are called and shew forth the praise of him who hath opened your eyes and give you to see that darkness by which in times past you were sold under sin wherefore in love receive admonition that so being redeemed out of the world ye might grow up in him who is the Fountain of eternal life and be brought to see the glory of the Fathers love This then is the message that we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light in him is no darknesse at all If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darknesse we lye and do not the truth John 1.5.6 To the third sort such who have a simplicity in them and a love to the truth and the way thereof and would walk in it did they know it but are yet kept in blindnesse and darknesse by their blind Guides who take advantage by these works of the devil lies and slanders to thicken the Vail and strengthen the bonds thereby to keep them from the light of life and the way of peace and so in the way of destruction for their corrupt ends I say for you who are in this case out of the knowledg of God his light and life which is salvation for you have I much been disquieted being sensible of your condition but as I have already endeavoured to remove that prejudice which may attend you by those false conclusions which have appeared in enmity to what I have done though I may not say directly in enmity to you And as I have discovered the truth of that cause and end for which I have appeared to the world which thing is not that thereby ye should be affrighted from the truth but when received that ye might give heed to abide in that by which you were convinced that so ye may not run into the same excesse so also that ye may not be overcome with that spirit of deceit and stablished in that corrupt mind in which you have been kept and guided out of the wayes of truth I say that ye may not be overcome by any work of mine to abide in this darknesse That God who is a Spirit is not divided but his Name is one and this God cannot be known by any wayes of worship or practise amongst men but by his Son who is that Spirit and Life by which the Election of God are redeemed out of all corruption out of all wayes and works of the flesh into a spiritual Union with that God who is the Father of Spirits and cannot be worshipped but by and in the Spirit and therefore is it spoken in Scripture concerning Christ That for this purpose was he made manifest to destroy the works of the devil John 3.8 Now where is this manifestation of Christ to be found for the destruction of the works of the flesh or of the devil but in faln man where the works of the unclean spirit are wrought and from whence they do proceed and for which cause was that promise given That the Seed of the Woman should break the head of the Serpent which Seed is Christ he was born under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law he was brought forth into the world and made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it he suffered in his body the death of the Crosse and after that time appointed of his Father he was raised out of the grave cloathed with immortality and received up into glory and now he hath given gifts unto men he hath dispersed his seed he hath given of his spirit he hath made known his light in and unto all the children of men that by and with this his manifestation and discovery of himself his eternal love and grace I say that by and with this men might see and understand and receive power for the destruction of the body of corruption and for the service and worship of God in spirit in obedience to a living faith and now let men professe what they will and assemble themselves in what way and under what manner soever yet if they receive not their Ministery from this Spirit Christ Jesus revealed in all and follow him who is the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin that they may receive power from him to be redeemed out of sin I say if they receive not their testimony from this Spirit of Jesus to live therein they shall not neither can they ever come to see that eternal love that peace and union which is in God through Christ Jesus the portion of the faithful in him who is perfect Wherefore I say unto you all who take pleasure in your uncleanness and sport your selves with your secret abominations now in the day time and yet boast of your Redeemer I say unto you repent lest that day come upon you unawares in which there is no time or space for repentance and look unto him who is the light of Israel and is given for a light to the Gentiles that they might see and return unto him who is the Redeemer out of all sin who restoreth the breaches and buildeth up the walls of Jerusalem and giveth life unto his two Witnesses who have lain slain in the streets thereof that they might go forth and declare the everlasting Gospel of peace FINIS