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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97301	Zion's sad tears, for Nineveh's just fears. Or, Hours of mourning, for yeers of sinning; Being some few directed observations of divine mercy, & sinful returns: with an humble offering towards regulation of land and maritime affairs. By a humble seeker of truth and peace.	Humble seeker of truth and peace.	1653 (1653)	Wing Z14; Thomason E684_25; ESTC R207055	12,707	27

wish not ruine or that it spoyl not you because you manage it no better either take your hearts and hands to you to maintain Publick interest or draw aside take Physick a while and admit others that you dare trust as Deputies with that or part of that high trust in you commit your selves to the preserver of men and let nothing be wanting in by through or from you that may manifest your selves to be Patres Patriae advancers of the Kingdom of Christ and the prosperities of his Saints Which that you may do shall be the prayer of the Author to the chief Author of mercy To my honest Fellow-Commoners TRuly Sirs I have nothing worthy to be called a present for you in this day of your great Tryal but if you will accept it I render you the sorrowful countenance of a dejected heart wishing it might sigh and mourn it self away for your deliverance which sure will approach every night hath its morning and that its perfect day When God hath afforded you mercies greater then ever putting your Trustees in fair wayes of establishing your long-desired Rights have you been truly thankful or have not your fresh sinnes still called and renewed more judgements Seriously I now fear your case yet the Lord will if you trust him not suffer poor souls for ever to groan under the Altar of mercy but give them a glorious issue of their desires Patiently wait stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Man can do no more then God permits nor can Pharaoh with all his Chariots pass the Red Sea but ye may escape if ye steer affairs by Divine direction Well this is further to try your spirits if not humble and lay them in the dust If ye are perfect Christians ye cannot refuse your Masters Cross But say you We expected our Freedomes and external Priviledges to be setled long since I bewail your want I desire to mourn with you When God had even planted you in peace and had pruned you what fruit brought you forth were you not so bad as my self a barren Fig-tree which justly deserv'd this curse upon all our hopes or indeed brought ye not forth wilde grapes which occasioned God to pluck down your walles and leave you a prey to the Bears and Wolves of the Forrest but those of you that are in Christ shall be in safety if Warre and pestilence cover the Land he will watch tenderly over his and preserve them from all dangers Gog and Magog must fall Truth onely stand Oh Friends be ye just and upright then shall your path be as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day and be ye not as the wicked which walk in darkness who know not whereat they stumble I shall desire you to offer up your hearts in sighs and groanes to the God of mercy for an happy restitution of your Christian Priviledges now sinking by reason of those corruptions Observe Divine Providence let nothing be wanting towards support of the Church yet Militant for your sakes I mean those that shall go forth for you for those must bring in Materials to build the true Temple as David did To all present Powers WHat God or man by him shall dictate observe and follow lest God finde you so disobedient as your Predecessors and accordingly afflict though he may love you For God was once in the still voyce I wish the same may modelize you as it will and manifest more to you then the poor Author I desire to be spent for you and my poor Country I mean spiritually that ye may also taste and receive more excellent things excellency waits at your gates To the Mariners and Sea-Commanders HAth God brought you to this for punishment or mercy judge ye Oh what Blaspheming and Retrogade spirits have ye been Oh Friends judge your selves in time lest ye be now adjudged to torments Shall I deal plainly with you Ye are the Vessels of Wrath which the Omnipotent hath appointed to scourge so bad as your selves though more numerous some of you must fall for the rest by a Rod of your own gleaning yet it shall preserve you though ye cannot but by faith espie the hand that moves it Oh in time with me bewail the Face of affairs and Divine judgements which your treacherous sinnes to God and man hath call'd upon our own heads Pray why was not victory pursued when your Enemy fled before you Was it to betray your Country or enlarge their fears sorrowes and exhaust their declining Sweat and Treasure Well for this I tell you though the Lord of Hosts in whose Almighty presence we are alwaies will notwithstanding though for your sins punishing you let you by another hand more then yours see deliverance Then trust God and his pure Spirit in his Saints leave Oaths and wickedness that ye may be converted and live and indeed be Instruments yet of as much glory and Conquests as the God of Forces hath made some of his Children by Land that you or yours may see Peace established in Righteousness and so Posterity have occasion to bless God for you though wicked Instruments of his glory for now the ungodly will punish the wicked O let the Spirit of Christ reign in and over you that it may not onely deliver you and us in the evil day but confirm you to the enjoyment of the great glory shall be discovered and made manifest in though out of the flesh then be ye conformable to the dictates of the same walk humbly in his sight that ye may be bold as Lions in your Enemies and they be crush'd before that greater invisible Power in or with you which I most heartily wish To all people of and in God I Suppose our Bears must not onely destroy those without but rob them of their Whelps if they make haste and by or before the beginning of March next resolutely and unanimously attempt and persevere in it then trust God with the issue two or three bouts will do the work if you and they desire the Lord of Hosts to do it for us to further which I wish a new Covenant written in every ones heart and spirit to seek Truth and Peace and pursue it immediately after the deliverance and in the height of our Conquest that mercy may be minded and so burning Coals heaped on the heads of the Enemies and I wish the rigid Presbyters and Anabaptists ruine not themselves Also a Publick Treasurie to be erected for every one worth above 200 l. de claro to advance a twentieth part of substance towards the propagation of this great work to be repay'd immediately after victory if our State can bear it with interest at 8 per cent with the voluntary contribution of others in that nature towards support of affairs and of the Widow Fatherless and Orphans that must happen Also the Soldier and Mariner when duly paid will be humbler and bettter servants As to suppression of Tories Moss-Troopers and Vagabounds in Armes which must increase in Ireland and Scotland That in the first place a Marshall-General and strict Advocate with Force may continually convenient rest in a place allowed be allotted to Quarter on their Landlords or Grandees and setting forth a Proclamation for every one of those Wolves to come in by a due season immediately else hang up every one at the next Tree they shall meet in Armes and all suspected disaffected disarmed As for the Navy honest Commanders of the Army joyn'd with the Naval to qualifie the Spirit will crush the Enemy Had not Sol afflicted Merc'ry in Cancer Crabs to Rams had never found an answer Soli Deo Gloria FINIS Coronat Opus Let Bears decay Wolves fall and Lions stand First gone others wasting lost and last command When heaven once shall unfold this Mysterie Heavens in earth receive a Jubilee Wake not my Love when now wishes slumber Crush your Enemy though exceeds number The Author hath been too busie for you Yet his pointed work he must doe Let Babylon fall that truth may flourish Then Peace Joy all blessings shall you nourish