Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	deed_n	light_n	manifest_a	2,272	5	9.7572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08779	Christs confession and complaint concering his kingdom and seruants; conuincing Iewes of obstinacie, Romish Catholickes of conspiracie, seducers of sedition, Arminians of apostacie, and diuers others of coldnes, schisme, treachery & hypocrisie. By J.P.	I. P., fl. 1629.	1629 (1629)	STC 19069; ESTC S102324	96,442	116

the knowledge obedience of Christ so that Paul saith From Ierusalem round vnto Illyricum Rom. 15.19 I haue fully preached the Gospell of Christ. He turned people from darknes to light from the power of Satan vnto God The Pope and Papists turne men from light to darknes and so from God to Satan Peter did not so And with what weapons did they subiect men The weapons of this Kingdom Heb. 4.12 saue with the sword of the spirit the Word of God which is the power of God to saluation For the Word of God is quicke powerfull sharper then any two edged sword peircing c. Therefore saint Paul saith The weapons of our warfare are not carnall but mightie through God to the pulling downe of stronge holds casting downe imaginations and euery high thinge that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ viz. to the obedience of the Word for this sword or spirit of his mouth is the Rod of his strength his owne diuine power and virtue vnto whome is saide Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies As in Kingdoms of this world if any subiect hold but one castle or towne against the right and power of his lawfull Kinge he is iudged a traitour an enemy and his pertakers Conspiratours so is it if a man maintaine but one errour one stronge hold against the knowledge of God much more if he hold diuers as Pelagius did or many with a high hand as the Pope doth * Moulin Buckler of the Faith aboute free will merrits iustification purgatorie supremacie the Church of Rome Preists marriage praying to Saints worshipping Images c. Who yet will be obeied and defended in theese and other his errours and soe he is by all Papists which proueth him the grand Antichrist and them rebellious conspiratours maintaining stronge holds of errour and sinne against the Word and Kingdom of God Saint Paul saith of some that were with him Theese only are my fellow workers vnto the Kingdom of God Col. 4.11 that is in those regions where with him they preached the Gospell and stablished men in the obedience knowledge truth thereof and as Apollos who mightely cōuinced the Aduersaries by the Scriptures Act. 18.28 And where as some doe not obey but resist the holy Ghost as S. Steuen saide and are gainsayers Hereticks enemies Act. 7.51 and neglectours of this free grace of God offered in the preaching and manifestation of the Word whereby men are made true Subiects of this Kingdō this cōmeth to passe as Christ saide to some proude and obstinate Iewes ye beleeue not because ye are not of my Sheepe My Sheepe heare my voice I know thē and they follow me Ioh. 10.26 vers 14. Therfore he who is the Word and therein the light of the World said vnto thē I am known of mine * see charac of a Christian pag. 303. not of others to whom it is not giuē It is giuē to you to know the Mysteries of the Kingdō of heauē but to them it is not giuen Mat. 13.11 Chap. 11.25 The Father hid them from the wise and learned and reu●aled them to babes because it seemed good in his sight * Rom. 11.7 Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for But the election haue obtained it and the rest were blinded Yet a litle while is the light with you walke while ye haue the light lest darknesse come vpon you for he that walketh in darknesse knoweth not whither he goeth Ioh. 12.35 Which beeing also the case of diuers proud Papists and Pelagians who doe not heare receiue and reade the Word much lesse with loue● of the Truth noe maruaile if they know not whether they goe that is that they talke so much against the promised perseuerance of the Saints Luk. 19.47 and certainty of saluation For such as doe not delight in the Word but rather maintaine diuers strōge holds of errour against the same can not haue a sense thereof nor consequently that they are true Subiects of this Kingdom but rather of the contrarie for therefore Christ who is the Word saith Those mine enemies which would not that I should raigne ouer them bringe hither c. and in another place This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loued darknesse rather then light because theire deedes were euill For euery one that doth euill hateth the light neither commeth to the light lest his deedes should be reproued or discouered This shall all such know to theire cost when the Lord Iesus shall be reuealed from Heauen with his mightie Angels 2. Thess 1.7 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ and so that are not true Subiects of this Kingdom Ioh. 3. But saith Christ he that doth truth commeth to the light that his deedes may be made manifest that they are wrought in God And so that he is a loueing and an obedient subiect of this Kingdom as diuers are in diuers Cities and Kingdoms of this World and as all should be Thus then wee see that Christ had and hath the Kingdom and what it was and is Now wee are to see what it is not Christs Kingdom not of this World which our Lord telleth vs saying My Kingdom is not of this world This hath partly appeared already because as wee proued this his Kingdom is the Spirituall raigne of the Word and therefore not of this World and consequently not any thinge preiudicial or deragotory to Cesars as his accusers pretended The malitious and subtill Iewes that they might be sure to lay such things whether true or false to the charge of Christ as might certainly procure his death thought noe accusation so like to preuaile with ' Pilate Caesars Deputie as to say that he moued sedition and laboured to bringe the people from Caesers to his owne obedience and soe to get the Kingdom from Caesar to himselfe This they thought Pilate durst not but question striue to preuent though it were with the death of Christ and that whether he were found guiltie thereof or noe therefore they say wee found this follow peruerting the nation saying that himselfe is Christ a Kinge and after He that maketh himselfe a King speaketh against Caesar Luk. 23.2 Whereas that was not to moue sedition against Caesar for on the contrarie he saide Giue vnto Caesar the things that are Cesars Ioh. 19. and to God the things that are Gods Wherein though indeede he seeke Gods Kingdom also viz. that men would be ruled by Gods Word in all things and consequently his owne Kingdom because he is the Word of God by which all men should be ruled yet when he seekes this he neither hindereth nor endangereth Caesars Kingdom but rather helpeth and stablisheth it For if Gods Word