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
A62901	A word of information to them that need it briefly opening some most weighty passages of God dispensations among the sons of men, from the beginning, and insisting a little upon the state and condition of the nations, wherein they now stand, and particularly of England : for this end, that men may remember themselves, and turn unto the Lord, and seek to be delivered from the mysteries of iniquity, to walk with God in fellowship and communion : to which (as pertinent hereunto) is annexed, An addition concerning Lord-Bishops, and Common-prayer-book : with a tender admonition to those called priests, or ministers : and also, a loving exhortation to those that have separated from their superstitions / by W.T.	Tomlinson, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1854; ESTC R16928	33,341	46

all those called PRIESTS or MINISTERS O Ye that are called Priests or Ministers who preach to the people for hire and keep them in a Forme without the Power Is it possible that a Word of experience shewed me in the spirit being kept low with the Lord and in his fear may reach any of you I could willingly tell it you for my heart pitties you as you are men and I should rejoyce in your Salvation as well as of others But I see you stand in greatest danger of all men both by reason you have strengthened your selves in your holds by seeming Arguments and Interpretations of Scripture and Opinions of Men And also because Truth strikes directly at your Diana by which you subsist and have your livelihood as you call it Therefore it s hard for you to lend an ear to hear the Voice that calls out or to open your eye to let in a glimpse of that light that discovers it For if such a thought or motion do but offer it self I know Satan followes it immediately with this at the heels What then will become of us Oh that there were faith in you to trust God for your outward being and supply and a contented heart to live at Gods allowance Then would the Teachings of Truth more easily enter and finde place And verily trust him and let your eye be open to see the light which would shine into your own Consciences if your unbelief did not stop it and if your loving this present evil world and the deeds of darknesse did not keep you back from coming to it For he that loves truth comes to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Trust God I say for your outward subsistence and he will not forsake you utterly and let the light arise in your consciences concerning your wayes and seek first the Kingdom of God and the Righteousnesse thereof and you have the words of Christ for it which is above the word of any King who is Truth it self and cannot lye that all these things shall be added unto you I have found his word true by experience everlasting praises to his name And Oh how could I rejoyce to see your hearts brought down out of your formall wayes into the Obedience and power of Truth That you might not stand as a stop in the strait way hindring your own and others return unto God in the way of his Covenant My heart envies you not I speak in the presence of the Lord but in a tender Compassion to you I speak thus plainly and familiarly to you longing even for your Salvation also that if it be possible you might be delivered out of that deep pit in which you are faln For I have seen your horrid darknesse in which you stand God in mercy shewed it unto me and kept me out of it And I saw plainly that if I had entred into your livings as they are called I had entred into it But blessed be his name that kept me and allured me into the wildernesse there to feel his love and made me to sit down weeping in remembrance of ZION which I saw to be farr off and troden under foot by the Gentiles which had got into the outward Court and were there glorying in their Ordinances and crying out upon others as Seducers and Deluders and Hereticks while the HOLY CITY was troden under foot among themselves But the Lord hath shewed me upon whom the strong delusions are sent and for what Cause It is upon the disobedient who have pleasure in unrighteousnesse and for that cause because they love that and chuse unrighteousnesse to live in rather than the fear of God Therefore doth the Lord send them strong delusions even to believe a lye Come down to become as little Children and you will see the same also And I tell you plainly untill you do come down to become as little Children you cannot see God you cannot see the Kingdome of God you cannot judge righteously of the things of the Kingdome of God For how should you judge right of things that you cannot see Therefore humble your selves under the mighty hand of God and fear him who will make all bow before him and stoop to his will one way or other And stand not upon your Learning or Parts or any such thing For such things are of light account in the sight of God but come down to the place where God feeds his Babes even a low place it is a place of poverty of Spirit a place of mourning a place of hungring and thirsting And I tell you till you come thither you shall never feel any thing of the presence of God to your everlasting comfort And if you misse this what good will your Learning with all your vaunting do you Will it not all vanish away with vexation when an evill conscience arises and torment there enters and abides tormenting you in the presence of God and his holy Angels because you have neglected the one thing needfull even to walk with him in his fear in his pure light and so in a good conscience kept clear in the sight of God For without this the blood of Christ cleanseth you not from your sins Mind that lest you daub up your selves with untempered mortar I say the Blood of Christ cleanseth you not in the way of an evil Conscience in walking contrary to the Light of Christ But saith John If we walk in the Light as God is in the Light then have we fellowship and the blood cleanses But walking contrary to the Light there is made shipwrack of a good Conscience and the Conscience condemns and God is greater than the Conscience to condemn Consider it deeply for it is writ in Love and Faithfulnesse to your souls by one that yearns after your good and not after your destruction AN EXHORTATION to Those that have seperated Themselves from the SUPERSTITIONS of the PRIESTS YOU that have turned your backs of AEGYPT spiritually so called and have suffered hard Speeches and Reproaches and Injuries of Wicked Men in coming out of their grosser Abominations and Superstitions There is a tender respect in my heart towards you who have done this in obedience to a Principle of God in your hearts And my Desire for you is That You may not lose your Reward by looking back again to AEGYPT or by turning aside to this present evill World or to any of the hurtfull Lusts therein or by taking up your Habitation short of the Land of Rest But that you may be preserved in that tender Principle that led you forth that therein you may go forward and not backward But now do not think that you are come to the end of your journey because You have stepped out of Egypt Remember the many Journeys and Removes the Israelites had after they came out of Egypt before they arrived at the good Land of Promise and faint not but gird up the loyns of your