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	reprove_v	2,125	5	10.3012	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70039	Apokrypta apokalypta velata quædam revelata : some certain, hidden, or vailed spiritual verities revealed : upon occasion of various very prying and critical queries concerning God, the devil, and man, as to his body, soul, and spirit, Heaven, Hell, Judgement &c : propounded to George Fox, John Perrot, Samuel Fisher : and after that (with a complaint for want of, and stricter urgency for an answer) re-propounded to Edward Burroughs : by two persons, choosing to notifie themselves to us no other way then by these two unwonted (if not self-assumed) titles, viz. Livinus Theodorus, and Sabina Neriah : which truths (as there inspired by the spirit of God) are here expired in love to the souls of men / from ... Samuel Fisher.	Fisher, Samuel, 1605-1665.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing F1047; ESTC R31513	23,491	32

holy Prophets and Children and whatever they in all ages as moved by him so to do have declared him to be whether by word of mouth or Scripture And so whatever ye there read God is that God is really indeed and in truth viz. a Spirit Light Love that One Omnipotent All-sufficient Spiritual Substantial Living Everlasting Infinite Subsistence which hath his own being of himself and gives being life breath and All things unto All in whom we and all mankind who are his off-spring both live move and have our being Howbeit there is not in every man no not in all those that read of him there and can speak of him what they there read the true knowledge of him so or so to be for they onely truly know him to be this or that who witness him truly to be this or that to and within themselves those know him not who ere they are that prate this and that of him like Pyes and Parrets which may be taught verba nostra conari yet come not to find and feel him so to be as they say of him by feeling after him in his own Light by which he draws nigh to and is not far from every one of us by which in ommbus aliqualiter though not aequaliter in some measure though not the same measure he manifests something of himself in every Conscience and by which in and to such as love him and keep his Commandments given out in the same he manifests himself in such wise as he will not do to the World yea in such wise that they can experimentally say he is so or so by what they see concerning him and are made fully sensible of in themselves in such wise that they have the witness of it in themselves and can set to their seal That God is and that he is true good merciful faithful just righteous in taking vengeance that he is a Judge a Protector a Saviour a Redeemer and whatever else he is said to be even of a truth yea in such wise as to say with Job I know that my Redeemer liveth With Mary My Spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour With Paul We are saved by his Grace Christ liveth in me c. Whenas whoever thinks or sayes he knows God because he can say something of him at second hand in a form of words and the same truth perhaps which he reads written of God in their Scriptures who declare no more of him than what their own eyes ears and hands do see feel and handle of him as we do and they did who wrote of old that holy Scripture and yet know him not nigher hand in that which is of himself within their own hearts even that by which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not onely whatsoever is known of God at all but also whatever is to be known of him or knowable at all is manifested in him Rom. 1. 19. he deceives and mistakes himself and whate're he thinks he knows of God he knoweth nothing yet of him or of ought else as he ought to know therefore saith the Wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1. 21. In the Wisdom of God The world by Wisdom knew not God And 1 John 2. 4. He that saith he knoweth God and keepeth not his Commandments is a lyar and the truth is not in him And to such wise sayers and knowers as these and such were the Scribes who were ever scraping in the Scriptures to find God and his life yet never knew him at any time nor saw his shape because they heard not his Voice nor heeded his Word in themselves Joh. 5 37. God saith Though ye say God lives yet as I live ye swear falsly And why falsly Was not that a truth that God lives Yes but not a truth truly testified unto by them any more then what is testified in foro hominum in mens Courts by such as being not eye-witnesses thereof have it onely by hear-say from others because they witnessed to it but in stoln words which they had and heard from such who knew him to live while themselves knew him not to live within themselves Whereas therefore ye Query What God really is in himself As God saith of himself I am that I am so say I Deus est id quod est God is what he is And if ye who by your asking of u● profess your selves to be yet ignorant of him and so to worship if yet ye worship him at all an unknown God as the wise Athenians did would know him in any measure as he is really in himself My Counsel to you is to stand still in his own Counsel namely his Light in your own Consciences that in that you may be led forth into his life and likeness even into the Image of his Son the Light of the world the righteous pure meek innocent gentle loving peaceable in offensive merciful compassionate tender patient Lamb of God that takes away the sin of it who is the express Image of the Father in that Light that manifests him and all things for whatever is manifest is manifested by the Light wait for his appearing in his own Spirit and Power to restore his own Image in your hearts that as he appeareth ye may appear with him in his glory which is fulness of Grace and Truth being transformed into his Image from glory to glory by the operation of his holy Spirit that as he appeareth ye may be like him and so see him as he is then shall ye know the Lord if ye thus follow on to know him whose goings forth are prepared as the morning to meet those that meet him in his Light by which he shineth into our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of his own glory in the face of Jesus Christ Finally In answer to the latter part of this your first Query I say That Light which God now is whom no such eye as you look after him with who ask counsel of man only concerning him and not of himself alone either hath seen or can see that same Light he ever was And in that Light in which he now is and dwells which is unapproachable by every evil-doer who hates the Light which is come into him to save him neither comes into it lest by it his deeds should be reproved and which he who doth truth comes to that his deeds may be made manifest to be wrought in God in that God was and did dwell from everlasting And as the outward Sun is not seen by any other natural Light save that which shines from it self in the outer world So God neither is nor can be seen by any other spiritual Light save that which shines from himself into the inner world of men's hearts And in that Light in which God doth now manifest himself in the same did he manifest himself if yet it be proper so to ask and so to answer as concerning him before Time was and before there was any Creature extant to take