Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	devil_n	father_n	lie_n	3,415	5	9.0726	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37457	News from the new-Jerusalem sent by letters from severall parts, relating some hints and observations of that citty, all conspiring in a testimony that renders it exceeding glorious.	S. P. D.	1649 (1649)	Wing D86; ESTC R27850	73,796	188

News from the New-JERUSALEM Sent by Letters from severall Parts relating some Hints and Observations of that Citty All conspiring in a Testimony that renders it exceeding Glorious Revel 21. 5. And hee that sate upon the throne said BEHOLD I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW LONDON Printed by G. D. for Giles Calvert at the signe of the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1649. To the Christian Reader and more especially to the Saints that wait upon God in the use of Formes Reader THou hast here presented to thy view a coppy of certain Letters written to private friends not at all intended for thy use But since it is their fate to fall into publick hands and since there are somethings in them well worth thy notice and observation A well-wisher of thine for thy good hath thought fit to usher them to thy hand by writing one letter unto thee the rather to engage thee by reading that which is thine own to take a survey of the whole parcell that therein thou mayest behold the breaking forth of God and the spirit that now breathes in many Saints which seems to prophesie and promise that God is about to doe some great and notable thing for his people according to their long expectations and as an answer to their prayers But although God be breaking forth upon the world in a greater degree of light and glory then former ages have seen yet thou art to know that we are as yet but in the twi-light we see onely the dawnings of an approaching day we are at the utmost but upon the borders and confines of this glory and therefore Reader in thy examination of doctrines and inquisition after truth two things would be carefully heeded First not to receive every thing for truth that comes abroad under that notion Nor secondly to reject every thing that is new to thee as errour Least thou take darknesse for light and light for darknes As thou wouldest avoid falling into the gulfe of errour on one hand so beware thou dash not against the rock Christ on the other for there may be a dangerous miscarriage on either side This is most certain that whensoever God the father of lights begets and brings forth any fresh discovery of light and truth in the world the Devill the father of lyes will transform himself into an Angel of light and will press upon the most conscientious * It is as least a very probable argument that truth is rising springing out of the earrh when errour and delusion walke abroad under pretence of comming downe from heaven Christians his falsities and delusions under such specious and plausible colours that will deceive if t' were possible the very elect And this he will doe diversly by working upon a different subject First in regard there is but a mixture of light and darknes in the most knowing Saints he will take advantage by the remainder of darknes in them to make them instruments to promote errour as well as truth and the seed of errour falling into the soyle of this dark principle may grow there for some time till the principle of light wholly overcome and expell this darknesse But secondly he doth more usually make use of forward formall professours and these he dare trust though they hold forth the truth for a time because he knows when they fall off and discover themselves they will raise the greatest scandall and bring the greatest odium upon the truth so that it s no safe rule to judge of persons by their doctrines nor of doctrines by the persons that brings them Therefore Reader thou feest what need thou hast to harken to the Apostles counsell Try the spirits whether they be of God least thou feed upon Scorpions and cast away the true bread least thou abide in darknesse and see not the brightnesse and glory of that day that is neer approaching Thou canst not be ignorant that the Scriptures as well the old testament as the new beare witnesse of a glorious day that shall shine forth in the last times when the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sunne as the light of seven dayes which as it shall be a glorious day so it shall be the joyfullest day that ever the Saints beheld for it shall bee their wedding day Then shall that voyce of acclamation be heard Let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour unto him for the marriage of the Lambe come and his wife hath made her selfe ready To make the Lambs wife ready hath beene the great work of God in the world How neare we are come to this time I shall not undertake to determine but much may be guessed by Gods preparations for the same for almost six thousand yeares and by his various appearances and graduall approaches unto his people from the beginning to this present time of which take this briefe experimentall Narrative Though the Lord our God be one Lord and hath said of himselfe I am alone and there is none besides me yet in another sense hee hath said That two are better then one and It is not good the man should bee alone therefore this One Onely-wise Being for the setting forth of his owne glory hath greatly delighted to multiply and bring forth himselfe in a world of variety and distinction that hee might againe gather up all things into himselfe in the most perfect and absolute union Or in a larger naration take it thus This one God hath branched and spread forth himselfe in this great Fabrick of heaven and earth furnished and garnished the same with infinite variety of his works and creatures and then made man the topp of this creation And for the speciall favour he bare unto man whom he had made after his own likenesse he bestowed upon him the dominion and Lordship of this lower world or of the whole earth and in the midst or chiefest place thereof planted a paradice or garden of pleasure and placed the man therein where hee conversed with his maker in the highest enjoyment of God in the creatures But God leaving open a posterne doore the man being deceived by the Serpent sinne entred into the world and drew after it at the heeles all sorts of misery confusion death and bondage and brought upon the whole creation ten thousand distempers and distractions fractions and divisions and especially upon man the cause hereof who now became nothing else but a perfect map of misery but God to heale and cure all this immediately threw open the broad gate of glory and sent forth his beloved Sonne that by his death and sufferings he might restore all things into a blessed estate redeeme the world out of bondage reduce all things to a sweete harmony and agreement reconcile all things to himselfe both in heaven and in earth and gather up all things thus scattered abroad into a perfect agreement and the nearest union with himselfe Col. 1. 20. 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