Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	jesus_n	lord_n	4,121	5	3.4974	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34918	A short, but a strict account taken of Babylons merchants vvho are now forcing the sale of their old, rusty, cankered ware upon the people of these nations : and a stretching them out by their line (which as they say) is the Scriptures in the New Testament, ad they call themselves Christian ministers : also a comparing them with those that spake them forth as their examples that all people may see with whom they run paralel [sic] / by one that hath fed upon the whores flesh these many years handed to him by these merchants and their brethren, but now witnesseth it in him consumed by fire, Richard Crane.	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1660 (1660)	Wing C6815; ESTC R29281	15,800	24

more innocent and harmless then yours for there was a place of repentance found for him and an exhortation unto it verse 22. Truly I cannot say so of you I desire I could The Scripture maketh mention of one Elymas a sorcerer being by interpretation so called Acts 13.8 And with him you run paralel for the Deputy having received the faith of Jesus he with stood the Apostles and sought to turn him away from it but he was struck with blindness which was his reward and you do as your Brother did for if any especially Rulers or men in Authority do come to own the truth as it is manifest in them by the Light of Jesus Oh what stirring and striving by reviling and reproching by shifts and lyes do you make to smother and stifle it and what calumnies aspersions and slanders do you cast upon the Ministers there of calling of them Seducers Deceivers Heathens and Jesuites with many other filthy names to turn the minds of any who have received it from it again and not so contented but calls the Light within damnable Heresie damnable Blasphemy a Doctrine of Devils Popery and so forth now is not this Elymas like or worse for it may be he might not cast so many slanders upon the Apostles and the faith as you do upon them now who Minister in the faith but Elymas withstood the Apostles to turn the Deputie from the faith who knoweth but Elymas might have a great part of his gain from that Deputie it is very probable that before he received the faith of Jesus at the Apostles preaching he might believe Elymas his sorcery and so truly Elymas might receive much pay for it of him for Sorcerers and deviners such as Elymas and you are gives not your comodities Gratis But are payd for them to purpose as Thousands of my Friends in England and other parts can witness though they receive none of your sorcery yet you take by violence their goods and money from them like Theeves and pretends a Law for it Truely in this you outstrip all your Brother-hood mentioned in Scriptures both in old and new Testament as ever I read of I have read of some who took the wages of unrighteousness But I know not whether by force or nay as you do I never read of any that took treeble damage as you do and yet wo was pronounced against such who took such wages and if wo were their portion what will be yours who exceeds them in all their wickedness and abominations surely surely Hell hath enlarged her lips wide for you and it was high time for Elymas to withstand the Apostles and the Faith being the Deputy had received it and stand up for his God which had received such a knock as could not be recovered but by turning the Deputy who had received the Faith from it again What a condition was Elimas in his socery would not serve for the Truth was received therefore his God must famish And truly so it is with you for if any comes to receive the Truth then comes your sorcery and deceit to be made manifest and though formerly it hath been accounted good ware whilst no better was known But now that is a risen in people in this Nation which hath laid open all your deceits and false cheats and rips up all your deceitful coverings and hath turned your inside outward I speak not this only of you who are now the Merchants of the time but I speak of all and of all orders whatsoever called or known by out of the Life of Truth which the Lord God hath manifested by his Light You are all utterly to be denied in the sight of God for ever and as to most of your brethren which you have supplanted and turned out of their Markets and Shops a while since they pleaded more right to them then you now you plead more right to them then they and so one brother supplanting another You need not deal so cruelly with them as many say you do they are your brothers for you have all one Mother and hath sucked all one breast and so you are all of one nature and they are as ready in the work of persecution and as active as you can be Therefore according to the equity of that they might joyn with you in your trading as some already hath done for they are very diligent and hand●e and if they may not be allowed to be shop-keepers let them be shop-sweepers for rather then sit our they will do any thing I know they are stiffe and proud but they must acknowledge you to be their Eldest brother and your Father doth so compute you But know this assuredly you are brethren in iniquitie and your whole lives practices and professions being condemned by the Spirit of God and the Apostles and Scriptures stands in a lie and so to be denied of all that fear the Lord You are even discovered and known to be as you are viz. Antichrists Deceivers Socerers and ravening Wolves and you rage and your fury is kindled and casts out whole floods of slanders and reproaches after the Truth because your God which is your belly is in danger to be starved and famished for you know not neither will you know any way of preparing your sacrifices for your God but that cursed way that is by extracting of them from the drops of sweat that runs from other mens faces for you abominate and abhor labour and the Scriptures which saith In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread and he that will not work shall not eat you seldom or never make use of and so you may offer fat Sacrifices unto your God which is your belly obtaining them at those rates but know assuredly as you have taken and wrung the drops of sweat from the faces of such as have had no dealings with you especially the Lord God hath put them with their Tears also up into a bottle which he keeps for a perpetual memorial of their Innocent sufferings your cruelty and tyranny injustice therefore Flames Flames Flames of fire is prepared by the Lord to consume you as dry stubble In the Light of the eternal God I have beheld you and all your actions and take them all together and Rake the pit of confusion and bind up your stuff in a bundle and indeed there is no paralel nor never was that ever I could read of or hear amongst any Ministers Christian or Antichristian or amongst sober Trades-men or Artists whatsoever but you out-strip all of them in your way of wickedness if I should paralel you with Salvage Beasts I could not truely do it I think be they never so fierce for they stand in kind Beasts of prey answereth the end of their Creation and so doth all other Creatures of the Salvage kind but men of prey such as you are is quit out of kind and not to be paraleld by any thing that draweth breath Oh what shall I