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	justify_v	work_n	4,711	5	6.9461	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86650	The inheritance of Jacob discovered. After his return out of Ægypt: and the leading of the Lord to the land of promise, declared, and some information of the way thither. Or a word of exhortation to all professors in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to all the world where this shall come, wherein the common salvation is declared, in which the saints believed; and deceit discovered and made manifest. Published in love to all the honest hearted in the nations, in love and bowels of compassion to your soules. Also a few words of exhortation to the rulers of England, and Ireland. / By a servant of Jesus Christ who delighteth in his masters worke. Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3168; Thomason E869_3; ESTC R208464	31,316	40

Christ feed no longer upon imaginations nor vaine words cease from looking loe here and there for the kingdome of God will the Father reveal in you as you waite in the measure of the light in you by which he reveals himselfe in his sons and daughters and will bring them to his everlasting fold and true rest all who followes him through the denyall of all and to the loosing of all for him shall come to witnesse an incorruptible inheritance which never fades away And now a few words to you who would thrust your selves into the kingdome and would be called Christs Disciples and Church members who are gathered into confederacies and makes a likenesse unto your selves and are now professing the Saints conditions in words How come you hither to climb up so high in words when as you are what you were before if not worse Think it not a hard saying for it is so among many of you and in the light which is pure you are weighed and when one comes to try you your language bewrays you that you are not what you professe for when you are tryed by the Saints practises and life that was in them and the injoyment they had with God you are found so far from being any such that you even oppose the faith they believed in as some of your Pastors openly to my face in the hearing of two hundred people said all the Saints dyed sinners and so was so far from owning the perfect righteousnesse of Christ that he even denyed it and said it was heresie and others of you say you believe that all the graces the Saints enjoy are imperfect yea even faith is imperfect and others saying that all the righteousnesse that was wrought in them by faith was imperfect and others saying while the light of Christ Jesus condemned them yet Christ justified them and yet that which was wrought in them there was failings in it and so you have imagined a faith and righteousnesse of your own and such a Christ to talk on and a redemption as you may live in lusts and be men pleasers and in the customes and fashions of the world and coveteousnesse and pleads for sin and puts perfect righteousnesse to another world and thus the Devill hath deceived you and so you set up and makes covers but all will not hide you in the day of his appearance for God joynes not to that which is imperfect neither is that true faith which is imperfect and which layes hold upon an imperfect righteousnesse that is such a faith as never was professed by ony of the Saints whose words you professe for they had received faith the gift of God the least measure of which was perfect and as they stood in it though it was but as a graine of Mustard-seed they said to this mountaine be removed and it was so and that which was in them reveald by the Son led them that did believe in it to lay hold upon Christs righteousness which was and is perfect which had yea hath no spots nor wrinckles nor staine and this righteousnesse was made manifest in them by the faith of the Son by which they were justified in the sight of God and came with boldnesse before the throne of Christ for in them there was no condemnation neither guilt but became one with the Judge and reconciled unto him and his throne and to the Lamb by him who is the Midiator and hath made peace betwixt them and the Father and so were justified in the sight of God and this witnesse they had in them that they pleased God and were accepted of God and this righteousnesse was wrought in them and is now the same which is wrought in the Saints by him who is their light and life and this was the righteousnesse of faith and that which was wrought by Christ in the Saints as they believed in him and in the measure of grace received from him which saved them from sin which vvas not of themselves he perfected his ovvn vvork in them through and by faith and justified them and sanctified them and became their vvisdome by vvhich they vvere led into all truth out of failings and imperfection and vveaknesses and he became their strength and rock and they vvere builded upon him and as they stood upon him the rock they vvere preserved vvhen the vvaves did beat and vvhen temptations came and vvere sure and stedfast and immoveable and so overcame the Armies of Aliens and quenched the violence of fire and resisted the Devill and quenched his fiery darts and had victory over the Heathen and reigned as Kings over the Beasts of the field and over the deceit and by the receiving and believing of the word of him who was and is called Jesus by which faith came by the hearing of they overcame the enemies of their soules and him who hath the power of death and the strength of sin is the Law but by the blood of him who is eternall who is Jesus the Midiator of the new and living way they overcame the Dragon even by the word of his testimony which was revealed in them which word of faith Paul vvho vvas a Minister preached unto them even to them vvho had the vvord in them and turned them to it and as they believed in it they were sanctified by it and cleansed by it and made perfect and then they witnessed the bringing in of a better hope which perfects and makes perfect as pertaining to the conscience which while they stood without looking at Elementary things and divers washings and those things which were figures of the true Tabernacle made without hands which stood untill the time of Reformation and then done away to wit the hand writings and them that witnesses the new Covenant now they see them done away and the time of Reformation is come the same which they witnessed Glory for evermore And therefore all you professors who have builded high Towers and Castles in your imaginations and hath told of Reformation these many years but you have nothing but a hand-writing to establish your building upon and all your Reformation hath been but the washing of cups and pulling down one thing and set up another beggerly Elementary Images and doe not witnesse the better hope brought in nor the time of Reformation nor cannot abide that any should declare it unto you nor believe it nor hear it nor while your eyes are without and not in the head you cannot see when good comes but are as Heathens in the desart and although you are among the brambles and bryars yet you would be counted Kings and Heads over others and one making an Image in this manner and another in that of all sorts high and low but all stands in the earth and all in one ground and what doe they availe you for they cannot save for your highest enjoyment is imperfect you say what then serve these for onely for you to talk on and this is all they serve