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	see_v	word_n	4,873	5	4.1895	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92002	The ranters bible or, Seven several religions by them held and maintained. With the full particulars of their strange sects and societies; their new places of meetings, both in city and countrey; the manner of their life and conversation; their blasphemous opinion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and their burning of his blessed word, and sacred Scriptures; ... A strange voice from heaven speaking to one Mr. Roulston, a London-ranter, upon his going from White-Chappel, to meet some of his fellow-creatures at Hackney ... And Mr. Roulston's letter to his late fellow-ranters, with his advice and proposals, to be published in all cities, and market-townes, throughout England and Wales. / Published by Mr. Gilbert Roulston, a late Fellow-Ranter.	Roulston, Gilbert.	1650 (1650)	Wing R2006; Thomason E619_6; ESTC R206365	4,424	8

although we were a long time blinded by the Man of sin we are now by the tender mercies of Jesus Christ and by the influence of his Divine Spirit restored again unto light and therefore are resolved to partake no longer with you in your abominable and detestable vanities c. Which words struck such a terror to their former fellow-Creatures that they all unanimously resolved to lead a new life to withdraw from the Gulf of Hell and to betake themselves to the true Soul-saving Gospel Road and so with great alacrity and joy parted quietly betaking themselves to their respective places of habitation VII Another sort of these notorious Ranters both in City and Countrey are called by the name of Selentian Donatists who hold an opinion that neither the word of God for the ●ible they burn nor any under the Canopy of Heaven can make so perfect a Church as their 〈◊〉 Discipline denying all powers and refusing to submit to any Government erected either by Kings or Parliament being of an opinion that the Mosse whereof God made the Elements was coeternal with him and that Christ in his Ascention uncloathed himself of the flesh of Man and left it in the Globe of the Sun and thereupon hold this erroneous Tenent that it is only lawful for them to idolize and adore the Sun and the 3. Clouds wherein its splendor is sundry times eclipsed and darkened being of this idolatrous and dangerous Opinion that after this life there their bodies shall rest for ever These sort of Ranters are of a vain-glorious opinion steering their ways and actions by the concourse of the Stars for towards the Evening so soon as the bright●●● met called the Shephard-star appears they frequent their Babylonish meetings the said Star being the word and sign given out by these infernal Creatures for the calling in of their diabolical Flocks and upon their dissembling together they exercise themselves in nothing else but lacivious and unapparalleld vices accounting it no sin for hundreds of Men and Women savage-like to lie with each other publickly all together either in Houses Fields or Streets which is their constant course upon several meetings And one amongst the rest of these ranting Crew observing the time when the Shepheards-Star should appear to the end he might give his personal residence amongst them upon his going from his own house in White-Chappel to Pluto's Flock enfolding each other near Hackney he heard a loud voice sounding in his mind as followeth Leave off thy abominable ways and return from whence thou comest for after all such things only wicked men seek And as he heard this voice sounding in his heart so also his Conscience accused him that he was one of those wicked men spending his precious time in lacivious shameless and intemperate societies with other Women whereupon he imediately fell down on his knees praising the great God of Heaven for this his great change and conversion and upon his imediate resurrection betook himself to privacy for a time writing this ensuing Letter to his former Ranting Associates Dear Friends JT hath always been the subtilty of the Serpent that old Devil since Man had a being to seek to deceive and destroy him and to take him off from his being and his well-being and as God useth all means to do Mankind good so Satan seeketh by all the means he can to do them hurt in every age and so much the more as the light doth appear in every age transforming himself like an Angel of light that he may appear glorious in them when he is nothing in substance and in this age more then ever because his Kingdom and black Angels begins to be full of darkness he sees its high time to stir or else to lose all and is now labouring to overthrow the foundations of your faith by taking you off from searching the Scriptures by denying the word and burning the sacred Writ c. utterly detesting against Christ and his truth which truth we must all yield to or else you are damned And for 〈◊〉 part I do wholly imbrace it denying and abhorring the wicked course of life which formerly I delighted in with you for the space of 7. years and odd moneths during which time I conceived my self to be in a happy condition but being near to the very edge of the brink of the infernal lake and bottomelss pit of Hell then came the Lord God in a terrible voice into my heart saying Leave off thy wicked ways and return from whence thou camest for after all such things even wicked men seek These words I heard dolefully sounding even when I was coming to your Diabolical meeting which caused me to return back And therefore friends I do humbly implore you in the name of Jesus Christ to leave off your wicked wayes and to lay hold on the truth for he that acts against truth acts against God His truth is the greatest Champion and breaks all the Armour and Weapons that it fights with for it is a soul-saving Weapon and no Weapon formed against it shall prosper to those that yield he shews mercy and to those that will not his blowes are mortal Therefore dear friends be not found fighters against God least he tear you in peeces and there be none to help for on whomsoever this stone shall fall it shall grind him to peeces Now the Lord Jesus Christ give you understanding in these things and so I rest Yours in the Lord G. R. White-Chappel Decemb. 4. 1650. REader since the writing of this Letter above 700. are come in but by reason of a new Treatise preparing for the Press I shall insist no further at present but referreth thee to that subject which contains a 7. years Chronicle of all their ways lives and actions FINIS