Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	father_n	life_n	way_n	6,604	5	5.4332	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52300	The standard of the Lord lifted up in New-England, in opposition to the man of sin, or, The trumpet of the Lord sounding there with a visitation to the suffering seed of God in New-England or elsewhere with a warning from the Lord to the rulers and magistrates, priests, and people of New-England, but more especially to the rulers and magistrates of the bloody town of Boston, who have put the servants of the living God to death / written (in the prison at Boston in New-England in America) by ... Joseph Nicholson.	Nicholson, Joseph, 17th cent.	1660 (1660)	Wing N1109; ESTC R4235	17,642	26

dayes and in Christs time by the Rulers and Magistrates of New-England most of all the Rulers and Magistrates of the Town of Boston in New-England who have made a law in their own wills to banish any whom they call in scorn cursed Quakers whom the Lord sends amongst them to warn them to turn from the evil of their doings who witness Christ made manifest in them the hope of Glory and after they have banished them upon pain of death not to come again into their Town or Jurisdiction by their Law made in their own wills when they in obedience to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth as they were commanded of him to come again not in contempt of their Law though made in their own wills but in obedience to the Lord knowing it was better to obey God than man thy unchristian like have put them to death and this is the fruits of New-Englands profession who are out of the life of what they profess in words as their fruits have made them manifest who have put the Innocent to death who came to bear witness to the truth as it is in Jesus and as it was made manifest in them but happy I say were they who loved not their lives more than Christ who have laid it down for his names sake they shall receive a good reward When they that caused them to be put to death shall howl and lament for their day of sorrow is coming on for the Innocent blood cryes aloud for vengeance upon them who put them to death good it had been for them they had never been born or that a milstone had been hanged about their neck and that cast into the Sea rather than they should have put them to death therefore all people who have not had a hand in this thing in putting the Innocent to death who have not suffered as evill doers but because they could not be subject to the Lawes of men for conscience sake knowing it better to obey God than men take warning I say betime while it is called to day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in a day of Slaughter for verily the day of the Lord God is at hand wherein all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be destroyed The axe is laid to the root of the tree and every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit must be hewen down and cast into the fire The Lord hath said it and he will bring it to pass in this the the day of his mighty Power for now is the Lord calling by his messengers to all the inhabitants of the earth to come to repentance repentance from dead works to serve the Lord in newnesse of life in holynesse and purity without which none can see the Lord for holinesse becomes the house of God whose house we are whom he hath called out of the world to be a witnesse to his truth as it is manifest in us as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and they shall be my people and I will be their God faith the Lord who is now risen and arising to redeem a people to himself zealous of good works wrought in Christ Jesus made manifest within the hope of Glory and Glory be to the Lord God for ever more who hath redeemed many to himself out of the fallen estate Adams State by Christ Jesus the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven for as is the earthly such are they that are earthly as is the heavenly such are they that are heavenly for the first man Adam is of the earth the second the Lord from Heaven and by this Christ we witnesse redemption from sin the same Christ that died at Jerusalem for our sins and rose again for our justification this we can truly say indeed and in truth that Christ is risen indeed and become the first fruits of them that sleep and by this Christ we witness redemption from sin and also the Law of the members that warrs against the Law of the minde that Paul spoke of yet we with Paul can say we thank God through Christ Jesus our Lord who gives victory over the law of sin and death which the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sent his Son born of a woman to condemn Sin in the flesh that we through him might have life who believe on him whom the Father hath sent into the world whom the world cannot receive for he that receiveth me saith Christ receiveth him that sent me and he that receiveth you saith Christ to his disciples receiveth me also and he that keeps my sayings will keep yours also He that hath an ear may hear what the Spirit saith and he that is a thirst may come and drink freely without mony or without price Oh! dear people why do you spend your mony for that which is not bread and your labour for that which doth not satisfy all you who have been learning may be some tenn years some twenty years some thirty years some forty years some fifty years some sixty years following the blind guides of the world and yet not come to the knowledge of truth but some say loe here in this form and some say in another but I say believe them not for where Christ is made manifest he is made manifest within to destroy the works of the Devil Now people sin is a work of the Devil and the Devil was a lyar from the beginning he abode not in the truth now he that commits sin abides not in the truth for Christ is the truth the way and the life no man can come to the Father but by him now as none can come to the Father but by Christ so none can come to Christ but by the light they be enlightned withal which shewes sin and evill now all who live in sin and hate the light which ye be enlightned withal they will not bring their deeds to the light lest they should be reproved so they that hate the light and will not come to Christ that they might have life but goes on in the wicked wayes of the world in scorning dirision of their fellow Creatures who love the light and are guided by it and are come to Christ the way the truth and the life who never persecuted any neither taught he any such doctrine as to imprison any or whip or stock or banish or put to death for conscience sake as the Rulers of New-England have done who cannot receive strangers but persecute them who come to beare witnesse to the truth as it is in Jesus made manifest in them the hope of Glory but here in New-England it is made manifest as it was by Herod when Christ was born he sought to worship him under pretence to destroy him so here they call themselves a Church of Christ but where he is made manifest in his members they put him to death and casts them into prison