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	seek_v	worship_v	3,999	5	9.5346	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62896	An awakening voice to the Papists declaring to them the fallen state of the Pope from Peter's, and of the Church of Rome from what it once was : in love to the souls of those who have any uprightness in their hearts towards the Lord (but through ignorance are held in bondage) that they may be awaked, and see where they lie, and if any shall smother these things, lest they should come to the sight or knowledge of that people, let them take heed, that they bring not upon themselves the guilt of their blood / William Tomlinson.	Tomlinson, William.	1673 (1673)	Wing T1845; ESTC R10231	20,715	28

but quit your selves of that one principle of Darkness and with single Hearts search into Truth as the Bereans did you would come to see many more things of your own selves to be faulty How easily might you see by the Scripture the horrid Blasphemy of that Man of Sin that such a one as Simon Magus who thinks that the Gift of God may be purchased with Money should claim so near Title to the unspotted pure and holy Lamb of God while he is in the Gall of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity deluding your Souls with his pretended pardons for Sin to rob you of your Money But indeed he cannot sell you that nor give you that which he hath no Power in Many other things are corrupted among you if I may not say all and you are far from that pure State in which the Church of Christ was at the first at Rome But these things were first presented in the Light before me to mind you of that if it be the good Will of the Lord some of you may have your Eyes opened that you may see to whom you enslave your Souls and may flee out of Babylon lest you partake of her Sins and so pertake of her Plagues And if any of you shall be incensed against me for telling you the Truth I must bear it For I write not these things in Contempt of any or to vilifie any particular Person but in Faithfulness and Compassion to your Souls to lay before you the State wherein you stand enthrawled in your Spirits to a false Power no Successor of Peter but of Simon Magus a fallen Star the Angel of the bottomless Pit King of the Destroyers who hath his Name Abaddon and Apollyon who is exalted above all that 's called God or that is worshipped and so seeing where you are you that are simple-hearted and have any Honesty in your Hearts towards the Lord you may be awakened to look about you and to quit your selves like men and may seek after the Liberty of the Sons of God and to serve him as his Free men purchased by the Blood of Christ from the vain Traditions and Injunctions of men which the Lord hath not commanded Other things still open themselves before me which I would not hold back from you but as the Lord doth open the Error of them to me so to communicate the same to you Your Beads and set number of Prayers and Crucifixes and antick Crossings of your selves they are all Works of Darkness and of the Night and not of the Day and will not abidethe Light Think you that that God which searcheth the Heart and Reins and saith My Son give me thy Heart that he delights in Lip-Labour or in the Number of Prayers insomuch that you stand in need of a String full of Beads to count the number of your Prayers by This is just to do like the Heathen who think to be heard for their much babbling and vain Repetitions which Christ forbad to his Disciples Mat. 5.7 8. And which the Lord hated and cryed out against by his Prophets among the Jews Isa 1.15 When you spread forth your Hands I will hide mine Eyes from you yea when you make many Prayers I will not hear your hands are full of Blood And its in vain also for you so long as you retain your Bloody Tenents or Bloody Thoughts to expect to be heard of the Lord. God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth for such the Father seeketh to worship him Joh. 4.23 24. And they that so worship him they have a better helper and remembrance then either Beads or Books We know not what to pray for as we ought saith the Apostle to the ancient Church of Rome to whom he writ Rom. 8.26 27. But where 's our Helper then Not from Books or Beads but the Spirit helpeth our Infirmities There was the Helper of the ancient Church of Rome and there 's our Helper one that knows the mind of our Spirit and makes Intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered There 's the Helper of those that cannot tell how to utter a Word and their groanings are heard of the Lord who searcheth the Hearts And this Helper administers Words also according to the Condition of the Heart as there is need But when the Heart is far from him then to draw near him with the Lips this is but an Abomination before him and to offer up the Sacrifice of Fools and so your Beads are of no use but in the offering up the Sacrifice of Fools I wonder that you your selves do not consider the Childishness and Ridiculousness and Folly of them they are so Ridiculous Childish Bables that they are not worthy to be mentioned by Christians who should know a measure of the Spirit of Christ in them to teach them to pray know ye not that Christ is in you except you be Reprobate reprobate to every good Work But I shall come closer to your Prayers then your Beads Your Prayers themselves are all Abomination to the Lord with Beads or without Beads by the help of Books or without them Your private Devotions or Prayers and your publick Prayers all are Abomination to the Lord while your Hands are full of Blood and your Hearts and Thoughts full of Blood Your Principles are bloody your Practices are like them full of blood Market-places Stones in the Street will witness against you that you are a bloody People your Prisons your Inquisitions will witness against you and therefore your Prayers are an Abomination to the Lord. And it will not cure the Sore it will not hide your blood-guiltiness to say they are Hereticks they are Tares that we cut off such as infest the good Wheat they are Troublers of the Church and it s no Sin to kill a Heretick So indeed you are taught as by your Practices hath sufficiently appeared to the World But have you never read what Christ said to those his servants who enquired of him whether they should pluck up the Tares or no Math. 13.29 30. How he forbad them saying Nay Let both grow together until the Harvest and then he explains to his Disciples when the Harvest shall be and whose Work it shall be to separate the Tares from the Wheat The Parable begins ver 24. and ends with ver 30. And Christ's own Explanation of that Parable you may read from ver 36. to ver 43. where he saith plainly The Harvest is the End of the World and the Reapers who are to do that Work are the Angels And so he reserves that Work for them who shall be sufficiently able to distinguish Tares from Wheat Heroticks from true Christians And therefore till then they are to be let alone in the Field which is the World Now here are two contrary Lessons your Masters say you may kill Hereticks and so instigate you thereto and make you believe that you do good Service to God and