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	spirit_n	worshipper_n	4,419	5	12.5461	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60658	A tender visitation of the Fathers love, to all the elect-children, or, An epistle unto the righteous congregations who in the light are gathered, and are worshippers of the Father in spirit and truth, to be read amongst them in the pure fear of the Lord God, when they are assembled and met together in his name / by Wlliam Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4336; ESTC R2609	12,935	18

A Tender VISITATION Of the Fathers Love To all the Elect-Children OR AN EPISTLE Unto the Righteous CONGREGATIONS who in the LIGHT are gathered and are Worshippers of the Father in Spirit and Truth To be read amongst them in the pure fear of the Lord God when they are Assembled and met together in his Name By William Smith LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Robert Wilson at the Sign of the Black-spread Eagle and Windmill in Martins near Aldersgate 1660. A tender VISITATION of the Fathers Love to all the Elect-Children Dear FRIENDS and BRETHREN THe day is the Lords he hath appeared you to visit and unto him must the gathering be his Work is great his Arme is powerful he hath made it bare it rules for him Nations shall know it and all People shall behold the appearance of his might he hath dealt with you in mercy and yet is his Judgments true he sought you in his love when there was none to help he saved by his Power when all beheld you and passed by who can declare his goodness or who can shew forth his loving kindness he hath wrought with his Arme and his right hand hath done valiantly mighty things is come to pass thereby he found you in the Wilderness and upon Mountains scattered he prepared a way for you and hath brought you into the Valleyes great things hath he done and prosperous hath his Work been this is his Day long it hath been waited for and the cry hath been for the appearance of it it is now come and in it is his Work wrought you that waited for it and did abide it are blessed for dreadful was his appearance whil'st the wicked stood in his sight and as a consuming fire he came to destroy them that many shrunk from him and could not abide the day of his coming but fled from his Righteous Judgments who had truly waited for his Appearance his Wrath was hot and his Stroak was heavy and his rising was like a man of War so that his Enemies sell before him and were scattered by his Arm the mighty could not stand but from their seat he brought them down he spake and the Earth trembled he uttered his voyce and the Hills melted it is you that have beheld his mighty acts who did abide the day of his coming and fled not from his Arm of power but gave his enemies into his hand and did not love your lives to death then did you feel the strength of his might who came in power to redeem his chosen then did the womb of the morning open then did sore travail come upon you pangs took hold on every side and great was the cries that then was heard now was your Deliverance nigh at hand and his only begotten came into the World this was the day in which the poor found help and that of low degree was raised up then the Prisoner came out of the pit and the Captive was delivered out of Iron bonds so did his work prosper in his hand and deliverance came by his eternal Power you felt his terrour upon the wicked and none was able to resist his might his stroak was heavy on your loynes and feebleness possest your reins for in his wrath he sealed you down and you languisht in the deep distress then did your cry go up unto him and the earnest breathed for relief his bowels yearned to his own and his love brake forth like a mighty stream his ear was open for to hear and his Arme ready to deliver for he remembred his holy Covenant and his own Inheritance whom he had chosen he did not leave you when you were weary nor forsake you when you were feeble but in the deep he was your strength and in your travail he you upheld so did he lead you in his Mercy and yet his Judgments are all true you walked in the narrow way and his Arm of power was your support he brought you thorow the gate of Death and raised up the seed of Life his love is not to be expressed nor the works of his hands to be declared for in the midst of Judgment he remembred Mercy and his eye of pitty was open towards you the Lyon could not prey upon you his mouth he stopped the Devourer could not spoil you him he judged Pharaoh could not keep you him he Plagued the Grave could not shut you up that he opened and out of the horrible pit he you delivered then did the poor find help in his Power and the needy was relieved in his Mercy he stretched forth his Arm and Salvation came and that was wrought which no other could do though you had run from man to man and had enquired after God and sought to have obtained Peace yet none could bring true tydings of it but still you mourned for want of Life and travelled in the anguish of your Spirits running but obtained not seeking but could not find until you was wearied in sore travail and ready to faint under your heavy burthens then did you cry in your deep distress and he heard out of his holy Hill he made the Fountain open wide and his Salvation did not tarry he gave you ease and made you glad and brought you into a wealthy place that your joy in his presence did increase and the dayes of mourning passed away for his work in you he brought to pass and accomplished the thing which he had determined Oh Friends what hath the Lord done for you pen cannot write nor tongue declare you were lost and he sought you Strangers and he gathered you Enemies and he Reconciled you Sinners and he Saved you what could the Lord do more for you Mountains are fallen the Earth is melted the Devourer is spoil'd for against the mighty hath the Lord appeared and his work hath been prosperous in his hand he hath brought death upon the first man and all his deeds he hath destroyed he hath quickned the second and in his power he is raised and in glory is his only begotten come into the world and unto him must the gathering be you are blessed in whom he is revealed who feels your Union with his Life and your Translation into his Likeness abide with him depart not from him for there is not another that can save or can refresh the wearied ones for many have forsaken him and have not continued faithful to him though for a time they followed him and whil'st they did abide was faithful in him but when Tribulation came they started aside and is turned into a withered branch for they could not abide the Judgement nor the straitness of the way to walk in but sought for ease and a carnal liberty and so departed from the Lord after they was Enlightned and of his Word and Power tasted and having Erred from the Right Way they have been again Entangled and a yoak of bondage is come upon their necks so hath the Enemy wrought upon them and drawn