Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	lord_n	spirit_n	3,992	5	4.8318	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B23182	This is for you who are called the Comon-vvealths-men [sic] both in the Army and Parliament to read. Wherein are many plain and true things declared unto you (which are suitable to your present estate and condition) that that [sic] ye may consider them in the same that they are sent unto you in, which is in truth, and in sincerity, and singlenesse and uprightnesse of heart, in that love which thinks no evil, even in obedience unto the spirit of the Lord, which also saith, try all things, and hold fast that which is good. / Given forth by George Fox the younger.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2011; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 855.f.3[52]; ESTC R229352	4,516	8

This is for YOU who are called the Comon-VVealths-Men both in the ARMY and PARLIAMENT To Read Wherein are many plain and true things declared unto you which are suitable to your present estate and condition that that ye may confider them in the same that they are sent unto you in which is in Truth and in sincerity and singlenesse and uprightnesse of heart in that love which thinks no evil even in obedience unto the spirit of the Lord which also saith Try all things and hold fast that which is good Given forth by George Fox the younger The ear that beareth the reproof of Life abideth among the wise He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul But he that heareth reproof getteth understanding LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. To them who are called the Common-Wealths-men both in the Army and Parliament to read FRIENDS IN several of you I know there hath stirred and doth oft stir a pure true living principle of God which hath begot and doth beget true honest and upright desires and breathings in you after righteousnesse true liberty and freedom and loathings of oppression and Tyranny and it hath been in the hearts of some of you much upon you to break down oppression and tyranny and to remove oppressors and to make void all such laws as makes provision for tyranny and oppression whereby the oppressors hath long been strengthened in their oppressing the people of this Nation and some of you have felt the weight and burthen of oppression and tyranny under which the innocent suffers and it hath been much in your hearts to set up righteous lawes whereby all people might have equity and justice done to them and for them by such as you have had thoughts to put in authority which would do just and equal things between man and man without respect to persons These things the Lords witnesse in you hath shewed unto you that they ought to be done by you and some of you have breathed and desired much to do these things when ye have owned the pure movings and stirrings of the measure of the life and power of God in you which hath stired and moved in you towards righteousnesse equity mercy and justice But hitherto ye have been much hindred in this work And truly Friends there are many things yet remaining in and among you Mark that which hinders and stops you in this work of true reformation and they will stop you therein Mark that so long as they bear rule in and among you and are consented to and regarded by you many of those things are as followeth First There are many that pretends that they are of you Mark that which hath joyned unto you in some outward appearance but it is more for fear of losing their places and the riches and honour of this World then for love to the cause of equity Justice and true liberty And these are in the Priests nature who for covetousnesse and self-ends can change with the times and governments and pretend they are for them so long a they will hold them up and such are neither true to God nor their Countrey for they can lay down their Religion which they have pretended to stand for and deny the Cause of their Countrey if it will make most for their own gain and then say It was the Lords doing and they are satisfied in it though it be quite contrary to that which they have formerly contended for and of this sort there are many among you which stops the work you ought to do And several of you also in whom the Truth of God have stirred against oppression and tyranny verily your mindes are yet so much in your Commissions and places and in the love and honour and wisdom of this World that this stops you in the work ye ought to do And some of you have so many Relations mark that that have such a great gain in those very things which greatly oppresseth the people of this Nation and also some of your selves are concerned in these things that so ye cannot tell how to take away oppression wholly without taking away their and your own gain and these things being looked at by you they exceedingly stops you in the work you ought to do because herein private self-ends and respect to persons by you is preferred before the general good of all Now Friends whilest your mindes and thoughts and hearts runs into or after any of these things They with the enemy of your souls will not suffer you to do that which is equall no further to be sure then will stand safe for the upholding and prefering of your Relations and your own private particular self-ends Therefore all wait in that which is pure and living of God in you which will shew you all deceit if ye keep to it that so by it your mindes may be redeemed out of all self and respect to persons that so all particular private self ends and respect to persons may be denied and utterly trampled upon by you and that the general good and freedom of all without respect of persons may be minded and acted for by you that so ye may serve the Lord God and your generation in singlenesse and uprightnesse of heart and then the Lord will honour you and he will be your sufficient reward Verily it is a mighty thing and it is highly to be prized by you especially ye of the Army that ever the Lord God should make use of you again and again put an oppertunity into your hands to do that which you formerly promised and vowd unto the Lord and your Nation to do seeing ye so sleighted Mark that the former opertunities which the Lord God gave you and acted so treacherously and deceitfully as ye did in your backslidings and if ye should sleight this opertunity also do not expect another be not deceived God will not be mocked Therefore consider these things and mind to answer the Lords love yet continued unto you But if ye look out at or suffer your minds to run into Mark the greatnesse of your places or after your gain or the honour of the World or if ye look out at love or hatred of your pretended Friends or known enemies or at any particular self-end whatsoever These things will strangle the principle of God in you which moves to do that which is equal and just unto all and then the tender seed in you which feels the weight and burthen of oppression that will be murthered and then deadnesse and hardnesse of heart will come upon you more and more and ye will settle deeper and deeper in the death and verily if ye should do thus ye would become even as Sodom and Gomorah unto the Lord and he would overturn you with a great and mighty destruction as he did them Therefore remember you have been warned So look at none of these things but look ye to the Lord God and