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	love_n	love_v	3,988	5	6.5055	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

minds unto is the Life of the Word which is Immortal Eternal Permanent ● 1. 2 3 9 Divine and Immutable and not Natural Thou who ever thou art and whatever by men thou be accounted of that doth make a large profession of God Christ and the Scriptures of Truth in words and doth hate and speak evil of the Light the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world thou art a hater of God and of Christ and art of Antichrist against Christ although thou profess him in words and say thou art saved by him and justified by him c. yet if thou hate his light in thy own Conscience which doth check thee for evil doing and prick thee for thy sins in secret thou art in enmity to him and condemned by the Light and not justified and thy confession of Christ in words will not save thee from his Righteous Condemnation whilst thou hate his pure light in thy Conscience and thy profession is for the fire and unto the Light thou must come before thou canst find true peace with the Lord God Yea what ever thou art who art climbed and a climbing up thy Imaginations and a soaring up aloft with the god of the world the Prince of the power of the Air above the light the door into the fold striving to enter into the fold and not by the door to wit the Light thou art the Thief and Rober Joh. 10. ● who run before Christ the Light the Door into the Fold and thou must come down come down to that which appears a small thing in thy eye who art swell'd big in thy fleshly wisdom from which the things of Gods Kingdom is hid even to that which 1 Cor. 1. 2● 29 30 31 19 20 21 thou counts a foolish thing a weak a poor thing not worth the minding or heeding but this is it the foolish thing in the eye that is to confound thy wisdom and turn it into foolishness that so thou becoming a fool may be made wise in it This is the weak thing in thy eye which is to confound thy strength and make thee weak that thou may be strong in it and the poor thing in thy eye which is to rob thee of all thy Riches that thou becoming poor in it may be made Rich so where is the Wise the Rabby the Scribe the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the Wisdom of this world for the world by wisdom know not God and so the boaster is excluded that God may have the Glory and all flesh abased and silent before him who of God is made unto his Saints that love his Light and are led by his Spirit Wisdom Strength Power Righteousness Justification and Redemption who have the heavenly Treasure in the Earthen vessel that the glory may be of God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever So heed not dear people you who have any desire in you after the Lord what this man or the other saith of the Light but love the Light and take heed ● 3. 20. unto it for that which judge and condemn sin in you which is that which separate you from the Lord and hinders your peace with the Lord and is the cause of your burden and sorrow this you shall not need to fear will delude you That is a spirit of delusion that leads into sin and evil beware of that but that which reproves you for evil in your own hearts and manifest the deeds of darkness take heed unto it for that is the ● 5. 13 14. Light that doth make manifest darkness that which is reprovable is made manifest by the Light for what ever make manifest is Light and that will not onely make manifest the sin and evil but as you come to turn your minds in unto it and love and follow it it will save you from your sins and redeem your minds and souls unto God for who receive his Light his pure Grace in them they receive power through it to become the Sons of God for through his Grace doth he manifest his power in them that believe in the Light to the drawing of their hearts and minds out of the ungodliness and worldly lusts and to the teaching of them to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world and thus the free Grace of God bring Salvation to their Souls And so dear people thus you who come to believe in the Light to love and obey the Light in your own Consciences will come to feel and witness the work of the Lord God in your hearts the working and opperation of the Word of Life to the casting out of the Bondwoman and her son which is not to inherit to the binding of the strong man and casting of him out yea the Old man with his deeds Eph. 4. 20 2● 22 23. is to be put off and you renewed in the spirit of your minds and the new Man is to be put on who after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness to put him on and to bring him forth before all men the only begotten Son of God who is full of Grace and Truth Mercy and Love Pitty and Compassion Purity and Holiness and Good-will towards all who love his Enemies and do good to them that hate him c. So coming to the Light Christ Jesus you come to the Substance to him in whom the Figures Types and Shaddows end in and so come to witness him in you who fulfil all Righteousness he who is the end of the Law for Righteousness sake unto them Col. 2. 11 1● that believe in him and to be Circumcised in him with the Circumcision made without hands by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the Circumcision of Christ which the outward Circumcision was a figure of and to witness the Baptism of Christ which is with the Holy Ghost and with fire which Johns Baptism with water outward was a true figure of and he bore Testimony unto Christ the Light of the world who said I must decrease but he must increase I indeed baptise you with water but he Christ 3. 30. Jesus who was before me shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire whose fan is in his hand 3 11 12. and he shall throughly purge his floor the Wheat he shall gather into his garner but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire So the outward water was but a type the outward washing a type of the inward washing and inward cleansing and inward purging and purifying by the Water of Life or the Blood of Jesus that cleanseth from all sin which is felt thus to work in them who believe in the Light and walk in the Light and they come to know that begotten in them that feeds upon the flesh of Christ which is the living Bread upon which the living Soul feed and is the Substance which

beauty is given them for ashes and the oyl of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and are become Trees of Righteousness the Lords own planting bringing forth fruit to his glory and praise who hath thus set them free from their sorrow and trouble These can say Good it is to wait upon the Lord God ●1 26. 8 23 9. in the way of his Judgments Lo this is the Lord whom we have waited for this is our God we have waited for him come let us rejoyce in his Salvation wherewith he hath saved us he hath redeemed us out of the horrible Pit out of the miry clay hath he brought us and set our feet upon a Rock and doth establish our goings who filleth our Souls with the fatness of his house and causeth us to drink of the River of his Pleasure and to suck and be satisfied with the Consolation of the Brest and to milk out and be delighted in the abundance of the sweetness of its vertue Oh what what shall we render unto the Lord unto the Lord our God for his benefits oh what shall we render unto him for his Mercies what shall we render unto him for his loving kindness Oh! let us take the Cup of his Salvation and drink thereof abundantly and in the strength of the vigour of its vertue let us in the meekness of our hearts and and in the lowliness and contriteness of our Souls praise praise the Name of the Lord our God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever and for evermore A few words more unto you dear people who desire more after the love and peace of God then the glory and pleasures of the world Dear people take heed unto that which discover unto you what are your thoughts whither they be good or evil for that is it which must redeem your minds unto God and wait to come to know it to be a stay to your minds and a stop to your thoughts and a bridle to your tongues and to cause a watch before your mouth and to raise a holy fear in your hearts of offending the Righteous God of Righteousness in thought in word in deed And dear people you have so much depended and relyed upon man for teaching retire with your minds inward to the manifestation of the Spirit of God in your own hearts and wait in it to come to know the Lord God to be your Teacher that if you should be separated from those that hath been your Teachers and put into a Hole a Dungeon or Cave of the earth for your Consciences towards God and so be separated from all teaching outward you may then feel find and witness the Lord to teach you to instruct you counsel and direct you comfort and refresh you even by his pure Eternal Spirit in you for all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and established in Righteousness and great shall be their peace in the God of their Salvation unto whom unto whom be glory glory honour and praise for ever and evermore for he is worthy he is worthy worthy saith my soul unto whom be glory in the highest Amen So dear people for your sakes mostly was these foregoing lines written in obedience to the tender spirit of love in my heart which drew me thereunto and in tender unfeigned love and pure good-will to your souls who have had and still have true desires in your hearts after the Lord and hath been and still are thirsting and hungering after the way of Truth and Righteousness and hath been and still are seeking and hunting among the husks shells and shadows for to find the substance but still fail of your expectation and cannot find true and perfect satisfaction but secretly in your hearts are panting and thirsting after the living water and are weary of feeding upon the husks and begin to say within your selves to each other Come we have been long wandering abroad hunting after the Lord afar of seeking of him in this Form and the other Form running from Mountain to Hill from one Man to another to enquire for him whom our Souls long for but we still want the true enjoyment of him And although man hath told us we should find him there in this Way and in the other Way in this Form and in the other Form in this Ordinance and the other Ordinance wherein we have been tossed about and turned from one broken Cistern to another but still we want true satisfaction for our souls for we want the true enjoyment of the assurance of the Love and Peace of God wherefore come let us no longer hunt abroad nor run any longer from one man to another But oh come let us retire our minds inward and in stillness and quietness in sollidness and seriousness let us wait upon the Lord and he himself will teach us of his wayes and lead us into the path of Righteousness where we shall meet him whom our souls hath long panted after even as the Hart panteth after the water Brooks wherefore let us wait upon the Lord for the Lord is good to the man Lam. 3. 2 that waiteth for him to the Soul that seeketh him Therefore come let us both hope and quietly without hunting any more abroad wait to finde and feel in our selves the salvation of the Lord that so we may in truth come to find and to say He is come he is come and made manifest in us whom our souls longed after and behold his reward is with him even joy comfort peace rest and satisfaction to our souls Lo this is the Lord we have waited for him Lo this is our God whom we have waited for now let us rejoyce and be glad in his salvation and praise his Eternal Name I say dear people towards you is the opening and yearning of my bowels in the casting of this my Mite amongst you in the meekness and humility of my soul and the God of Heaven for his own Seed sake make it a service of good to you And then will the onely end of my soul herein be answered thereby who am your friend and one who desires that you of the barren mountains may be gathered and brought down into the low valley into the fresh pastures of life where you may feed with Gods Babes and Lambs and lie down in the fold of rest and peace that you might finde bread in your own houses and water in your cisterns the oyl in the Cruse that will not fail but will satisfie your souls in drought and make fat your bones that you might become like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not Take this as a Salutation of the love good will of my soul to you who am a friend to all people one that owns and desires to tender nourish and strengthen the least appearance of God in any A lover of honesty and uprightness in whomsoever I finde it