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	true_a	word_n	4,752	5	4.0523	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63710	Something in plainess delivered to the beloved seed, as it bubled, or rise up through the earthen vessel	M. T.	1677 (1677)	Wing T30; ESTC R219147	7,827	11

and not to leave or forsake any because of such a profession but to have unity with the good the plain dealing honesty sincerity and uprightness in them and to bear testimony against the evil as moved of the Lord in them or what people soever and so to be for the Lord and neither for the one or the other people no farther then the spirit unites or enjoyns For the gathering is unto the Lord the whole stock or race of mankind into one entire body life love spirit and not for any to appropriate or arrogate to themselves a priviledge above others seeing God is no respector of persons for if thou do well shalt thou not be accepted if not sin lies at the door And why may it not be as easic with God to keep man or for a man or people to be kept entire and single unto him in all or any profession that in themselves are not sinful as for a man to be kept in the world trading buying and selling for people in their worship if at any time their spirits are more bowed then at other times and in a brotherly way I reason out things and offer you my advice in what I have received if any know better or see further and that from the Lord I would willingly hear them for men should friendly confer together and offer one another their gifts and knowledg in love and try things one with another and hold that which is good and friendly instruct one another and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not erre seeing we have a mighty enemy against us the old Serpent the Devil who suddenly brings strange immaginations into mans thoughts and maketh men insu●t whence Sects and Scisms exist Was the saying of one which I take notice of in this place And all strive in Religion or about the divine will whereby men despise one another cometh from selfishness or self immagination that one man comprehendeth the image of another viz. his thoughts and yet cannot rightly apprehend them Where one man sets himself in the thoughts and mind of another and brings that which is his his own thereinto and compelleth that which is anothers into his meaning and forcibly sets himself aloft in the thoughts and mind of another and holdeth them for his proper own and will make a shew therewith and there he domineers in and over the thoughts and minds of others But a true man inclineth himself to his original which is the word of God and forsaketh all images and desireth no self imagining of his understanding except what God will frame and speak with and through him and despiseth none but onely distinguisheth the true from the false the good from the evil and teacheth the truth with divine and powerful out-flowings and will for against cert●in which trusted in themselves and despised others Christ gave forth a parable two men went up to pray the one a Publican and the other a Pharisee the Pharisee stood and justified himself but the Publican stood afar off laying God be merciful unto me a sinner now here is Christs judgment of them the latter went down to his house justified rather then the other for every one that exalteth himself shal be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted And speaking further that the love of Christ groweth in the true life of man and penetrateh through the life as fire doth through iron Not that such power stood in mans life that it could receive the substance of God in its own power and vertue No it is given him of grace or introduced by Christ as the Sun of its own will giveth it self to the herb and the herb cannot therefore say I am the sun because the Sun worketh in it so also can man not say I am Christ because that Christ dwelleth and worketh in him as in his express image But the Creature is the passive wherein the Creatot dwelleth and worketh for so as saith the Apostle we are all the sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus And here let me ask a question Christ the seed of God being come up in male or female then which is greatest or the holy birth being born begotten with the word of truth and so all being brought one among another where there is most of meekness love and humility there is most of God and most of Christ and that will prevail for it is not hardheartedness false accusing nor evil speaking or envie that shall prevail neither is that state safe or prosperous for two men of two different forms the one hath enmity in his heart arising against another or hatred when as the Apostle saith he that hates his brother is a murderer and no murtherer hath eternal life which thing is to be seen in the highest form another in a degree below him in profession walks in humility of mind honesty and plain heartedness whether of these two is to be united unto or owned to be a friend he is my neighbour that sheweth compassion unto me and that is my friend that doth me good and not hurt But the Lord is exalting his Son over all I verily believe yet because he cometh not in mans way or form therefore he cannot be received the same that ever was but happy are they that wait upon him in his own way in the light and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in the son and this is another thing for us to mind not so much to be eyeing man as the Lord in all his dispensations for if the Supream or chief ruler of a Nation be made to afflict or bring a people under not so much to look at him as the hand that brings it to pass and then to rejoice when we fall into divers tryals or if he should favour a people or countenance them then to keep low and that Spirit is the creeping Spirit that creeps up high into pride and loftiness one above another which came in when the fear of the Lord was not stood in and the low watchful spirit as first appeared when flesh was abased and the spirit alone exalted which brought in a great stilness upon all flesh and silence but now the loud and clamorous thing in many is apt to get up which is not afraid to speak evil Remember the closure of the Apostle in his Epistle little children keep your selves from Idols Amen So the Lord God everlasting open every understanding and keep all clear to himself M.T. Postscript THere is a generation thas calleth themselves righteous and yet are not purged from their iniquity but are apt to speak evil of men calling them Ranters and the like which was the name the rude Multitude called at the first And other such unsavory speeches For am I so to speak that nothing may proceed out of my mouth but that which tends to edisication then to what edisication is such language as this Did ever the spirit of the Lord call so or the Scriptures bear Testimony of such names But saith indeed if they have called the Master of the house Belzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold But the Christ like spirit will at last overturn these names and denominations which doth good unto all and speaks evll of no man nor upbraideth and him●l call a Christian which speaks and acts according as the spirit of Christ putteth it self forth in him there is none a Christian unless Christ lives and works in him as himself said without me you can do nothing and all gatherings out of this spirit will be scattered abroad and come to nothing therefore happy are the people that have made the Lo●● their rock their fortress and their refuge that have the bent of their spirits to Godward in what they do FINIS