Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	great_a	know_v	world_n	4,002	5	4.4108	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54060	Some queries concerning the order and government of the church of Christ	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing P1199; ESTC R23175	10,737	17

another word may come from them proper to our state then to warn us not to despise Prophesying or the Gifts Power and Authority of Life in others Now both these are proper usefull and weighty in their seasons when given forth by the Spirit of the Lord. Nor are they contradictory one to the other but subservient in their seasons and places which that which is of God feels but that which is erred from God and joyned to another under a false representation and belief of things feels not but finds a seeming difference and sets them at variance one with another as if they could not stand together And this is the false nature the false spirit the false appearance of life which appears as if it were the Measure of the pure true Life but is not This is the false Woman the false Wisdom whose heart is as snares and nets and her hands bands who so pleaseth God abiding in the Measure of his Truth shall escape her but the sinner that departs therefrom shall be taken by her Therefore fear the Lord come to that which first convinced to the first Truth to the first Sense to the first Love c. and all these Imaginations of the mind and subtile devices of the Enemy will fly away and thy poor entangled Soul be delivered as a Bird out of the snare of the Fowler If the Enemy should directly cry out against God or his Christ or his Grace or the Measure of his Truth he would easily be espied and turned from Therefore he teacheth to cry up these in a wrong spirit and judgment and after a wrong manner to undermine betray and lead the heart from that secretly which openly it would never hear any thing against Now those that are thus deceived are exceedingly to be pittied and their deliverance from their entanglements and captivities to be breathed after and waited for For I may say in truth and upright sence of heart There are many that look towards Sion who yet are ignorant of the devices and slights of Satan to entangle them in their way and some are caught in his snares like foolish Birds catching at the chaff which makes the bigger shew instead of the Wheat losing the Substance for a shadow the Life and Power in the heart for a Notion and Conceit in the brain And these are wise in their own eyes so that indeed it is very hard to reach or recover them yea much harder than it was at first because they are become more rooted and setled in the wrong ground yea in a worse earth than they were when they were first reached to by the Power of Truth Yet over these there is a deep Lamentation and for these a sore Travel which the Lord God bless and prosper for their recovery unto that from which through mistake they have erred Object 4. If any man hath received a gift of Ministry he hath received it of the Lord and its end being to gather to the Lord they that by it are gathered are to be delivered up to the Lord that he as King Priest and Prophet may govern c. Answ The end of the Ministry is not only to gather but also to preserve and build up what is gathered even to perfection And the Soul being especially at first if not for a long time weak and babish not so fully acquainted with the measure of Life having had but some touches and demonstrations of it but not being gathered fully into it nor rooted and setled in it I say the Soul in this state hath as much need of the Ministry to preserve direct and watch over it in the Truth as to gather it out of the World Therefore the Father in his tender mercy and love hath appointed those who are grown in his Life and in the power and authority of his Spirit to oversee watch over instruct and take care of the Flock so as they may give to him an account of their Souls and in their care diligence and faithfulness they are owned and blessed of the Lord and the other in their holy fear reverence and subjection Now this is right Order from God wherein the safety of the Flock consists but out of this is danger and confusion which the Measure of Life teacheth to avoid Object 5. But in a Case of doubt or difference which shall be the Judge the Measure of Life within or the Testimony of others without Shall I judge as I feel the thing in the measure of my own Life or shall I submit to others against my own sense and judgment because I have an esteem of them as being much above me in the growth sense and understanding of truth Answ It is a great matter to judge aright and to discern and know the Measure of Truth the voice motion and judgment thereof from all the Enemies false appearances and from all the deceits of the heart This is most certain Jerusalem the Heavenly-Building the Church of the First-born is at unity with it self Truth is pure eternal unchangable alwayes the same the same in every Member in every Vessel throughout the whole Body And this I may say concerning its appearance in this our Age Was ever the like Unity known and brought forth since the dayes of the Apostles how hath the Spirit been One the Demonstration and Testimony of Truth One the Doctrine One the Conversation and Practices One in us all Why or how so Because we have had our begetting birth and teaching from the same Life the same Spitit the same Fountain springing up and opening in us all that have been gathered into its Nature and Power Now from this Fountain from this Spring of Life never issueth any thing that is contrary to the Life in any Therefore if there appear a contrariety there must be a waiting to feel who is erred from or at least not yet fully gathered into the Measure of Life And such as are of an inferiour stature and growth in the Body are in an especial manner to watch and wait in sobriety and fear till the Lord clear up and make things manifest likewise in the mean time to take heed of an hasty concluding according to what riseth up in the understanding or judgement though with never so great a seeming clearness and satisfaction as if it must needs be of and from the Life in the Vessel It is not an easie matter in all cases clearly and understandingly to discern the Voice of the Shepherd the Motions of God's Spirit and certainly to distinguish the Measure of Life from all other Voices Motions and Appearances whatsoever Through much growth in the Truth through much waiting on the Lord through much Fear and Trembling through much Sobriety and Meekness through much exercise of the Senses this is at length given and obtained And yet there is a preservation in the mean time to that which is lowly and submissive looking up to the Lord continually and not trusting to its own