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	see_v	word_n	4,006	5	3.7673	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76102	A brief narration of the examination of Geo. Bateman, vpon five articles in a charge laid against him by Henry Eddan and others. With the sentence of the bench in ordering him to be committed to the jayl the last general sessions of peace, holden in the city of Durham, the 5th of April, 1654. Divers honest people being present, who can witness with the truth of what is here declared. The which sentence let the world judge, whether just or unjust.	Baiteman, George.	1654 (1654)	Wing B1096; Thomason E735_7; ESTC R206967	17,690	22

I confess I spoke make of it what you can with that looks up a Scotch Priest he being in the company and said Gentlemen I am a Minister of the Gospel and am bound in conscience to speak against that blasphemer and to stand for the corporeal body of Christ with that he speaks two or three Scriptures some about his body ascending and some about his coming again in the same body and asked me if I would deny these I turned to him and said friend whatsoever the Scripture saith I own and my belief shall go with yours as far as the Disciples saw him but this I say to you again if you can prove it that Christ hath a corporeal body in heaven then I say still I will prove it as well that there are horses in heaven with that the poor Priest for proof went to his own belief and said that Christ was in heaven having a body of flesh blood and bone just such a one as himself had where he stood The most of the Justices ascenting to what the poor Priest affirmed because it suted with their own principles took the tale out of his mouth and did conclude the truth of what he said and then asked me if I would deny that Christ had a corporeal body of flesh blood and bone in heaven I still replyed to them if they could prove him to have such a body I could as well prove it that there were horses in heaven which saying was such a strange saying to them that they knew not what to make of it but blasphemy at least and so would they have it recorded When I perceived the great ignorance of the most of the Justices I said unto them Gentlemen be pleased for I shall end the controversie and clear the truth hereof in one word and that shall be by Scripture too and I hope you will not deny Scripture look into the 19. Chap. and 11. verse of the Revelation of Saint John and there you shall see that the last vision that John had of Christ he saw him on a white-horse therefore think not strange at what I say being I speak but what I can make good by Scripture yet for all this though the Scripture be so plain in many places to this very purpose in the literal sense yet could they not get by this horse to be in heaven but this they can believe that Christ is in heaven with the foresaid body and much murmuring was amongst the bench about this horse but still they stumbled at him because he seemed to make gross what they affirmed of Christ but here were the most of them still at a stand and I perceiving them so puzled in this clear thing and found them so weak in understanding the very letter of Scripture I told them plainly that I perceived them ignorant and if they had not better knowledge in the Law of the Land then they had in the mysterie of Divinity that they were too ignorant for the place in which they were the which when they heard they were not a little displeased that they should in the least be questioned for their ignorance in Divinity though they had made themselves fully known to be ignorant in the very letter of Scripture but the horse in heaven stumbled them not so sore but this other saying pinched them twice as hard and then Will begun to work And Justice Vane said unto me they would make me know my contempt of Authority to which I said let not your own wills be Judge but let me know what Law I have transgressed in any thing laid against me in my Charge which is truly stated or in any of my behaviour before you or in any contemptible speeches given you and wherein I have transgressed I shall yield my self to suffer what can be justly imposed upon me for the breach of that Law this I desired of them divers times but could not in the least shew me what Law I had transgressed when I could not obtain this reasonable and lawful request of those who were the elder Justices I turned to the new Justices viz. Mr. Eddan one of my Accusers and my Judge and said unto him Mr. Eddan you who are one of the new Justices I desire you to let me know what Law I have transgressed and wherein I have offended that I may satisfie Justice but he could not answer me one word but blushed exceedingly so I could not obtain this favour though but just and lawful neither of old Justice nor new but being inraged against me they caused the Clerk to Record my words as they fell from my mouth and would have wrested all that I spoke but that the Clerk of the peace and some other bare true witness of what I said and so out of what I had spoken they caused the Clerk to draw up a new Charge against me to be presented to the Judges of the next Assizes a true Copie whereof I here present to thy view In open Sessions of the Peace holden at the City of Durham the fifth day of April 1654. Geo. Bateman appearing here in Court and having read unto him the Articles and Charge laid against him by the Grand Jury the last General Sessions of the Peace amongst which being questioned whether Christs body of flesh and blood be in heaven he answered that if they would maintain Christs corporeal body to be in heaven he would maintain horses are in heaven and he said further that if the Bench had no more Judgemennt in the Law then they had in Divinity they were ignorant people or words to that purpose and also said Mr. Eddan you are a new Justice come let us see wherein I have offended Wherefore and for his misbehaviour and evil carriage in the Court it is ordered by the Bench that he shall finde Sureties for his good behaviour and to answer the premises at the next Assises or General Goal-delivery and he is by the Court Committed to the Goal untill he finde such Sureties By Order of the Court. Now Reader thou mayst be judge by what law they have commited me to Prison and thereby mayst thou see how things are carried on among the Justices of this County and for thy better satisfaction I will discover unto thee what it is they have charged upon me for my misbehaviour and evil carriage in the Court. That which they charge me with for misbehaviour and evil carriage in the Court is because I sometimes smiled upon them in my speaking to them the which is my ordinary gesture in speaking to any man it being a natural instinct belonging to my complexion and can no more be removed then my bodily life and whoso hath any judgement in natural addiction will conclude that where such an instinct is anger malice and envy hath no great residence in that heart the which I know by experience and as many as have known me are able to witness that to smile in my speaking is as ordinary

A BRIEF NARRATION OF THE EXAMINATION OF Geo. Bateman Vpon five ARTICLES in a Charge laid against him by Henry Eddan and others With the Sentence of the Bench in Ordering him to be committed to the Jayl the last general Sessions of Peace holden in the City of Durham the 5th of April 1654. Divers honest people being present who can witness with the truth of what is here declared The which Sentence let the world Judge whether Just or Unjust For the Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant he looked for Judgement but behold Oppression for Righteousness but behold a Cry Isa 5.7 Fear none of those things that you shall suffer for the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison that ye may be tryed and ye shall have tribulation ten dayes Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Rev. 2.10 London Printed Anno Dom. 1654. IT is not unknown to those who know any thing of order and course in former dispensations that when God began to make himself more manifest to the sons of men then in former ages and to appear strongly for the making his name glorious in chusing out and delivering some people from the evils and bondages of the world we see upon such occasions what hurly burly was alwayes raised in those Kingdoms where such a work was to be brought to pass as in Egypt when God was about to deliver Israel and likewise when Christ appeared in the flesh though at that time the world had peace and the Land where Christ was born was brought into a quiet condition by Caesar yet when Christ was born indeed what tumults were raised the history of Scripture will declare Now we see it plainly recorded that those who were the greatest and most eminent in raising those persecuting tumults were the Priests and holy people so called and the Magistracy who were blinded by the Priests in all ages it hath been found that the generality of the national Priest-hood and formal holiness were the greatest opposites to God the truth of this is verified by the Prophets in many places being so well known it needeth no further proof and in the time of Christs appearing in the flesh which was the neerest appearance of God to men of all his former appearances yet the more neer that God appeareth to the Son the more violent will the Priests and outward formalities appear also and as the truth of this was made apparent when Christ came in the flesh so this shall be come to pass and be compleated when he shall come in a far more neerer appearance then ever viz. when he shall appear in Spirit and maketh himself manifest in the hearts of his people the which appearance shall be as far hid from the beholding and believing of the generality of the national Priesthood and outward formality as his appearance in the flesh was to the Priests Scribes and Pharises in those dayes and as in these days the looking at the observation of some part of the Law and Circumcision blinded them by reason of the lust in their hearts so that they could not close with Christ in the flesh even so shall it be when he beginneth to appear in Spirit the Priests and outward formalities shall be blinded by looking at Christ in the flesh by their carnaland fleshly apprehensions of him whereby they shall create a Faith to themselves which being joyned to the lust in their heart from whence they shall be made the greatest enemies and persecutors of Christ in spirit and his Saints in whom he is and who are to bear witness of the truth thereof for the mysterie of God must be fulfilled in its time and in the fulfilling of this Mysterie there will be Persecutors and people to be persecuted and the more neer that the Mysterie of God becometh fulfilled the more mystical will the persecution be and will it not be thought very strange to see any such thing now amongst us in this present age when so many mens lives have been lost for the peace and liberty of the Saints as is pretended and when the present Government seems to be established amongst us tending to the very same end yet who can believe that under all this any persecution of Christ and the Saints should arise but for all the blood that hath been spilt and for all the fair raised forms of worship and for all the liberty that is yet attained do not think that the persecution of the Saints is at an end for under all and out of all this outward holiness and liberty so much spoken of shall arise a persecution which shall be suitable for the time of the Mysterie and whosoever you be that are true Saints indeed take notice of this for the peace is not yet compleated for the Mysterie of God is not yet finished and he that rides on the white Horse with his Army is not yet unmounted nor will be until the Saints warfare be accomplished and the Kings and great men the Dragon and the Beast and all the false Prophets and the worshippers of the Image and those who have received the mark of the Beast be all of them overcome but in the interim be of good comfort and valiant for the truth though the Devil prevail to cast some of you into prison for so it must be until the time of the end I need not go far for proof of this truth who am a prisoner my self for no other cause but for the testimony of the mysterie of the truth as it is in Jesus and for my plain discovering of the false Priests and for the clear demonstrating between the shaddow and the substance of truth setting forms in their proper place and the substance in its place he which is a thing so far beyond the understanding of our blinde Priests that they have combined together though secretly to take away my life if possible and yet will they not be seen to act any thing against me themselves but make others to become their stalking horses and to shut the bolts that they have made as thou shalt see hereafter but before I come to the thing intended I will give the Reader a short discovery of some things that tend to making more plain to the understanding the things that are to follow In the first I would have thee to know that it was put upon me a year and a half since to write some things which might be useful for the present times either to convince or to be as a witness against many which things thou mayest see in a book penned and owned by me called The Arrow of the Almighty shot out of the Creatures bow c. In which book there is something that hath not pleased as many of the unsent Priests as have seen it for therein I believe they have found such truth laid to their charge as they can no