Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74793	Ieremiah revived: though in his prison; or his Lamentations parallel'd.	N. P.	1648 (1648)	Thomason E435_1; ESTC P1343	4,846	8

sacred her Assembly her Classis and Directory 8. Yea she is become the derision of other countries Ier. 18.61 the * Deu. 28.37 By word of neighbour Nations and the … ing of them from after * Ver. 19.8 Mic. 6.16 al that heretofore hon●red her as the best Ordered most decently civiliz●d and purest reformed Catholick-Religion-professing City of the world now d●spise her and point at her because they have s●●n h●r 〈…〉 schismes yea her Hydra-headed bulke of errours and blasphemies O then that London would purge her stinking ayre with whole gales of heart-breathed sighs and cleanse her seditious streets with soul-wept teares out of a seriously sorrowful sense and acknowledgement that she hath grievously sinned 9 10 11. But alas Now readers if guilty read this if you dare without remorse compunction if guiltles hear this without amazement and compassion sinful London sighs indeed but the n turns backward All People sigh and seek the living Bread the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ but finde it not lyea they part from their plesant things for wholsom meat sound Doctrin to refresh the soul but are seduced deceived for thy Prophets prophesie lyes and thine adversaries the Sectaries love to have it so these have destroyed Gods true Religion Ier. 5.31 cast his publique Worship and Service out of their assemblies rejected his sacred Ordinances reviled the foot-steps of his Anointed strained and laid violent hands upon his loyal Servant their royal Soveraigne the King despised Gods Law despited his servants the Preachers violated the law of Nature and Nations beat imprisoned and robd their fellow-subjects who have not run giddily into the same excesse of Rebellion with themselves and to make all good that they either say or act they have set up their Banners and spread their Ensignes in signe of defiance Ps●l 74.4 and as evidences to all the World that they resolve to justifie themselves by the Sword not the Word by Machiavel not the Gospel by B●ll●na not the Bible and confute the Arguments of all that shall oppose their Sic volo sic jubeo stat proratione voluntas with distresse not discourse with a Prison not a Pulpit encouraging one another to cruelty that not onely Gods People might be destroyed but also his Religion utterly in all places suppressed and their own Babel of confession and Anarchy both in Church and State instead thereof erected Great Britain See O Lord and consider for I am become vile 12 What I Hath a universal Lethargy over-spread the whole Land Hath al the People quaft their fils of the stupifying Waters of Leth● hath a blacknesse as palpable as that of Egypt clouded their understandings and darkened their judgements or hath a willingnesse to be blinded hood-winckt and so led namely to their own destruction seazed on all the Inhabitants of England that they are generally so insensible of their present Woes and approaching Miseries Have ye no regard allye that passe by this way O! thou who art justly stiled The Defender of the Faith Doest thou not consider how the Faith of Iesus Christ so prospeously and with Gods blessing peofessed in this Land is assaulted in danger and never stood in more need of thy defence than now Alas thou doest but to the griefe of thy soul canst not succour it other wayes than by thy patient suffering all manner of affronts incivilities inhumanities wherewith the scum of the Land the dregges of our Nation and the off-scouring of thy Subjects daily entertaine thy person and exercise thy graces and virtues for they have rebelliously usurped thy power and violently wrested the Sword out of thy hand least thou shouldest oppose the one unsheath the other and make use of both in this so just and lawfull a Defence which before the Throne of thy King shall make for their greater condemnation but thy more glorious justification Thou wouldest but wert not admitted nay by force of Armes hindered and restrained from performing this thy duty O ye great Clerkes and learned Docto●rs whose calling it is to tell Judah of her trangressions and Israel of her sinnes do ye not see that certain men are crept into the Fold Wolves in Sheeps cloathing turning the grace of our God into wantonnesse speaking lyes through hypocrisie Iude 4. 1 Tim. 4.2 2 Pet. 2.10 walking after the flesh in the lusts of uncleannesse and dully but yet impudently despising and despiting Governments and speaking evil of them that are in authority Nay do ye not bear and see how the false Prophets and Teachers spoken of by the Apostles of old are now if ever among us and have broacht damnable errours and heresies 2 Pet. 2 21. Iu●e 9. even denying the Lord that ha●h bought them God the onely Lord and the Lord Iesus Christ those makers of Sects mockers fore-told of * 2 P●● 3.3 Rom. 16.17 18. causers of divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine of Jesus Christ which ye have learned and taught who serve not the Lord Iesus Christ but their own bellies those deceiving deceivers who creep into houses and with fair speeches and fawning flatterings beguile the hearts of the unstable soules and how that many follow their insolent wanton licentious yea damnable wayes by reason whereof the way of truth is evill spoken of And are ye silent mute and your Trumpets not heard Though ye have knowledge and are established in the Truth have ye yet need of a Peter to put ye in minde of these things and stir you up by retriving in your remembrance the duty enjoyned you by Saint Paul 2 Tim. 4.2 Preach the Word be instant in season and out of season improve rebuke exhort with all long-suffering Alas the last gift they will provide ye shall daily exercise but at no time by their good wils any of the former that headlesse heartlesse tonguelesse Trunck of a Parliament a generation that strive with the Priest Hos 4.2 hath ordered the stopping of your mouthes or stifling of your breaths for the time foretold by the Apostle being now come 2 Tim. 4.3 they will not suffer wholesome Doctrine but having their eares itching after their owne lusts get them an heap of Teachers You are silenced you can but may not O then ye that onely can ye that call your selves the Patriots of the Law the loyal Subjects of the King and the representative Body of the Kingdom expresse it in these two Acts pity and period their sorrowes their sufferings towards whom to pregnant a remorse now at last in your breasts may these sad showers of Lamentation be distilled into your bosomes Great Britain Behold and see if ever sorrow were like my sorrow which is done unto me and wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath c. read Lamen verse● 13 c. 22. What I carelesse heedlesse remorseles●e Cannot three Kingdomes groans make on● impression Confound them Lord retaliate their oppression FINIS