Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	holy_a	lord_n	3,976	5	3.5961	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79930	The cleere sense: or, A just vindication of the late ordinance of Parliament; forbidding persons not ordained, or not allowed of, as intending the ministry, to preach, from such malignant interpretations as some ill-affected labour to fasten on it, therby to authorize their opposition against those other most warrantable duties of expounding scriptures, mutuall edification, &c. which the scriptures do require of every Christian within his own sphear and relations. Which may also serve for an usefull caution to those gentlemen of the magistracy, souldiery & committees in the severall towns, garrisons, places of strength, cities, counties, througout the kingdome, to whom the said ordinance is respectively recommended by both Houses of Parliament. Published according to order.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1645 (1645)	Wing C4621; Thomason E282_9; ESTC R200047	8,527	15

and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues In the sixt Clause of the solemn League and Covenant Thus We shall also according to our places and callings in this common Cause of Religion Liberty and peace of the kingdomes assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shal not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this Cause which so much concerneth the glory of God All which we shall do as in the sight of God In the Epilogue or Conclusion of the solemn League and Covenant Thus And because these kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against GOD and his Sonne Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof we professe and declare before God and the world our unfained desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these kingdomes especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that wee have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endevoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us And our true and unfained purpose desire and indeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publike and in private in all duties we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavie indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdomes in truth and peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end and to bless our desires and proceedings with such successe as may be deliverance and safety to his people and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian Tyranny Now wherein doth the power of godlinesse here asserted protested for and owned to be maintain'd by Solemne League and Covenant more properly at least in the externall part of it consist then in the diligent improvement of gifts and graces by the holy practices of the aforesaid duties Can the Parliament of England think we thus ingaged thus unanimously appearing for the defence of the power of godlinesse before the world for which end the Solemn League and Covenant was turned into Latine and Cent to all the Protestant Churches be rationally supposed to intend any such mischievous sense in the Ordinance as hath been mentioned Thirdly should the giving an advantage to persecuting spirits be any way at all aimed at in this Ordinance which is the generall though injurious apprehension of ill minded men would not this be an an establishing of Tyr anny by a Law and incouragement for oppressi●n a justifying of what is already more then once condemned by this present Parliament Were not the Courts of Star-chamber and High Commission therefore abolished by an Act because the just Liberty of the Subject not only in his estate and person but also in the tendernesse of his conscience and the innocency of his practice in wayes of godlinesse was so much struck at by them And can it be now rationally imagined that the Parliament of England who with the rest of the Kingdome in those Star-chamber and high Commission dayes so sorely smarted under Prelaticall pride and power should now voluntarily inslave the whole body of the nation by whom they are trusted under bondage and misery far worse then the former because allowed by that very Authority which should suppresse it Are not the eyes of the whole kingdome set upon this present Parliament in expectation of deliverance rather from such like and all other grievances Fourthly were there any the least ground as indeed there is none at all to believe such a destructive scope from any one syllable in the Ordinance would it not soon beget a jealousie of a very dangerous plot indeed for the breaking our new moulded army by weakening the hearts and hands of all the faithfull and valiant both Commanders and Souldiers who stand ready girt with the utmost hazard of their lives to save the three kingdomes Fifthly should the prosecution of this Ordinance be according to the aforesaid malignant sense and latitude would not all the great powers of the kingdome to whom it is recommended become no better then executioners to torment the precious of the land and that for doing no other then those most known duties the neglect whereof either for feare or favour of any mortalls whatsoever would necessarily render them obnoxious to the danger of eternall wrath in hell fire Sixtly by this means would not the hands of the rude multitude which needs no stirring up be strengthened and the violence of the spoiler against the insolent be increased without controul Would not fasting and prayer godly conference and all religious exercises quickly be even hooted at and banished out of every town and family throughout the kingdome Can it be imagined with any sense or shadow of reason that a reforming Parliament should consent to this God forbid that any man should ever finde place for such a feare Seventhly How ill a requitall would this be for all the loyalty and love which the godly party in this kingdome have exprest in the losse of their estates and of many of their lives and blood and which the superviving remnant are still willing to hazard with as much cheersulnesse as any other whatsoever either have done or ever shall do Lastly if after so many yeers indefatigable labours and serious consultations seconded with innumerable prayers and teares if after so many brave hopes of a Reformation pleaded contended fought for the issue of all should be a leaving of the godly party to a necessity of flying from persecution countenanced and rais'd against them in their own native Countrey and this by that very Parliament which hath been preserved by them by that Parliament which hath found them both prevalent and powerfull helpers in the hour of their distresse as well by their prayers at home as their successe abroad would not this be a guilt of a very large extent even spreading over the whole nation in their representative body of it Would it not be a crime reaching up to heaven and fetching down all manner