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	life_n	spirit_n	3,986	5	4.7353	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54070	To friends in England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, New-England, Barbado's, or any where else where the Lord God shall order this to come, in the tender spirit of life and love, greeting	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing P1211; ESTC R22406	8,399	13

of others do I write these things And indeed I have somewhat in my heart to say singly and nakedly concerning each of these which the Lord guide and bless to the conditions of those who stand in need thereof First Concerning those prejudices which the Enemy is apt to lay before the minds of Friends concerning those whom the Lord hath chosen to minister to them in the Power of his Truth I shall say this Look over the former dispensations of God There were false Prophets under the Law and false Apostles and Ministers in the time of that dispensation of the Gospel who did strive and labour hard to disturb undermine and overturn the Building and Work of God in the Spirits of his People then but did God suffer the True Prophets under the Law or his True Apostles to fall and lose their Ministry And is not this present dispensation pure and living and able to preserve both the Instructers and Instructed in the Lord It is natural to the Enemy to suggest such a thing but let all that fear the Lord and love his Truth take heed how they entertain such a suggestion Besides he that hath felt the pure Power in his heart and waited to be carried through the work of it and hath been carried through and brought into the dominion and set as a Pillar in the Temple of the Lord it is not easie if possible for him to fall the Lord having undertaken for him that he shall go no more forth as Rev. 3. 12. But let me say this to thee O Soul who ever hast entertained this prejudice Thou through prejudices and suggestions judgest them fallen but do not they in the true Eternal Light of the Spirit of Life see thee fallen Nay if thou couldst but retire to the pure measure that at first quickened thee mightest not thou feel thy own fall To the second Of drawing out the mind to look after another or further dispensation I have this to say Consider what this dispensation is Is it not of the Seed it self Is it not of the Light Life and Power of the Father manifested in the Seed and in the Soul through the Seed Is not the sence quick and the love pure where this is felt What wouldst thou have poor Soul O that thou feltest the virtue and power of this surely thou wouldst then find that thou mightest sit down here in the Peace Purity Power Dominion and Perfection of Life for it is all in the Seed and to be revealed to thee and become thine as thou art gathered into the Seed and the Seed opened in thee Besides are there not many that have witnessed and that can witness from God that this is the dispensation which is to go through the whole earth and shall it be laid aside in the beginning of its work If there had been a Law given which could have given Life said the Apostle Righteousness should have been by the Law God doth not change When he hath brought forth that which will do the thing why should he change it Now of the ability of this there are many witnesses Yea it hath brought forth Life and Righteousness in those that have been subject to it and was once owned as the desire of our Souls and became a covering to our eyes that we could look no further our hearts in the sense and life of Truth being satisfied that this was the very thing we had long mourned after and waited for O that which begets another sense in any of us under what pretence or appearance soever let it be the abomination of our Souls that we hearken not nor give the least entertainment to it lest by it we be betrayed of our portion in the blessed Treasure and Inheritance To the third I say It is a standing Truth the Standard we were invited to and to which we are to keep for ever even the measure of Life in our own Vessels This will justifie us in our subjection to whatever it reveals and its justification will stand whatsoever any man else shall say to the contrary But this is at unity in it self and never opposeth the motion or appearance of Life in another Now this is certain the Enemy will appear as neer life and its motion as he can and if I receive his appearance I am not subject to the measure of life in me but to him under his deceitful appearance Therefore if that which appears like Life in thee contradict a practice or appearance of Life in others who were in the Truth before thee and are in the growth thereof far beyond thee oughtest thou not to be sober in Spirit and to wait in fear lest thou shouldest be deceived lest thou shouldest exalt Self and the Enemy in thee and not the Truth yea lest thy heart should grow hard and thy neck stiff against those who are over thee in the Lord and so thou lose the benefit of their watching over thee and counsel to thee and of Gods preservation For out of the Truth in the deceitful appearance there is no preservation nor true Light nor justification of Life but self conceit fleshly confidence and the justification of a mans own spirit and his wisdom then gets up and exalts it self as if it were the right thing The Lord gave the measure of Life to thee and the Lord also hath given Fathers Guides Instructers Watchmen in his Israel These have a service from the Lord towards thee who knoweth that thy Soul hath need of that service now if the Enemy can prejudice thee against and withdraw thee from the use of what thou needest art thou not in danger of falling and miscarriage Dost not thou set up the measure of Life in thee if not another thing beyond its place state and growth And can any thing grow and thrive out of the Order and Wisdom of God Nay nay the very measure of life it self will this way come to wither and die in thee and another thing live in its place and the Sword of the Lord will be drawn against thee and thou wilt be cut off from the Body and also from him who is the quickner and preserver of the Body Therefore my Friends as the Enemy watcheth to deceive and destroy so the Lord keep our Souls in the true Watch and looking up to him who to those that fear him discovereth the deceit and preserveth from the snare And this is witnessed concerning the measure of Life in the heart and the way of its acting and operation that it alwayes acts in its place even in due subjection to the Father of Spirits and to his Life in others according to its growth for there is no rent nor division in the living Body no setting up one measure of Life against another measure or one motion of Life against another motion or one practice against another but all there is in the unity in the love in the tenderness in the sence in the peace in the dominion