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
A92209	Little Benjamin or truth discovering error: being a clear and full answer unto the letter, subscribed by 47 ministers of the province of London, and presented to his Excellency, January 18. 1648. To inform the ignorant satisfie the desirous of the concurrent proceedings the Parliament and Army. In taking away the life of Charles Stuart, late King of England, together with, &c. / By a reall lover of all those, who love peace and truth. February 17. 1648. Imprimatur Gil. Mabbot.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing R449; Thomason E544_4; ESTC R205982	14,178	22

Little Beniamin OR Truth Discovering Error Being a clear and full Answer unto the Letter Subscribed by 47 Ministers of the Province of LONDON And presented to his Excellency January 18. 1648. To Inform the Ignorant of the concurrent proceedings To Satisfie the desirous of the Parliament and Army IN Taking away the life of Charles Stuart late King of England together with c. By a reall lover of all those who love peace and truth Goe in dethrone sin Psal. 149. 9. Execute upon them the Judgement written this honour have all the Saints Job 32. 22. I know not to give flattering titles In so doing My Maker would soon take me away February 17. 1648. Imprimatur GIL MABBOT Printed at London for George Whittington at the Blew Anchor in Cornehill neer the Royall Exchange 1648. The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader c. I Doubt not but this like Benjamine although the least and last brought forth May nevertheles be much desired imbraced have a portion with his Brethren not to say a double one he comes in a plain dresse and speaks in a home clear and genuin sence with faithfullnesse to the matter in hand with Arguments well grounded upon Scripture reason all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable comprehending all truth in the Letter of the written word whereunto we do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a darke place to wit our understandings darkned through the ignorance that is in us untill the day of the light of the Lord dawne and the day Starre of the spirit of life arise in our hearts Then shall wee not thinke more highly of our selves then we ought to thinke but thinke soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith but for those whosoever they bee that will walke in their owne way pretending truth where none is and like proud Ephraim reproach and provoke that supreame Authority which God hath honoured and the Nation chosen let them take heed they no more peirce at their heart through the sides of the Generall and his Councell who act by their authority But let them feare and remember that justice may and must reach them if they persist as those Ephramites did which God forbid and lost 42000 of that Tribe by so doing in that War And now I recommend you to the ensuing Treatise and to the spirit of truth to discover and to guide us into all truth And rest a hearty lover of every son of Truth J. R. Truth discovering Error FOr as much as divers Ministers of the Gospell as they stile themselves in the Province of London in their Letter to the Lord Generall and his Councell presented to his Excellency Febr. 18. 1648 did neglect the grace of truth and sobernesse contrary to their duty as appeares in St. Paul who when reproached by Festus answered I am not mad most noble Festus but speake forth the words of truth and sobernesse Therefore according to the gift of the Spirit and measure of grace that is given to me the weakest of Christians I shall proceed to answer the untruths and manifest reproaches cast upon his Excellency and the Generall Councell therein First therefore unto pag. 1. 2. whereas you acknowledge You were invited but did refuse any such meeting as was proposed unto you by the Generall Councell and that you do give his Lordship and his Councell the reason of that refusall c. To this I answer That the reasons of this your refusall are meere pretences grounded upon your owne wils and upon a bare opinion of some of your Brethrens dislike of their late actions c. you not considering that your Brethren are as fallible as your selves And that you have done contrary to the Gospell practise in refusing any such meeting as was proposed unto you to informe and instruct them cleerely by reason well grounded upon Scripture truth also by your carping at and traducing their honest just and faithfull proceedings legally grounded upon their Commissions and their Authority derived from the Parliament for the welfare and safety of this Nation besides your reproaches cast upon them whereas you ought to have dealt with them in all humility and love much more then * Paul did to F●st●● for that you were much more obliged unto them also to King Agrippa and Bernice And thus St. Luke presented his Gospell unto most excellent Theophilus * which you have not done and therefore it is evident that you have passed your owne bounds and acted beyond your sphere the which you have most injuriously and unjustly applied unto them not onely in this but in many other calumniations in the rest of your Letter as shall be cleerely proved Therefore to proceed Secondly whereas you tax them of injustice pag. 3. saying But as if the justnesse of your way were already granted by us we were onely invited to contribute our assistance in prosecution of what you had undertaken which we conceive to be out of your sphere and for us to have joyned in any consultation of this nature would have made us accessary unto them and guilty of the evill which is in them and even partakers of other mens sinnes contrary to the Apostles rule who bids us abstaine even from all appearance of evill and have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but reprove them rather I answer Friends had you any reason to cast this odium upon them except to exasperate the malignant spirits of the people to sedition by perswading them that the Generall and his Councell are the vilest of sinners acting without their sphere in the unfruitfull works of darknesse And do you not in this make way to the malignant multitude to thinke that the Generall and his Councell are in as evill a capacity as themselves in acting according to their owne wils for that you do perswade them that they act without their sphere and that their consultations and concurrence with the Parliament in execution of justice upon the King and his adherents might have been opposed by them not considering with your selves that his Excellency and his Councell are authorized and impowered by their Commissions from the Parliament for the defence of the People from which they ought not to decline and in which thing God hath helped them against all his and their enemies in the greatest exigencies of distresses from time to time as much as any Army since the daies of Gideon And are they not also bound by their Covenant to bring Delinquents to condigne punishment of whom the King was chiefe O that you had seene and pull'd the beame out of your owne eye first else how can you see cleerely to cast the mote out of your Brothers eye but I spare c. onely Judge not that ye be not judged Thirdly againe whereas you alledge It is already sufficiently knowne besides all former miscarriages what attempts