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	light_n	spirit_n	3,983	5	4.9992	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05871	The voyce of the just uttered: his passing out of Ægypt through the Red Sea, through the wildernesse to the promised land, where rest and peace is enjoyed. / By him who is known to the world by the name of Thomas Symonds.	Simonds, Thomas, d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing S3804; ESTC R184170	9,406	8

be rewarded according to your workes and deedes done in the body and this is according to Scriptures which are as a cloud of witnesses against you and witnesseth for the innocent people scornfully reproachfully by you called Quakers who are brought to witnesse the truth of them in their lives and conversations and therefore are hated of the world who love their own if we were of the world the world would love us but because we are not of the world therefore the world hates us as it was from the begining so it is now known and seen in the light according as the Scriptures declares they that are borne after the flesh persecute those that are borne after the spirit even so it is unto this day poore hearts you are warned and the witnesse of God in you will witnesse for me and against your ungodly deedes So though I be counted a soole to the world and of them hated it is for Christs sake and my wisedome I counted not too dear to give up unto him and though a mad man as Paul was counted yet stayed in the light and speaking the words of sobernesse unto all men with whom I have to doe and as one that is dead but alive unto God and I counted not my life dear unto him who hath called me and hath made known his mighty power in me whereby I know that he is in me and I in him and so redeemed out of the world and from the Teachers of it not any longer to be deceived by them but in the eternall light of God I doe them see and comprehend and know them to be of that sort spoken of in the Scriptures who shall and doe lead silly women Captive laden with sin and pleading for no live in it led away with divers lusts ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth But it they are taught to oppose the light of Christ by the blind guides of the world who are sensuall having not the Spirit as is made manifest by their works and fruits they living in pride and covetousnesse in envy and malice haling and cause to be haled those that are moved of the Lord to witnesse against their ungodly practices and now all people who have any sobernesse and stayednesse remaining and any desire to know the Lord God who have created you and with his light enlightned you to the light of Christ take heed which reproveth you of sinne and evill allthough you act it never so secretly and leave the blinde guides of the world and their silthy saigned words deny for by them they seek to make merchandise of your souls feed them no longer with dishonest gain lest they destroy the simplicity in you you perish with them who deny the light of Christ to be sufficient to guide the creature unto God and cal it natural and so would have a naturall Christ sutable to their naturall fleshly mindes but he is a spirit and cometh from the father of spirits and all who come to know him must know him in his l ght worship God in spirit and in truth all who are brought into Christs right to waite know him to be a qu ckning spirit and that he is made manifest in flesh to discover and destroy sin in the flesh this is known to the Children of light but hid from the darke world who perish in their iniquities from the wise and prudent and is revealed to babes sucklings even so holy father for so it seemed good in thy sight And now a few lines to you all deare friends who have had a taste of the good word of God and of the powers of the world to come keepe in the taste and knowledge your mindes stayed in the light and in the eternall stilnesse to dwell not striving in your owne wisdomes to Comprehend the truth this is not your worke neither will you come to a growth by it but your worke is to stand still in the light the life to know and there feed that yee may see Pharaoh the oppressor his Chariots and mighty ones overturned and drowned in the red Sea and the soul saved and the creature redeemed out of Egypt and bondage the promised Land you to enjoy which brings forth all pleasant riches which is durable and fadeth not away Dear hearts fight not in your wills neither strive in your wisedomes but stand still in the light and know the battell is the Lords you that are entered into the wane you being quiet and patient and still in your spirits the limbe shall get the victory over the uncircumcised Philistians and hard hearted Pharachs you being stayed in the light there is your power and it will give you victory over the uncleane spirits and uncircumcised in hearts and eares and in the power and authority of the Lord God knowne in the light trample upon them all that they shall be ashes under your feet this I know who am your brother in the eternall truth and therein stand as a witnesse against all those that know not God who am knowne and by their scornfully called Quaker From my outward being in Norwich the 30 day of the 4 Month 1656. London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Signe of the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1656.

pure joy peace comfort from the Lord my members to it was brough into subjection so became the members of Christ and not any more to become the members of an harlot neither any more to goe a whoring after my lovers but according to what was made manifest to me in the light I was made to owne the crosse and despise the shame and in my obedience I did see and tast that much coming was the love of God to me the just in me got strength and power and although many trials temptations I met with from enemies without enemies within me yet through them all I see good brought forth to the clearing of the innocent and strengthening of the just which live by faith and through the greatest straights and troubles can rejoyce and that above written was my estate and condition for many months together so that a wonder I was and amazed they were at me that formerly knew me and a great noise of my condition went abroad and many lyes were uttered forth concerning me as that I was mad and bound in my bed and seaven men could not hold me and many such things was invented by the devil in his children who are sit instruments for his purpose who ever hated the children of the light and Christ Jesus who is the light of the world and hath enlightened every one that cometh into the world by his children was put to death I say many things was raised and invented of me as that I had given up Trading and left off my Calling which thing was utterly false that they accused me and the truth of although I walked along the streets about my businesse in the outward daily And poor hearts who make lyes your refuge this know that where the truth of God is made manifest in the light of Jesus and lived in in the life and power none can or dare take liberty to idlenes and sloathfulnesse in businesse but every one in their places are made to be faithfull and honest therein doing what they doe as in the sight of God and so become blamelesse to that of God in every mans conscience and justified in the sight of God we doing unto all men as we would that all men should doe unto us not defrauding conzening or cheating any nor using deceitful words to make any believe a lye but in plainnesse of speech with fewnesse of words in singlenesse and uprightnesse of heart we are ordered with the light of Christ in our lives and conversations towards all men with whom we have to doe in this crooked and perverse Generation So all you that have reviled and reproached the Lords people scornfully by you called Quakers it is time for you to stop your mouths and lye low in the dust and repent while you have time and say not in your hearts it will be time enough afterwards lest the Lord come suddenly in an hour you know not and sweep you away in your sins and so you receive your portion with the damned spirits and kept in the lake of darknesse and torment their habitation from whence there will be no returning any more to the Land of the living neither shall a drop of water be granted in the midst of your torment and burnings to coole your tongues which hath spoken lyes of the innocent therefore be warned in your life-time you blind people Some of the lyes which was raised of me was received by one of your blind guides of this City and preached of by him in his high place but the Lord hath put an end to his dayes as to the life and his reward is with him But herein this wicked and rebellious City who are up in rebellion against the Lord and his chosen elected ones they gathering about the doores of the innocent Now see wherein you differ from that wicked City Sodome for idlenesse and fullnesse of bread was found in it and against it and all wickednesse in this City I am and a witnesse doe stand in innocency and harmlesnesse against this lying evill inventing devouring Generation by whom I am made a mock a taunt a by word and them against me doe set their mouths awry and am persecuted and reviled hated and daily mocked at as I passe the streets and I patiently bear it being reviled I intreat persecuted I suffer it and can rejoyce in the midst of all and through the strength of my God am kept above them all Glory Glory be given to the pure living God for ever Amen who hath kept me and doth keep me alive in his light of life from this destroying devouring generation of unreasonable men of whom the righteous God in his righteousnesse wil be avenged and eased of these his advesaries this is according to Scriptures which you pretend is your rule altho your lives practices daily walkings they declare against and when any of your wickednes is declared against by any servants of the Lord who dwell in the light you are presently ready to fall upon perfection allthough it be not mentioned by us you crying out that none can be perfect here none can be without sinne here where is there one Scripture that will maintaine these words this was the Scribes and pharisees estate who sought to put the Lamb of God Christ Jesus to death saith hee I goe away and you shall dye in your sinns now that are crying out and accusing us for being papists Consider who are neerer them you or wee for if there be not a place of purging after death what will become of you for into Heaven there shall enter no uncleane thing nor nothing that worketh abomination or maketh a lye and you that plead for these things looke to it in your life time and be warned and owne the light of Christ and it will let you see that the grave addeth no perfection and as the tree falls so it lyes and if you dye in your sinnes Christ goes away and whether he goes yee cannot come This is to all you who plead for sinne would live in and dye in your sinnes you must not goe where Christ goes and this is according to Scriptures and you that deny to be guided by his light in your life time are workers of iniquity the word is gone forth depart yee workers of iniquity into utter darknesse there shall be weeping wayling and gnashing of teeth and Christ will not know you and this is according to Scriptures yee scribes and pharisees what will yee doe if you dye in your sinnes where doth the Scriptures speake of any cleansing after death and you that are pleading allwayes to live in sinne and none can be without sinne here how can the words of Christ be owned and received by you who said unto the woman taken in adultrie goe thy way sinne no more and to the impotent man lest a worse thing come unto thee so be warned for you must be called to an account and you shall