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	lord_n	walk_v	4,576	5	7.3473	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81088	A vvord in season to the kingdom of England. Or, A precious cordiall for a distempered kingdom. Wherein are laid down things profitable, and usefull for all, and offensive to none that love the truth and peace. / By the meanest of the servants of Jesus Christ, M. Cary.	Cary, Mary.	1647 (1647)	Wing C739; Thomason E393_26; ESTC R201606	11,809	16

be far from you so to do for then you do endeavour to quench the spirit for though you do permit some to Preach Iesus Christ yet if you do prohibit any from Preaching Jesus Christ you do quench the spirit and oppose the freeness of the spirit who is a free Agent And as the winde bloweth where it listeth though we see it not so doth the spirit and God hath not tyed himself to give out his spirit to such particular men and to no other but to whom he pleases He did not tie up the spirit of Prophesie in Law neither to the Priests and Levites nor the Prophets nor the sons of the Prophets but gave out of that spirit to Amos a Heards-man and to others much less hath he tied up the spirit of Prophesying now in the Gospel unto such and such degrees of humane learning for many learned godly Ministers have confessed that they have learned many spiriutall truths of Iesus Christ from such as have had no learning and we know that Christ passed by the learned men in that time chose illiterate men to be his Apostles Now for you to silence any that do preach Iesus Christ of what rank soever it is an endeavoring to quench the spirit which the Lord grant you may not do 3. Let it be far from you to hinder any because every tallent which the Lord Jesus hath given he requires an improvement of it to his use and it ought not to lie hid in a napkin and therefore the Apostle saies Every gift is given to profit withall 1 Cor. 12.7 Now we know what the Lord said to him that did not imploy his tallent Cast ye the unprofitable servant into utter darkness there shall he weeping and gnashing of teeth Math. 25.30 So fearfull is the doom of him that imployeth not his tallent what then will become of those that shall forbid any to imploy their tallents But O be you wise and as you are Ordained of God to be as for the punishment of evill doers so for the praise of them that do well so manifest your selves to be 4. Do not you enact any law against any Saints exercising the gifts of the spirit that are given to them in Preaching or prophesying because the Lord hath promised in the latter dayes to power out his spirit more abundantly upon all flesh your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions Joel 2.28 and the time of the accomplishing of this promise more fully is neer at hand for the totall overthrow of Antichrist and his finall ruin shall suddnely be And then the everlasting Gospel shall be preached unto all nations and kindreds and tongues and people and can any think that at that time the Lord will call forth none to this worke but those that have taken such and such degrees in the Schooles Now what a sad thing would it be if when God shall call forth some of his people to this great worke any humane power should stand in opposition to it and say such and such men shall not do such a work 5. Let it be far from you to forbid any man to preach the word of the Lord because his word doth good it is strong and powerfull in confirming and comforting those that are called convincing and converting those that are uncalled to make a people a holy and peculiar people to the Lord you may see the force of this argument in taking a view of a passage in the Prophet Micah Mic 2.6 7 8. In the 6. ver we finde the Lord complaining against the people in these words Prophesie ye not say they to them that prophesie In the 7. ver The Lord is speaking thus O thou that art named by the house of Iacob is the spirit of the Lord straitned are these his doing do not my words do good to them that walke uprightly As if the Lord had said art thou the people that art named by the house of Iacob and dost thou say unto my Prophets prophesie ye not Thou shouldest have delighted in the words of the Prophets for the house of Iacob have had experience that my words do good and yet is the spirit of the Lord straitned by you and silence you it in my Prophets Well what was the issue of this you shall see in the following verse and thus it was My people are risen up as an enemie ye put off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely When the Prophets are forbidden to prophesie and the word of the Lord is not preached among the people then iniquity abounds and the people perish for want of knowledge then every one doth that which his vaine heart leads him unto But the word of the Lord converts the soule Psa 19.7 And the truths of God sanctifie the unholy John 17.17 and the word of God does good to them that walke uprightly Mic. 2.6 Lastly though there be many precious men abroad that by your permission do preach the word yet they are few in respect of the multitudes of people in the kingdome that have none to preach unto them and that cry for bread but cannot have it O therefore let it be far from you to stop the mouthes of any godly men that have the gifts of speaking to edification exhortation and consolation and though they have not all taken degrees in the schooles of men yet if they have been good proficients in the schoole of Christ if they be experienced Christians let them be protected by your authoritie in discharging their dutie in improving their talents to their Masters use and the kingdomes good for the harvest is great but the labourers are few therefore let not the labourers that God hath sent forth be forbidden to worke in the Lords Vineyard least the blood of those that perish be charged upon those that hinder these labourers But it may be objected it is a truth indeed that all Saints ought to covet the gift of prophesie and secondly it is an evill to quench the spirit and 3 all ought to improve their talents and 4 the abundant pourings out of the spirit are promised and 5 the word of the Lord doth good and 6 the labourers are few and in these considerations it were a sad thing to silence those that are sent forth by Jesus Christ furnished with the gifts of the spirit for to preach the Gospel But if they should be permitted to preach without ordination who cannot submit unto it by reason of scruples though they are really Godly able men then many that are erroneous persons erre grosly even in fundamentalls would take libertie to goe and vent their errors among the people To this I answer erroneous persons are not here pleaded for but it is to be desired that their mouths were stopped but first if none should be permitted to preach but such as were ordained yet could not this hinder