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	spirit_n	true_a	4,682	5	4.8641	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40351	A visitation of love unto all people (in whose hearts there are any true honest tender desires begotten towards God and his righteousness) in what sect or opinion or profession soever they be ... / by a labourer in the power of truth (which doth make free) for the deliverance and freedom of the righteous seed, George Fox the younger.	Fox, George, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2018; ESTC R28243	10,997	17

things unto the Seed in you but you not taking heed to the light to be the guide and stay of your minds you continued not long in that condition but you consulted with the subtiltie which drew you from Gods witness what you should do and so waited not in that which brought you into tenderness to receive Gods Councel in that but you took Councel of the Serpent and your own hearts and so ran into things which God never required at your hands and therefore God had no regard unto your worship because it was not in the Spirit and in the Truth you not being guided therein by the Spirit of Truth so unto that which was in the beginning you must all come which is Christ the true light who hath enlightened you and you must learn of him who is the light of life the word and the Power by which all things were made and are upheld and you must be subject unto the measure of him in you and this his measure if you submit to it that will bring you to cease from your own wills and works and to waite in silence and patience to see and feel Christ the Power of God to work all your works in you and for you and if you own the light that will plainly shew unto you how God formerly appeared unto you and how you went from his appearance so the light will own that which God opened unto you at any time but it will deny and condemn your own imaginations which you mixed with that which God opened unto you and so unto this witness of the Lord you must all come and believe and waite in that which will seperate the precious from the vile before that can be satisfied in you which breathes after God So my tender love and compassion is unto that in you which is not yet satisfied but doth truely hunger and thirst after the life and Power of Truth and my soul doth travell for freedom and satisfaction of that seed and I suffer with it and bear many things for its sake for I have true unitie and fellowship with that in you and I know it and am known of it but I cannot have unitie with many of your practices which ye have been in because they have caused the Seed in you with which I have unity exceedingly to suffer you not being guided and led into them by the Spirit of truth and so against all such practices I do bear witness in the spirit of meekness and I labour in the spirit of Love to turn Peoples minds unto the manifestation of the spirit of truth which is given to everie man wherewith to profit so all people feel that and mind that and heaken unto that which oft riseth in your hearts against Lust against covetousnesse against pride against vain and needlesse words and thoughts and against all evil in its appearance and as you all minde this principle which moves and stirs in you against all evil you will feel it devide your good words from your bad words and good thoughts from bad thoughts and good deeds from bad deeds and that which devides betwixt these and shewes you the difference of them this is the word which Moses and Paul wrote of which is nigh the mouth and in the heart Yea this is the word of reconciliation which reconciles to God this is the ingrafted word which is able to save the Soul Now you being turned to this word even to that which discerns the thoughts and intents of your hearts as ye wait in this let the subtilty appear never so subtilly to draw your hearts after any thing or into any practice which the Lord requireth not of you then this word which is the power it wil make it manifest unto you and it will stop you from entring into any such practices if you will fully resist it not and believing waiting in this word it will not suffer you to speak any hasty unsavourie words or word and then ye will come to be truly sensible of a bridle to the tongue without which the religion is vain and this word ye taking it to be your guid it will bring you into savourie sound words seasoned with the grace of God and so as your words and actions and lives come to be ordered by this word Christ the power of God they will reach unto the witnesse of God in every one where ye come and if ye will hear this word and regard it and not resist it it will work true faith in you by which you will feel your hearts purified from sin and ye will feel it giving you victorie over the world within and without and if ye keep in this faith ye will not make haste for ye will feel the eternal light which is the life of the Word calling and drawing you out of the hastie nature into sobernesse stilnesse and quietness and meeknesse of spirit and so ye will feel your strength renewed in the Lord as ye all wait upon him in his light and all beleiving in the Light ye will not come into condemnation and as ye all wait in that which discerns and reveales the thoughts and the intents of your hearts which is the word of power this also will devide between your good thoughts and your bad thoughts and the good motions and the bad motions which you will see stiring in your mindes and if you hold fast the word of truth it will preserve and keep you out of the bad thoughts and motions and it will join you unto the good and ye will come to feel the operation of the spirit and life and power of God in you to shake and overturn and work out that ground which hath been in you from whence the bad words and bad thoughts and bad motions hath arose which hath burthened the oppressed the tender seed in you which you never could witnesse satisfied with all that ever you have performed but as ye all believe and wait in this unchangeable measure of God you will come to feel the burthen taken off the Seed and ye will come to feel and witnesse more true durable peace and satisfaction in one hours vvaiting upon God then ever you felt and vvitnessed in all the vvords that ever you have heard from any man or vvoman in all your lives or in all your practices that ever you have practised before you vvere brought to vvait upon God in his gifts vvhich he hath given you to profit vvith all although in those things vvhich vve have practiced I knovv ye have had a great joy appearing in you for a time but it vvas not durable nor lasting for vvhen Gods true and faithful vvitnesse the light appeared and shevved you hovv that God never required those things at your hands vvhich you had practiced then your joy and peace vvithered and came to an end which you appeared some time to have in those practices and if at any time ye come to feel some little peace and joy and refreshment through what God opened to the seed in you vvhen by his povver ye vvere brought into some tendernesse ye soon lost this also by going from that vvhich brought you into the tendernesse But as you all come into the obedience of the spirit and abide in it this vvill bring you into the seasoned life and then ye will come to feel and witnesse pure peace and joy and refreshment and satisfaction which will last and abide for ever with you if ye abide in the spirit and then ye will be made willing to lay down and denie all that which ye have been acting which ye never were lead and guided to act by Gods pure holie spirit and to denie all such also as would draw you to act that which God requireth not at your hands So take heed of such as daubes with untempered morter and heals deceitfully who will speak peace when there is no true peace but the pure witnesse of God condemns for such with the good words and fair speeches deceives the hearts of the simple keeping them ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and these through covetousnesse and fained words make merchandize of poor people for they have a forme of Godlinesse but they denie and resist the power and therefore from such turn away And all minde that and feel that and be subject unto that which for sin condemnes sin in the flesh and then you will feel the spirit of judgement and burning and righteousnesse through which the seed is redeemed which Seed is heire of the Kingdome of God So all waite in the meek lowlie quiet spirit that ye may come to witnesse this holie Seed which delights to do the will of God by the power and life of God raised up in you and brought forth out of captivity and satisfied And look not nor strive not after great and high things beyond your measures for that puffs up and leads into confusion and darke immaginations but all wait and be still in the measure of Gods Light manifested in you that so ye may come to feel him revealing his secrets and misteries unto the babes which cannot live or be satisfied without him God is making known that and stiring that in the hearts of people throughout the world which doth and shall confound and overturne all the wisdome of this World and the subtilty of the Serpent from whence all the Worlds wisdome arose and therefore the hand of the Lord will be terrible and heavie upon the disobedient who disobeyes and transgresseth that which he hath put into their hearts whereby he is opening a mighty understanding in the people But the everlasting blessing and peace and joy and glory of the Lord over all shall arise and rest upon all these that join to and believe in and obey that word which is nigh in the mouth and in the heart THE END

A VISITATION OF LOVE unto all PEOPLE In whose hearts there are any true honest tender desires begotten towards God and his righteousness In what sect or opinion or profession soever they be in which is not in the Light Especially unto such who hath felt something of the workings of the life and Power of God in them and yet notwithstanding hath been led by the subtilty of the Serpent from the life and power of God into many Sects and opinions and forms which are without the life and Power of God and herein the subtil workings and devices of the Serpent whereby he deceives the hearts of the simple is clearly made manifest And this is written in tender Love unto all of you who feel something stirring in you that is not satisfied with all the words that ever you have heard from man or woman nor yet with all the practices and performances that ever you have practiced and performed in all the Sects and opinions and Profession that ever you have been in And here the pure and living way is declared whereby every particular who returns to this way and believe and wait in it shall come to receive a particular satisfaction unto that in them the seed which never yet they could witness satisfied in all the Sects and opinions they have been in which is out of Christ the light which is the new and living way By a labourer in the power of Truth which doth make free for the deliverance and freedom of the Righteous Seed George Fox the younger LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. A visitation of love unto all people in whose hearts there are any true honest tender desires begotten towards God and his Righteousnesse in what sect or opinion or profession soever they be in which is not in the Light Friends GOd the higher Power unto whom the soul is to be subject he only hath immortality and dwelleth in the Light and he is Light And he hath freely given his Son into the world by whom the World was made for a covenant of Light and he is the true Light which lighteth every one that commeth into the World that all men through him might believe who is the Word of God in whom is Life and that life marke is the light of men and the pure grace of God which bringeth salvation by which the Saints are freely justified hath appeared unto all men yea the Eternal God of truth hath appeared unto you in his Son Jesus Christ the true Light and with this Light hath God made manifest unto you your sin and evil deeds and with the measure of the Light of his Son in you sometimes hath he appeared in his mighty power whereby he hath smitten you for your sins and evil deeds and he by his power hath broken you into tenderness brought you down into lowliness for a time and then by his unresistible power thus working in you did he beget a holy Seed from whence pure desires and breathings after God hath often arose in you which seed could not nor cannot be satisfied without Gods living presence Now ye not standing in the power which convinced you and smote you and broke you into tendernesse and brought you down and then begot a holy Seed in you from whence a pure unfained love to God hath oft sprung marke you not minding the workings and movings of this power in you nor waiting in it for to receive counsel you entered into reasonings and thoughts which the subtilty which is the Devil presented in you and so ye hearkned not to Gods voice the power which had wrought so in you but you entred into reasonings with the subtilty which abode not in the power and this begot a questioning in you what that should be which had so appeared in you and broken you into such a tendernesse and had wrought such a suddain change in you which you were not able to resist And ye going into the reasonings in your minds thus you turned from the pure power of God and then sin which separateth from Gods presence which he by his power worketh in you had in measure smitten and brought downe in you arose again and got the dominion in you and so you going thus from the power wherein ye should have waited to have been preserved in the tendernesse ye soon lost the tendernesse and fear which the power had wrought in you and then hardnesse of heart soon grew in you again and then the seed which God had begotten in you which cannot be satisfied without his presence that began to be sorely oppressed in you by the sin which separates from Gods presence which got up more and more in you through your turning from the power which ye once felt manifested and working in you against sin And then a grievous weight or burthen came upon the righteous seed in you and then it began to groan and cry to God from under the burthen and weight of iniquity that was upon it and then the Light appeared more brighter in you again for the seeds sake which suffered in you and shewed you that you were wrong then the Light judged you forthe wrong and then trouble came upon you and encreased in your minds and then the Serpent the subtilty the devil which abode not in the truth he appeared likewise in you and begot a hurrying and a confused noise in your minds and then presented many things unto you and sturred you up to do them that so he might draw ye from hearkening unto the Light wherein you should have waited to have heard and known Gods voice and council and to have seen and heard what God had required at your hands and thus the subtilty which is the Devil who was a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth sought to draw you from the Light which is the truth that so he might murther the Righteous seed which God had begotten in you unto which seed the promises are Now your minds being drawn from the Light which convinced you of sin you entred further into sin and then you could not find any power for to resist sin because you went from the light which shewed you your sin where in ye should have waited to have received power against sin and then the seed suffered in you by the sin which ye were entred into exceedingly and trouble increased more and more in your mindes this hath been the condition of some of you and then the subtilty drew you into reasonings consultings what to do that so the burthen which you felt and the trouble in your mindes might be removed So ye hearkning unto the subtilty he then presented several things unto you to be done some of which once were commanded by God to be done by them unto whom the command came and so the subtilty perswaded you that ye must do those things likwise before ye could have peace and witness the burthen