Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	holy_a	lead_v	spirit_n	7,650	5	5.6570	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44840	The good old cause briefly demonstrated with advertisements to authority concerning it, to the end, all persons may see the cause of their bondage, and way of deliverance.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3223A; ESTC R14167	10,984	17

so as that the Lamb and the Lyon may lye down together and none make each other afraid that all persons in all places may quietly and freely do their duties to God and each to other in true love sincerity and soberness as he by his Spirit shall respectively direct and command to his praise and the Spiritual and Temporal benefit and comfort one of another Said God to Pharoah by Moses Let my people go that they may serve me and if thou wilt not let them go I will shew my Power and wonders upon thee I will pour out my plagues upon thee and thy people Was not this typical And hath not this of late been the case in these Nations Consider it It hath been sufficiently known and felt that such men have of late gotten into Authority that would not hear tell of our Rights and Liberties what-ever smooth words they gave us but made Laws to punish us for soberly using them and yet even then some would seem to say Why have you not your Liberties your Civil and spiritual Concernments setled and continued unto you May not you be as good as religious as you will Are you not well When alas we felt the Distempers pinch us in all our parts and members Bonds and Imprisonments attending us every where spoiling of our goods and what not And none that pittyed us could relieve us nor tell us how long Be not you so led aside by the deceitfulness of Satan's Wiles and devices of evil men In love and for loves sake I beseech you be watchful be faithful be diligent in the discharge of your respective duties to God and man and while you have time p●ise it the night cometh in which no man can work improve all opportunities to the right end least that which is lame and halteth be turned out of the Way and then you spend your times in disputing contradicting and opposing each other until the simplicity be betrayed by the inventions and subtil craftiness of such as lye in wait to deceive that have mens persons in admiration for advantage the strange Woman that flattereth with her lip● speaking lyes through hypocrisie to betray both you and us of our Rights and Liberties which to you would be very sad and your fall more remarkable then others before y●● But as for those that fear the Lord and wait at all times upon him they are sure of deliverance and therefore do their duties quietly casting all care upon him that careth for them If any deceiver shall come with his new inventions and tell you that though you are not to meddle with other mens consciences yet you must be sure to satisfie your own consciences by taking care of the peoples souls setling and establishing Religion and Church-Government as your chiefest business your greatest Work and first to be done thereby to prevent and suppress Heresies Sects Schisms and Factions in the Church and that the defferring of it so long hath been the cause of such and so many errors and divisions amongst the people And thus run on as fast as his tongue can belye his heart for did not Sects Schisms Errors and Heresies begin with such false Teachers yea and with them shall they end Then do you seriously consider That the vain mind of man is forward and hasty to set out it self to work for God as Cain and King Saul offered sacrifice in their own Wills but without God and therefore against him man being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish his own righteousness submits not to the righteousness of God but turns the truth of God into a lye worshipping and serving the creature and forsaking the Creator who is God over all blessed for ever and rich unto all that call upon him The Lord led his Israel of old by a Cloud and by a Pillar of fire and so they moved or stood still as they were led And afterwards he gave them Laws Statutes and Ordinances whereby to worship him The Lord God never yet said to any people Go make your selves a Church-Worship Discipline or Government or settle for your selves a Way whereby to worship me The poor impotent people also waited at the pool of Bethesda for the moving of the Water And Christ Jesus his peoples Lord and Law-giver faithful in all his house as a Son promised and hath sent his holy Spirit the Comforter to lead into all truth to take of his and give unto us to this one Law-giver able to save and to destroy are his servants onely obedient and he their pattern in all patience and long-suffering even with joyfulness Also consider That the conscience and soul of man is a place for the living God to dwel and walk in where no Magistrate as such hath any business The souls of men is a Charge too great too high too weighty for you to undertake or meddlewith and like the former Builders of Babel wil be confounded in it if you so touch it The wickedness of the wicked therein shall come to an end and the Lord wil establish the just Do you onely settle us in our external Rights and Liberties establish them to us and defend us therein from fraud and violence of such as yet know not what spirits they are of but are disobedient ignorant of the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ that makes free from that of sin and death secure us in this particular and restrain all persons from abusing themselves and the creatures in riotous living by Authority in the hands of such men as hate covetousness and vain glory that know this spiritual Law Fear God and eschew evil This is your Business and our Right both by Birth and dear Purchase suffer it not to be with-held from us by stopping your ears at the cryes of the oppressed Hearken unto us that God may hearken unto you when you shall most need his help and trust the Lord Jesus Christ with his own work in our souls and consciences for they that dare take the charge of other mens souls upon them neither know their own souls nor yet their duties to God or man it 's out of your Sphere beyond your reach a work which neither God nor man hath committed to your Trusts not found in all your Records of the most Antichristian Idolatrous Ages onely you have several Constitutions and corrupted forms concerning Church-Governments Worship and Discipline which in the long and dark night of Apostacy have been ushered in by Popish Prelates and Priests and so craftily twisted and interwoven together with rooted in and depending upon the Civil Authority and the Civil Authority in with and upon them that many wise men think it a kind of Sacriledge or rather madness to sever them each from other and that the doing thereof may break both and drive all into confusion and be sure that sort of men most concerned therein will not fail to tell you so and withall tell you that you are to maintain a