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	lord_n	spirit_n	8,095	5	5.0560	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62696	To all dear Friends & brethren in the everlasting truth & covenant of the Almighty Jehovah, blessed for evermore	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; J. C.; J. P.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing T1320; ESTC R20636	7,450	8

TO ALL DEAR FRIENDS BRETHREN In the Everlasting TRUTH COVENANT OF THE Almighty Jehovah Blessed for evermore WE the Prisoners of the Lord and for the Testimony of Christ Jesus do bear in our remembrance with dearest Salutations of perfect love all our suffering Brethren every where and also the whole Flock of our Fathers tender Love whom he hath elected and chosen in his own secret Counsel before the world began Dearly and well beloved our very Souls this day are deeply affected with the Cause of God and our persons at this time are engaged in these Bonds for the Testimony of the same and truly in Soul Body and Spirit are we offered up to the perpetual loss of all that the Name of the Lord and his saving Truth may be testified unto in faithfulness unto all the world and in the Lord our hearts are resolved in the confidence of his Spirit to suffer the greatest of Afflictions and Persecutions rather than forfeit or loose one grain of this so blessed a Testimony now trusted with us and for whic● we now suffer these Bonds And unto faithfulness herein We find that the Lord our God daily increaseth our strength and boldness our patience and long suffering and doubleth his Spirit of Power and Wisdom upon us that we may never faint in Trial and we labour to be armed in our inward man with whatsoever may uphold us and defend us in this day of our Afflic●ions even that our faith and patience our holiness and meekness our long suffering and love to enemies and all Heavenly Vertues may be compleated in us and possessed of us till our God take Vengeance upon the wrath of our Adversaries and deliver his now poor despised and oppressed people for these Vertues are the armour with which we delight to be cloathed these are our weapons with which we chuse to be defended and this must be our final Vic●ory when the faith and patience the meekness and long suffering and heavenly Vertues of Christ Jesus in us have exceeded in measure and superabounded in effect all the unbelief and impatiency the enmity and ungodliness in all that hate us Love shall overcome wrath and envy Patience shall subdue rigorous Persecutors and hatefull workers the very God that dwells with us shall condemn and confound the wicked one with all his might and power and malice and Persecution cruel Imposition on tender Consciences and Oppression and Injustice shall be no more And this is that Victory for which we spiritually War and these and no other are the weapons with which we do contend and the Cause is God's in which we are ingaged and for which we suffer this present day Brethren we hope ye are all like-minded with us and that this same Cause of God his Truth and Righteousness is fixed before you and is your aime and mark and that it is alike dear and precious in your eye and that ye are Armed with the same Armour of God's heavenly Vertues It 's the breathings of our life to the Father that the whole Church of Chri●t and every Member thereof may be kept faithful to hold forth the holy Testimony of Jesus by suffering in this great day of Trial. The Testimony of which we have heard and learned believed and received from God the Father into all our hearts is so precious to us in it's evidence of Peace and Comfort and Justification and Salvation in Eternal life in our inward man that we compare no afflictions nor present sufferings of our outward man to the price and vertue thereof For we can say in the verity of our Souls how ever it shall go with our outward man in respect of Tribulations and Persecutions yet in our inward man we possess the Peace and Comfort and Salvation of the everlasting God and to bear forth the Testimony of this in our age to the world even of that Love and Life Mercy Justification and Salvation which we have received we can forgo Liberty Life and all For this is our duty to which we are called and the end for which we were born to bear witness to the Truth and for the holding forth of this witness we are given up in Soul Body and Spirit to suffer the loss of all rather than to loose this Testimony-bearing to the view of the world Wherefore we beseech and exhort all of you that have tasted of the loving kindness of our God That ye be faithful and valiant this day in the Cause of God not fearing the fury of the ungodly nor the threats of enemies nor the terrors of this world nor seeking to save your own lives but in the faith and patience pressing forward in the race of Righteousness till Mercy Peace Justice and true Judgment run down as a stream willing to suffer the loss of all that Truth and Righteousness may live upon earth and the worship of the true God be exalted and all the contrary overturned and this is the reward of all the Saints Afflictions Be faithful in your Trials let E●tates Relations Life and all go rather than the cause of Truth and Righteousness be diminished of it's Glory by the unfaithfulness of any this day Surely our hearts are zealous for this matter and we are pressed in Spirit to encourage all the Lords people to put on all holy confidence in this day and to cast away all unbelief doubtings and fears of this world and to maintain the Truth of God's worship in the assemblings of his people together in the strength and power of the Lord Jesus Chri●t even to live in it and to dye for it to enjoy God's pure Worship and to suffer the losse of all if called thereunto We know you are not ignorant concerning this Cause of God which we thus affect and exhort you to be faithful in It 's no other than the Testimony of a pure Conscience towards our Creator and that every person should follow Christ and obey him and walk in the light and life of his Spirit which he hath revealed in the heart that God should be feared and worshiped in a clean Conscience and that the Salvation of God may be testified of This and no other is the Cause of God in which our Souls and Bodies are ingaged we know no Ca●se upon earth worth our Afflictions and Sufferings nor for which we will contend with any save for the Salvation of God and that his Justice and Mercy his Truth and Righteousness his Way and Worship may be Exalted upon earth and all the contrary subdued by his mighty Power This is the very cause compared to which our mortality is not to be accounted even that we may behold God's Salvation going forth in the Testimony of it to all Nations and that Nations and Peoples may injoy Justice and Truth Liberty and Freedom in the pure worship of the living God This is the Cause that must live the Lord hath spoken it though for it we may die for our All