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	spirit_n	word_n	12,159	5	4.3929	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79907	The voice of truth, uttered forth against the unreasonablenes, rudenes, and deboistnes of the rulers, teachers and people of the island Barbados. Through one, who hath suffered by them, for the testimony of a good conscience, and the word of God, known by the name of Thomas Clark.	Clark, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing C4562A; ESTC R171379	7,419	13

THE VOICE OF TRUTH Uttered forth against the UNREASONABLENES RUDENES and DEBOISTNES of the RULERS TEACHERS and PEOPLE of the Island BARBADOS Through one who hath suffered by them for the Testimony of a Good Conscience and the Word of God known by the Name of THOMAS CLARK LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson 1661. The Voice of Truth uttered forth against the Unreasonableness Rudeness and Deboistness of the Rulers Teachers and People of the Island BARBADOS OH ye Rulers and Magistrates who are now in Authoritie how do you slight the Goodness of God in this the day of your Visitation inasmuch as you have caused the Innocent to suffer and let the guilty go free Oh Friends how doth wickedness abound in Townes and Countrey and also in your own Families where first it ought to be punished as also in your own Particulars in so doing you would become good Examples in your own Families and also general Patterns of good throughout the Land so would you be a Terrour to the Wicked and Evil Doers and a Praise to them that do Well and herein would you answer the Righteous Law of God written in the heart which is according to the Apostles Doctrine but being out of that which bringeth into the Moderation in your own Particulars ye cannot with safety punish others for the things whereof you are Guilty and so living in the Excesse your selves others eyes are upon you and take example by you to do as you do and to follow after the fame excesse of wickedness and such are accepted of you and countenanced by you whereby the wicked are become very strong insomuch that they run into wickedness with greediness and commit Lewdness as with Zeal and so Mercy and true Judgement is forsaken in the Land and the Righteous Law of God which is to do unto all men as you would they should do unto you is turned backward and Righteousness and Equitie is counted a Ridiculous thing and the Holy Spirit of God which teacheth the Law of the Lord leadeth into all Truth this is made a mock of and is had in Derision dayly throughout the Land and the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant of God is trampled upon and accounted of as an horrible thing and thus it is come to passe and thus you suffer to be done unto them who keep in Gods Holy Covenant and obey the Holy Spirit of God and do Meditate on his Righteous Law Day and Night by which they are led and guided up to God and in all things to do as they would be done unto and for declaring this in Doctrine Life Conversation and for bearing our Testimonies against false Prophets against false Teachers such as Preach for Hire and will be drunk in Tavernes and other places Who are Covetous Proud Boasters Heady High-minded Lovers of Pleasures more then Lovers of God c. Tim. 3. Such as the Apostle spoke of and bore his Testimony against and for our declaring against them and such as follow them in those things who are become one with them like Priest like People all in the Errour out of the Fear of the Lord committing all manner of Lewdness and runing dayly into all manner of excesse of wickedness with greediness In consideration whereof many is the time that my Life hath been heavily burthened and my Soul grieved which hath caused me to walk Sorrowfully day after day to see how greedily the People run on to their Everlasting Destruction fat up themselves in wickedness as the Ox for the slaughter Oh! ye Rulers when I have considered how these People are strengthened by you thus to run on in Lewdness and all manner of Prophanness against the Righteous God that made them then hath my heart been grieved for you and have hazarded my Life for you and for them and have freely given up my Life for your sakes being thereunto required of the Lord whose Tender Visitation hath been over you by whom I have been sent amongst you at your Meetings to acquaint you that it was the Day of Gods Love and Visitation towards you and to declare against your ungodly Worship Lives and Practices to the end you might hearken thereunto and that you might be turned from the Darkness to the Light and from Satans Power unto the Power of the Living God which is the same the Apostles Preached and brought People into for which Doctrine they suffered grievously by the Men of that Generation even as I have done by the hands of this Generation for bearing the same Testimony as they did namely my Wife haled out of her house by Samuel Graves Priest who also tore off some of her Clothes in the open Street in sight of many People by which my Children that were crying about her were affrighted and received hurt thereby and my People beaten from their work and haled by the hair of the head and threatned with grievous Language what he would do unto them this was done by the said Graves and his Wife and my self abused very much at several times for Truths sake once haled to the Stocks and there set till the Priest had done and after committed to Prison once for coming to their Meeting at Speights Town to shew the Magistrates that were there how the Priests People were beating and abusing some of my Friends with sore Kicks and heavy Blowes with Staves and Cudgels which thing was suffered to be done in sight of the Magistrates and the People that did it were strengthened by them and for declaring unto them my Friends Sufferings how they were abused that they might still the People by whose Wickedness my Friends lives lay in danger In answer thereunto Command was given to take me away the which was done by wicked People who sorely beat me with great Cudgels and Staves with sore Kicks on my Belly and other parts of my Body and so they carryed me to the Stocks with my hands and feet with the small of my back cross a Cudgel shaking and abusing me in that manner unto the Stocks as a sheep carrying to the Butcher and after with my Friends committed to Prison Another time for putting up a Friends Paper at the Parish house called Lucies Church in which Paper was declared against Drunkenness and all manner of Wickedness exhorting People to turn therefrom and repent thereof for which thing I was taken into the house by one of their Church Officers called Miles Scotto who said I should receive no wrong with whom I went in where Priest Gray and his People were met together and spake these words to the People I came in at the request of the said Scotto who Promised I should receive no wrong but before I had fully uttered these words my Hat was pulled off and by the People I was haled to the door and thrown down three or four steps and I getting up they fell upon me and beat me with Cudgels untill I fell down as dead and as I lay in