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	world_n	4,721	5	4.7374	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28614	Judas his thirty pieces not received but sent back to him for his own bag who hath betrayed the Lord of Glory ... : being something by way of answer to a letter that was sent to John Reynes ... from Robert Rich ... which was for the distribution of a certain sum of money to seaven churches ... wherein it is mainfested ... Quakers cannot partake of his gift ...	Bolton, John, 1599-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3506; ESTC R26455	13,488	15

that are come to anchor and rest in the pure living power of the living God and cease from their works blessed be the holy Name of God some have attained by him to know the Saviour come to work in the soul the works that are acceptable unto God and standing in the unchangeable truth they are no more their own but setled upon the Rock the everlasting foundation where no change is no variableness nor shadow of turning whoever comes into that we speak of and dwells in it they are come to Mount Sion that cannot be moved doth not the unchangeable Power of the living God cause the pure minde to mount up above all earthly things and to converse in heaven and so they know this to be true in him that he the Lord hath made them a willing people in the day of his power truly they that abide in it they run the Race that is set before them and do not faint they walk in the way of Life and are not weary of following the Lamb of God that taketh away Sin wheresoever he goes mark our witness for God is his Standard is set up and his Salvation is revealed and the certain sound is gone forth and many have prepared themselves to partake of the Supper of the Lamb where the blessedness for ever is known we declare of no other Standard but this the unalterable power of the living God to be set up in the heart of man and woman whereby Salvation may be wrought and deliverance from Sin may be witnessed and the Name of God magnified for ever and we speak to the praise of his Name power from Christ is come into the hearts of many whereby they have overcome the devil For he that is in us is stronger then he that is in the world and we are joyned in the Covenant of light to walk with the Lord for ever there is a seal of love set upon the heart by his spirit the pure force whereof hath constrained many to give up and they are throughly perswaded that neither heights nor depths things present nor things to come or whatsoever can be named shall be able to separate them from the hope that is in Christ and that because they are kept by the mighty power of God which we have experience of is above and stronger then the power of the devil and in all our trialls and tribulations although never so many we speak in reverence of his holy Name we have no whether else to go nor any thing else to put our trust and considence in but the power of the living God and his Arm hath been made bare for our deliverance from that thraldome and bondage in which we were kept heretofore notwithstanding our belief until Christ by the Will of God was revealed in us to our unspeakable comfort and we cannot be removed from the hope of the Gospel which is the power of God to Salvation to as many as truly believe and know Christ to be made unto them by God Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption and our hope it reacheth within the Vail and blessed be God we are stedfast in him who is the same yesterday to day and for ever but many have turned aside from the way of Life and are snared in holes and some as in time past after they had tasted the good Word of God and of the power of the world to come yet have fallen away yet if possible it is the true desire of the heeart they may be restored and brought back into the Light of Life and fold of Christ where they may lie down in peace It is declared before how we came to be acquainted with thee at the first some of us very well yet remember the first occasion of seeing thy face it was in owning and also bringing on their way those first Messengers of the Gospel that came to us that brought the glad tidings of Salvation dear Edw. Borough and Francis Howgel then at that time thou didst appear to have dear and tender love to that Truth of Christ we profess and to our great comfort and consolation do enjoy and after it is yet remembred some of us visited thee when thou wast in Prison in Banbury with dear Richard Farnsworth and there thou didst bare a witness and restimony for the Living Way and Truth of God and at that time thou didst appear to have a dear love to and a tender respect for those People thou now call'st Quakers above any People in the World and as the only People and alone Way of God didst thou then own them not by the name Quakers as the World do didst thou then call them but as Friends of God and Friends to and with thy self in unity and oneness in the Spirit of Truth for our unity then was and all that love Righteousness amongst us they and they only continue and abide in unity in the holy Spirit of Truth which blessed be the Lord for ever is become a Guide and a Leader into all Truth But it is necessary to enquire what Principle thou art of in matter of Religion now we are not ignorant that after some small space of time that thou hadst been convinc'd and had in some degree taken up the Cross to thy will and wayes in which thou hadst full liberty in the Flesh before thou cam'st to believe in Christ the true Light who shews and makes manifest sin in the heart where-ever it is and to as many as receives him he gives and administers power from himself to overcome all the works of the wicked One but thou went out from us and from the fellow-ship of the Spirit of Truth into another spirit there is a testimony in the heart for the Lord that thou departed from the Spirit of Truth that is a Guide to God to all that are lead by it and joyned to an unclean spirit and in that thou hast stood and in that spirit thou hast been a shelter and a harbour for them that are in the same apart from and in a separation from the Truth and the Spirit of it and there we find thee yet to continue Oh Robert when ever thou comes to have a true sence of what thou hast departed from the Word of Life answered He is gone from Christ the Hope of Glory the Fonntain of Life There is a cry in the Soul while this is writing What hast thou lost the beloved Son of God in whom he is well pleased Thou hast murthered and crucified the pure Life of Christ the Heir in thy self and hast taken the Government into the hand of the Polluted and in this state thou art speaking of the things of Gods heavenly Kingdom but notwithstanding gone from the Light in which true fellowship is for it is now with us as it was with the cloud of Witnesses that went before who said If we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have fellowship one with another and the

thou wouldst give Thirty pounds for raising up of the Love of God in the heart and Judas received Thirty Pieces of silver for betraying Christ the Love of God so the Traders in Money for either buying or selling the Love of God are denied for they are both from one Root but we have learn'd to abide in the Living Vine that we may bring forth fruit unto our Heavenly Father who hath begotten us unto himself by the Gospel which is a sure stay to the mind whereby we are kept in perfect Peace we shall not meddle much with thy high words with which thou beatest the air but surely there is a belief that there was never yet such a president in the World before it is very observable to us the state of thy mind in this particular to advance so great a sum of Money and weighing the thing in the Ballance of Truth it is only to draw us back where thou art gone and joyn us again to the World but we have entered into our rest Thou wouldst have the Persons of those thou hast invited bid welcom and also to remember the spirits of them that were friends to the Bridegroom and so thy Feast is for the dead and living but these so compacted together thou callest the Church of the First-born and indeed they are the Church of the first-born of thy imaginations for there is no pattern of it before and thy Brain is the first that ever pointed out to or laid a foundation for such a Church or such a Congregation unless the Ranters and therefore those who are of the Church of the First-born truly so I mean those that are translated from death to Life from the power of Satan to the Power or the Living God and by the Spirit and power of Jesus Christ are born again whereby they come out of the old Birth or rather that Death which is in opposition to the pure Life of the Son of God and these now come to know the quickning Power of the Son of God in their Souls whereby they are made alive unto God and although they were in time past dead as well as others yet now behold by the Grace of God they live for evermore there abide in Christ the living Vine and are built on the sure foundation ye they are come to the Rock of Ages the tried Stone which the Master-builders of our Age hath refused but to us who believe in the true Light he is for ever precious and therefore the Lord for and in behalf of his Everlasting Truth calls for acquitting of our selves as men of God who love the Gospel of Peace and Salvation who have received mercy and wisdom from God in it whereby we can encounter with the Adversary of Gods Truth and Power although he get unto himself proud swelling words of vanity to make himself to be admired yet in the Name of God we deny him for we are not ashamed of the Truth which we received in the beginning for we come to know it is the Power of God to Salvation to as many as believe and continue in the pure unchangable Way Christ the Light and Life who is the same yesterday this day and for ever there is a presure and pure desire that is in the Soul that all the Flock that are come to partake of the unalterable and pure Wisdom and Life of Christ would for ever abide and continue therein the testimony of the Everlasting God is risen in the Soul there is no assured preservation as to God out of this Ark Therefore all that have been acquainted with the pure measure of the Gift and Grace of God keep and abide therein and then if the Storms come and the Floods arise thou art in that in which the safety is even in him which is the Beginning and the Ending he began the Work of God in our Soul he hath he doth blessed be his Name for ever carry it on in his own strength and by his own Arm are we delivered and preserved and we have learnt of the Spirit of Truth to trust in him and we have set to our Seal and we know him to be the chiefest of ten thousand and he hath made the upright the Virgins whose Lambs are trimed and have oyl in them who have waited for the Bridegroom of the Soul his Banner over them is pure Love every one to know a rest in that which hath no shadow in it how comfortable is it to that man or woman that is come to be stayed in their minds purely on the Living God for we have seen an end of all perfection under the Son but surely the revelation of Christ to the Soul is exceeding glorious in the manifestation of himself in his dwelling and abiding with them that love his Appearance it is a dry place to that Soul whatever the words are that is not in the feeling sence of the pure Life and mark unchangeable Power of the Lord God which keeps the heart entire and upright to God they are compassed about with Salvation that can rest alone in that which is everlastingly one and the same and all that are tost about with every wind every spirit although in the depth of confusion there is a Lamentation for them in the Soul of the upright what will become of them that after a long profession of Gods Truth yet not come to anchor and fix in that which is within the Vail Oh that all were come to be rooted and grounded whereby they might be no more removed from the unchangeable Power of the Living God But Robert thou hast given order that the persons of those that are invited may be bid welcom but rather the spirits of the Friends to the Bridegroom as thou call'st them be remembred But in case the Persons of those that are invited to the Feast which thou hast given Thirty pounds to provide a Dinner or a Supper do not appear how wouldst thou have their spirits remembred Must it be as the Papists remember those that are deceased of their Religion to say one or more Masses that they may be delivered out of Purgatory Or what otherwise is thy Festival mind to have the Spirits of them that are fallen asleep remembred Thou hast given a large some of money for a Dinner or a Supper to Feast together tell us in plain terms Dost thou mean to remember their spirits by drinking to them and so remembring them in a Cup of good Liquor as those Fellowships call it For thou hast given order that the persons but rather the spirits of those especial ones be remembred we must confess it is such an especial work and service and remembrance that we never yet heard of before therefore we had need to have an Interpreter one of a thousand Or wouldst thou like the Church of Rome first canonize and make them Saints and so remember them by putting up request and supplication to them If this or either of these and if not we are certainly distinct from thy Festival mind and spirit but undoubtedly it is a word of truth to thee thou art gone out from the pure Living Truth and Spirit of Christ and what dost thou think to be made perfect by the Flesh and in Feasting Thou appearest to have gotten into a large place but there is an answer riseth It is ease in the earthly sensual mind and will but they only shall be kept in perfect peace whose minds are stayed on God if any should not yet understand wherein our preservation is and wherein our strength lies we stand clear before the Lord it is not in works of righteousness which we have or can do or according to excellency of speech or words which we may have of our own or learn of others but according to and by his Grace are we saved and our comfort and consolation for ever remains as we are kept by the Power of God to continue in the Grace of God which is our Salvation and our minds blessed be the Lord for ever are stayed on him Immortality and Life is brought to light by the Gospel which is the Power of God and the saving health that is revealed by the pure Power of the Lord is come and blessed for ever be the Name of God we continue and abide therein we testifie in the Name of the Lord let the dangers trials or temptations be never so great we have nothing else to trust to or in but the alone Arm and Power of the Lord God which is our Salvation and we cannot be drawn aside from the hope thereof and so all people who ever they are that will partake of Salvation from God they must walk in the pure Light of the Lord in which the pure fellowship is known with the pure God and one with another and all that believe in the Light and are made children thereof and abide therein they have fellowship with us and we with them in that which never alters nor changeth but abideth the same for ever and upon this Rock Christ the true Light are we built and we know the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against them that are built thereon and here is our Rest for ever THE END