Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	jerusalem_n	spirit_n	worship_v	3,034	5	9.5572	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52687	A door opened to the imprisoned seed in the vvorld, and the way of freedom by the spirit of truth, sent out into the world in love to the sheep that have long been lost, which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they possess, and may shew the feigned & false in heart, the cause why they are shut out of truths power : wherein the elect way is opened to the blind, with encouragements to enter and walk therein : also the fruits of the free-born cleared from legal performances, and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works : Christ Jesus known to be king in his temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost, and sword of the spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true judgment / by J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1667 (1667)	Wing N277; ESTC R23128	41,513	48

mind this Spirit in you and then whither will you run and forsake the Lord of Life will you leave Christ the Fountain which should spring in you and hunt for your selves should you not abide within and drink of that which springs freely and feed on that which is pure meek and lowly in spirit that so you might grow spiritual men into the same Spirit to be as he is the sheep of his pasture for as is your pasture so are you filled High carnal minds seek high things and so they grow lofty and proud and such God resists and keeps them afar off but the poor in spirit seek truth and meekness and are fed thereof at the table of the Lord meek and lowly and just and faithful are all his houshold who feed and sup with him Now mind and consider your wayes who are gone out unto the mountains to worship and feed your selves you may read of Israels sin in going out from the Temple in which the Lord had said he would dwell and be enquired of and they builded Altars without him and there called upon him but found him not for which he rejected their Worships and their Temple also And where hath Christ said he will now be worshipped is it not within for saith Christ the true worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth mind it Professors not at Jerusalem will he be enquired of but in spirit and truth and the body is the Temple as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will put my Law in their inward parts and all shall know me from the least to the greatest Not in Temples made with hands doth the Godhead dwell whose off-spring we are not in your high places and Steeple-house Churches but in that which springs of him Can you read this and understand it aright in that which springs of him is the Godhead and Power known but the high-minded are too far off it to feel it it 's the poor and lowly in spirit that are near it and he that 's become as a little child can only understand it who is not too great in his thoughts to hearken to that which is little and pure in him by birth and nature that springs of God and not the height of that mind which hath Notions Divine but not Nature Life and Sonship begotton and born of God A sanctified life and vessel is God's off-spring but he that saith and doth not is not born of Truth but of Fornication and Falshood so read your birth and nature and kindred with the Truth It 's not the uncircumcised in heart nor the bastard that 's God's Off-spring and Child of his Love but the pure and clean in heart mind and spirit hath his Image And if you look to be godly you must know this in you else you are without God in the world having neither seen him nor known him whom you seem to worship but are alienated from him in your minds and in your members and in your whole strength so that you have neither power nor understanding to do well being taken captive of a contrary spirit in all your abilities of spirit soul and body your wisdom perverted and understandings darkned and parted from the root whose off-spring man is And now this should be your return to sink down to that which is holy and pure in the Light and to that give up your whole man and all you are and have and no more consult with your wisdom nor follow your own understanding but let the little thing in you that 's pure and simple lead you and thereto bow and bend and confess And this will be your restoration to God to give all you have to the Holy who when he hath befooled your cursed wisdom and brought down your high conceits and bound the strong man and tyed the colt to the vine then will he arise in power who is meek and holy and rule in your strength parts and wisdom having purged the enmity out and renewed your abilities and you will have all restored again manifold all new and clear and able by the power of the Holy One who will reign and govern therein and you shall know the Lord whose off-spring you are to be both root and head and all in you and you shall say no more I am weak and can do nothing but all things through him that gives you strength for the devourer shall no more pervert it but great shall be the Holy one in the midst of you if this you can believe and receive And you shall no more as you have done sow for the devourer nor bring forth unto blasting but your fruits shall arise to God who will receive them with good will and your prayers shall not return empty when he hath bent you for himself and taken away the accursed from amongst you And then will you know the Lords Redeemed and that Seed which is elected and blessed which brings not forth as other men and you will see that all who despise the day of small things neglect their own mercy to follow the teacher of lies who turns not at his reproof who is holy and therefore worship without power Then will you know the life and power of Redemption and Sanctification and Justification and renewing of the Holy Ghost in you when your strength is redeemed to God your wisdom redeemed your hearts tongues eyes and ears and all you have redeemed into God into that which is holy to be guided and exercised in all your conversation possessing your vessels in Sanctification Here is that renewing of the holy Ghost known which sanctifies and justifies through the redemption of the bodie and mind and reconciliation which is in Christ Jesus who is not known to be Lord but by the holy Ghost that Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth which Truth is a witness in you against you who say you are redeemed to God by Christ Jesus when another Lord rules in you and leads you captive into sin by which Christ Jesus is denied and suffers in you and by which you are separated from God and in a nature contrary to him wherefore to that must you come which changeth your nature and not your words and forms and teachers but which begets another seed and kills that which is begotten of whoredom and lust which is after the Prince of this World that God may be served in his own Spirit in his own Truth of his own nature of his own begetting Holy as he is Holy in every measure and growth thereof that so the least of his Children may be known to be of him and separate from the world in soul and in body coming out of the world bearing his image and reproach And as many as honestly desire to be heirs of this holy Power and Kingdom patiently wait till you feel that move in you which is of this pure Nature and having felt it alive in you rejoyce in it

holy movings in them by which the holy men of God spoke saw and discerned in all Ages as the Scriptures do testifie all which is lost in that man who is exalted above the pure Light and lowly Spirit in which God meets man to teach him the knowledge of the Truth And therefore you Teachers and People of all sorts and Sects who so violently have set your selves against the Light of the Spirit within you and within others when it calls to you for a return to it How long will you kick against that which pricks you at the heart for your contrary walkings and dissembling professions why will you not be still and commune with it in your own hearts that you might come to a true feeling and discern what nature it is of and from whence it is and what way it works and against what And also what nature that is in you which it chiefly condemns and works against and from whence that is that so with the Light of Truth you might come to judge things that differ in the ground and in the end that you might so come to walk in the Light in Judgment and in Truth of Heart towards God and man And let the single Truth of God without mixture answer these things following feelingly in you What is the cause that while you are professing to seek God and serve him you should be so unwilling to serve him in that which is of his own Nature and to worship him in Spirit and Truth in your own Vessels whose bodies should be the Temples of God who is not worship'd in Temples made with hands nor in a nature contrary to himself Or will the talking of what he is or was in others in whom he was known to walk and speak deliver your Souls from the power of the Prince of darkness and deceit that is in your selves unless you can by Faith receive him in you also as they received him and feel his Power overcoming and casting out him that hath you captive at his will against your Faith and Conscience Or will God be found in you or accept your worship whilst his Temple is possessed with his enemy and a contrary nature acts you therein Can you meet with God in any thing but that which is Holy who hears not the prayer of him that regards iniquity Wherefore your first work should be to know him in you whom God accepts for he alone must present you to the Father who appears without sin understand what I say he that appears without sin else you are reprobate in Gods sight there is no hope without Christ in you and you in him the everlasting Priest to offer up upon the Altar of atonement Holiness must make one in Spirit and though by the height of your minds he that is without sin be low and little in you yet without me you can do nothing saith Christ Jesus mind what he saith you can do nothing Then what are you doing who are not in the holy Spirit Can you worship by Tradition or be saved by the Letter will you make Christ a lyar who saith Without me you can do nothing I am the Light of the world every branch saith Christ that abideth not in me is cast out and withereth and is for the fire Mind this you that reject holiness in Spirit and light from the holy Spirit in you Are you not cut off who are not in that which is holy are you not withered and for the fire Are you not cast out who have no abiding-place in that which is holy and a light in that which is holy Mind what is withered in you and what is fruitful Have you power light and knowledge in you to do evil but not to do well Are you not withered then unto God are you not cut off from the natural Son and planted in a wild Vine of a contrary nature Your light is withered and your seed corrupted and your tree is known by its fruits which now is green and brings forth but not to God nor from God who are cut off and withered without light in you without Christ in you without God in you to keep you not so much Truth in your inward parts as is able to teach you to make you free here is your loss and nakedness manifest and the short bed and the narrow garment who have not so much of the holy Spirit as will cover you nor bear you harmless Now will you say you hope you are born again of the Spirit and are baptized into the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and worship in the Spirit and then are gone out for Salvation and Light and speak evil of that within as not able to bear you against him that is of the world Now your Hope is not an Anchor nor your Faith in that which overcomes by birth as the Saints do Whosoever is born of God overcomes the World And he that is begotten of God keepeth himself that the evil-one toucheth him not Now mind Where is he that keepeth himself and where is the evil-one Let Truth answer in you if there be any knowledge of God in the house Is not that he who gives you light that would keep you from the evil-one and should you not be one in Him that would keep you from evil Who is your Keeper Watchmen that are blind Do not you watch in vain who know not the Lord to keep your City else how should the evil-one have his liberty in and out without a powerful resisting consider in your selves Where is he that gives you to see when the evil-one toucheth you and when he tempteth but toucheth not What nature is he of that doth this for you and where is he Is he not light and understanding and is he not in you and is he not of a contrary nature to the evil-one that tempteth And doth he not shew you the temptation before you consent thereto if you mind him Then what is the cause that the evil is committed seeing a Light and Nature appears against him Is it not because you joyn to the evil-one and like his motion better than his that testifies it to be evil And so you deny the Holy-One and the Just and become one with the evil-one And then you say The Light is not able when you have denyed it and have not been faithful to joyn to it in counsel and strength but have given your strength to the contrary but they that are born of it do not so but when they are shewed the evil-one and his temptation be it what ever it be to or under what pretence soever if the Light testifies against it Then is their diligence watchfulness and sobriety used against it in the fear of God lest they should be drawn from the Light and enticed and with all their power they joyn in obedience to the way of the Light so that there is a war and wrestling ere the thing be over and being resisted