Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	jesus_n	lord_n	spirit_n	7,577	5	4.8812	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27397	Some prison meditations of an humble heart given forth from a child in Israel, whose soul very dearly loveth his Heavenly Fathers children : much desiring, (and travelling in spirit for) their prosperity in the truth, even as for his own soul ... / by a sufferer for the truth in the common goal of Edmondsbury, whose earthen vessel bears the name of William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1666 (1666)	Wing B1893; ESTC R32569	25,285	28

the Lord may prosper and bless them with all Spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus Oh the Lord God keep all his Children every where in this hour and power of darkness and preserve all his dear babes and tender lambs in this day of great trial and manifold temptation Oh the Lord keep all those who make mention of his name in sincerity and truth from bowing in the least degree unto the Beast and from drinking the least drop of the Whores cup although she should be permitted to drink their blood Oh the Lord God almighty keep his sheep and lambs who were once scattered abroad in the cloudy dark day whom he hath sought and found out and gathered out of the desart places and wast howling Wilderness whom he hath brought from off the barren mountains and dry heaths into the low low low fresh green Valley where the pure sweet refreshing consolating springs of life eternal encompasseth them about Oh the Lord keep them still and quiet minding their feeding and not at all heed the raging of the Sea nor regard the unmercyful waves thereof which often looks very high as if they would quite overflow the valley of the low places and drown all who flee not unto the mountains for refuge and safety but oh let not the sheep and lambs and little ones fear nor at all flee to the hills for refuge for behold the Lord the high and mighty one the holy one of Israel is their Shepherd and he even continually watcheth over them and greatly careth for them and he it is who hath given bounds to the raging Sea and he limits the proud waves thereof and shuteth up her floods as he pleaseth he can let forth the wind and suffer a storm and he can make a calm when he pleaseth he can cause the sea and the wind to obey him and therefore the Children of God need not to fear none besides the Lord who will suffer nothing to befall them but what shall work for good to all his chosen faithful ones wherefore it is good for all the Children of the Lord confidently to trust in the Lord and not at all fear though their enemies pursue hard after them and say in their hearts come come we will pursue them we will overtake them our lusts shall be satisfied upon them we will have the desire of our hearts concerning them we will draw our swords and our hands shall destroy them and we will try whether their Gods in whom they say they trust be able to deliver them from the stroke of our hands well let not Israel heed the boasting and threatnings of his enemies nor regard the purposes of his adversaries though they pursue hard after him and say we will bring them back again into Egypt or else we will totally destroy them yet let not Israel fear for the Lord his God is between him and his enemies and fights for him against his adversaries and he in his anger will look down upon them and trouble their host and take off their Chariot wheels and will blow in his wrath upon them and the sea of his righteous indignation shall cover them and they shall sink as lead in the bottom of his righteous Judgments and he will get himself a name through the distruction of Sions enemies and honour and magnifie himself through the deliverance of his chosen who will work wonders for the sake of his Redeemed in so much as the Dukes of Edom shall be amazed and even trembling shall take hold upon the mighty men of Moab and all Nations shall shiver and quake before the mighty God of Israel who is dreadful in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders Oh let Israel honour his God in believing in him and in trusting in his name in relying and depending upon his arme of everlasting strength and patiently without murmurings to wait upon the Lord for he that is to come will come and will not tarry whose work is before him and his reward is with him even joy for the mourners in Sion and beauty for ashes gladness for the heavy hearted in Jerusalem freedom for bondage freedom from weights burdens and grievous oppressions Oh let all the Children of the Lord wait without fainting upon the Lord for yet a little while and the voice will be heard saying rejoyce oh rejoyce and even sing for joy ye saints servants and prophets of the most high and triumph in the Lord Almighty over the beast and false prophet and over the Whore which hath corrupted the Earth who hath long set as a queen and said in her heart she should never see sorrow with whom the Nations of the Earth hath committed fornication and she hath made Nations Kindreds Tongues and People drunk with the wine of her fornication who hath long deceived the Nations with her golden cup which hath been filled with abominations and in her is found all the blood of the Martyrs and servants of Jesus which hath been shed upon the earth and she hath rid upon the beast that rose out of the Sea who received his seat great power and authority from the Dragon who persecuted the true woman that was cloathed with the sun and had a crown of twelve Stars upon her head who sought to devour her Man child and made war against the remnant of her seed who keep the commands of God and have the Testimony of Jesus these cannot worship the beast nor his name nor receive his mark but these worship God alone and are followers of the Lamb through many tribulations whose garments are made white in his blood by whom they are redeemed from amongst men these the Beast and false Prophet have sought to kill persecute and root out from off the face of the earth but wo wo wo to the beast false prophet and thè Whore for the day of their Judgment is come and misery calamity distress and destruction is coming upon them and she the mother of Harlots the mother of Witchcrafts the abominations of the earth shall utterly be destroyed and totally burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God Almighty who judgeth her and now sing oh Heavens and rejoyce ye who live therein over mystery Babylon the great for it is fallen it is fallen as a mighty milstone into the bottom of the Sea never more to arise again Amen Halleluiah The Lord will thunder from Heaven upon thy enemies oh Sion and will break thy adversaries to pieces and will give strength to thy King and exalt the horne of his Anointed and he shall reign and rule and prosper and execute justice and true judgment in the earth in his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and sit under his own Vine and none shall make him afraid then shall it be said to Jerusalem fear not and to Sion let not thy hands be slack the Lord in the middest of thee is mighty he hath saved thee he hath set thee free from thy trouble he will rejoyce

and even as the Husbandman who soweth his seed in the Earth hath long patience for it untill he receiveth the early and latter rain so do thou wait patiently upon the Lord who will be unto thee as the early and latter rain in due season wait upon him he who is to come will come and will not tarry and his reward will be with him even fulness of joy comfort peace rest and sweet satisfaction unto thee oh my soul Oh my soul oh my soul surely surely the Lord will never leave thee nor forsake thee if thou forsake him not indeed he may seem to hide his face from thee for a time but without doubt he will appear again to thy comfort who cannot live without him oh my soul the Lord heareth thee often saying in secret alass what is the glory of the world unto me what is the honour and praise of the world to me what is the favours friendship and estemation of the world to me what is the vanity vain sports delights and pleasures of the sons and daughters of Men to me oh surely all these things are but as dross and dung unto me in comparison of the Lord my God who is the fountain of everlasting joy delight and pleasure oh if I enjoy him fully I have enough he is the joying of my heart the rejoycing and glading of my spirit the strength of my rains the girdle of my lines wherefore how can I live without him oh my soul the Lord intends good unto thee by all his dealings with thee if he withdraw for a time and hide his face from thee for a season it is thereby to let thee see what thou art without him how poor how weak how feeble how foolish how empty how dead how dry how cold how barren and unfruitful art thou without the Lord that so thou being made truly sensible of thy own weakness and inability may be the more sensible of the needfulness of the supporting power and upholding arme and saving grace of the Lord thy God and the more to relie and depend upon the Lord oh my soul through the Lords withdrawing his presence from thee thou comes the more to know what the want of his presence is and coms to learn to prize the sweet enjoyment of his presence the more and to hold him fast and cleave unto him and to be very vigilent and careful thou doth not grieve him nor do the thing that may cause him to withdraw himself from thee oh my soul Oh my soul thou must learn to know how to want and how to abound how to be full and how to be empty how to be rich and how to be poor and in every condition to be content and not to murmur against the Lord the Lord can open and none can shut and he can shut and none can open the Lord can open the windows of Heaven and shour down abundantly upon thee oh my soul and even make a plenty in thy land even cause thy store to abound with corn and thy Fat 's overflow with new wine and he can also shut up the windows of heaven for a time and make a famine in thy Land if he pleaseth and thou must not say unto him in a murmuring way why dealeth thou thus with me for indeed he may do what he will do and yet all his doings are just and righteous altogether and in all his dealings with thee he thy dear tender nursing Father intends good unto thee oh my soul Oh my soul when the fountain openeth and the great deep overfloweth and fills thee with plenty of things needful for thee even then oh my soul dread and fear thou before the Lord and take heed of being lifted up in heart of being puffed up in mind of being exalted in spirit and beware of a false ease and wrong liberty and false security which may soon steal upon thee at such a time when thou art rich wise strong and full enough in thy own eyes if thou do not abide upon the watch and dread the Lord and drink the draughts of joy in the pure fear and trembling never departing therefrom in what ever thou enjoy of the Lord or receive from the Lord or do and suffer for the Lord keeping low in heart meek in mind humble in soul tender in bowels contrite in spirit and then oh my soul thou art in a safe condition truly my soul when thou appeareth wise strong rich and full enough in thy own eye even then thou art rather in greater danger then when thou appeareth weak poor and empty in thy own eyes although thou art not then without danger but hath cause to fear and watch in all conditions oh my soul when thou appeareth weak poor and feeble in thy own eyes even then take heed of distrust and doubting but hold fast thy trust in the Lord and let thy confidence in his name be firme and thy hope in his tender bowels be sure and constantly relie and depend upon him and honour him in believing in him and if he kill thee yet trust thou in him and never leave him for alass whether should thou go he hath the word of eternal life who is worthy to be glorified magnified honoured and praised feared served loved and obeyed for ever and forever more Oh my soul thou dearly loveth thy Fathers Children oh the Lord knoweth how near and dear his dear babes and tender lambs are unto thee oh my soul oh thou knoweth them in the spirit of love wherein thou delighteth to imbrace them even those whom outwardly thou never saw and in spirit to clasp them about and kiss them with a kiss of peace and hug them in the bosom of indearedness ah thy bowels thy bowels is open unto them and thy love is dear indeed towards them as the Lord thy God knoweth and oh that love might abound in thee more and more and in the hearts of all the children of Light it may abound one towards another as in days past and years which are gone that it may appear to all we are of God who is love and that we all are true disciples of Christ in that we love one another not only in shew and in word but in deed and in truth loving one another fervently with a pure heart Oh my soul thou desirest to simpathize with thy Fathers Children in their tryals sufferings and afflictions and in spirit to bear a part with them therein oh thou desirest even to mourne with them that mourne and to weep with them that weep in secret and to rejoyce with them that rejoyce and to travel in spirit with and for the Travellers to Sion and with the Travellers in Sion and to watch with those Watch-men which the Lord hath set upon the walls of Jerusalem who for Sions sake cannot be still and for Jerusalems sake cannot hold their peace who cease not to cry day and night to the Lord and can give him no rest until he establish