Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	john_n	spirit_n	worship_v	7,067	5	9.7470	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39879	For the King and both houses of Parliament being a short relation of the sad estate and sufferings of the innocent people of God called Quakers for worshipping God and exercising a good conscience towards God and man.		1661 (1661)	Wing F1435; ESTC R29850	12,638	14

and dirt and shout and raise Heaps and Tumults against an Innocent People that lifts up a hand against no man that seeks the Righteousness and Good and Peace of all People And for Ministers and Teachers to have their People to do so is not of good report but a reproach and doth not grace a Magistrate which is to keep Peace and to lay the just Law upon Transgressors and Offenders and to distinguish betwixt the Peaceable and the Tumultuous and Offenders and Transgressors and such as the Law was made for and it was not made for And again All the Christian Magistrates and Ministers do know that Christ saith Let the Wheat and the Tares grow together till the Harvest and this was Christs Doctrine and Command to his Ministers And the Apostles which were Ministers of Christ said Their weapons were Spiritual and not Carnal and they did not wrestle with flesh and blood therefore they that wrestle with flesh and blood with carnal weapons Are they the Ministers of Christ and do these follow the Apostles Examples Doth not Christ rebuke such as take the Brethren by the throat whom he had forgiven in his Parable and said how that all should forgive one another And doth not Christ rebuke them that did not visit him in Prison Therefore what will become of them that cast him in Prison where he is manifest Therefore we would have you in the Wisdom of God to consider these things and in the feeling of Gods Spirit for every one must give an account at the day of Judgment to God for every idle word and all things done in the body And doth not Christ rebuke his Ministers and his Disciples who would have had fire come down from Heaven to consume them as the Prophet did that were contrary-minded to them and told them that he came to save mens lives and not to destroy them Therefore mind him his Doctrine and Practice and let him be your Example in all things by whom Grace came but the Law came by Moses which Christ ended which put men to death about Religion And this is my beloved Son Hear ye Him saith God who is the Prophet raised like unto Moses whom we do hear and have done these many years who is our Way Truth and Life And Friends if you will not set our Friends at Liberty which lye in Holes and Dungeons and some without Straw and some hardly have Air and many can hardly get Meat and many have died through the Cruel Sufferings and Abuses of the Goalers and others we offer unto you of our selves that be out of Prison as many as lye in Prison to go into their Holes Dungeons stinking Vaults and Places where some of our Friends have lain two three and some four or five years That they may go out of Prison and not dye there as many have done whose innocent blood we leave to the Lord And this is but our Duty in love to God and our Brethren and to such as do persecute and afflict us to stop innocent Blood from coming upon You and the People And this is in Love to your Souls from the People of God called QUAKERS VVe subscribe in behalf of our selves and the rest of our Brethren Thomas Coveney Ger. Roberts Edward Brush Char. Collins William Gosnel Richard Pinder Edward Brooke Gilbert Laty. Humphrey Bache Ellis Hooks John Lawrence John Rous. VVe are such as do fear the God of Heaven and delight to serve him with all the heart and we worship him in Spirit and Truth and do walk in his Light and VVay and are followers of Christ Jesus and are taught by his Spirit so far as he hath blessed us with the gifts of Grace and Knowledge And we desire to be found such as may serve the Lord God in uprightness of our hearts all our dayes keeping a good Conscience towards God and all men That we may be to him a People and he our God and that we may possess and inherit Eternal Life with the Father when this VVorld shall be no more And we have alwayes been a suffering People under every Authority that hath been over us since we were a People and the Rulers of these Kingdoms have persecuted us by cruel and hard Imprisonments Scourgings false Judgments and much evil dealing exercised towards us And all this for and because only of our Religion and good Conscience sake to God-wards and not for any Rebellion Sedition or wrong doing towards them or our Neighbours for it hath been our only care how to walk justly and innocently in the sight of God towards Rulers and People and have been peaceable towards all And herein we have desired to approve our hearts in much Integrity and Sincerity that we might be found blameless before the Lord as himself doth bear us witness And we are at this very day the same towards you innocent and peaceable and clear from all Rebellion Plots or Actions and Intentions of Evil we desire not your hurt but your good even that ye may walk in the VVay of Peace and your souls may live and not perish and that ye may fear the God of Heaven and may walk in his VVisdom and Counsel and not be destroyed And such is our Innocency of heart towards you that we can say VVho is the man that can truly accuse and detect us of the contrary for such hath been our peaceable deportment ever since the King's arrival that no guilt of Rebellion in action or intention is found with us But we are clear of all these things however otherwise falsly suspected or judged And we desire nothing of you but that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty under the King and that we may be permitted to serve the Lord our God and worship him in the true exercise of a pure Conscience according to the teachings of his own Spirit in the matters of Faith and VVorship and Duty towards him This we only desire That we may serve the Lord and render all due Obedience to them that have Rule over us And seeing ye have now our Case before you If yet it be in your hearts and purposes to afflict us yet more and to enact against us to our Imprisonment Banishment or whatsoever for and because of our Religion and good Conscience we are resolved in the Lord in much patience to bear it and not rendring evil for evil but innocently to submit to whatsoever the Lord suffers to be done unto us And we shall leave it to the Just God of Heaven to plead our Cause and to determine the Controversie between You and Us in his day VVe say if you yet cause us to suffer greater things than these it is as we are Christians and Servants of Christ for we are Innocent towards you and we are perswaded in the Lord to be faithful and never to renounce our good Consciences nor to deny Christ before men but to confess him and professe him and follow him in the sight of all men notwithstanding whatsoever Sufferings may come upon us for the same and if we perish in this World for so doing our Blood will be upon our Persecutors and we shall have Peace with the Lord our God even while the Guilt of our Destruction resteth with such as seek our hurt And therefore our desire is That ye would truly weigh and consider these things in the Fear and VVisdom of God and how dangerous a thing it is both to Us and Your selves to enact the Banishment of so many thousands of Persons and Families upon the account of difference in Religion Oh! do not put us upon such a sad Extremity by making such a Law by which we are concluded either to disobey Christ Jesus and his Law and so to deny Christ and renounce our good Consciences and so to expose us to the VVrath and Anger of God perpetually or to break your Law and disobey your Authority and so to expose us to utter ruine in this VVorld Consider of this and let the Law of God teach you To do to others as you would be done unto in the like case THE END