Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	kindness_n	lord_n	love_a	1,686	5	9.5041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54452	A visitation of love, and gentle greeting of the Turk and tender tryal of his thoughts for God, and proof of the hearts of his court, and the spirits of the people round about him, in his own dominion, and the inhabitants of the earth that are borderers upon his skirts, in their declared religious wayes : and is a warning to all men that are in the corrupted wayes of sin and iniquity, to repent and turn to the living God ... : to which is annexed a book, intituled, Immanuel, the salvation of Israel / written in the will and countenance of God, by ... John Perrot.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?; J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671? Immanuel, the salvation of Isreal.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1639; ESTC R40666	27,935	40

rebel and tempt the Lord God although his mercies unto them were the greatest Yea I may say there was not a Nation that tasted of mercy as your fathers did eat and drink of salvation from many Enemies and deliverance from numberless afflictions yet how was it from age unto ages often in their streights they murmured and when they were at ease they waxed fat through mercies and kicked against God until Shiloh came the promise unto the Remnants of your Seed but he coming not according to your Fathers expectation even as the wonders of God in all ages were wrought contrary to the expectations or imaginations of the hearts of men and therefore they took counsel together and put him to death And thus the promise came unto many for without blood there could be no remission of sins although by the wilfulness of your Fathers in this matter ye have from that time been as a curse over the whole earth Neverthelesse for you there is a hope left yea for you a promise remains if yet ye return and enquire and seek diligently as in the morning and be found early and earnestly striving as in the timely season before the advantage of the day pass over your heads and ye be left as in the place of blindness where all your hope and expectation shall wither and be made fruitless as a thing of nought And therefore I say Not as you will have times and seasons and Dayes and Worships and Deliverances come to pass shall it come to pass unto you or be brought to pass concerning you but as the Word of the Lord God is and hath been the same from Ages which reacheth also unto this Age from the Dread of which the sons of men shall not escape nor find a hiding-place to rest themselves who walks in the wayes of uncleanness and doth traverse the paths of iniquity and unrighteousness And therefore wait for the word of the Lord God unto you that you may come to know your motion in righteousness that you may feel the vengeance removed which hath been long over your heads that thereby you may come toknow the redemption in your dayes and the restauration of God in the season of his appointed time until which in vain is all your Synagogue and Temple-worships and Altar-Offerings And therefore all people upon the face of the Earth Jew and Gentile Barbarian Scithian Bond and Free must all come to know that principle and measure of the gift of God which is in bondage in them to be made free by the powerfull operation of the work of the Lord through them which thousands and ten thousands for want of the good understanding are strangers unto and therefore are found actors daily in enmity to the motions of it and that is a dangerous state in whom the God of this world whom the Heathen worships hath blinded the eye of their minds mark hath blinded the eye of their minds whereby the whole world are but in the History out of the understanding of the Mystery and Power of godlinesse and life of the Prophets and holy men of God of old I say therefore unto all flesh living Keep silence and listen to the word of the Lord God in silence mark listen to hear the word of the Lord in spirit in silence when all reason and earthly consultations and disputings and questionings in the mind is cast out in the bed in the vineyards in the secret closet in the fields and then it shall come to pass to your remembrance that there is something in man which convinceth a man of the evil of his wayes and that will shew a man the iniquities of his youth and the sinnes of his riper years and bring all unto his remembrance in the fight of the Lord and then it will be seen that not any Sacrifice or Oblation hath blotted out any one sin out of the remembrance of God when as man in his own Conscience is accused for all yea then is the sacrifice short of blotting out iniquity and his prayers short of removing his transgressions nay further If a man should offer ten thousand Rivers of Oyl and the blood of a thousand Bulls and He-Goats and as many Rams and were it the Fruit of his body for the sinne of his soul it cannot purge the heart or cleanse the spirit and therefore not clear the conscience from the just accusation of God in the hidden parts of a mans mind and secret meditations of his spirit and if in this state a man perisheth where is the refuge which he shall flie unto in the last hour and in what standeth the hope of life everlasting all sober hearts in this may read the danger of ignorance and peril of blindness in the lust of sinne and unrighteousnesse out of the true understanding of the true worship and service of God And forasmuch as wisdom removeth the vails of darknesse and openeth the path of iniquity and leadeth to the Fountain of righteousnesse and bringeth to the Well-spring of truth I hereby hold forth the ground thereof and from whence it springs and how it comes to be received and stood in to the honour of the living God and beautifying the Face of the just and renown of the upright The dreadfull God of Heaven and Earth who is a spirit infinite who is light is the Vertue Fountain and Treasure of wisdome peace and life everlasting Mark and read with understanding God who hath been a stranger unto the Inhabitants of the Earth is light who searcheth every heart and tryeth the reins and the hidden part of the bowels hath sent his onely begotten Son a Light into the world whose light shineth in the consciences of every man that cometh into the world by which light in a mans conscience he is convinced and condemned for his wickednesse This light convinceth a man in his own heart and understanding of lying and swearing and pride and envy and persecution and dissimulation and murder and whoredome and all unrighteousnesse and uncleanness both of flesh and spirit This light is pure which sheweth a man every unclean spot of his life and unto this light in a mans conscience must a man turn in his mind to be guided by it in his heart which cometh from God who is light and by it which cometh from God who is the Fountain a man will be led to the first principle of the good understanding that is to say unto the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdome which Solomon the wise King spoke which was not only his words but also it was his life whereby he came to grow in the wonderfull Understanding and admired wisdome which Regions round about were amazed at And unto this day the Lord God is the same to all that fear his Name in truth and his loving kindnesse is not shortned not his mercy and favour slackned but as man hath slackned his steps in diligence waiting upon the Lord in the fear