Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	king_n	mercy_n	throne_n	1,927	5	9.8019	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05952	A supplement and addition unto a printed paper, bearing date July 25. 1692. And thus superscribed, To Our Sovereign Lord, King James the II. Rightful King of Great Brittain, and Ireland, wheresoever he now inhabits in the parts beyond the seas. / Richard Stafford, a scribe instructed in the law of God, desireth a speedy, safe, and peaceable coming into England.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5139; ESTC R184563	4,539	4

A SVPPLEMENT and ADDITION unto a Printed Paper Bearing Date July 25. 1692. And thus Superscribed To our Sovereign Lord King JAMES the II. Rightful King of Great Brittain and Ireland wheresoever He now Inhabits in the Parts beyond the Seas RICHARD STAFFORD a Scribe Instructed in the Law of God Desireth a Speedy Safe and Peaceable Coming into England AS it is written When Messias is come He will tell us all things Joh. 4.25 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led th●e these forty Years in the Wilderness Deut. 8.2 And it is yet more evident from that saying of Abraham Son remember that thou in thy Life-time receivedst thy good things Luk. 16.25 And that manner of Speech The Former shall not be remembred nor come into mind Isa 65.17 And also from that kind of Expression Then shall ye Return and Discern Mal. 3.18 From all these Scriptures put together this Proposition of Truth arises viz. That in the future Life we shall remember know discern and perceive the Things of this Present but then past Life more clearly and evidently than we do now we are in it And so I believe and testify beforehand That then we shall remember know discern and perceive That in this Letter of mine directed unto him or in this Testimony of Truth bearing Date July 25. 1692. The way was shewed Pointed and Chalked out whereby King James might have Recovered his Kingdom and might have boen Re-instated and set upon the Throne of his Progenitors again And how that if the King had trusted in the Lord through the Mercy of the most High He should not be moved Psal 21.7 for nothing was therein intimated or directed unto him but what was lawful and right And that all those manifold Surmises and Imaginations How that his Enemies and Rebellious Subjects within this Realm and the Ignorant Giddy Multitude God could and can yet turn their Hearts to be as much for Him as now they are against Him which last comes to pass thro' so many Lyes and wrong Surmises conceived concerning him would put Him to Death or harm Him were false and they were the Frightnings of Satan for thro' the others Omission and Fear in this kind The Peril doth serve one end of his Kingdom which is to keep and continue People longer in their Sins and to hinder Peace from the Earth But the Children of Belial said How shall this Man save us and they despised him 1 Sam. 10.27 So the Multitude and Generality of People are apt to say Is this a likely way or fit Means for a Mighty Monarch and once a Puissant formidable Prince to come over in a Pacquet Boat or small Vessel only with a few Servants to recover his Kingdom especially when Fleets and Armies and the Power of a whole Nation are Engag'd against Him But besides that He had better come over this way then not at all This account may be given thereof in Reason and from the common Experience of things For even they who would oppose Him and confront Force to Force if once He should attempt to Land in an Hostile manner would not so mu●h as hurt the Hair of his Head nor touch the outside of his Garment if He come in peaceably There would not be the like Occasion and Pretence for so doing Things altogether as unlikely as what is here imagined have come to pass and been brought about when they have been transacted all along exactly in the way and Method of God For all this I considered in mine Heart even to declare all this That the Righteous and the Wise and their Works are in the Hands of God Eceles 9.1 Who are safe under his invisible Protection He shall cover thee with his Feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust Psal 91.4 even whilst the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed And even whilst Ten thousands of the People have set themselves against me round about The very means whereby God would bring a thing to pass do all along seem to the People of the World to be despicable Means And by a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt and by a Prophet was he preserved Hos 12.13 And so every and each Thought which as yet hinders the King from coming over and from doing as is there shew'd unto him is a false and untrue Thought I have often Reason'd and been Musing within my self That if it was indeed the mind and good Pleasure of God to bring the King over and Re-instate H●m Why then doth not God put the same Thoughts into His Soul as into mine in order to set Him again upon the Throne Or Wherefore is it that all my Writings on his behalf seem only as so many Guesses and Imaginations But as yet many are apt to object unto me Thou dost not hit upon the Right way O● God doth not give such a Seal and Evidence and Testimony unto the word of his Grace which appears forth through thee That the People as yet do not obey and discern it I do here confese to his Glory Josh 7.19 but to mine own Shame That in some things I have feared and been dismayed and been lacking And as to other things in the management of that Great and Good Work which herein hath been committed to me I have err'd and been ignorant Some reason whereof and of what is heae objected is to be imputed to the manifold and continued Oppositions of Satan And he shewed me Joshua the High Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan at his Right hand to resist him Zac. 3.1 Only he who now letteth will lett until he be taken out of the way 2 Thes 2.7 But then again as on one side the work of the Lord as it was committed to my management hath suffered much dimunition loss and disadvantage thro' my unbelief and Ignorance and beceuse mine own Life and Convesation comes so very short and so much behind of what was that of his Antient Prophets or of his Servants of old time Depart ye depart ye G●●ye out from hence Touch ur unclean thing Go ye out of the midst of her Be ye clean that bear the Vessels of the Lord Isa 52. v. 11. And so I should have got out and separated from amongst my Brethren and I should have endeavoured to have exceeded even them who live in the strictest Sect of our Religion and in the most circumpect walking in all holy conversation and Godliness and in constant universal Zeal for the Lord our God But alas and Woe unto me all this I have not done So on the other side it was good and seasonable Advice which having saw and received the same out of the Glass of the Word I gave unto the King that during the time of His Deprivation He should not live in outward Mirth and Recreations I am sorry to hear that he gives way to the latter unless it is for