Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	worship_v	6,337	5	9.5072	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89757	A declaration or testimony given by Captain Robert Norwood under his hand, (the which was by him publickly read at a meeting in Ab-church before Mr. Sidrack Simpson together with many others;) April 21. 1651. Together with several his answers and desires, proposed to them for satisfaction after his excommunication; worthy the most serious consideration of all: now brought to publick view for clearing of truth, discovering of error, and his own vindication in reference to many unjust and untrue aspersions cast upon him.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.	1651 (1651)	Wing N1381; Thomason E632_1; ESTC R20899	10,098	16

yet you have not done as you ought to do before you make any such proceedings against any Now I do here solemnly promise before all the people that if you shall from Scripture prove the things such where of you did accuse me and I under my hand have asserted that I will so farre as God shall enable me truly repent turn from the same under my hand publish my recantation till which time I may not reced from the things least I be found in the sight of God man a desertor of that truth God by his spirit in the Scriptures hath made known to me as also an eminent and evident breaker of that first and great command which saith Thou shall worship the Lord thy God with all thine heart and him only shalt thou hear and serve and become a hearer server or worshipper of men or the false or lying spirit in men which is to worship the devil for not to worship God or truth is to worship he devil or a ly That which you did then charge me with as error or blasphemy was as I understand that I held the soul to be of the Divine essence or of the essence of God Now I earnestly desire begg and intreate Nay I do here in the presence of all this people require you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ whose Embassadour or Minister you say you are and whose mind you then must needs have and as you will answer it at the great day of his appearing that you tell decalre and prove to me from Scripture or any other way that holds Analogie therewith what in very deed and truth the soul is that so I may repent and recant this my error if it be found so and be delivered from the power of darkness and of the devil or snares of Satan the very end for which Christ his Ministers and Embassadors were sent and that in writing that it may be considered compared with and tryed by the Scriptures and true Analogie of our faith I being very desirous to forsake all and every error though carrying never so specious a shew of truth though never so old or new profitable or honorable in the worlds esteem knowing well what they are whence they come and also that true salvation is only and alone of and in the truth And that because it 's strong above all THINGS IT and IT onely being everlasting 2. Secondly that you prove to me from Scripture or sound reason what the spirit of man or man's naturall is 3. What the true and very heaven and hell is spoken of in Scripture and you from God or Christ as you say so much promise to and threaten the people with the very right and true knowledge whereof is of the greatest and highest concernment to be clearly made known and discovered to the people of all other things all things else being but as it were accessaries thereunto therefore certainely must needs be known to you if you be what you say you are yet it 's very much to be feared that very few of you have the true knowledge either of the one or the other but that most fancy both the one and the other as the Papists their Purgatory and the Poets their Elisian fields is a bundantly evident Both God and the Devill both death and life both heaven and hell being very much nearer to us all then we are aware of I do therefore again in the love and bowels of Christ intreat and beseech you for my own and others satisfaction as you are or pretend to be his Minister or Embassadour that I may speedily have answer hereunto in writing as also to those former Queries proposed that I may not longer continue in error and so under the power of the Devill or darknesse you have bound your self here unto not onely by your profession but especially by that act of yours against me for how shall I believe concerning that which I know not how shall I repent disclaime or revoke that you charge as error upon me except you prove it so from Scripture And do not say in excuse that I disown you as having any relation to you since your self have taken that authority upon you and you ought in this case to give an account or reason of the faith and hope that is in you as I have done who pretend not to any such thing as you do If you do not let me tell you I cannot in reason justice or judgement take or account you for any other then an impostor deceiver and deluder of the people nor will any other sober judicious man neither will they esteem your excommunications of any more worth then the Popes bulls which equally with those if not more in respect more is pretended to by you deserve to be together with your self excommunicated the Nation and the rest of your fraternity as the very plagues and pests of the Nation the very fire-brands of hell workers of all mischief I speak not to cast contempt upon any sober peaceable-minded man or men who seek and follow the truth in love no such I love and honor with my soul All you charged as crime upon me so farre as I can understand in reference to my outward conversation was that I should tell a ly in reference to a trust reposed in me to which I often and again before your selves and divers others did solemnly protest in the Presence of God if it were the last word I should speak I speake not the words as some present conceived I did and further did declare that if I did speak them I was a very knave rogue and lier therein and if I should say I did speake them I must sin against my own soul no falsifying or breach of trust was found or proved against me James saith that the tongue sets on fire the very course of Nature and that it is set on fire of hell where then is hell and what then are those criers out of Others for blasphemers hereticks and the like who indeed come nearer the truth and give a better account thereof then themselves can or will do Judge O England Nay Judge O all ye Nations who they have been and are that have thus set England nay all Nations on fire as at this day and at whose hands that abundance of bloud which hath been shed shall be required Where I speak of the spirit of man or mans natural spirit I do not meane it was made such as is there exprest no but no sooner made but it became such and remaines such until renued in lightned or born again wherfore Paul saith be renued in the spirit of your mind being in your own spirit in which you are fallen and gone from God from life and salvation and so become dead b●●stiall and devilish of sinne and hell be as you were at first return to your life this is indeed that Prodigall that having gotten his stock would now live and be of himself he would not that God should be all he nothing but in him but he would be in and of himself and this that god of the world that devill that beast that serpent that dragon that hitherto hath had the chief government of the world even mans naturall spirit which is at this day much heightned and improved but God is comming to destroy both it and all its seeming gloricus erections together with that Antichrist man of sinne and false Prophet ROBERT NORWOOD