Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lead_v	light_n	spirit_n	4,475	5	5.5430	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30533	A message for instruction to all the rulers, judges, and magistrates to whom the law is committed shewing what just government is, and how far the magisrates power reacheth, and what the sword of justice is to cut down, and what it is to defend ... / E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing B6013; ESTC R25317	21,754	32

A MESSAGE FO● INSTRUCTION TO All the Rulers Judges and Magistrates to whom the Law is committed shewing what just Government is and how far the Magistrates power reacheth and what the Sword of Justice is to cut down and what it is to defend Whereby they may learne and be directed to discern betwixt the guiltless and the guilty and betwixt a matter of wilfull wrong by evill doers which they are to punish and a matter of conscience by men that fears God which they are to be a praise unto and not a terror and in particular divers causes are discovered which are proved to be matters of conscience and not of wilfull wrong though many therefore are unjustly persecuted and afllicted as evill doers With an exposition of some parts of the Law for the edification of such as desires to judge righteously between man and man who would discern of different causes and justify the Righteous and condemn the evill doers By a friend to righteousness and a lover of just judgement who desireth the increase of good Government E. B. LONDON Printed for Thomas Symmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Alders-gate 1658. A MESSAGE FOR INSTRUCTION c. Concerning government and Magistracy this I have to say IT is an ordinance of God ordained of him for the preserving of peace among men for the punishing and suppressing of evill doers and for the praise and safety of them that doe well that mens persons and estates may be preserved from the violence and wrong dealing of evill men And for this end government was ordained of God to be set up in the earth by the Institution of the Lord that righteousness should goe free and the wicked be bound and limited Now such as handle the Law and are executors thereof who are ordained of God to iudg and govern the people ought to be iust men fearing God and walking in his Law and hating and denying every false way that people may receive examples of righteousness and holy and lawfull walking from their Conversations and they that are set to govern the people ought to have the spirit of true and sound Iudgment to try into the root of all causes whereby they may be able to discerne of different causes and to give iust Iudgement in all things and such will iudge by equall measure for God and not for man but without respect of persons and such will be a terror to transgressors and will strengthen and encourage them that doe well and then the execution of the Law will answer the end wherefore it was added for because of transgression was the law added to slay transgression and to bind under the transgressor and to make him stand in awe and be afraid for the just law reacheth to the just witness of God and answereth it in every man and he that walkes in the law of God and hath his heart therein exercised the law of man hath no power over him to condemne him but it justifies him and defends him and preserves him from all wrong but who doth not walk in the law of God but is excercised in evill and transgresseth the light and pure law of God in his conscience by doing evill by wrong unjust dealing then the law of man takes hold upon him and binds him judges him Condemns him for the evil done by him contrary to the light in his own conscience which answereth to the just execution of the law in condemning of him And this is the work of the law in the hand of faithfull executors who justly executeth the just law in defending and preserving the iust and Innocent men from wrong doing and in condemning and iudging the ungodly and evill men for wrong doing whereby the witness of God in them both may answer to the Iust government in defending the one and in condemning the other and this is a good savor to God where the iust lawes are iustly executed by ius● men But where unrighteous men are in power and the execution of the law in their hands that are themselves transgressors such will not iudg for God but the good lawes will be subverted unto wrong ends from their proper vertue and the hands of the wicked will be strengthened and the evill doers will escape unpunished and the Innocent will suffer and Iustice and true Iudgment will be turned backward for when the wicked beares rule the people cannot rejoyce nor Iustice and true Iudgment cannot be received from men who are themselves unjust and unrighteous for though the lawes may be good and iust yet the executioners thereof being evil and themselves transgressors worthy of condemnation by the law the transgression of the law in others cannot iustly be Iudged by such who are themselves guilty of Iudgment and therefore the lawes will be subverted and iustice and true iudgment neglected because such as handle the law knowes not God but are in the transgression of the righteous law and of the iudgment thereof are themselves guilty Soe therefore they that handle the law should be men iustified according to the law and free from the transgression that they may the more iustly punish reprove and condemn it in others and may minister Iustice and true Iudgment through the law to all people under them and no man ought to be respected in Iudgment but every mans cause ought to be heard the poor as well as the rich and their matters diligently sought into and all ought to receive iust iudgment from Iust men by the iust law for the law is a defence about all the righteous to defend and preserve them in peace and freedome from all their enemies who are to be limited by the law as I have said And they that are reconciled to God whose consciences are excercised towards God in all things they are not under the law nor the law hath no power over them for the law is fullfilled in them by Christ who teacheth them in all things to walk without offence towards God and all men in truth and in righteousness to God and all men and such the law of man is to defend and not to Iudg them to iustifie them and not to condemn them and to be a praise to them and not a terror and such setteth to seal that the law is iust and good and holy who walketh in iustness in goodness and holiness and doth not transgress the good lawes of any nation but walk void of offence towards all for they walk not in the flesh but in the spirit and are doers of the law and not breakers of it and so comes not under the guilt of condemnation in any thing but are iustified in all things for the light of Christ leadeth them into all truth and so out of all condemnation their wayes are righteous and pure and their workes are iust and equall towards God and all men and they seek not the wrong of any mans person or estate but seekes the good of all forgiving their