Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	peace_n	spirit_n	unity_n	1,812	5	8.9331	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

the Bread and Wine outward did figure out which the Manna that God gave the Israel of old in the Wilderness was a pure type of the heavenly Manna the living Bread which the birth that is born of God feed upon and lives thereby and grows up into Eternal life The day of gathering is come wherein the Lord God of everlasting bowels of Compassion is a gathering the dispersed and seeking that which was lost ●ek 34. 12 〈◊〉 14 15 16. and bringing back that which was driven away and healing that which was sick and binding up that which was broken but the strong and the fat he is feeding with Judgement The Lord is a gathering people out of the Forms Shells and Shadows wherein many hath long stuck and is bringing of them to the Substance and life its self out of the many Sects and heaps and divers ways into the one pure path into the one way of Life Light Peace Truth and Righteousness who by the one Spirit hath and is 1 Cor. 1● baptising them who believe in the Light into the one body wherein the unity the ownness and the fellowship is witnessed blessed be his Name The way of the Lord is pure and righteous and unchangable I am the Way the Truth and the Life John 14. Rom. 10. John 12. the 8 ch● saith Christ the immortal Word which saith Paul is nigh in the heart to be obeyed and done This is he the Light the Salvation of God the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world who saith None can come unto the Father but by me I am come a Light into the world saith Christ that whosoever believe in me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life Therefore dear people love the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that so you may become children of the Light and become heirs of an Inheritance incorruptible that will never fade away There is no obtaining the Crown but through the Cross and this you will come to know who come to love the Light Mat. 11. 29. ● 6. 13. th● 10. 38. and to be taught of him and to learn of him who is meek and low in the heart and to follow him in the strait and narrow way that leads to life which few there be that finds it and vvalk therein He that will be my Disciple saith Christ must deny himself and take up his daily Cross and follow me This you will come to feel and witness if you be followers of the Light a daily denying of self you will know a denying of your own wills your own desires your own thoughts your own affections your own words and works your own wisdom and righteousness and a dayly taking up the Cross an hourly living in the Cross through which you must come to be crucified to the ●6 14. World its Vanity its Pomp Pastime and Pleasures Sins and Iniquities vain Words Works Fashions and Customes Inventions and Traditions so coming to be crucified with Christ unto the world and to be Baptised into death with him unto sin you will come to live with him unto God in the life of Righteousness in whom then you will find that Rest Satisfaction Joy Comfort and Peace which no man can give unto you So dear people who are seeking and desiring after the Lord God to find peace and comfort to your souls this I leave with you flie not from that which doth judg you in your own hearts for sin and evil and bring trouble upon you and sorrow upon you and woundeth and peirceth you in secret because of Transgression I say love that flie not from it for oh dear people how many is there that when they have been judged and Gods pure light in their hearts for their sins when trouble and sorrow and distress hath seized on them because of their sins which Gods Witness hath set in order before their eyes then hath they run unto vain helps and run unto men for help even to those that could not speak a word in season to them but hath daubed them up with untempered Morter and hath endeavoured to heal their wound deceitfully and hath Preached peace to that which is for judgment and so thereby they have gotten some kind of satisfaction for a time until the Lord wounded them again with the Sword of his Righteous Judgments and then their seeming rest fled away as smoak before the wind and sorrow and trouble took hold on them again as pain on a Woman in travel and then they have run again unto that which could not remove the very cause of their trouble and sorrow they have run to the Scriptures of Truth and therein hath found a promise and this they have applied to themselves for to get peace and rest thereby when alas poor hearts they have not been in that state and condition which that promise which they applied to themselves was unto and so not for them and then they have read what the Saints once did and performed and they set themselves to do the like and to imitate them and so hereby for a time they have gotten some satisfaction some kind of rest and peace until the Lord God did thunder again with Dread and uttered his Voice with Terror which caused the Earth to tremble and their habitation to fall and then dissolation came upon them again and their Fig-leave garment came to be rent and their wound greater then ever it was before and thus they have run from Mountain to Hill from one Physitian to another for healing but they were unto them as Physitians of no value for none of them could rightly heal their wounds until at last they said in their hearts We will seek no more unto man for vain is the help of man But we will return unto the Lord God who hath wounded us and he will heal us who hath broken us in peices and he will bind us up and so returning to the light of Christ Jesus in their own hearts with which the Lord hath wounded them for their sins and brought trouble and sorrow upon them for their iniquities waiting therein in patience upon the Lord God in the way of his Righteous Judgments which was set up in their hearts they came to feel through their believing in the Light and loving the Light by which they were wounded for sin the cause of their sorrow and trouble and wounds taken away by the Blood of Jesus which is his life which they came to feel in them cleansing of them from their sins and washing of them away and so the very cause of their wound being taken away and the corruption purged out then he the tender pitiful compassionate God of Mercy that in mercy towards them had wounded them healed them with the sweet Oyl of joy peace and gladness and now these that were mourners doth rejoyce and they that were heavy-hearted are made glad and