Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	place_n	spirit_n	worship_v	2,835	5	9.1263	5	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

caused by force to uphold a house for other people to commit and practise idolatry in if the house were for any good purpose or honest practise as for poor or impotent people to dwell in or such like who had not houses of their own because of their poverty then that were a deed of charity to uphold it and the people of God would not deny it but could freely give their mony to such an use and end but because it is not to such an use but onely a place to commit Idolatry in and to worship God ignorantly in superstitions therefore it is a matter of conscience unto many and for a good conscience sake they rather suffer the spoyling of their goods and afflictions upon their bodies then to pay their money for such an use and end and herein the Magistrates doth great injustice in the sight of God and his Saints and contrary to reason and a good conscience in causing Innocent mens goods to be spoyled by cruelty to uphold a place of Idolatrous worship contrary to mens tender consciences for as I have said they do no wrong to any man but only peoples wills are offended and their blind zeal turned into rage and fury against the iust who worships God in spirit and in the truth and cannot uphold the houses of false worship and it is a shame unto the people and ministers themselves who cannot uphold their own worshiping houses and it is a reproach upon their God and their Religion who causes others to maintain their worshiping houses by iniustice and great oppression and will not themselves maintain the houses where they worship their God but people who fear God are greatly oppressed divers wayes to uphold worshiping places for others to worship in as in many parts of this nation is wofull testimony which is a shame to the Magistates by whose authority these things are done and a great reproach to the very name of Christanity that people against a pure conscience and contrary to good reason should be compelled to uphold and maintain a worship and ministery which they doe not partake off but their very enemies that persecute them whose consciences are defiled and not excercised and their worship and ministery which stands not in the excercise of a pure conscience but in vain traditions and superstitious Idolatry are the people of God forced to maintain with maintenance by oppression contrary to their consciences and the unjustness of these things cries for vengeance from heaven upon the ungodly rulers and people who causeth the iust and upright to groan by oppression and thus the law is subverted contrary to that end wherefore it was added and the government is abused contrary to that purpose wherefore it was ordained of God for the guiltless are condemned and judged and the guilty are set free the excercise of pure consciences are oppressed and the false abominations and Idoll worships are strengthened and defended and because of these things is the wrath of God kindled and shall not be quenched till it have consumed the wicked from off the face of the earth that the just God may be feared and his people enioy their freedome and liberty in the practise of the pure religion and the excercise of their pure consciences and this will the Lord bring forth in his appointed time according to his promise that his people may reioyce in him over all their oppressors and cruell taskemasters which doth uniustly oppress the seed of God And as concerning the maintaining of Ministers it is the same in nature and as uniust and unequall as upholding of worshipping houses for though many out of a good conscience do deny to maintain a professed Minister by paying to him so much or such a summe yet they do not hereby wrong him wilfully contrary to right in breaking any contract or Covenant formerly made with him by themselves or predecessors nor they do not withhold from him any thing which properly belongs to him as debt or due for his labour by any Covenant binding thereunto onely the most that can be said is that such a summe or gift was formerly given out of that estate to a man belonging to such a Parish and therefore now it is claimed as due by custome of many generations practise and so ought to be done as the maintenance to that man because of his labour in his Ministry now to this I answer what though it was formerly done such a summe paid and such a gift freely given by our Ancestors in the times of Ignorance and darkness that practise of theirs then doth not bind any now to do the same seing no record can appear that they bound themselves and their heirs for ever so to do and now hath the clear light of the gospell sprung forth and the light of the day hath discovered all the workes of Ignorance and though the man that claimes such a gift or hire as debt to him because of his labour let them pay him for whom he doth labour and who doth partake of his Ministery and labour and let others be free who for conscience sake cannot do it who knowes his labour not deserving of wages but to be deceit and abomination and deceiving of soules and sees himself to be a proud covetous man and an Idle person who maintaines himself by the fruit of other mens labours in the vanity of life and without the fear of the Lord and this makes the thing a matter of conscience to many that for no better use nor to no other end they should pay their money which cannot be justly claimed as a just debt but as a gift at most to the upholding of such men and such practises which are not according but contrary to God in labour life and practise and to uphold and maintain a man as a Minister of Christ which is not so but the contrary as by his fruits is made manifest and that in ministery worship which is not the worship and ministery of the true God but the contrary as doth appear this many of the people of God cannot do for a good conscience sake except they should transgress the light of Christ and the law of God in their own hearts and consciences and so bring themselves into condemnation by the Lord so let all men take notice hereof that though the people of God do deny to pay any thing to uphold and maintain such a worship and such ministers which are not the ministers of Christ nor the worship of the true God but rather gives their goods to the spoyler and their bodies to the prison yet this is onely for the exercise of a good and pure conscience and not out of wilfull wrong and iniury and their suffering is not as they are evill doers but as they are Saints for a good conscience sake because they cannot be subiect to the wills of uniust men in upholding and maintaining such things against their consciences but are willing rather to suffer