Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	saviour_n	spirit_n	worship_v	2,314	5	9.2452	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04013	A letter written to a Christian friend, and one of the Parliament men. Proposing the groundlesness of the plea for tyths, impropriat [sic] tyths, or tyth as a revenue due to the magistrat.		1653 (1653)	Wing L1767A; ESTC R179629	12,558	15

I had rather pass to the Grave and there rest in silence than to have my Name stand among that proud Generacion I know it was the fruit of Christs Intercession to store the Church with guifts for the edifying of the body of Christ that is the Church and the faithfull Ministers of the Gospel have a precious lustie comliness in my ey especially those that love the work for their Masters sake I mean the conversion of souls I say their employment is the most honourable they serve the Lord Christ They that convert soules to God shall shine as the Starres in the Firmament they are fathers in the Church and it may serve to humble men that God hath appointed this way to teach men by men And my prayer to God is that he would send out more faithfull Labourers for the harvest is great Also Maintenance for them is as clear an Ordinance as the other I could instance in many Scriptures Gal. 6.6 and the best of outward things befits the best Calling and not nigardly porcions for they must use Hospitality and so be Ensamples for their flock and for a Christian Nacion so professing to be t is not our glory but our shame to let them live beggerly and in disgrace as we flourish they should be partakers he that gives freely and of a chearfull minde he offers the acceptable Sacrifice to God and none is accepted for Sacrifice but such Our Saviour sayth the time shall come that he that worshipeth shall worship in spirit and in truth but you wil say who shal take care for the worship of God Ministers and Maintenance in the mean time That I suppose is your work to be studying how to be nursing fathers to the Church and to see that those that preach and publish the Gospel under your Dominion may have du encouragement and supply I think none wil deny but that they should participate with us in our good and pleasant temporall things and I judg it better by guift than force in the Old Testament they gave all things as they had them for building the Temple and Sacrifice the Apostle tels Ananias was it not in thy power Acts 5.4 The portion God appointed the Levites as it was typicall so to encourage them in the work so that being about the work of the Lord they might not be hindered and the mayntenance Ministers should receive besides as duty from the Donor it should be for encouragement to him whose work is enough for the whole body and minde is it any encouragement to a servant to continu his service that must su for his wages after earned by painfull sweatings and hard labor is it any encouragment to the Merchant and Tradesman after they have made use of their utmost skill in buying and waited to take the best season for Winde and Tide to bring home their Goods and after all must impose them on such as will never pay till haled to Prison this speaks the Commodityes to have no worth in them so for the Ministers of Christ to have their Wages by force and to be a man of strife when his Message is Peace and precious work it is I say for him to force and become a Ruff-man Can he do this and be encouraged in his work the Word sayth alluding to them The Labourer is worthy of his hier so that the Gospel is of some worth and O that the Gospel might dissolve hard hearts more many times it proves but souer Food to eat the Bread of him that hath an evil eye yet many have their teeth fet on edg I wish these faults were amended the covetousness of the Ministers less and the Charity of the People more I know no Rule in the Word of God that the Magistrat should study wholly to deliver the Minister from living somwhat by Faith now how far a Christian Magistrat may force worship and for worship in every Punctilio I will not dispute but this I know Gospel Principles bears that every man do what he do in Faith and this I know is according to the Law of Nations if the Magistrat command any thing against my conscience I ought to obey or suffer I will not undertake to say what the Magistrate may not do as a Magistrat but I conceive this he may do without oppressing any give to the Ministers the Glebe Land in all places also all those Lands wrested out of the Bishops hands for whatsoever we won by conquering our late Enemy and not sold in the three Nations is in your power to give or sell and much more were I a Statesman pardon the supposal I should bend my minde to finde out to serve the Church and bring my glory to her and if there were fewer fixed Ministers in most parts of the Downs and those places and Parishes where there are few Inhabitants joyned and an itinerat godly and able Ministry to journey from place to place it may probably awake the deaf and dead sinners more and O that they might hear the voyce of the Son of God and live but if they will not hear nor receive them to turn away But Sir want I Bowels or Expressions the dearest Lord knoweth I speak the truth in Christ I ly not for it pierceth my heart as sharp arrows to think that Gods Labourers for so they are called should toyl all the day of their Pilgrimage praying and woing men in Christs stead that they would be reconciled to God and while they are telling them the good tidings of the Gospel and counselling and pointing out to the foolish world Jesus Christ which is the tru Bread come down from Heaven and for all this men have no bowels moved to count them worthy of common Bread my heart pityes all hard hearts and all hearts bound up whom their own ey does not pity Let them know Mercy is but Mercy in its time and then Justice seals what Mercy leaves O you precious hearts consider your labor shall not be lost in the Lord Can you spend and be spent for the Lord Christ Remember who sayth it I will never leave you nor forsake you Do not think you serve an hard Master Can you believe the Children of the Earth will honor you with what is theirs Christ sayth The world loves its own and if ye were not the Children of the Light the world would not hate you I know no Rule they have to match the world so well as this ye stand by Faith in the greatest Peace and Prosperity that can be you are at uncertaintyes with the world how long you shall stand or when you shall fall Remember Christs Kingdom is not of this world therefore possess all you have or would have by Faith and it is not long but he that shall come will come and bring his reward with him but wo to those whose Gold and Silver is cankered through ignoble imployment for the Rust of it shall witness against them Dives hath his place I have nothing more with you for the present for I know not how you can bear this In the mean time you may be sure I honor your Authority your Counsel your Person and so commit you to the Eternal God and stil remain Your Honors in all humble and du observance FINIS