Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	scripture_n	true_a	word_n	7,817	5	4.4125	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87560	M. Jenkin's recantation, or His humble acknovvledgement by way of petition to the Parliament. Wherein he confesseth his sorrow for his actions against the state, and the unsuitableness thereof to his calling and profession. As also the Parliaments answer to his petition.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing J649; Thomason E645_11; ESTC R208828	1,439	8

M. JENKIN'S RECANTATION OR His humble ACKNOVVLEGEMENT By way of Petition to the Parliament Wherein he confesseth his sorrow for his Actings against the State and the Unsuitableness thereof to his Calling and Profession As also The Parliaments Answer to his Petition LONDON Printed in the Year 1651. To the Supreme Authority The Parliament of the Common-Wealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of William Jenkin Prisoner Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner is unfainedly sorrowful for all his late miscarriages whether testified against him or acknowledged by him and for the great and sinful unsutableness of them to his Calling and Condition That upon earnest seeking of God and diligent enquiring into his Will your Petitioner is convinced that the alteration of Civil Governments are ordered by and founded by the wise and righteous providences of God who removeth Kings and setteth up Kings ruleth in the Kingdoms of men and giveth them to whomsoever he will That the providences of this God have in the judgement of your Petitioner as evidently appeared in the removing of others from and investing your Honors with the Government of this Nation as ever they appeared in the taking away or bestowing of any Government in any History of any Age of the world That he apprehends that a refusal to be subject to this present Authority under the pretense of upholding the Title of any upon earth is a refusal to acquiesce in the wise and righteous pleasure of God such an opposing of the Government set up by the Soveraigne Lord of Heaven and Earth as none can have peace either in acting in or suffering for and that your Petitioner looks upon it as his Duty to yeild to this Authority all active and cheerful obedience in the Lord even for Conscience sake to promise he being required truth and fidelity to it and to hold forth the grounds of his so doing to any as God shall call him thereunto That though an Imprisonment accompanied with the loss of estate and to be followed without your gracious prevention with a speedy Arraignment before an high and eminent Judicatory is far from being pleasing to flesh and blood and though the enjoyment of your grace and favour be a blessing most deserving to be reckoned among the best of Temporals yet that neither the feeling and fearing of the former nor the expectation of the latter could have induced your petitioner against the light of his own Judgement and the prepondering part of his owne Conscience to have made or presented this Acknowledgement he sadly forecasting that a whole skin is but a contemptible recompence for a wounded Conscience That nevertheless he trusteth he shal be excusable in tendring thus far even his outward condition as to represent to your Honors that he is in most apparent danger of his irreparable loss of his health the sweetest of outward blessings unless by your gracious grant he may speedily enjoy a more free and open Ayr then this close confinement will allow him And this Christian favor which even for Christ's sake your poor Petitioner most humbly beggs your Honors are as able to enlarge even to a pardoning of his offences and a perfect releasing of him from his Imprisonment as he is submissively forward in desiring them though confessedly far from deserving them He nevertheless promising that your compassionate affording hereof shall be a strong and standing engagement upon him daily beseeching the heart-making and heart-changing God that all those who either through former unaccustomedness or present inadvertency do not cleerly discern the mind of God concerning the alteration of this Goverment may by observing your prime and pious industry to advance throughout this Common-wealth the power of godliness a Scripture reformation and the truth as it is in Jesus be won to a yeilding to your honors conscionable obedience and not only in word but in heart and life may be true and faithful to this present Government William Jenkin Resolved c. That M. Jenkin be pardened both for Life and Estate and that M. Atturny General be required to prepare the Pardon to be passed under the great Seal of England and that his body be forthwith discharged 〈◊〉 Imprisonment and his Estate from Sequestration FINIS