Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	seek_v	spirit_n	worship_v	7,034	5	9.8542	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75323	To those that sit in counsel for ordering the affairs of the nation, &c. a visitation, / by one of the Lords servants called a Quaker.	Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3083; ESTC R170303	6,789	8

not God have stumbled and have been broken ve● shame and confusion hath and shall follow all those that joyn themselves to Babylons builders which are in their own inventions which is in the transgression and alienation from God who reject and set at nought Christ Jesus the chief Corner Stone whose building is in spirit and truth a City whose Maker and Builder is God in whom we trust That little stone cut out of the Mountains without hands and so contemned by the Worlds builders is laid to the foot of the Images set up in all the Earth before which Dagon shall fall Bell and all the Gods of the Heathen the great devourers of Corn and Wine and the fat things of the earth shall be confounded and perish and they that have made them and trust in them shall be like unto them and no Image though the head and face thereof be of Gold and Silver shall stand in the earth but the Image of our God in Christ Jesus who is the expresse Image of the Father made manifest in the Saints in Righteousnesse and true Holinesse where the reformation into the likenesse of Gods image is to be known Christ in us the hope of Glory But alas alas the leaders of this people have caused them to erre and to worship the Golden Image of the Beast even a thing of nought yea and his image that in truth and simplicity must appear hath been marred more then any by this crooked and perverse generation of men who are in the subtilty wherein the enmity stands against the seed of God in the flesh they are which lusteth against and persecutes that birth which is of the spirit which doth the will of God A horrible thing hath been committed in the land they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of living waters and have hewen out unto themselves broken cisterns that will hold no water The Priests have spoken lies in the Name of the Lord and the people love to have it so being made drunken with the golden cup of the whores ●ornications that they have reeled and staggered to and fro from one form in●o another and never knew a forming again into Christ Jesus nay they have even made agreement as it were with death and hel● to slay and bury the just and have prevailed with the rulers of the people for a Commission even by a Law to seal the Sepulchre that the witnesse of God the Lamb slain from the foundation of World in the transgression of man from the life in God may not rise again to trouble and torment the World which lyeth in wickednesse and to execute righteous judgements upon the workers of iniquity this is he that the World hates because their deeds are evil And amongst other bad Laws of this Nation that burthens the conscience of the just which the sufferings of Gods people have declared to the Rulers of these Nations those for payment of Tythes are most abominable and unjust was ever the like heard of that theft oppression and wickednesse should be maintained by a law amongst a people called a Christian Common-wealth the Priests of the Nation which come not in by the door into the sheep-fold are theeves and robbers having stollen the words of Christ the Prophets and Apostles in their conversations denying the life and power yea and not singly and onely so but bringing forth the divinations and inventions of their own brains which are dead and raven from the spirit of life that such wares and merchandize should be inforced upon a people at so dear a ●ate whether they will or no like them or not they must pay for them as the blood of many of the Lords people and the barbarous spoyling of their goods doth sadly witnesse in this Nation Is not this unjust and even a rape upon the Consciences of Men I am sure of it it is that the Lord hates and his wrath is kindled and burns like an oven against this wicked generation of men that will not have the Lord to be the Teacher of his people those from whose lies and lightnesse abomination is gone forth into all the Land that the people perish for want of knowledge yea and the blood of the slain shall be required at the hands of those that have a power given them and do not remove and destroy all the high places of Baal those stumbling-blocks set up that have caused thousands to erre from the pure worship of God which is in spirit and in truth and have commi●ted abominable whoredoms with the Gods of the Heathen even those inventions and likenessles that men in their corrupt natures wills and wisdoms which is out of the sear of God have set up acted and worshiped which manifests it self to be a deceiver for the comers thereunto are not cleansed and saved from their sins they are not made perfect but plain to all the children of light that these worshippers wax worse and worse which is the character of deluded persons They do not confesse that Christ is come in the flesh for they live in the lusts of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life and this is the spirit of Antichrist they are of the World therefore the World loves them and hears them but us it hates What was the error of Bal●am was it not the setting up of stumbling-blocks to the people of Israel for the wages of unrighteousnesse and was Bal●am a false Prophet and can these be true that are lovers of themselves seek their own honour and praise of men and make merchandize of souls for unjust gain what can the highest professor among them all without the spirit of li●● which is able of i●self to lead into all Truth the which they may confesse in words but in deeds deny do more from the letter of Scriptures then the vagabond Jews the sons of Sceva the exorcists could do who would cast out Divels in the name of that Jesus whom they knew not but as Paul preached who was a witnesse of the life and power in himself that casts the unclean spirit out of the Creature if they have a Gospel let them freely preach it as the truth of the Gospel directs or let them that hires them 〈◊〉 them their wages And let not such an invented Idol of preaching any longer devoure by by a Law so many hundred thousand pounds a year in the land and shed the blood of the innocent I deny not the preaching of the Gospel but own it and such as are able Ministers of the New Testament which are not of the Letter but of the spirit but such merchandize upon the letter of the Scriptures I utterly deny Yet verily I dearly own the Scriptures of truth and in my measure witnesse a unity with the spirit that gave them forth which shews to every member his place and part in the body and how and when to speak the word in due season which is the rule and order of