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	worshipper_n	2,020	5	12.2044	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40325	A word from the Lord unto all the faithlesse generation of the vvorld, who know not the truth, but live in their own imaginations; with a true declaration of the true faith, and in what it doth differ from the worlds imagination: written in obedience to the Lord, that al may see what faith is owned by the saints, and what faith is denied. And also a few words unto all professors of the world, who worship not the true God, but their own imaginations and conceivings instead of the true God: also a call from God unto all the the world to repentance, that all may turn unto him, lest the Lord destroy both root and branch of them that repent not. Also a few words unto you that scorne Quaking and trembling, which all the holy men of God witnessed that spake forth the Scripture, and also the holy men of God justified, and all you denied that scorneth such as witness such things now, as ever was in all the generations of the saints. With a word to those that are called Anabaptists, Independants, Presbyterians, Leve	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1992; ESTC R213323	12,879	17

and all whose Law is without we see to be in the old Covenant of works which made nothing perfect and the selfe righteousness which is filthy raggs and by the light of Christ are we convinced of that righteousness not to be of faith therfore whose faith and works stand here them we deny and see them all worshipping without the new covenant in the oldness of the letter whose law is without 1. Cor. 12.13 1. Cor. 14.13 their light without their Church without their Baptisme prayers and Singings without their Christ without their righteousness without and so their faith without all which we witness to be within and within we worship in newness of spirit and by this spirit we do see all that are without God and his righteousness to be in the world and strangers to the covenant of grace Ioh. 4.23.24 and that faith and worship we deny and God denies who seeks such worshippers as worship in spirit and truth and this faith and worship we owne not knowne to the world and therefore hated J. N. To all the Worlds Professors and People that you may see where you are and Repent THe word of God is not known to the world nor worldly wisedome hee that hath the word hath life hee that knowes the word knowes God and heere 's life manifest and the word hath quickned him and raysed him out of death and dead workes he that hath but the letter heareth the sound but knowes not where or what it is and as he received it in the aire hee declares it and death speakes light words without power and dead workes and lightness is brought forth and the power of death raines and the life of that is but an imitation and not the life it selfe the chaffe but not the graines tossed in the wind and the Prince of the aire is fed and ruleth and here vanity is exalted the light mind is fed with airie notions would be wise but the colt is at liberty not subject to the yoke but kicks against the pure and the obedience is not and the cross is despised but the nature who feeds heere whose end is for destruction and for the fire for the nature knowes not the living word but the letter and is without God in the world but hee who hath the word hath God and is come into the Covenant by which all things stand for he is come into the beginning out of the fall to the first fruites and witnesseth the word spirituall invisible powerfull pure and sharpe a divider and discerner by it he is sanctified and made clean by it he is established and unmooveable and is fed daily it is his life his joy and delight and the word is not to fetch from above nor from below neither is it to seeke it in a chapter or a steeplehouse without but it is nigh in the heart and in the mouth by which word he is kept at all seasons it is his counseller he inquires at it as at an Oracle and thereby he is brought to live the life of Godliness and from which is spoken words of life and power to others and hee speakes not his owne words nor brings forth his owne workes but hath ceased from his owne workes as God did from his and is entred into his rest and is come into the eternall Sabboth and is comprehended into the word which is Christ and is no more his owne for now Christ speakes in him acts in him and workes in him the will and the deed now Christ and hee is one married to him and Christ is his head and husband and now the head speakes prayeth and prayseth and prophesies and is uncovered and heere is the Church of the first borne the pillar and ground of truth where the woman must bee covered and kept silent and is not to speake in the Church is not to usurpe authority but is to be in subjection and if shee would know any thing let her ask of her husband at home and he is to her a covering of the eyes forever Now all you Priests and People that talke of these things without you from the letter this is a parable to you and you reade the outside in the letter and from that you imagine and so set up a forme or likenesse or image of those things and here you worship and for this you contend and would compell all to worship your image you have set up and you goe about to persecute and destroy all that will not worship and bow downe to it with you but it is the forme you have but not the substance and you put the dead letter for the living word and your meanings of it arising from the braines and first wisedom and naturall learning thus you declare and call it prophecying and put off your hats which is carnall but the head you know not and it is the woman that speakes and the head is covered and so you dishonour your head and honour your selves neither are you subject to your head but your owne will rules in you and you live in the pleasures of the world and are become wanton and have set your eyes upon many lovers and you are adulterated from your husband nor live not with him nor is he a covering to you neither can you witness him in you nor you in him nor the pure seed of God is not brought forth in you but the seed that is accursed neither is the pure language brought forth in you but as to God you are smitten with barrenness and brings forth nothing but words windes shewes and shadowes imitations inventions imaginations and conceptions and you never looke to bring forth better fruit never come to holyness and perfection and your first fruits and that estate wherein you were created and you will not know you are departed from your first fruitfullness and have lost him in whom your life stands and in whom your fruits is found and are become widdowes and desolate as to your first husband and have been running after other lovers and worshipping under every greene tree and the holy flesh is departed from you and you are doting upon the Egyptian and the Assyrian for wisedom and strength whose flesh is as the flesh of horses and have been as fed hoses living in the lust of the flesh as it is at this day Now all people stand still a while and see from whence you are fallen and the cause of all your unfruitfulness and returne to your first husband from whence you are fallen that you may bring forth your first fruits for till then all you doe is abomination to the Lord and he cannot accept it for what you bring forth is the seed of the adulterer and of the whore a generation of evill doers and yet you make a profession in out side as to righteousness and holiness but the power is to act righteousness you have not but in your actions brought forth but the image of the Devill