Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	service_n	spirit_n	worship_v	1,834	5	8.9813	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60664	Univeral love In which a visitation floweth through the creation, that all people may be informed into the truth, and in their several places come to walk in the truth, and live in the truth, to be a good favour unto God, and honour God. 1. To parents of children. 2. To masters and dames of families. 3. To servants in their places. 4. To aged people. 5. To such as live a single life. 6. To young people. 7. To children. 8. To such as are in outward government. 9. To ministers of parishes, so called. 10. To such as practise in the nations law. 11. To such as trade in wights and measures. 12. To such as buy and sell in the markets or in any other places. With a general exhortation. Also something concerning faith, and hope, and love, and the word, and mans restless part, and the election, and a particular place of bondage opened. ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1668 (1668)	Wing S4344; ESTC R219638	76,293	165

sent of God to Proclaim the glad Tidings of Peace through the Gospel and that Jews and Gentiles might be converted and turned unto God who were seperated and alienated from his Life and they went forth in the Joy of Gods Salvation and preached Salvation by Jesus Christ and declared the Glad Tidings of the Gospel of Peace and in the Power and Wisdom which they had received of God they were made manifest to every mans Conscience in the sight of God and there was no enticing words amongst them but plainness of speech as became the Gospel And these were true Ministers who sought the Salvation of Souls and preached Jesus Christ the Salvation of God these were moved in the Power and Wisdom which they had received to travel in hunger and cold and nakedness and perils and to suffer and endure stripes and buffetings and bonds and as they were ordered in the Power so they went from place to place and from City to City and from Country to Country to make known the Glad Tidings of Salvation and to preach the Gospel of Peace and in this stood their service for God and they gathered many unto God who where alienated from him and when Jews and Gentiles had received their Message then they were converted and turned unto God and came to believe in Jesus Christ and to know his Salvation and then they did not abide amongst the unconverted Jews and Gentiles but come out from amongst them and came into unity in the Spirit and in the Truth and came into the Faith of Christ and were true Believers and so they met together in the Fear of the Lord God and Worshipped him in his Spirit and in his Truth which they had received and when they thus met together then the Church was met together and Christ the Wisdom of God was amongst them and ordered them in the performance of all their services and he had the preheminence in all things and in the motion of his Power and Wisdom they Preached and they Prayed and they Edified and Comforted one another and there was no limitation of the Spirit amongst them but whether Son or Daughter in whom the Spirit moved they performed the Service faithfully as the Spirit required and if any thing was revealed to another that sat by the first was to hold his peace and this was the Church-order where Christ the Wisdom of God had the Government and the preheminence And here was the true Church and the true Church-order in the Wisdom of God here where no Parishes nor Parish-Churches here was no set maintenance in particular places but a free Declaration of Gods Eternal Love by Jesus Christ and they Preached the Gospel freely and neither money nor price was expected for it and this was found Preaching and Praying and Worshiping and they had the Power and presence of God amongst them and they rejoyced in his Salvation and drunk the Cup of his blessing freely And these Ministers were not by man nor of man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Mark by the Revelation of Jesus Christ and Christ Revealed the things of God freely and he said Freely ye have received freely give and they were faithful to his Command and did not enquire how they should be outwardly provided for but they trusted the Lord and it was well with them so did they gather Flocks and the Flocks gave them Milk they planted Vineyards and the Vineyards yielded them fruit and they did eat the fruit of their own labour joyfully and were truly contented this was a pure Gospel-Ministration and these were true and faithful Ministers of it whom the Lord God sent forth in his Living Power with the Message of Eternal Life and they preached the Gospel and did live by the Gospel Mark they that preached the Gospel did live by the Gospel this was pure refreshment and nourishment unto their Souls and the River of Living waters did flow out of their bellies and was a refreshment to many thirsty Souls in that day But Oh ye Ministers of Parishes how are you degenerated from this Living Way and from this glorious dispensation of the Love of God to the Sons of men What is the Message that you have received and what is the Tidings which you bring unto people and what is the practise that you observe Oh that you would once lay it to heart and Consider it seriously How many in all your time have you converted unto God and how many have you brought to the Faith in Christ Jesus and what is the peace that is reaped by your Gospel How many sit complaining for want who yet know not the Salvation of God but sit mourning and cannot find a resting place Your Balm doth not heal your water doth not refresh you are unskilful Physitians at the best and you cannot relieve a distressed soul you do not receive your Gospel freely but spend some Years before you get it and with great summes of money you come to obtain it and so it is your own and not the Lords and his Way you do not know but have invented your own devices and sell your Gospel for what you can get and Preach it at the greatest advantage to your selves and so you buy and sell and reap the profit But what doth the soul reap by your Ministry and where is the refreshment that supplies the needy poor souls may cry and mourn under you and never meet with satisfaction from you Oh grief and sorrow that proud heady high-minded men should be appointed for such a service and should be maintained after such a manner when they are so far degenerated from the Life and Truth of God in themselves and what sadness it is to Innocency to see many thousands of people carried away with their windy Doctrine which in the cunning craftiness they have invented and with ●hat deceives poor people and tosses their minds to and fro at their own pleasures If you that are Ministers will but look into your selves and into your practise you may behold though your Eyes are very dim that you are exceedingly degenerated from the way of Truth and Gospel-Ministers and also the Gospel it self Therefore be not Obstinate and Rebellious in your minds but submit to the reproof of the Lord Jesus Christ for his Ministers you are not neither do ye bring true Tidings of him and therefore you are reproved by him which he would not do if you were his and it would be better for you to look into your own houses and make things sure at home before you take upon you to Preach to others for you that have not the Joy of Gods Salvation in your selves can never bring others to sit downe in it and every wise man would know his own standing to be safe before he go forth to build up others for if you your selves be cast away whilst you are Preaching to others what will the end of your Labour be and what will be your reward surely