Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	true_a	word_n	8,834	5	4.4618	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84771	Concerning good-morrow, and good-even; the worlds customs: but by the light which into the world is come, by it made manifest to all who be in the darkness. G.F.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1766; Thomason E910_13; ESTC R207522	14,726	18

the evil deeds be not you partakers of them are not you contrary to the Apostles Doctrine and they have not the Father and the Son that are doing the works of the Devil And to you that be not satisfied with these things before mentioned some Queries I shall give you to answer Query I. HAth he the Father and the Son that is doing the works of the Devil and his works not destroyed yet and was not the Son manifested to destroy these works and is he to have God speed said to him that is in the Devils work now if you say VVho is out of them Such in whom Christ is manifested who are the children of the day who witness the Father and the Son to whom the God speed is spoken Query II. VVhat is the evil day is not the murder and the wickedness acted in that day Hath not Cozeners Cheaters Deceivers Oppressors Persecutors Adulterers and VVhoremongers Swearers and Drunkards this day Is not the righteous sad when this day approacheth and can the righteous say to such they have a good Morning that these that be in the evil day have a good Morning without calling evil good Query III. And have not all that work wickedness Sorcery and VVitchcrast and them that do oppress one another and wrong the innocent and thieve and cozen one another have not they this evil day And when they begin to work this to work wickedness doth not their day approach Is this day good morning or he that leadeth his life in this manner in wickedness coming to the evil day coming toward the end of it is that a good Evening Query IV. And doth them that live in wickedness in this evil day regard the time that is in the Fathers hand Doth not them that live in the evil day the day of the evil destroy the handy works of God And are not those that destroy the handy works of God are not their works evil And what must it be said God speed to their works and them in the night Query V. And are they not all yet doing the works of darkness that are not turned to the Light and yet under the power of Satan And is there any that be under the power of Satan in the darkness doing the works of God and is any to be said God speed to but such who are doing his works and are they that have the Father and the Son and are come out of the evil and out of darkness into the marvelous Light Query VI. And what is it to speak idle words is it not to speak words out of their service and place and is it not that which is spoken cut of its place out of its service idle and must there not account be given for them in the day of Judgement of every idle word Query VII Is not the ground and root of all idle words from him who abode not in the truth And is not that evil that leadeth into the vanity into bondage the creature into bondage under the corruption is not the light the truth and doth not that make free from the bondage of corruption and brings to speak words that he shall not be judged for them in their service and in their place which are not idle is not all the idle words that must be given account for in the Day of Judgement out of the truth and from them that serves him who is out of the truth So ye who say your Tongues are your own you ought to speak that are not satisfied in the things before mentioned answer these Queries and let not the polluted lips utter forth words without the true understanding let not your evil communication corrupt your good manners but come to the witness of God in you that you may know the bridle that whereby the love may be known without dissimulation and your words known without hypocrisie whose lips speak righteously in whose mouth there is no guile the lying tongue hath been beheld and the polluted lips heard to utter the Hypocrisie crying Ha ha our tongue is our own these so hath said God speed your work with the same tongue said He do him a mischief and which hath said Good Morrow a good Morning or a good Evening with the same tongue fell a railing and lift up his hands full of blood to destroy him and yet saith to him Good Morning may be in his heart to steal his Cattel or rob him or do him a mischief or cozen him or cheat him covering his goods and yet tell him its a good Evening can the other say that is out of Truth this is the good day the good morning the good evening is not this the evil day and the evil works that be out of Truth which works are to be destroyed and not to it to be said God speed is it not their works who be in the evil day to consume to destroy the handy works of God and are these works to be said God speed to Or is not Gods hand turned against such whose work it is to destroy Gods handy works And is not the Nation and hath not the Nation been full of these that hath not regarded his handy works neither seen time and seasons in his hand neither is known the bit nor the bridle but their Tongue hath uttered perverse things and lying vanities and men seek after lyes who be out of the Truth and the Light and they make lyes their refuge God is not their refuge but their lyes Blessed is the man whose God is the Lord whose resuge he is for he will sweep away all the refuge of lyes saith the Lord and the Lord having swept away the refuge of lyes that he alone may reign and be the refuge of his people These are they that abhors the Light mark they that do abhor the Light they know not the way thereof nor continue in the path thereof mark the path of the Light these are the Murderers that kills and the greedy who thieve in the night and the eye of the Adulterer who waits for the twi-light and saith No eye can see me and these disguise their faces mark They dig through Houses in the dark which they mark for themselves in the day they know not the Light mark it s a Day they know not they know not the Light nor the path of it but abhor it but the Morning is Evening to them as the shadow of death if one know them they are in the terror of the shadow of death mark and take notice of this VVho continue in the path of the Light Job 24. Now if you say you wish the good day or the good evening to every one and you your selves be in the evil day and the approaching of it and in the works of darkness in the Night swallowed up in it how can you wish the good day who delight in sports delight in pleasures delight in covetousness delight in vain jesting whose mouths are filled with reproaches who are

the Lord is bringing all these things to an end that which is evil is not good that which is good is not evil Now that which is evil comes to be condemned with the Light that is good and shut forth Glory be to the Lord God of life for ever And this is for all the world which stumbles at the things before mentioned to read your selves and see in which day you are and all to take heed to the Light that shines in a dark place until the day dawn and the Day-star arise in their hearts that every one may come to put a difference between the precious and the vile the clean and the unclean for that which is out of the Light is unclean and prophane and not precious for being turned to the Light turned to the Word that is a Sword that puts a difference between the precious and the vile where the precious inherits the precious promises Therefore every one of you being enlightned with a Light that comes from Christ who lighteth every one that cometh into the world every one of you being turned to the light that cometh from Christ with the Light you are turned to him who is the way to the Father out of the world from the evil and its day but if you hate the Light this is your condemnation This is the VVord of the Lord God He that saith he wishes a good Morning and a good day to people and hates the Light that 's dissimulation for he that hates light hates the good day hates the good Night so he that wishes a good day or good morning to another and hates Light is in hypocrisie and his wishes are vain Again he that wishes a good night and a good day and saith an ill night and an ill day knoweth not that which the Lord hath made to be good he calleth that which God hath made evill and seeth not himselfe to be in the evil day and evil night the night of darkness And again he that saith what an ill morning and ill day it is and what an ill evening and ill night is this because the season crosseth him who doth not discern the times and seasons that be in the Fathers hand and knows not him who makes all things good so he that wisheth a good day and good night a good morning it with the same saith it is an ill morning or ill day or ill night he it is that is ill and calls evill good and his wishes are vain and the night is good and the morning is good and the day is good and times and seasons are in his Fathers hand these that be here are out of the evil day and darkness in that which is good which judgeth and condemneth the other and burns it up which calls evil good good evil Here all may see the evil day and the good day that which is bad the world calls good that time and season which is seasonable is unseasonable to the wicked for times and seasons be in the fathers hands which be good them that be in the life of God see them good which times and seasons the wicked calls evil and that is the ev●● and the evil is not the good the discontent which hath not 〈◊〉 its l●sson to be content and is blind and seeth not the times and 〈…〉 the Fathers hand and that is for Judgment that is the eye must be put out that is the eye Christ comes to put out that is the evil eye The Worlds hypocriticall Salutations being out of the truth are condemned with the truth THe customs and manners and fashions of the world which is practised amongst people in the world which is vaine when they meet one with another they will say how do you Sir doff the hat scrape a leg make a courchy I am glad to see you well your servant your servant my Lord or Sir or Mistress and when they are past them with the same tongue wish evil to them speak evil of them wish hurt to them or to her and say he is so and so or curse him or wish that he were hanged or kill or do him a mischief yet when he meets him or she meets her A woman meets another they bow one to another or if men meets the hats bow they are one anothers servants and your humble servant and their service and then when they are past one another wishes wickedness one to another and laugh at one another behind their backs and this is a custome that is evil among men and women which ought not to be and is to be rebuked and reproved they profess love and friendship to one another with the same mouth wish ill one to another and one destroy another this hath been an evil custome among men and women who when they meet together flatter one another and say they are one anothers servants and profess humility one to another and when one is gone from the other envy one another and lay a plot to do him mischief and do wickedness to one another this is and hath been a bad thing among people and is to be reproved and these Salutations are vain and not to be observed but denied and to be judged that plainness and truth and uprightness and honesty may come to rule in people and single heartedness and the love indeed which is more then words and this humility is feigned and this is a flattering one another in the presence and a backbiting one another behind one anothers backs this is to be judged and condemned that the witness of God in all may arise that leads to truth in the inward parts The End