Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	spirit_n	worship_n	worship_v	18,725	5	9.9357	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70012	An alarm to the priests, or, A message from heaven to forewarn them of the dreadfull day of the Lord which will suddenly overtake them, unless by speedy and unfeigned repentance they return to the Lord ... / by a follower of the Lamb, one whose eye sees the down-fall of Babilon, and waits for the exaltation of Sion, Tho. Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1660 (1660)	Wing E612; ESTC R19407	8,257	8

Whoredems and have gredily drunk down her cup of Fornications How often saith the Lord have you endeavoured to violate my peoples consciences How often have you exalted your selves against me presumtuously attempting to thrust me out of my seat to make your selves Lords of mine heritage by imposing laws upon my peoples consciences which is my prerogative alone to do You have ravened from my spirit in your selves saith the Lord and those that will not run to the same excess of riot with you are even devoured by you Lo thus saith the Lord you have blinded the peoples eyes you have taken away the key of knowledge you will not enter in your selves and those that would enter in you forbid you have set up Idolatry inwardly in your hearts and outwardly also in your Idol-Temples you have worshipped the Beast and imbraced the Whore and are crept into a dead loathsome form and way of worship which she hath provided for you And like Israel of old you offer unto me the lame the blind the imperfect Sacrifices instead of sound unspotted perfect pure sacrifices but away with your sacrifices saith the Lord put away your vain Oblations from before me for your Sacrifice of praise is abominable in my sight the stink of your incense is loathsome in my nostrils your offerings are unsavoury and irkesome unto me and all your praying and preaching your pretended duties and ordinances are a weight and a burthen upon my soul and my spirit is grieved with them saith the Lord therefore I will cast you off saith the Lord even because of the wickedness that is found within your gates and the blood of the Innocent which is found upon your skirts and because you hate to be reproved and strengthen your selves against me saith the Lord Consider this well saith the Lord did I not cast off my chosen people the Jews for the same iniquities which are found to abound amongst you and shal I now spare you O you rebellious and stiffnecked generation what are you better then Israel of old that I should pass by that in you for which I cast them off You have prophesied lies in my name saith the Lord you have run but I never sent you you have spoken a divination of your own brains you have stolen the Word from your neighbour and therewith have you traded O you Merchants of Babilon You have devoured my people saith the Lord and with feigned words have made merchandise of souls you have drawn away my people from my statutes and ordinances which by the finger of my spirit are written in their hearts and you have brought them again under a yoke of bondage which neither they nor their fathers were able to bear You have carried my people captive into Sodom and Egypt and have hindred their passage into the spirituall Canaan You have defiled my living Temples saith the Lord and joined them unto harlots and are crept into houses which the Beast set up for the Babilonish Whore to sit in Ah foolish people think you that the living eternal God wil be worshipped in houses made of stones or will be found there hath he not said that he dwelleth not in Temples made with hands but the Temple which he dwelleth in is a living Temple and the worship which he accepteth is in the Spirit and in the Truth but this Temple you have defiled this worship you have apostatized from you are gotten into the Whores Temple and are worshipping the beast instead of the living God O what shall I say unto you you disobedient people What could the Lord have done for you that he hath not done Did he not about 100 years ago rend the thick vail of darkness wherein the mistery of iniquity did then work from off the eyes of many of your forefathers and gave them a little glimmering of his light to walk in And did he not as it were take them by the hand and lead them out of the City Babilon the mother of harlots and gave them his Spirit to be their leader but alas they rebelled against their leader and having once despised and contemned the light in their own consciences how suddenly did darkness thick darkness overshadow them again and then how quickly were they run back into the Subburbs of Babilon again yea and prest hard to have entred the city again and doubtless they had prevailed had not the Lord in love and pity to them overthrown them And after that the Bishops had had their day and that the curtains of the night began to be drawn upon them Oh how clearly did the Lord manifest himself unto many of you how did he open your eyes and let you see the grosseness deadness and emptiness of that form wherein the Bishops had long held you O how did he raise up in many of you a Spirit of Prayer and of supplication to groan and cry mightily for deliverance and that the seed might be redeemed out of bondage and from under the yoke of the oppressor And was there not in many of you a living fresh desire and panting after God and the enjoyment of his presence begotten and for some time preserved Oh why did you swerve from it did he not draw you for then you were willing to follow him out of Episcopacy and give you his pure fear to walk in and did you not Vow to him in your hearts and before men that you would walk in his fear and be guided by his Spirit O that you had so done did you not make a solemn Covenant both with God men that you would utterly abolish extirpate Episcopacy did you not confirm that Covenant with reitterated Engagements Protestations and Oaths wil you now in the revolution of 20 years wheel round about again and take up a false rest in that dead empty loathsome form Ah who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the Truth what do you not plainly see that it bends to its mother Babilon from whence it came and will you run again into Babilon were not your stomacks once burthened with Episcopacy and did you not spew it up and will you now turn back again and lick up your old vomit Oh do not so do not so do not run wilfully into destruction Oh the exceeding weight and guilt which lies upon the Priests of this Nation for of them hath this people learned to break their Vows to break their Protestations to break their Engagements and to violate their Oaths none so forward now to plead for Babylon to fight for Babilon as they they have drawn the people from serving the living God and have caused them to serve strange Gods even graven Images fashioned with the graving tools of their own wicked inventions and framed in the mould of their vain imaginations one while they set up Episcopacy another while Presbyterie and he that will not fall down and worship the Image which they have set up is he not