Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	spiritual_a	worship_n	worship_v	1,653	5	9.0507	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33503	A song of the judgments and mercies of the Lord wherein the things seen in secret are declared openly : being a brief demonstration of the secret work of the Almighty in me, his servant, given forth at the movings of the spirit of the Lord and is to go throughout the world ... / by Josiah Cole.	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4756A; ESTC R26612	15,087	17

and that by men of all professions as they have come into Authority one after another and many and seeming fair promises have been made by them all That free Liberty of Conscience in things relating to God should be granted and allowed to people of all sorts for the breach of which engagements with many other divers have already been rooted out and overturned and yet thereby men have not taken warning though besides warnings have oft been given them in tender love to perform their promises and engagements in these things and all other though much consisteth therein as to their establishment and on the contrary to their ruination Neither have they learned to give the same liberty to others in things relating to the Conscience as themselves would desire to have and this is not to do as they would be done unto and therein they are short of fulfilling the Royal Law of God Wherefore let all people who are making Laws to compel mens consciences consider how they are degenerated from God and how darknesse hath covered them and hardnesse of heart hath seized on them so that they cannot have regard unto tender consciences but in the pride of their hearts would be Lords over the Consciences of others Surely they are not guided by the same Spirit that the Apostle was in the primitive times who said Let every man be fully perswaded in his own Conscience and this was true liberty of Conscience And notwithstanding all the profession that there hath been and yet is in the World and the talk of God and Christ and redemption and salvation by him yet now when the Son of God is come is there faith to be found on earth or are people redeemed from the earth or saved from the polutions of the world I tell you nay for all who are from the light of the Son of God in them they are in the alienation and degeneration and are strangers unto God and his Covenant of peace and reprobate concerning that faith which gives the Saints victory over the World and so are drove out into the earth not redeemed from it but are bond slaves to corruption and live in the polutions of the World and in this state the whole World lieth notwithstanding all their profession and talk of Religion which is amongst them and so their fruits plainly manifest it and thereby it is clearly seen that their Teachers were not sent of the Lord neither have they had his Word nor stood in his counsel therefore have they not profited the people nor turned them from the evil of their ways neither are they brought to the knowledge of the truth by which freedom and redemption is witnessed So their preaching is vain and their Faith is vain and they remain in their sins which separates them from God and are dead while they live and are unrestored and unreconciled and have no assurance of their eternal well-being And when any come into a serious consideration and unto a true sence of the sad state they are in and how they have lived and spent their time all their life long then judgement and wrath condemnation and pangs and the sorrows of Hell compasseth them about and then seeing themselves in the perishing state they are even ar their wits end yet these things they consider not in the time of their prosperity Wherefore all people every where who desire to come out of these distractions and confusions and hurryings and contentions about Faith and Worship and Ordinances and out of the polutions which the world lives in and to come into the spiritual Worship which is in the spirit and in the truth To you I say that is the Spirit of Truth in you all in which God will be worshipped which reproves you of sin in your hearts and as you come into obedience to that it will bring you into the spiritual Worship for the spiritual Worship consisteth in obedience to the Spirit and this is the everlasting Ordinance of God viz. Christ the Light the quickening spirit for him hath God ordained of old to all that believe and work righteousness for salvation So all being exercised in the Light and with the quickening spirit here you are exercised in the Ordinance of God and here the living substance is known in which the shadows types and figures end and here the hand-writing of Ordinances is blotted out and here the Law ends which was contained in Ordinances mark that in Christ the everlasting Ordinance Concerning FAITH ANd the living Faith which gives the Saints victory over the World this cometh by hearing of the Word which is nigh unto you all even in your heart and in your mouth and as every one comes to hear and obey it you will thereby be begotten into the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints by which they wrought righteousness and that is the Faith which giveth victory over the World and which worketh by love for the purifying of the Conscience from dead works to serve the living God and without this Faith it is impossible to please God for whatsoever is not of faith is sin So search your selves and see whether you are in this Faith yea or nay or whether your faith be not a dead faith for that which doth not lead to work righteousnesse is a dead faith for as the body without the Spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also yet by works only there is no●e iustified and faith without works is dead for the faith of Abraham wrought with works and by works faith is made perfect So let not any deceive themselves with a feigned Faith or framed in the imagination for that is a vain faith and notable to save you Also beware that your faith towards God be not taught by the precepts of men for that will stand you in no stead neither wil it give you victory over the polutions of the world nor purifie your hearts from sin Wherefore mind the Word which is nigh by the hearing of which faith cometh even the living Faith by which the just lives which was once delivered to the Saints and which we earnestly contend for Concerning HOPE ANd the living Hope which maketh not ashamed but purifieth the heart even as God is pure This is not witnessed nor known but through the tribulation and patience in the experimental working and operation of the spirit of life in the inward parts and Word of Life for by the Word of God which lives and abides for ever are we begotten again unto a lively hope which we have for an anchor both sure and stedfast in all our tryals tossings and hurryings which we meet withal in the World and amongst the hypocritical professors thereof whose hope wil perish in the day when the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven upon all who hold the Truth in unrighteousness but he whose hope is begotten by the operation of the Word and Spirit of Life even he it is that purifies himself