Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	lie_n	truth_n	1,698	5	6.1293	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26421	An Admonition to all lying brethren, or, A cure for the times shewing the begining, folly, un-worthinesse and danger of lying.		1642 (1642)	Wing A596; ESTC R18104	4,065	8

To prove the malignity of this sin to be the higher you shall perceive that to promote any cause with lyes argues want of faith and confidence in God want of civill faith and trust in men want of policy and leaves a suspition of guiltinesse and want of goodnesse in the cause First want of faith in God if they had any true affiance in the power and protection of God if they did at all consider that God hath wisedom to instruct and strength and readinesse to assist them That he can turn round the counsells of men and make Achitophel politick against himself If they did seriously beleeve that God can over-rule the enterprizes and dissipate the affections and melt and amate the spirits of the strongest opposers of the truth they cannot so much as pretend to it that go to promote it by lyes and forgeries Secondly Next it betrayes a want of civill faith and trust in men if they did not suspect men to be flagging from them to be wavering and uncertain if they were not afraid of their friends they would never use such unworthy means to comfort and keep them up fides fidem obligat the way to make a man trusty is to trust him and many men have taught others to deceive them by being afraid to be deceived Pavor aurilia formidat Fear is affrighted with her own supplies and suspects the very company that comes to help it and they want the true strength that are faine to fortifie with lyes Thirdly It betrayes want of policy for though lying for a while like false ware be better slee'kt and glister more yet truth wears it out Although a lye may get ground at the first going out yet truth will overtake it even the dullest at last will find himselfe to be deceived and then men will think them most odious and detestable that have beguiled them Though it may seem a trick of worldly policy to fetch in Prosolites yet at length they gain this gift amongst men to be mistrusted when they deal plainly and not to be believed when they speak truth And so truth and honesty prove the best policy There is a great deale of slavery in a bad cause it is a miserable and wretched thing to lye and flatter and thank and crouch and fawn upon every one not to dare to offend any and yet to suspect all that they will not be faithfull to them that are themselves unfaithfull they fear men are falling off and therofore they flye to this poore refuge to keep them together Lastly lying leaves a suspition and guiltinesse and weaknesse in the cause I like the phancie of the Poet well where he s●yes That lying and spreading of false alarums and rumors amongst the vulgar is a sign of guiltinesse Criminibus terrere novis hinc spargere voces in vulgum ambiguas quaerere conscius arma They make new treasons and spread false Alarums And when themselves are guilty take up Arms Lying argues weaknesse in the cause and in the person and therefore every true souldier abhors it Some give these two reasons why the lye should be so hatefull to a souldier First because it argues his cause to be such as he ought not to dare to dye in and therefore he is fain to maintain it with lyes Secondly because it shews him to be a coward that he is afraid of men and dares be only valiant and presumptuous with God Therefore let men thinke of lying as meanly as they will let them invent it as readily and set it out as plausibly and disperse it as licentiously as they please yet there is a fearfull doom upon it They shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven They shall be reckoned amongst dogs and murtherers and idolaters Rev. 22.15 For without are dogs and sorcerers whooremongers and murtherers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye But if they shall plainly declare themselves to have no feare of God before their eyes and that wotldly respects onely move them then let them consider that they shall not be believed when they speak truth That Time is the wisest of all and will discover them and then they will be odious to them whom they have deluded That falshood may get strength enough to ruine it selfe and others but never long to flourish and establish it selfe That although lying may hold up the flagge and display false colours for a while yet Truth will have the victory Magna est veritas praevalebit The cause that 's prop't with lyes must surely fail Strong is the Truth at length it will prevail FINIS