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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42489	The love of truth and peace a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 29, 1640 / by Iohn Gauden ...	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing G363; ESTC R492	24,201	54

of profit preferment applause and the like as Demas did 2 Tim. 4. 10. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is neither truth nor peace so much they love though they stickle for both but their bellies pleasures plenty and selves which they enjoy under the wings of truth and peace 5. Many love what they think truth and happily is so yet not because it is so but because they think so extreamely biased with selfe love and pride that they pertinaciously retaine what ever opinion they have once undertaken though they cannot maintaine it only on this ground Ne videantur errâsse so hardly drawne by overcomming themselves to triumph over their errours Ita perit judicium ubi res transit in affectum nostram qualemcunque praevalere volumus sententiam quia nostra est so much doe our affections blinde bri●● corrupt and warpe our judgements 6. Many say they love truth but not universally not such truthes as crosse their credits opinions ends pleasures sinnes and lusts Nolunt id verum videri quod affectibus suis adversatur He loves not any Truth that loves not all as he likes not the light or Sun who is offended with any beame of it 7. Veritas animae sponsa Truth is a pure Virgin which every soule should wooe and seeke to wed to it selfe Many pretend to love it but not casto honesto amore sed meretricio prudendo Lascivientia ingenia such as fondly and wantonly out of a vanity and curiosity only court that Truth which they see is countenanced and shined upon by publick favour and authority ready enough to discountenance and forsake it if the streame of things should change Venales animae vile and mercenary soules that buy and sell the truth prostituting it not intirely loving and wedding themselves to it 8. Some to purchase their peace are ready to sell the Truth by flattering complying and mancipating their judgements to other mens opinions and errours either discovered which is very wicked or unsearched which is very weak Degenerate mindes which so easily enslave that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the noblest and soveraigne faculty of the soule which is the understanding to other mens errours never so great if their power be so too 9. Veritas animae pabulum there is as great an aptitude and proportion betweene the minde of man and truth as is betweene the eye and the object meat and the stomack now we know it must be a pure and unblemished eye that sees with certainty and constancie a cleare sound and undiseased stomack that desires likes and digests wholesome meats Such must that minde bee which loves {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Wholesome Truths sound Doctrines 1. Many are so vitiated and distempered by sin the World their Lusts and Vanities that they wholely refuse to take downe any truth what the eare may receive sometime their heart casts up againe profanely and reproachfully by their words and actions Ita veritas odium nauseam parit The speediest way to lose the love of many is freely to tell them that truth which might doe them most good for it seemes to them as Michaiahs words to Ahab odious and offensive although it gave him warning of his danger and shewed him the only way for his safety 2. Many like choyse and wanton stomacks receive and digest indeed some truths in their minds and memories but it is morbum alere non hominem only thereby the better to nourish and strengthen their erroneous humours and conceits and what ever truth they meet with is presently swallowed without chewing by some monster of opinion which they maintaine For errour is so feeble and unbottomed that it must have some buttresses and seeming basis of truth to support it By this meanes detayning the truth of God in unrighteousnesse Rom. 1. 18. 3. Many are of so hot unquiet and cholerick stomacks that they love not truth sweetned with peace not calme and sober truths Afraid to be thought coldly if peaceably religious even in matters of lesser moment Interpreting that zeale which is but naturall passion and choler an humane feaverish and praedatorious not that holy gentle and propitious heate of love which only well digesteth sacred truths So that most men we see had neede to be called upon to love truth and peace In some hopes of preferment will doe much to pervert leaven and suppresse truth warping which way the Sunne of favour shines warmest In others despaire of preferment and popular inclinations may doe as much to disturbe peace and established truth Every way Pronus lapsus major sit cautela Few are true sincere and hearty lovers of them by the Antiperistasis of others coldnesse let the heat of your love grow more intensive 2 Which is the last particular The way most effectually to expresse the love we owe to truth and peace first to truth then to peace to both if possible Amor est pondus animae Love is the weight and motor of the soule the Spring that sets all the wheeles on worke It is a vehement active industrious unwearied invincible affection if rightly placed on worthy objects it workes wonders Amor non potest abscondi the fire of love is impatient to be hid or smothered Nescit nimium never thinks it hath done enough Est extaticus nec sinit amantem esse sui juris it hath a kinde of rapture and extatick power which transports the minde beyond it selfe and dispossesseth it of it selfe to bestow it selfe on that it loves Delicata res est amor It is a tender affection impatient of any injury or dishonour cast on what we love Et sibi lex est severissima Love needs no motive but it selfe to carry it to the extremity of its power If our love then to truth be reall it will shew it selfe 1 In the serious and earnest searching for finding out and discovering of truth for Veritas in profundo Truth is not obvious in the surface of things but hath a depth being sunk and retired from us as now we are There is a great deale of false and loose earth rubbish of Opinions probabilities and falsities to be cast away before wee come to the cleare streame of truth which by secret derivations flowes from the eternall Fountaine God There are not only grosser clouds of errours and falsities which darken truth but parelii too verisimilia seeming sunnes of truth which are but apparences and probabilities of no long continuance He then that will seeke and finde certaine and saving truth must apply himselfe to God his Word and Spirit not take it upon trust and credit of humane fancie or reason Multi taedio investigandae veritatis ad proximos divertunt errores Many out of an easinesse lazinesse or presumption take up truths from custome education prepossessed conceits shew of Antiquity excellency of mens parts c. prone to count that truth which themselves or others have a