Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	abraham_n	lord_n	way_n	1,660	5	5.7908	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45672	Nahash redivivus in a letter from the Parliament of Scotland, directed to the Honorable William Lenthal, Speaker of the House of Commons examined and answered by John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1649 (1649)	Wing H894; ESTC R9915	17,406	24

pains Thus from our Eyes come all Errors Natural or Physical and quantitative and from our Ears all those that refer to things Aeconomical Political or Theological I will not descend to the other Senses as nothing to this subject they looking at Errors personal or individual nor was there need to have named the first but for evidence to the second and demonstration both of the disease and the cure In a word that the Gate may not be too great for the House this being no place for a just volumn which the subject might deserve and exact from a greater leisure nor seem to be built wholly of an Heterogeneal matter we live a life of Sense before we can live a life of Reason and by the frequent Acts of Sense we put a false Tincture upon our then weak judgments not yet able to act by themselves which Tincture dis-colours to our after Receptions whatsoever is rightly offered to our discussion or discourse for Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem c. How easily are children deceived in quantity at distance what childe not otherwise told doth not to firmly beleeve being taught by his Sense That the Moon is not greater then a Sieve or at most then a Cart-wheel and this conceit he shall carry to his grave and beleeve it Knowledg and his conception Truth if he be not delivered by demonstration For that other way of being delivered by the assertion of some man whom he beleeves in those things fit to be his Master is onely to beget a belief not a knowledg But let this childe be instructed with Arithmetick and Geometry and so prepared let him read the doctrines of the Sphears and of Trigonometry he will then easily discover there is a Parallax and finde what it is and by the help of his Lines and Angles and Numbers be able to determine her distance and to demonstrate her quantity to his own satisfaction and wonder that his Sense should have so far misled his former opinion I might say the like of the daily and annual motion which Sense hath put in the Heavens though an inabled Judgment will finde it in the Earth and deliver also the Planets from all retrograde motion in their respective Circles and see it certain equal ordinate and progressive with respect to their own Centers and that all Anomalous Phaenomena arise from the place of our Contemplation of them but this is to wander too far onely the Truth that is found in these Contemplations demonstrative and satisfactory may well put men upon at least a suspition That Error and Mistake may enter by the Ears as well as by the Eyes in all those three Considerations formerly mentioned And that there may be some help to deliver them Especially we may beleeve the first when we see the Jews Turks Papists and that thing called a Common-Protestant the worst of the four keeping so tenaciously those opinions I would not call them principles unless Catachrestically and as to them which they sucked in with their mothers milk for which never an one of them can give any better Reason then the other nor any one of them what becomes a reasonable man no more then those who receive their Forms of Religion and so also of Politicks later and from older Teachers with as little Demonstration but with as much Obediential Weakness as the childe receives its Mothers Dictates while it stands to be dressed at her Knee But no more of this And I beg their pardon that think this either too much or too little to the purpose I know it is necessary for some and perhaps it may please others I onely desire our Conscientious Presbyterians for to the Factious ones the Scotch-acted ones I have nothing to say because I would say nothing in vain would look to themselves and take heed they be not misled by their dark Lanthorns who understand not their own way That they would but beleeve it is possible they may erre and their guides too whom they have chose to follow and therefore prove all things and with an acted Reason read over this Scotch Letter and what will be said to it and that not onely in these few Pages but in such other as will take pains to prepare Antidotes against these poysons propined by seeming friends Perhaps it may appear to them upon an unprejudiced Examination worthy their hate and abomination Now to the Letter which followeth SIR THe Estates of the Parliament of this Kingdom having received a Letter dated the 23. of May signed by you as Speaker of the Parliament and written in the name of the Common-wealth of England which Titles in regard of the Solemn League and Covenant and Treaties and the many Declarations of the Parliaments of both Kingdoms are such as they may not acknowledg IT is a thing most worthy the observation of any who will take notice of the wonderful Acts of Providence that are abroad in the world in the time of so great a Catastrophe for the forming of his judgment to a right prognosis of Events or Direction of his practice into ways of safety to himself That no man hath suffered or fain or been any way unhappy or unsuccessful in any of his endevors but he hath been instrumental to it and that generally by precipitating themselves into such Actions in the pursuit of a false or mistaken Interest which most Spectators though but of common foresight could discern would prove funest and dangerous Follow this beginning of these men to the end and take thence another example of this rule How necessary is it to have no Interest in our pursuit but that of God and how easily doth he attain the end of his designes that designes onely to be subservient to the will of God as he shall be led into it by the evidence of the Divine Revelation He that walketh uprightly walketh safely but he that perverteth his ways shall be found out That foulest Hypocrisie that ever the Sun looked upon far beyond that of The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord Or We have Abraham to our Father cannot but have heavily provoked the Omniscience of the Divine Purity and an heavy judgment must needs attend them which that it may come upon them with effect and finde them naked and without defence See how they blow up their own Bulwarks and cast away whatsoever should uphold them and must needs do it with the pre●ence of their Common Subject of all their gross hypocrisie and provocation the Solemn League and Covenant Are they so sure they shall never more need the Common-wealth of England or the Parliament here that they may not acknowledg it and that by reason of the Solemn League and Covenant the Treaties and Declarations of both Kingdoms Can it be imagined that these were ever made or entered into with an intention to give the Scotish Nation a power paramount over that of England What plaistered foreheads have this people that