Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	case_n	justice_n	session_n	2,687	5	10.4872	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41192	A view of an ecclesiastick in his socks & buskins, or, A just reprimand given to Mr. Alsop, for his foppish, pedantick, detractive and petulant way of writing	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1698 (1698)	Wing F764; ESTC R476	85,805	132

the Essential Verity should not only allow himself in putting False Glosses upon Things through Paraphrasing what is Heterodox and Vnsound to an Orthodox and Honest Sense which he knoweth in his Conscience it will not bear and by perversely Expounding what is Erroneous to a good Meaning which the Authors neither Intended nor the Words will Admit but should set up for a Romancer a Coyner of Fables a Misrepresenter and Slanderer would be wonderfully surprising to me in Reference to Mr. Alsop had he not beforehand vouchsafed to give me some Intelligence of his Acquaintance with the Chaplain of the Copper-Mines in Sweden Now tho I have a large Field for suspicion before me upon which to judge what this Man is like to be in the Pulpit from what I find him to be from the Press yet upon Recollection of what I have observ'd him to say of others namely That they are not the same when Disputing as when Teaching and Preaching I shall be ready to grant that the Belief Doctrine and Character of the Man are not to be taken from and upon his Ravings in his Fits of Lunacy and Distraction but that they are to be judg'd of by his Anti-Sozzo which he wrote either before he became Delirous or under the Decay of the Moon and in his Lucida Only it will be necessary for his Auditors carefully to remark how the Tide flows at London-Bridge and Westminster-stairs that they may thereby calculate at what Seasons they may give Credit to the Doctrine of their Pastor The second Reflection I would make upon this Insincere and misrepresenting way of writing is that it undermines and blows up the Foundation and Basis of all Society whether Civil or Ecclesiastick Hobb's State of Nature in which he supposed all Men to be from under the Ties and Obligations of Laws so that he who had most Legerdemain and Cunning might over-reach cheat and deceive and he who had the most Strength or the greatest Party to support him might either rob or destroy his Neighbour without becoming Guilty or Obnoxious to Punishment was an Eligible Condition in comparison of this which Mr. Alsop's way of writing concerning Persons and Things would reduce the World unto Seeing upon Mr. Hobb's Hypothesis all People would be upon their Guard and no one would give Faith or Credit to another whether in Words or Oaths whereas all Society among Men being now establish'd upon a Belief that they might mutually trust and take one another's Word the Ligature and Cement of all Fellowship is dissolv'd and broken into Atoms of Dust by the Morals and Practice of Mr. Alsop And if Mr. Hobb's Scheme of Nature be justly Detestable because both of the Infamous Aspersions which it fastneth both upon the Wisdom and Goodness of God in making us not only capable of Conversation and of Incorporating into Communities together but leaving us under those Individual Deficiencies and Necessities which render it absolutely necessary without imbuing us with those Qualities or the subjecting us to such Laws as make it practicable and safe as also the Affront it gives to our reasonable Nature in debasing it to a Level with that of Brutes or below it thro' acquitting us from all Obligations by Virtue of any Internal Dictamina or Intellectual Reasonings to Justice Mercy and Truth c. and that our Engagements thereunto are only owing to Compacts and Bargains one with another How much more is Mr. Alsop's Divinity in his Praxis whatsoever other Theology or Philosophy he may have in the Theory to be abhorr'd in that it supersedes all Truth and Sincerity among men whether resulting from Internal Dictates External Revelation or Social Covenants and Agreements For as the two Pillars of Truth and Branches of Veracity upon which all Society is superstructed are that one Man shall not lie to another and that he shall upon no Provocations belie him neither obtrude that upon the Faith of another which he that speaks or writes doth not Himself believe mean or intend nor fasten that Fact or affix that Opinion unto a nother which he hath neither by Overtacts nor any of those Signs by which the Internal Sentiments of a Man's Mind do become discernable given Proof and Manifestation of Of the Reverse of each of which Mr. Williams as well as Mr. Alsop are Guilty in the Highest degree And that both thro masquing disguising and dissembling their own Opipinions and by misrepresenting and falsly construing the Opinions of others and by imputing those Notions to them for which they have not only the greatest Aversion in their Minds but have testified it by all the ways and means that would satisfie such as are not resolv'd out of Picque against a Party as well as against certain Persons to have Innocency come under the Ignominy and to suffer the Punishment of Guilt Nor should I say an undecent and much less a severe thing if I should call them the Nuisances of Societies of every kind and that they deserve to be thrust out from having any share in the Priviledge and Benefit either of a Civil Corporation or of Church Communion And as no Subjects can be safe under any Form of Government whatsoever where Defamations are not only practised and encouraged but accounted Evidences of Zeal for God and of Loyalty to the King so no Supream Rulers by what names soever dignified can be secure either as to their Persons or their Governing Authority where the measures by which these Men manage themselves are allowed to escape without Publick Censure For to speak or write of those whom one dislikes with a Liberty and Unrestrainedness as if every thing were lawful to be pronounced of them which may detract from their Reputation as Subjects Scholars and Ministers is to dissolve the Ligaments of Society and to turn Churches Corporations and Kingdoms into a worse Confusion than that of Babel where every one spake what he meant tho thro the Novelty as well as the diversity of their Languages they could not at first understand one another Whosoever accuseth his Neighbour unjustly in a Book addressed by him to the World is as much a Delator and ought to bear the Disgrace due to such and to pass for one that is no less Suborned by his Envy Malice and Revenge to be a slanderous Informer than as if for the Lucre of money he should perjuriously depose at the Kings Bench or Session House And tho such Detractors may not in all Cases be Arraignable before my Lord Chief Justice yet it is not for the Interest of Mankind nor for the Peace of Communities that they should be let go without the Suffering of some sort of Discipline which is the alone Reason and not any Personal Quarrel with or against the Men why I have assumed the Freedom and Charged my self with the Trouble of giving it them The last Reflection which I will make upon this Insincere and Defamatory way of Writing is that it is Extreamly prejudicial to Religion