Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	aaron_n	rod_n	swallow_v	42	3	9.7806	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

nigh he will not be comforted and will not depart till the most high shall behold to judge righteously and execute Judgement and when men will not believe that God is of perfect power then he sheweth his strength and amongst them that know it he maketh their Boldnesse manifest for indeed Truth is never ashamed to shew her face it is against her nature to be hidden or kept from the light Non ●mat verit●● angulos non ●i divers●ria placent but she is ever at home constant and ready to utter forth her self to such as seek unto her or will lend an care to her wise counsells the integrity of Truth is armed with such confidence as it dares speak and fears no reproof for the Divine sayth that Null●● reprehensor formida●dus est amatori ●eritati● Et ●ll● veritatis defensor esse debet qui cum rect●s●ntit loqui non me ●uit nec ●rubescit and the Humani●● could say Licet veritas in causa nullum patronum ●ut defensorem obtineat tamen per scipsum defenditur Nam magna est vi● veritatis quae contra omnium ingenia c●liditatem solertiam contraque fict●● omnium infidias se facile per seipsum defendit The contemplation of these things if it please your Majesty together with the strong operation of my Conscience doth still enforce me thus to expose my weaknesse to your Sacred censure but I confesse my Heart doth somewhat tremble Ne quid indecorum serm● meus resonet and it would afflict me much if my error and imbecility should be the least occasion to infringe or disparage the truth of that antient Adage Much experience is the Crown of old men and yet I am sure that the fear of God is their Glory and in regard of that I trust that I shall alwayes be as fearfull to offend as any man It is said that Audaces fortuna juvat but I desire that Truth Modesty may be my ushers into Favour and good Fortune if any attends me I have likewise learned that Sicut v●recundia laudabilis est in malo ita reprehensibilis est in bono bonum verò erubescere insipientis est And therefore I do not yet understand the reason why any of your Majesties Loyal and knowing Subjects that have still adhered to the truth by being the zealous and constant Assertors and Maintainers to their Power of all those good and wholsome Lawes both Ecclesiastical and Temporal that were in use and approbation in the time of your Majesties Royal and ever most blessed Father and in your prudent and pacifical Grandfathers dayes and have so deeply suffered for this their Fidelity should now admit of the least blush or be in any degree fearfull in the just vindication and applause of those religious just and beneficial Lawes or beat all ashamed to shew their reluctancy at the remissness of the true and due execution of the same But your Majesty is wise as an Angel of God and to your Divine discretion your loyal Subjects will religiously submit themselves and who is he that doth not much admire and praise the Lord of Heaven for your Majesties most rare and never heard of Clemency and Mercy wherein most superlatively you seem to exceed all the pious and potent Princes that ever lived before or in your dayes and whereby also beyond and above them all you come nearest to that glorious attribute of your Creator whose Power in specie you represent here on earth amongst us and whose mercy likewise is above all his works Your Majesty well knowes that by Mercy and Truth Iniquity is purged and that Mercy and Truth preserve the King and it is also not untruly said Quòd imperiū vi quod fit atrocius esse videtur quàm illud quod politia ●djungitur And yet as every good subject doth truly admire at your Majesties mercy even so is he well assured that your Majesty is truly and sufficiently instructed that Policy which anticipates Religion is too subtle to receive an approbation for good before the purest eyes of the Almighty God of Truth and this in all humility we likewise leave to your Majesties serious and religious contemplation And I am confident that it is a most transcendent joy and gladness to all your Majesties true Subjects and Well-wisheers to find your Judgement so surely setled both for Doctrine and Discipline in that truly reformed Religion so christianly professed and so lawfully established without intermission by a trine of your late most eminent Ancesto● for the same is so well digested into nutriment and hath made such a deep impression upon the hearts and consciences of most of the soberer sort of this our Nation as I believe that nothing but death it self can be able to expunge the prints thereof and I am as it were in a kind of extasie when my Fancy runs upon the conceit or the imagination of those ineffable and redundant rejoycings that the hearts of all honest and true bred Englishmen are at this present possessed withall when after so long bitter and rebellious Deviaons and so sordid prodigious and devilish Usurpations th●y be now so happy to behold the Royal Tribe of Judah so gloriously restored and so triumphantly advanced to the Regal Rights and most Illustrious Throne of their Royal Ancestors there to reign and flourish again in despite of Satan and all his envious instruments And when after so many miscellaneous ab●●rdities as have surreptitiously crept into the Church by means of the horrour confusion and deformity of the late disturbances We may now sensibly perceive the darknesse thereof so sorely felt to be dispelled the glorious light of truth shining forth in a splendid me●sure And seeing that Korah and hi● seditious company of Sectaries are in a manner swallowed up or vanished into nothing we may once again with comfortable Consciences and confident hearts expect to see and evidently to behold that sacred rod of Aaron to bud and blossome and to bring forth fruit afresh in due season which that it may the better be able to perform with the more vigor and sincerity I do h●mbly implore that the sweet influence of the dews of Heaven and of your Majesties good countenance and protection may continually and in abundant manner be shoured and diversly distilled upon the holy consecrated body thereof and the severall Members and Branches of the same and that they may soberly and religiously concurre and agree in such an Uniformity both of Doctrine a●d Discipline as shall most truly tend to the glory of God the honour and contentment of your Majestie the settling of a firm and constant Peace and Tranquility both in Church and Common-wealth the credi● and glory of their Divine profession the comfort and quiet of their Consciences and the Eternal Salvation of their Souls and Bodies which i● the summary intent and end of all true Religion Let us therefore remember the end and we shall not lightly do amisse and if I mistake it not