Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	abuse_v	deceive_v	great_a	42	3	2.0729	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15542	The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique, set forth in Englishe, by Thomas Vuilson	Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.	1551 (1551)	STC 25809; ESTC S102785	107,443	347

false deceipteful reasons The p●rson A noble man of the parliament house maye hunte in the kynges parkes by authoritie Ergo euery man ma●e The tyme. It is not lawful to walke in the stretes of Londō after the watche is set Ergo it is not lawfull to walke in London at all The place It is not lawful to gyue a blow within the courte gates Ergo it is not lawfull at all in myne owne defence The maner of comparyng It is an Image of a man Ergo it is a man Compare these .ij. together marke the accident adioyned to a man and ye shall perceiue that it taketh awaye all substaunce and leaueth only the shadow for this worde painted restrayneth the other compasseth hym with in his boūdes so that a painted mā can no more be called a man then an adulterous wife can be called a wife for so longe is a woman called a wife as she kepeth her selfe within the boundes of matrimonie other wise she is no wyfe although men vse to cal them wyues The .iii. deceipt SEcundum nō causam vt causam that is when a cause that ●s not able to proue the mat●er is brought in as though● it ware of force and strengthe but the ground beynge considered the fault is easely espied Dronkenes is euil Ergo wine is naught Wyne is not to be reproued altogether although some abuse the same for it is a good thinge ordeyned of God for the sustenaunce of man An other argument Some young men when thei come tother landes fal to vnthriftines Ergo riches are not good In all suche argumentes wherei● good thynges are reproued bycause euil bodies abuse thesame the euil wyl● and the naughty inclination of the man whiche abuseth suche thynges is to be rebuked and therfore whē it is otherwise it may be said that a cause which is not is put for a cause As some abuse Paules meanyng when they go about to depraue philosophie Paule warneth that we should not be deceaued by philosophie Ergo Philosophie is naught say some The argument doth not folowe for a good thyng may be much abused and yet the thynge it selfe may not be altogether reiected as naught therfore Paule doth not condemne demonstrations and principles whiche are assured truthes taught by the sciences as in arithmeticke .iiij. and .iiij. make .viij. In philosophie The whole is greater then the parte do as thou woldest be done vnto but he reproueth the abuse of sciences when there is made a mingle mangle of them and one confounded with an other as some haue sayde that philosophie wil teache a christian asmuche for his profession as all the Prophetes and the whole Bible besides wyll doe this made Paule byd men take hede that they be not deceaued by philosophie Now a dayes they wyll saye I cannot tell here is is muche preachynge muche teachyng of godes worde but I see fewe folowers of it it was a better worlde when we had not halfe so many preachers heresies were neuer more ripe naughtinesse neuer more abounded therfore gyue vs the olde learnyng again and take you the new This reason is not worthy a strawe The wickednes of the Preachers cometh not of their learning but of their vicious natures and naughty desiers for out of one and the same floure the Bee sucketh hony and the spider draweth poison By these and such other like examples ye maie easely espie wherefore the Argument is not good yf ye marke whether the true cause be in the former Proposition or some counterfect reason whiche semeth to proue and yet in diede doth not proue the matter at al. for if I reason thus Iohson and Robson looked through an hedge the one saw the other Ergo they two are both nigh of kindred What man seeth not that doth see any iote at al that this geare hangeth together like a brokē potte sheerd and that the Antecedent doth nothyng at all proue the Consequent and yet the other Argumentes aboue rehersed if they bee narowlie marked are as folishe as worthie to be laughed at as is this folishe fonde reason and madly inuented argument ¶ An oth●r Argument Feare not the signes of the Element Ergo they signifie none euil to come The Consequent is false for Christ doth forbid his Disciples to feare the signes not by cause they signifie none euil to come but by cause that where as they signifie harme punishemen● to the worlde wicked persons yet he wil be a present succour to his church and neuer leaue it comfortles As whē the godly heare this feare not death it doth not folow but that death is an horrible thyng and much repugnaunt to mans nature This deceiptful Argument is muche vsed in this our life and made a bucklar for diuerse matters As when I am lothe to bee of a quest or that any such busines shoulde trouble me beyng sent for I faine my self sicke because I would not gladlie come Or whē one that is riche should healpe a poore mā to saie God healpe you syr I haue a great charge my self I can not do for you Or when a Bisshoppe shoulde be desired to teache or preache to saie he is sick Or when a lawyer being desired to healpe a poore man and profered there vpon a litle mony euen so muche as the poore man can not well spare and yet not halfe so muche as the lawyer woulde haue streyght to saie I am sory I can not do for you if I were not called vpon otherwise by diuerse men I woulde not fa●l to do you good This is as thei saie in English better a badde excuse then none at all in Latine it is called non causa pro causa posita And the vsing of such excuses emōg the Rethoritians is called translatio that is to saie a shiftyng or puttyng of the faulte from one to an other As wee reade that Demades vsed a wōderfull good shifte whē it was laidesore to his charge that he had writttē a very naughtie decre and vnhonest for the obteynyng of the peace at Alexanders hand He aunswered that the same Decree was not writtten with his owne writyng pen but with Alexanders warryng speare which is asmuche to saie feare did driue him to take suche and such conditions of peace We reade a notable Historie of a younge childe in Rome called Papirius whiche because both it is pleasaūt much to be woundred at and also serueth for this purpose right aptly I thinke it meete to be rehersed in this place This Papirius beyng a young ladde of .x. or .xij. yeres olde and sonne to one of the Senatours in Rome whiche were then as noble men be nowe in Englande lords of the Counsail went euery day with his father to the Parliamente house and hard from time to time all matters that were debated there His father euermore charged hym that he should not vtter any thyng which he hard to any bodie liuing It happened afterward that vpon vrgent