Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	believe_v	scripture_n	1,612	5	5.8214	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85389	Cretensis: or A briefe answer to an ulcerous treatise, lately published by Mr Thomas Edvvards, intituled Gangræna: calculated for the meridian of such passages in the said treatise, which relate to Mr. John Goodwin; but may without any sensible error indifferently serve for the whole tract. Wherein some of the best means for the cure of the said dangerous ulcer, called gangræna, and to prevent the spreading of it to the danger of the precious soules of men, are clearly opened, and effectually applied; / by the said John Goodvvin, a well-willer to the saints, in the work and patience of Jesus Christ. Published according to order.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1161; Thomason E328_22; ESTC R35707	46,594	52

unto Israel I professe also that I feare the same feare with him in part because a great if not the farre greatest part of the subject matter of his Catalogue consists of defamatory untruths forged cavillations and bloudy insinuations against the servants of God in the Land And such practises as these in a Nation unlesse some speedy and effectuall course be taken to prevent them portend indeed little lesse then a bill of divorce from Heaven to that Nation But for the Errors Heresies Blasphemies and Practices of the Sectaries of this time which he makes the subject matter of his Catalogue by that time 1o all those Tenets which he very erroneously makes Errors and Heresies to advance his Catalogue and 2o all those which are forged in his own brain falsly fastened upon others no man holding or owning them and 3o all those which it may be have fallen from the lips or pen of some one inconsiderable and halfe-distracted person no man seconding him therein and 4o all those that hee hath perverted in the setting down 5o all those that for substance are repeated the second third and forth time over 6o and lastly all those Blasphemies and Practises which without cause or ground of truth he chargeth upon his Sectaries by that time I say that all these shall bee struck out of his black Bill the Bill will appeare much blacker and fouler then yet perhaps it doth in the eyes of many and so resemble the Author more to the life But the formidablenesse of the subject mattrr of his Catalogue will be much eased and the form of it bee found much more formidable then the matter But I marvaile how Mr Edw. having it seemes an authorized power to make errors and heresies at what rate and of what materialls he pleaseth and hopes to live upon the trade could stay his pen at so small a number as 180 and did not advance to that Angelicall quotient in the Apocalyps which is ten thousand times ten thousand and thousand thousands If he had consulted with a book not many yeares since printed which maintaines that dangerous heresie of the Cosmoselenitae i. of those that hold there is another world in the Moone and with another printed within the compasse of his foure yeares intituled Divinity and Philosophy dissected and set out by a mad man with some few others that I shall shortly be able to name unto him I will undertake that out of these he shall be able to increase his roll of errors and heresies from 180 to 280 if not to 500 and that upon more honest and honourable terms then now he hath advanc'd it to his own number And if he pleaseth to repaire unto me before the course of his menstruous or monethly labour comes upon him I will undertake to inrich his Treasurie of errors and heresies by twentie and ten out of his own Antapologie For certain I am that every contradiction affords an error either on the one hand or on the other and if I doe not find twenty and ten and a better number then so of birds of that feather in that Element let Mr Edwards pen plough as many long furrows more upon my back as it hath done In the meane time I must crave leave to say or at least to thinke that it is a most importune and unsufferable presumption for a poore weake thimble-full of dust that knows not how to range his parts of speech in a sentence nor to put the nominative case and verb together regularly in English nor how to frame the structure of a period according to the common rules of reason Grammar and common sense to advance himselfe into a Paper Throne and from thence satis pro Imperio tribunali pronounce the formidable sentence of Error and Heresie against all opinions and judgements of men whatsoever which will not comport with his understanding or fancie rather as the standard of all Truth Yea and Nebuchadnezzar-like to slay and smite what opinion he pleaseth what he will to set up and what he will to pull downe For I professe ingenuously that I know not by what other rule or measure besides his own humour and will he judgeth of error or heresie Certaine I am that if he will stand either to the arbitrement of the Scriptures or to the principles of cleare sound Reason he must discharge and justifie many of those Tenets for innocent yea and well-deserving Truths which now he hath arraigned at the barre of his Tribunall for Errors Heresies If his Touchstone be the major vote of his own party I desire to recommend unto him the conscientious perusall of a passage from the pen of a conscientious and learned man of the same side I hope he will not say that he is knowne ex professo to be of another judgement then what he plainly expresseth in writing a base calumny wherewith to honour himselfe he dishonoureth Calvin p. 45. If dissentions and schismes saith Musculus a arise in the Church they are in fault who stand up to maintaine a false faith not they who oppose it Nor is it materiall which partie is the more numerous For the Church neither her selfe judgeth according to the multitude nor is shee to be judged according to the consent of the greater number but according to the manifest truth expressed in the Scriptures If the man will but own the verdict of as learned and ingenuous a pen as ever wrote on his side he must release the better halfe I beleeve of his prisoners and instead of an 180 Errors and Heresies take his tables and write downe four-score Secondly I would know of him whether this be a regular processe in Law To ask my fellow whether I be a Thiefe If Mr Edw. thinks that he ought to be reputed and honoured as a man Orthodox till men of his owne judgement vote him erroneous I know no reason he hath but to measure out the same measure unto others and consequently to judge no man or men erroneous or hereticall untill they be adjudged such by those that concur in opinion with them As for twenty and ten of those opinions which he hath impeached of error and heresie and I will not say for how many more I doe here cast the glove to whosoever will take it up to bring them off with the honour of truth from all that the man hath to lay to their charge For I evidently see that he hath dealt with many precious Truths of God as the Jews did by Christ himselfe when they numbred him with Transgressors And particularly for that which he hath arraign'd in the 70th place in his Catalogue of Errors viz. that Faith in a proper sense is imputed to justification and not Christs righteousnesse in the sense by me rejected I thinke I may with far lesse boasting say what he saith of his abilities in the Church-Controversies I am saith he so farre vers'd in these Controversies that I challenge c