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	know_v	word_n	2,143	5	3.8658	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42917	Ben horim filius heröum = the son of nobles : set forth in a sermon preached at St Mary's in Cambridge before the university, on Thursday the 24th of May, 1660 : being the day of solemn thanksgiving for the deliverance and settlement of our nation / by Will. Godman ...	Godman, William, b. 1625.	1660 (1660)	Wing G941; ESTC R14547	24,781	48

two great arguments that they spake the truth according to the best of their knowledge The one thus expresseth it L. Capel Truly I never saw greater hopes of vertue in any young person than in him great judgement great understanding strong apprehension much of honour in his nature and a very perfect English-man in his inclinations E. of Derby The other gives him a more ample testimony in these words Certainly saith he as I believe this Nation will never be well contented without a King so I believe also that K. CHARLES THE SECOND our now lawful KING were he a stranger to this Crown were the most fit and most accomplish'd Prince that this day lives to take the Government of this people His admirable piety vertue justice great valour and discretion farre above so few years doth now make him in all places he comes highly belov'd and will hereafter make him honourable in all Nations And I wish the people of this Nation so much happiness when my eyes are clos'd that he may peaceably be receiv'd to the enjoyment of his just right and then they shall never want their just rights which till then they will always want We may very well suppose that since the time that these excellent things were spoken of him he hath gain'd much in the improvement of his Princely Vertues At present as farre as we can know him at such a distance we may all judge of him by his gracious Offers and Proposals to his great Council and his general Declaration wherein he promiseth to embrace all his Subjects equally within the arms of his comprehensive Goodness and Clemency Which without doubt with many other Divine instructions he hath received from his most ROYAL FATHER beside what his own Princely disposition variety of observation the trial of Affliction frequent discourse and meditation and above all the extraordinary blessing of God have added to him Now therefore let us not adde to all those unworthy reproaches and contumelies that have been thrown upon him by his and our enemies this of suspicion and mistrust that he will not make good his gracious promises We must not look on him as on those whose interest it hath been to deceive and abuse us Most certainly such unworthy arts are infinitely below his Noble and Heroick mind He knows very well whose Vicegerent he is that he represents the God of Peace and Truth whose two grand properties are according to the doctrine of an ancient Philosopher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to doe good and to speak truth There is no fear that he should fail in the truth of his word who comes to imitate God in doing good For he hath no other design upon us but to doe that for us which we have found by experience that none else can doe to cure our wounds to heal our distempers and to repair our ruines The hope of the Syrians when they were vanquish'd was That the Kings of Israel were merciful Kings The same may as truly be said of the Kings of England and to be sure the last we had was such for had he not been a merciful King he had never felt the fury of unmerciful Subjects Although his Mercy would never have brought any affliction on him but that it met with some ill humours in a distemper'd State But however things have been let our reflexions on times past excite our most zealous care to repair that Duty and Allegiance that hath been so many years deny'd to his Sacred Majesty and his Blessed Father And as he is willing to remit what is past so let us meet his Goodness in endeavouring to make him some recompence for the time to come Which if we doe we shall both more facilitate his power of doing us good and we shall put our selves into a better capacity of being happy under his Government I hope that now we shall understand one another better since we are deliver'd from those whose concernment it was to nourish factions and divisions among us that their dominion over us might be more entire and absolute I hope our cordial union consent in obedience to our Soveraign will bring us nearer to one another And to this end I heartily desire that they who always loved and honoured him may shew in themselves the first and greatest examples of Moderation As for my own part since I have this occasion given me I must freely profess and declare my self to be one of those whose Loyalty is the result of a natural and constant principle and not of the event of things or necessity of times who always abhorred to flatter prosperous wickedness and would never stoop to adore usurping tyranny And yet all the advantage I wish for those of the same perswasion and inclination is onely this that they goe beyond others in humane civility in brotherly love and in Christian charity That they lay aside all animosities all uncharitable opposition against those that have formerly differed from them as alway remembring that they serve a merciful GOD and a gracious KING For otherwise let them not pretend to be his obedient Subjects to whose goodness they will not conform For as Tertullian well expresses it Obsequii ratio in animorum similitudine constituta est As for those that run into excess and debauchery I think I may truly say such practises flow not from their principles but from their temper and disposition and that they would act the same things under any judgment To such I shal only say at present that I desire them to consider what a Philosopher once said to a vicious person in the same ship with him who when in a storm he began to pray Hold your peace said he for fear lest the Gods take notice you are here and cast us all away for your sake As for others I shall hope that a little time may wear away those prejudices and the ill consequences of those erroneous opinions into which some may possibly have fallen especially such as give a check to Obedience and set Liberty at too high a pitch I wish that none may ever hereafter mistake Fancy for Religion and call Obstinacy by the specious name of Conscience I heartily desire that all men would seriously understand and consider what a necessary connexion there is between keeping the Laws of God and those of our lawful Superiours between the first and second Table between Fear God and Honour the King I would advise men not to be fond either of their sins or errours but to be content to sacrifice both to the publick good and to the lasting tranquillity and welfare of Church and State And I beseech God to remove all obstructions that may disturb or hinder our peace and happiness to reduce the whole Kingdome to such a perfect unity to such an happy composure to such a blessed harmony that it may be said of England as it was of Portugal at the late restitution That as never Subjects had a more Gracious King so never King had more Loyal Subjects To this end the Lord give to our SOVERAIGN a wise and understanding heart The Lord make him as an Angel of God to discern good and evil God bless him with Wisdome in his Counsels Justice in his Designs and Success in his Undertakings God grant him the victorious Fortitude of Henry the 5th the Piety and innocence of Henry the 6th the Prudence of Henry the 7th the Magnanimity of Henry the 8th the Felicity of Qu. Elizabeth and whatever was eminent and illustrious in K. Charls the First Let him be like him in his Vertues but most unlike him in his Fortunes Let shame and confusion cover the faces of those who shall hereafter maliciously persist to blaspheme thee O Lord and to slander the footsteps of thine Anointed But upon the sacred head of thine Anointed and upon his Seed and upon his Throne and upon all his Kingdomes and upon all his loyal and faithful people 1 Kin. 2.33 let there be peace for ever from the Lord. Which he grant through the tender mercies of the most holy and eternal Jesus to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost in the unity of one infinite Majesty be praise and honour and glory everlasting Amen We praise thee O God c. Books printed for and sold by W. Morden Bookseller in Cambridge ORigenes contra Celsum Ejusdem Philocalia cum Annotat. Gulielmi Spenceri 4o. Scheyneri Fundamenta Optic 4o. Officium Concionatorium 4o. Medi opuscula Epicteti Enchiridion cum Cebetis Tabula Accesserunt Arriani Comment item Porphyrius de Abstinentia de Vita Pythagorae Ejusdem item Sentent de Antro Nympharum Vita deinde Scripta Porphyrii à L. Holstenio 8o. Gassendi Astronomia Cui accessere Galilaei Galilaei Nuncius Sidereus Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice 8o. Sebast Castellio Dialogi 4 de Praedestinatione Sebast Castellio Dialogi 4 de Electione Sebast Castellio Dialogi 4 de Libero Arbitrio Sebast Castellio Dialogi 4 de Fide Justificatione Angelini Gazaei Pia Hilaria Accessit Tomus alter cum Indice Philologico 12o. Mores Antidote against Atheism Enthusiasmus Triumphatus or a Discourse of the Nature Causes Kinds and Cures of Enthusiasm His threefold Cabbal Literal Philosophical Mystical or Divinely Moral Immortality of the Soul 8o. Billingsly's Idea of Arithmetick 8o. 2 Sermons of Mr. Clerk Fellow of Peter-house Select Discourses by John Smith late Fellow of Queen's College in Cambridge As also a Sermon preached by Simon Patrick at the Authors Funeral with a brief account of his Life and Death FINIS