Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	believe_v	faith_n	3,814	5	5.4193	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30420	A sermon preached before the Aldermen of the city of London, at St. Lawrence-church, Jan 30. 1680/1 being the day of the martyrdome of K. Charles I. / by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5875; ESTC R14664	19,574	37

be understood the entire complex of their Religion called often by David the way of Gods Truth or by Truth is meant candor and fidelity among men so this applied to us must be understood either of the truth of the Gospel or of sincerity and honesty in our discourses and actions For the first of these we may well call our Religion Truth since we believe nothing but what Jesus Christ and his Apostles delivered to the world in the name of God we have no new Doctrines added to this introduced by false and deceitful men supported by lying wonders or counterfeited Writings Our Doctrine as it is the truth of God so is to be maintained and promoted by means sutable to the being and nature of that God from whom it is derived We found nothing on made stories or forged Records we teach none of the Doctrines of falshood and equivocation breach of faith or vows dispencing with Oathes dissolving of Leagues or Treaties All these we have left to that Church that as she grew up by lies and forgeries so continues that trade still which has been in former ages of such advantage to her I need not insist on the Popes dispensing what the Oathes of Allegiance of Subjects to their Princes breaking and dissolving Treaties though confirmed by Oathes and Sacraments a publick instance of which appeared in the battel of Uarna where the Turk appealed to Jesus Christ whose name those Christians had affronted by breaking what was sealed by the most sacred tie The issue was both fatal and disgraceful to the Christian Army All was done by the Popes Instigation as well as Authority A publicker instance was yet given at Constance which shewed that the Church was no better than the Court of Rome When those who came upon a safe conduct were notwithstanding that condemned to be burnt and a Decree was made That Faith given to Hereticks in Sess. 19. such a sort was not to be kept though they had come to the place of judgment trusting to it and would not have come without it And how far they have since that time carried on the Doctrine of Lying and Swearing falsly may appear by this one clear and undeniable proof In March 79. there were many Propositions complained of at Rome gathered out of the Writings of the Casuists among which these are two A man either alone or before others may when he is Decree of the Pope lately printed in Latine and English Prop. 26 asked or of his own accord or for his diversion or any other end swear that he did not do a thing which he really did having a secret meaning either of some other thing which he did not do or of another way of doing it or of any other Truth which he adds to it in which case he is in Truth neither a Liar nor is he Perjured A just cause of using those secret meanings is as oft as it Prop. 27. is necessary or profitable for the preservation of Life or Honour or saving ones Goods or any other act of Virtue so that the concealment of Truth seems in that case expedient or desirable Upon this a condemnation followed by the Pope and the Congregation de propaganda Fide In it we have a Confession beyond exception that these Tenets have been taught among them But it may be urged that they are now condemned It is true they are so But first though they have been long complained of they were not condemned till within these two years Secondly They were not condemned by the Pope in the Consistory which would have made the Censure more Authoritative but by the Pope and the Cardinals of the Court of the Inquisition upon which a remarkable thing followed The Jesuites who were much provoked at this Censure moved the Procureur de Roy or Attorney General at Paris to put in a complaint against the publishing that Decree since it came from the Court of the Inquisition which not being acknowledged in France nothing flowing from that Authority could be received in that Kingdom upon which the Decree was prohibited and suppressed so ready are they to bear down any thing that strikes against these strong holds of of Satan among them And thirdly This Censure is so penned that it does not import a condemnation but is indeed only a prohibition for these Propositions are not declared to be impious and immoral or contrary to the Laws of God and of Nature That had been more candid and ingenuous dealing They are only condemned as being scandalous and pernicious in practice that is to say of ill consequence and all are required in the vertue of holy obedience and under the pains of Excommunication to teach them no more so if a case happens that these may turn useful in practice then a faculty may be secretly granted for taking off this Censure From this it may appear what a door they have opened for the most disingenuous practices imaginable which is a shrewd presumption that their Doctrine is not the Truth when it is mixed with such arts that savour more of him that was a liar from the beginning than of the God of Truth We then that are of the Truth ought to Love it to reckon it our greatest honour that we are called to the Knowledge and profession of this holy Faith we ought to adhere to it as long as we Live and to be ready to lay down our Lives for it if God should call us to it But our loving it signifies more than barely to speak honorably or passionately concerning it or to like it in opposition to Popery To be a Protestant without being first a Christian can signifie nothing before God To Love it then is inwardly to delight in it to be wrought on by its Precepts so as to conform both our Hearts and Lives to it Then we Love it sincerely when we measure our Belief by the Doctrines it delivers and our Lives by the Rules it gives us And as a particular branch of Truth in the general notion we must be candid and sincere in all our discourses and dealings We are not to advance even the best ends by acts of injustice but to be strict to these Rules of Truth the Gospel prescribes Not to lie or spread lies nor to slander even our greatest Enemies not to deceive or couzen those that deal with us but to do to others as we would have others do to us to do every thing as considering we are under the allseeing Eye of that God who will judge us for all our actions ere long and will bring to light the hidden things of dishonesty If we do thus love the Truth both in the speculations of it and in reducing these to practice then we have made one step towards that here promised in my Text. The other thing enjoined is That we love Peace likewise not Peace in prejudice of or opposition to Truth but that as far as possibly we can we may live