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	faith_n	gospel_n	1,967	5	6.2363	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88880	Israels condition and cause pleaded; or some arguments for the Jews admission into England. Objections answered, cautions added, with a vindication of Mr. Peters from those foul and unjust aspersions cast upon him by W. Prynn, Esq;.	D. L.	1656 (1656)	Wing L9; Thomason E1677_2; ESTC R202696	42,532	117

against this our Father of our Church and Champion of our reformed Religion two things the first is an Act the second is for Words But sure upon examination we shall finde that neither the Action nor the Words of him can justly merit so long and so deep a brand of ignominy and disparagement as this our testy and waspish Penman hath rendred both of them to the world To begin therefore first come●rning the act charged upon him an act if the Lawyer might have his will should be Actionable if not Treasonable too for he came with a Sword of Steel under his Arm instead of the Sword of the Spirit Well and what followed Carried my self and many other worthy Members of the Nation into Hell and kept us as he says and it is but his say so there upon the hard stones all night c. it was well that he did come yet not without command and commission which was just and warrantable from the Lord General but he came with a Sword if he had done so it had been but what he might do and what at that time was but necessary Why may not a spiritual man wear a Sword What not upon a journey or some great imployment and this was no other had not our Saviours own Apostles some Swords amongst them yet were not condemned for carrying them nor for striking neither if they had had a command for it Samuel was a spiritual man yet call'd for a Sword and used it severely too the hewing Agag in peices yet the act is nor condemned or cen sured for unjust no not that valorous act of Phinees before him but was so far from being unlawfull that it is commended for righteous to all generations And if he had come arm'd it might have been justified but he did not but came alone to speak with two members of the House and to use his own expressions 't was in the night and without a Sword and Mr. Prynn with others was then in the Queens Lodgings and not in Hell and 't was strange that being in Hell they should be a cold he knows who it was being in Hell cryed out that he was tormented in that flame and it seems as strange too that Mr. Prynn should complain of his being almost sterved and yet he was in a Cooks shop but had he been truly in Hell he could never have procured a Habeas Corpus to get out again But why does the man of the long Robe exclaim so bitterly against him did he give him any wounds or did he threaten him or force any uncivil Action upon him If none of these why such reviling and indeed slandering of an absent and innocent person But the person is hated for his calling for being one that hath so long by doing and suffering for the truth and contending by many I say tentations at home and abroad for the faith yet holds out and is sound and entire to his profession of the Gospel if any can say and apply that place of the Apostle Paul he may to himself for he hath been in perils at Sea in perils at Land in perils amongst false brethren in hunger and cold in famine and nakedness in perils in the Wilderness in perils amongst his own countreymen c. and all this for his constant adhering to and loving the sincerity of the Gospel but I advise Mr. Prynn to take heed how he wrongs the least of these little Ones 't is hard to kick against the pricks but more specially not to cause his own Tongue and Pen to accuse and condemn himself for slandering the upright in heart Nor as Solomon saith to cause his flesh to sin That 's for satisfaction for the Acts had it been done as Mr. Prynn reports it For the second thing that inflames his spirit so to rage and rant it ad randum in folio is as he says that Mr. Prynn should desire and would have all the ancient Records of the Nation to be burn'd and that makes him bestir himself for fear least the common Law Records should be included in the Number To this we say and truly it is the safest way of answering him by the Gentleman 's own words out of his printed book which yet was but intended for some private papers past betwixt him and a freind and not so much intended for publick though indeed they are of publick use and benefit and fit to be practised in a well govern'd and Christian Common wealth but sure there is no such poyson in them as this Spider hath suck'd from them at folio 33. of his book cal'd good work for a good magistrate he saith That if the Premises were carried on viz. of the Law truly reformed of Registers in every Parish whereby every man may know and enjoy his own whilest he lives and be sure his will should be performed when he is dead It were best all Records that lie any where to hinder such a settlement were bur'nd yea the Records in the Tower that are the Monuments of Tyranny for mark what he Mr. Prynn writes Relatio fit ad proximum antecedens and then sure he looseth his aim for let the things be scand throughly and there is no such matter as he is so startled at for look at the matter going before and that was the Law regulated How the Exorbitancies of unjust Fees of injurious D●emurs of unnecessary Offices and unfit persons in them with thousands besides these 't is this is the stone of offence and so perplexes the peevish Gentleman yet whether this be fiting to be done we leave to all honest hearted Englishmen to judg And yet now we are upon it one word or two to the very Law the common Law it self honoured and indeed idolized by Mr. Prynn I hope he will not say it is like that of the Medes and Persians unalterable it was impos'd not for the good but the curb of this Nation by the Norman Tyrant and why may not another generation finde out as good or better Principles to govern by as that and as wise and as faithfull Lawyers to manage it Was the Law and the Sword too tied onely to his head-peice We know the very constitution of men in several ages do differ And what might then be known to be necessary for that time and generation of men Must it needs be so also now and of force binding for the future Because there stands an old House built by the Conqueror may it not be altered or if this age thinks and findes it fitting utterly pull'd down though the Law doth bridle and punish many haynous and capital crimes justly and keeps us from living like Wolves and Bears yet the Law as now practis'd and managed by some Officers I will not say Barresters and Benchers too yet they are scarce excusable the Law is made but as a stalking horse for gain let any man seriously consider but these three things which are strange and sad to think upon in the Law