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	ghost_n	holy_a	5,238	5	5.2266	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10968	Miles Christianus or A iust apologie of all necessarie writings and writers specialie of them which by their labored writings take paines to build vp the Church of Christ in this age and in a publique, and diffamatorie epistle lately set forth in print, are vniustly depraued. Allowed by auctority.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Mosse, Miles, fl. 1580-1614. aut; Mosse, Miles, fl. 1580-1614. Short catechism. aut	1590 (1590)	STC 21238; ESTC S100921	27,752	42

giftes doe their best indeuours to doe good be thankefull vnto these by whome you do or may reape commoditie but blame those for not doing their partes He is a foole that will no siluer because he can get no golde they are no wise men that despice the meane graces of God if any grace of God be meane séeing they can haue no vse of the best mens gifts or more truely of the more notable giftes in worser men For I count him the best man not which hath the most and best giftes but which imployeth his talents to the greatest aduantage of his Maister And take héede how you despice any wisedome and knowledge offered you from the Lorde by a man whose learning is but litle his writing much or because a man knoweth litle and yet writeth much except you can showe that his knowledge or writing is not syncere Least by the iudgement of the Almighty who euen so punisheth commonly as wée do offend it come to passe that you be despiced your selfe séeing other mē of greater learning and more giftes are either silent or more sparing of there spéech then your selfe Which that you may auoyde make more pretious accompt of them which write much though they know litle their litle knowledge for substance being the knowledge of Gods Church and their manifold writings consonant vnto the holy Scriptures Miles Mosse And yet as the Grecians intituled their writings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if when à man tooke their bookes in his hand he tasted an hony Combe with his lippes so these men omit no titles for their books which may expresse either the excellency of the matter or the conceited wit of the author But à man that boasteth of false liberality is like cloudes and winde with-out raine saith Salomon Miles Christianus And is it a fault in your opinion to giue apt Inscriptions vnto excellent matter or to giue witty titles vnto ingenious writinges you are sharpe sighted and very selfe conceipted if you can sée more then all wise men can but very singular in condemning that which all wise men doe commend A good part of the piety of the auncient Patriarches appeared in the good titles which they appropriated vnto their children Writings are the fruite of mens industry as children bée of the body Blame not the parent if hée giue his childe a good name in whom hée knoweth nothing but well If euer the wit of our first parent Adam appeared excellent it was when hée ascribed to euery creature a proper name manifesting the disposition thereof They are not vaine which imitate his wisedome but vnwise are they that follow not his steps But happely you dislike not them which giue apt titles vnto good matter but which adorne ill matter with good titles If such you meane then know you that you are not the first nor alone in so doing For many mislike them so well as your selfe The Arrians and their imitators the Papists are not more infamous in the Church for terming themselues Catholiks and yet be not so nor they more odious before God which say they are Iewes and be not then they are condemned both of God and his Chnrch which attribute good titles vnto bad matter It is not the fault of bookes onely but of many men too whose credite were nothing were they not fronted with titles Which being taken away they are as bad as the worst men And as many chaines are but of copper within though they bée gilded without so many beautified with glorious titles are quyte destitute of the riches of true wisedome and holines Pauls without Sauls within like this your Epistle carrying a showe of substance and sincerity and yet is very Mosse Miles Mosse Augustine obserued that our Sauiour Christ preached much but wrot nothing Manie that haue the roome of Christ at this daie are giuen to write much though they preach little And yet as Paule saide He was not sent to baptise but to preach though both were necessarie dueties of his calling so must it be said of Paules successors preach they much in season and out of season write they neede not but as opportunity is offered and occasion doth serue Miles Christianus You prosecute poore writers verie hardly Yet are they not charged with any thing erronious or otherwise offensiue ●hy them published That which hitherto you misliked is their verie writing and their writing much and brandishing their writings with excellent and wittie inscriptions Whereby you haue shewed your young head but no learning at all You haue yet more to saie for the disswading men from writing which I will particularly discusse that you may sée the iniquit● or more truely the iniustnes of your complaint Of S. Augustine which was the most mightie hammer to breake the braines of heretikes into peeccs in S. Bernards for his sound iudgement in religion the Prince of all ancient Diuines whether Greeke or Latin in M. Bezaes iudgement which expounded the scriptures no man so profoundly which taught Christian behauiour no man so profitably which defended the Catholike faith no man more zealously of this S. Augustine I say you write too abiectly when you saie Augustine obserued as ●f he were but Mosse But I maruell not you write no more reuerendly of him which is but one though a notable starre in the Church séeing you eclipse the glorie of all writings and writers in this your Epistle Your citing of S. Augustine sheweth plainely how well you read ●f euer you read S. Augustine He writeth indéede in that place by you quoted how Christ he preached but wrot nothing yet marke the place well and you shall finde how it is no obseruation of his but an obiection of Pagans who to discredite the writings of the Euangelists and Apostles as you do the writings of good men obiected euen as you do nowe Christ he preached but wrot nothing which S. Augustine doth answere Miles Mosse Christ preached much but wrot nothing Miles Christianus Christ he preached much it is true For he taught in the Temple in the daie he taught and daily he taught in the Temple and on the Sabboth daies hée taught and went about all Galile and all cities and townes teaching in their Sinagoges and preaching the Gospell of the kingdome But that he wrote nothing it is vntrue For he wrote moe bookes than Paule as he baptised moe Disciples than Iohn did though neither he baptised nor did write but his Disciples for him and in his name For as it was not the Disciples that spake when they preached but the Spirite of their Father in them l So was it not the Disciples and Apostles which wrote when they did write but the holy Ghost sent in Christ his name brought all thinges to their remembrance which they did write So that the workes and writinges of the Apostles are vndoubtedly the workes of Christ. And therefore the Apostles writing much you can neuer in truth saie