Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	church_n	know_v	4,058	5	4.1423	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09275	Decrees of our Holy Father, Pope Innocent XI containing the suppression of an office of the Immaculate Conception of the most Holy Virgin and of a multitude of indulgences : according to the copies at Rome, from the printing-press of the Most Reverend Apostolick Chamber / translated into English out of the French copy, to which the Latine was adjoyn'd, as also here it is, by the direction of an eminent person of honour.	Catholic Church. Pope (1676-1689 : Innocent XI); Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689.; Inchofer, Melchior, 1585?-1648. Epistolae B. Virginis Mariae ad Messanenses veritas vindicata. English & Latin.	1678 (1678)	Wing I200A; ESTC R188290	21,891	70

inviolably Given at Rome the 7th day of March 1678. The Cardinal Aloysio Homo-Dei The place of † the Seal Michael Angelo Ricci Secretary The 12 day of the Month of March 1678 the Decree above said was affixed and published at the Gates of the Court and in Campi Florae and other accustomed places in the City by me Roch de Stephanis Cursitor of our Holy Father the Pope Laurence Segni Master Cursitor The Rules whereby we may Judge of the Vsefulness of these Two DECREES WE find upon accurate observation very often th●t even those things which had been judged right and good have upon a more exact examination of the truth been found far otherwise in S. Just 1. Discourse to the Gentiles The Truth is not put to shame by any thing but by being suppressed Tertullian against the Valentinians And what I pray is it that we have to do Is it not what the Canons of the Church require ...... But when things are done against the Canon it 's fit they should be reformed Pope Julius 1 Epist ad Orientales in the 11 Apology of Athanasius It is dishonorable and pernicious to Chistianity that those who make profession of it should in matters of Religion talk so absurdly that an Infidel who hears them so discoursing contrary to all reason cannot but laugh at it But that which is herein the greatest trouble is not that he who thus talks becomes ridiculous but that those who are not of the Church take this to be the sense of those that are the Founders of our Religion ...... And these rash venturous persons it is not to be expressed what grief and trouble hereby they do create to prudent sober Christians S. Augustin in his Book on Genesis ad literam chap. 19. For in the prayers of a great many there be every day many things found amiss if heard by the more learned And many things therein contrary to the Catholick Truth The same S Aug. l. 6. of Baptism against the Donatists c. 25 And in Gratian's Canon-law De Consecrat Dist 4. si non sanctificatur Truth gives a luster and splendor to all Art● and Disciplines And where this is wanting beauty and comliness must needs be wanting Isidore Pelusiote lib. 2. Epist 64. What hope is there left when the Master the learned are silent and the Talkers be thos● who if things be as they say were never th● Sholars of those Masters I am afraid that th●● silence of theirs is a Connivance I am afrai● that 't is those rather may be thought the Speakers who suffer these thus to speak without controll Silence in such cases is very suspitiou● For Truth certainly would oppose it if the fal●hood were displeasing 'T is we therefore mu●● answer for it if by our silence we give countenance to the errour Let such therefore be sharply rebuked and not left at liberty thus to ta●● as they list Pope Celestin 1. Epist. to the Bishops of France He that cannot content himself with a few things 't is evident that he makes his estimate not by the Worth of things but by the Bulk of them S. Avitus Bishop of Vienna in the Dalphiny Epist 2. to King Gundebald 'T is the source of most pernicious Errours in those Authors for whom we have a reverence to be fond of euery thing without distinction resolve to justify whatever we there meet with M. Aurelius Cassiodorus a Senator in his book de divinis Lectionibus c. 24. Next unto God himself we are to reverence the Truth being that alone which brings us nearest to God Martinus Dumiensis Bishop of Bragues in his Book De moribus To observe also inviolable in every point the holy General Counsils of Nice Constantinople the first of Ephesus of Calcedon the second of Constantinople held in the time of the Emperour Justinian of pious memory ...... And to reform whatever shall happen to be contrary to the discipline of their Canon The Journal of the Roman Church in the Profession of Faith which the Popes were wont to make at their Creation or Election There be some who think they do service to God if in order to the putting a greater luster on his praise they invent Romantick Stories full of untruths But they would be of another mind if they well considered the words of the great Apostle who saies to the Corinthians If Christ be not risen then is our Preaching vain and your faith is also vain yea and we are found false witnesses of God c. according therefore to these words of the Apostle he deserves to be called A false witness who out of an indiscreet zeal to praise God tells a Lye And he doubtless bears witness against God himself who doth unworthily contrive a forgery for his praise The Cardinal Petrus Damiani in his Preface to the Life of S. Maure Bishop of Cesena in Italy and in the Prologue to the Life of S. Romuald It belongs to our duty as well to retrench and forbid what is amiss as to establish what is right and when so established to enforce it by the strength of our Apostolick authority Pope Alexander the III Epist to Stephen Bishop of Meaux As we do not intend to infringe or make void what by our Predecessors hath upon good and advised deliberation been established so also those things which have been gotten of them by surprise to the Churches detriment and dishonour we will have reformed and reduced to a better condition Pope Innocent III to the Bishop of Canterbury and to other Bishops Forasmuch as falshood ought not to be suffered under the pretense of piety we do by these our Apostolick Letters to you directed Require you to admonish the said Abbat and Monks to desist from such presumptions ...... For it is no way conducing to their salvation or their repuration to make a gain by Preaching a Lye .... The XV. year of our Popedome The same Pope l. 3. Epist 10. to the Abbat and Prior of S. Victor In this sixth rank we are to reckon the Legends and Miracles of Saints the Lives of the Fathers the Visions of devout persons the Citations and Opinions of holy Doctors All which the Church admits not as things necessary to be believed in order to salvation but as things conducing to excite devotion in Christians and for their edification Provided there be nothing therein contained which is known to be false John Gerson Chancellare of the Church of Paris in his Declaration of Truths to be believed as necessary to salvation The abuses which are crept into the Church of God it becomes us by the exercise of our authority to take away Pope Nicolaus V in his Constitution touching the conferring of Benefices in Germany The Wheat as yet is covered with the husks The Bishop of Rome is not able to pry into and search the hearts of men Mans heart is wicked and unsearchable who can know it 'T is I the Lord that search the heart and try the reines