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	faith_n	heart_n	4,626	5	5.3251	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88171	A defensive declaration of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, against the unjust sentence of his banishment, by the late Parliament of England; directed in an epistle from his house in Bridges in Flanders, May 14. 1653. (Dutch or new still, or the 4 of may 1653. English or old stile) to his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell, and the rest of the officers of his Army, commonly sitting in White-hall in councel, managing the present affairs of England, &c. Unto which is annexed, an additional appendix directed from the said Leut. Col. John Lilburn, to his Excellency and his officers, occasioned by his present imprisonment in Newgate; and some groundless scandals, for being an agent of the present King, cast upon him by some great persons at White-hall, upon the delivery of his third address (to the councel of State, by his wife and several other of his friends) dated from his captivity in Newgate the 20 of June 1653.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2098; Thomason E702_2; ESTC R202747	17,494	20

A DEFENSIVE DECLARATION OF Lieut. Col. John Lilburn Against the unjust sentence of his banishment by the late Parliament of England directed in an Epistle from his house in Bridges in Flanders May 14. 1653. Dutch or new still or the 4 of may 1653. English or old stile To his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell and the rest of the Officers of his Army commonly sitting in White-hall in Councel managing the present affairs of England c. Unto which is annexed an additional appendix directed from the said Leut. Col. John Lilburn to his Excellency and his Officers occasioned by his present imprisonment in Newgate and some groundless scandals for being an agent of the present King cast upon him by some great persons at Whitehall upon the delivery of his third Address to the counsel of State by his wife and several other of his friends dated from his captivity in Newgate the 20 of June 1653. MY Lord and honored Gentlemen Having seen nothing abroad in print to declare that title that you would have people give you that address themselves to you I must therefore crave your pardon if through ignorance I do not exactly give you being my self in a foraigne nation at so far a distance from you that title that is usually given unto you for upon my word and reputation my present designe is to write with all respect unto you wherefore I crave leave truly to inform you that by the sudden and unexpected arrival of my endeared though greatly afflicted wife with me yesternight I am by her certainly informed of the total dissolution of the Parliament with the necessity of your assuming to your selves the power of the Nation with large and serious promises from you of doing it real good and healing it's rents breaches hazards and dangerous divisions by setting it at real liberty and freedome founded upon the true principles of reason common equity righteousness and justice ' at the sight of which in truth and verity my heart should more truly rejoyce then at the enjoying of all earthly riches and honour that possible it can be imagined the whole world can afford to me particularly And also she very much incourages me to believe that if I can obtaine your pass faith or ingagement for my safe and free returning into England and remaining there which she with confidence assures me by vertue of this letter thus penned and her negotiations thereupon speedily to procure from you I may with confidence rest upon it In which consideration most noble and worthy gentlemen vouchsafe me without distast I beseech you liberty truly to acquaint you That by the late Parliaments Votes of the 15. of January last was twelve Months I was fined seven thousand pound to Sir Arthur Haselridge c. to be banished out of England and its territories for ever and never to return into any of them againe upon pain of death but if I do I am to dye as a fellon without mercy and upon pain of death to be gone within thirty dayes after the said 15 of Januarie And by their Act of the 30 of the same moneth all persons are declared accessary of Fellony after the fact that shall relieve harbour or conceal me in England or any of its territories after the expiration of 20 dayes after the said 15 of January the said day that the judgement of my banishment was past against me the harbors all stopt that none should pass without a pass And yet though I went to the Speaker Master Lenthal at his own house and with all the earnestness and importunity that my tongue possibly could express to him begged a pass of him as for my life but it was again and again absolutely by him denied me So that I ran apparent hazards of being hanged in England before I could get away forwant of a pass to go into my banishment For at Dover the Maior of that Corporation absolutely and resolutely denied to let me go without a pass although I had been at the charges to carry thither from London with me several witnesses judicially to depose upon their oaths that I was the individual Lieut. Col. John Lilburn mentioned and named in my banishing votes which were publikely printed by special order of the Parliament one of which copies I then delivered to him till his wife a meer stranger to me and one that to my knowledge I had never seen before upon my mournful expostulation with him burst out into crying and begged and desired of her husband to let me pass and rather by so doing to run the hazard of his own ruine then of my apparent death by his means And all this is done unto me I do here solemnly avow it and dare ingage with the utmost hazard of life judicially legally fully and evidently to make it good without any the least shadow af law reason justice conscience or provocation without so much as ever laying any pretence of a crime unto my charge or ever letting me know my accuser or any accusation or ever by sending forth any manner of process of law calling me to any answer whatsoever or ever permitting me though in the face of the Parliament sitting I most earnestly prest it and desired it upon the twentieth of Jan. being the very day that by their fifth vote past against me I was called to their bar to hear their sentence read to me to speak so much as one word in my own defence or expressing any manner of cause in my foresaid banishing votes either general or particular wherefore they so banished and fined me seven thousand pound The foresaid Act of the thirtieth of January past also against me was made after it was publickly known I was upon my journy to Dover to go into my banishment and yet that Act expresseth no particular crime in the least in law against me but onely generals which by the law of England and the Armyes Declaration signifie nothing 2 Part Cooks Inst fol. 52 53 315 318 591 615 616. and 1. part of the Parliaments book of Declarations p. 38 77 201 845 and the votes upon the impeached 11 Members see the Petition of Right and the late act that abolished the Star-chamber and those excellent printed arguments upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus in the Court of Kings Bench in the Case of Sir John Eliot and other Parliament-men committed to prison in the third of King Charles The unparallel'd strangeness and high injustice of which sentence by no laws of nature rules of reason nor foundations of English government can no way I am confident be justified nor any man that had really a finger or vote in causing or procuring of it by any man indued either with one grain of honor true understanding conscience or common honesty the justification of my own innocency and every way causeless suffering in every particular against that most unrighteous sentence I dare venture my life to the uttermost hazard to justifie and vindicate