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	word_n	14,132	5	4.8692	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10089	Times anotomie [sic]. Containing: the poore mans plaint, Brittons trouble, and her triumph. The Popes pride, Romes treasons, and her destruction: affirming, that Gog, and Magog, both shall perish, the Church of Christ shall flourish, Iudeas race shall be restored, and the manner how this mightie worke shall be accomplished. Made by Robert Pricket, a souldier: and dedicated to all the lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell.	Pricket, Robert.	1606 (1606)	STC 20342; ESTC S115240	33,232	64

time They ar mustering now of Sathans regiment Their plot is lay'd hope feeds their vild intent When time shall be into combustion thrown And falsehoods nurse to hostile actions growne Wars thunder then when it sha●●●●●l shake the world People shal be into amasement whorld A sca●●●●●let horce shal stomble and fall downe And after him a triple hallowed crowne The beast whose legges of claye and Irone wrought Must be vnto a feareful ruine brought Because Gods t●●●●●uth for to defile he sought He and his sea shall wast and come to noug●●●●●t 〈◊〉 seat doeth shake and reele I see him ●●●●●alling The wounded monster on the earth lies scravvling He gapes for breath strangled himselfe he choakes About his eares his painted Pallace smoakes Downe tumble must that triple crowned whore Once fal●●●●●e her fall not any shall deplore But those that would her spotted garments weare Whose foreheads doe the marke of Dagon beare The Champions all which would the best maintaine Shall at his feete by conquering swords be slaine Gog ouerthrowne Mag●●●●●g shall thinke to come With fire and sworde through glorious Christendome From E●●●●●phrates and Tygris then shal ●●●●●ise A strength that will our tyrants tyrannise Arabians Gul●●●●●e to Percias Gulfe shall flow From whence a high reard softly floud shall grow Whose Sea like waues from thence to Fes shall roule Downe tumbling all that would their force controule R●●●●●uenge and death to war●●●●●es alarums leades The Eagles last continued monstrous heads The mountaine VVol●●●●●es frō Christian bounds cald hence Christians then by force shall driue them thence And Christendome whilst God her peace doth shield Shall striue aright in her Gods house to build That she may teach the nations thus to say Her Christ is God we will his lawes obay Our Bishops then the truth shall ratifie In order chiefe not in authoritie And that Religion shall stand most beloued Whose rule is best by Scriptures truth approoued And for a Iudge a Church finde out we can That knew the truth before the Pope began Then shall the Church be built on Peters faith And that beleeue which holy Scripture saith Then shall Gods Church her strength and glory see When Christ alone her corner stone shall be Aboue Gods word shall then be raisde no head By Christ their Sheapheard shall his flock be lead Such Vnion shall the Northren Prince contriue As Christians shall no more with Christians striue Then Christendome shall all her power bestow By force to worke the Pagans ouerthrow All Christian Princes will themselues protect As shall the Northren Prince their course direct And now me thinkes I see a glorious sight A Christian Armie shining wondrous bright Marching in warres 〈◊〉 fit for fight In the defence of their Redeemers ●●●●●ight The Northren Emperour doth the red crosse beare To who●●●●●e command the armie craues to swea●●●●●e With 〈◊〉 bloud their warlike weapons staines 〈◊〉 fields and faire Hungarian plaines Whilst 〈◊〉 Ismael and the cursed seed Doe striue to make each others breast to bleed Working that worke for which they were compoūded That each by other may be with warre consounded The t●●●●●mperour of the North that Prince of fame Brings Christendome into her wonted frame And all that did vnto that Empire bend At last shall back vnto that state descend Empires and Kingdomes shall at once recoile And bend their strength to worke their spoilers spoile Those lockt vp Deuils in wildest Mountaines bred Whom Christian hands from thence deliueted To whom at first the Sarazens gaue pay By whom at last themselues destroyed were they By all that strength which hath their wrong indur'd Shall be at last their rac'd out name procur'd Sara and Ketura shall a conquest winne Of whom there is a mightie power vnseene And then once more in pompe of Empire swels Those that are calde Religious 〈◊〉 Before they doe the sacred truth retaine Mongst them is 〈◊〉 and Elias slame From forth the North a Lyons voyce shall rore And make them then the murthered dead deplore The doctrine which they taught once calde to minde Shall Heathens teach the way heauens path to finde Old Magog then new built his name shall loose And for his God the God of Gods shall choose The Northren Empire shall to him disclose That Truth gainst which he did himselfe oppose The Persians shall the Christians kindly greet When both their Armies shall with conquest meet Mount Harmons dew that sweetly then distils From off the tops of faire Arabian hils Shall fall on them of Abrahams line the race Though yet vnseene by faith the seeds of grace Then hungrie Dogges no more a stray shall wander Iudeas race shall finde the Bridegromes chamber Time takes in hand to worke this wonder great A Northren blast must coole the Sothern heate For of the Princes that shall worke this thing The worthiest power from forth the North shall spring A Potent Prince a strong and powerfull King His famous deeds through all the world shall ring It is establisht and his Throne shall stand Whose force shall take a wondrous worke in hand In his blest Li●●●●●e triumphant glory goes With glorious Race of conquering Emperours This is the winde and Lion of the wood From whom a most Emperiall strength shall bud And to the Eagle in wrathes fiers fury speake And al his winges and Feathers pe●●●●●cemeale breake The Heathens he at iudgments bar shall set And make them know the power gainst which they fre●●●●● He shall the land from Paganisme deliuer And wash heauens flock in faith's saluations riuer He shall the earth with heauenly grace refresh And vnto her heauens lawes with truth expresse The foes whereof he shall with force destroy And turne earths bondage into freedomes ioye Set free her hope shall waite on that saluation whose mercies iudgment layed her first foundation This Royall line the whole continuance summes Of all the yeares vntill great Shil●●●●● comes God shortly will the businesse vndertake For which he doeth the Northen Empier make Vpon his head stands an Emperiall Crowne Whose Monarchy shall throw Romes Empire dovvne Fooles though they brag their cloud of earths elus●●●●●on Both must and shall come to a rac't confusion And that eare long time doeth a course beginne Whereby consum'd shall be worlds sinke of sinne This happen shall and when these signes appeare Know then the day of iudgment draweth neere Be I excusd and not condempn'd of men No deuill-borne Merline doth direct my pen. Vnto an end time doth each creature driue From holy writ do I these words deriue This rotten age pointing at worlds decay But well obseru'd doth wondrous things bewray Both heauen and earth mankind so loades with sinne They pray heauens God he would their rest beginne And set them in that state wherein they stood When God made all and said all things were good Of time to come what meanes my pen to write Whom present time holdes in such base despight In spight of time and times

same shall to the heauens aspire Great Britaine so is by Gods hand instal'd As it shall be the land of conquest cal'd But now to ease a poore mans grieued minde In things aboue my sight shall comfort finde I know the time when I poore wretch reiected Shall as the best be no whit lesse respected When Kings and Queenes of greatest excellence Twixt them and me shall be no difference And there dwels Mercy Oh there a Sauiour liueth That to the poore saluations comfort giueth Not many Kings nor Queenes nor Nobles shall Triumph before heauens throne maiesticall But those that in this world their heauen doe make Shall in that world before Gods iudgment shake The beautie which on earth no praise doth lack Maskt vp in shame hels sulphure smoake makes black The snowe white hand moyst soft foule sinnes desire Shall burne in lake of hels eternall fire where diuels mēs soules with fiery darts strikes thorow And in their iawes like dogges they them shall worow Where God doth so his angers iudgment frame As that his wrath shall blow hels endlesse flame Euer Euer oh fearefull word for euer Where plagues encrease but shall be ended neuer Where torment brings torments with fresh supplie Where dying soules doe liue but neuer dye And ther 's the place where earths proud dignitie Shall plunge it selfe in endlesse misery But happie those whose soules by grace made pure Exempt from wrath shall no such plagues indure And most of them poore soules scornd and disgrac'd Are those that shall with God and Christ be plac'd When most on earth the poore despisde doe stand It doth presage Christs comming neere at hand Deiected base and out-cast pouertie Reioyce triumph in Mercies clemencie You are heauens flock a Shepheard doth you keepe Who of his number will not loose a sheepe Thus hath my sigh an honest passion breathed And of my woes a weeping garland wreathed My sighes my teares my woes my griefes lament My plaints my groanes all fruites of discontent Doe not themselues vpon one substance feed A generall doubt makes heart and soule to bleed A generall cuill a land to vildenesse bent Must needs expect some fearefull punishment Of present time the things desired heere Time prooues my words and makes the truth appeere Of time to come I humbly doe auowe Experience shall my words for truth allowe Search but the Story of that writte diuine And vnderstand the change of euery time Fiue hundred fiftie two yeares coumpted was A period whole which euer brought to passe Strange alterations both in Church and State Kings Kingdomes then did striue to ruinate Temples were rac'te Religion cleane despisde Tyrants by force of sword new lawes deuisde And now the time doth on such period stand As if it meant to take like course in hand Do but obserue each Celestiall spheare And see what signes doe in their course appeare Compare the time with antedated times And vnderstand the Heauens true speaking signes Then will you not these lines of mine deride Nor smother them with smoake of scornfull pride A Souldiers writing like his fighting is His course no●●●●● knowes how dangers rockes to misse Those Pens doe most their hopes in peeces batter That cannot best with oyled smoothnesse flatter A Souldiers name striue not for to disgrace Poore should not be accompted 〈◊〉 base And that I may not from the truth digresse My humble lines shall thus my state expresse The Souldier which doth scorne the lye to take Should scorne as much himselfe the lye to make The open fields to me is made my bed A bancke of earth a pillow for my head In shadie groues and sollitary places My steps doe make their sorrowes mournfull traces Imprisonment woes wofull habitation Hath forc't my Muse to secret contemplation In winter nights when I a Souldier was Alone my Muse should priuate motions tosse When in the warre I warres attire did beare My bookes to me most kinde companions were And some sad houres on skie-born●●●●● bookes I read Amongst the flarres an humble path I tread And see the great and strange Con●●●●●unctions there Of angrie Saturne Mars and Iupiter Since fi●●●●●st the Planets disclosde their variation Saturne neer had more Lord-like domination What it foretels my wea●●●●●y Muse sorgets In Dragons taile when strange Coniunction sets His name stands rouled in perditions booke Whose taile from heauē of starres the third part strooke Vnder the Dragons taile is fixed fast A strength that shall him and his tayle downe cast Mankinde the starres that Heauen should 〈◊〉 Shall be vpreard with glorious dignitie Though obseruation rightly may collect The iudgment of some retrograde aspect Yet Christ our King and kingdomes hath possessed With that wherein ourselues and world is blessed Though L●●●●●os house hath such reflection glided As tels there is some wondrous thing prouided I leaue to write and will conceit the rest Our land shall still by Gods great loue be blest A constant faith true resolution proues Feares not what vnder the first moouer mooues And in this thought I see with humble eye The mighty worke of Prima ●●●●●obili And know the world in fiery flames shall burne Before he doth to his first point returne For Heauen and earth by fire once purgd then sure They shall remaine as they at first were pure When God the world to iudgement summon will That first great mouer keepes his motion still Whose slow pace round doth roundly comprehend Those lesser Orbes that vnder him doe wend. In order each his fixed iourney takes And in their turnes celestiall musicke makes And then I thinke of that most happie time When I shall heare their dulsiue heauenly chime Aboue them all faiths eyes through Bethelem Be holds the glory of new Ierusalem Where sits vpon a Throane maiesticall The mightie maker of this wondrous all When thether once my ioyfull thoughts are sent I am amazde with wonders rauishment Nor tongues nor Pens nor Angels can expresse The glory of that glorious happinesse From thence to Luna not any Orbe to misse I cannot finde where Purgatorie is So that I thinke it sure remaineth yet Within their bellies that deuised it And those that would attaine to heauens great ioy Must leaue bye-pathes and finde in Christ their way But for the Starres I creatures them account Aboue them all their makers power must mount And by their influence more I will not learne Then Rules diuine shall teach me to discearne And in that course men sometimes are befriended Of those pure fiers by whom they are attended God euer yet by signes and visions told So as worlds change worlds worldlings might behold But cloddes of clay because they will not greeue This course they take to heare but not beleeue To gesse to speake to iudge great states to touch For me poore soule it is a strength too much Who so doth tel what things themselues doe show May doubt his words wil too presumptuous growe FVll twenty times nights Bride her selfe

what course the Pope doth take His Champions proud so fit for hell to make Let me set forth that euery one may spie The cunning worke of Romes ar●●●●●h villany For Romes auaile are built beyond the Seas As Christian deedes some stately Colledges And they are giuen in charitie to bring Vp those that will Romes Masses learne to sing Children there taught the rules of Popery Are learnd to know proud Romes supremacie Their teachers largely doe to them expresse How much th●●●●●y owe to Romes Scald holinesse And that their liues lost in th●●●●● Popes behoofe Confirmes the truth of their religions proofe If for Romes good to shamefull death they come It crownes them with a glo●●●●●ious martirdome Who yeeldes not to Romes lawes are only those Which they must know on earth to be Gods foes Their parents if they shall Romes Pope displease It 's lawfull for them on their liues to seaze To any Prince they are no subiect helde That dares deny vnto Romes sea to yeelde For Rome If subiects their lawfull soueraigne kill Romes lawes affirme that they Gods lawes fulfill Vnto the Church a benefite to bring Each euill is made a sanctimonious thing When thus they are instructed then I hope They may become fit seruants for the Pope Then taking oath in vildest euills to trade They are indeede substanciall villaines made And thus those schooles the Popes best charitie Are made the nurse of treasons treacherie Thether oft goes our Englands Papall youthes To read the volumes of the Popes vntruthes To studie there doe idle wits deuise Where legions are of vprearde mountaine lies Logician like who best can lies mayntaine Can best vphold Romes blood red scarlet traine There in those schooles Rome doth those schollers che●●●●●ish By whome he hopes to make gods kingdome perish From forth those lakes as from a stigian gulfe To England comes each hell-borne Romane woolfe Of our owne people doe those schooles beg●●●●●tt A viperous swarme for vildest treasons fit Semina●●●●●yes the children of perdition Thence bring to vs Romes Popish superstition With him he brings aucthoritie to beare All shapes and formes and may each fashion weare Sometimes like clownes sometimes like ruffins br●●●●●ue Sometimes like courtiers sometimes like lawyers gra●●●●●e Like Farmors Citizens or like a seruing man Like glassemen tinkers or like foote posts can Those Rascalls runne our kingdome round about And not be found when iustice seekes them out They may be droncke or sweare or of the Pope speake 〈◊〉 Forsweare themselues or lie or what they will No euill in them can ioyne sinnes name vnto it If for the Church and Popes auayle they doe it The selfe same power that to deccaue hath he He giues to them that once deccaued be With hells Commission giuen a deuill to preach So doth the Pope his Saints and Children teach From Rome then let this truth be vnderstood The Pope knowes how to make all mischiefs good These hell seed sowers when they come to see Such as to whom they may vnmasked be With wordes dissolu'd in graceles zeale to teares He then to them with humble speech declares He doth no more then their saluation craue He comes their soules from Hell and Deuill to s●●●●●ue Alas saith he your preachers doe you wrong Not of the Church you not to heauen belong The●●●●● with a crosse and bodie humbly bent My Lord the Pope his holynes hath sent By me from forth Saint Peters blessed store Heauens heauenly kingdome home vnto your doore Oh doe you then with ioye your hearts addresse For to receiue heauens proffered happines To heauen marke well for it is truth I say You cannot goe vnlesse I teach the way And if you will no longer be beguiled To holy Rome you must be reconciled Thus they at first doe set destructions trap And throwe themselues into deuotions lapp They ●●●●●old their words in seeming holy zeale And from the hearers thus their hearts they steale And when as their perswasions thus haue wrought As to Romes sea by th●●●●●m some soules are brought Then to the Pope once reconcilde and sworne From hence to Rome their hallowed names are borne And afterwardes it s taught them by degrees To vnderstand the strength of Romes decrees And so forth on vntill they come to this To know like them their prince no Christian is And some thing done from sinne their land to free As murthering him should meritorious bee And as they sinde a spirite fit to heare So will they vse their doctrines to declare And giue to them wha●●●●● thei●●●●● denotion brings Beades pictures Saints and pretie hallowed things Popes do maintaine their Antichristian Scisme With relicks ragges and A pish Munckanisme The simple thus by them dece●●●●●ued are The wise are caught euen by the selfe same snare Thus in the da●●●●●cke of hells eternall shade Amongst our selues are English traytors made This is the seede that 〈◊〉 sowe And this the 〈◊〉 that from their labours groue And that these euills vnseene may safely florish our Papists doe them and thei●●●●● actions nourishe But that which thre●●●●●ts great Brit●●●●●ns monarchie and best vpholde Romes hatefull dignitie Is that mongst vs there ruleth secretly A sea and state of Popish presbetrie In England here Rome hath an Arch-priest plac'd The Pope hath him as with a Councel grac'd Some certaine Papists onely knowes his walke And they alone of Romes diseignes must talk●●●●● All Iesuites of Romes Priuie Councell be For best they know the grounds of trecherie At Rome for them Princelike their Agents are Who doth their causes to the Pope prefer Rome hether they thether vsually As cause requires doe send in embassie Before our safetie can soundly be inioyed This Priest and Councell needes must be destroyed For by their meanes the Pope doth play the deuill And plagues vs here with euery kinde of 〈◊〉 All they desire is our Co●●●●●fusions shame And o●●●●●er vs the Pope supreame to name Arch-Papist doth for this the best he ca●●●●● Church-papist he becomes his iorney man All worke together the Pope aloft to rayse And still their working workes our dangero●●●●●s dayes Of some perhaps that thing is now cond●●●●●mned which done would thē much more haue bin cōmende●●●●● All did not know by some the treason coynd Once done God knowes how many would haue 〈◊〉 To sound effect could Rome her hopes compose Romes forreine friends would soone bec●●●●●me our 〈◊〉 For he on whom is laide their faiths foundation Can quickly giue a gene●●●●●all dispensation What Rome not gets by force or policie By promise vowes oathes threates or 〈◊〉 By charmes in chantments witchcraft sorcerie For that he fights ape●●●●●te or secretly With murther treason bloud and treacherie The Pope makes these his great artillarie Thus he vpholds his sea of blasphemie And when he doth to hostile actions flie Then that which most is shame to Maiestie His kings must serue him in his villanie Ther 's not an euill that hell determine shall But Popes will vse