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	know_v	necessary_a	2,310	5	6.5393	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48309	A discovrse concerning Puritans tending to a vindication of those, who unjustly suffer by the mistake, abuse, and misapplication of that name.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing L1876; ESTC R212712	47,271	67

repute and Calumnies to get footing hath beene the encrease of manslaughter and the continuance of enmity in all ages Many beleeve that nothing which is done would be knowne if this meanes of dispersing privie calumnious speeches were not used whereas little is knowne because it is used for falshood constantly affirmed for truth sometimes deceives and when it does not but is knowne to be falshood yet it forces to some suspension of judgement and makes us yeeld some way even to that which we beleeve not This is most apparant at this day in this Kingdome in the Case of Puritans for did accusation and legall processe take place few crimes would be proved against Puritans and did not malicious calumny prevaile as few men would be proved Puritans whereas now nothing is so monstrous which is not branded upon Puritans and no man is so innocent as to escape that brand So great also is the audacity of those which lacerate the fames of Puritans and with so much confidence doe they vent their obloquies that they which know the falsity thereof and easily perceive that the same aspersions are more truely due to the Autors and raisers of them yet they are dazeled and driven to some doubtfull admittance thereof Neither could this audacity be so prevalent amongst the vulgar but that Scholars and the greatest of the Clergy are now become the most injurious detesters and depravers of Puritans having taken up in Pulpits and presses almost as vile and scurrilous a licence of fiction and detraction as is usuall in Play houses Taverns and Bordelloes Some men divide generally all Protestants into Puritans and Antipuritans but I shall admit of subdivisions in both for all men are not alike which either affect or disaffect either Puritans or Antipuritans Antipuritans I shall thus divide Some Antipuritans are so tearmed because they are no Puritans but such I dislike not for I my self am neither the one nor other I neither merit the name of Puritan neither doe I hate them so as to professe my self an Antipuritan Others are accounted Antipuritans because they are of the Romish Religion and so professe themselves but their enmity is but a due antipathy and as a necessary consequence of their Religion and such I take no notice of I think Puritans expect no other from them Others again there are which are very averse from some Puritanicall Tenets and hold Puritans in very many things erroneous but yet they mean well themselves and bear no hatred to the persons of Puritans they allow Puritans sound in the most and weightiest matters of faith they hold dissent in disputable things no ground of malice and they attribute no infallibility to themselves in those things wherein they dissent from these men I am but little removed The worst sort of Antipuritans and they which ought only to be so called are they which bitterly hate and persecute many good men under the name of Puritans and many goods things in those which are Puritans whose antipathy is to mens persons as well as opinions in opinions those which are sound as well as those which are erroneous These are the Antipuritans which I shall now strive to detect whom I now hold to be of great number and power in the State at this day whom we may account the chiefest causers and procurers of all those mischiefs and plagues which now incumber both Church and Commonwealth and to be guilty of all those crimes which falsly they charge upon Puritans being therein like Caesars enemies which therefore onely hated him because they had deserved hatred from him By such Antipuritans is all love to goodnesse and zeal to the Protestant Religion and all hatred of vice and dislike of Popish Superstition brought into contempt For as they admit all true of Puritans which Papists object against Protestants so they account all Protestants almost besides their own faction Puritans By such is the Religion of the Scots made ridiculous by such is the amitie of the two Nations and therein the Honour and safety of the King his Crown and Progeny endangered By such is Calvin the Reformers of our Religion for hearkning therein to Calvin traduced and another reformation attempted by such is Antiquity preferred to obscure Scripture Uniformity in Ceremonies to the disadvantage of unity in hearts by such is the outside and walls of Religion trimmed and decored whilst the soule thereof is neglected and defaced by such is the Kings heart stolne from his Subjects and the Subjects estranged from the King by such is the Name of Royalty pretended whilst a Papall Hierarchy onely is intended by such is dissention nourished in the State that they may fish in troubled waters by such is truth in other men styled faction and faction in themselves styled truth by such are innovations preached and printed for necessary points whilst necessary doctrines in other men are prohibited In the power of such it now remaines to teach and publish all things consonant to their owne ends and to quash and silence all gainsayers and either to promote or detrude all Suiters for preferment at their discretion being absolutely possessed of Presses Pulpits and the eares of great men by such are many good men reviled and oppressed for their constancie to the true Religion whilst many factious semipopish Dunces are unduly preferred every where for neutrality in Religion or some worse innovation by such are Puritans made as Sinks and Sewers to unlode and discharge their own filth into whilst their black railing tongues expume nothing against Puritans but what is true of themselves These things if I am not deceived will appeare in this ensuing discourse In all ages true Religion hath been odious amongst Heathens and true devotion amongst Sensualists Judaisme appeared to Painims meer Superstition Christianity seemed to the Jewes grosse blasphemie and now amongst Christians Protestantisme is nothing else but Heresie and amongst Protestants Zeal is misnamed Puritanisme But in this word Puritanisme is a greater mystery of defamation then ever was before it may well be called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} it is a word of depravation fit onely for these times wherein the shine of the Gospel is at the brightest and the malice of Satan at the highest This word sprung up almost with the Reformation no sooner had the woman brought forth but the Serpent pursued her to devoure her issue and she being fled into the Wildernesse this streame of infamy was spued forth after her to overtake her The Bishop of Downe in Ireland in his Visitation speech 1638. endeavours to make it credited that Puritans have increased since the Reformation by degrees both in number and malice but the contrary is most apparently true Dissent in Ecclesiasticall Policie about Ceremonies and other smaller matters being not of the substance of Religion first gave occasion to raise this reprochfull word Puritan in the Church but since that time mens minds being better satisfied and peace being more firmly