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	lie_n	strong_a	3,401	5	6.7531	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78375	A discourse for a king and Parliament in four sections. Demonstrating I. The inconsistency of a free-state with the scituation of this countrey, and constitution of the people. II. Mischiefs incident to the continuance of their endeavours that act in order thereunto. III. The advantages probably attending a composure with the King of Scots. IV. Resolves to the grand objections that seeme to obstruct it. By a moderate and serious pen.	W. C.	1660 (1660)	Wing C151; Thomason E1021_12; ESTC R208444	21,619	32

the most of all sides that have done amisse have done so not out of malice but misinf●rmation or misapprehension of things None will be more loyall to me or you than those subjects who sensible of their errors and our injuries will feel in their own souls most vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects You may read more in the advise to his Son which truly I cannot transcribe without a high compassion and resentment The like said he at his last hour But why doubt we Is not the Militia in our hands the disposal of Commands and Offices Is not the Council at our recommendation Who dares resist nay who can If we shall admit a crime and so fear revenge I doubt Compounders and free Contributers that have strengthned the arme of the adversarie are in strict justice not altogether to be excused Certainly we have been so shaken upon all interests by the late war that nothing but apparent ruine can engage us to it again And better is it that all factions rest satisfied with what they have suffered as the ●ate of the times than quarrelling upon old accounts to imbroyl our selves into a new sufferance He has a confidence much beyond mine that either acting or looking on in these transactions can acquit himself of all guilt such a mask has been cast over the face of things such temptations such force has assaulted men during these dark contextures of affairs that it is past man to glide through all without a tincture of injustice As it is beastly and unchristian passionately to persevere in Error so is it noble and Prince-like to forgive where there is the acknowledgment of an Error If we cannot trust the nobleness of a Prince nor the policy of government nor the security of Laws what fence can we raise against a fear shall we consume on as incapable of a cure Truth is while we live with men we shall be subject to that which is the effect of their nature Sin nor is it possible to reap the more general fruit of the best established policie unlesse by compact we submit our selves to some possible inconveniences As men we can erect nothing perfect fix we must to that which seems most probable and leave amendments to the experiences of time yet this I dare aver that this Government by Magna Charta and since hath been so fortified with Laws as bulwarks to prevent the inundation of Soveraignty and that constitution is so regular and adequate to that design that as under the due execution thereof the English man is born to the greatest freedom of the Christian world so no Prince ever attempted any violation thereof but at the long run he suffer'd in that point of his Prerogative which let in the opportunity Hence is it that the rights of the people have from age to age grown stronger against the Prince and sometimes have hurried his person to be a sacrifice alwayes his instruments whereof few in our Histories can we read that contriving against the Law have died in peaece If possibly one Prince as King Harry by his high spirit sweeps all before him yet his Infant successor was inforc'd to make amends for his violations more easily may we dispute our rights with a single Prince and his trembling Agents than a knot of Soveraigns that are backt with the sword Infinite hopes may we entertain that this Prince has been school'd to understand his true interest He has had glorious though unhappy pesidents He truly is most potent that is so in his subjects not over his subjects that is great in his people not over his people the one makes him contemned abroad and abhorred at home the other makes him feared abroad and beloved at home Forraign enemies can rejoyce in nothing more than our self-combustions while we consume that glorious spirit in conquering our own bowels which otherwise imploy'd might be a terror to the world Such exploits suit to the ancient glory of the English this self-murthering suites a temper that neither fears God nor loves man For Conclusion 'T Is not possible so to acquit my self of every Objection as to leave all men satisfied especially such as carry a Biasse of preferment profit or faction Men that have in design exorbitancies of power or wealth will hardly with arguments be reclaim'd and some have I known that have so long possest their heads with strong notions that they are not capable to take in Reason against them and thereupon run on frantick in error till there be a Rotation in their brains such there are that with confidence so often have told a lie that at length themselves believe it to be truth but with respect to the state of our affairs we are not in a posture to resent the interest or wilfulnesse of a few but the safety of the major part let not the greedinesse or ambition of some hazard a destruction to all It may suffice that the main obstructors are the very persons that have most advanc'd themselves If they retain double to what they were possest of 't is much better then with the generality who would rejoyce in the quiet enjoyment of their own where one has been improv'd by the times one hundred have been impoverish'd For be it known that such as have been eminently active and sweld in power and purchases are in number few in comparison with the multitude that have been either misled driven on or not engag'd Nay I may aver that even upon this quarrel the spirit of the people has been so tir'd that upon a just compute there is scarce one to one hundred against a Closure Now then Suppose we all composition with the King decry'd Suppose we him in armes bickt with a forraign force Suppose in Ireland Scotland Nay with us there are combustions upon that account Suppose upon termes of power we are aw'd to receive our Prince Suppose the many for the sake of peace deliver up the few as a sacrifice to the injur'd and to ease the Publick What then I have done FINIS