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_v	speak_v	1,709	5	4.3933	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90143	Bradshaws ultimum vale, being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke of him. As they were delivered in a sermon preach'd at his interrment. By J.O. D.D. time-server general of England.	Owen, John, 1616-1683, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing O3; Thomason E1011_1; ESTC R203078	8,878	15

BRADSHAWS VLTIMVM VALE Being the Last WORDS That are ever intended to be Spoke of HIM As they were delivered in a SERMON Preach'd at his Interrment By J. O. D. D. Time-Server general of England OXON Printed in the Year 1660. Hearken unto the words of my Text as you shall find them written round about the Dyall of Pancridge Church VVEE MVST SPEND WELL THY TIME FLIE SWIFTE FROM SINNE BEloved they say yea the Heathen say that Round-heads will not Steal but they will Lye abominably I on fesse my self to be a Round-head and the Son of a Round-head of else what should I do here and yet contrary to the reproaches of the ungodly I believe I have now spoken a truth which neither you will nor they dare deny The words consist of seaven letters W e e M u s t and a certain thing called an Hieroglyphic What that is I shall tell yee by and by if I can though beloved I must needs say unto yee 't is a very hard word But let us begin first with the Letters for give me leave to tell yee there be many mysteries hid under other Letters and Figures as well as under S p q R or 666 as give me but a little leave and I le show you as for example W e e M u s t. Here W is as it were a discovery of the natures of a right Congregational Man as if I should speak to any of yee all here present who have been famous in your Generations and say W. S W. V W. N what were this but as if I should say You Double or double hearted S You Double or doublehearted V You Double or double hearted N Then in the second place being such and lyable also to death it denotes unto you and me and all of us for I see never a Barrel better Herring that as the stroaks of the W will never meet at the top but are easily joyned at the bottom so none of us here congregated together are likely to meet above that is to say in Heaven but must be joyned and riveted together in the lower Parts of the Earth Benlowes sacred Fancies c. 2. v. 5. The same learned Author affirms that and resembles a man who being very melancholy hangs down his Head in his Breast which is now our condition for though we have no reason to be sad for the Rings we have got yet have we great cause to hang down our Heads and Mourn for the losse of our Brother Now there is not one e but two ee's Mark how pat this falls out as much as to say Wee are in little ease Judge yee now if this be not just to a Cow's Thumb for who among us can say now he is at ease No! for Wee are all in little ease Partly for the losse of our Friend here partly for the losse of our Honours and Gospel enjoyments which I fear is nigh at hand for that our Foes do multiply and there is none to save us Dr. H Beloved a Brother of ours hath spoken and made publick in his Fancies upon the Revelation and Daniel many pretty Knick-knacks and Whimsies of his own and truly very applicable to the words but if he could fetch such a mystery as this out of two ee's I le give him my Mother for a Maid The subsequent Letters are M u s t which being put together composeth or compileth the word Must some say this word is a royal word because of the Proverb that saith Must is for the King Truly Beloved I could wish it were only for the King but here 's the mischief on 't and indeed the Devil ought u● a spite for he made us little Kings and Princes also every one in his turn on purpose to put his Must upon us too But this word Must hath several significations Firstly and first of all it signifies a term of force or violence as you shall find it in the second Chapter of the English Proverbs v. 3. Needs Must he goe whom the Devil drives But our Brother Cook at the Bridge foot who drest many a good Dinner for the upright took it in another sense And so I can assure you that Rhenish Wine upon the Must is very sweet but Death upon the Must is very sowre The next thing that I shall explain to you is the Hieroglyphic by which we have exprest the two Monosyllables Dye all To do this I shall tell you negatively first what it is not and secondly affirmatively what it is Give me leave then in the first place to tell yee that a Hieroglyphic is no Sturgeon for though a Sturgeon be good meat yet it is not Hieroglyphically so I will not deny but that a Sturgeon may be a Hieroglyphic yet this on the other side I dare affirm that though every Sturgeon may be a Hieroglyphic yet every Hieroglyphic is not a Sturgeon 'T is true many of our Antient and Modern Prophets have hid the mysteries of their mystical sayings under the shapes of several Beasts but this argues not that a Sturgeon should in this place be counted an Hieroglyphic For though they make many of their Monsters to come out of the Sea yet they give unto none of them the shape of Fish and indeed it is thought that ever since Jonas was in the fishes belly none of those kind of people cared that Fish should come into their bellies Yet I could wish our deceased President were now in a Fishes belly because of the report of Men who say that he is in a place where there is so much want of water But some will object and say what think yee of Mermaids To which I answer that Virgil and Homer were in their Liquor when they found out that watery and fluid invention So that a Mermaid can be no Hieroglyphic neither 'T is true a Maid joyned with a Man or with a Mastiff may be a Hieroglyphic as our Brother Benlowes observes in his comment upon Alciates Emblems but I hope Maids have more wit when there are such Creatures upon Land than to run into the Sea to look after Tritons Neither can a Bag Pudding be in this place counted an Hieroglyphic for that a Pudding hath two ends but all those that dye have but one end and some say when they are dead they have no end but as to that I shall say little at present Abel best knows it who was the first man that ever dy'd in this World But now to let yee know what this thing is we have so much talk'd off an Hieroglyphic being truly defin'd is an Egyptian Trimtram But some will say what doe you make use of Fool 's Baubles and Trimtrams to expresse the death of so worthy a Patriot as here lyes before us To this I answer that I wonder at yee my beloved for would you have me Preach any other sort of Sermon at his Funeral than he was wont to hear while he liv'd where was there such a Poltron as our