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	true_a	word_n	6,623	5	4.5200	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22660	Articles deuisid by the holle consent of the kynges moste honourable counsayle, his gracis licence opteined therto, not only to exhorte, but also to enfourme his louynge subiectis of the trouthe	England and Wales. Privy Council.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)	1533 (1533)	STC 9177; ESTC S100694	5,118	22

ARTICLES DEVISID by the holle consent of the kynges moste honourable counsayle his gracis licence opteined therto not only to exhorte but also to enfourme his louynge subiectis of the trouthe ¶ The kynges moste honourable counsayle to the residue of his louynge subiectes SIns it is the parte of all honourable and elect persons chosen by the prince when they do declare and vtter matters of weight to obserue an equitie and trouthe in vtteryng of them and to shew beneuolence to the people whiche be vnder theyr prince in admonysshinge them of thinges which are necessarie for thē to know We therfore the kyng our souerayns most faithful counsaillours and subiectes with hole assent and by his licence haue thought most conuenient and necessarie to intimate vnto you the reste of his subiectes these articles folowyng for your better erudicion and knowledge and to open vnto you truly the manifold iniuries done vnto oure kynge and souerayn whiche we beyng his true and feithful subiectes may in no wyse susteine or suffer But study and endeuoyr our selfes by all wayes to vs possible to redoube and requite the same and to take the iniuries and wronges done to his person in whome is all oure wealthe and ioye more ernestly than if it were doone to vs alone And so shall we do according to our duties and therby deserue merite of god to whome most humbly we praye that he wyll vouchesafe to haue supporte defende and kepe vnder his wynge and tuicyon oure most noble prince the quene now being his wyfe with theyr issue and all vs his true and louynge subiectes Quia in te domine speramus The fyrst Article FIrste the mere truthe is that no lyuinge creature of what astate degree or dignytie so euer he be hath power gyuen hym by god to dispense with goddes lawes or lawe of nature Which thing is confirmed and determined in oure princis case by an infinite nombre of well lerned men straungers by the most part also of al the moste famous vniuersities of Christendome And speciallye and aboue all to our estimations the hole clergie of this realme Whervpon and in discharge also of his conscience beinge auctorysed by acte of parlyament our Metropolytane Archebyshoppe of Canturbury hath adiudged the first matrimonye to be contrarie to goddis lawes therby not laufull this present matrimonie nowe enioyed laufulle and perfyte Wherfore we all that be oure princis true subiectes oughte in this his iuste true matrimonie to lyue and dye with him and his of this venter come or cōmyng The .ij. Article SEcondly the counsayles of Nyce Melyuence and Aphricane with others also haue determyned that causes of stryfe or controuersie being ones begon in any region shal there and in the sayde region be finally determined and none other where expressely denienge the courtes of beyonde the see to oblige any manne to appere at them for dyuers weightie considerations in them expressed whiche notwithstandynge the byshop of Rome by some men called Pope the vsurper of goddes lawe and infringer of general counsels hath hytherto wrongfully deteined at Rome and wolde do stylle except otherwise our prince and his parlyament had prouided his gret and weightie cause contrary to all righte and conscience to the vtter vndoinge of this realme Whiche thynges the prince and his holle parlyamente considerynge and takinge some lyght vpon the forsaide generall counsailes and waying also other wyse and politike reasons thinkynge verily this amongest other cōsideratiōs that it were not mete that the inheritance of this realme shulde depende vpon the bysshop of Rome or any other straungiers wyll plesure whiche other by affection mede or feare might and wolde order it after his worldly affections and appetites as it wel appereth this holy byshoppe of Rome wolde haue made a commodious and welthy law lately both for vs him By which good peple liuing within the limittes of true matrimonie within this realme shal not by malyce or euyl wyl be so longe deteyned and interrupted from theyr ryghte as in tymes passed they haue ben Nor iniuste matrymonye shall haue his vnlauful and incestuous demoure as by delays to Rome it was wont to haue whiche may euidently apere now by that that our Princes weightie and longe protracted cause of Matrimonie hath nowe here his final and prosperous ende with brefe successe of issue all redy had and other lyke to folowe laudes be vnto god thonly werker of the same with whiche issue bothe you and we muste both lyue and dye accordynge to our allegeaunce The .iij. Article THirdly it is to be takē for a truth equitie agreing with lerning that an excusatour in any bysshoppes court of the worlde the partie eyther not beinge bounde personally to appere there as bi al lerning our prince is not at Rome or being impedite by any other lauful causes whiche they by their own law haue limited shuld be admitted to answer for the parte ageinst whiche equitie the byshop of Rome hathe also reiected our princis excusatour whiche iniurie although it be not yet put in execution ageinste any other persone sauyng our prince and kyng yet that example shall remayne for a president in preiudice of al princis and potestates Wherfore we wolde aduyse them briefly to loke vpon it and we and ye the rest of his subiectes so to deteste this greate iniurie done to oure prince and consequentely to vs that the bysshoppe of Rome and all his shall se that excepte it and all other iniuries done to our prince and souerayne be shortly redoubed we wyll reuenge it to the vttermost of our power and in so doing we do but oure dutie yet surely we doubte not but it shall be very acceptably takē bi our prince and king The fourthe Article FOurthely the ryght beleue of all true christien people is that the general counsel laufully gathered is superiour and hath power ouer al byshoppes and spiritualle powers not exceptynge the byshoppe of Rome In confirmation of whiche opinion the approbate conseyle of Basil sayth these wordes Who so euer opponeth him self obstinatly ageinst this truth is to be taken by all true christen people as an heritike Wherfore louing frendes lette vs so handell oure selfe bothe in wordes dedes that we be not taken for ani fōde scruple in this trap and let not herein our eies be so blynded nor our eares made so defe with the sayingis or prechinges of any papystes that we ron heedlonge ageynste the true beleue of all righte Christen people The fyfte Article FIftly by the lawe of nature it is graūted and admitted for lauful that a man beinge greued vexed or troubled iniustely may appele frome the bysshop of Rome to the generall counsel whiche so beinge then specyally suche libertie is moste conuenient for princis and they not to be reiected therfro nor it is not a thynge by them to be neglected or omytted whiche haue but two wayes principally where none other can preuayle