Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	consequence_n	preserve_v	see_v	12	3	2.0709	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67700	A discourse of government as examined by reason, Scripture, and law of the land, or, True weights and measures between soveraignty and liberty written in the year 1678 by Sir Philip Warwick.	Warwick, Philip, Sir, 1609-1683.	1694 (1694)	Wing W991; ESTC R27062	96,486	228

designing person Now there is no way sooner discovers the nature of principles than the end they serve unto If they serve not unto the virtues of the mind you may justly doubt them If they advance the triumvirate of the world pleasure profit and ambition by other means than virtue for there is a virtuous pleasure profit and ambition as they suit with reason as well as they suit with sense they are false But this sort of men having not busied their understandings about such distinctions they are too too often the unhappy instruments to beat down truth in all kinds and set up error for they are not more fickle in their Religion than they are unto their Government or rather Governors from whom they are apt to be seduced It is the wisdom of a State in these last ages of the world not to trouble them with unrevealed niceties of Religion or to oblige them unto many rites and ceremonies the use whereof they cannot penetrate into for this age like the former will not take all on trust but to keep them in employment and out of necessity by securing their trades and manufactures the most probable way to make them good Sons of the Church and Subjects of the State And let them find they are not despised but that the Prince sometimes communicates himself unto them in splendid shews for panem Circenses the Romans found great use of in pleasing and by pleasing in governing their multitudes for as hath been said multitudes are valuable for their number and Princes ought to think them very valuable because if the Prince hath their affection he is surely safe Neither great Nobles nor popular Commoners are able to effect any considerable thing without Briareus's hands But says Cicero as they have little judgment so they seldom follow verity and thus being too prone to suspect their Governors they are too easily wrought on by popular Officers or Tribunes who represent them and being of a mutinous disposition they brutishly nourish factions in a State for things they do not understand till they pay the price of it with their own blood and ruine not knowing the Demarchi of Athens and the Ephori of Sparta and the Tribunes of Rome were set up as the Conservators of the peoples liberty but were truly the overthrow of them all In a word the worst men are aptest to dispute their Governors for pessimus quisque asperrime Rectorem patitur and moral and religious men make the best subjects as being the best judges of the blessings men enjoy under a well ordered Government Having said thus much of the before mentioned several ranks and orders of men whereof their States are made up it may not be amiss to mention the several professions and their ends The several professions in a Nation and how they are of advantage and how they may be of danger unto a Government that so the Prince's wisdom may make the true use of them all and divert the ill consequences of their abuses in their callings Of the Divine we have said much already therefore shall only say here that he manages the opinions about celestial and moral truths or the state of men after this life The Physician is to preserve the health of the body The Lawyer the concerns of a man's estate The Soldier is to see justice may be executed The Merchant exports the staple and imports the forreign commodities and the Tradesman vents both by retail The Artificer manufactures all and the Husbandman provides food for all for the King himself lives by the field In no profession can any man be truly a good Citizen that is transported either with pleasure or covetousness It is a great sentence of Salust's Nec quisquam extollere se aut divina attingere potest nisi omissis pecuniae aut corporis gaudiis for with neither of these two taints or corruptions can the Divine ever be believed that he means as he says And with them the Physician and Lawyer will either neglect or beggar their Patients and Clients The Soldier grows cruel and rapacious if these vices seize on him and will sooner lose or sell the place he is to defend and maintain than keep it And the Merchant Tradesman and Artificer trade unfairly and not unto their own Countries advantage by covetousness the one bringing in commodities which serve only unto sensual appetites and vanity or to please the phansie the other either adulterating or working so slightly his wares that Forreigners decline the trade so as all these inconveniences and the prevention of them fall under the Prince's care and policies or art of Government Indeed in the body politick as in the natural there not being the least thing done but requires an influence of the Governors He must inspirit every profession or they stagnate None of these professions are superfluous for there must be a Divine No profession superfluous though every man were so knowing as not to need instruction since his Office is to be the mouth of the Congregation unto God A Lawyer cannot be wanting because two men may mean very justly and sincerely and yet not know how to assure one another in legal terms A Physician cannot be wanting because health will impair and sickness ought to be considered by a man that is in a state of health upon which reason a man safely cannot be his own Physician for sickness often deprives a man of sense and disables him to judge his own case One man's necessaries must be supplied from various trades and that makes necessary all the other distinct callings And thus the wisdom of God that designed men for society ordered it that men could not live with one another if they had not likewise been to have lived by one another True it is the Soldier is but a necessary evil in a Common-weal for would all men observe justice there would need to be no force for force is never to be used but when reason and law are by violence withstood It is depraved not sincere nature makes this profession necessary but that necessity makes it very honorable and useful and as it requires a great courage to execute it and a great presence of mind so this is hardly attained without a profession accustomed unto danger It likewise requires great natural strength of body and moral virtue of the mind for no order of Theologues no nor of Penitents undergo those hardships which the fatigues of war bring with them nor have they frequenter occasion of moral vertue to restrain ferocity and to exercise humanity The great extent of government If all this providence and care belongs unto the Regal office in relation to the choice of persons and the administration of professions how much further must this providence extend when it is to weigh such numberless particulars of business where every case differs almost from another falling under various circumstances which requires a particular act of prudence to determine