Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	deed_n	light_n	manifest_a	2,272	5	9.7572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34431	Episcopacie asserted, as it now stands established in our church and common-wealth with the titles of honours, the dignity of authority, the endowments of revenues : by these following argumnts taken 1 from the Word of God, 2 from the light of nature, 3 from the rights of His Majesty, 4 from the lawes of the kingdome, 5 from the lawes of civility and common humanity / by Thomas Cooke ...	Cooke, Thomas, d. 1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing C6039; ESTC R11518	12,655	27

EPISCOPACIE ASSERTED As it now stands established in our CHVRCH and COMMON-WEALTH With The Titles of Honours The dignity of Authority The endowments of Revenues By these following Argnmnts Taken 1 From the word of God 2 From the light of Nature 3 From the rights of his Majesty 4 From the Lawes of the Kingdome 5 From the lawes of civility and common humanity By THOMAS COOKE Batchelour in Divinitie WHO Is so farre from any ingagement by any relation to any of their Lordships as hee is enforced at this present to his great charge and trouble to become an humble sutor to the High and honourable Court of Parliament for redresse of some grievances occasioned by the miscariage of some of the Bishops in a businesse that neerely concerned him LONDON Printed by THO. FAVVCET for NATH BVTTER 1641. EPISCOPACIE ASSERTED As it now stands established in our COMMON-WEALTH AS for the Originals of Bishops and their antiquity that is sufficiently cleered and proved by many and sundry learned Divines both Bishops and Doctors and others and may goe for currant till encountred with better reason and confuted with stronger Arguments But as they now stand incorporated into the superior part of the body of our Common-wealth they are represented to every Ordinary apprehension so impregnably fortified on all sides as that they may securely endure like Iron Pillars or Rocks of Marble all the battery of any eloquence or Sophistry whatsoever For although their opposers advance their notions towards the borders of Divinity in imitation of the old Heretiques who in a blush to be sole and bare in themselves and their single inventions bragged out their absurdities for a while with Scripture flourishes and as Vincentius Lyrenensis said of them that they did divinae legis sententiis quasi quibusdam vellerebus sese obvolvere so they tyred in themselves with their owne self-conceited presumptions and preapprehending the dangers they are in to be censured as Sacrilegious or inforced to flee to the Scriptures and from thence to extort succour with a wrest of violence for the better boulstering out their home-bred exceptions against Bishops that savour something of ignorance and malignity of whom J may say as Athanasius said of the Arrians in his Oration contra Arrianos That Christum simulant contra Christum pugnant so they pretend the authority of Christ speaking in the Scriptures when in very deed they strive though insensibly they perceive it not and contend and argue against Christ and almost against all his Ordinances so fulfill not only the predictions of preferment wherewith blindnesse and ignorance should out-strip the cleere sunshine of manifest light and truth but also accomplish the Prophecies of the wild degeneration of Charity into new and strange heats and fits of zeale without knowledge so render themselves obnoxious to the wrathfull displeasure of the Almighty for as St. Gregory saith Consilium divinū dum devitatur impletur humana autem sapientia du reluctatur comprehenditur so whiles man goes about to defeat and avoyd the authority of his commanding Word by any act of disobedience he falls within the compasse of another branch of his word of Prophecie which is thereby fulfilled and accomplished and so whiles humane wisedome like the builders of Babell soares towards heaven in a pride to vie and contest with the wisdome of the Almighty that is infinite and incomprehensible it is taken in the snares of its owne impotencies and have its vaine imaginations like Achitophels turned round into folly and simplicity 1. As first because it is against Christ and his will revealed in his word whereby hee ever maintaines the beauty of honour and the dignity of authority and the strength and sinewes of Revenues wheresoever he finds them rightly fixed by humane Lawes whether on Iew or Turke or Infidell or upon Christians but especially i● on his houshold servants and high stewards of his chiefest treasures and most mysterious secrets such as the Bishops are who are graced in our Common-wealth with titles of Honours and with the dignity of authority by the favour of Princes and are indowed with great Revenues by the franck donation of many famous Founders and Benefactors and have ever been confirmed in all by the Lawes of the Kingdome which are as neere as may be regulated by his will so farre as hath been possible to make discovery of it either by the dictates of nature or his expresse cōmands set forth in the Scriptures And all this he seconds by surrounding them for the glory of his generall providence with a guard of a double perfection not onely of strict Injunctions to honour and obey to assist and support them in all But also with direfull menaces of punishment proportionable to their transgression denounced against all that prevent it not in time with a due repentance that should dare to derogate from their honors or disobey their authority or disturb the peace they injoy in their possessions and turnes of all violations of his Law committed on them but against himselfe from any the least termination upon them onely and strikes in as a party and makes himselfe the Center of the injury and reflects back again like a Rock upon the Authors the offences offered to his Messengers as if he himselfe had suffered saying not they but I not you but me which is the same with his language to Saul before he was St. Paul saying when he appeared to him as he was travelling to Damascus breathing out slaughter and threatnings against the Disciples of the Lord Saul Saul why persecutest thou me who in all probability were not Disciples of the Ecclesiasticke but the Civill state and that too in the time of his ignorance and while hee was yet in unbeliefe but here CHRIST is persecuted in his chiefe Ecclesiastick Disciples and that by knowing and beleeving Ministers which is like the Contention between the Sunne and the Moone which is an allusion the Poet tooke to expresse the insolencies wherewith the male contents of Rome seditiously did venture to outbrave their Superiours and Governours saying Fratri Contraria Phaebe Ibit obliquum bigas agitare per orbem Indignata diem poscit sibi totaque discors Machina convulsi turbabit foedera mundi In English thus The Moone impatient of her rule by night Would needs dissease the Sunne the day to light And by this civill and unnaturall jarre Enforc'd the bands of the worlds love to fry in war Oh let not the reddition be told in Gath or spoken of in the tents of Ascalon Secondly It is against the light of nature that prescribes a rule for every man to measure anothers good by the estimate and affection they hold and beare to any thing they can or doe call theirs Which is this Quod tibi fieri non vis alteri ne feceris Manifested thus if there be any that can intitle themselves either to honour or office or inheritance that hath beene conferred upon them