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	reprove_v	2,125	5	10.3012	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11918	Foure sermons preached at the court vpon seuerall occasions, by the late reuerend and learned diuine, Doctor Senhouse, L. Bishop of Carlile	Senhouse, Richard, d. 1626.; Blechynden, Thomas.	1627 (1627)	STC 22230; ESTC S117131	57,196	148

Ecclesiastes spake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That which hath been is that which shall bee it hath beene so and 't will be so be it never so unreasonable that it should bee so there is demonstrative reason upon reason why it will bee so There being three things saies Aristotle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 three things that breed enmity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ira incommodatio criminatio displeasure disprofit discredit why in all these truth being not for most mens turne corrupt nature makes them thus turne enemies to the tellers of truth First Ira as they write of some creatures to have the gall in the eare fel in aure the hearing of truth galls them as Peter told Simon Magus Thou art in the gall of bitternesse telling of truth puts them into the gall of bitternesse angers them nettles them And as ulcerous men use to shrinke at the lightest touch yea sometimes shreeke even at the very suspicion the imagination of touching truth told touching or seeming but to touch their sores makes them take on like waspes like the mad man prickt to cure his sore they flye upon the Chirurgion Tange montes fumigabunt the least touch of truth makes them fume and fret like the vapours of the thunder-bolt which never linne working till they have vented themselves with terror they never leave brauling till they have exhaled their anger vented their enmitie Because truth telling wil not let them wallow so securely as otherwise they would not suffer them to curd and settle on their lees as the Prophet Zephany speakes as they would a quare impedit therfore so quarrels the truth as that the tellers thereof are driven often to that Dilemma of Agathon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. If I please thee I shal not tell the truth and if I tell the truth I shall not please thee but procure enmitie Secondly Incommodatio truth telling is against their profit preiudicial to their gainfull practice of lying and falshood therefore say they of the truth teller as they in the second of Wisedome spake of the righteous He is not for our profit he is contrary to our doing therfore rebuke him Dunghill men like Aesops Cocke setting more by the Barley corne of profite than the pearle of truth of the swinish race Gergesens willing rather to lack Christ than lose the least commoditie Thirdly Criminatio truth telling accuses them endites them arraigns them condemnes them brands them and their courses As David couples Light Truth together Truth like Light being of a discovering nature making things manifest Therefore as S. Iohn spake men love darkenesse more than light because their deedes are evill a darke shop being best for badde wares therefore as theeves seeke to put out the candle they would have the light Truth put out A Scorner as Salomon sayes loving not one that reproveth him Truth reproving them therfore reprove they the Truth Tell one of your Politicians Papinian's truth That that 's the best reason which makes most for Religion that the best policy which makes most for Pietie why this truth crossing his proiects and purposes the teller may take his bill and sit downe quickly and write Enmitie Tell a covetous man St. Pauls truth That the love of monie is the roote of all evill yee offer him losse ye touch his free-hold yee are a trespasser to his trade an enemy Tell the luxurious man that theorem of Truth That temperance is the razor of superfluities and the rule of necessaries and that this whole life ought to be a kind of Lent Away with your thred-bare Schollers posies ye bring us into the wildernesse to starve us ye are an enemy I will not procure more enemies by more instances suffice it Nec in caeteris contrarium est videre That if as Gideon once made proclamation in the audience of the people Who so is timorous or faint-hearted let him depart so every one whose heart riseth against truth told should depart we should soon have more roome auditories would soone bee thin Vel duo vel nemo Light is good but yet to bad eies offensive Honie is sweet but yet to wounds smarting truth is wholesome but yet to most distastfull like that bloudy water sweete and potable to Hebrewes saies Iosephus but sowre and would not downe with Egyptians Then bee that schoole distinction true that truth in the universall sub ratione veri cannot be hated yet in the particular sub ratione contrarij so is it usually thus hated though no man can hate truth in universali while it onely pleades it selfe yet in particulari when it comes thus to presse upon themselves As the Friar wittily told the people that the truth he preach'd was like holy water which every one call a pace for yet when it came to be cast on them they would turne aside their face even they that will call fast for Truth cannot yet away to have it cast in their face even they that could like truth if it would onely shew it selfe mislike it when it comes thus to shew them themselves they that love truth lucentem hate it thus redarguentem saies Austin and so saies Ambrose because no man would be reproved for erring therefore becomes hee enemy thus to truth reprehending Veritas ideo semper invisa est eo quod is qui peccat vult habere liberum peccandi locum saies Lactantius Because every offender would have his full swindge without controule therfore take they offence at truth as hee that delicately composes himselfe to sleepe prohibites all lowder noise and procures some gentle murmure so loving to bee lulled in their security some sweete Syren sounds they can away with but this same shrill trumpet of Truth away with that So distempered so ill dieted so unadvised most men are as readily to swallow flatteries digest fables concoct errors and yet truth with them to be so hard of digestion as thus to stomacke that thus turne that into bitternesse Enmity That whereas we usually say Bitter as gall we might stronglier expresse it said Vega well by saying Bitter as Truth That as the Turke taunted some Christians at Constantinople who said that they came thither to suffer for the Truth That they needed not have come so farre for that seeing had they but told the Truth at home they should not have missed suffering for it telling truth needes not travell farre for enmity enmity will encounter it at home wheresoever That as for all Christ bid woe to the man by whom the offence commeth offences yet will come so it shall surely be woe upon woe to him by whom enmity comes upon truth enmity will yet come upon it though this laurell of Truth will be bitter to them that bite it bite at it yet men will though as Ignatius speakes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. to follow any that falls from Truth be forfeiture of the Kingdome of heaven yet will men follow the foes of Truth bandy against it