Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	devil_n	father_n	liar_n	1,960	5	10.7881	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67141	A trve relation of the chiefe passages betweene Mr. Anthony Wotton, and Mr. George Walker, in the yeare of our lord 1611, and in the yeares next following untill 1615 written by George Walker ... ; for the vindicating of himselfe from some imputations laid on him by Mr. Thomas Gataker, in his defence of Mr. Wotton.	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1642 (1642)	Wing W367; ESTC R22429	24,717	39

they will forgoe the truth this being as you know the ground upon which all heresies have beene builded and the speciall meanes by which they have beene dispersed and have gotten head and made factions in the world in all ages heretofore Can you blame me whom God hath called to be a watchman over his flocke if I be jealous over you and if for love to my God and his truth and the salvation of his people I doe bring you to the utmost of my power into just disgrace with them by uncovering your shame so farre as may stand with equity and conscience and by painting out your errours in most ugly manner for the terrifying of Gods people from medling with them The third reason and indeed the greatest of all is your obstinacy arrogancy pride perversenesse fraud and dissimulation the speciall markes of willfull heretickes all which I have good reason to suspect in you yea if we may know a man by his fruites and workes I know and have tryed to be deeply rooted in you And that you may know I speake upon judgement not in affection I will name some particulars First when I first heard of your errors by one of your near●● disciples I observed in him such forwardnesse to 〈…〉 before me being to him a stranger such 〈…〉 in urging and maintaining them with no other arguments then your authority whom he so odiously compared with all learned and godly Divines chiefe pillars of our Church as Calvin Beza Whitakers Perkins and others that he was not ashamed to call them foolish boyes in comparison of you not worthy to carry your bookes whereupon I conceived present suspicion that these grosse and stinking sins did proceed from some secret sparkes of hellish fire either by you suggested or by him foolishly conceived and that such a malicious and rayling spirit was not free from grosse errour And therefore for mine owne better information I desired to conferre with you and to learne from you the substance of your opinion and according to my small ability to reason and dispute the question with you if so be you held as he affirmed the message he willingly tooke upon him and promised to bring me to you to conferre in a kinde and friendly manner for that was my desire for the reverence I did beare to your person being then by report of others onely knowne to me But I found your answer farre differing from that which I expected I looked for the spirit of meeknesse humility love gentlenesse and had good hope to be admitted into familiarity and acquaintance with you And you in scorne sent me to one Spencer a fellow of ill report among all honest men who all with one voyce when I inquired after him told me he was a vaine idle giddy-headed fellow and so I now finde indeed and his owne hand-writing shall testifie unto the world If this be not an infallible token of your pride and scornefulnesse let the world judge thus to send a Minister of the Gospell in contempt to one of your disciples to learne of him as if you thought your selfe too high and all others too base to be admitted to your presence This your doing when I complained to you of it face to face you excused as done out of ignorance of mine intent and desire Afterwards you for shame utterly denyed it and sent about your disciples to disprove my report of it And now lastly you have againe so justifyed it that you are not ashamed to say you did me no wrong in affirming that Spencer understands the Doctrine of Justification better then I And that your pride obstinacy and perversnesse might shew it selfe to the full you still goe on from worse to worse and now you have set Spencer to confute me and to make a challenge whose writing will I hope be the utter ruine either of your errours or of your selves All judicious men to whom I shew it are ready to stop their noses at the first sight and smell of the stinking folly blindnesse and ignorance wherewith almost every line is stuffed so miserably doth he beate himselfe and eate the flesh of his owne arme saying and unsaying lying and mistaking every point These courses and proceedings whether they argue and convince you of pride obstinacy and perversenesse I leave to the judgement of others Secondly when after my first Preaching against your errours for the satisfaction of some who were wavering and doubting one of your disciples brought me unto you did not I then shew all patience love and good affection towards you Did not I beseech you with teares to be silent in these points till you had further sifted them and throughly disputed them with others Did not you use me scornefully and goe about to wrest a place in Luthers Commentary on the Galations and out of it to prove that Luther denyed the imputation of Christs Righteousnesse to us and this against your owne conscience For by a marke of your owne making in the same page I was directed to words in the same page in which he plainely disproved you and this you would have smothered by covering the place with your fingers till I plucked the booke from you Did not I patiently put up this though it wounded my soule and did not this your dealing dolo malo shew your fraud and forgery and that you are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which sinneth being damned of himselfe If you deny this God is my witnesse and mine owne conscience Your booke also and the marke in the marg●● 〈…〉 against you and besides I have another witnesse 〈◊〉 godly Christian who was there present Thirdly after my departing for a time into the Country your disciples thinking I had quite left the City did most falsely and abominably report abroad that you did so put me downe by arguments that I with teares acknowledged mine errour and vowed to live and dye in your opinion How wicked and false this was you and I and they who were present know I am sure that never did the Papists and Jesuites more falsly slander Calvin and Beza then they did me in this report If these be not the arts of the devill the Father of lyers let all Christians judge Fourthly after my returne out of the Country when they saw their lyes discovered by my open profession and constancy in the truth which I had Preached they and you were so farre from shame and amendment that you made me amends with all rayling and reviling speeches insomuch that in many mens mouthes I heare your outrageous exclamations in which you call me in asse a sot a boy an impudent and brazen-faced fellow yea your disciples have not beene afraid to make mowes at me Preaching in the Pulpit as mine eyes and the eyes of divers others did often see and can testifie and oftentimes have they cryed out in the Church and derided me and scoffed at the word of God by me delivered and that so loud that