Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	faith_n	justify_v	object_n	1,744	5	9.2095	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94210	Malignancy un-masked. With a plea for the publique fayth. Briefely and promiscuously disputed, by J. S. Gent. Qui monet, amat, ave, cave, vale.	J. S., gent.	1643 (1643)	Wing S72; Thomason E86_10; ESTC R11283	7,086	16

MALIGNANCY UN-MASKED WITH A PLEA FOR THE Publique Fayth BRIEFELY AND PROMISCUOUSLY DISPUTED By J. S. Gent. Qui monet amat ave cave vale LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright January 26. 1642. To the Reader I Had not arrogated the priviledge of the Presse but that I considered the distempers of this Nation have proceeded from various influences and so must the cures The qualifications of mens minds are as different as the dispositions of their bodies and therfore my notions may aptly meet with some capacities The judicious may retract my mistakes the ignorant may rectifie their owne sublime straines over-reach mude expressions reach not a common judgement my faculties fit with the meane If my Treatise want matter or method art or argument humanity may impute it to want of time and yeers I desire the generall good but expect not a generall approbation A servant to the Republique J. S. MALIGNANCY UN-MASKED WITH A Plea for the Publique Faith IT is a principle in reason aswell as policy to support great designes with firme resolutions and endeavours equall to both wisdome which is the object of the intellect speakes no lesse and common prudence which acts in the will directs what it is to decline the accomplishment of an expedient once attempted Many justifie publique folly and deny publique faith they approve of safety but dislike the meanes they affect the appearance and reject the essence of truth they seeme to obey the King and yet repugne the Lawes they honour the Parliament and sleight its power they are ambidexters and yet neuters for they looke one way and swim another If you demand a reason passion shall step in and plead tradition and if you make a further progression they will be ready to swallow you up with your duty of Submission to higher powers they urge a personall and connive at a nationall good if they be learned they speake and write obscurely if ignorant it is sufficient they have the learned though malefactours for their presidents private relations so charme them that they seem to be asleep and happy were this Kingdome if they might not be awaked till reformation may receive a deepe rooting the discipline or circumstantiall part of religion they dote upon but which of them have appeared in defence of any doctrinals which have been wounded by Arminians and others or have supprest superstition or the graduals of Idolatry It is a facile matter to make lubricke professions and reserved oathes but how doe they checke such semblances by the expresse opposition of the generall good But they say they have a Protestant King who will defend the Religion of Queene Elizabeths time they have known Lawes still in force and with whom or for what should they contest In answer to which my subject will admit of variety of matter as a necessary introduction to my conclusion therefore let it not offend the Reader that a method is propounded to so short a worke Quest 1 First I demand Whether at the Queens time there were not reliques of superstition fit to be abolished Quest 2 Secondly Whether since that time the same have not multiplied Quest 3 Thirdly Whether if the same be urged they may not be denied Quest 4 Fourthly if innovations of law or religion be inforced by power they may not be forceably resisted Answ 1 For the first It is notorious whose immediate successour Queen Elizabeth was and how active in reformation but as in nature a habit is not without great perill deserted so in policy a suddaine change causeth a Catastrophe undoubtedly had that good Queene had the command of time or that the threed of her life had been prolonged she would have prevented the plea of the present opposers Sed non reluctandum est cum Deo Answ 2 For the second who can be ingnorant what Commissions for composition with Recusants have beene since authorized and what growth such toleration hath occasioned what indempnities appeales and connivences have been fostered what incouragements they have implicitely and expressely received and how in many places they have trampled upon our most refined Protestants they began to overlooke the power provided for their suppression and under the Armes of their papall protectors to undermine authority but I hope I may speake to them as Seneca in another case Non in re sed opinione laborasti your endeavours have not been pertinent but opinionate Answ 3 For the third if I justifie not the dissenting from I doe ipso facto tolerate the assenting to an impious imposition power is no further extensive then it hath subordination from and reference to the divine prescripts duo contradictoria non possunt simul esse vera contrary powers cannot be at once effectuall and I am confident this subject would not be insisted upon but that Casus plerumque ridiculus multos elevavit a ridiculous matter will blow up some disputations Answ 4 For the fourth question it is as undeniable as any of the former for if it be examined whence this high strain of resistance is derived it is answered from Majesty and there it is patronized and though I approve not what Keck●rm cites in his question qualiter judicandum est de resistentiâ Principis posse Principem eodem ordine jure Regno dejici quo admissus est si eas leges pacta v●olet sub quibus admissus est yet I say with Augustine Regna sine justitia magna potius l● trocin●a sunt quàm imperia A government without justice is rather a robbery then a Royall authority When the Apostle saith Submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake it must be intended they are such Ordinances which the Lord will favour and these words for the Lords sake are a limit Rom. 13.1 and not a motive to obedience And for the words of submission to the higher powers it is denied that they referre to the Kings personall command His Majesty in His owne Declaration acknowledgeth His government to be a mixt Monarchy and that mixture presupposeth somewhat at least of an equall power to Majesty and what can that be but the lawes Divine and Humane Obj. But say some of all difficulties none equalizeth this that profound judgements proficients in Law and policy act this Tragedy on either part and who shall presume to be a moderator humane reason steps back divine precepts seem ambiguous and who shall further explaine Ans It is a maxime in experiment that an united strength is most prevalent in nature all things move towards their first element singularity is an enemy to good for that the entity of good is mutuall and diffuseth it selfe into reciprocals All the sences of man may have their deceptions though not all at once and as the object of sight is better discerned one eye being shut when they are both open because that sence is more contracted to the object so when a whole Kingdom acts by its representative there is the most cleare conveyance of