Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	great_a	see_v	4,003	5	3.1544	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30378	A letter writ by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Lord Bishop of Cov. and Litchfield, concerning a book lately published, called, A specimen of some errors and defects in the History of the reformation of the Church of England, by Anthony Harmer	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1693 (1693)	Wing B5824; ESTC R7836	16,103	32

able to quote our Author in those things for which he is pleased to give us no other Author but himself He treats me always with so much slighting and contempt that if things of that kind could provoke me much I should be obliged to watch over both my Thoughts and Pen for fear they should run too quick He owns those low Thoughts of me that do indeed very well become me to entertain of my self but look not so decent in another whom to my knowledge I never injured and whom if I guess right I have endeavoured to serve But it is of no great consequence how meanly soever he or any others may think of my Judgment or Learning so long as that work is like for ought I see or can learn to remain still as entire in its reputation as ever after such a keen attempt as he has made upon it The Scorn he lays upon me and the injuries he does me in charging me with falshood so often give me very little disturbance And the prejudices that arise from such a way of Writing are likelier to turn upon himself than to do me much hurt Those things do very ill become Scholars and Christians but worst of all Men of our Profession who ought never to be overcome of Evil but to overcome Evil with Good And therefore tho' the station I am in did not reach him the regards that he owed it how little soever I may deserve them yet it obliges me to write in a Stile that becomes it rather than in that which he has deserved from me Only in one particular I desire not to be mistaken as if the softness with which I treat him was intended to Manage and Cajole him and so to prevent his going on with those farther Discoveries with which he threatens me For he says this was but a Months work at a destance from his other helps and that he has only Noted what his Memory and present Collections suggested to him Tho' by the way ones Memory is no very good Voucher in things of this kind I published that Work on design to undeceive the World and to give true relations of things therefore I am very well pleased to be informed my self and to have the World told tho' at my cost if I have been mistaken in any thing Truth is great and must prevail Therefore I do so earnestly desire to see all that he can say of this kind that if he brings out no more I shall be much disappointed of my hope and shall complain more of that than of all the ill usage he has given me As to the charge of Falshood that comes over so often that it is plain by his frequent repeating of it that he intended it should stick I can and do affirm it that to my knowledge I did not willingly mistake or misrepresent nor so much as suppress any one particular relating to that great Transpaction If I were called on to say this with the highest solemnities of Religion upon Oath or at the Sacrament I am sure I can do it with a good Conscience I have also sent for Mr. Angus of St. Dunstans who was then my Amanuensis not having leisure or other opportunities at present to enter into the retail of smaller Matters and have asked him if he can imagine how there should be so many mistakes about Dates in the transcribing of the Records for this Author scarce allows one of them to be true And therefore he thinks little Credit is due to the History and that the Records will be of little value if once there appears just reason to suspect the Care or the Fidelity of the Transcriber And assures he the Reader That of those Dates which he has examined he has found near as many to be false as true Mr. Angus was amazed at this and said he was ready to take his Oath upon it that tho' he himself used his utmost diligence to examine every Paper that he copied out yet I was never satisfied with that but examined all over again my self So that I may sincerely say what I once writ on a very solemn occasion at the making of my Will when I went out of England that I writ that Work with the same fidelity that I should have given an Evidence upon Oath in a Court of Judicature All this I think necessary to be said upon this occasion for I do hereafter expect to see this Specimen often brought out by those of the Roman Communion to overthrow the credit of that History which no doubt they will urge with a sort of Triumph since one who seems zealous for our Church does charge it with so much falshood For all this I do not suspect this Writer of any leaning to Popery his zeal for justifying the Marriage of the Clergy upon which subject he seems to have taken some pains is enough to cover him from all such suspicions But yet he seems so sharpned against me that rather than not vent his spleen he would furnish them with a Weapon that they will not fail to make use of on many occasions He seems indeed to have some zeal for one of the worst Bodies of the Roman Communion the Monks of the later Ages and is concerned for the Reputation both of their Morals and of their Learning tho' for their Morals where he censures me most severely for charging them with Incontinence he is pleased in the very next Leaf to brand them with such Crimes as are not to be named among Christians For their Learning tho' he is pleased to enter the Lists against me yet I have reason to believe that he is no admirer of it His studies have been much that way and it is natural for Men to value that much on which they have bestowed much of their time and perhaps he has been Infected by the Rudeness and Maledicence that runs through their Writings to imitate so bad a Patern He prevents one Objection to which he saw how open he was that he was sensible somewhat was to be said to it I had invited all that could give me a further light into those Matters to communicate their Remarks or Discoveries to me and promised both to Retract my Mistakes and acknowledge from whose hands I had received better Imformation But in answer to this he sends me to a passage in the Second Part of the Athenae Oxonienses I confess I did not expect to see a Writer of his Rank descend so low as to cite such a Scribler especially upon such an occasion That poor Writer has thrown together such a tumultuary mixture of Stuff and Tattle and has been so visibly a Tool of some of the Church of Rome to Reproach all the greatest Men of our Church that no Man who takes care of his own Reputation will take any thing upon trust that is said by one that has no Reputation to lose He who has laid together all that the malice of Missionaries could