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	let_v	lord_n	3,921	5	3.8283	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53184	The observator reproved more especially in relation to the controversie between that eminently pious, charitable, and worthy divine Mr. Smithye, curate of Cripplegate, and himself.	Philo Pater.	1684 (1684)	Wing O123K; ESTC R218956	6,492	8

is their property and let them have their way for otherwise I 'le assure you if neither of these will do a Hunted Hare hath not more Shifts than himself The ●●●lie Biass of his Tongue which he charges others with will be ●ine to turn upon you and some or other false Imputation shall be Scandalously laid at your Door as in the Case before us where he accuses our Divine as an Interloper into other Mens Parishes drawing together a Select Number of Young People Servants commonly of both Sexes out of several Parishes and these to meet once a Week in some Private House to hear the Canonical Clergy Pray Read Expound and Catechise at the Rate of 6 d. 12 d. or 18 d. a Quarter more or less and these are called such an ones People which was only a kind of Smiting the Lords Children to Wilmore them away by the first passage to Heaven Observ Numb 133. Excellent Intelligence and pitty it is but the Informer should have his Reward but let him first Swear to it or I 'me afraid the Lame-Dogg will scarce get over the Stile In good Truth Mr. Observator you are Gravelled for I perceive on Saturday last you wave the Point and go to business of more Importance where you tell us only of the Spite Dilligence and Industry of the Faction their Marks and Designs their Practises of old the Fraud of Equivocal Expressions in Religion and State as in your Title Page which is as old as your Pamphlets and as Thread-bare as Mr. Smithies Cassock but not one word of him I perceive you would be glad to be rid of him but Methinks after so fair a fall you should not be again so soon upon a Challenge as in your Second Paragraph of the same Day which I have nothing to do with but as Mr. Bays has it of your Brother Draw-can-Sir in the Rehearsal You Husse you Strut Look bigg and Stare And all this you can do because you dare But I 'le assure you according to the Opinion of most Men it would better have beseemed you to have let the Divine alone unless it were as Mr. Bays again hath it Rehearsal pa. 3. That there were certain tyes upon you that you could not be disengaged from and you wrote for the sake of some Ingenious Persons and choice Female Spirits that have a Value for you otherwise you would see them all Hang'd before you would ever more set I'en to Paper If I may advise you do so no more let the Pulpits and Honest Clergy Men alone to their 〈◊〉 for as it is further said in the same Author pag. 15. I ver●ly 〈◊〉 you have Writ a whole Cart-load of things every whit as good as this and the Issolent Rascals the Whiggs turn them back on your hands But you may do as you please for this is not your last fetch as I perceive in that of yours Numb 135. where you put it into Trimmers Month whether ever it was in the Intentions of others I can't tell That they are absolutely resolved to Petition against you A dangerous Crime indeed and no less in your own sence then what Imports the overthrow of the Government or worse as you are pleased to explain it For you say they must set forth That whereas they find they can do no good on 't by violent Courses they shall now content themselves to try what may be done by the very same People and to the very same Purposes in a Sober Moderate way and pray that they may have Liberty every Man in his Place and Casting to proceed in a Peaceable manner without either Pistol or Blunderbus to the Poysoning of the Kings Leige People a new way to Poyson by Pistol or Blunderbus found out by the Observator with True Protestant Principles and Doctrines and so bring his Majesty the nearest way to his Journeys end without Contradiction or Controul Yes Questionless and the first step to it in Petitioning against the Observator for a Common Scandaler of the Church and Church-men But Pray Sir do you think that this pretext will pass for Currant Coyn by way of Answer to the Debt you owe to Truth and Mr Smithies I imagine it as far from the point in hand as it is from the Hearts of such you Accuse with it or indeed as your Accusation of Mr. Smithye for his Poverty and Apparrel which is our next Head An Impudent Ill-bred Fellow to disturb you in your Vocation that walks about with Knots in his Girdle and a Torn Cassock Begging for the Poor Curate of Cripplegate for such indeed are his unaccounted for Collections as you are falsly pleas'd to Term them and shall he dare to confront the Rich Observator By no means it is not to be Suffered But Pray Sir I hope you 'l give him leave to tell you as I think be hath done That were it not for God and your Good Friends you might have been as Poor as he which you ought to be Thankful for Thankful for alass not you say such another Word and for Six Observators together you shall hear of nothing but Faction Sedition Heresie Fire Fire a Powder Plot or worse against the State for by the way every thing that aims at Roger carries as much in the Belly of it To Thanks he was never bred Gratitude is none of his Accomplishments The Cambridge Offerings and last New-Years Gathering were paid in Tempore quo non ●xta●●●●moria hominis Besides the private Rewards I dare not say from St. O s. It ' Truth he had the first but what then Has he had the Vallue of his Merits In my Conscience I think not for why He Rides not yet mistake not my meaning in his Coach and Six as in days of Yore but must Trudge on Ten-Toes or Hackney it to Sams Coffee-House to meet his News Factors Informers and Comerades And is not this a pity Let People talk what they will of Searing one anothers Burthens or Preach such Sedition if they please it shall be Schisme and Phanatischisme or what else Mr. Observator thinks fit unless they 'l be pleased to hear his'n Good Man hath he deserved so much and attain'd so little Why what is 1000 or 1500 l. with 8 or 10 Yellow Boys Weekly for the Copies of his Pamphlets just as good as nothing for I remember in one of his Observators which I shall not be at the charge of Quoting he is making up his Accounts there that at the rate of Ten Pound a Week the Allowance of Oates and Bedloe in former times a Vastly greater Sum was Due to him for his Writings and Discoveries And Methinks I have seen a Picture that much Resembles a Friend of the Observators hanging tho not in the right place on many a Stall in Town with a shrewd kind of Complaining Motto o're the Head of it I suppose for want of these Arrears The Words are VOS NON VOBIS to English which I must tell the Reader an Old