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truth_n	goodness_n	lord_n	mercy_n	3,985	5	6.6454	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35160	Truth brought to light, or, The corrupt practices of some persons at court laid open whereby Their Majesties and the kingdom have been prejudiced near one hundred and fifty thousand pounds this year; besides other evils that have and do attend it.	Crosfeild, Robert.	1694 (1694)	Wing C7247; ESTC R29667	14,344	32

Truth brought to Light OR THE Corrupt Practices OF SOME PERSONS at COURT Laid Open. Whereby Their MAJESTIES and the Kingdom have been prejudiced near One hundred and fifty Thousand Pounds this Year besides other Evils that have and do attend it LONDON Printed in the Year MDCXCIV TO THE Right Honourable THE LORDS Spiritual and Temporal AND COMMONS In Parliament Assembled THE Happiness and Well-being of Man does no ways consist in being possess'd of much Wealth but in a Mediocrity and in the Enjoyment of the Purity of the Gospel and of good and wholesome Laws And of all Governments now extant in the World the English Monarchy is the Noblest and comes nearest to that Native Liberty which Man first enjoy'd and God and Nature have laid an indispensable Duty upon every Man to endeavour the Preservation of the Municipal Laws of his Country But notwithstanding Humane Frailty is such that we have many Instances of Persons otherways prudent and wise either through Pride Ambition or Covetousness that have had almost overthrown this Noble Fabrick but it was never in such eminent Peril as before the late Revolution when our Religion Laws and Liberty were near being swallow'd up and then God was pleas'd to make his Majesty the happy Instrument of our Deliverance But notwithstanding the Danger 's not over-past for we have ever since been engag'd in a great and dangerous War upon the Success whereof under God depends our future Happiness therefore Men would think that all Persons in Publick Trust should with great Zeal and Affection pursue such Ways and Methods as tend to the putting a Period to the same and no ways obstruct their Majesties and the Publick Interest but scorn and slight all those little mean Thoughts of enriching themselves at a time the Safety and Honour of their Native Country lies at stake But through Covetousness the Understandings of Men are darkned and so see not the Evils they draw upon themselves and others And those who are in the highest Orb many times discern not having sublimer Thoughts those things others do who act in a lower Sphear And as all Governments are incident and liable to Corruptions so it cannot seem strange if they have crept in among us But ours will be found to be like some Distempers hard to be remov'd for there are so many link'd together by Interest that they will not fail to support each other and crush if not ruin him that opposes them So it 's not for any single Person whatever to engage with them and therefore for that Reason I have here collected such of them as have come to my Knowledg Which with all Humility I lay before this most August Assembly whose peculiar Care has always been to root out Corruptions when they have appear'd formidable and inconsistent with the Safety of the Government and that not the Greatness or Power of any that have abus'd their Prince's Favour have been able to protect them from the just Resentments of the Nation And 't is that which hath continued this Government so long upon its Basis There hath been a Notion industriously spread abroad by some through the Kingdom and which the Nation hath too long imbib'd which is That to make Attempts upon the Maritime Coast of France were altogether impracticable Which seemeth strange it being directly contrary to the received Opinion of the rest of Mankind and the Practice of all Ages for the Romans Carthaginians and many other Nations that have been strong at Sea and even the Venetians at this day have ship'd potent Armies both Horse and Foot and made Descents upon their Enemies which have been attended with good Success And although the Circumstance of Affairs may alter and change yet the Nature of things never will But if Men shall land in the midst of Smoak and Fire and where their Enemies lie intrench'd it 's no Wonder if they are beaten off even at that rate may the best-laid Designs be frustrated And France hath so strong a Barrier on every Side that notwithstanding the utmost Endeavours of the Allies for several Years past yet we see they have not been able to break into it and therefore with all due Submission I humbly conceive Humanely speaking it 's impossible of making any Impression on the Enemy otherways than by making a Descent upon their Maritime Coast with a Royal Army Certainly there 's nothing can embarrass them like it the Vicinity of their Country makes it so much the more practicable and England has been the Ballance of Europe and may yet if not wanting to it self My Design is not to embroil but further their Majesties Affairs and that all things may work together for the Publick Good which hath been the only Scope and End of this my Undertaking So doubt not but I shall meet with a favourable Construction and if a Publick and National Interest be preferable before all others then I cannot be much out in what I have done only must acknowledg to have handled the Matter but weakly Yet the Sincerity of my Intentions will plead for me and excuse the many Defects therein and so hope I shall not only find Protection but a Reward of my Labours and Danger I undergo for the Honour and Safety of my Country I am My Lords and Gentlemen Your Honours most humble faithful and obedient Servant ROBERT CROSFEILD Truth brought to Light c. IT 's recorded in Holy Writ that the Children of Israel serv'd the Lord all the Days of Joshua and of those Elders that surviv'd him having a thankful Remembrance of his Mercy and Goodness in giving them Victory and delivering them from the Hands of their Enemies And we the People of this Kingdom have received as eminent and great Mercies from the Hand of God as ever did the Jews and such as are hardly to be parallel'd in any Age for we were brought to the very brink of Ruine and even ready to be devour'd by our Enemies and had no Prospect or Hope of Deliverance Then did God raise up a Prince unthought or unforeseen by us to rescue and deliver us and gave our Enemies a Spirit of Fear and Trembling and they fled when no Man pursu'd These things have we seen with our Eyes and to the Astonishment of the World were deliver'd without Blood-shed But we are an unthankful Nation and People and so it 's no wonder that the Hand of God hath lain heavy upon us in afflicting us with a long and tedious War Therefore let us repent then and not till then may we expect a Blessing and a perfect Deliverance for whatever some Persons may think there yet hangs a dark Cloud over our Heads Do we not see plotting against the Government and that by no mean Persons and how far that Poison 's spread we know not being back'd by a Potent and Great Monarch And not only so but it will appear that some of our Brethren who probably in some Cases may have been serviceable to