Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	great_a	know_v	word_n	4,458	5	3.8471	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26453	Advice to freeholders, and others, concerning the choice of members to serve in Parliament and the qualifications that render a gentleman worthy or underserving so great a trust: with a list of non-associators.		1698 (1698)	Wing A647A; ESTC R215659	15,301	26

Advice to Freeholders and others concerning the Choice of Members to serve in Parliament and the Qualifications that render a Gentleman worthy or undeserving so great a Trust With a List of Non-Associators I. AVoid all such as hold any Office of considerable value during Pleasure they being subject to be over-aw'd for altho a Man wish well to his Country and in the betraying thereof knows that at the long run he mischiefs and enslaves his Posterity if not himself yet the narrowness of Mens Minds is such as makes them more tenderly apprehend a small present Damage than a far greater hereafter Such Men must of necessity be under great Temptations and Distraction when their Consciences and Interest look different ways For to say Truth such an Office is but a softer word for a Pension therefore since these Men know before hand the Inconveniences that attend the trust of a Member of Parliament faithfully discharged 't is very suspicious and reflecting upon their Honesty if any such stand for it and I think we are bound in Charity nor can we do them a greater Curtisy than to answer their Petition in the Lord's Prayer Not to lead them into Temptation II. Suspect all these especially if they are Men of ill Repute who in their Profession or near Relations has dependence upon the Court for altho to be the King's Servant is no bar from being a Parliament-Man or from serving his Country honestly in that Station and no doubt several of them have at diverse times well discharged the same yet frequently such Persons unworthily guessing at their Prince by themselves are apt to vote right or wrong as they imagin will most please the Prerogative Party and it is a hard matter for a Courtier to please that great perhaps corrupt Minister who supports him and those whom he represents at the same time III. Meddle not with such as have been or are like to prove Pensioners or receive Salaries for secret Services I know they would now brazen it out that there were no such Men no such Practices But the contrary is notorious did not the House of Commons last Westminster Parliament take the thing into Examination nay did not Sir S.F. by his Memory without the Books which for some reasons were refused to be brought in name about 30 of them and the great respective Sums Yearly paid to each And would not many more have been discovered and the whole knot of them severely and exemplarily punished if that Parliament had a little longer continued Now there is none more implacably your Enemy than that Person whose interest is to destroy you that must neither eat nor drink except you Starve that must go in Rags except you go Naked are taught to fleece you that they may keep themselves warm To prevent this avoid not only all former Pensioners but such other as may be in danger to become so Therefore meddle not with Men of necessitous Fortunes or much in Debt The Representative of a Nation ought to consist of the most Wise Wealthy Sober and Couragious of the People not Men of mean Spirits and little Figure and sordid Passions that would sell the Interest of the People that chuse them to advance their own or be at the beck of some great Man in hopes of a Lift to a good Imploy Those that have good Estates have in a manner given Hostages to their Country and must be Errant Fools before they can play the Knave with you But what cares the needy Passenger if the Ship perish if he can save himself in the long Boat or get some booty by the Wreck What Protection do you expect from them who cannot shew their Faces with confidence without a Protection either in or out of Parliaments Who are no less apprehensive of a Bayliff them of the growing greatness of the French and dread not Popery half so much as an Outlawry will you secure them within the Wall of the House of Commons who were better secured within the Walls of a Common Goal who can never pay their Debts contracted by their Prodigality but out of your Purses and must run you in to get themselves out of their Mortgages These Mens Fears of being dissolved makes them submit to any thing rather then to be left to the unmerciful Rage of their hungry Creditors who have so long fasted for their Money For all such Persons tho some of them may be look'd upon as honest fair conditioned Gentlemen and good House-keeper are in danger of being tempted to repair the decays of their own private Fortunes by the ruin of the Publick Moreover the chusing of such broken Fortunes decays Trade and ruins whole Families in so much that I have known it drive away many Men contrary to their own Inclinations to wish never to see Parliaments more in England In a word if Beggars ever come to be your Representatives how can they judg what is expedient for the Nation to spare whose only care is to get a piece of Money to spend Be not over-fond to receive Bribes and Gratifications from Persons that would fain make a prey of you and by their Purses lavish Treats and Entertainments would allure you to prostitute your Voices for their Election you may be sure they would never bid so high for your Suffrages but that they know where to make their Market Choose the Worthy unwilling Person before the Complemental unworthy Man whose extraordinary forwardness prognosticates he seeks not for your Good but his own separate from the publick Let us not play the Fools or Knaves to neglect or betray the common Interest of our Country by a base Election let neither Fear Flattery nor Gain biass us Consider with your selves what Loosers you will be if to laugh and to be merry one day the Person you chuse should give you and your Children occasion to mourn for ever after Say not he is but a single Person one Man cannot do much hurt Silly Man what if all other Places should be as bad as your selves then all the House would be of a-piece and besides don't you know that sometimes a single Man has carried a Vote which perhaps was no less Mischievous than Irretrievable Think how justly the Gallent Ancient Heathens may upbraid this Baseness of us Christians when as they sacrificed many of their Children nay and oftentimes their own Lives for the good of their Country so on the contrary we sacrifice or at least hap-hazard both our Religion Li●es Children and Country for the Swinish Pleasure of a Day or two's Debauchery Let not such Engagements put you upon dangerous Elections as you love the Liberties and the Freedom of your Posterity But tell them in this Affair they must hold you excused for that the weight of the Matter will well bear it this is your Inheritance all may depend upon it 'T is more modest Request if they would desire you to give them that Freehold and Estate that qualifies you for an