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	world_n	4,002	5	4.4108	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85341	The good Catholick no bad subject. Or, A letter from a Catholick gentleman to Mr. Richard Baxter. Modestly accepting the challenge by him made in his Sermon of repentance, preached before the Honorable House of Commons, 30 April, 1660.		1660 (1660)	Wing G1038; Thomason E1027_13	4,773	8

one you asperse but many and those who of all that lay claim to so regarded a Title give the best evidence of being truly tender Consciences since for them they suffer so generally so constantly so deeply Neither is it a small fault you charge them with but that Monster of sins Treason and that not onely by the violence of passion once committed but such as is impossible not to be alwaies committed And all this with so notorious a publickness that none can be ignorant of your charge as I hope none will be ignorant of our innocence Now I beseech you joyn all these together and see if yours do prove an offence whether Chance could light upon or Industry contrive greater aggravations Consider therefore Sir what you have done and what you are to do and either prove what you have so solemnly undertaken or practise what you have as solemnly taught give an example to the world of that serious and true Repentance you so excellently delivered to your Auditory But prove it effectually and let not the Question when we come to grasp it vanish away by the artifice of some deceitful word You have raised in the hearts and thoughts of as many as have either heard or read your Sermon I conceive an uncharitable and unjust apprehension If it prove so I hope the reparation you will make shall not be by the fallacy of some term to which your Art may perhaps give another sense then you have caused by it in others to save your self from the obligation of making any And yet to deal plainly I cannot but be jealous of the expressions you use For why do you call us Papists You know we have another name and are not perhaps such men as you make us pass for by that Term We ow no blind servile obedience to any upon earth that can ensnare our Judgments to any thing contrary to those Divine Truths brought from Heaven by our Saviour to bring us up to Heaven planted by his Apostles and preserved by his Spouse the Church I presume you intend by it a Name of Religion not Opinion for 't is the Faith of Christ I am to lay down my life for but know no Obligation to lose a Pins head for the fancies of any private man The again what mean you by a true and full Loyalty Those Epithetes seem to me no more then the issue of a fruitful fancy since a Loyalty which is not a true one is truely no Loyalty as false mony is no mony and as half a pint is not a pint so if any thing want of full Loyalty how near soever you approach it is not Loyalty I do not therefore see any necessity of those termes Loyalty in the natural acception of words saying both true and full Loyalty as a shilling signifies both Twelve pence and good Silver Under your tearm of Loyalty too I conceive you do not comprehend any obligations contradictory to the great one to which all others ought to be subservient neither of us being I hope guilty of that impious flattery to imagine any duty can be a duty which is inconsistent with that first and chiefest duty we owe to our Maker and Preserver I beseech you therefore let all these Terms be defin'd that the Question may not vanish from us in the mist of the words we use in treating it That which I and I think every one else apprehends by your words is that this Kingdom holds a sort of people whose Birth-right indeed gives them a title to the Protection of the Laws and priviledges of Community but whose Religion by misteaching them in their duty to their King and Country renders them unworthy of those advantages This is what I apprehend and what you are to prove Now if you should man by Papist something which I am not by True and Full Loyalty something which I either do pay or which none are bound to pay Your words indeed would be innocent but the artifice of wresting them to oppose innocence little suitable to your Condition And that as I desire not to be mistaken in your meaning none may be so in my sentiments I conceive my self comprehended in your assertion but know no reason why I should deserve the name you express it in more then that I am of the Communion of those men whose Faith and Government was taught and instituted by Christ and his Apostles and by their successors convey'd in an uninterrupted Delivery down to us I believe and what I profess to you in the face of the world I am ready by Oath to confirm to all men in the face of heaven That my Loyalty to my Soveraign is an indispensable duty from which no power Spiritual or Temporal Domestick or Forreign under any pretence of Excommunication Deposition or any other whatsoever can free me either wholly or in part and till I am call'd upon to do it more solemnly I here do in the mean time renounce heartily all Dispensations Absolutions and whatsoever to the contrary which may raise jealousie in my Soveraign or dissatisfaction in my fellow Subjects professing that notwithstanding any such pretext if any should happen to be I will by the grace of God perform my Allegiance truly and fully as every good Subject is bound to do This is my Religion this is what I have been taught in It concerning Loyalty and what the occasion has prompted me to digress into since however the Confession I make be impertinent to the business I have in hand my task being to oppose what you say not to say all I know my self it will not I hope be unwelcome to the Reader at least to such an one as desires his judgment should be built upon the unmoveable foundation of Truth of which in things of this nature there is no greater evidence then the testimony of such as certainly know what they say and faithfully say what they know But to return to our work I utterly deny your Assertion professing to all the world t is not true That a Papist must cease to be a Papist if he will be truely and fully Loyal to his Soveraign and before all the world demand of you to prove it as you have undertaken If you shew me disloyal I acknowledg I ought and seriously profess I will repent if you cannot lay your hand on your heart and consider what t is to make an innocent man nay so many innocent men pass for guilty and guilty of so execrable a crime as Treason in which case I hope you will need no admonition to repent your self FINIS