Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70046	Reason and judgement, or, Special remarques of the life of the renowned Dr. Sanderson, late Lord Bishop of Lincoln together with his Judgement for setling the church, in exact resolutions of sundry grand cases very seasonable at this time.	D. F.; Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. Judgment in one view for the settlement of the church.	1663 (1663)	Wing F10; ESTC R224352	48,079	100

condemned that as unlawful which others practised as lawful they judged one another and disposed one another perpetually And I doubt not but any of us that is any-whit-like acquainted with the wretched deceitfulness of mans heart may easily conclude how hard a thing it is if at all possible not to think somewhat hardly of those men that take the liberty to do such things as we judge unlawful As for example If we shall judge all walking into the fields discoursing occasionally on the occursences of the times dressing of meat for dinner or supper or even moderate recreations on the Lords day to be grievous prophanations of the Sabbath how can we chuse but judge those men that use them to be grievous prophaners of Gods Sabbath And if such our judgment concering the things should after prove to be erroneous then can it not be avoided but that such our judment also concerning the persons must needs be uncharitable Secondly This mis-judging of things filleth the would with endless niceties and disputes to the great disturbance of the Churches peace which to every good man ought to be precious The multiplying of Books and writings pro and con and pursuing of arguments with heat and opposition doth rather lengthen then decide controversides and instead of destroying the old begetteth new ones whiles they that are in the wrong out of obstinacy will not and they that stand for the truth out of conscience dare not may not yeild and so still the war goeth on And as to the publick peace of the Church so is there also thirdly by this means great prejudice done to the peace and tranquillity of private mens consciences when by the peremptory doctrines of some strict and rigid masters the souls of many a well-meaning man are miserably disquieted with a thousand unnecessary scruples And driven sometimes into very woful perplexities Surely it can-be no light matter thus to lay heavey burdens upon other mens shoulders and to cast asnare upon their consciences by making the narrow way to Heaven narrower then ever God meant it Fourthly hereby Christian Governours come to be robbed of a great part of that honour that is due unto them from their people both in their Affections and Subjection For when they shall see cause to exercise over us that power that God hath left them in indifferent things by commanding such or such things to be done as namely wearing of a Surplice kneeling at the communion and the like if now we in our own thoughts have already prejudged any of the things so commanded to be unlawful i● cannot be Quest. If these things be so how comes it to pass that so many godly men should incline so much to this way Answ. But you will say if these things were so how should it then come to pass that so many men pretending to Goliness and thousands of them doubtless such as they pretend for it were an uncharitable thing to charge them all with hypocrisie should so often and so grievously offend this way To omit those two more universal causes Almighty Gods permission first whose good pleasure it is for sundry wise and gratious ends to exercise his Church during her warfare here with heresies and scandals And then the williness of Satan who cunningly observeth whither way our hearts incline most to loosness or to strictness and then frameth his temptations thereafter So he can but put us out of the way it is no great matter to him on whether hand it be he hath his end howsoever Nor to insist upon sundry more particular causes as namely a natural proneness in all men to superstition in many an affectation of singularity to go beyond the ordinary sort of people in something or other the difficulty of shunning one without running into the contrary extream the great force of education and custome besides manifold abuses offences and provocations arising from the carriage of others and the rest I shall note but these two only as the two great fountains of Errour to which also most of the other may be reduced Ignorance and Partiality from neither of which God 's dearest servants and children are in this life wholly exempted Ignorance first is a fruitful mother of Errours Ye erre not knowing the Scriptures Matth. 22. Yet not so much Gross Ignorance neither I mean not that For your meer Ignaro's what they erre they erre for company they judge not at all neither according to the appearance nor yet righteous judgement They only run on with the herd and follow as they are led be it right or wrong and never trouble themselves farther But by Ignorance I mean weakness of judgement which consisteth in a disproportion between the affections and the understanding when a man is very earnest but withall very shallow readeth much and heareth much and thinketh that he knoweth much but hath not the judgement to sever truth from falshood nor to discern between a sound argument and a captious fallacy And so for want of ability to examine the soundness and strength of those principles from whence he fetcheth his conclusions he is easily carried away as our Apostle elewhere speaketh with vain words and empty arguments As St. Augustine said of Donatus Ratioues arripuit he catcheth hold of some reasons as wranglers will catch at a smal thing rather then yeild from their opinions quae considerantes verisimiles esse potius quam veras invenimus which saith he we found to have more shew of probability at the first appearance then substance of truth after they were well considered of And I dare say whosoever shall peruse with a judictious and unpartial eye most of those Pamplets that in this daring age have been thrust into the World against the Ceremonies of the Church against Episcopal Government to pass by things of lesser regard and usefulness and more open to acception and abuse yet so far as I can understand unjustly condemned as things utterly unlawful such as are lusorious lots dancing Stage-plays and some other things of like nature When he shall have drained out the bitter invectives unmannerly jeers petulant guirding at those that are in authority impertinent disgressions but above all those most bold and perverse wrestings of holy Scripture wherewith such books are infinitely stuffels he shall find that little poor remainder that is left behind to contain nothing but vain words and empty arguments For when these great undertakers have snatcht up the bucklers as if they would make it good against all comers that such and such things are utterly unlawful and therefore ought in all reason and conscience to bring such proofs as will come up to that conclusion Quid dignum tanto very seldome shall you hear from them any other arguments then such as will conclude but an Inexpediency at the most As that they are apt to give scandal that they carry with them an appearance of evil that they are often occasions of sin that they are not command in the