Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	know_v	see_v	4,021	5	3.2352	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18686	The estate of Christians, liuing vnder the subiection of the Turke And also the warres betweene the Christians and the Turke, beginning 1592. and continuing till the end of 1593.		1595 (1595)	STC 5197; ESTC S109838	7,879	26

THE ESTATE OF CHRISTIANS liuing vnder the subiection of the Turke And also the warres betweene the Christians and the Turke beginning 1592. and continuing till the end of 1593. LONDON Printed by IOHN WOLFE 1595. The estate of Christians liuing vnder the subiection of the great Turke DIuers Countries and Nations are in subiection of the Turke and among the rest all Greece saue a verie little parte of it which is vnder the Segnorie of Venice insomuch that there be many thousandes of Christians subiect to Turkish tyrannie Whereof euen the best and greatest are oppressed with great toules and taxes and pestered with infinit extortions and paimentes yeerely All the male children of Christians are written vp at the day of their birth and comming to ten or twelue yeres of their age are presented to the Turkes officers who take all such as they finde well made and like to proue fit men for seruice in warre from their parents and conuey them to the Turkes to bee brought vp in warlike exercises and to become Turkes and enemies to God and their owne fathers and mothers and kinsfolke standing the Turke in more sted than his own naturall people And for each one of them that the Turks officers leaue at home not thinking them fit for their turns must be paid yerely as good as eight shillinges English by their parentes howe poore so euer they be for they must find it or smart for it If anie christian chance in anger or hastines as who is so patient as not to be moued beeing so stinged hauing receiued wrong do strike a Turke he is sure to be so punished that if he doo liue after he liueth to lament his life to wish death When the Turkes officers come to anie Christians house when they go in progresse and make their visitations there must be great store of cheere and much cost prouided to welcome them withall or they wil be but ill come to the christians that they come vnto If anie Christian releeue or giue anie succor aide or assistance to another Christian fugitiue he is taken prisoner besides the losse of all his goods and possessions kept in extreame miserie and most barbarouslie handled till he paie for his ransome as much as they shall appoint Neither wil the Turks oftentimes be brought to release them for any ransome but after a thousand martirdomes wrought vpon them they put them to death Their punishments are diuerse some Christians are tied hand foote and laide on the ground with a stone almost of insupportable waight on their backes Others are put in gallies where they be galled in deed and vsed most doggedly Others they tie hand foote and laie them on their backes and let a long rag of cipres or fine linnen dipped in pickle or salt water sinke by little and litle into their throats till it reach downe to their stomackes and then they plucke it out againe and so put the poore Christians to vnspeakable paine and torment When the Turkes haue taken anie Citie or forte of the Christians or haue ouercome any great armie they lead all them that they put not most cruelly to the swoorde into most lamentable captiuity tormenting them in the foresaid manner and inflicting a thousand woorse martirdomes vpon them which I will omit they requiring a longer discourse I will rather praie vnto Almightie God to haue mercie vpon vs and to defend all good people from the like afflictions And howbeit that it pleaseth his diuine maiestie to punish our wickednesse with such temporall torments yet that of his gracious mercifulnes he wold not suffer so many poore innocent children being carryed awaie by force to me their fathers offences by loosing their souls with which cost many christians besides are dangerously menaced being partly mis-lead by the vanitie of Turkish pompe and pride entising them and partly oppressed with pouertie and miserie constraining them to forsake the true fountaine of life to drinke of the puddle of infidelitie and paganisme therfore to abide euerlasting thirst Wherefore we are bounden to pray vnto Almightie God to turne awaie so much harme from his people not only to keep them perpetually in the way of the truth that are alredy brought vnto it but also so to lighten the heartes and vnderstanding of the blinded that seeing the light of the Gospell they may imbrace it and know that without the cleere Sunne-shine of the same all light is but darknesse A praier vnto GOD for the peace of Christendome to defend and preserue it from Turkish inuasion to the destruction ouerthrow of all Infidels O God Almightie and most mercicifull Father whose power and greatnes is knowen vnto all men and whose glorie shineth most brightly ouer the whole face of the earth as the beams of the Sun from the East to the West cast down the eies of thy soueraigne mercie on vs poore wretched sinners howbeit we haue by our manifolde wickednesses deserued not onely temporall punishment but also euerlasting damnatiō yet we beseech thee ô Lord not to regard our innumerable offences as in number so also exceeding in greatnes and hainousnes but to bestowe on vs thy most gracious and mercifull pardon considering that our onely mediatour and thy onely beloued sonne Iesus Christ hath redeemed vs with his most precious bloud made satisfaction by that most acceptable sacrifice for all our sinnes offences Grant vs therefore thy peace O Lord and poure downe from heauen on Christian Princes and the rulers of thy people thy grace to embrace concord and vnitie that they being by thee inspired with wisedome and heauenly counsels may so gouern the people and maintaine their callinges that all may bee surely defended from Turkes Infidels and other enimies of thy faith and most holy truth Suffer not O Lord the prophanenes of thy sacred Gospell to inlarge theyr proude dominion and tyrannicall Empire with the possessions and territories of thy people Let not Pagans and such as seek to violate and to ouerthrow thy heauenly constitutions and ordinances to bedew the earth with Christian bloud for the establishing of Idolatry Superstition and Atheisme Permit them not most mer●ifull Father to triumph ouer thy seruants whome they leade into captiuity allot to the verie worst manner of bondmanship and slauerie and oppresse with most barbarous and ineffable crueltie O Lorde indue our Kinges and rulers with true feeling and vnderstanding to consider and perpend how dangerously we are menaced and threatned by those that beeing worse than the worst of badnes esteeme of thy seruantes as of dogs and how like we are to become the subiects of theyr wrath and furie if by thy gracious mercifulnes order be not taken to crosse their desseignes and to destroy their purposes Giue vnto our Captaines and men of Armes true valour and courage to contemne and scorn the force strength pride of their presumptuous enimies and to omit no opportunitie of reuenge which may be taken