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	speak_v	4,049	5	4.4293	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88691	A letter farther and more fully evidencing the Kings stedfastnesse in the Protestant religion, written by Mounsier de l'Angle minister of the Protestant church at Roven in France to a friend of his in London,	L'Angle, Samuel de.	1660 (1660)	Wing L403; Thomason E1027_2; ESTC R202710	14,957	30

and was assur'd the Church of God would ackowledge him and the time should come she would hold him her most precious Ornament 'T is true this Gentleman hath his soul transfixt with the love of his King but I am certain he hath a greater love to Truth and would not affirm a falshood so constantly with such affeveration for all the Crowns on earth I know likewise what he appear'd in this Town which was one of his first retreats after his defeat at Worcester and that all his discourse with those who had the honour to converse with him came from a heart sanctifi'd with the truth of the Gospel He spoke the very Language of Canaan he reprov'd such as murmur'd with David he conceal'd his deplorable condition Because 't was God that did it To some pious persons friends of mine he shew'd divers excellent prayers for his divine entertainments accommodated to the present estate he was reduc'd to All his discourses were season'd with nothing but faith humility patience and absolute resignation to the will of God who thrones and dethrones Kings as it pleases him who girds them with the sword but when he pleases to manifest his judgements cryes over their Crowne Subversion Subversion But by these discourses it appears that he gather'd great hopes of unexpected recovery in the mercies of God who when he will can raise with as great celerity as throw down and when he pleases changes our Desarts into Carmel In a word all that came near him observ'd a great soul not to be dejected by affliction who with a spirit perfectly noble Christian fustain'd himself in God to whom he resign'd his person and all his interests and who with the same devotion kiss'd the hand of God that came to take off his Crown with his Fathers head as hereafter he will kisse it again when he shall please to restore it Now Sir 't is not unknown to you that none but the true Religion gives this temper and none but the pure Gold stands the tryal of this teste And as in Daniel he who walked in the midst of the Furnace was known by his gate to be the sonne of God certainly he hath little skill in men that could not observe his carriage in these times of tryal to be the carriage of a true child of God and say of him Thou art a Galilean for thy language shews it Afterwards I am assur'd he testified great affection to such Pastors as had the honour to salute him in France and by the Lady Isabella daughter to the Earle of Holland when she took her leave of him at Amiens he sent to me to remember him in my prayers which must not be attributed to any converse I have had with this Prince for I protest before God I never had any that I never saw nor spake to him and that I have no engagement with him neither real nor verbal nor of personal hope and though I wish him all happenesse imaginable I neverthelesse expect not any thing from him But I believe some accidental occasion brought may name to his eare and hearing I was Pastor of a populous Church he was pleased to testifie by this obliging request he was of the same Communion with me Again I know him to be as you and I wish him out of the attests of his own Ministers Doctor Cosins amongst the rest a person venerable both for Doctrine and Piety And by the testimony of the Messieurs Breuins and Durel both eminent Pastours really native subjects of the King of England and who are honour'd with a share in his favours But I have so thorough a knowledge of them and so well know the candour and love they bear the Truth which they teach with such happy successe one with the Prince of Turenne the other with the Duke De la Force that I admire with as great acquiescence as a thing I had seen with my eyes or touch'd with my hands what they have oftentimes affirm'd to me that the King of England is a Protestant and of the best sort and that 't is not meerly secular interests engage him on this party but that he is so at the heart and that he makes the Religion he professes his Treasure of which they could not well be ignorant having attentively observed his wayes and carriage from his Infancy I suppose 't will not be amisse to tell you that of these two Gentlemen Breuins and Durel the King hath chosen the first for one of his Chaplains that is his Ministers in ordinary by reason this choyce confirmes the proof we endeavour to make of the Kings Religion and since he made election of one of the most zealous Professours of the Protestant Religion most capable to defend it and shew the beauty of it for one of the Directors of his conscience 't is an evident testimony he consents with him in Religion and will persevere under his example and conduct Which is likewise confirm'd by what I learn from all parts that he frequented o●r Sermons at Rochelie and other parts of France but particularly at this Town where with the Marquesse of Ormond who attended him without sitting down he heard the Sermon of Mounsieur Jansse my Colleague and told one to whom he discovered himself he had received greated fication And 't is observable he came incognito to these Assemblies and by consequence for no other reason then Devotion If he had been known to every one and had come in a publick way out of the violent inclination of his enemies to a sinister interpretation of this unfortunate Princes actions they would have said this was but a designe and he did it to regain credit with his people but since he was concealed 't is an assured testimony he had no other aime than his particular benefit Then the testimony of a Noble-man of note of the reformed Religion that is the Count of Suze is very considerable to me I saw him lately and intreated him seriously to tell me what he thought of the King of Englands Religion I address'd my self to him for satisfaction herein because he was diverse years at Bruxels with Monsieur the Prince whose cause he had espous'd and I knew moreover that the King of England was often with the Prince and that there was a great familiarity betwixt them The answer he made me was but what I knew before that the King of England while he was at Bruxels made high profession of our Religion and that every Sunday he diligently was very carefull to celebrate the duties thereof in his lodgings that to his knowledge his pulse had been often felt but he had made them understand he was not that way to be taken and that he knew in whom he believed and that his conscience was not like lands unknown at the mercy of the first comer I acknowledge I make great account of this testimony because I know he that gave it is a person of integrity that he was ever