Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	see_v	world_n	4,606	5	4.6472	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32909	Serjeant Major Iames Chvdleigh his declaration to his country-men	Chudleigh, James, d. 1643.	1643 (1643)	Wing C3983; ESTC R24269	4,010	8

an absolute Conquest and an utter extirpation of those that unconvict they doe but once thinke ungodly that I should represent my knowledge of the state of this matter to those Deputy-Lievtenants that I conceived in all respects fittest to judge of that and to recommend it to the whole County yet my duty to God and to my Country will not give me leave to obscure so faire a meanes of the happinesse of this Kingdom for any scandall whatsoever or to prove my selfe in the face of Heaven so cowardly a Christian as to comply with damnable hypocrisie against so cleer a truth who knowes not that nothing will be so certaine and necessary a destruction to the Country as to continue it the seate of Warre and what moderate man is there that cannot see that nothing in the World could have extorted from this Army in the glorious Condition that it now is such a gallant offer of a Religious honourable and a firme Peace but their owne Noblenesse and sincerity of heart towards truth and the reall welfare of the Common-wealth Let us not involve our selves with the obstinacy of a few opinionated men whiles 't is apparenr as the case stands how that their Cause is accompanied with nothing of Religion but it 's abused name what Religion is there now in Cornwall but the same that we professe or what bondage is there to those that doe not wilfully thrust themselves into it Let us but deferre the cutting of one anothers throats till novelties in Law and in Religion begin to shew themselves We are then as capable to dye for the defence of truth as now for the suspition the power of the sword being still entrusted in our hands Many a well meaning Christian takes a by path to Heaven and knowes not that he wanders but Oh the irrecoverable unhappines of those that refuse to be led into the way I know it concernes the interest of those that have set themselves against Peace with such as they are pleas'd to call the wicked how undeservedly soever to raise scandalls upon me and I am well informed that the report of my betraying the Army at Stratton was invented after the view of my Letters to my Father with Sir Iohn Bamfield and Sir Nicholas Martin to accommodate the differences of these Counties for which the Cittizens of Exeter have beyond all example Committed the Herauld that was employed upon the false pretence of eating Scroales of paper and have cast a jealousy upon some of those Gentlemen that hitherto have been thought by all the World farre more worthy then such Creatures as themselves are to steere the affaires of the Commonwealth in these parts but as I never avoyded danger to serve my Countrey when I lead them in the field so I will now presse through all difficulties in spite of opposition to mediate and by all honest means to prosecute its Peace and such as shall appeare to unite in my opinion I am ready to lead or to follow or to Comrade with to reduce this obstinate handfull in the Citty of Exeter that are the only means to deny their Country its Capacity of so great a blessing and herein I am resolved to boast the loyalty which I owe His Majesty as well as my dear affection to you that have thus farre intrusted me with your lives and for my behaviour at Stratton I refuse no mans testimony of those that durst put themselves so farre into danger as to be eye witnesses but for my Lord of Stamford and such others as ranne away whose Treason really it was I know that concerns their interest to second this accusation upon mee having no other way to extenuate their intolerable Cowardice but because they are People that I am never likely to meet with in the field I leave them to the Scourge of their own Conscience and to passe the time in making Aldermen and women believe them valiant whiles all the world besides knows the contrary And now I challenge Malice it selfe to accuse me in all this of the least Circumstance of untruth or fallacy so I beseech God to dispose you to accept of such a Peace as for ought I know will shortly be denied you upon your knees And that the groanes of this bleeding Country may not rise up in judgement against the Barbarisme of those that by imprisoning the messenger of Peace have endeavoured to destroy the Balsome that should cure the wounds which for ought I see themselves have made FINIS