Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lie_v	speak_v	word_n	3,929	5	4.2262	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31689	The Character of a fanatick in general, by what other name however he may be more specially distinguished		1681 (1681)	Wing C1973; ESTC R9206	3,661	6

he cries up Obedience to Magistrates but with such a Becketism of Salva Gloria Dei at the end of it ●that he might have better let it alone As also that they ought to be defended by their Subjects in defence nevertheless of the true Religion of which himself must be Judge And for his Grace at Meat what can I better compare it to than a Canterbury-rack half Pace half Gallop So his an odd hobbling shuffle between a Grace and a Prayer and a Prayer and a Grace Lastly as to his Vertues for it cannot be denied but he has somewhat of that which Tully calls Adumbrata virtutum specimina I wish it might be said of them that they were other than mask'd Hyporisie The Poet hit it Da justum sanctumque videri Noctem Peccatis Et fraudibus objice Nubem And like an apt Scholar he has gotteen his Lesson by heart and can now wrap the Philistin's Sword in an holy Ephod Whence else is it That he shall crave a Blessing to the Design be it never so ungodly and give thanks for the success be it never so wicked That he will not Swear but can dispence with the profitable sin of Lying That he will not be drunk to be seen of men but yet can take a Brotherly Rouze in a Corner That he walks as he had made a Covenant with his Eyes and yet Si uxor non Vult aut non possit Veniat ancilla is wholsom Doctrine with him That he is a zealous Observer of the Sabbath and yet can make less conscience of Schism than a Surplice That he cries Vae mihi si non Evangelizavero and yet allows no imposition of Hands but broken Pates That he abhors Idols and yet can commit Sacriledge which what other is it than to burn the Idol with a Coal from the Altar That he exhorts his Beloved to Constancy under Persecution and yet come what will can lick himself whole it will be hard to tell where he had been hurt In short That he is a perfect Samaritan For let the Gentiles prevail he is of the Race of Ishmael and let the Jews get the upper-hand he had Abraham to his Father To conclude He is a Glow-worm that shines best in the night of Ignorance One whose Faith has eaten up his Charity One that has torn the seamless Coat into Raggs and tack'd them together to cover his Nakedness One that having forsaken the Fountain has he wen to himself but broken Cisterns One that swallows all things unchew'd and brings them up again as raw and undigested One whose Eyes are at the end of the Earth and yet would be thought not to mistake his way In short One that has an excuse for every thing he should not do and a salvo against every thing he should do and all this by Scripture Adeo nihil est quod SS Scripture extorqueri non possit modo torqueatur In a word he is one of whom it may be said as Heraclius of the Bow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And but that I find him so well cut out by Horace I had not yet taken my hand from so everlasting an Argument Mala quem scabies aut Morbus Regius Vrget aut Fanaticus error aut Iracunda Diana Vesanum tetigisse timent fugiuntque Qui sapiunt incautique sequuntur And as to the former not without reason for though his distemper lies not in too much Learning yet to my unenlightned understanding he speaks not the words either of Soberness or Truth but darkneth counsel by words without knowledge LONDON Printed for N. T. 1681.