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
A31714	The Character of a true and false shepherd with a general admonition to ministers : being very seasonable for the present times.		1670 (1670)	Wing C1995C; ESTC R25981	16,245	25

uncharitable Obs 22 and doth express him to be full of rigour and ingratitude for those tithes and offerings he received from them 2. If ye give an Animal or a Dog but a crust of bread he will was his tail and express some thankfulness but this ungrateful Vitasius though he is fed with good wheat fat lambs and pigs his fiery tongue shall wag apace to abase and defame his Parishioners for it Surely Tobies Dog was better bred and would have expressed more gratitude for benefits received The most savage Beasts recompence good turns and forgetting their nature remember a benefit though small One of the Antients said that to live ungrateful was one of the most infamous lives that might be imagined St. Augustine saith That not only the vitious pursue this vice but that which is most deplorable the Religious or rather those that are pretenders to Religion who ought to have the fillet of shamefac'dness fastned upon their brows and a trembling awefulness within them that they should not run hastily to commit this most ugly sin of ingratitude Si dixeris ingratum omnia dixeris God hath placed the Ministers of the Gospel many steps higher than their Auditors and planted them with his hands as Stars in the goodly firmament of a Heavenly life upon whose life and influences very much depends the whole course of the inferior world their Auditors The people are like the Polypus who changeth colour according to the diversity of objects ought not you then to be an object and example of piety meekness humility charity brotherly love and gratitude both to God and man and to shake off this earthly leprous sin of Covetousness Alas poor wretched worldly man he loved money so dear Obs 23 that he would not pay legal taxations until his goods were distrained and to add vexation to his crime of contempt he sued those that distrained and put them to great trouble and vexation although it was imposed upon him by a Magistrate he now honors as a God And it is notoriously known although he hath a Prebend of good value freely bestowed on him by the Reverend Bishop of the Diocess yet out of meer covetousness and contumacie he forgot his Canonical obedience and would not pay the small rent reserved on his Prebendary although it was appointed towards the preaching of Gods word until he was compelled thereunto by Legal proceedings By all which it may appear that this is the man that is an open enemy and opponent to the Magistracie and Ministry which shews he had very little zeal or affection to Religion and the advancement of the Gospel And he that durst oppose his Lord and Master his Benefactor and best friend it is no marvail that he doth trample upon and despise his Parishioners Patient Obs 24 As for patience it is a vertue that he never learnt for he is ever impatient until he doth pour down some malignity or revenge on his innocent neighbours against whom he retains any displeasure they are sure either of a suit or an invective and if no place convenient will serve him to vent his spleen and madness he will make use of the Pulpit hoping that place will save him from a Bastinado he hath more disturbances in his head than the winding Euripus hath waves yet let him not provoke his Parishioners too much Patientia saepe laesa vertitur in furorem and to return him his own Video meliora proboque deteriora sequar Application and friendly Admonition HE hath not learnt of David a King and Prophet who said My God if thou suffer this persecution against me at the least I beg the sacrifice of my patience may ascend to thy Altar in the odour of sweetness But it is otherwise with this man where anger doth violently move in the three principal Regions and the passions thereof do often attach and indanger his own Soul which hath made him foam like a boar hiss like a Serpent and cast out fire out of his angry mouth like Medeas B●lls And because his Parishioners made addresses to his Superior in order to a better supp●y of the Church for Gods glory and the health of their Souls you would marvail what furious threats and menaces proceeded from this Orlando furioso even to the calling of his Auditors Reprobates and Rebels a sign he had little love or charity towards his Parishioners For Love will hide a multitude of faults He hath either forgotten or omitted to read the first of St. James My Brethren count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing that the trying of your faith bringeth forth patience We are commanded to lay aside all malitiousness and all guile and dissimulation and envy and all evil speaking It is not sparkling flames but invisible heats which melt Metals and sweetest influences are those which cause the greatest effects in total nature It was not the way that our Saviour or his Disciples used to condemn all for Reprobates that opposed the very Doctrine of the Gospel but to convince and gain them by love not by rigour Our Saviour is called the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world not a Lyon to destroy Blessed are those that save It is the Devils part to destroy and to preach Reprobation to bring men into despair it is not lawful for a Minister to defile the Character of Divinity with rigours insupportable and to draw such damnable conclusions from the malice of his own breast virulencie and bitterness of Spirit becomes not a Gospel-Minister who should not come with a destroying sword into the Pulpit but with the Balm of Gilead to heal and cure the sores of the afflicted But he whetteth his tongue like a sword and shot for his arrows bitter words His tongue imagineth mischief and like a sharp razor that cutteth deceitfully thou dost love evil more than good and lies more than to speak the truth thou lovest all words that may destroy O thou deceitful tongue A revengeful spirit spares nothing to please it self and vent its passion and oftentimes opens precipices to fill them with death and ruine So this roaring Bull breaths nothing but destruction against his innocent Neighbours and because in their religious concerns they have crossed his evil disposition he would open the doors of Hell and violently throw them down headlong into everlasting damnation had you been present you might have seen sparkles flames and coals to proceed from the passionate mouth of this furious man as if he would have burned them all at once with Hell fire What no mercy nor compassion in Parson Fret will nothing satisfie him but to deliver his sheep to the black spirit of the Abyss to be for ever tormented Ministers should be lights to lead the blind not Come●s to pour down malignity on their Parishioners A good man never slandereth never envieth never despiseth any man neither doth he malign his neighbours he courteth not the rich and