Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	life_n	speak_v	word_n	4,493	5	4.1347	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88917	The triumph stain'd. Being an answer to Truths triumph, i.e. a pamphlet so called, and lately set forth by Mr. John Wildman, a pretended gentleman of the life-guard to his Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax. With a full and perfect account of an information of dangerous and bloody consequence, given in to the House of Lords (at their bar) January the 18. 1647. against Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn and John Wildman. / By George Masterson, preacher of the Gospel at Shoreditch near London.	Masterson, Geo. (George)	1648 (1648)	Wing M1074; Thomason E426_18; ESTC R202890	15,661	27

support the house in which the Philistines were assembled when he laid his two hands upon the two pillars of it in his renewed strength then this Gentleman hath done in these two particulars To the Authority and Honor of the Commons in Parliament But upon what account doth the Gentleman thus say his Devotions backward to the Authority c. Because saith he there was neither Witness nor Evidence against me of a crime It is true the Witnesses which I brought along with me having received Summons from the Honorable Speaker of the House of Commons in the name of the House to appear before them and testifie their knowledge of the proceedings at that meeting in Well-yard were not called into the Commons House and if a man of so low thoughts as I am may without sin humbly guess at a reason of this I suppose Leiutenant Colonel Lilburn having acknowledged some things objected against him and Mr. Wildman confessed something that he denyed the Honorable House might have Evidence enough of a crime from their own mouthes but above all the presence and deportment the tremblings and astonishment as by the outward appearance one might guess that had taken hold upon Mr. John Wildman when he would have spoke at the Commons Bar might be I do not say was instead of many Witnesses You must not suppose that Mr. John Wildman delivered all that at the House of Commons Bar which as a set Speech fills up the best part of seven pages in his Truths triumph I know not what he might have penn'd the night before but if he had that Speech which we spake of written and premeditated he might have published more to the honor of Truth had he set forth to the world An impartial discovery of a very false and treacherous Memory I am confident all the sence that the Gentleman dropp'd at that time at the Commons Bar had it been gathered up by a faithful Amanuensis would not have amounted to a third part of what he delivers in the Pageant that was built for Truths Triumph and truly that little which he did speak was at so low a rate though he had the Aquavitae of a clap on the shoulder from Leiutenant Colonel John Lilburn as he was entring into the Commons House with Speak up Jack such stumbling interfeering and down-right halting that I believe it was not a silent Witness of something and thus I conceive there might be no need of calling for Witnesses against him whose words spake him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 self-condemned all along But why doth the Gentleman seem to take it so unkindely that the Witnesses were not called in is it because one or both of them had whispered in the ear of some of that Fraternity that he or they would not stand by the Information given in by Mr. Masterson and thereby leave it under the condemnation as False and Treacherous That passage of his in the heel of the ninth and head of the tenth page of his pretended Triumph would richly furnish a man that suspected the lightness of his Witnesses with jealous thoughts the words that would tempt to jealousie run thus As for the Witnesses none were called or examined let the Diurnal man as he calls him look to the parenthesis yet those two persons whom the Informer brought as pretended Witnesses confessed as I can prove by Oath That there was nothing spoken at the Meeting for which I am accused but what tended to advance the Parliaments Honor or words to that effect To this particular which if it were of kinde to Truth might entitle his Pamphlet a Triumph I have many things to say 1. Did the two persons whom the Informer brought as pretended Witnesses confess this and will the proof you wot of be deposed for both certainly aut erravit Famulus aut ipse lapsus es memoriâ A bad Informer or worse Memory Brought forth in great Truths Triumph this great Where the fault lieth I know not certainly but I shall for this once set it upon the Taylors score and suppose that he who stitched up this garment for Truth to Triumph in was exceedingly mistaken in his measure But secondly have you never heard of such a practice as this in the world when some sons of their Father the Devil have in vain attempted the chastity of such a Matron or such a Virgin their foul mouthes have run over in such expressions as might make others defile the innocent ones in their thoughts The chastity in this particular of one of my Witnesses is true Roman it would much rather dye upon your sword then prostitute it self to such a dishonorable act as you speak of his faithfulness is so mighty that I believe the man is not yet born Casta est quam nemo rogavit that ever durst tamper with him about it and for the other I have had high thoughts of him and should be now sorry indeed if a principle of Religion should not carry him as far as a lower principle of honor may carry another man Why then do you let fall such words from your pen which if true would render these two persons to all ages unworthy of the lovely compellations of Religious or faithful And Thirdly what if I shall make it appear now that one of these two persons and the other though he have scarce strength enough to stand without trembling under the frowns of a party that he affects so well yet dares not for his life if call'd before Authority deny what he hath affirmed in the presence of four or five witnesses was never guilty of speaking one such word or the least syllable to that effect as both stand accused of will it not Stain Truths Triumph will it not be like the Crot de paris an indelible spot upon the garments of her that Pretends to Triumph This Testimony under the hand of Captain John Willison will be accounted little less then a Scar in the face of her that personates Truth in the paper Triumph Whereas a TAME Pamphlet lately set forth by one John Wildman Entituled Truths Triumph hath endeavored to insult over my innocency and honesty in the last line of the ninth and first of the tenth Pages in these words Yet these two persons whom the Informer brought as Pretended Witnesses confessed as I can prove by Oath that there was nothing spoken at the meeting for which I am accused but what tended to advance the Parliaments Honor or words to that effect I affirm and publish to the whole World and as a Christian will make it good upon my Oath that I never spake one such word or any thing to that effect and in the mean time this my hand shall make good JOHN WILLISON I am loath to insult over the contemptible Triumph yet I dare not be wanting to my self so far as not thankfully to acknowledge the goodness of Heaven in bringing to my hand an Original Letter which if a Witness had fail'd would have