Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	love_n	receive_v	unrighteousness_n	1,627	5	10.8118	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93715	A modest plea for an equal common-wealth against monarchy. In which the genuine nature and true interest of a free-state is briefly stated: its consistency with a national clergy, mercenary lawyers, and hereditary nobility examined; together with the expediency of an agrarian and rotation of offices asserted. Also, an apology for younger brothers, the restitution of gavil-kind, and relief of the poor. With a lift at tythes, and reformation of the lawes and universities. All accommodated to publick honour and justice, without injury to any mans propriety, and humbly tendered to the Parliament. By a lover of his country in order to the healing the divisions of the times.	Sprigg, William, fl. 1657.	1659 (1659)	Wing S5078; Thomason E999_11; ESTC R203651	64,567	117

and turn our Spears into Pruning-Hooks we should then no more hear the sound of the Drum or be affrighted vvith the Alarums of Civil Wars and discords but might sit under our own Vines and eat the fruit of our Figge-trees in safety We should then see the Wolf dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard lie down with the Kid and the Calf and the young Lyon and the Fatling together and a little Childe to lead them and The Lyon shall eat straw like an Ox and the Sucking Childe shall play upon the hole of the Asp and the weaned Childe shall put his hand upon the Cockatrice Den for they shall not hurt nor destroy throughout the Holy Mountain of the Lord But the vvhole Earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Thus shall it be when the Knowledge of the Lord hath destroyed every base and private Interest from off the face of the Earth when he hath taken away that diversity of Preying Interests that are the Source and Spring of all our miseries the seeds of all those Factions and Divisions that rage among the sons of Men and makes them tear rend and prey upon one another that hath so intangled the Doctrine of Politicks and rendred them so dark and abstruce a Labyrinth so difficult a Maze and Mysterie of Iniquity that hath turned the Art of Government into an Art of Jugling and dissembling that hath brought to light those wicked Machavilian Maximes of the Kingdome of Darknesse that were first broached by a Conclave of Devils Divide impera Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare and the like that hath devised necessity of State as an Apologie and Religious Pretences as a cloak for the blackest crimes the Sunne ere looked upon that hath put the Inscription of the Cause of God upon most wicked and Devillish Designs that hath made Religion hold the stirrup to Ambition become the Pander of Greatnesse and a Stalking-Horse to Lust and Wickednesse But it shall not be thus in the Holy Mountain of the Lord in the Holy Commonwealth of Israel in the New Jerusalem that is coming down from above and when there shall be new Heavens and new Earth all old things shall passe away which is not far off the World and unrighteousnesse of man hath now but a short part to act for the time is approaching in which every false Mask and Vizard shall be pulled off in which a window shall be opened into every secret and false breast and the hidden thoughts of mens hearts discovered and that the World shall be no longer cheated to espouse corrupt and base Interests because gilded with glorious pretences of Religion and bearing False Inscriptions upon them Now for the truth and reason of these things I durst appeal to the Iudgements and Consciences of the most understanding men in the Nation as knowing their hearts witnesse to them and were their bodies of Chrystal pellucid and transparent I know we might read the same Apprehensions in them for I cannot imagine it proceeds from ignorance but interest that the light of those truths hath not hitherto been more discovered So many are interessed in the grand Cheat of the World so many are the Silversmiths that reap profit from the Shrines of these Diana's that it is no wonder there appears so great a zeal to keep up their credit and reputation But the day of the Lord which is at hand will discover them I know most men are led by a blinde and implicite faith they have pinned on the sleeves of some learned Rabbies being ready to Worship and fall down before any Galf Custom hath set up among them These out of love I have endeavoured to undeceive though I thereby set up my self as a Mark and But for all the shafts the Malice of men can dart against me And being loth to detain and imprison the Truth in unrighteousnesse have given in my testimony against the Corruption of the World which I know to be a cheat and the manners of men who are a lye and Vanity How it will be received I am not solicitous if I perish I perish and hope I shall be able to say as sometime that Great Souldier Belisarius Mihi non culpa nocuit sed invidia But as for the Truth I know it cannot long be stifled but must and will prevail Magna est veritas praevalebit THE CONTENTS A Plea for a Commonwealth page 1. Of the Ministry or Clergy page 21 Of Tythes page 38 An humble Motion in behalf of the Poor page 42 Of the Universities page 45 Of the Regulation of the Laws and Lawyers page 56 An Apology for Younger Brothers page 58 Of the Hereditary Nobility page 75 Of an Agrarian page 84 Of the Militia page 87 Of Election to Offices c. ibid. Of Rotation page 89 The Conclusion page 90 FINIS