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truth_n	speak_v	spirit_n	true_a	4,053	5	5.1525	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27456	Historical applications and occasional meditations upon several subjects written by a person of honour.	Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698.	1667 (1667)	Wing B1963; ESTC R8483	20,594	142

hath demonstrated to delude the people under specious pretences and upon this Maxime no Kingdome or Common-wealth is safe XXII A Painter who was esteemed a good Artist being asked why he painted so slowly he answered Pingo aeternitati I paint for eternity If we did consider our Eternity of happinesse or miserie depends upon the well or ill spending our time here we should then take greater care of our actions and not hastily doe amisse XXIII WE are not naturally apt to content our selves here in this World with any one constant place or the same company We find no perfect contentment in any of our setled affairs and therefore we indeavour to find it in variety but all in vain Onely this use we may make of it Let us consider with our selves the things of this World may satiate us cannot satisfie what appertains to a better life may satisfie us and not satiate Therefore being our Souls are of such immortal capacities as not to be contented with nor confined to terrestrial things let us make it our great design to provide for the eternal Felicity of our Souls XXIV EDe bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas inquit Epicurus This is the vulgar Tradition concerning Epicurus and yet it cannot be proved that he ever said or writ any such thing totidem verbis onely in effect he said it for he denied the Immortality of the Soul and consequently every one is by that Position left at liberty to doe as he pleases si post mortem nulla voluptas Thus if many of us were to be judged of by our practices many abominable Principles would be layd to our charge which in words and outward profession we wholly disown and detest But what a deplorable thing is it that there should be such contrariety between our Opinions and our Actions that the latter should give the first the lie which we account a word of greatest disgrace and reproach to us if given by another and yet contentedly and frequently we give it our selves XXV PRaedicat vivâ voce qui praedicat vitâ voce He preaches with a loud voice who preaches with his Life and Voice That Minister whose Life is in good measure proportionable to his Doctrine prevails much with his Auditory and converts many Souls otherwise the people are apt to say 'T is true he preaches well but why should I believe him who does not appear to credit himself for he says one thing and practises another And if we condemn this in a Preacher we must not approve it in our selves The moral Heathens will rise up in judgment against us at the great Day if we shall rely upon a bare Form and outward profession of Godlinesse but deny the Power of it in our lives and conversations for to whom much is given of them much is required It was a wise saying of a natural Fool when he lay upon his Death-bed Lord require no more of me then thou hast given me Let this be remembred to humble the wise men Many have been the wise sayings of Fools but not so many as the foolish actions of Wise men XXVI IT is reported in storie of a great Emperor who had made large promises that when his faith was suspected because his Predecessors had broke theirs so frequently he replied That if faith and truth were no-where else to be found but in his breast there they should remain This I am well assured may without flattery be justly applied to our gracious Sovereign CHARLES the Second whom I beseech God to blesse with a long and happy Reign His sweet obliging mild disposition is more agreeable to the English temper then to any Nation whatsoever our Climate being so justly famed for producing in all Ages so many good-natured people What the Emperor said of himself every one in particular ought to make applicable and not to follow the Generality who constantly doe amisse and thus argue Tell not me what vain fashions or customes others follow how perfidious they are in their promises I will keep my word and doe my duty leaving the successe to the wise Disposer of all things endeavouring to walk unblameably both in the sight of God and men XXVII IT is reported of the Lacedemonians that they had this fond Ceremony at the Death of their Kings That all both men and women mangled their Foreheads and in their Lamentations cried out that their deceased King how wicked soever he were was the best Prince they ever had In all times there want not some or other who will praise those that are great and in power giving them high applauses for their Vertues and deserts though they be never so deformed with the Leprosy of Vicious enormities but such servile spirits will be despised by good men nay at last abominated even by those they so unworthily flatter and shall receive one of the Punishments of Liars which is Not to be believed when they speak truth XXVIII HOnesty is the best Policy it is simple and innocent like a true Story or Narrative natural and easy that needs no defence and a good Conscience is a continual Feast He that in all his actions deals plainly and honestly gains such a reputation that all persons both believe him and believe well of him and therefore in all the affairs of the World he meets with many friends and chearful assistances whereas those that have used great artifices to deceive and undermine are soon found out seldome trusted We have an English Proverb to this purpose Once a Knave and alwaies suspected If any of the most vertuous gentlest mildest and fairest Sex shall by any act of great Immodesty and Indiscretion expose themselves to the just censure of the World it will be difficult to recover their fame lost by after-acts of Sobriety and Modesty but this should not discourage any to attempt it but the best way is to preserve a good Conscience which is a Feast prepared for us by the God of Heaven to be fed on at all times and in all conditions it is introductive of the Peace of God which is an happinesse so great that it passeth humane under standing and is a blessing of a vast magnitude such as the World can neither give to us nor take from us when God in mercy has afforded it to us When a man's ways please God he makes his very enemies to be at peace with him so that many times their hearts being turned they perform offices of friendship and great kindnesse to us XXIX OUr Christian Charity which consisteth partly in forgiving our Enemies returning good for evil and partly in giving to all who are the objects of Charity more especially to those of the houshold of Faith is not onely a Charity to them but our selves too The first part being devested from any vindicative spirit is the most lawfull and most politick way of Revenge the Holy Writ saies it is an heaping Coals of Fire upon their heads so justly