Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	time_n	word_n	4,755	5	4.0289	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59559	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, in Bow-Church, on the feast of St. Michael, 1680 at the election of the Lord Mayor for the year ensuing / by John Sharpe ...	Sharp, John, 1645-1714.	1680 (1680)	Wing S2987; ESTC R17019	16,263	40

they repose in him He is one that in point of fair dealing between man and man is severe even to Scrupulosity and he would rather sit down with loss than serve his own ends by any practice that hath but a bad report that hath but even the appearance or suspicion of evil in it though in the mean time he knows that what is got by such practices is by some men accounted lawfull gain He is a man of great Candour and sweetness and obligingness in his behaviour But withall as on one hand he is carefull not to run himself into Inconveniences by his good nature So on the other hand the kindness and good-will he professeth to all about him is more than a compliment or a semblance of his countenance For his fair speeches are always attended with honest dealings And what he once promiseth he is punctual in making it good though it be to his own prejudice He is a man that loves a good Name and Reputation as well as any one and is extremely tender of it But yet he scorns to make use of any evil Arts either for the procuring or preserving it And consequently he is a man that hates all mean and servile compliance and will neither speak nor doe any thing against the sense of his mind for the humouring any Flattery and dissimulation he abhors and he dares speak his mind when he judges it fit and reasonable even though he knows the doing it will give offence And as he is perfectly averse to all Fawning and Flattery so he is above Envy and Detraction He never lessens another man to make himself greater nor looks upon the prosperity of his neighbour with an evil eye backbiting and carrying about idle stories is not the thing he lives by He puts a fair construction upon other mens words and actions and will rather conceal a real fault than make it worse in the reporting it He hopes and thinks the best of all men and rejoyceth in the happiness of those about him He doth as much good as he can and that good that is done by others he is so far from envying that he thanks God for it as if he had done it himself He is a man of great Plainness and Simplicity Apert and open and free in all his carriage You may always know where to have him for his words and his thoughts always go together And though he is carefull not to be lavish of his speech nor at all times to discover all his mind yet he is as carefull that what he doth speak shall be agreeable to truth and he so speaks it that those that hear him may take measures of his mind from it He is a man who though he be very watchfull of opportunities to doe himself good and very sagacious in spying dangers and avoiding them yet he never uses any indirect means either for the benefiting or securing himself He scorns to make advantages of any mans necessities Nor will he undermine another for the effecting of his own designs Deceit and Collusion are strangers to all his dealings Above all things he hates a Trick and in his account to be a man of Intrigues a cunning or a shrewd fellow is but a more gentile term for a knave In a word The designs he proposeth to himself are all Honest and Just and such as tend to the good of the Community as well as his Own but to no mans loss or hindrance And the means he useth for accomplishing these designs are all fair and Regular and so free is both his Heart and his Actions from all Imposture that he cares not if all the world were privy to them This is the man that is Vpright in his Conversation towards Men. The Man that with the wisdom of the Serpent joyns the Innocence and simplicity of the Dove But thus much of the Vpright man as a Private Person Let us now view him a little under a more conspicuous character Let us consider him as a Magistrate intrusted with the management of publick affairs Which is the Second particular we are to insist on under this head And here the Upright man is still the same acted by the same Principles pursuing still the same designs we have hitherto mentioned Onely his Vertues have another Sphere and another Object and therefore require another consideration The great thing he proposeth to himself in taking any Office upon him is the glory of God and the publick good The Honour and Dignity of the place and the other worldly advantages that may attend it are but secondary considerations with him The first is his main design which he steadily and constantly pursues throughout the whole Administration of his Office The other is never thought on but with subordination to the former And therefore acting from such Principles as these we may easily conclude him to be a man whose Counsels and actions are not steer'd by the wind of popular applause but by the sense of his duty He studies not to ingratiate himself with men but to discharge a good Conscience He is more carefull to be a Good-Magistrate than to be a Loved one though so happily are things contriv'd that in being the former he rarely fails of the latter The consequence of which is That he is a man of great Courage and Boldness and Resolution He dares to do whatsoever is fit and just and conducive to the publick good what discouragements soever he meet with Neither the menaces of the mighty nor the murmurings of the multitude can fright him from his Duty For he dreads none but God nor fears to doe any thing but what is misbecoming him But then he is a man that doth not resolve things hastily and upon the consideration of a few particulars but takes good advice and useth mature deliberation before he determines himself He doth nothing precipitately But weighs all things represented to him as impartially as he can His ears are open to all parties and he debates what is said without passion or prejudice or prepossession And he always considers more what is spoken than who it is that speaks it He is a man whom you cannot so much disoblige as by attempting to corrupt him Neither the regard of his profit nor his kindness to his friends can in matters of Right tempt him to act against his inward sense As to these things he is as blind as Justice herself and you may as soon draw the Sun from his line as him from the steady and strict paths of Righteousness He is a man that looks upon his Office rather as a burthen than a preferment And therefore he is wonderfully solicitous about the well discharging it His care and study is chiefly employed upon the publick and he rather suffers the miscarriage of his own affairs than that the community by his negligence should receive any prejudice While others are doing their own business he is watching for the common good for he always remembers that he