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	true_a	word_n	8,834	5	4.4618	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02170	Meditations and disquisitions upon the one and fiftieth Psalme of Dauid Miserere mei Deus. By Sr. Richard Baker, Knight.	Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1638 (1638)	STC 1231; ESTC S100560	42,166	82

sinned that God might be justified And what can be more said for justifying of a sinne then to say it was done for justifying of God But far is it from David to have any such meaning his words import not a lessening but an aggravating of his sinne as spoken rather thus because a Judge may justly be taxed of injustice if hee lay a greater punishment upon an offender than the offence deserves therefore to cleare thee O God from all possibility of erring in this kinde I acknowledge my si●s to be so hainous my offences so grievous that thou canst never be unmercifull in punishing though thy punishing should be never so unmerciful For how can a Judge passe the bounds of equity where the delinquent hath passed all bounds of iniquity and what error can there be in thy being severe when the greatnesse of my fault is a Iustification of severity That thou canst not lay so heavie a doome upon mee which I have not deserved Thou canst not pronounce so hard a sentence against me which I am not worthy of If thou judge mee to torture it is but mildnesse If to die the death it is but my due If to die everlastingly I cannot say it were unjust Yet in judgement O Lord remember mercy consider not how foule I am become but how I am become foule for though my sinne be great yet I was not the beginner of it for Behold I was borne in iniquity and in sinne hath my mother conceived me And seeing my birth did not amend my conception how should my growth amend my birth Did not sinne at least the Authour of sin heare thy voyce when thou saidst Encrease and multiply Which though not spoken to him yet as an Intruder hee claimes to have a part and seeing all the parts of my soule and body have increased and growne greater since my birth will not hee looke that si●ne also shall have a share in growing as well as they Doth any thing grow so fast as a weede and is there any so very a weede as finne hath it not beene growing ever since I was borne and can so fast growing in so long growing make lesse than a Monster And am I a fit Champion to encounter Monsters Indeede I encountred a Beare and slue him a Lyon and killed him a Giant and overcame him but these were no Monsters at least no Monsters to be compared with sin Oh the monstrousnesse of sin farre harder to be vanquished than all the Monsters that ever Nature made for I could vanquish a Beare a Lyon Giant the greatest of Natures Monsters but with all my forces have not beene able to vanquish this Monster Sinne. But why am I partiall towards my Parents and charge my poore Mother with conceiving mee in sinne but let my Father passe without blame Or is it that to say I was borne in sin is as much as to say I was begotten i● sinne and so my Father hath a share of my sinne in begetting mee as well as my Mother in conceiving mee Indeed if Eve had only sinned and not Adam it might have beene said wee were conceived in sinne but not perhaps that we were begoten in sinne or if Adam had ●ly sinned and not Eve it might have beene said we were begotten in sinne but not perhaps that we were conceived in sinne but now that Adam Eve have both of them sinned it is justly said I was begotten in iniquity and in sinne ●ath my Mother conceived mee and so we are all of us sinners now of the whole blood both by Father and Mother and no Inheritance so sure to us from them as this of sinne and in this Inheritance we are all great husbands whatsoever becomes of Naboths Vineyard wee commonly make sure worke to improve this and we seldome leave till wee can leave more of it to our children than wee received from our Parents and seeing no diseases are so incurable as those which come Extraduce from either of our Parents how incurable must sinne needes be which is Extraduce from them both If I were onely borne in sinne then all the time I lived in the little world of my Mothers wombe I must have beene without sinne and so might hope thou wouldst at least have some respect to that time of Innocency I lived there But now that not onely I was borne in sinne but my Mother also conceived mee in sinne now I was a sinner assoone as a creature and not one minutes time of Innocencie to plead for my selfe And now alas O Lord What couldst thou ever looke for at my hands but onely sinne The Leopard cannot change her spots no more can I that am conceived in sin conceive any thing but onely sin It is naturall to me and Nature will have her course But though it be naturall to mee to sinne yet it is not naturall to me to sinne so grievously as I have done for then every one should be as great a sinner as my selfe but now that I must say with Saint Paul Of all great sinners I am the greatest this is an estate of sinne which I have not by Inheritance but by Purchase and I cannot blame Nature but my selfe for this all the help is that though I might be ashamed to doe it yet I am not ashamed to consesse it and is not a sincere confessing in the ballance of thy Mercv O God of even weight with the not doing and therefore although the sinne I conf●sse be great and being great must needes be greatly displeasing to thee yet this conf●ssing my sinne to be great cannot be displeasing For Thou lovest truth in the inward affections and this my confession comes from thence For there is a truth in words when it is without lying as Saint Paul saith I speake the truth I lie not but this truth reacheth not home to confessing of sinnes and there is a truth in deedes when it is without lying as Christ said of Nathaniel Behold a true reacheth in whom there is ●o guile but neither doth this truth rea●h home to confessing of sinnes but there is a truth in heart when it is in sincerity as it is said here Thou lovest truth in the inward affections and this is the truth that carries home the confessing of sins to its full period For though thou lovest all truth and every where yet the truth of the inward affections thou affectest most inwardly for this is properly within thine owne survey soeing thou only art 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the trier and searcher of the heart and reines Truth of words may have for its motive vain-glory and praise of men truth of deeds awe of the Law but truth in the inward affections can have no motive but onely the love of truth which therefore must needs be pleasing to thee who art thy selfe both Love and Truth Where thou lovest truth thon teachest wisedome and because thou lovest truth in the inward affections thou teachest wisdome in the