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 \nOf Unity in Religion  \n…………………………10  \nOf Revenge ……  \n…………15  \n.....  \nOf Adversity……  \nOf Simulation and Dissimulation ……………………19  \nOf Parents and Children .  \n………………………………23  \nOf Marriage and Single Life ………………………………24  \nOf Envy……  \n…………………………27  \nOf Love ……  \n………………………33  \nOf Great Place ..  \n………………………35  \nOf Boldness ………  \n…………………………39  \nOf Goodness, and Goodness of Nature………………41  \nOf Nobility…………………  \n…………44  \nOf Seditions and Troubles  \n………46  \nOf Atheism ……………  \n……………………55  \nOf Superstition …  \n……………………58  \nOf Travel ………………  \n………………………60  \n# TRUTH,AND OTHER ESSAYS.\n\nOF TRUTH  \n\"What is truth?\"said jesting Pilate,andwould not stay for an answer.Certainly therebe that delight in giddiness,and count it abondage to fix a belief,affecting free-will inthinking as well as in actingAnd thoughthe sects of philosophers of that kind be gone,yet there remain certain discoursing wits whichare of the same veins,though there be not somuch blood in them as was in those of the an-cients.But it is not only the difficulty andlabor which men take in finding out of truth,nor again,that when it is found,it imposethupon men's thoughts that doth bring lies infavor,but a natural though corrupt love of thelie itself.One of the later school of the Gre-cians examineth the matter,and is at a standto think what shculd be in it that men shouldlove lies,where neither they make for pleas-ure as with poets,nor for advantage as_withthe merchant,but for the lie's sake.But Icannot tell,this same truth is a naked andopen daylight that doth not show the masksand mummeries and triumphs of the world halfso stately and daintily as candlelights.Truthmay,perhaps,come to the price of a pearl thatshoweth best Fy day,but it will not rise to theprice of a diamond or carbuncle that showethbest in varied lights.A mixture of a lie dothever add pleasure.Doth any man doubt thatif there were taken out of men's minds vain  \n# TRUTH,AND OTHER ESSAYS\n\n6  \nopinions,flattering hopes,false valuations,imaginations as one would,and the like,but itwould leave the minds of a number of men poorshrunken things,full of melancholy and in-disposition,and unpleasing to themselves?Oneof the fathers,in great severity,called poesyVinum Daemonum,because it filleth the imagi-nation,and yet it is,but with the shadow of alie.But it is not the lie that rasseth throughthe mind,but the lie that sinketh in,and set-tleth in it that doth the hurt,such as we spakeof before.But howsoever these things are thusin men's depraved judgments and affections,yet truth,which only doth judge itself,teacheth that the inquiry of truth,which is thelove-making or wooing of it;the knowledge oftruth,which is the presence of it;and the be-lief of truth,which is the enjoying of it,is thesovereign good of human nature.The firstcreature of God,in the works of the days,wasthe light of the sense;the last was the light ofreason;and His Sabbath work ever since is theIllumination of His Spirit.First He breathedlight upon the face of the matter of chaos,thenHe breathed light into the face of man,andstill He breathed and inspired light into theface of His chosen.The poet that beautifiedthe sect that was otherwise inferior to the rest,saith yet excellent well:\"It is a pleasure tostand upon the shore and to see ships tossedupon the sea;a pleasure to stand in the wind-Ow of a castle and to see a battle and the ad-ventures thereof below;but no pleasure iscomparable to the standing upon the vantageground of truth”(a hill not to be commanded,  \nTRUTH,AND OTHER ESSAYS  \nand where the air is always clear and serene)\"and to see the errors,and wanderings,andmists,and tempests in the vale below.”So,al-ways,that this prospect be with pity,and notwith swelling or prideCertainly it is heavenupon earth to have a man's mind move incharity,rest in Providence,and turn up","cbCaiuEzygeik89n","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuEzygeik89n","pdf",3509293,68,"English","# TRUTH,AND OTHER 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