THE BEST BARGA INE. Pro. •3· •3· Buy the Truth, and[tllit not. ~~~~~j@He fubjetl ofmy Text is a liarg•int,-and S•/t .A Bargaine enjoyned,a f.te forbidden:and the fubjett of both bargaine and fate, is Truth. A b&rgain able to make us oil rich:a fate able to make any ofusmiferable. Buy the Truth, andfell it not. A fentence ofthort found, but large • extent, the words are but feaven fyllables,an ea!ie load for ourmemories: the matteris aworld ofwork1along taske for ourlives.And rft,let me call you to thisMart, which holds both now,and ever: If ye love your felves, be ye cuftomersat this !hop ofheaven: Buy the Trmh. Inevery bargaine there is merx, and mereatura; the commoditie, and the march; ThecommoditietobeboughtistheTruth; The match made for this commodity, is Buying Buy tht Truth. An ill Judge may put agood Int<rrogatory; yet it was a quefiion eo~ good for themouth ofa Pilote, What is Truth~ The fchooles have wearied themfdves in the folution 1 To what purpofe thould I reade a Metaphy!icall Lc&ure to D Courtiers? Truth is as Time,one in all; yet,as Time, though but one,is difiioguiihed into pafi, prefent,future, and every thing bath a Time of it owne; fois Truthvarioufiy difiingufi1ed, according to the fubjects wherein it is; This is An{tlms, cited by AquinM; I had rather fay, Truth is as light: (Sendfmh thy Truth,•nd th7/ight ,faith the I Ptalmifi) which(though but one in all) yetthere is one light oft he Sunne, another of the Moone, anothe"r ofthe Starres, another ofthis lower ayre: There is an elfentiall, and eaufall Truth in the Divine underfianding,whichthe Schools call Primo primam; This will not be fold, cannot be bought; God will not part with it, the world is not I wonhit; This Truth is as the Light in the body of the Sonne. Thereis an inttinfec.ll E for formal! truthin things truly exifiing; For, Being and Tr•t are convettible1 and Saint Anjlen rightly defines, Y<r11m <jliUudq11odeft; All thiscreated Truth in things, is derived exemplarily, and caufally, from thatincreaced Truth of God; this the fchools call Stcund•-prim•m; and it is as the light of the Sun·beames, cafi upon theMoone,and I Starres. There is an exttinfecall, or {econdary truth of propo!icions following upon, and conformable to thetruth ofthe things exprelfed : thus, rerum is no. other rhan Effe dec1Ar41i'Vflm,as Hiluie; And this Truth, being the thing it felfe fubje&ively, in words expreffively, in the mind ofman terminatively, prefuppofetha double"contormiry or adequation; both of the underfionding to the matter conceived; and dfthe words to the underfianding; fo as Truth is when we fpeake as we think, and think :i~ it is; And this Truth is asehe light diffufedfrom thole heavenly bodies, to the Region of this lower aire; This is the Truth we are called to Buy: But this derivative and rt!ttive Truth, whether in the mind, or in the mouth, hath much multiplicity,according to the mmer either conceived, or uttered;There is a Theologicall Truth, there is a nacur.tl, there isa moral!, there is a civill; all thefe mufi bee deue bought; but the bell at the highefi me, which is Theologicall, or divine; whether in the principles, or neceffary --------------------~------~S_s~•--------- c~n:l_u_fi_o_ns~; _________
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