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The telling of Truth, begets batred. [ 950]
AS the Turk taunted some Christians at Constantinople,* 1.1 who said, That they came thither to suffer for the Truth, tells them, That they needed not to have come so far for that; for had they but told the truth at home, they could not have mis∣sed suffering for it: Telling truth needs not travell far for enmity, enmity will en∣counter it at home,* 1.2 wheresoever it be. Hence is that definition that Luther made of Preaching, Praedicare nihil est quàm derivare in se furorem, &c. That to preach, and preach home, as he did, was nothing else, but to stir up the furies of hell about their ears. Mr. Dering telling Queen Elizabeth in a Sermon, that it was once Tan∣quam ovis, but now it was Indomita juvenca, was never suffered to preach more at Court. Tell a Polititian Papinian's truth, that, That's the best reason, which makes most for Religion; that the best policy, that makes most for piety: Why, this truth crossing his projects and purposes, the teller may take his bill, and sit down quickly, and write enmity. Tell a covetous man St. Pauls truth, that the love of mony is the root of all evill, you offer him losse, you touch his freehold, y'are a tres∣passer to his trade, an enemy. Tell the luxurious man that Theorem of truth, that Temperance is the razor of Superfluities, and the rule of necessaries, and that this whole lif•• ought to be a kind of a Quadragesimal abstinence: Away with your thred-bare Scholars posies,* 1.3 what, do you bring us into the Wildernesse to starve us? You are an enemy. Thus, let the truth-teller never dream of comfits and sweet-meats, but make account to eat his Passeover with sour herbs; let him never feed himself with vain expectation, that the trade of truth-telling is a plausible, winning, wel∣come profession,* 1.4 An expectas ut Quintilianus ametur? Let him rather account him∣self to be born, as Ieremy, a contentious man, one that striveth with the whole earth, a troublesom companion, an enemy.