Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	able_a	according_a	acknowledge_v	17	3	6.0091	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92900	A paraphrase upon Job; written in French by J.F. Senault, father of the oratory: and dedicated to the Cardinal of Richlieu.; Paraphrase sur Job. English	Senault, Jean-François, 1601-1672.	1648 (1648)	Wing S2502; Thomason E1115_1; ESTC R208462	181,280	444

get off but with dishonour To see then their imprudent 25 They grope in the darke without light and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man conduct you would take them for men who walke in the darke and to consider their actions you would think that they are drunke and that wine hath made them lose their judgement CHAP. XIII The Argument PAine constrains Job to reproach his friends his charity obligeth him to give them good councel which he terminates by a violent desire which he shewes to enter into dispute with God for the defence of his cause in which he promiseth himself the better if certain conditions be accorded him CHAP. XIII YOu may judge by my discourses that I have well comprehended yours 1 Lo mine eye hath seen all this mine eare hath heard understood it and that you have spoken nothing which my ear hath not well heard and my mind better conceived You see that our knowledge is equall 2 What ye know the same do I know also I am not inferiour unto you That I am not ignorant of what you know and that it was without vanity that my science gave not place to yours Wherefore I will henceforth addresse my words to the Almighty 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God and without losing more time in conferring unprofitably with you I will dispute boldly with him But I desire first to make you see 4 But yee are forgers of lies ye are all Physitians of no value that you take pleasure in inventing lyes and that one of your most ordinary exercises is to teach pernicious maxims and to defend them by worse reasons Would to God you had learned to hold your peace 5 O that you would altogether hold your peace and it should be your wisedome and that instead of making bad discourses you had been able to keep silence at least you would have had the apperance of wise men although you had not had the sentiments and those which did not know you by your face would judge well of your mind 6 Hear now my reasoning and hearken to the pleadings of my lips But since you have not followed so good counsels hearken at least to my reprehensions and profiting by the good advice which my mouth shall give you suffer your selves to be perswaded by my reasons Do you think that God hath need of lyes for the defence of the truth 7 Will you speak wickedly for God talk deceitfully for him and that to winne his cause and get the better of me your artifices be necessary to him 8 Will yee accept his person will yee contend for God Do you think that his right is so bad that he hath need of your favour and do you think to oblige his Majesty when you pronouce a decree which shall wound his justice Do you remember that no wicked thing can please him 9 It is good that you should search you out or as one man mocketh another do yee so mock him who knowes all things and that with whatsoever faire pretext you cover your bad designes he will easily discover them and not suffer himself to be deceived by your artifices like men who not able to penetrate your sentiments are obliged to rest upon your words He will blame you publickly for having taken his part against mine 10 He will surely reprove you if you do secretly accept persons and for having desired to gaine his favour at the expence of my innocence Assoon as he shall appeare to punish you 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread fal upon you the first motion of his anger shall put you in disorder and the brightnes of his offended Majesty shall strike your spirits with astonishment After your punishment 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes your bodies to bodies of clay which memory of your name shall disperse it self like ashes which they cast into the River and that glory which makes you so insolent shall become more despicable then dirt Hold your peace then and without interesting your self further in my misfortunes 13 Hold your peace let me alone that I may speak and let come on me what will my heart shall suggest to it Why must I be reduced to teare my body with my teeth 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in mine hand and my miserable life be exposed to more dangers then if I carryed it in my hands and that it were given up to the fury of my enemyes These without doubt are effects of Gods anger 15 Though hee slay me yet will I trust in him but I will maintaine mine owne wayes before him and if he were not provoked he would not punish me so cruelly but though his justice condemne me to death I will ever hope that his goodnesse will repeal the Decree and that acquiescing in the reasons which I shall produce it will absolve me from all the crimes that they impose upon me So then the God which you judge to be the author of my ruine 16 He also shall be my salvation for an hypocrite shall not come before him shall be the author of my salvation and the boldnes wherewith I shall go to him shall not be a small testimony of my innocence since they knew that hypocrytes dare not approach him nor appeare before his throne Hearken then to my discourses 17 Hear diligently my speech and my declaration with your ears and to learne of me that one may be innocent and miserable understand the explication of a Riddle which Heaven hath proposed to you in my person and which you have not yet been able to explain 18 Behold now I have ordered my cause know that I shall be justified If I be judged according to the ordnary formes and if God renouncing the rights of Soveraignty keep himself to the terms of justice my innocence shall be acknowledged and all the world shall see that though I am afflicted I am not guilty I hold this truth so constantly 19 Who is he that will plead with me for now if I hold my tongue I shall give up the ghost that there is no one but I hope to perswade to it and whosoever it be that contests with me I make account to convince him and make him avow that to hold my peace in so just an occasion of speaking were to increase my sorrow and betray my innocence But O God who art my principal adversary and with whom my misfortune will have me to have difference 20 Only do not two things unto me then will I not hide my selfe from thee if you accord me only two conditions I will not flye the combat I will defend my cause in your presence and make it appear that thou art just and that I am couragious Make my paines