Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	accusation_n	accuse_v	accuser_n	114	3	10.1625	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04821	Hallelu-iah: praise yee the Lord, for the vnburthening of a loaden conscience By his grace is Iesus Christ vouchsafed vnto the worst sinner of all the whole world.	Kilby, Richard, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 14955; ESTC S106533	55,442	148

vnto God which from time to time I vndertooke to doe but was alwaies hindred both by the setlednes of mine owne wicked disposition and also by the common course of this world which so farre as I know will very hardly suffer a man to keepe companie with God I appeale vnto their iudgement that bee in awe of God and make conscience how they behaue themselues in his sight Yet it pleased the Lord first by little and little to stablish my wauering iudgement and then to let me runne my selfe into many outward dangers and diuerse bodily diseases that so at last I might be broken from sinne In Queen Elizabeths time I was in great danger because I had spoken something touching the party who should succed her in these kingdomes whom I well knew to be in all right his Maiestie that now is for being giuen to the reading of Chronicles I had drawne a pedegree and Mr. Doctor Charles Chadwicke my tutor in Emanuel colledge shewed me another for something publikely spoken to that purpose in a sermon at S. Marie Cray in Kent in the yeare as I remember nintie eight I was accused to Doct. Barlow then chapleine to Archbishop Whitegift and Parson of Orpington and S. Marie Craie He presently gaue order vnto one M. Hamden a Iustice of peace to call me to an account and examine both me and diuerse credible persons that heard me He ioyning vnto him S. Robert Bosevile of Anisford tooke mine examination in Sir Percivall Hartes house at Lullingstone Those men which were examined what they heard me say namely M. Francis Haddon M. Richard Manning of Keuingtowne and as I thinke Richard Manning of Kippingden-crowch c. did giue good testimonie of me and the minister that accused me was by the Iustice found variable So by the goodnes of God I escaped that danger but performed not vnto him my promise of reformatiō I passe by many dangers because I wil not trouble you with hearing the seuerall reports of thē only one I pray you patiently to heare Vpon S. Steuens day in the yeare sixe hundred and eleuen I preached a sermon in the Church called Alhallowes in Derby where then I was and now am the vnworthy Minister In my prayer before the Sermon I made a strange fault and thus it came about I in my priuate prayers had vsed in verie deare affection to my Soueraigne Lord God is witnesse to name those kingdomes together whereof the Lord God hath giuen him possession and that by it selfe which yet hee doth not possesse verie vndiscreetly I in my publike prayer that day fell into that forme of words My text was S. Steuens prayer for his persecutors which I vrged verie farre I will not say discreetly but I professe before the God of heauen that it was without any secret loue to Poperie I vrged that which I shall euer hold to bee true that though the Papists be our dangerous enemies as beeing full of malice treason yet we ought to be rather angrie with our sins then with them for had we grace to walke worthy of that glorious light which God by the Gospel of his Sonne hath graciously giuen vnto vs in this land hee would not suffer that mysterie of iniquity to preuaile against vs. This is most certaine for hitherto he hath miraculously defeated their hellish practises though we in our owne consciences knowe that we are vnworthie of such marueilous preseruatiō I came to this parrish against the will of many Some of which companie tooke occasion out of my fault about his Maiesties style-royall and out of some things spoken both in that and other sermons how conscionably charitably construed it concerneth them to ponder I say they tooke occasion to accuse me of Poperie and treason and those accusations they vrged with much pollicy and great strength against me I was twice at London about it and in sore perplexitie God knoweth It pleased the Almightie though I was most vnworthy of his aide to be entreated of me and therefore hee procured me many friends namely many reuerend ministers especially Doct. Neale then Bishop of Couentrie and Lichfielde by whose constant intercession I obtained of my Soueraigne Lord King Iames a gracious remission and of the Lord Archbishop vnto whom I was vehemently complained of a very grue and fatherly dismission When the trouble came first vpon mee all the mouie which I had in all the world was betweene fortie and fiftie shillings But I was much befreinded by many specially by Mr. Frauncis Mundie of Marketon neere Derbie who by his seruant sent mee a purse and in it some fifteene or sixteene pounds willing mee to take either all or how much I would freely Such a freind yea such freinds God send euery honest poore man in his neede And God who is the fountain of mercies vouchsafe to be euermore mercifull vnto them theirs that shew mercie vnto poore distressed wretches ouertaken betweene the straites Here in all humblenesse I craue fauourable leaue to speake a few words vnto superiours Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill Oh my Lords and Masters a poore man pursued by mighty aduersaries must needs be guiltie whether hee be guiltie or no vnles you follow his example vpon whom your dignities depend Please it you therefore to consider what hee once said vnto Abraham his freind Gen. 18.20 And the Lord saide Because the crie of Sodome and Gomorrah is great and because their sinne is very greiuous 21. I will goe downe now and see whether they haue done altogether according to the crie of it which is come vnto mee and if not I will know The Lord our God vnto whom al things are so manifest as possibly they may be needeth not to examine any accusation for hee knoweth farre more perfectly then either the accuser or the accused But his minde is that all men and specially you should with all moderation and lawfull indifferencie take thorough-knowledge of any specially of a poore mans cause before you giue sentence yea before you speake any hard word for a crosse tearme yea a frowne is enough to astonish many a weake-hearted man and make him vnable to speake for himselfe Also I humbly beseech all Preachers to take these warnings by mee First be yee thoroughly reconciled vnto God that hee may vouchsafe to ioyne with you in that most weightie businesse Secondly so farre as possibly with a good conscience haue peace and be in freindly tearmes with all people least some in bitternesse of displeasure mistake your words to their hurt and your greefe The holy God is my witnesse that some speeches of mine were most strangely mistaken by men professing great precisenesse of conscience yea marke I pray you so strangely that out of a publike speech of mine zealously intended and vttered against the Romane religion one peece of an article was taken against mee to prooue mee popish Thirdly be verie carefull that in no sort yee meddle with any matter of Estate for there is