Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	action_n	effect_n	necessary_a	1,860	5	7.1073	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53112	The complaint of English subjects delivered in two parts. First part, is the complaint, of the poor, middle, and meanest sorts of subjects, concerning their bodily assistance. Second part, is the true Christians complaint, against vice, and wickedness, for the good of their soul's health. Also, werein is set forth, the late prodigious growth, of atheism, errors, and vice: with a call to repentance. As also, how needful it is, in these times, for every one of us, first of all, to look into our own hearts, and endeavour to amend what is their amiss. And lastly, a brief discourse, concerning our late unfruitful, and cold summers: as also, what is thought to be the real causes of it, by way of opposition, to the opinion of astrologers. By Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire.	Newnam, Richard.	1700 (1700)	Wing N935; ESTC R218651	71,890	130

deemed and taken as if it were done to Himself as may be seen in the same 25th Chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel aforesaid beginning at the 41 verse and so onwards to the 45th verse which 45th verse saith Verily I say unto you inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me And now again I say then consequently it must follow that whosoever shall see any of God's poor distressed People Hungry and give them no Meat Thirsty and give them no Drink Naked and cloathed them not Sick and in Prison and visit them not are guilty of the most highest Ingratitude For was it not God himself that first gave to every Man all that he hath Why then should any Man be so ungrateful as to deny God some part of his own when he thus requires it to be given to his poor distressed People especially seeing by that way God is willing to receive it as if it were given to himself And for the further proof of this look also in the 19 Chapter of Proverbs vers the 17. 't is there said He that hath pitty upon the Poor Lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again But these things few Men now do take into their Consideration for in this our Age Men are now come to that height and degrees of Cruelty that they then were who lived in the Days of the Prophet Amos as you may see in his 8th Chapter vers the 4th and 5th 't is there said Hear this O ye that swallow up the Needy even to make the Poor of the Land to fail saying When will the new-Moon be gone that we may sell Corn and the Sabbath that we may set forth Wheat making the Ephah small and the Shekel great and falsifying the Ballances by deceit And for better satisfaction you may Read the whole 8th Chapter of the Prophet Amos and there you may see what sore Judgments are threatned on such a People as so do And now last of all I Recommended and offer to the serious perusal of all Men the whole 28th Chapter of Deuteronomy and there may be seen what Blessings the great God of Heaven and Earth hath in store for such as do well as may be seen in the first verse of that Chapter and so onwards to the 15 vers of the said Chapter and then Read on to the end thereof and there you may see what Curses God will power down on the Heads of all those that will continually persist on in their Evil ways But again altho' in the Eyes of most Men the greatest loss and danger of those Mischievous Actions before-mentioned are past and over yet I am to believe that the most malignant part and direful effects of them are yet to come for by Observation of things past both in Natural and Supernatural Causes it hath been by experience found that when the Causes have been out of the sight of all Men and memory of some Men yet their Effects have been found and felt afterward And to make this more plain by way of similitude I say with my Eyes have I seen a fair flourishing Orchard with delicate Blossoms sprouted out with great Life and Vigour and very likely to produce much Fruit to the Owner thereof who seemingly upon the first sight of it did then depend upon having much Fruit that Year but then by the means of a few Frosty Mornings or with some Blasts of Lightning was either withered or Scorched and so lost and gone which when the Owner thereof saw it he did then within himself much contemplate about it altho to outward appearance it was not then to be discern'd by his countenance that he was so very much concern'd at his then present loss for after he had then well considered within himself he then said Come I have a good stock of old Syder left and for Apples I believe we shall not want them very much for I believe I shall have some tho' not so many as I was in hopes of yet enough I hope to make some Christmas-pyes to feast my Friends But then afterwards it so happened that this Gentleman 's Old stock of Syder was well nigh spent before Winter came on and when Christmas came he had no Syder to give to his Tenants and other Friends that then came to visit him nor Apples enough to make Christmas Pyes to feast them and then this Gentleman began publickly to lament the loss of his Blossoms and that because by means thereof he then could not accommodate his Tenants and other of his Friends so well as otherwise he would have done if his said Blossoms in that Spring-time before had come to their full Perfection as to have produced good and well ripened Fruit For this Gentleman whom I mean I say he is a true generous spirited Gentleman and such a one as is willing to oblige all Men and to do right to every one is my real belief of him Again I say there was a certain Rich Man who had in his Possession several Mannours of Land which were all well stockt both with Horses Cattle and Sheep and also he had by him much Treasure and to mannage these his Temporal Affairs he had many Servants under him some of those Servants were very faithful to him but others of them were as unfaithful to him and yet so smooth and subtil in their way as that they could not be by any way discerned from them that were faithful Servants to him tho' at the same time by a fair and Friend-like smiling kind of way they did Clandestinely take from him much of his Treasure Which Losses the said Rich Man could no way discover or avoid ●hem in along time after he had received them But at last in process of time this Rich Man ●ound that his Treasure was much wasted and ●hen he called his Servants to account for it and ●hen they all of them both Good and Evil the Faithful the Unfaithful gave in their Accounts which seem'd to the Rich Man all Plain and Just and yet at the same time He the Rich Man well knew that some of them were Unfaithful faithful to Him But how to distinguish them one from the other he could not tell but much troubled he was about it and Cause enough he had for it for he then felt the Effects of such Losses as Time had almost worn quite out of mind But now upon the whole of this matter what can I say more of it than this such Evil-doings as these sometimes will be and yet no Man can help it And therefore if any Man knows himself to be abused and cannot help himself so well as he would yet nevertheless I think 't is but Prudence in any such man if he doth endeavour by all manner of Lawful Means to help himself as well as he can or may in any Equitable Way And now in reference to this matter I cannot

late sprung up and used amongst some Evil-minded men who Buy and Sell all sorts of Corn in and by such Clandestine ways and means as that thereby they will always create a Dearth on all sorts of Grain in the midst of the greatest Plenty and this to the Poor is now a present Sorrow added to their former Affliction 6thly That notwithstanding all those hard and dear times that of late hath been and now is yet all this doth not stop or turn the Hearts of our Mobb or Vagabond sturdy Poor who are now become more bold impudent prophane and wicked than ever yet before Also some Reasons are shewed why they are so now more than heretofore in times past 7thly How all my several Discourses are to my self all known Truths by true Information given me and by experience tryed and by way of Observation made on mens Actions here with us in our County of Devon Also herein is set forth a short Comment on our late and unfruitful Cold Summers which we have had for some considerable time past Year after Year for which Causes some Astrologers pretend to shew the true Reasons of it But by my self their Reasons for that are denyed and my own Reasons in opposition to theirs are in my following Discourses inserted 8thly I have contracted the sum of all my several Discourses in a few plain low stile English Verses whose Sound and Dress are easie plain and simple but without Compounds of any Fraud or Flattery and so I most humbly offer them hoping they may be rightly understood and justly applyed as they are by me Truly Loyally and Innocently set forth for the Good of all Men here in o●● Nation The Complaints of the poor middle and meanest sorts of English Subjects c. And now may it Please Your Most Gratious Majesty and the Honourable Parliament THese had been long since presented unto your Greatness had I not been from time to time continually prevented by being much Exercised with many Troubles which of late Years I have labour'd hard under them which Troubles were brought on me partly through the means of these our late hard times as also by a mixture of some other Calamities which the Hand of Providence was pleas'd to cast upon me And tho' I have good reason to complain as to my own particular part yet 't is not my own Cause that I take on me now to vindicate but the Causes of many others whose conditions are far more deplorable than mine But however as my self am a great Sufferer therefore I cannot otherwise but commiserate the conditions of such as are far greater Sufferers than I now am But should this long continue then 't is much to be doubted that at last we may be all Sufferers alike for the prevention of which I have taken upon me after much delay of time to offer you these which had been more fit to have been presented long ago But besides these my troubles before mentioned I must ingeniously confess that I have delayed the doing of it mostly because hitherto until now I had always on my Spirit a continual awe and dread which made me cast up within my Breast many doubts fearing lest through weakness or ignorance I should herein offend so great Authority as I acknowledge Your most Gracious Majesty and the Parliament are For when I considered with my self on the greatness of your Power and Wisdom as also on my own mean condition and weak capacity it did always make me dread the thoughts of doing of it And thus under this great fear I have delayed much time and yet I could never avoid my having much Contemplation about it for many and often have been the times that I have controverted in my own thoughts on the Convenience and Unconveniencies of this Work untill at last I came to this Resolve first with my Heart and Tongue to commit my works unto God and next with my Hands and Pen I would offer them to the Judgments of Men And I was encouraged so to do after I had well considered that saying of Solomon in Chapter 16 of Proverbs vers 3. 't is there said Commit thy Works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established In hopes of which I further say Great Sirs think it not strange that so mean a Person as I am should take upon me to write unto you in this way and manner for no Man can do any thing but by permission or instigation It is God that permitteth me and the Spirit of Truth that justifieth me to say That if ever there were a time to speak in due season for England's Good I think now is the time And it may be high time yet hope not past time Tho' great may be the Troubles of our Land because great are the Sins of our Nation and most grievous are the Burthens that do now lie on the poor middle and meanest sorts of Your Majesty's faithful and true loyal Subjects by means of some unworthy Men I mean some of the late and now present Assessors and Commissioners who have abused that most noble and honourable Trust put in them and confer'd upon them by Your Most Gracious Majesty and the late Parliament and instead of performing that Trust by a just and due Execution of Your Just Laws they have even as it were by meer Violence oppressed Your middle and meanest sorts of Subjects and instead of doing Justice to all Men have eased themselves and have laid the Burthen on such as could not nor cannot bear it to the utter Ruin of many Thousands throughout England And also have thereby lessen'd Your Majesty's Revenues from time to to time I believe at least some Millions of Money which might have been justly risen to Your Majesty's use barely and only on the several Taxes of Four Shillings and Three Shillings the Pound on Lands and Stocks if the Rich had but from time to time paid proportionably to their Abilities as they always have from time to time compelled Your Majesty's poor middle and meaner sorts of Subjects to do And I do aver it for a Truth that in the Town of Tiverton in Devonshire such Matter s as aforesaid said were and always are so unjustly carried And there are many Men in that Place that then were and now are worth some Thousands of Pounds in their Stocks particularly each Man of them and yet then were and now are rated but for Two hundred Pound Stock each particular Man And also there are in our said Town of Tiverton aforesaid some Men that then were and now are worth in stock Ten thousand Pound each Man And some that are reported to be worth in Stock twenty thousand pound each man and yet were not nor are not rated for more than a few hundred pounds Stock each man of the Richest sort of them as I am credibly informed And also in their Lands all of them were so undervalued as that they were and now are Rated no higher for

necessary Provisions were then extream dear and therefore how could it be otherwise but hard Times with such poor Creatures O! were not those Times meer Starving Times yes they were and I believe that then at that time many Hundreds if not Thousand throughout England gradually were then nearly Starved to Death for with my own Eyes did I then see in our said Town of Tiverton in Devonshire many Poor Weak Languishing Creatures then walking up and down the Street and many of them in a short time after that Dyed whose Distempers originally I believe first proceeded from no other Causes than from the want of Necessary Food which Food such poor Creatures whilst alive could no way have it for want of Money For Charity was then as it is now very Cold. But for Corn altho' it was then so very dear yet there was then enough in our Land and the then Corn-sellers could then aford their Corn at reasonable Prices but they would not And thus by the means of some Mens obdurate Hearts in them times many were then mearly Starved to Death in the midst of an indifferent Plenty for throughout our Land one where with the other we have always hitherto had enough of all sorts of Provision tho' not in such great Plenty as in times past we have had and I do heartily wish that at last our Sins may not bring on us a Scarcity indeed Read the whole 5th Chap. of Jeremiah throughout but more particularly observe verses 4.5 and 25. And therefore Great Sirs I most humbly Beseech you for God's sake and for Christian Charity sake as well as for your own dear sakes now forthwith take some compassion on the Poor Middle and Meanest sorts of true Loyal English Subjects who are yet driven to great straits and many of them now at this present time under great Wants But now again after all the then scattering abroad such before mentioned diminished and corrupted sorts of Coin you may find by my discussing Arguments and by my proposing and answering of Questions it now seems very likely that then at last a great quantity of that corrupted Coin was again reduc'd into the Hands of such Buyers of Money and other such Tradesmen as I have already before-mentioned And now the next Query that naturally flows from all my former Discourses I think must be this What did those several Shop-keepers and all those other petty Buyers of Money then do with such Money as aforesaid at last To this I Answer I believe all of them well knew before-hand how to put it off then at that time And I am apt to believe also that they all of them then had Commissions from some great Bankers or great Receivers of Money or great Merchants or great and small Custom-Officers or some other Officers of or belonging to the Duty of Excise or some other great Rich Men that could lend great Sums of Money to some other Men to buy up such small Money for them for I am sure some of those Men that then bought up great quantities of such small corrupted Money were then very poor in themselves and had then no stock of Money of their own and therefore it must be that such poor Villains as then bought up such great quantities of this then small corrupted Coin did then buy it up to and for the uses of such Rich Men who would not then appear in such Actions themselves in Person but by and with their Money they did then appear and then gave Commissions to such poor Villains to buy up all such small Moneys as they could get for them And for the manifestation of the truth of this I am apt to believe that there are some Men that can give testimony of the truth of all that I have here said But they will not And again I say I am apt to believe that there are some other Persons that will tell the truth of all that they do know in or of such matters as aforesaid if at any time they are thereto called so to do But now upon the whole I say again I am apt to believe that such sorts of great Rich Men as aforesaid had at last amongst them by some way or other all the then such small Moneys that the Money-buyers Grocers Mercers and other Shop-keepers then bought up and so received from time to time And also I am apt to believe that some of those then Money-buyers and Shop-keepers did then put off their such Monies on very good terms and with great profit especially such of them as could stay for their Money until the Money-Merchant's returns could come about But the then petty Chapmen of the Money-buyers and other small Shop-keepers that could not for bear their Money until the great Money-Merchant's returns could come about such as them were the● forced to put off their such Monies for smaller profit and that only because they could not then stay for their Money until the said Money-Merchant's returns could come about But now again methinks I now hear a suppositive Question asked of me and it doth now seem to sound in my Ears as if I did now hear some one say to me Suppose such Men as are before-mentioned did then so get in all or almost of all the then Monies as aforesaid into their own Hands or Custodies what could they then do with it To this I Answer I cannot tell all the ways that they then had for the putting off such small Monies at last But undoubtedly they all of them had then a way for it or otherwise they would not then have been so greedy after it as they then were in the getting in of it then into their own Hands But now upon the whole of this Argument if I may be permitted to spend my Thoughts upon it and speak my own Opinion in and about the whole matter as I verily believe it to be Then I will say that I believe some of the aforesaid such Monies was then paid into Your Majesty's use for Customs and some for Excise and some for Taxes and some by way of Lones and so then at last some by one way and some by other ways it was all or almost all of it lodged in Your most Gratious Majesty's Exchequer and there I believe was at last found much to light But the Perjuries of such Men as might not then do Your Majesty and the Country right they for ought I know are lodged in Hell and there to abide until the great Day of Judgment and then may rise again as Witnesses against them except in the mean time such Men make Restitution for the great Wrongs they have done whilst they are here living upon the Earth And now to conclude this second part of my Discourse I cannot otherwise but say that amongst all those evil and most pernitious minded-men before-mentioned and in some measure ●escribed there was not then amongst them as much as one of them that I do call here by