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
B08005	Organon reipublicæ, or The north starre of pollicie, by which the course of a common-wealth may be directed..	J. R.; I. R.; Sadler, Edmund.	1605 (1605)	STC 20575.7; ESTC S94820	17,320	38

people erected To equalls by theyr equalls that is to say To Magistrates by Magistrates Hereby deadly warre haue oftentimes arose Empires haue bene rent and torne asunder The times of Sylla Marius were most lamentable to the cōmon wealth of Rome By one priuate man to another Through a rod kindled or a candle left negligently in a house● the whole Cittie is oftentimes set on fire so of priuate ha 〈…〉 and dissension a publick dammage sometimes ariseth Inward sedition is by so much more hurtfull than warre whereas it is archieued against forreyners with agreeing mindes by how much warre is worse then peace Wee ought to contend at all times not with priuie grudg●● and hatreds but whether of all can best deserue of o 〈…〉 Prince and Countrey and doe most good for it Aristides Themistocl All things are to bee ordered and gouerned at home with counsell and the arts of peace The disagreement of degrees is the bane of the common-wealth The ambition of superiours are to bee taken heede off The enuie of equalles The suspition of inferiours Withdraw the matter and the fire will be quenched Take away the occasion and hatred or enuie will cease Friendship ought to bee immortall andenmities ought to bee mortall ●ouching foode and victualls necessary for ●he sustenaunce of a common wealth In preparation of foode and victualls necessary to sustaine the common-wealth c. wee ought To consider all things In their kindes for either they are ministred to vs by forraine Countreys or are at home growing in our owne Countrie in their quantity How much the cōmonwealth wil need in time of warre peace how much will be spare to transport to whom when how how much is to be dist●ibuted to euerie one in warre and peace To take heede least by the malice and enuie of some our common wealth be destitute afflicted by vnlawfull transportations or Monopolies at home our friends being in great want bee not satisfied and refreshed our ennemies do freely eni●y our benefites and commodities Heereof many men make greeuous complaint and therefore g●●eat care is heere to bee vsed For it suffiseth not to haue lawes and proclamations touching loue and charity and moderating our desires superfluous exp●n●es but couetousnes and blinde lusts being repressed to deale more moderately and religiously towards our Countrie and neighbours For not our wordes but our deedes ought to agree to holie lawes The sight also and almost the feeling of most wofull calamities the long continuance and great burden of warres famine pestilences seditions and great slaughters which for very many yeares hath spoyled adioyning countries ought to mooue vs through true penance godlinesse and obedience of our whole life to put away henceforth the anger of God and perhaps the like punishments hanging ouer our heads It comforteth me to haue escaped so many Grecian cities and to haue kept the middle way through my enemies Virg. We ought also to be mindfull that d●●th hangeth ouer euery mans head and we must once tread the way of death Therefore we must prouide such wealth which the ship being broken may swim out together with their maister There is nothing worse nothing more hated nothing more repugnant to Gods ordinances than the crime of auarice and cruell outragiousnesse Cursed is that couetous Steward whose maister is bountifull Bernard As in quick-siluer all things swimme except gold for this is one thing it draweth too it so nothing sinketh into the mind of a couetous man beside gayne Charitie pietie and honestie swimme on the top they descend not into the heart The fish Polypus being otherwise a blockish creature vseth incredible skill in catching the oyster so some men are ver● wise onely in gayning in other things they are mere beasts Let him that is condemned of Auarice enuie and impietie be excluded from euery office of the Common-wealth Touching the principall and chiefest notes wherein we must pursu● a matter in disputation Perswadeth ●n a ques●ion Simple wee must vrge that this is possible easie honest religious laudadle honourable profitable necessary safe pleasant Comparatiue more possible more easie the ten wayes as aboue more honest c. Disswadeth in question Simple here we must vrge that this is Impossible hard vnhonest Irreligious discommendable Ignoble vnprofitable vnnecessary dangerous vnpleasant Comparatiue more impossible the ten wayes as aboue more difficult more irreligious more dishonest c. Touching the Methode which is to be obserued in perswading and disputing Inuention of Arguments wherewith we may prooue things refute amplifie we may effect the Auditors beningnely pleasantly vehemently with hope with feare Placing of Arguments for arguments of greater efficacie and vertue are to be placed in the beginning ending of lesser moment are to be heaped together n the midst 〈…〉 with what excellēt sentences el●quent 〈◊〉 Heere a●so is to be noted that argumēts are to be taken frō places of Rhetoricians which are called A●tributes of Persons where are comprehended the name of a man the nature are related the Nation countrey kindred flocke sexe age commodities discommodities of body of fortune Herodotus admonisheth vs sometime to imitate the natures and manners of men the natures of the countries and places wherein they are borne Life where are considered the fosteres and helpers Schoole-maisters teachers friends seruants profession Sort state Habite of Bodie minde Studies and counsels Accidents which haue happened to them Conferences and often speeches Actions Things whereof are numbred Time place fact matter cause power instruments and the manner of doing Logicians according to Ramus vz. by the Causes Effects Subiects Adiuncts Disagreeing things Comp●red things Name Distribution Definition Testimonie But now Methode and order require that this my Epitome beganne with holy things should be ended with holy and diuine things Let it please you therefore that fewe things bee in generall explicated touching the three Theologicall vertues It is necessary that our soule as touching the superiour part wherein the image of God consisteth be rectified by the three Theologicall vertues Faith Hope Charitie Faith according to the Apostle is saide to be the substance or foundation of things to be hoped for through Grace and an argument of things not seene inclining the vnderstanding to beleeue those things which appeare not This is a very excellent description of faith by the Effects because it representeth things as yet consisting in hope and putteth inuisible things as it were before our eyes Hope is a certaine expectation of future blessednesse proceeding from the onely grace of God Charitie according to the Apostle is said to be a diuine loue and right will altogether turned away from all worldly and present things vnseperably ioyned and vnited to God kindled with a certaine fire of the holy Ghost from whence it is and whereunto it is referred free from all pollution not knowing to be corrupted desirous of diuine contemplation the life of vertues and is accounted the end of all heauenly precepts Faith directeth in beleeuing the chiefest truth Hope in imitating and expecting the chiefest hard thing ●ut ●●aritie in desiring and louing the chiefest good ●●ese vertues h 〈…〉 their proper actions Faith maketh vs assent to God Hope maketh vs trust in God Charitie maketh vs to loue God They also worke diuers wayes by reason of the obiect Faith is conuersant about the truth Hope a difficult thing Charity good Lastly they differ by reason of the effect Faith followeth God presently Hope accompanieth to Heauen Charitie euerlastingly embraceth Almighty God Hence it is manifest that amongst these three Vertues Faith is accompted the greatest as which according to the Apostle is not abolished in the life to come as the others but is perfected Because whereas Faith and Hope is caried into promised and future things when wee haue obtained them present to what ende should wee have Faith and hope But there both wee shall alwayes mutuallie loue God and God will loue vs truely and perfectly To conclude euen as God hath placed in Heauen the Sun who representeth him towardes all men both in Theologicall and also in Cardinall vertues that is to say Temperance Iustice and Liberalitie FINIS