Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adam_n	sin_n	sin_v	1,755	5	9.4959	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06164	The diuel coniured	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1596 (1596)	STC 16655; ESTC S109564	63,922	90

are fallible and their positions vncertaine It is inconuenient either to trust them or to put affiance in their follies for so may euery foole tell what he will and excuse his error Their manner of spéech then is but a coppie and coulor of subtiltie and vntruth a net to catch mens soules a sinfull excusation of sinne and a chaine to draw men from God and to tie them to fantasies wise they would be thought and are prooued ignorant secret and skilfull but they are known deceiuers and faine would they be thought of Gods counsaile but neither wot they how neither can they because they are so false For the better proofe whereof you shall vnderstand that there is but one sunne one moone and other fiue stars Saturne Iupiter Mars Uenus and Mercurie which with other stars whirle about the earth with the firmament euerie day naturall passing ouer all climats and countries water aire in foure and twentie houres which is called a day naturall from midday to midday and make no more abode ouer one then ouer another how should they then more incline in one land then in another Dispose one person more to vice or vertue then another or threaten one countrie more with warre or peace then another Because quoth Metrodorus to help Asterius some what amased some constellation or some coniunction some aspect or some influence in their swift passage and motion falleth vpon one land more then another as men are born vnder diuers constellations coniunctions aspects signs so are they inclined in diuors manners hauing their affections more appropriate to vice or vertue war or peace That is false quoth Anthony and thus I proue it when the kings sonne is born at one instant with the bondmans soune the time is one the constellations the sunne the aspects sighes and planets alike yet haue they not one inclination and disposition for the kings sonne is disposed by inheritance to be a king after his father and the bondmands sonne is disposed by his birth to bée a bondman all his life time as his father was a hundreth yeares before his creation no planet then could auoid this bondage or depriue the kings sonne of his right and inheritance In the same time with the same aspects vnder the same planets when one child is brought forth many other are borne yet haue they not all one inclination neither are they subiect to one dispositions For some of them are inclined to goodnesse and some to wickednesse some to sicknesse and some to health some to be wrathfull some to be mercifull some to be wise some to be fooles some foule some faire some rich some poore some long liuing some soone dying Esau and Iacob had both one mother and one father Isaac and Rebecca and both were begotten at once and yet were they diffident in manners for Iacob was a good man and Esau a bad Iacob beloued of God Esau hated for his wickednesse Iacob was smooth of bodie Esay full of haire Iacob was a true simple man Esau a prowd and malicious son so then it appeareth that such diuers inclinations of men and women depend neither on the planets or the time of their births What then are the causes of the diuersities said Frumentarius Forsooth quoth Anthony Adams originall sinne wherein we are conceiued and being so conceiued are to sin inclined and therefore God saith that mans heart thought is prone to euill euen from his youth Sensus cogitatio cordis generis humani in malum prona sunt ab adolescentia sua no man therefore may say of himself my heart is clean as who should say I am pure and cleane without sinne Some likewise are disposed to sicknesse some more and some lesse and that for diuers causes Sometimes for wicked sufferance because children are not chastised in their youth For as Salomon saith the child that is suffered to haue his will shameth his mother and his kinsfolke Some for wicked company they be in and wicked example of their elders and misinformation For as Salomon saith A man in his ould age hardly forsaketh the depraued customes of his youth And yet it is a prouerb qd Metrodorus Yong saint old deuil It is a sinfull prouerbe said Anthonie to draw men from science to sinne from vertue to vice and from God to the Diuell for Scripture saith Bonum est homini cum portauerit iugum suum ab adolescentia sua Happie is the man saith he that hath borne the yoake of our Lord from his youth And as the Poet saith Quod noua testa capit inueterata sapit Such as the vessell taketh when it is new such it sauoureth when it is old and therefore Saint Iohn Baptist Tobie Ieremy Sampson and Samuel with many others are praysed in sacred Scripture for their holinesse in youth For commonly they that are good in their young yeares in their reretired age make a happie end according to the Prouerbe Qualis vita finis ita And although for a time they be subiect to sinne and vanitie God suffereth them to fall therein least they should be prowd of their own goodnes take disdaine at others sinfull wretchednesse Some also is more enclined to sinne then another because he was gotten and conceiued in sinne more then another although they were both borne in wedlocke For husband and wife may sinne gréeuouslie together in misuse of their bodies or in distemperance if they either exceed measure or manner or default in time as in sicknesse or otherwise The sinne notwithstanding is in the asker net in the giuer They may like wise sinne by wicked intention or fulfilling the iusts of the flesh not to the intent to the wicked fornication nor to yéeld the debt of their bodies nor to bring forth children to the worship of God but only to their owne lust men also are enclined to sinne by their excesse meats and drinks and by the misgouernance of their fiue sences and for these causes one is inclined to sicknesse more then another For sinne oftentimes is a cause of bodely sicknesse and by misdiet of the mother when she is with child or by indisposition of the father or mother or both when the child is gotten and by miskéeping of the child in youth many sicknesses are fallen into for children in youth are apt to haue all things and by that meanes do oftentimes receiue that inwardly which altereth their complexions and peruerteth their natures God likewise smiteth them sometime with sicknesses and mischiefe for that their fathers and mothers sinne in too vnséemly cockering and affection Knowing their parents corrupt desires to be so great that to instruct their sonnes they will hazard their soules Sometime also he smiteth with sicknesse to shew his might and power as he did in him that was borne blind that the power of God might be showne in him in restoring his sight many other causes likewise there be which passe mans wit and are not subiect to our