Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adultery_n	commit_v	fornication_n	1,452	5	12.1572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97180	The devilish conspiracy, hellish treason, heathenish condemnation, and damnable murder committed and executed by the Iewes against ... Christ their king ... As it was delivered in a sermon on the 4 Feb. 1648 ... out of some part of the gospel appointed by the Church of England to be read on that day.	Warner, John, 1581-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W902; Thomason E550_16	37,074	47

to dale not suffering him to rest and not leaving him a safe hold wherein to lay his head for so Ch the King complaines that they had cast him into a condition worse then that of Birds or four footed Beasts when he saith Matth. 8.20 The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the aire have nests but the Sonne of man hath not where to lay his head 3. And was it not a spightfull usage of a King to be led into the common judgment Hall by a Band of rude Soldiers who not long before had been attended by the Best crying as he went Hosanna blessed be or God save the King 4. And was it not a spightfull usage of a King when he was in this common Hall to countenance set on and to hire the scumme of the People or rascallity of the Soldiers to call out for Justice and Execution when they cried Crucifie crucifie him Luke 23.31 5. Was it not a spightfull usage of a King when as he the King speaks to them in mild and civill language as to Judas Mat. 26.50 Friend or Sir but they to him as Mat. 26.61 this Fellow the Prisoner 6. Was it not a spightfull usage of a King to carry him out to Golgotha there to suffer in an open place which was more fit for the baiting of Beasts than the decolling of a King 7. Lastly was it not a spightfull usage of a King not to afford him a Sepulcher or place of Buriall but he must be beholding even for this to another man and yet thus spightfully was Ch the King used My heart bleeds to thinke of their mockings and spightfull usage of their most blessed King and will leave them to be inlarged by our owne Meditations and for a brief close of this scene shall onely say that as a King may so this King was killed by these Jewes before he was slain or put to death and K. David shewes how when be saith Psal 55.21 Psal 59.7 their tongues are swords Psal 140.3 they are poyson of Serpents Killers all these so that calumny slander if it be not the first degree it is a step I am sure to kill a King and here with these weapons they first set upon Ch the King calling him Samaritan John 4. Perverter of the Lawes Deceiver c. And spit on A man may be said figuratively to be spit on when by Declarations Remonstrances Pamphlets or scurrilous terms he is reproachfully and uncivilly entertained and so Ch the King was shamefully most unjustly spit upon when they proclaimed him a Deceiver of a trust John 19.29 a Traytour by perverting the People and drawing them to destruction and in this sense they might truly be said to spit upon Ch the King But not onely this they did which was too much and more dangerous then what was after done by the Soldiers who did vomit out their excrementitious froth upon him of whom I may repeat a passionate expostulation or holy indignation once used by a Preacher on this occasion What rheumatick Raskals said he were these Soldiers for had they or could they find no place to disgorge the scumme of their ulcerous lungs but on the Anointed of the Lord All that I can say for these is they were not onely Soldiers but barbarous Heathens that did this and yet if report be true there hath not wanted even among such as professe themselves Christians such a Soldier who hath done the like to his King and if any such were let him repent in time lest God in justice spew him out of his mouth as it is said Apoc. 3.16 or that he spit not poure out to the dregs the full vialls of his wrath and indignation upon him and all such as have mocked spightfully entreated and spit on Ch the King In the 20 of S. John v. 5. we read that when Pilat a Stranger an Heathen and an Idolater had seen and presented the King thus spightfully entreated he said to the bloud-thirsty-miscreant Jewes Behold the Man as if he had said See how disgracefully and wickedly you have used him already and therefore if you have any sparke of manhood left in you for humanity sake proceed no further but behold him as an object of all pity a deserted afflicted scorned spitefully-used man but the sight of this man which would have melted the eyes of a savage Tiger into water hardens them as rocks and prompts them on to the increase of his misery and their owne vilany for seeing him even then and so miserable then they say as Mat. 21. Come let us without delay not granting time or reprieve let us kill him for so it followes in the story in the Text for they shall kill him But before we enter upon this bloudy act it will be proper and pertinent to the whole to set downe the severall grounds and causes moving these Traytours thereunto which we shall clearly collect and expresse as we find them storied in the Gospels And these were either pretended such as themselves fained and held forth as causes or such as were really and truly the motives and causes of this their killing Ch the King Now the causes pretended we find to be First that which is generally used in raising the People into a Rebellion the Innovation Alteration or Destruction of Religion and with this the Jewes closely charged him Mat. 5.17 where Christ himself by way of Answer saith Thinke or say not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill and in that Chap. he instanceth and proves that they by their owne Expositions and Traditions were the Innovators and himself the keeper of the Law of Moses and of the Prophets And after this when they thought him too strict in the point of reverence in the Temple in that he drove out the Prophaners thereof Mat. 21.12 which they conceived was lawfull for them to doe No saith he for God himselfe saith of this materiall Temple or Church My house shall be called an house of prayer but You you have made it a den of Thieves or a Stable and place for theft and prophanation 2. They charge him often and with loud out-cries that in the matter of Sabbath-keeping he is too loose and a Prophaner thereof to which he Answers that themselves are in this Jewishly superititious and not he the Prophaner for saith he Marke 2.27 The Sabbath is made for man that is for the preservation of man by necessary actions and recreations conducing to his life and health on that day 3. They closely charge him with abridging them the liberty of Divorces upon any cause which they said was granted them by Moses Mat. 5. Mat. 19. No saith he it is not I but you that alter the Law in this for Mat. 5.32 Whosoever shall put away his Wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to cōmit Adultery but to this whole charge he gives one general answer