Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	apostle_n	church_n	word_n	1,489	5	3.9514	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79980	A svveet prosopopeia of the speech of King Clodoveus to the bishops and their opposers, after he vvas converted and baptized.	Clovis, King of the Franks, ca. 466-511.	1643 (1643)	Wing C4723; Wing S6247; Thomason 669.f.8[33]; ESTC R212150	1,220	1

A SVVEET PROSOPOPEIA OF THE SPEECH OF KING CLODOVEUS TO THE BISHOPS AND THEIR OPPOSERS AFTER HE VVAS CONVERTED AND BAPTIZED MY Lords for so you stile your selves you remember what promise you caused mee to make unto you before you would Baptize me Now I declare unto you that it is since manifested unto me that those vowes which you then caused me to promise to defend with all my force are litigious For your tenets you hould them one way and your opposers an other yet neither you nor they utterly deny them both you and they confesse them but heerein you differ You affirme that forme wherein you stand that faith that Church to be the very same which was received of the Apostles well thus you pleade and I perceive that howsoever the succession of Bishops have held it and wheresoever it hath beene dispersed yet this I now doe understand that the receipt of the Apostles from Jesus Christ himselfe is the first principle and ground of my vow which I promised to persist in and to defend with all my force and all the other Circumstances of my promise are but depending upon this Know therefore this that this I chiefely aime to keepe and so farre to assist you as you ground upon this But on the contrary your opposers doe averre and on their part maintaine protesting to affirme and prove that your faith and Church is not that faith and Church which the Apostles received and delivered but is utterly degenerate and swarved from it Looke ye therefore to it bee not yee your selves the cause to make me breake that promise which you made me vow You see that these oppose you therefore doe you justifie your selves how you can of what they object against you to cleare your one cause as you can to confute them And you the Bishops adversaries on your part my desire is that you on the other side should lay downe your proofes the best you can to defend the faith and Church which you maintaine and if your reasons bee better grounded then theirs I shall defend you otherwise I shall impugne your forme and defend theirs against you Now because the proceeding therein shall be just and equall both towards the plaintife and defendant neither you nor your adversaries shall have any voice on either part to judge neither in your testimony northeirs for thus to doe to one werepartiality to the other injustice And to avoide all suspicion I my selfe whom the matter both for my office and glory more concerneth In regard of my vow which makes me a party in the cause will therefore be no Judge but an indifferent hearer of you both Me thinkes it should be no difficult matter to cleare this controversie because you both admit the Scriptures to be the word of God and the Apostles faith and the Apostles Church be so manifestly recorded in the Scriptures and Christ himselfe willeth us to search the Scriptures Know ye therefore that without partiality your faiths and Churches on either part shall bee compared to and levelled by that platforme which shall be found there apparently expressed Therefore expect no other tryall but that as the Scripture shall strike the stroke betweene you even so will I be led to minister justice and maintaine my vow and will with all my force defend that faith and Church vvhich shall there be found to be received from the Apostles and vvill extirpate vvith all my force that faith and Church vvhich is degenerate from it FINIS