Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	good_a	great_a	1,656	5	2.4302	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76065	Man's monitor, or, The free-school of virtue; holding forth the duties required and sins forbidden in the two tables of the law. In easie English vers [sic]. Fit to bee implanted in the memories of all Christian children. / By W. Barton preacher of God's word at North-winfield in Darby-shire.	Barton, William	1655 (1655)	Wing B1002A; ESTC R172281	25,716	63

serjeant and the setter That often cheat both creditor and debter What worlds of men live by unlawfull shifts The bribe-fed taker of corrupting gifts The prosecutor of unjust decrees To whom the vile extortioner agree's The clipper and embaser of the coyn A monstrous theft that doth much treason joyn Th'exacting Broker and the highway thief The cous'ning Breaker one among the chief The cunning cutpurs and the conjurer The cheator and the common Barretter The guilefull gamester and his loos partaker The brutish bearward and the ballad-maker The trifling juggler with his nimble slight The scurrilous fidler and the parasite The g●being jester with his wits so quick The ignorant unskilfull empyrick The bold pretender to some great cures don By touch or stroking of the seventh son Hee take's his fee but neither mend's the evil Nor hath the power to do 't but from the devil The base purloiner of men's goods and grist The vaporing and deceitfull Alchymist The subtle hors-courser inur'd to cheat And hee that rob's the dumb beast of his meat The tumbler and the dancer on the rope The spiritual merchants of the Romish Pope And neer a kin to him as Satan's factor Is every simoniacal contractor The exorcismist and the pardon-seller The figure-caster and the fortune-teller Th'inveigling preacher whom the truth controll's That for his gain make's merchandize of souls The sturdy rogue that goe's from door to door The player and the mercenary whore And hee that set's them on as many doe That serv's or feed's them is a robber too Manstealing rapine theft and pyracie Receiving stollen goods and robberie All these are sins and heightened when wee lurch The poor the weak the orphane or the Church Duties and Trespasses implied in the Ninth Commandment THe Ninth Command appointeth us to trie To know and judg our selvs impartially ●o shun the rock of pride and dangerous shelvs ●f self-conceit with low thoughts of our selvs By virtue to procure our own good Name ●nd when ther 's need wee must defend the same Yet this must ever bee with modestie And in a sort perform'd unwillingly It binde's us to bee sparing in our talk But when wee speak the trueth wee may not bal● Where solemn promises and Covenants tie Wee must perform them though wee loos thereb● Yet should they not bee rash lest when compacte● 'T were sin to break or sin to bee exacted Our Neighbour's credit wee must highly prize And should bee griev'd for his infirmities Casting love's mantle o're them without grudg●●● Hoping the best with patience and so judging Commending his deserts and gifts of grace Yet more behinde his back than to his face Defending his good name whose worth wee kn●● By speech or writing when requested so Abhorring everie idle fals report That wounds our Neighbour's Name in any sor● But this condem's the willfull promise-break●● The brain-sick boaster and the lavish speaker Proud self conceit from whence the boasting sp●●●●● And over-weening of our own good things Unjust excuses and dissimulation Whereby to reap another's commendation Striving for place or fame to set us forth And bearing of our selvs above our worth High titles buildings ornaments array Have born fals witness often in a day And so much meaner they that brave and flaun●●● So much the greater must the sin bee granted Another sort of boasters too there bee That do good works but all for men to see Som sooner build a College from the ground Then lend in secret one poor saint a pound 'T is corban said the Pharisee well atchiev'd And leav's his needy Parents unreliev'd But these good works proceeding from vain-glory Tell not the naked truth of half the story So much fals witness do those structures bear Whose stately turrets popish pride doth rear Yet the Pretenders that would pluck them down And proud devotion in base avarice drown Have falser conscience and a cause far wors Those got som prais but these procure a curs For such hypocrisie and false pretence Is to bee censur'd falser evidence Others there are that tell a baser lie Having great wealth and pleading povertie A ragged miser idolizing pelf Both rob's and bear's fals witness of himself Unmanliness and whining for relief When men by wisdom should bite in their grief 'T is faulty others flattery to embrace But wors it is to do our selvs disgrace Sinfull is the disclosing of our wants Or weaknesses to carping sycophants Needless disclosing secrets breed's transgression And Popish-like Auricular Confession Yet to keep Satan's counsel undisclos'd Wanting the skill whereby hee is oppos'd Is to receiv fals-witness and conspire Against the truth to gratifie a lyar Causless suspicion also and to labour To bring reproach upon our harmless neighbour Of any man's infirmity to tell Unless a just necessity compell Wanting affection to our neighbour's fame Jeering and scorning breed no little blame For contumelious speech their good name tearing Is with a witness a fals-witness-bearing To think by casting of their dirt so thick Som will light on and som be sure to stick But they that think the wors for such aspersion Join with detractors to their own subversion Rash censure 's sin and libels of all sorts And giving ear to scandalous reports Abusive pictures and the drunkards songs And railing language of fals pens or tongues Deriding jests not caring where wee hit With the unruly engine of our wit Deriding gestures and hard speeches too Hoping to hurt though speaking he're so true Renewing mention of our neighbour's faults Which time had buried in forgotten thoughts Rejoycing his infirmities to see Which to provoke is great iniquitie To see one drunk's a shame at any time But to make drunk is a most horrid crime When Madman drunkard or a babbling fool Can make us sport it make's us break this rule For how much sin and shame on him reflect's That take 's delight in other men's defects But greater sin and shame do none fall in Than they that boast and glory in their sin 'T is sin to violate a private seal Or any trusted secrets to reveal Talebearing slandering lying misrelating Wrongfull accusing and equivocating Fals evidence forgery and a wrongfull sentence Are sins that call for very much repentance Yet all concealment cannot blame the tongue But that Which som way tend's to other's wron● Any fals papers to subscribe or sign Make 's us to violate this Law divine Or though the matter happily bee true To give our test to what wee no way knew To pay without plain witness note or book Hazards fals witness if it bee mistook keep fals records or accounts in store peacheth truth and break 's this Law much more ●ie's by hyperbole som scarce forbear ●●d hee offend's that tell 's a lie for fear 〈◊〉 does 't excuse but aggravate a lie ●use it as a stale for piety ●ut monstrous lies which men devise for sport 〈◊〉 a more damnable and sinfull sort Romancers fortune-tellers ballad-makers 〈◊〉 all