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	truth_n	witness_n	3,073	5	8.6773	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96700	England's vvorthies. Select lives of the most eminent persons from Constantine the Great, to the death of Oliver Cromwel late Protector. / By William Winstanley, Gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3058; Thomason E1736_1; ESTC R204115	429,255	671

acted that Religious and Reverend Divine Doctor Hewet the golden-tongu'd Chrysostom entered the Lists of Death In this warfare the Doctour put on the spiritual armor of a blessed confidence delivering his minde to the people in these following words I am now become a publick spectacle to men and Angels and I hope God who is omniscient is now beholding me with much pitty and great mercy and compassion and the more because I am now come to that end that his own Son came into the world to to bear witness to the Truth he himself said For this end was I born for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness to the Truth I was brought into the world the Christian world for to bear witness to the truth of the Gospel as a common Christian I was brought into the world the Church as a Minister of his blessed Word and Sacraments Blessed be his name for that great honor and dignity and I came into the world to dye more immediately for the testimony of Jesus which God hath now called me to I came into this world this Commonwealth to be a member thereof to bear witness to the truths of the Customs the Laws the Liberties and Priviledges thereof so I am a Member of the Common-wealth And methinks it seems to me a strange thing that in as much as we all plead for Liberty and Priviledges and I pleading for the Priviledges the Laws the Statutes and the Customs of this Land yet I should dye by those that should stand for the Laws the Statutes and Priviledges of the Land And I am here beheld by those that plead for their Liberties and I hope I am pittied because I here give up my self willingly and freely to be a State-Martyr for the publick good and I had rather dye many deaths my self then betray my fellow-freemen to so many inconveniences that they might be like to suffer by being subject to the wills of them that willed me to this death And it is worthy remembrance that Master Solicitor having impeached me of Treason to the Commissioners of the Court against his Highness I did often when brought before those Commissioners plead for the liberties of the people of England though I had no knowledge of the Law yet I had instructions from those that were learned in the Law and had several Law-cases and Presidents put into my hand though not by them and urged several Law-cases and made my appeal First for the Judicature that I was to be tryed by Whether it were according to Law Whether it were according to the Act and whether it were according to the words of the said Act I did appeal to have the said Act argued by learned Lawyers on both sides and then to be resolved by his Highness own Councel which was denied me This by the by I pressing the Argument made a second Appeal that those Judges if they would give singly their several judgements that it was a just and lawful Court of Judicature I would answer to my Charge I did make another Appeal to those that were his Highnesses Councel and pleaded against me That if they would deliver it to me under their hands to be according to Law I would then go on to plead and answer to the Charge What was then said further my spirits being faint I shall not say much but onely this I was taken in three defaults upon formality of the Court It seems it is a custom in all Courts which I did not know before that if they answer not the third time speaking by the Clerk that then they are guilty of three defaults and proceeded against as mute I had no such knowledge of the Law So they found me guilty of those defaults and when I would have pleaded and resolved to begin to plead I was taken from the Bar. I did the next day make my Petition to the Court in the Painted Chamber two Petitions were presented the same in effect the former the Title was mistaken Yet because the title was mistaken and no answer given therefore it was that another Petition was drawn up to the same effect with a new title given as I remember presented by the Serjeant at Arms and one writ it over in such haste lest they should be drawn out of the Painted Chamber into the Court that I had not time to read it over onely I subscribed my name and there was in the front of the Petition a word left out but what the word was I know not and this was taken so ill as if I had put an affront and contempt on the Court And it was thought they would have heard me plead and then because of that mistake they sent word I should have my answer when I came into the Court and my answer was the sentence of condemnation And therefore I pray with all my soul that God would forgive all those that occasioned the charge to be drawn against me to give such unjust things against me I pray with all my soul that God would forgive all those that upon so slender and small grounds adjudg'd me to dye taking advantage of such simple ignorance as I was in And I had at the very beginning of my pleading engaged their Honours no advantage should be taken against me to my prejudice that in as much as I understood nothing of the Law And having heard that a man in the nicety of the Law might be lost in the severity thereof meerly for speaking a word out of simple ignorance I made it my prayer to them that no advantage might be taken against me to the prejudice of my person And there was to me a seeming consent for the President told there should be no advantage taken against me and upon these Considerations I am afraid there was too great uncharitableness but I pray God forgive them from the very bottom of my soul and I desire that even those that shed my blood may have the bowels of the God of mercy shed for them And now having given you the occasion of my coming hither it is fit I should give you somewhat as concerning my self as I am a Christian and as I am a Cleargy-man First as I am a Christian I thank God I was baptized to the Holy Church so I was baptized to be a Member of the Holy Catholique Church that is the Church of England which I dare say for purity of Doctrine and orderly Discipline till a sad Reformation had spoiled the face of the Church and made it a query whether it were a Church or no I say it was more purely Divine and Apostolical then any other Doctrine or Church in the Christian World whether National or Classical or Congregational And I must tell you That as I am a Member of this Church so I am a Member of the holy Catholique Church and shall give a most just confession of my Faith both negatively and affirmatively negatively I am so a Member