Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	faith_n	hear_v	1,822	5	6.2855	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11823	Tvvo sermons, upon that great embassie of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ recorded by his Euangelist, Saint Matthew, Chap. 10.V.16. Preached by Iohn Scull, an humble professor and minister of the word.	Scull, John, minister of the word.	1624 (1624)	STC 22123; ESTC S114766	41,503	56

enclined to sinne then the Hyppopotamus to diseases laboured to ease our selues of our corrupt affections as he of his superfluous humors O that we sought remedy to cure naturall concupiscence as the Hart after Dictamnus to draw darts out of his wounds O that wee armed our selues against sinne and Satan with the armour of righteousnesse as the Camelyon with Calamynth or the Tortoyse with Marioram against Serpents O that we applyed to our sick● soules the comfort of Gods Word as the Swallowes Celedine to their sore eyes and digested it into our soules and consciences as the Dragon Lectuce into his stomacke the Birds Pellitory or the Fowles Cicory But we alas are more filthy then Swine and yet wallow still in the myre of sinne wee haue swallowed more sinnes then the Elephant Lyzards and yet neuer seeke after oyle of mercy to purchase pardon Surcharged with a lethargy of sinne securelesse euer to be awaked waxen old in sinne and yet without striuing to be renewed by grace See oh see how wee are sent to Schoole to brute beasts Vse 2 and to learne of them and that not onely the Theoricke of Contemplation but the Practicke also of morall vertues The Oxe knoweth his Owner and the Asse his Masters Esa 1. 3. Crib but Israel hath not knowen my people hath not vnderstood The olde Pellican pierceth her breast to feede her young Plin. hist nat l. 10. cap. 23. Lib. 8. cap. 3. The young Storkes feede the olde that formerly fed them But Parents are growen vnnaturall and Children vndutifull The Elephants know that they are hunted for their Idem l. 8. c. 30 teeth and in extreamities breake them off as a ransome for their liues The Beauer bytes off his stones the Sea-Calfe Cap. 3● easts vp his gall and runnet in his maw O let vs also cast away euery thing that presseth downe and the sinne that hangeth so fast on Let vs runne with patience the race that is Heb. 12. 1. set before vs. Mahomet the great Turke discontinued the Hist Turc warres two yeeres to accompany his faire Irene for which when his Bassoes muttered he vpon an appointed day led her forth into the great Hall of his Pallace arrayed in the most richest robes of state and Iewels for price and worth the most precious that the whole perephery of his Empire affoorded to the approbation of his choyce and wonderfull amazement of the beholders not in regard of her brauery alone but much more of her surpassing beauty but he with the one hand tooke hold of the haire of her head and with his semitary in the other hand smote off her head An action for murdering of an Innocent and his loue Turkish and like himselfe but for resolution from vaine pleasure singular and such that had God beene the obiect and the sacrifice vnbloudy Iuberem macte virtute As Porsenna Liu. dec 1. l. 2. sometimes spake to Cain● Mutius and could not but commend and admire Better things are expected from vs then from bruit Beasts and Infidels great shame it were for vs to come short of them Be ye therefore wise as Serpents c. From diuers Creatures men learne diuers things Spinning Aelian var. hist from the Spyder the ordering of a battell from the Crane Nauigation from the Kyte and in my Text simplicity from the Sheepe innocency from the Doue and wisedome from the Serpent and that in a foure-fold respect He refuseth to heare the voyce of the Charmer charme he The Serpents property neuer so wisely He holdeth saith Iunius out of Ierome Augustine Cassiodere c. one eare close to the ground and couereth 1. Psal 58. 5. In hunc locum the other with his tayle A lesson for vs all an embleme in stead of a Doctrine to Doct. Take heede how we heare The eare is the Organ of Faith Luc. 8. 18. For Faith comes by hearing He that hath eares to heare let Rom. 10. 17. him heare We must of necessity heare but we must therewithall Mat. 13. 9. take heede how we heare The Sower went forth to Luc. 8. 5. sow his seede and as he sowed some fell by the way side and it was troden vnder feete and the Fowles of Heauen deuoured it vp and some fell among stones and when it was sprung vp it withered Verse 6 away because it wanted moistnesse and some fell among thornes and the thornes sprang vp with it and choaked it and some fell Verse 7 on good ground and sprang vp and bare fruit an hundred fold Verse 8 The seede is the Word The good ground are they that with an honest and good heart heare the Word and keepe it Verse 11 and bring forth fruit with patience Such a one Libenter audit Verse 15 v●ilia Prudender discernit audita Obedienter operatur intellecta Bern. epist He is willing to heare what makes for his good like Mary that sate at Iesus feete and heard his preaching He Luc. 10. 39. is of vnderstanding to iudge of what he heareth like the Apostles to whom it was giuen to vnderstand the secrets Luc. 8. 10. of the Kingdome of God Is conformable in life according to his knowledge like Iames and all true beleeuers sheweth Iam. 2. 18. his faith by his workes and liueth as he beleeueth A Caueat for Magistrates how they heare either open Vse flatteries or priuate accusations Two men had a Cause in Issue before Aristides the one to aduantage his owne Plut. Aristid cause and disaduantage his enemies told him This fellow my aduersary hath done you great wrong My friend replyed Aristides tell me onely the wrong that he hath done thee for I am Iudge here to doe thee right not my selfe He would not suffer the one to get the start of the other either by insinuating himselfe into the fauour of the Iudge or by by-accusing of his aduersary Alexanders manner of Plut. Alex. sitting in iudgement is this Doctrines embleme for he leaned on his elbow with his hand vnder his head whilest that the Plaintiffes Bill was in reading and so lent one eare to the plaintiffe and reserued the other for the Defendant For Quistatuerit aliquid parte inaudita altera Sen. Med. Aequum licet statuerit haud aequus est He that determines a Controuersie without hearing of both parties though happily his iudgement chance to be iust yet is he himselfe an vniust Iudge The Law of necessity must haue its course because Innocens si accusatus sit absolui potest Cic. pro Roscio nocens nisi accusatus fuerit damnari non potest An honest man may come to his tryall and be acquitted a Malefactor vnlesse he be arraigned cannot be conuicted But that which in a generall vse concernes vs all as Christians Vse 2 is That as Vlysses when he was to passe by the Syrens Homer stopped the eares of them that were with him in the Ship and