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
A51058	A moderate and most proper reply to a declaration, printed and published under His Maiesties name, December 8 intended against an ordinance of Parliament for assessing, but indeed animating and encouraging the malignants, and delinquents, in their violent courses, for the maintenance of themselves, and their malignant army.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1642 (1642)	Wing M2320A; ESTC R41506	9,253	8

Faith that is given by those that represent the publike Body of the Kingdome And whatsoever leave will be given to the Word publike it is enough for the security if the Faith be sound and sufficient for repayment And to speake onely of the House of Commons It is certaine that house is trusted with the whole estate of the Commons of England And I hope the Commons of England will have enough to pay the debts contracted for the defense of the Commons But in the meane time what Faith is given for the Taskes and monethly payments imposed on Oxfordshire and the Westerne parts under the Dominion of Sir Ralph Hopton And even this Declaration hereafter acknowledgeth that the King has parted from his Jewells and Plate which it is pitty should have beene turned into the price of the bloud of his subjects so that evill Councellors have reduced him to that Lownesse that whensoever he returnes to a state lustre of Majesty and Glory by a right that is a Parliamentary way it must be by their faithfulnesse and supply whose Faith is now thus slighted and despised And it is easily believed that our Brethren of Scotland will not be displeased with the Word of publike Faith and I wish it were as fit to be believed that they have not cause to be displeased with those that by a War raysed against the Parliament endeavour to make the reality of that Word lesse if not wholly ineffectuall Neither is it for want of speaking but of hearing that these men heare nothing of fundamentall Lawes If hath beene sayd that it is most fundamentall to a state to preserve it selfe And that the Lords and Commons in Parliament may defend themselves and their priviledges against Delinquents Malignants and their adherents that seeke to destroy them That the Commons are entrusted with the estates of the Commons and the Lords of the Lords and both joyning togethether in disposing them if the King withhold His assent which should be given for the preservation of the Kingdome shall the Kingdome perish for want of this assent much lesse should it be turn'd into an objection against the Lords and Commons as a fault of theirs That the King will not assent But if this be neither spoken nor heard are these men fit to demand fundamentall Lawes for the Parliaments disposing of a twentieth part who can alleage themselves no shadow of any Law for exacting two and twenty parts out of twenty For such a monster both of Arithm●tick and oppression have these men lately engendred Not to speake of breaking the fundamentall Lawes in taking his goods in whom the House of Commons is in some sort contracted and represented what fundamentall Law have they for laying a Taxe of foure pound a weeke on ninescore pounds yearely rent of the Speaker of the House of Commons What have these men to do to talke of fundamentall Lawes that by a Lawlesse and senslesse oppression undermine and dig up estates even below their foundations and like Aegiptian Taskemasters will enforce the Brick to be made beyond the straw And if extraordinary meanes of maintaining an undertaking prove it unlawfull what an extremity of unlawfulnesse is there in their undertakings who by these super-extremities of exaction maintaine their undertakings As for Master Pi●s speech which they call excellent it would make them excellent too if they would follow it For it is too manifest that following the Lawes of Lust Ambition and the like vices have brought us to this present confusion Neither is it so strange that in a time of Warre against the Parliament dangerous persons should be more safely secured from maintaning this Warre nor that Members of either House giving cause of suspition by viewing Workes of defence or otherwise should be committed with the consent or approbation of either house not so strange by much As that five Members of a house should be drawne forth from the house to prison and death as it seemes by the charge by force and violence And for Hull the present good use of New-Castle to admit Armes and Souldiers for the maintenance of this unnaturall Warre speakes aloud to justify Sir John Hothams keeping of Hull by order of Parliament Neither is Tonnage or Poundage imposed by Parliament and is not Tonnage and Poundage payd to the complainants at New-Castle But the Parliament is the great Eye-sore and therefore when they could not destroy it by pulling away five first and how many fives after no man knowes nor by an Army at Branford now it must be overthrowne by paper-Bullets and by untruetelling of Twenties But certainly their Act of numbring fayles as well as their vertue of truth and sincerity For even in this moneth of December when the Lord Major was in the House of Commons at prayer whereof a part is a part of Common Prayer by which token he may be knowne not to be a Brownist nor a reviler of Common Prayer it is certainly reported there were eight score in the House and not many lesse the same weeke when the house consider'd the propositions for peace And these men cannot but know that fourty do make a House of Commons so that their owne number acknowledgeth it to be more then an house of necessity requires Yet there are also computed about an hundred absent in the Army son defence of the Parliament or in the defence of their owne Counties in Ireland or for some speciall occasions of their owne And those that are present and such others as are thus absent complayning of no feare it is a worke of supererogatory charity that these Enditers should make or faine a fearfull complaint for them True it is that there are about three score cast out of the House of Commons for fighting against the House or some other great offences neither needes any one to be afrayd of comming to the house but those whom their owne guilt makes affray'd of censure and punishment Neither are those that are present awed with an Army or Tumults but defended and secured by an Army and the goods of the City and Suburbs and it might passe for a speciall peece of craft if these men could make the Parliament so foolishly credulous as to be afrayd of their owne security It were to be wished That his Majesty were as free from cause of feare from his Army and Cavaliers who are much wrong'd by reports if they have not put threats upon him and upon his going from them to his Parliament And next to the Parliament they are angry with the City of London for being a wall of defence to the Parliament And whereas this paper is so often spotted with the scandall of Anabaptists and Brownists for their power in the Government or actions of that City if they believe themselves it were good they did make others to believe them also by naming some particular Anabaptists and Brownists that exercise this power as the Parliament hath nam'd the papists which command in the Kings Army