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	good_a	great_a	1,387	5	2.5396	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34494	The Copy of a letter to a countrey collonel, or, A serious dissuasive from joyning with those officers now in rebellion against the Parliament		1659 (1659)	Wing C6160; ESTC R20876	8,928	8

The Copy of a LETTER To a Countrey Collonel OR A serious Dissuasive from joyning with those Officers now in Rebellion against the PARLIAMENT Par novum fortuna videt concurrere bellum Atque virum SIR I Am informed that you are invited again into armes Before you do it I desire you to look round about you and consider well The Call The Cause The Company you are to engage with and the Enemies you are to oppose For if it be true that war is never just but when 't is necessary which is never so but when there is no other remedy That armes are never warrantable but when they are taken up for preventing or repelling ruining mischiefs evils of the first magnitude and for preserving recovering or acquiring such good things as every eye may see and every tongue will confesse are essentially necessary to the being or universally desirable to the better being of a people or cause concerned therein and lastly That the authority which calls to armes and can only make killing no murder and triumphing no treason must be unquestionable A man had need of more then good company and a good perswasion concerning his friends and enemies respectively to induce him to this extreme and worst of remedies But before I come to search the Cause or dispute the Call which stands first in order of nature to be considered let me intreat you to look well into the quality of your company because I fear your greatest temptation lyes on that hand I confesse some years since there was an Army and there were Officers that did worthily in Ephratah and were famous in Bethlehem But sure you are much mistaken if you think this that Army these those Officers who fought so gloriously for our liberties as men Christians who jeoparded their lives so often so honourably and through grace so successefully in the high places of the field in all the three Nations against a violent and vindictive King and his son in nothing unlike his father but that he is more vicious This certainly is not that Army or th●se are not those Officers which thought those Members onely worthy to sit as the Leg stators of three Nations by whose counsels chiefly they had conquer'd two and rescued the third out of the pawes of the Lyon and when they had done it wanted not courage to sit upon him in judgement and cut off his head a terrible and eternall example to all that should thereafter usurpe or abuse a power over a generous and free-born people But indeed this is that Army or very like it and these those Officers who when they had done those great things under the Parliaments authority and conduct had been duly paid by them as the best of servants owned by them as brethren tendred and provided for as children honoured and rewarded as the very saviours of their country deserted their masters their brethren their fathers and their patrons and layd their conquering weapons at the foot of their fellow servant planting the laurel I had almost said the crown but in that I had said lesse upon his temples who possibly if he had been born to it or had never taken it might have been thought worthy of one but having so taken it by diseasing his Masters and putting a violence upon that authority which he owned and served while he commanded their forces got nothing thereby more then a sad and deplorable reproach upon religion unparalell'd losses and oppressions on the people a general frustration of all his designes wounds and a lasting dishonour upon his name a spirit so broken by unprosperous infidelity and an heart and life so constantly assaulted with fears and terrours that he needed not amongst men any greater punishment then a longer time of holding and suffering those splendid horrors At his end leaving the Nation ready to expire with him under the weight of it's own confusions and an unsupportable debt a dishonourable peace and a war not more improvident then unprofitable These Officers Sir are something like those who gave their single person a lowder negative then ever any King of England was entituled or pretended to and a larger purse then any Sovereign before either had or needed and which was worst therein exempted him from the fear of ever needing any Parliaments if he could have kept his ambition within any bounds and the people from the hopes of receiving any benefit by them And 't is most like so like that Army as if it were the very same which very lately interrupted that Parliament whom they had not six months before owned with self-shame and repentance for their former injurious actings against them the only lawfull authority of the Nation and that at a time when they were industriously studying to settle the government disjoyned by former usurpations and not yet as it seems settled to general satisfacton resupplying their treasuries miserably exhausted by mismanagements of the late governments with as little charge or grievance as might be to the people and solely if possibly out of the Estates of Sir George Booth and other traitors and Apostates for the pay of the Army and that most just but almost forgotten debt of the Publick faith and not to be infinite when they were providing against that dangerous combination of those two great and Malignant constellations of France and Spain united as is credibly reported and universally believed to our ruine in the Scottish Kings restitution and when malice it self being judge they were not doing any thing that had the least tendency to infringe or weaken that good and righteous cause they and the Army had been so long engaged in This Sir is the company that you are to keep those are the men you are to be allied to in bloud My soul enter not thou into their secret for their wrath is cruel But you will say or they no doubt will say Is there not a Cause and sure there had need be an hugely great one for such furious and destructive proceedings a Cause-destroying Cause or a complication of causes and mischiefs intollerable and otherwise incurable for such an over-turning violence Why read their own Declaration weigh the matters therein alledged well take them all for granted and then give righteous judgement and say or let themselves when they are themselves say if they have a righteous cause for such unrighteous actings In the year 1648 they held forth that the greater number of Members in Parliament were apostatized and had made defection to the King's interest after they had declared they would make no more addresses to him having plainly discovered that in the preservation of his person and authority they could not preserve our religion and liberty And therefore they secluded them from their share of the government is there any thing that has the resemblance to that so much as charg'd upon the Parliament now or can they instance in any one debate vote or resolution which did in the