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	reason_n	see_v	1,394	5	3.2017	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25459	Dualitas, or, A two-fold subject displayed and opened conducible to godliness and peace in order, I. Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of magistracy with the duties thereupon depending and reverence thereunto due, II. Duorum unitas, the agreement of magistracy and ministry, at the election of the honourable magistrates of Edinburgh and the opening of a diocesan synod of the reverend clergy there / by Will. Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1674 (1674)	Wing A3217; ESTC R27190	51,279	83

when told their unfitnesse as being never taught Quid refert said he It 's all one for that since you have them Magistrates that were never taught the Art of Government There being such a necessity to punish and at the same breath an Expediency to be satisfied with Repentance in men of equal condition though it may be not of Humour Knowledge of the Constitution of the Sinner in the Politick Physician is as necessary as to the natural Mediciner Many Funerals are dishonourable to a Son of Hypocrates a Physician evidencing either his mistake by inadvertance that is of the Patients disease or ignorance of his Art in the nature of his Simples or Compounds A Magistrat to be alwayes lashing alwayes stocking burning showes he hath got judgement but by rote And is like that School-master that knows no way to instruct his Scholler but that Orbilian or Tyrannical way of scourging which indeed is one way but to be left as the last way and not to be gone into if any other way can do it Without much search and without going to the Root Fund and Bottom of a Cause without looking this way and that way that 's every way contrary to Moses a Judge may ●ill the Israelite 2 Exod. 2. 12. By killing the Egyptian striving with the Hebrew he shewed the first fruits of his Commission to save and free his Nation But beholding two Hebrews to strive together he processes the Delinquent and sifts the cause Wherefore smitest thou they Fellow seeing him do wrong in grave judgement differencing betwixt Persons and Crimes accordingly purposing to discern to Death or Admonition Besides if in place Fear and Dread for want of better knowledge be the great End of Advance when time wears out the Gown Hatred and Disdaine are the usual Events of such Promotions Love being the true bond of durable Benevolence which Love to God and Justice shal in a discerning head towards Man support ●is Dignity or if blasted with Mal-co●tents in the spring of the Resurrection of the Just their Honor sh●l recover puting on never-fading flourishes of Glory and Renown II. He had great Courage He feared not the wrath of the King having once shown publickly his commission but brought and led Israel out from among them Heb. 11. 27. So long as it was a Pocket deed he was cautious and hid in the sand the slaine Egyptian flying to Mid●an waiting a fairer opportunity that more Affiction might advise his Countrey-men to embrace his Mediation for Liberating them from Pharaoh's thraldom But when pronounced in the ears of the People and Pharaoh knew that God sent him as that King Richard he became a Cor de Lyon how low soever a man beareth his sail being once called upon by the great Admiral to come up hither and ply toward the coa●t of Authority and Power for battering down Forts and Citad●ls raised agai●st Heavens Dominon in the tongue heart and houses of the debauch'd he will and ought to bear up brav●ly sitting as on Mars hill God before them as so●e where the Athenians had their godd●ss on a c●shon cryi●g with Moses even the multitude dancing about the Gold●n Calf Who is on the Lords side let him come unto me Ex 32. 26. With the people Dulnesse is oft took for Circumspection Lasi●ess for Modesty Rashness for Courage and therefore Courage here is not to be understood M●rtial Law that a sm●l fault should reach to Death Draco like punishing each triffle with extre●m Rigor but here is only pressed a Heroicisme in finding out Ca●ses that the Rich oppresse not that the 〈◊〉 dash no● that the Modest lose not and that the Scorner triumph not and that the Sentenced threaten not and all in a noble passion in●ffeasive and irreproachful Boldness then shal God say with that She-Magistrat Deborah my heart is toward the Governours of Israel My heart is towards the Magistrats of Edinburgh Jud. 5. 9 I shal not altogether condemn Cotys a King in Thrace he might have good ground from the Constitution of his Subjects to ●ssert when once furious in passion being told it was not Kingly answered● this passion of mine keepeth all my subjects c●lm F●r oft coyness sharpaess not to say s●verity is good Search all Histories and there is but here a battel if any but such as were fought by Kings and Magistrats whether in Israel Greece Baby●on or Rome and their highest Honors flowed from their eminent hazarding themselves for their Countreys Honour such a time may this be and your Scarlet G●wn may but shadow Bloody Services your Sword comman●ed from its velvet sheath to lodge in the breast of a declared F●e the safety of your City may consist in casting over the W●ll the head of some traitorous Sheba there is valour to be regarded and valiantly to be debated for Figure● in that when any of the People sinned through Ignorance in Moses Law and it had come to his knowledge he was to bring a kid of the Goats or a Female without blemish Levit. 4 23. But when a Ruler had so done he was from the same flock to bring without a blemish a Male A Magistrat being to be of a Masculine spirit and nothing Femi●●ne to 〈◊〉 noticed by him even towards God How much more should he shew Virility even among m●n 3. He had great Prudence He discreetly fled when he saw his Brethren did disrespect him as one not designed to be a Deliverer of them where he stopped And this is chiefly to be pondered upon that a Magistrat is closely to heed his own Province if it be ordinarily bold or furious or by a particular malus Genius inclined to Lust Intemperance Craftinesse or Theft or Silly as the Inh●bitants of Silesia are said to be mostly Fools that by intuitive speculation a malady a Rupture may be foreseen and by abundance of Caution make his people beware of lewd attempts In this a Wise man differing from the Otherwise that the one beholds the performance of evil in its Causes the other never believes it untill it be done the People thinking generally no such thing was intended which they behold frustrate the Magistrat is to see it done in its occasion and one word of the Danger by disappointing opportunities of Mischief There are who finds in the vulgar no reason of their doing no spirit to discern touching what is to be done A Magistrat must walk Antipodes to such blind Bayards and reason to discern and dis●●rn to determine and after determining to be resolute What more the Coat Arm of Justice with an old Herauld bea●●th Azure charged with a pair of Ballances Argent the first Bl●w the other White which is by interpretation Charity Purity Chastity with discretion and vigilancy in Service to the Justitiary in weighing out the Imports of Business Challenges and Probations 4. He had great Holiness In this Moses was Exemplar early refusing to be called the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter Rejoycing in the Affliction of