Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	church_n	faith_n	1,387	5	4.9058	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07949	Out-port-customers accompt, of all his receipts, to a shilling, or a penny, without concealement or enstaulement of any; according to his oath at his first admission. Wherein he plainely sets downe, as well the motiues and occasions, as the method and style of all his former writings ...	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1627 (1627)	STC 17935; ESTC S123346	67,239	64

me say Grace and giue God harty thanks so Goodnesse bad mee pray for the blessed State and happinesse of my SOVERAIGNE first by Name King IAMES and for his Priuy COVNSELL for his ISIS for the Prince and all the Royall Issue for the CLEARGY for the NOBLES COMMONS of the Land In a word for the Church and Common-wealth And for Traffique at the last though my Faith seemd fraile and my credit almost gone yet not to despaire but by conning still my Creede and those very Ten Commaundements mine Alphabet doth teach to remember but mine Oath and do my best Endeuour and hope withall That Vnus Homo Nobis cunctando restituet Rem So closing vp mine Alphabet with a publique confession and with a daily Prayer for Per se and Con per se and all the rest together I prostrately presented and encluded a Petition to the KING our sacred SOVERAIGNE for his Sonne the Princes sake in the Name of all the Customers of the Out-Ports of this Land to be read at his best leysure within those sanctified wordes and effectuall forme of Prayer which the Son GOD of himselfe commanded and taught that as his is the KINGDOME the POVVER and the GLORY for euer and euer So be it Amen So our Soueraignes treble Title with Est and Amen might perfect all our happinesse saying lastly for my selfe Nil sum nulla miser noui solatia Massam Humanam nisi quod tu quoque CHRISTE geris Tu me sustenta fragilem tu CHRISTE guberna Fac vt sim Massae surculus Ipse tuae I nothing am and in my selfe no comfort finde but this That CHBISY the Masse of humane flesh hath tane and ioynd to his Then saue me CHRIST and grant withall that this fraile flesh of mine A twig at least may bud and branch from that great Masse of thine And Magna Magnus perficit DEVS Now that I seeme not thus by spellinge to Cabalize in iest or think to construe Hieroglifiques by Common sence and reason Hauing found by mine Alphabet those Consonants of Letters wherewith the very Wisedome of the Bible is exprest and hearing by my Vowels the same sound of Goodnesse the New Testament doth teach and the very selfe-same Truth for Doctrine at the least let personall defects still aunswere for themselues that CHRIST and his APOSTLES yea S. PETER with the rest did leaue vnto the World for Soueraignes to protect and Subiects to obey If Religion and Iustice may be helde sufficient to help vs to happines what Kingdome in the world nay what Citty Port or Towne eyther publique or priuate for Temples and Courtes and Free-Schooles besides may compare with GREAT-BRITTAINE where for Matter Places Persons Order and Endes all Learning now Tryumphes and AL-BOVNTY commaunds For our Reuerend Byshops and Learned Diuines worke obedience in Subiects by the rules of conscience and both by life and Doctrine directing the way how to win Heauen teach Faith and Good-workes and Preach in all our Churches that Faith onely and alone in the Action of sauing is the cause of Saluation in regard of the freedome of sanctifying Grace but in the Party saued both must concurre together to iustifie the calling And not as those Cardinals doe and Destructiue Iesuites that to builde vp their Popery would blow vp Common-weales and by loosenesse of Life and Traditions of Men being Subiects themselues contemne their owne Soueraignes kill sacred Kinges contest with Gods annointed and rob CHRIST of his honour Nor as these Distractiue Teachers would doe that preposterously propounding such fancies of Perfection as no Reason can reach to nor themselues expresse preferre Sacrifice before obedience and obtrude vpon GOD more then he requires assuring vs withal out of warrant from the WORD that to all whom his SPIRIT makes truely repentant GOD by IESVS CHRIST both is and will be a most gracious and a most louing GOD but GOD without CHRIST is a consuming Fire ¶ And our Worthy-Graue Iudges sit vpright in all our Courts of fundamentall Iustice and both by Lawe and Conscience maintaine the perpetuities of all our Landes and Goods by the Name of Liuings all our Liberties all our Liues all our Honour and the Peace of all our Land distributiuely discerning and decyding by Meum and Tuum as well in Tythes as in Tributes the Cases and Questions of speciall Right and generall Reason as wel betweene 1. 1 The Court of COMMON-PLEAS and Staples Subiect and Subiect as the 2. 2 The Court of KINGS-BENCH and of Wards and Liueries Soueraigne and his Vassals by the Common-Lawes Statutes and peculiar Customes cast in the Mould and fitted to the 3. 3 The High Court of PARLEMENT Wisedome of our owne State and Land moderating Extreamities by 4. 4 The High Court of CHANCERY and Court of Requests Conscience among Men and maintaining still the Good by censuring the Euill 5. 5 The Court STAR-CHAMBER and Counsell-Table Sic Irascuntur vt vitia tantum perimant seruatis hominibus atque ita tractatis vt viri Boni necessariò fiant quantumque damni autea dederint in reliqua vita resarcire queant And being honorably ennobled by APOLLO themselues to decide both the doubts 6 The Court of CHEVALRY and Mareschals Verge and determine the questions of reputation and worth in all Rankes and Degrees of Natiue Ingenuity and Datiue Honour so maintaine our Credits Vt per Titulos numerantur Aui semperqùe renata Nobilitate virent Prolem Fata sequuntur Continuum propria seruantia lege tenorem And our learned Ciuilians so belay the publike Peace of our 7. 7 The Court of ADMIRALTY Seas and our 8. 8 The Court of ARCHES Land that by doing vs Iustice our Neighbours take no wrong And lastly our SOVERAIGNE likewise hath his owne Courts apart 9 The Court of EXCHEQVER for his publike 9 Reuenewes and priuate 10 Expences 10 The Court of GREENE-CLOTH where Accōptants are heard discharg'd dispacht by Court-Rowles and Court-Rules grounded on Presidents of Wisedomes owne Examples without partiall respects or priuate Discretion Now if it be a happinesse for men to haue the freedome to come to such Churches to frequent such Temples and to dwel within Houses whose Foundations are laide on such assured grounds what reason haue Catholiques if they be not bewitcht to fly from their Countrey or be wedded so to Rome For Customers want wordes to expresse their inward ioyes and shew their best conceits of the blessings of God in these our daies and times for the stayes of Religion and Distributiue Iustice only our Court of CHEVALRY wants but her Iudges to decide points of Honour and preuent thereby our Cumbats and our Traffique wants her Staples for were those two 1. 1 The High Conestable and Earle Mareschall of England Patrones of Honor 2 The Heralds on whom 2 Mercury should serue by APOLLO but found out and the Roofes of our Schooles made but Winde-tight