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	place_n	1,819	5	4.5081	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65095	A pleasant and compendious history of the first inventers and instituters of the most famous arts, misteries, laws, customs and manners in the whole world together with many other rarities and remarkable things rarely known, and never before made publick : to which is added, several curious inventions, peculierly attributed to England & English-men, the whole work alphabetically digested and very helpful to the readers of history.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1686 (1686)	Wing V598; ESTC R21854	60,337	192

Urbane stirred up the Christians to make a Voyage into Asia at which time Jerusalem was recovered Prreaching or the first Sermon was by Moses when he had received the Ten Commandments he then assembled the people together and acquainted them with the will of God St. John the Baptist preached in the Wilderness of Jury and so did our Saviour himself and gave Authority to the Apostles and Disciples by special Commandment to do the same Prisons Fetters Stocks Gines Staves with the like Instruments to punish Malefactors Ancus Martius as Livy saith did first appoint them to keep men in Fear and good Order R RHETORICK Diodorus saith was invented by Mercury But Aristotle affirms that Epedocles was the first Author of the Oratorial Art We may be sure that not long after men were Formed they received from God the use of Speech wherein when they perceived some words to be profitable and some to be hurtful in uttering of them they appointed and compiled an Art of Speech or communication called Rhetorick Rome was the Seat of Eloquence where it was never forbidden but in process of time as it was found to be profitable honest was had in such high estimation and so many partly for their defence Glory and Ambition employed their studies in it with such earnest endeavours that very many of the Commonalty were promoted into the degree of Senatours and atchieved much honour by it Cornx and Thisias being Sicilians gave the first precepts in Writing of this Science and their Counthey-man Leontinus Gorgias succeeded them Demosthenes was the principal amongst the Grecians amongst the Romans M. Tullius Cicero who had no fellow Now as touching the effect and property of it there are in it as Cicero writes five parts first to invent Matter to speak then for him that is to deliver his speech formally to order his devices next to polish it and furnish it with Elegant terms and choise words and to have his speech and oration in perfect memory and last of all to utter and express it with a comely gesture and posture in such a manner as to delight with the convenient and pleasant treatableness of it which should as it were teach and plainly declare the things and move the passions and affections of the Auditors and Judges either to pitty or favour or if the cause permit or time require to excite them either to mirth or to a grave severity as the occasion shall require In terms of this faculty we make this difference we call him that defendeth matters and pleadeth causes an orator A Rhetorition is he that teacheth and professeth to be a School master in that Art A Declamater he that is employed in feigned causes either for his own exercise or to instruct others therein Reliques were first instituted by Cletus and Anacletus Bishops of Rome who seriously went about to reverence those Martyrs whose innocent Blood was spent for Gods cause To this purpose they appointed a place where the Martyrs should severally have their Sepulchers apart from the Lay People and by decree he was denounced accursed and sacreligious that by word or deed hindred mens devotions from visiting the Tombs of the Apostles Upon this institution Calistus the first Builded a Church beyond Tyber a Church in honour of our Lady and Constantine the Emperour edified to St. Peter St. Paul and St. Lawrence Temples This matter was by Gregory the Saint set forward to encrease Devotion for he appointed the Lettanies of Saints with Ora pro nobis to be sung with Masses on Solemn dayes in the chief Temples of the City promising them that repaired thither at such Solemn Feasts Remission of their Sins by his Pardon Ringing of Bells were first ordained by Sabinianus that the people might be assembled together to hear Divine Service at certain hours of the day and John the 22d decreed that Bells should be tolled every day three times Morning or Evening that every one should say three times the Ave-Maria Royal Ornaments of the Romans were Fardels of Rods the Axe the Garland of Gold the Chaire of Ivory the Kyrtil or Cope Charriots Trapped Horses Mantles of State Embroidered Gowns with all other Royal Apparel the Tuscanes were very early in their choice of rich Habits whom Tarquinius Priscus subdued Rome hath been taken Eight times First by the Gaules under the conduct of Captain Brennus the year of the Foundation of the City 365 and the year of the World 4835 and the year before Christ 364. This Brennus is by the Brittaine and English Chronicles reported to have been a Brittain and Brother to Belinus King of Brittain but neither the Chronicles of Rome nor of Gaule do express any such matter Rome was the Second time taken by Alaricke King of the Gothes after he had held his Seige before it for the space of two years Which befell the year of the Foundation of the City 1164 the year of our Lord 412 and the 25 year of the Emperour Honorius It is written in the Chronicles of Constantinople and in other Histories that as Alarick being a Christian Marched with his Host towards Rome a certain Monke of a Holy Life came to him who having Audience admonished and councelled him to break off that evil purpose and to remember that he was a Christian and that for Gods sake he would moderate his Wrath and that he would not take pleasure in the shedding of Christian Blood since that Rome had not in the least respect offended him unto whom Alricke answered thou must understand Man of God that it proceedeth not of mine own will that I goe against Rome but contrarily I le assure thee that every day there commeth unto me a Man which constraineth and importuneth me thereunto saying unto me hasten thee go against Rome destroy it utterly and make it desolate At which words the Religious Man being astonished durst not reply and so the King persued his enterprise Rome was Thirdly taken by Genserick King of the Vandals the year of the Foundation of the City 1208 the year of Christ 456 who Sacked and Burnt it in many places this was in the Emperour Marcians time Rome was Fourthly taken by Totila King of the Goths who because he could not obtain peace of the Emperour Justinian commanded the Citizins to avoid the City and afterwards burnt and sacked all the whole City defaced the Walls and the Capitol and rendred it almost desolate insomuch that it could never since be repaired according to the first Form although a while after Bellisarius Peopled and repaired a Great part thereof And recalling the old Inhabitants very much Fortifyed and Strengthened the Walls This desolation happened the year after the Foundation of the City 1300 after Christ 548 in the 21st year of the Emperer Justinian Rome was the Fifth time taken by the same Totila King of the Goths after that Belisarius had repeopled and repaired it It was the Sixth time taken by the Moores and Sarazens followers of Mahomet