Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	body_n	whole_a	1,580	5	4.8658	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41854	The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ...		1682 (1682)	Wing G1631; ESTC R40508	48,310	156

foundation needs such under proppings as Those and they allso so feeble by the gnawings of chankring Obloquie as well as mouldring time that the building shakes at every blast Grant those incredible stories to be true yet how can any person in his right witts proove from their inhumane Actions that such deeds are Lawfull Since all was done unadvisedly without discussing of the matter and wrongfully themselves alone and in the hight of passion too beeing doth their wives Accusers their Jury their Judge and their cruell Executionners likewise O horrendum nefas Let this not onces more be mentioned amongst us who bear the name of Christians theise being savage and heathenish murthers both against Nature and the Law of God o● Reason of Religion and of Nations Let me demand who ever stained their Names their Relation their City Country Age or Generation with greater shame and Ignomie leaving such an indelible Stigma of their just disgrace to all posterity that nothing can wipe out except such inhumans monsters of humane kind as shall adventure to vindicate their Acts or from this day forward walk in their untrodden stepps Who received the greater foyle those tyrannous husbands who in their excess of rage and madness did so rashly abuse their own flesh and blood or those modest wives who with such patience did endure If any yet dare vindicate the former I le remoove the case into the Court of Morallity or civil P●llicie where if the Jury pass on their side such shall have cause still to embrace their diabolicall suggestions but if They find them Guilty nothing more remaines then to lopp off such Gangreend members of an unhappy state or Kingdome least they infect the whole Body with such a fatall Distemper as will proove mortall and destructive to all humane societies with whom they shall converse CHAP. III. The same confirmed by the Rules of Morallity or Civill Pollicie MArriage of all humane actions is the one and only weightiest It is the present disposall of the whole life of man it is a Gordian knott that may not be loosed but by the sword of Death it is the Ring of union whose Poesie is Pure and endless In a word it is that state which either imparadiced man in the Eden of felicity or else exposeth him unto a world of misery Hence it is that so mature deliberation is required before such an eternall Bond be made The mutuall affection of each partie the consent of parents the approbation of friends the triall of acquaintance besides the especiall observation of disposition kindred of education of behaviour Now then if a man solemnize marriage upon theise due respects he can hardly make his choise amiss because he is guided by vertue which never faileth her followers But if not he may well be styled a foole because he is carryed away by passion which easily imprisoneth the best designes The man therefore who is truly wise cannot but choose a vertuouse wife and so by consequence live quietly and comfortably with her And if any take a vicious woman it argues his own ●olly and so by good reason may patiently endure her for now he hath but what before he desired and he desired that which then he fancied tho indeed not from the informace of a true judgment but by the inducement of a giddie affection And yet in this infortunate case it is the greatest folly of all follies for a man to aggravate and multiply his own misfortunes by quarrelling with his own choyse for that dissention takes away the very end and use of marriage debarreth from all comfort and enjoyment thereof banisheth its joy and felicity no man is so ignorant but he may well know none so obstinate but he must needs acknowledg the truth of what I say What wife is there so absolutely voyd of all passionate spleen who will so lovingly performe her marriags-rites so carefully bring up her children so providently order her house so diligently direct her servants for a preevish and waspish husband as for a sweet and loving one Who will buy blowes so dear as shee will pay for Love Or what husband is there so clear from all that will so intentively augment his patrimonie so warily imploy his stock so diligently follow his affaires so well in all things use his uttmost diligence for a wife whom he loutheth as for her whom he entirely loveth Who will be as devout a B●adsman to the saint he fancyeth not as to Him whom he chiefly adoreth So that indeed neither as they should caring for the other both receive an unparndled dammage to themselves and for their posteritie leave it most unfortunate Infortunate in their birth for fear their dissentious parents derived to them their dissentious spirits in fortunate in their education for fear their Back ward parents hinderd their instruction unfortunate in their estate for feare their carelesse parents diminish their Portions unfortunate in their credit unfortunate in all for feare least all their parents faults redound unto the childrens griefe When as in agreeing matches where man and wife make up the sweet harmony of mutuall Love in a reciprocall consent and union you may observe a heaven like government the husband intent on his business the wife imployed in her house their children brought up religiously their attendants their servants and every one as Virgils common wealth of Bees busyed in their proper place and work whence towards the Autumne of their yeares they gather in the fruitfull harvest of true friendship of competent riches of good estimation and what excells all of sweet self content and satisfaction But let us turn our eyes away from beholding theise blessed fruites and advantages for some time at least and suppose every marryed woman not as a wife but as one of the female sex Tell me then I pray since every action of man must be tutored by some vertue or other what appearance of vertue can it be for a man to demeane himself in a Lordlie or Surlie manner towards a woman in a sowre sterne romose way and behaviour But especially what ease or pleasure can it be to a soul that 's endued with the least spark of reason or morallity to beate a woman or offer her any violent injurie at all It is not valour because that demands equality of Combatants it is not VVisdom because that depends on a stayde carriage It is not Justice because that requires a serious deliberation It is not Temperance because that wants unsettled passion and if none of theise then no vertue at all for all other vertues are comprized under them as some lesser dignitie under a more ample stile Tell me likewise to what end should men attempt such violence If a woman be perverse she thereby amendeth not if gentle she deserves it not if any seek praise thereby they will certainly merit laughter if reward they shall besure of shame And whereas such