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	heart_n	part_n	1,385	5	4.9423	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80506	A copy of a letter, vvritten to Master Stephen Marshall minister. By a gentleman a parishoner of his, desiring satisfaction about the lawfullnesse of this warre. To which is added an ansvver by a vvelvvisher.		1643 (1643)	Wing C6175; Thomason E104_20; ESTC R13667	4,899	8

A COPY OF A LETTER VVritten to Master STEPHEN MARSHALL Minister By a Gentleman a Parishoner of his desiring satisfaction about the lawfullnesse of this Warre To which is added An Ansvver by a vvelvvisher May. 30th LONDON 1643. SIR I Had almost fallen into the common complement and saluted you with a profession of my sorrow for your long indisposition to bodily health but calling to mind your own and often instructions that we ought in all things wholely to submit our selves and pleasures to that better seeing Providence who out of his infinite wisd●m works his own ends by his own meanes and prosecu●es his unlimited and secret will by his own unsearcheable ways my timerous pen guided by a trembling heart changeth that complement of grief● for your present visitation into a diale●t of prayer for your future happines Every sicknes is Gods Lecture and every le●ture for our Instruction every Instruction is a subject for our humble s●ri●us Meditatiō when heaven is our journeys end no mater whether our horse trot or amble so he h●lds it out it matte●s not whether the ●un shine or the Wind blow so our way be right Prosperity is a pleasant roade but slippery and flattered with security is m●re dangerous Adversity is lesse comfortable but sweetned with pati●nc● is more safe Sir I have always accounted you a good horseman in respect of y●ur selfe and a trusty guide in respect of others and my ambition h●th been to ke●p pace at least to follow you Both on journeys have aymed at the same end and for many miles we have both travelled the same way But since these Nationall distractions and unnaturall distempers wherein the whole Church and State is plunged and puzled your confidence and my feares have led us into severall pathes insomuch to my great griefe I feare that one of us hath lost our way yet give me leave to say without offence you deviate and have lost that road which formerly your steps have trod whereby my zealous feares still unconfident of new ways intergreets you too bold so neare a wildernesse You cut down stiles leap ditches trample hedges and force a man thorough other mens possessions I keep the be●ten track whereby our late peacefull travellers without the smallest dammage have safely timely and sweetly attained their happy journeys end you by the red Sea pursue your obvious foes I by the quiet banks of lordan profecute my calme designes in brief you go the way of bloud wherein I feare your actions a little too much relish of your name and I the name of peace True in that bloudy and cloudy time of the Law God stile hims●lfe the Lord of Hosts you are a Minister of that Gospell you a Steward of that peace When the Lord of Peace expired He left us a gracious Legacy of Peace you are one of the executors of his last will What is become of this Legacie we demand you deny it we appeale to equity you to the sword He that smiteth by the sword shall perish by the sword Our blessed Saviour is the Prince of Peace but where and all his subjects Even making war and embrueing their hands in bloud But in the bloud of whom of Pagans Turks Infidels No in the bloud of Christians nay brethren of the same Religion wherein all relations both Politicall and Oeconomicall both Civill Naturall and Christiar are dissolved and overwelmed Sir you have approved of these wars nay being a Chaplaine to this Army have animated our brethren in these wars Men whose ignorance have pinned their salvation upon your warrant and whose bloud you must justify in the great account deale truly with me what is the occasion of these wars the voyce cryeth Reformation Tell me was ever Reformation made in bloud the Epidemick voice crieth truth or else no Peace What truth is it of Doctrine or of Disciplin If we want the Truth of Doctrin Actum est de nostra Religione or is it of Discipline Must this truth be propagated by the sword must this Truth be bought with the price of bloud and perchance with the destruction of those soules which the Lord of Peace sufficiently dyed for O deare ô bloudy Truth without warrant beyond president did the fountain of all mercy peace and truth require such a truth beyond all merey peace Did the Lord of the Sabbath dispence with the breach of a morall Law the strict observing of his Sabbath to save the life of an Oxe or an Asse And shal we prefer the sudden abrogatiō of some indifferent Ceremonies before the lives of many thousand Christians nay Ceremonies approved of by holy and learned men chosen and thought worthy to depose their lives in defence of true Religion against that Church whereof these our Ceremonies rellish Ceremonies established by that pious Prince Edward the 6 and his religious and pious Counsell in Parl. confirmed by that Illustrious and renowned Princesse the Phoenix of her time our late Q. Elizabeth Ratified by the late learned Defendor of our Faith K. James of blessed memory the charge whereof as a holy legacy he left to our Gracious Soveraigne now labouring to execute his will Are these the Ceremonies that chalenge so much bloud or is the suddain abrogation of them to be ballanced with the ruine of a Kingdom Sure the occasion of this bloudy flux is neither truth of Doctrine nor of Discipline therfore not religion Or is the cause of this unnaturall and civill commotion civil is the Kings Prerogative too large or the Subjects Priviledge too narrow His Majesties gracious offer is to regulate both by the known Laws of the land And having taken a Spontaneous execration to performe it for my part I dare not in my heart conceive such evill of the Lords anointed as once to distrust him Sir as one that desireth yea preferreth the glory of Almighty God above his life and the testimony of a good Conscience above a thousand worlds I desire you to satisfie me in these particulars And as you shall answer it before the great Tribunal of the Iudge of Heaven and Earth when you shall give account of all your flock where of I my self am one deale plainly clearely and truly with me concerning the lawfulnesse of this war wherein as I shall direct my prayers to Almighty God to direct you so I shal require you that he would be pleased to make me capable of your directions ayming at none other end but Gods glory and my own salvation Vincat Veritas Evanescat Vanitas FINIS A Speedy Answer to the said Letter SIR I Know you will much wonder by what fate it happened that your Letter should so miscarry as to fall into my hands you pretend it to be written to M. Stephen Marshall and your self a Parishoner of his but whether true or no I cannot tell but I beleeve the contrary for surely had your ingenuity beene such as became one of his flock you would rather have first