Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	disease_n	know_v	1,503	5	4.2422	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08271	A christian familiar comfort and incouragement vnto all English subiects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats Whereunto is added an admonition to all English Papists, who openly or couertly couet a change. With requisite praiers to almightie God for the preseruation of our queene and countrie. By the most vnworthie I.N.; Christian familiar comfort and incouragement unto all English subjects, not to dismaie at the Spanish threats.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1596 (1596)	STC 18604; ESTC S106050	48,283	77

by this fearefull hoobub or whether wee may securely followe that which wee haue hetherto practised without reformation of our liues It is found by experience that the bodie may be most sicke when it feeleth no griefe at all and a man that is most secure may bee sodainely striken as appeared by Herod in his greatest pride a citie most carelesse and wicked may be confounded as Sodome Gomorrha Seboim and the rest when they least suspected perill were destroyed with fire from heauen so may secure kingdomes as was the secure world by the floud and therfore much more may daungers bee feared when there are apparaunt causes which yet cannot vpon a suddaine viewe so plainelye appeare as when they are duelye considered Our superficyall thoughtes of the causes of this rumour of warres may bee compared to the iudgement of a Phisition who looketh neither vpon the partie grieued nor vpon his state and what counsell then can he giue to the patient And therefore saith the wise man A disease knowen is in manner cured and as it fareth with the diseases of the bodie which not beeing preuented may suddaynly kill the person so a common wealth diseased by vnpunished vices and ouermuch libertie standeth in danger of sudaine subuersion These causes therefore ought to be both knowen and cured Fore-seene mischiefes hurt not so much as such as come vnlooked for and therefore wisedome premeditateth by discretion before what maie happen afterwarde But securitie which deeming all partes of the bodie well may bee suddainely touched with a feuer which groweth by reason of the superfluous and grosse humours that haue growen by fulnesse of the best daynties So it falleth out with common wealthes which foster securitie beeing full of Gods blessings whereby they become sick of superfluous abundance loose the true taste of the best things and so fall sodainly Euery thing vnder the Sunne hath a change a time to grow and a time to wither a time to bud and a time to be ripe when a common wealth is risen to the top of all glorie then it is good that all men but the magistrates especiallie looke into the superfluityes and diseases thereof and hauing duelie considered all thinges to seeke how to roote out the superfluous and to foster and cherish the best humors not onelie in a generalitie but euerie priuate man in himselfe least euerie thing hauing his course freely in the commonwealth the violence of type mischiefes breede a loathing therof as it were in God who cannot abide such negligence in anie commonwealth especially of Christians no more than hee coulde abide Adam and Eue in paradise after they had sinned and surely the fire of the auncient disobedience of them lyeth yet couertly couered with the ashes of drousie securitie not onelye in euerie priuate man but in euerie calling so that it seemeth our commonwealth howsoeuer it seeme to go in gouernment and true religion before other nations requireth a kinde of necessitie that this fire bee quenched before it flame foorth to the consumption of our whole nation If therefore wee looke to continue safe howsoeuer slender account wee seeme to make of these Spanish vauntes wee must looke both euerie man into himselfe and the magistrates into the whole state so no doubt if they be not partyall in theyr searches they shall finde in euerie man in his particular examination of his owne deserts as also the magistrates in their generall viewe of the whole cause inough whereby it cannot bee denyed but God may without iniurie vnto anie one not onely fraie vs with this hoobub but suffer vs to tast of the swoord of this ambitious and blasphemous nation To begin the examination although I bee the vnworthiest to call men thereunto yet in regard I am the worst I cannot but acknowledge and in deed I finde that in my selfe whereof woulde God all others were free namely sufficient cause why I wretch should bee rouzed vp and pursued by this pernitious generation if I should flatter my self to deserue to be freed from their tyranies if I looke vnto my disobedience to God I should deceiue my selfe and yet mine imperfections perchance no farther seene in the world than of such as seem to stand in this dangerous time as men worthy for their honest zealous religious behauior in their owne conceits to be iustified by the mouths of all their neighbors And therefore surely it will hardly appeare that we haue deserued to be punished if wee looke no further thā into other men so let our selues passe like the scape goats for if euery one couet to find the cause in others and prie not into himselfe there wil be neuer a free man yet all free for euerie man will condemne all but himselfe and yet though none will condemne himselfe hee shall bee condemned of all And therefore let euerie man acknowledge himselfe worthie to bee punished so all men shall be condemned by theyr owne mouthes and seeke no further witnesse And this no doubt is the waie to finde the cause why God hath called this nation agaynst vs as Ionah was founde guiltie by casting of lots For doubtlesse if wee seeme to seeke the cause of this daunger without our selues we doo wrong to the iustice of God who is not as enuious man that will strike one for an other but the soule that sinneth shall die Lo then it is sinne that draweth on this hoobub to pursue vs euen to our subuersion if wee repent not of our sundrie euills Wee are called Christians and our aduersaries Antichristians but if wee looke into the fruites of both a man may bee in doubt who is lykest Christ by the outwarde fruites And surely for that wee haue the fire with vs and yet shewe no heate for that wee are true Gospellers in knowledge if wee shewe our selues hypocrites in practise it must needes bee graunted that our profession wyll not excuse vs then must our fruites approue vs or reproue vs. It is as true as the Gospell is true that wee haue the Gospell and as true it is that there is no true faith without it and no saluation without faith in Christ which faith if it bee not liuely and bring forth not onely leaues but fruit it is not onely lyke the figge tree that Christ cursed but a tree that shall bee hewen downe and cast into the fire so shall wee stande in greater daunger in our account hauing receiued much than the aduersarie that hath receiued lesse And therefore it had beene better that England had neuer receiued the Gospell nor the title of Christians rather than not bee seene practisers of Christian religion whose effectes are not as the religion which is in the aduerse that are doubtlesse Antichristians for that the one is in spirite and truth whose obiect is Christ onely the other outward carnall and altogether false making more Mediatours than hee the one is cherished in the heart