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	sign_n	1,409	5	7.4560	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07853	The mirrour or glasse of health Necessary and needefull for euery person to looke in, that will keepe their bodye from the sickenesse of the pestylence, and it sheweth how the planets do reygne euery hower of the day and nyght, wyth the natures and expositions of the xii. signes, deuyded by the twelue months of the yeare. And sheweth the remedyes for dyuers infirmyties and diseases that hurteth the body of man.; Myrour or glasse of helthe	Moulton, Thomas.	1580 (1580)	STC 18225; ESTC S107529	35,282	122

Capitulo xcvii For the megrim cap. xcviii for the Morfew cap. xcix For to stop the flix ca. C. for the Canker wylde fyre and ignis sancti Antoni cap. Ci. for to make heyre to grow cap. Cii For to doe away heyre ca. C. iii. for a scalde head ca. C. iiii For the yellow Iaundes ca. Cv. for the black Iaundes ca. Cvi For wormes and heate in the hands Capitulo Cvii For the Goute ca. Cviii. For sore knees that doeth swell and ake cap. Cix For the falling euill cap. Cx. For brenning and scalding ca. Cxi Also for brenning with fyre ca. cxii To heale hurtes woundes ca. cxiii To make a Salue to drawe and to heale ca. Cxiiii For stinging of adders and Snakes Capitulo Cxv. For him that may not sleepe ca. cxvi For the Palsye cap. Cxvii A good drink for the Pox. ca. Cxviii A salue for the Pox. cap. Cxix For the gowt or the sweling of ioynts knobbes and knorres that commeth of the ach of the pox Cap. cxx ¶ Here endeth the Table ¶ Here beginneth the fyrste parte of this Booke that sheweth dyuers causes how the Pestilence may be ingendred Capitulo i. COnsydering that thys treatise is very needfull and necessarye agaynst the sicknesse of the pestilence and for a common wealth health of the Queenes liege people I Thomas Moulton doctour of Diuinitie of the order of the Frere Preachers the which for to gather moueth me for diuers causes the one is prayers of myne owne bretheren Another is cause of prayers of many worthy Gentles And another is compassyon that I haue of the poore people that was is destroyed euery day therby for defaute of helpe And the fourth cause that mooueth the most of all pure conscience for euery christen man womā is bound by the lawe of conscience and they know their euen christen in great perril or that is lykely to fal to great mischiefe to helpe them if he maye by his wit wyth his trauayle and with hys goods And these foure causes mooued me to compounde and to gather this treatise and to set it in printe so in english that euery man both learned and lewde riche and poore maye the better vnderstand it and do therafter And so euery man woman and chylde to be their own Phisytion in time of neede agaynst the vengeance and corruption of the pestilence that now is reigning with other diseases many mo and this treatise for the pestilence is deuyded and parted in .iii. partes and consequently insueth the seuen dayes with the Planets with the natures and expositions of the xii signes deuyded by the .xii. months of the yeare with the remedyes for many dyuers other diseases that hurteth and greeueth the body of man And the fyrst parte of this booke telleth dyuers causes how the pestilence may be gendred The seconde part telleth how man woman and childe shall preserue and keepe themselues from the pestilence if so the man woman or chylde be cutable that falleth therein The thyrd parte telleth the remedye helpe and medicine agaynst the pestilence In the fyrst part I say of this treatyse as I tolde be shewed dyuers causes which may be the grounde of this Pestilence that nowe reigneth I fynde by the treatinge of fower Doctoures the fower Pillers that vpholdeth holy church that is to saye S. Austē S. Ierom S. Gregory S. Ambrose where they speke of this matter they say that syn that raygneth among the people and namely that sinne that reigneth among head men the gouernours of the church and of the law is cause of the Pestylence Vengeaunce taken for synne Hereof I fynde ensample and Fygure in holy Wryt in the seconde booke of Kinges in the .xxiii. Chapyter There sheweth holye Writ openlye that for the sinne of King Dauid God sent vnto him his Prophet and gaue him choyse of thre things whether that he had leuer that GOD should sende vpon him for his sinne and of his people hunger seuen yere or else he had leauer that hee shoulde sende vpon him pursute of enemies and to be ouercome of them thre moneths or yet that he had leuer that he should sende vpon him Pestilence three days three nights And than King Dauid truly chose Pestylence so that from that tyme that he had chosen thus pestilēce or it was none of the day there was dead xxvii M. of his people And then King Dauid saw that vengeaunce was taken for his sinne by pestylence mourningly with great sorrow great compassyon of heart he cryed God almyghtye mercye and when he had done anon the pestylence seaced And for synne that raigned in the people hydyous pestilence hath bene taken as was shewed on Ierusalē as telleth Vincent in speculo Historiali Eusebius telleth the same Therefore euery man in what degree or what state he be put away sinne thorough hartily sorrow and very contricion asking of good mekely mercy and forgiuenes entyrely and amending their lyfe then he putteth away the cause of pestilence that in case hys vengeance taken for sinne and sothlye sauing we ought not to deeme lightly of Gods priuities this maye be wel one cause of that hydeous pestilence that now is reigning ¶ And they say generally in thys realme and truth it is that many tokens are shewed that men likely deme that this sinne is cause in part of this pestilence as the corrupt ayre and the venime thereof the whyche was caused by a cōiunction of Saturn and Iouis the which Planets their working within fewe yeares and the malyce of thy complection and of other sinne this lefte in the ayre and beneath the which malice and venime hath his respecte and his influence more in the complection of man then of beast in as much as the working of y e cōiunction and of other sinne was more principally in the sin of mankynd then in the sin of another maner of beast But the working of other coniunctions dyuers are before hand had their working in the signes of other beastes thir influence in y e cōplections of thē And therefore the malice of the coniunctions was cause whye that the morel fell of such beast more then of other that time but this coniunction aforesayd the which was wrought more principally in the sinne of mankynd more then of any other whose venime and malice yet reigning is the cause of the corruptiō of the ayre the which ayr corrupt is cause of the Pestilence that now is reigning but neuerthelesse if so that it bee impossyble by all Phylosophers that the Elemente of the Ayre should in hys owne kynde and in his owne substaunce be corrupt or else infecte sythen it is symple and cleane is hys substance wrought without any venome or corruption Neuertheles yet by the way of vaporous fumosytyes and humors the which that are corrupt and drawen from the earth beneath by vertue at tractife of the bodies that bene aboue minged with the ayre so by accidentall cause