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	great_a	soul_n	2,575	5	4.9117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85927	A publique lecture on all the languages, arts, sciences, and noble exercises, which are taught in Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1650 (1650)	Wing G568; Thomason E595_3; ESTC R202282	11,690	23

in order we will declare unto you what all the Languages Arts Sciences and noble Exercises serve for And first concerning Languages OF all the chastisements wherewith God hath been pleased to satisfie his Justice because of the ambition rebellion and hardnesse of the hearts of men the confusion of Languages should seeme to be one of the greatest except that in the inscrutable secret of God and in his divine providence the diversity of them was thought necessary even for the good of man as shall be discoursed of at large in the next Lecture concerning the Art of Well-speaking which will prove to be the most vaste effect of the appetite of man as can be treated of in this world And that as speech is a generall desire in man so Well Speaking is hardest to be obtained because of the difficulties which it meets withall not only in the interiour and exteriour parts its Organes and most necessary instruments as Divines likewise well know that it requires those sublime qualities which are to be observed in that Element by the which the cloven Tongues were represented on the heads of the beloved and chosen of him that was from all eternity equall with the Divine Author of all things They will tell you also that as God breathed in man a living Soule which came from him and was his immediate act without the addition of any secondary cause and not as the creation of his body for that God tooke earth for the making of that part of man which as all things bend to their off-spring must returne to that from whence it came the Soule as Solomon the Wise saith returning to its great Divine Creator Language to be as the Soule of the Soule at least its interpreter and therefore it was that a Philosopher said to one that affected silence Speake that I may see thee It was as the Scripture tells us a speciall miraculous and blessed operation of the Holy Ghost a miraculous operation indeed and for the which the Speakers were not only admired but the Auditors thereby made the more knowing Now as all vertuous and knowing men have found by an infallible experience of what excellent and vaste use the Languages are it may suffice in few words to say that whosoever speakes divers Languages may first passe through all the world as a Patriot of it and never as a Stranger Call for what he desires and say all what he would have another man to know by him without submitting himselfe either to the ignorance or to the malice of any interpreter freely expose himselfe to the presence of the greatest Princes States and Magistrates and if need be plead before them his owne cause as the great Apostle Paul did when in other things concerning these of the world especially of Trafficke betweene men and men they may mannage their owne Bargaines and keepe their owne counsell on paine of secresie The experience of the great use of Languages moved a Germane Emperor to cause an Edict to be publish'd that all Gentlemen should learne and speake five Languages at the least that thereby they might tender themselves the more capable of the publicke employment The which even the greatest Princes and the most famous men in all Ages have observed For that besides the publicke common and particular interest concerned herein It s a maine point of honour as well as of duty that the Creature should endeavour as much as in him lyeth to resemble his Maker who understands all things and all Languages All men have a certaine affinity to each other and is it not a shame that one brother should not understand another A Neopolitan Courssier understands the neighing of a Frizeland Stallion and a Constantinopolitan Asse the braying of an Italian Mule And besides the shame of being ignorant even the usefulnesse of speaking severall Languages ought to move all men to confesse that there is an absolute necessity of learning them And since the knowledge of Languages can be gotten at home Is it not requisite to addict ones selfe to study such an Art as may justly move any Traveller to say not onely with the Philosopher that he carried all about him but that he hath a Key in his mouth which will open a passage unto him which way soever he turns himselfe And this he may doe far better if besides the remembring of the words he acquires unto himselfe the manner they must be delivered in for that it s quite different to speake unto a Frenchman as to a Spaniard unto an Italian as to a German the first will be spoken unto in quicke witty Language the Italian in a speech as regular as a paper of Musicke the Spaniards in a lofty stile as unto Caesars and the Germans in a grave accent as unto Senators Of Civility CIvility is as the soule of man his best ornament it had its rise in Asia minor according unto Cicero's observations It caused Jacob the Patriach though Bed-rid by sicknesse to raise himselfe up at the approach of Joseph his sonne that with more ease Joseph might imbrace him It made Ahashuerus rise from his Throne to stretch forth his Scepter unto Queen Hester It doth magnetically joyn the hearts and mindes of men It presents affability to inferiours It makes equalls serviceable one to another and it causeth a respectfull obedience from Inferiours to Superiours Now if this be practised by men before they set forth to travell they will seldome encounter any scornfull reception or disdainfull look And therefore the Spaniards who cannot endure to be neglected observe this rule that least a stranger might not be acquainted with their quality they will first put their hand to their Hat that they may not faile of a salute Of History HOw needfull the knowledge of History is for to be joyned unto these two foregoing quallities of Languages and Civill conversation Times out of minde tells us the holy Writ commands it and both necessity and use requires it Both in the first and succeeding Ages children had it by Tradition and it was infused into them as it were by publicke Songs and Poems thereby to incite them unto vertuous and generous actions Thou shalt shew it saith the Scripture unto thy sonnes and it shall be for a signe unto thee upon thine hand and for a memoriall between thine eyes that the Lords Law may be in thy mouth Exod. chap. 13. v. 8 9. And it shall be when thy sonne asketh thee in time to come saying What is this that thou shalt say unto him by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt from the house of bondage vers 14. As History declares unto all men the marvellous things which God did from time to time both his graces and mercies bestowed on men as also the chastisements wherewith he visited the Nations for their Rebellion and for the hardnesse of their hearts So it makes men to be acquainted with the establishment of Monarchies their progresses their wanes and