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	heat_n	humour_n	1,740	5	7.9862	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55758	Angliae speculum morale The moral state of England, with the several aspects it beareth to virtue and vice : with The life of Theodatus, and three novels, viz. The land-mariners, Friendship sublimed, The friendly rivals.	Preston, Richard Graham, Viscount, 1648-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing P3310; ESTC R5728	46,008	222

his bow to the head and aims at the white of the Clergy's innocence accusing them for covetous and loos-livers not considering how many amongst them are neither but grant they were so we ought as men to pardon them their errors and as the servants of Heaven we ought to reverence them should we be struck so surely from above for every little sinne as we do one another our whole species had before this time been utterly destroyed and had left the World to be possess'd by sensitive beings but I fear the great concern of these pretenders will onely prove that which taketh not its source from a due principle but a sensual end the desire of possessing the Churches revenues if so oh how impious is their design surely they that serve at the Altar ought to live by it if they who serve Earthly Kings ought to live gloriously according to the dignity of their Lords then à fortiori they ought to be in all things above the rest who attend upon the Monarch of Heaven and Earth but there is one thing which would in all likelihood recover the Church and that is if the Nobility and Gentry of the Nation could be perswaded to enter into Orders by their Alliance and Interest they might bulwark themselves against those who would break in upon them through the mightiest fastnesses of their Virtue no one can be too good to attend at the Altar David was King and Priest and so were all his successors in Israel and it was imputed to the Jews for sin that they chose their Priests out of the meanest of the people for their persons being held in contempt by those who were their equals before their Office comes to be so too and the best parts also suffer when clouded with poverty Raro in tenui facundia panno It is true that Heaven lately shewed its displeasure to our Church and seated Forreigners in its fattest Sees yet it was said to them as to the Israelites when they went to possess Canaan I send you up to possess the Land of the Anakim not for your own Righteousness for you are a stiffe-necked people but to scourge the Nations which enjoy it But now we may plainly see how great the concern of Heaven is for the Church since the Ecclesiastical and politick Government are so united that they both fall and both rise together Many now shoot at her foundations but I hope she is built upon Zion which cannot be moved The points of Toleration and Comprehension have been so thorowly discuss'd that here I need but mention their names onely I must say I should be very unwilling to see either of them obtain in this Kingdom Now the Churchmen ought rather Magna vivere then Magna loqui and to shew by their own practices that the Precepts which they give may be easily obeyed The fat Bulls of Basan have prevail'd now but the Almighty hath onely crowned them with success to make them fall nobler Sacrifices to his wrath The Physitian IS to the body what the Divine is to the soul though he doth not administer his province with a parallel integrity since his Knowledge is increased Diseases are so too and our bodies by his applications are become less robust and vigorous for by relying on them our natural heat and radical humours are impaired which were our supports and not seldome the very remedy of one Malady is the cause of another but not onely from this natural cause but a more inhumane one resulteth as great an evil for to swell his own profit he often prolongeth the Agonies the Miseries of his poor Patient making himself seem to him a greater distemper then that he is already travailed with From those dry bones which none who passe by can think could live he will extract a lively and sparkling Essence to himself and he will draw sweetness from the most putrified Carcasse his Recipe whose barbarous Character fully speaketh his manners produceth two Pieces to himself then if you should recover which is more the effect of Providence then his Care the Apothecary or Chirurgeon giveth with a cruel Bill the lately cicatrized wound a new gash he visiteth you as long as the pulse of your Purse beateth high but when he findeth it to decline then he saith you grow so well that you need not his Art or your disease is so desperate that it cannot assist you his thoughts of God are not so as they ought to be for by his so frequently viewing the works of Nature he is apt to misapply and attribute too much to second Causes He adoreth that great principle of Nature Self-preservation but neglecteth that as great one of Christianity to preserve his Brother nay rather like a Cannibal he preyeth upon him though I very much honour this profession yet I must not the abuses of it though it be very necessary yet the neglects and the ill ends of the professors of it render it often dangerous for it is most certain that they not seldome by their Clothes do transferre the disease of one to the other and it is as sure that many suffer by their applying Medicines to diseases which plain Care or Nature would work off If his Fees were more moderate the Patient would receive a greater advantage and himselfe no detriment for now by the excess of them the sick person cannot see him above once in a day and there being so many critical minutes in a disease it is impossible he should prescribe for them in his absence Thus also the inferior sort of the Nation will enjoy a benefit for many who are lost for want of advice are able to give a Crown who cannot afford a Guinny it is in fine a profession which employeth the industry and study of its Professors and chargeth them with the greatest duties and care and therefore ought to be most countenanced if it impose not too much upon the World The Lawyer FRom Adam to the Flood the Law of Nature onely reigned but when wickednesses increased upon the surface of the earth God laid his commands against Murther and Bloud and afterwards as the age degenerated Laws increased and became an Asylum to the Good and a terror to the Bad. Since the concord of brethren is rare because every man preferreth his own interest Law is appointed for the preservation of the world therefore the approaches to it ought to be easie for if a Sanctuary be locked of what advantage is it to that miserable man who flieth to its protection the Law which God gave to his peculiar people which he often called stiff-neck'd and perverse was comprised within the narrow compass of two Tables and this he thought enough to bridle their greatest exorbitancies the Twelve Tables nay the Roman or Civil Law it self governed a Nation the most Great most Glorious and most Adventrous in the World which without the impertinent and indigested glosses of Bartolus and Baldus and others is of very little volume