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	humour_n	nature_n	1,557	5	5.1825	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85730	Master Grimston his worthy and learned speech: spoken in the High Court of Parliament. Concerning troubles abroad, and greevances at home. Shewing the inward symptoms and causes of all our feares and dangers. And what probability there is of reformation, in case due punishment be speedily executed on incendiaries, and chiefe causers of those distractions, that have opprest our church, and common-wealth.	Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685.	1641 (1641)	Wing G2051; Thomason E199_25; ESTC R8768	2,477	8

MASTER GRIMSTON HIS WORTHY AND LEARNED SPEECH SPOKEN In the High Court of PARLIAMENT CONCERNING TROVBLES ABROAD AND GREEVANCES AT HOME SHEWING The inward Symptoms and Causes of all our feares and Dangers And what probability there is of Reformation in case due punishment be speedily executed on Incendiaries and chiefe Causers of those Distractions that have opprest our Church and Common-wealth London Printed for W. H. 1641. Master GRIMSTON HIS Learned Speech in Parliament Mr Speaker There hath now a great and weighty busines bin presented to this house a Letter hath bin read importing a dicesion of the Kings naturall Subjects Mr. Speaker this is a great case and very worthy of the consideration and advisement of this great Counsell but J am very much mistaken if there be not a case here at home of as great a danger as that now put to be abroad the one stands without the doore for so dangers from thence in all our histories have ever bin termed but the case that I would put is a case of danger already upon our backs And in those great cases of danger which so much concerne the wellfare of the body politique we ought to doe in them like skillfull Physitians that are not led in their judgments so much by the outward expressions of a Disease as by the inward Symptomes and causes of it For it fares with a body politique as it doth with a body naturall It is impossible to cure an ulcerous body unlesse you first cleanse the veines and purge the body from those obstructions and pestilentiall humours that overcharge Nature and being once done too botches blaines and scabs that grew upon the superficies and out-side of the body dry up shed and fall away of themselves Mr. Speaker the danger that hath now bin presented to the house it standeth at a far distance J wish heartily that it were further off yet as it stands at a far distance it is so much the lesse dangerous But the case that J shall put is a case of great danger here at home domestique therefore so much the more dangerous because it is home-bred and runnes in the veines And Mr. Speaker if the one shall appeare to be of as great danger as the other J hope it will not bee thought unreasonable at this time to put the one aswell as the other And the case that I would put is this The Charter of our liberties called Magna Charta was granted unto us by King Iohn which was but a renovation and a restitution of the ancient Lawes of this Kingdome This Charter was afterwards in the succession of severall ages confirmed unto us above thirty severall times and in the third yeere of his Majesties reigne that now is we had no more then a bare confirmation of it For we had an Act declaratory past and then to put it out of all question and dispute for the future his Majesty by his gtatious answere Soit droit comme est desire invested it with the title of Petition of right Master Speaker It may be some may object Parturiunt montes c I promised to present the house with a case of very great danger here at home but the Mountain at last hath brought forth nothing but a Mouse That this case is not worthy the name of a case and so not worthy the putting And truly for mine owne part J should have bin of the same opinion had not some expositors contrary to the Lawes of God and Man and reason J am sure contrary to the Dictamen of their own Consciences marred the text with their expositions undermining the liberty of the Subjects with new invented subtile distinctions and assuming to themselves a power I know not where they had it out of Parliament to supercede annihilate and make voyd the Lawes of this Kingdome What sad effects these wayes and opinions have produced I am confident his Majesty hath neither seene nor heard as wee have felt them And it is now his Majesties goodnesse and Piety to give us leave to speake them and to present them with our Greevances which are not few Mr. Speaker the Common-wealth hath bin miserably torne and macerated and all the proprieties and Liberties shaken the Church distracted the Gospell and Professors of it persecuted and the whole Kingdome over-run with Multitudes and swarmes of projecting Cater-wormes and Caterpillars the worst of all the Aegyptian Plagues Then as the case now stands with us I conceive there are two poinis very considerable The first is what hath bin done any way to impeach the Liberty of the Subject contrary to the Petition of Right The second is who have bin the Authors and Causers of it Mr. Speaker the serious examination and decision of those two questions doe highly concern his Majesty in the point of Honour and his subjects in the point of Interest and all that I shall say to it is but the words that Ezra did to King Artaxerxes to the setlement of that State which at that time was as much out of frame and order as ours is at this present and which cured theirs I hope will cure ours His words were these Whosoever hath not done the Law of God and the Law of the King let judgment be speedily executed upon him whether it be unto death or unto banishment or unto Confication of goods or to Imprisonment Now M. Speaker it may be some doe think this a strange text and is 't possible Some may thinke it as strange a case As for the text every man may reade it that will And for the case I am afraid there are but few here which doe not experimentally know it to be as bad as I have put it And how to mend a bad case is part of the busines wee met about His Majesty hath graciously confirmed unto us our great and ancient priviledge of Freedome af Speech and having his Kingly word for it J shall rest confidently upon it as the greatest security under heaven And whilst J have the honour to have a place here I shall with humility be bound to expresse my selfe as a Free-man The Diseases and Distempers that are now in our body politique are growne to that height that they pray for and importune a Cure And his Majesty out of his tender care and Affection to his people like a nursing Father hath now freely offered himselfe to heare our prayers and Complaints Mr. Speaker We cannot complaine that we want good Lawes for the wit of man cannot invent better then are already made There want only some Examples that such as have beene the Authors and causets of all miseries and distractions in Church and Common wealth contrary to those good Lawes which be like TREAKLE to expell the poyson of mischiefe out of others But my part is but ostendere Portam and rherefore having put the Case I must leave it to the judgement of this house whether our dangers here at home be not as great and considerable as that which was even now presented FINIS