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	life_n	soul_n	5,160	5	5.5664	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04569	The pilgrimage of man, vvandering in a vvildernesse of vvoe wherein is shewed the calamities belonging to man being borne in this world, and how all the principall estates thereof are crossed with misery.	Johnson, Richard.	1635 (1635)	STC 14691.7; ESTC S2158	18,352	32

as it did to the Prophet Dauid 2 King 13. 15. whose sinne was punished in his Children which were most of them so wicked that the one of them deflowred his owne sister and the other killed his brother and afterward sought the death of his owne father and chased him out of his kingdome The ancient Philosophers maintained this Argument that all sinnes committed in this world were punished in the world to come except the sinne that man committeth in the bringing vp of his Children and for that he suffereth punishment in this world for the Father can giue nothing to his Child but fraile and mortall flesh by the corruption whereof the life taketh end but by good learning knowledge eternall praise and memory is gotten Therefore to conclude if that Children haue béen in great misery being nourished with spotted milke yet the misery doubleth in those that should cause them to be instructed for the food of the body is more vile than the food of the soule But now when he is come to the seuenth yeare of his age it behooueth his Parents to haue Tutors and Schoole-masters for to instruct him in good learning but growing further into yeeres and comming to his adolescency it is needfull then to haue more rigorous reformers for to tame his wilde youth and to breake him to labour CHHP. IIJ. Of the misery of man being come to his full strength HAuing finished this our second discourse Man is growne to his full perfection both of strength and discretion in which time hee entereth into déeper cogitations and trauell in the spirit It is requisite therefore that he frequent publike places that he haunt the company of those that are as touchstones for to know the good from euill If he be come of a great and a noble stocke he must make many enterprises of warre put himselfe in perils hazard his life and shed his blood for to die in the bed of Honour or else he shall be reputed a dastardly coward and vtterly despised of all men If he be of bare estate and that he be called to the knowledge of Arts Sciences and néedfull Trades yet for all that he runneth into a thousand dangers trauels paines and troubles as well of the body as of the soule he toyleth day and night and sweateth water and blood to get a maintenance during his life and oftentimes it is seene that what paines soeuer man taketh for his liuing yet it is scant sufficient to serue his necessity It is not therefore without cause that Marcus Aurelius was wont to say when he considered the misery of mankind I mused in my mind sayd he whether there might be found in any age a man that could vaunt that he neuer in al his life-time tasted aduersity and assuredly if there might be such a one found hée would be such a fearefull monster vpon the earth that all liuing things would be amazed to behold him Then he concluded after this sort saying And in the end I found mine owne thoughts true for he that was yesterday rich was to day poore He that was yesterday in health was to day sicke He that laughed yesterday to day did weepe He that was yesterday in prosperity was to day in aduersity and he that was yesterday aliue was to day dead But let vs now returne to our former matter and set down our Discourses in order What liuing man is he in all the world that hath giuen himselfe to any Science or otherwise to liue but that at one time or other he disliketh of his owne profession and is weary thereof And for the better vnderstanding of the same we will particularly discourse the miseries and troublesome liues of all the principall Estates liuing vpon the bosome of the sinfull earth CHAP. IV. Of the misery of wicked Kings Princes and Monarches SEarching into all estates of men wée shall finde that Fortune aboue all other mortall creatures hath prouided for Kings most liberally for what maketh man more happy in this world than goods honours dignities and rule licence to doe good or euill without controulement power to exercise liberality and all kind of pleasure as well of the body as of the mind all that may be wished for to the contentation of man either in varietie of meats magnificence in seruice or in vestures to raise at their pleasure the meanest man to high place and with a frowne disgrace the mightiest All which continually is at a Princes command there is nothing that may please the memory or flatter the desires of the flesh but is prepared for them euen from their cradles onely to make their liues more happy and full of felicity But now if wée iudge of their liues vprightly and waigh them in a true ballance wée shall finde that the selfe same things which makes them happy in this world are the very instruments of vice and the cause of greater sorrowes For what auaileth their costly ornaments honourable seruices and delicate meats when that they are in continuall feare to be poysoned wrong seduced and often beguiled by their seruitours Haue we not had experience therof many times Doth not Histories report that some Princes haue bin poysoned with Papers and with the smoake of Torches Wée may reade likewise of certaine Emperors that dust not lye downe to rest in the night before they had caused their Beds to be lyen on and all the corners of their Chambers to bee searched least they should be strangled or murthered in their sléepes Others that would not permit any Barbers to touch their faces for feare that in trimming of their heads or beards they would cut their throats And yet to this day they are in such feare that they dare not put meate in their mouthes before their Taster haue tasted thereof What felicity can a King or Prince haue that hath many thousands of men vnder their gouernments when hee must watch for all heare the complaints and cryes of euery one procure euery mans safegard prouoke some to do well by liberall gifts and others by terrour and feare Hée must nourish peace amongst his Subiects and defend his Realme against the inuasion of forraine enemies besides many other calamities that are depending vpon a Regall crowne But now touching the vnhappy states of wicked Princes vnto whom thrée kindes of people are most agréeable and familiar The first are Flatterers which bée the chiefe enemies to all Uertue and they that impoyson their soules with a poyson so pestiferous that it is contagious to all the world their Princes folly they call Prudence their cruelty Iustice their Letchery Wantonnesse their Fornications Pleasures and Pastimes if they bee couetous they call it good Husbandry if they bee prodigall they call it Liberality So that there is no vice in a Prince but they cloake it vnder the shadow of some Uertue The second sort are such who neuer rest night but that in the morning they bring in some new inuention or other how to