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	matter_n	soul_n	1,472	5	5.2309	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23383	A meruailous combat of contrarieties Malignantlie striuing in the me[m]bers of mans bodie, allegoricallie representing vnto vs the enuied state of our florishing common wealth: wherin dialogue-wise by the way, are touched the extreame vices of this present time. VVith an earnest and vehement exhortation to all true English harts, couragiously to be readie prepared against the enemie. by W.A.	Averell, W. (William)	1588 (1588)	STC 981; ESTC S104468	32,149	54

death The Foote Brethren the deceitfull tongue hath beguiled vs all and hath intended thereby nothing but our ouerthrow and that doe I too well féele in my feeble fainting ioynts that through want of strength are scant able to beare vp the bodie wherfore let vs renue our former friendship with the Bellie by whome we haue hetherto maintained our health and without whome we cannot continue let vs not hereafter be lead by the tongue but as Nature hath inclosed her in with a double wall and shut her vp as in a prison so let vs charge the téeth and lippes to lock her vp and according to their office set a bolt before her for walking at large and if these cannot containe her in dutie then will we make the handes helpers by violent force to holde her in not without cause doth it behoue vs so to do for by her meanes we sée through this contention the hands are weakned the head bedulled and the face apalled the heart panteth yea the Tongue her selfe is silent what will followe now but a finall ende of vs all if we doe not speedely minister to the Belly wherewith to féede vs and to the Backe to kéepe vs warme and therefore I promise for my part as fast as my fainting lims will serue to trudge for somewhat for their maintainance The Hande And as readie am I to reléeue them as I was before forward to pull from them being sorie that I lent anie eare to the dissentious Tongue wherby to displease natural friends promising hereafter not to forsake them for the perswasions of any craftie enimie The Bellie Then deare brethren bestirre ye prouide some thing with spéede and you shall finde how I will refreshe your fainting members for as Nature hath made me your seruant so wil I not faile in doing my dutie and let this your smart warne you hereafter to liue together in mutuall loue that as wee are all fellowes and members of one bodie so we may violently and voluntarily withstand all subtill entisementes of vnnaturall enimies that shal go about to disquiet our peace so shall our amitie in a natural harmonie be maintained our bodily health the longer preserued our quietnesse and peace still established and our hatefull enimies inwardly grieued to our continuall ioy and their vnspeakable griefe The application briefelie declaring the summe of this Dialogue THis excellent frame and most beautifull order of visible things in the worlde this position and placing of bodies the heauens the aire and the earth enuironed and spread about with the great Ocean this order of heauenlie mouings which maketh y e courses and change of times and seasons dayes and nights Summer and Winter to conclude the whole forme pertaining to the heauenly and elementarie nature is called among the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a greater world or more excellent beautie and from thence haue the Latines named it Mundus of the neatnesse comelinesse of these visible creatures which frame beareth in his naturall harmonie an apt similitude of a politique magistracie and therefore they were sayde among the Lacedemonians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that bore a kind of office or authoritie in the common wealth In this order we knowe there is a continuall Sympathie no shew of contrarietie for if there were it could be no order but a disorder no Sympathie but an Antipathie so y t y e whole course of natural things should either be dissolued or vnnaturally be meruailously confounded and therefore as this order hath bene created of God so is it still conserued of him to teach man being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a lesser world in respect of the greater participating both of the heauenly and terrestriall matter and bearing also a simililtude of the heauens and elements likewise what a natural agréement there should be among the fellowships of men to the making vp of a politique bodie knit together in the vnitie of mindes A meruailous concord is there among the heauenlie bodies for as the writers of nature teach if our grose eares could heare their surpassing harmonie wrought by theyr equal and orderly motions we should finde their tunable melodie farre aboue the sweetnesse of anie mired musicke No lesse ought the vnitie of mens minds to be tuneable in amitie without anie iarre of dissonāt discord because they beare a liuely similitude of the heauens in their terrestrial bodies for as the heauen which they call Coelum Empireum contayneth and includeth within it the Angels Saintes of God so the bodie of man concludeth and shutteth in it the soule and heauenly vertues memorie vnderstanding and will Wherefore as in the heauenly creatures there is with men a plaine resēblance so ought there among earthly creatures to be a heauenly representation in agréement of minds and hearts As in the Firmament bee seuen Planettes and foure Elements so in the head of man be seuen holes or issues and and in the bodie foure principall members As the Sun Moone are two lights placed in the heauens so are there two eyes made for lights in the head The bodie carrieth a sumilitude of the elementarie matter for the heart hath a strie spericke likenesse beeing most excellent of the members and the seate of the liuing soule The breast of man is as the aire wherein the vapours of the stomack and bellie being congealed do cause coughs and yexings with such like The stomacke is like a great sea in which arise all grieuous diseases as it were flowing tempests and to which the humours of the whole bodie as all the riuers of the earth do eb and flow The féete as the centerie of the heauens and elementes beare vp the waight of the bodie and thus wee sée what a fit similitude there is betwéene the greater world and the lesser betweene the superiour creatures and mans earthlie members This consent hath God left in nature betwéene the heauens with their elements and our humane members that wee might learne what agréement ought to bee among our selues that are tied together in a politique state For looke what similitude is betweene these twaine the like may bée and is in most pointes betwéene the naturall bodie and a eiuill pollicie maintained in a well ordered Citie or wise gouernment of a common wealth For as the head is by nature placed in the top of the body so ought the Prince to haue the highest roome ouer all causes in her common wealth and Country being superior and supreame head of all others not excepting Popes or theyr authoritie and as nature hath garded the heade wish most of the senses s● doth she teach vs what defence we ought to yéelde to our Queene and howe to succour her in all extreamities The heart being the place of vnderstanding and onelie seate of wisedome is inclosed and fenced about with the bodie to instruct vs y ● in our politique gouernment wee ought stoutly also to countergard our nobles counsaylours and magistrates from whome we