Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	find_v	great_a	1,620	5	2.4967	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04267	The peace-maker: or, Great Brittaines blessing Fram'd for the continuance of that mightie happinesse wherein this kingdome excells many empires. Shewing the idlenesse of a quarrelling reputation wherein consists neyther manhood nor wisdome. Necessarie for all magistrates, officers of peace, masters of families, the confirmation of youth, and for all his Maiesties most true and faithfull subiects: to the generall auoyding of all contention and bloud-shedding.	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1618 (1618)	STC 14387; ESTC S107465	14,499	38

close together as the Report followes the Powder For when but in the laternesse of these times hath so much priuate and domestique Bloud beene shed Like the three Iewish Brothers in that perplexed Historie of Jerusalem who wanting Enemies still flew vpon themselues So these malicious vnthankfull Spirits fattened with the aboundant Blessings of a mellifluous Peace disgorge themselues vpon their Christian Brothers like those that surfet vpon too much Honey And well may this Vaine-glorie or opinion of Reputation bee called a Satanicall Illusion and Apparition of Honour against Religion Law Morall Vertue and against all the honourable Presidents and Examples of the best Times and valiantest Nations For hereby haue Gentlemen lost the true knowledge and vnderstanding of Fortitude and Valour For true Fortitude distinguisheth of the grounds of Quarrels whether they be iust and not onely so but whether they be worthie and sets a better value vpon mens liues then to bestow them idly which are not so to be trifled away but offered vp and sacrificed to honourable Seruices publike Merits good Causes and Noble Aduentures And behold here thy Folly thou attemptest a way freely to lose thy Soule eternally but not thy Reputation Foole that thou art in offering to saue that which indeed is nothing thou losest all For Reputation is but another mans Opinion and Opinion is no substance for thee to consist of For how canst thou consist of a thing that is without thee Which may be any mans at an instant as well as thine and when thou hast it it is but a breath And of what certainetie or permanence is it when they must die that giue it thee Perhaps because some haue said that Fame hath a perpetuitie thou hastenst to lose thy Soule to prouide for thy Name How much thou deceiuest thy selfe Why it is no more then the Eccho of a glory For as an Eccho no longer resounds then it is fed with a voyce no longer does Fame sound forth mans Prayses then it is supplyed and cherished with deseruings For when thy noyse ceases in it selfe it will quickly cease the noyse of thee How euer at the farthest a generall Dissolution will come when Fame that is next to nothing now shall haue no being then at all Happy is then the wise and vnderstanding Spirit for though he be iniured hee can lose nothing thereby neither his Fame nor Reputation for a wise man entertaines nothing that is subiect to losse Fortune takes nothing but what she hath giuen she giues not Vertue nor Wisdome therefore cannot take that away The more thou thinkest vpon Reputation the farther off thou art from all contention vnlesse custome in Ignorance or wilfulnesse in Nature make thee throw an abuse vpon the Word For what is Reputation but Consideration A diligent weighing considering and reuoluing in the minde And that is quite opposite to Rashnesse Truth will shame thee if thou confesse not so much There can be then no Reputation in Rashnesse that is manifest And what are Quarrels but the fruits of Rashnesse There can be then no Reputation in Quarrels And as it is Consideration it were dreadfull to thinke that any man in the state of his best counsell and aduisednesse should attempt to destroy the Image of his Creator in the life of his Christian Brother And therefore diuinely haue our humane Lawes bent their hate punishments against the abhorred Act cōmitted in cold bloud which is as wilfull an opposition against mans life considering what he does as Blasphemy against the Word of Truth the Conscience knowing it offends of set purpose the only sinne against the Holy Ghost And as the body of euery true Christian is said to be the Temple of the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 3. 16. What does the accursed Man-slayer but in the bloud of his Brother destroyes the Temple as the Blasphemer wounds the Lord of the Temple Behold then not without a face of Horror the miserable condition the Sonnes of this Age runne into All they venture for is to bring the bloudinesse of their Action into the compasse of Honour as if Honour consisted in destruction Now what impossibilitie followes that labour euen the weakest may coniecture For Honour is the Rumour of a beautifull and vertuous Action which redoundeth from our Soules to the view of the World and by Reflection into our selues bringing to vs a Testimonie of that which others beleeue of vs which turnes to a great peace and contentment of mind Blessings which were neuer yet found in a Bloudshedder let his cause be neuer so glorious And where there is no Peace all other benefits haue a cessation It is the onely health of thy Soule and that once lost thy soule sickens immediately euen to death and can no more taste or rellish a Ioy after then a sick mans Pallet his Nutriment Is not this then a delusion of Honour Nay can there be any thing more delusiue Alas when it is at the greatest height of humane glorie it is of a small and slender efficacie vncertaine a stranger and as it were separated in the Ayre from him that is honoured For it does not only not enter into him nor is inward and essentiall vnto him but it does not so much as touch him A poore and miserable purchase at the best for so great and eternall a hazzard Flatter not thy Soule then to her euerlasting ruine in thinking Reputation consists in Bloudshedding Sanguis clamat as the Almightie speakes in the Letter of his owne Law Bloud cryes and with a lowder voyce to Heauen then thy Fame can sound on Earth Rumors tenne thousand tongues are hoarse to that they compasse but some Nooke or Angle of the World the other reaches from the Field to Heauen The voice of thy Brothers Bloud cryeth vnto me from the Earth Gen. 4. 10. And no sooner the Crye comes but the Curse followes in the very next words Now therefore thou art cursed from the Earth which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy Brothers Bloud from thy hand And immediately in the next AV agabond and a Runnagate shalt thou be on the Earth Which shewes the horror of the guiltie Conscience which after the deed done would faine flye from it selfe A distraction which followes all the Children of Wrath vnto this day Well may peace then haue the excellencie of her glorious name aduanced aboue all Titles and Inscriptions And so much the rather in that it pleaseth the Almighty Creator himselfe to bee called the God of Peace and the Author 1. Cor. 14. 33. Nay Loue it selfe delighting in the Name 1. Iohn 4. 16. GOD is loue and hee that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him And 1. Thess 5. 23. Now the very God of Peace sanctifie you throughout c. Christ the Sauiour of the World the Lambe of Peace Iohn 11. 29. Behold the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the World There is Peace made in taking sinne away which is the only