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	good_a	see_v	2,547	5	3.0771	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28908	Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed / by Richard Bovet ...	Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3864; ESTC R15851	101,986	250

he set forth being no wise in drink nor was he at all of a Timorous Nature He had no Company with him and walkt on in his Journey without seeing any thing frightful or so much as thinking on any such When he was come to the top of a Hill which was half way home he of a sudden saw the Appearance of four Men carrying a Dead Corps on their Shoulders unattended by any which made him easily conjecture what it was besides that it is not usual in that place to bury any in the night time except it be Persons of the greatest Quality This Apparition ye must needs think did startle him a little there being no Houses near him it being a wild place He thought to shun it by going out of the High-way into some by-road which when he did he found himself nothing advantaged thereby for in the very time that he was turning himself about it was transported from the High-way and walkt directly before him keeping the same distance as before which when he observed he returned into the High-road again This he attempted to do several times but was served after the same manner as formerly whereupon he resolved to keep straight on in his way without turning either to the right hand or the left praying to God to preserve him from the Devil or any of his Emissaries The Spectre kept a little before him observing always the same distance so that if he walkt slow it likewise slackned its pace and if he hastened his steps it likewise moved quicker He followed it on this wise till at last it came to a little Stone-Bridge that was over a Brook about a quarter of a Mile from his House the Brook was narrow but not so narrow as that a Man could jump over it the water in the Winter time would strike a Man above the middle The four Ghosts that carried this dead Corps when they were come to this place laid the Coffin across the Bridge so that the Man could not go over upon the Bridge unless he stept over the Coffin The Man when he came up was at a stand not knowing what to do in this case to wade through the Brook he had no great mind in regard the season was then cold To go over the Bridge and so step over it he durst not not knowing if he should have hazarded so to do what power it might have over him to do him mischief While he was thus musing he bethought himself of one Expedient which if he could effect he thought he might safely go over the Bridge without receiving any hurt It was this he designed to try if he could prize it off the Bridge into the water with his Cane for he durst not adventure to touch it with his hands But when he went about it and prized it with all his strength he found it remained unmoveable as a Rock yet he continued so doing a considerable time till at last he broke his Cane Afterwards seeing no possibility of getting over the Bridge he was necessitated to go through the water notwithstanding the coldness of the Season When he was got on the other side he saw the four Ghosts take up the Coffin again on their Shoulders and carry it off the High-way he viewed them till they carried it over a little Eminence a piece of ground higher then the rest resembling a Hill but not so high but after that saw it no more Afterward he went home to his House and as soon as he saw the light of the Candle that was burning in the House he immediately fell down upon the ground Which they say is usual to Persons that are frightened with Apparitions His Wife and Servants seeing what befel him instantly took him up brought him to life again and asked him what might be the Cause thereof he told them that he knew of no Cause seeing he found himself very well in his Health all the day before unless it were an Apparition he saw by the way as he came home rehearsing the story as is above related Advertisement THis Story I have heard related by several Persons of good Repute that lived in the same Town with him who had it from his own mouth The Man I have several times seen but never had occasion that I remember of to be in his Company at least at that time when he related the above-mentioned Story Let no man therefore doubt of Intelligencies in the world besides what are hudled up in garments of Clay We see Agencies above the reach of our comprehensions and things performed by Bodies seemingly Aerial which surpass the strength power and capacity of the most robust Mortal FINIS General ●…e of our ●…ds coming P. Martyr aged 63. H. Bulling●… 50 years d●… aged 71. Guil. Fare lived 76 ye●… Bishop Latmer lived years and Gataker Nicol. Hemmingius ag●… 87. Theod. Beza aged 87. Dr. Chader 89. Let. Nanniu insigni litera ●…tura viz 10 A ● Gen. The ●…ner of our ●…s coming 3. Gen. Proofs of the Doctrine Psal 19.11 4. Gen. What the blessedness of faithful Servants Gen. Why Ted who ●…e the Por●… of c. Gen. This ●…ssed●…ess ●…y reserved last coming ●…c 1. Use Information 2. Use Exhortation