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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	father_n	son_n	3,252	5	5.6495	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15700	An armoure of proufe very profitable, as well for princes, noble men; and gentlemen, as all other in authoritie, shewing the firme fortresse of defence, and hauen of rest in these troublesome times and perilous dayes. Made by Iohn VVoolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25974; ESTC S106615	49,980	114

say if we mayntayne our causes so precisely and withstand the magistrates so stubbornely we shall exasperate them and pull the house vpon our owne heds But if we yeeld vnto the time God may alter the Princes heart and we may eate our bread in rest and quietnesse Vnto suche obiections I will otherwise aunswere than Demades answered the Athenians in times past Cassander the Macedonian practised with the Athenians that they shoulde worship Greate Alexander as a God who staggered somewhat at the matter Wherefore Cassander denounceth open warre againste them if they woulde not doe it Demades made then an Oration vnto the people and amongst other things vsed this speech That it stoode them vpon so to consider of heauen that they might not lose the earthe But I thinke it best to transpose the sentence That it standeth men vpon to take heede so to consider of the earth that they lose not heauen Therefore albeit all potentats of the earth grinde their teeth against vs yet it is our parts to shew our boldnesse in god And as in worldly matters some vse to say Let iustice go forwarde albeit all the world perishe So let Christians saye Let vs do Gods will and pleasure albeit heauen and earth do perish Augustine hath a golden saying Men may not commit sinne in shewing obedience Daniel disobeying the King forbidding him to serue his God excuseth him selfe saying Vnto thee O King haue I done no hurt that is to say I haue not trespassed against thee for I haue obeyed the lyning God. This admonition of the limittes of law●ull obedience is taught by perfit reason and confirmed by prophane examples acquitting s●●ayes men from the spot of disobedience that bend their endeuours to obey the supreme power and maiestie Antigona grauely excuseth ●●● selfe to King Creon saying that she may not for his commandement or feare violate the law of nature being diuine And whē Telemon the kings son with vehement speech defended his esponsed wife Antigona the King said How darest thou contend with thy 〈◊〉 He answered bycause thou wouldst do monstrous things Creon Do I mōstrously to honor my estate to vse my prerogatiue Hemon Thou canst not O King honor thy estate by any meanes when thou dishonorest God. Stobaeus reporteth a worthy answer giuen to a yong man by one Musonius in thys sort Ther was a yong man giuen altogyther to the studie of Philosophie and other liberal sciences but was hindred by his father who most earnestly forbad him those studies willed him to frame his life another way Thys yong man repaireth to Musonius vseth these words Musoni are children bound to obey their parēts generally or are ther some priuate causes excepted vnto 〈◊〉 he answered In my opiniō it is a thing very commendable for children to reuerence their parents but it were necessary to know what dutie and obedience is and if wee consider the contrary namely what the vice stubbornesse and disobediēce is we shall more easily know the vertue Wel then let vs by questiōs sift this matter What if a father hauing no skil in Phisick nor knowing y qualities and temperature of simples compounds would command his son being sick to receiue some medicine which the father thinketh profitable but is indeed vnholesome mortall will any man accompte the sonne disobedient bicause in suche causes he bath not folowed his fathers ●antasie verily I suppose not Moreouer if y father himself being sicke doe call vnto his son to giue him some meate or drinke whiche will satisfie his appetite but augment his sicknesse If the sonne giue not ●ate vnto his father therein will ye pronounce him obstinate surely no man of perfect mynd will so iudge of him Muche lesse is he to bee called disobedient that being commanded of his father to deceyut to steale to murder or to attempt or doe any thing vnlawfull will not fulfil his precept and commandement Therfore when men refuse to folow the willes and mindes of suche as do commaunde any thing vnhonest and vnlawful whether they be magistrātes fathers or masters they cānot rightly be fermed disobedient neither negligent in their dutie 〈◊〉 Musonius Touching other guestions hamely what if the Magistrate degenerate into Tirannie what if he woulde bring into the countrey aliantes and straung it s What if he would seeke ●o aban●on the trūe worshipping of God and receiue 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Religion These 〈◊〉 are withoute the conipasse of thy● my treatie beeing a consolation for magistrates only and cannot be discoursed with any edification neyther doe I finde any thyng written absolutely thereof by the learned And in deede sith that suche cases depend vppon Gods especiall dispensation without the whiche nothing can bee well enterprised nor more happily atchieued it were not only perilous but very hard to prescribe any generall rule in such cases Whereof that worthy Iewell late Bishop of Sarum hauing very good occasion to write largely by the prouocation of his aduersarie master Harding tempereth his stile in such sort that albeit he stoppeth the Papists mouthes touching the nobles of Scotland yet may the prudent reader very well perceyue his vnwilling minde to wade farre in that question It is our parts that be Englishmen with all gratefulnesse of voyce and hart to praise God for exempting vs out of such miserable cases and to pray for the continuance of the same vnder out tender and pitifull Lady and mistresse the Queenes most excellent Maiestie who by hir milde regimēt taketh away all occasion of suche questions And surely so long as she guideth the sterne of the shippe I haue good hope that we shall sayle in the calme and peaceable sea But it for our sinnes to almightie God srowardnesse towarde his maiestie shee faint or fayle then what will be out English tune but wo worth and wayle away For I see folowing hir dayes the lamentable times not of Henry the sixt Edward the fourth and Richarde the third sor xij or ●●● yeeres when the worlde was such as the Colyer that denied his seruice to eyther part and professed himselfe the Diuels man scaped best but the bloudy times of Ferrex and Porrex in whome the line and of spring of Brute ended after whose dayes this lande was rent into foure factions and for the space of 51. yeeres there was no lawe no iustice no peace but tumults vprorrs ciuill warres effusiō of bloud c. The remembraunce of these things must needes beate a wonderfull feare and horror into our bones and bowels and driue vs to pros●rate oure selues before his throne of Grace with deepe sighing and groning to craue that he woulde auert and turne away those sorowfull and ruthfull dayes or against those times prouide for our comforts some Gedeon or lepthe vnder whose couerts we may hide our selurs frō those terrible s●ormes and tempests The fourth Consolation of many examples out of diuine and prophane writers wherby we