Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	good_a	great_a	3,277	5	2.6620	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66792	Tuba-pacifica seasonable precautions, whereby is sounded forth a retreat from the war intended between England and the united-provinces of lower Germany / by Geo. Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1664 (1664)	Wing W3204; ESTC R15041	15,262	34

exile For GOD hath made your Countrie to become The strongest Bulwork in all Christendom Both against GOG and MAGOG cover'd Foes And such as openly the Saints oppose That saving Truth and sincere innocence Might thereby be preserv'd from violence Especially from their hate who pursue The precious seed of Christ in them and you By Antichristian wiles which hatched were In your own wombs and nursed up now are By seeming Friends who hide their fallacies VVith gaudy vails and vain formalities Untill the souls for which they traps prepare Are hunted unto death or to their snare These Ingineers within your bosomes lie And what their chief aims are no doubt have I. Think on these things and whether 't is from me Or from God that you minded of them be For what I had to write when I begun I knew not nor shall I know when 't is done What by my Prompter I was mov'd unto Untill I read it over as you do To see what is of God in ev'ry line As if those writings had been none of mine When GOD by despicable means and men As he to do is pleased now and then Speaks to a King or Nation it doth carry A shew of somewhat extraordinary To be consider'd on with serious heed And it importeth somewhat to succeed When waving men train'd up in learned Schools He speaks to them by those whom they count fools Makes others as of old some Prophets were Actors in things that scandalous appear To most Spectators yea ridiculous To sober men as oft of late with us Rendring them signs unto their generation Of what 's to come 't is worth consideration Especially when injuries and scorn Are patiently with sober stoutness born For conscience sake and all men truly wise Although such dispensations fools despise Are deeply sensible of what on those The ignorance and hate of some impose To whom it will be manifest ere long That they have injur'd those to their own wrong If yet you know it not now be it known That by the power which is on you bestown To be on all occasions whilst you have it Employed for his honour who first gave it You were intrusted and inabled so As you have been not your own will to do Or that you to exalt your selves above Your Neighbours GODS donations might improve Into such an exorbitance of power That at your pleasure you might them devour Oppress your Brethren and advantage them VVho Adversaries are to you and him For they were given to preserve their Peace VVho under you in love and righteousness Desire to live the same Faith have profest And by Usurping Tyrants are opprest VVhich Grace if you shall turn into oppression Or wantonness will hasten your perdition Make many of your truest Friends grow sad And me who of your welfare should be glad Be forc'd ray work to close in imitation Of Jeremiah with a Lamentation You will but give your foes just cause to laugh To see you quarrelling for straw and chaff VVilst they get opportunity to burn Those Granards down whereby the precious corn Might be preserv'd wherewith your bread of life May be supply'd if you desist from strife VVho can assure you that the provocations Whereby now very many in both Nations Exasperated are will not afford Fit opportunities by your discord Some such contrivances then to project And prosecute as prudence may suspect For though what Faction moves mad men to do VVill ruine them at last so 't will you too VVhat men who have good consciences will shun VVill by men without consciences be done VVhen God shall let them loose or call together All sors of sinners to correct each other 'T is likewise possible that many things Pretended causes of your quarrellings If they were well examin'd would be found Meer scandals raised without real ground To make misactings on both sides appear By Aggravations greater then they were For in both Nations there is such a Rabble By their ill manners much more despicable Then by their Fortunes who for servile ends In hope of profit or to make them friends Of those whom they sought to exasperate Did some misactings much more aggravate Then there was cause and so that which was bad VVas by their falshood more offensive made This hath been kindling 'twixt you many years A smothering Fire which now to Blaze appears But hitherto these had not power to blow The flame so high as they have rais'd it now For GOD did but permit them for probation And though it was of long continuation Hath so your wealth increas'd that as 'twixt Lot And Abraham it now hath strife begot GOD by his grace direct you to a course The consequent thereof may not be worse Your force united hath been heretofore A terrour to the vassals of that Whore VVhich rides the Beast yea often such a dread To her when she at highest bore her head That she 's inrag'd to see you have so long Against her Soceries continu'd strong Though to supplant you she laid many a Train Which had not then contrived been in vain Had you been so divided as this day You are or as perhaps e're long you may But Unity did make you so compact A Body that her wiles could not distract Your prudent Counsels neither from your course Divert you by her cunning joyn'd with force This by experience found she doth begin To work upon you by another Gin Which will extend to many far and near Who deem they thereby unconcerned are For they who foolishly themselves now flatter That they by fishing in your troubled water Shall get Advantages will be bereaved Of those expectancies now preconceived For that which follows be it whatsoere Will further GODS designments but not their And though you may by folly loose your ends She shall not bring to pass what she intends If she by this Division break your power She thinks that she shall easily devour The scatter'd Churches which in hazard lie Within the limits of her Sov'raignty Then those that stronger are though more remote Assoon as opportunities are got To practice on them by the force of Arms Or by the power of her besotting Charms And if they take effects her work is done Untill GODS Counter-work shall be begun Who though mans working with him he expects Shall no advantage lose by their defects VVho give Advantages unto his Foes By trifling that away which he bestows To do him service But they shall becom Partakers with Apostates in their doom That grand Impostris now resolves to play Divisions making all those whom she may Dance to her Fiddle and to bring about Her purposes hath very little doubt For as a wasted Candle when it sinks Into the greasie socket and there stinks Sends greater flashings forth and blazeth more A little while then any time before So she doth now with her whole force persue The mischief she hath long design'd for you And not much wanting seemeth to compleat That whereupon her heart