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	grace_n	work_n	1,789	5	5.8920	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16739	A dialogue full of pithe and pleasure: betvveene three phylosophers: Antonio, Meandro, and Dinarco vpon the dignitie, or indignitie of man. Partly translated out of Italian, and partly set downe by way of obseruation. By Nicholas Breton, Gentleman.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1603 (1603)	STC 3646; ESTC S104777	26,456	38

nature in his first perfection neither thinke any beast fish or fowle so monstrous in shape as man is in nature when he followeth the course of his corruption but if hée were created of the slime of the earth as Maister Antonio describes him the greater was the glory of the Creator of so vile a matter to make so excellent a creature as man or if he were as Meandro holdes him created of the creame of the earth yet the Butter was but a grosse substance to make so gracious a creatur● as man but say that hee was first framed out of the loue of God which did create him to his owne Image yet you see more then was of that loue kept no part of perf●●tion but fell through the weaknesse of it selfe into the ruine of it selfe for the flesh tooke infection whereby the spirit being corrupted the whole creature was ouerthrowne so that that man or woman that in the loue and feare of God is not obedient to his will nor thankfull for his graces such a world of enormities will sinne beget in his soule that by the infection thereof hée will become more vgly in the sight of God then the greatest monster in the world in the sight of man and s● by due consideration be found by many indignities to be the most dishonourable creature in the world for outward forme behold the excellencie of Gods wisedome in his workmanship vpon all creatures the feathers of the byrds the haires of the beasts and the scales of the fishes how euen and smoothe they lye how long they kéepe their colo●r that nature hath once giuen them whi●● man according to his age eyther chaungeth or looseth both colo●● and haire too in strength the ●yon doth exceed him in swiftnesse the Hare will outrunne him and the Dolphin outswim him in sweetnesse the Nightingale outsing him in labour the Oxe will out-toile him and in subtiltie the Foxe will out-match him so that in all these gifts of nature with many other he is inferiour in commendation to the beasts birds and the fishes and therefore can iustly challenge no honor aboue them only reason he hath beyond them by which he hath power to gouerne ouer them of which once depriued he is worse then any of them the beast though he haue all the field before him will eate no more the bird though she pearch neuer so safely will sléepe no more the fish though hée haue all the sea before him will drinke no more then will suffice nature while the Epicure will eate till his Iawes ake the Drunkard will swill till his eyes stare and the sluggard will sléepe till his bones ake while the one with his blowing the other with his réeling and the third with his snorting so laies himselfe open to the world in the filthinesse of his imperfection that who beholds the beastes temper and the mans intemperancie wil in worthinesse of commendation set the beasts before the man Againe in talke what Pye chatters like a Scold what wolfe more cruell then a Tyrant what Sowe more filthy then a Sl●t what Sparrowe more luxurious then a Whore what Foxe more subtill then a knaue what Toade more venemous then a Villain or Serpent more deadly then a malicious woman Did euer bird betray the Eagle his king the beast the Lyon his king or the fish the Whale his king and how many Kings haue bene betraied by trayterous Rebels and supposed subiects yea be theyr owne seruants I would there were not too many examples to the shame of man to confirme it Nay more how that all and aboue all blessed gratious good holy and glorious mercifull King of Kings our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus was betrayed by that diuel of a man that false wicked and most detestable villaine Iudas what a shame may it be to the nature of man to thinke that euer man should be of so vile a nature Thus then you may see how in the worst pa●t in the wickednesse of the heart man may worthily be called the worst creature of the whole world Yet least I leaue man in dispaire of himselfe to thinke of the vilenesse of his corrupted nature let me speake somewhat to his comfort that hath yet bene spoken of that fi●st pure substāce that spiritual instinct of loue The first cause of mans creation hath in his spirit such an eternall power as that though some vesselles of his wrath he hath ordained to his secret iudgement yet in man generally that hath any féeling of his mercie he hath so glorious a working of his grace that by many admira●le deserts of commendation he may well be called the most honorable of all creatures who teacheth the horse his true manages the bird his ●are notes the dogge his straunge qualities but man Furthermore is there not in the face of man such a kinde of diuine power giuen him by his Creator as giues a kind of terror vnto all creatures and in the heart of man is not that vnderstanding that makes him the most honorable of all other How many and ra●e Arts how excellent cunning workes how rich gorgious monuments the diuisions of times the app●ications o● experiments the imployments of natures and the obseruations of examples the fetching the byrd from the aire the fruite from the earth the beast from the field the fish from the sea the Fowlers grinnes the Hunters snares and the Fishers nettes are they not all the labours of the witte of man the Instruments of warre the treatise of peace the harmonies of Musique and the ditties of loue are they not the deuise of man Is not the firmament as it were ruled out the earth as it were chalked ●ut and the sea as it were cut out as if there were a walke amid the starres a passage through the earth and a path through the seas to which purpose the Globes and Mappes are made by the witte of man and may not all these excellencies in the wit of man aboue all creatures proue the honor of man But aboue all these that spirit or soule of man which in immortalitie beholds the eternall life in grace beholds the eternall comfort and in mercy beholds the eternall goodnesse wherein the Saints are blessed the Martyrs reioyce the virgins are graced and the Angels are glorious and where all together in one Consort doo sing the Halleluiah of eternitie this comfort when man receiueth by that faith that God hath by the inspiration of his holy spirit so fixed in him that it can neuer be from him when man I say by the gratious blessing of God can effect so rare excellencies in the worlde and beholde so many superexcellencies in the heauens as the eye of no creature but man is able to looke after and withall hath as I saide that heauenly blessing of immortalitie that is graunted to no creature but man Let man be as hée was in his creation or as hée should be in his generation and then leauing