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	let_v	see_v	1,400	5	2.9576	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27083	A true and faithful warning unto the people and inhabitants of Bristol and unto the rulers, priests, and people of England ... that they might prepare to meet the Lord ... / ... Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473D; ESTC R16496	30,294	42

best of the creation which in obedience to the Lord I continued in about 20 dayes without any natural sustenance except water which did so amaze them that they themselves could not but confesse it to be more than a natural thing seeing I was well and in good health every way at the end of the time which thing was so taken notice of amongst them that they could not endure to detain us longer after insomuch that the Lord making way for us we were released and we took our journey towards France where in the Power and Authority of God I was drawn forth to warn both Rulers Priests and People in Town City and Country until I came through the Nation and being ready to take shipping for England I spake unto two Priests of the Popish Order unto whom I declared as I had done unto many more destruction and a final end of all Idol Priests Idols and Idolaters for which Cause I violently was halled away and committed to prison in a Court called Bucke De Ault which was between Deap and Abbuilly about 20 Leagues from Dover where I continued about the space of 2 Moneths and after publick Examination and Tryall the Prison doores were set open from whence I passed to Callis continuing still to warn the People for which Cause I was had before the Magistrates and being examined by them they let me pass away toward Graveling where I was at the English Nunnery where I warned them though they would not let me see their face and after some threatning I had from their Priest I departed from thence toward Dunkirk where I was presently taken up by the Governour 's Officers and by him retained as Prisoner in his own house until the next day he sent me away in a Friggot of the Kings for England alleadging for his so doing that it was because he feared I would make a disturbance amongst the Papists saying to this purpose that there was Articles of agreement betwixt them and that they were not to be disturbed which thing he feared I would do and I being landed at Deale I passed towards Dover to visit my friends after this my sore tryal and travel amongst the Papists and e're I was in that Town 24 houres I was by the Mayor of the Town taken from a friends house of mine and committed to prison for a Jesuite where I remained about 7 Moneths and after my release from thence I took my journey towards London where I had not been long but I was apprehended by the Magistrates of the City as they were sitting at a Court in the Old Bayly who espied me only as a beholder of other transactions against my Dear friends who are called Quakers for which they sent for me and tendred me the Oath making that the same snare to ensnare me as their manner was and is still to doe to the innocent and from thence I was Committed to New-gate where I was with many more of my Brethren kept about the space of 4 Moneths until I was so weak that I was carried out in a Chaire And upon my recovery from this weaknesse I went unto one of our publick Meeting-places neare Alders-gate in London where I was taken again with the Lords innocent People under the pretence of Plotters which thing we were wholly cleere of for the thing then intended or pretended against us was a plot which was afterwards found to be intended by a people contrary-minded unto us both in their lives practises and principles for which some of them suffered death who were wholly strangers unto us and woe unto such kind of plotters Notwithstanding many of us suffered imprisonment until death in and about London for this Cause amongst whom I was a deep sufferer until the last though the King himselfe did confesse to mine and our innocency And all this as for mine own particular I could have buried in oblivion and never have made mention of it more were it not for the cleering of the innocency of that Truth of God which I professe and live in from the scandalous reproaches of Ishmael's stock at whose hands I have suffered such things as would be both long and hard to utter it now being the sixth time I have been committed to Prison by the hands of unreasonable men since I have returned from Rome once at Dover and four times at London All which sufferings imprisonments nothing was or ever could be proved against me as the breach of any Law save that by which mens Consciences are restrained from worshipping of God according to the perswasion of his Spirit in their own Consciences and also because I would not break Christs Commands who saith Swear not at all to obey the Commands of men to swear And though for those two things I have so suffered I have this day a Conscience void of offence towards all men who are of honest hearts and am cleer also in the sight of God concerning them both and am at this instant Justified in his sight and he knoweth how that I seek the good of all men though an open enemy to all deceitful works hireling Priests and Deceivers upon the face of the Earth whether in Pope or Prelate or what sort degree or denomination soever I had not been 3 Weekes released out of London Prison of Bridewell before I was committed here In which Prison I was committed by Richard Brown only for speaking a few words in the street because they did hinder me and my friends of going into our hired house I being committed to the Counter but the Week before for the same Cause and released about the middle of the week by Robinson then Mayor of London and but 3 dayes before that I was released out of New-gate upon the death of Deare E. B. with whom I was a prisoner severall Moneths as both in one Prison though not in one Roome but a little time before his death in which the Lord did Everlastingly Crown him with Glory Honour and blessing For this I shall leave upon record concerning him that as he was honourable in his life so he was in death and his seed shall praise his noble Acts for ever in which he was Renowned And now upon my release in London I tooke my journey towards this City where I had been but a short time to the number of two or three dayes before I was cast in Bonds here only for speaking to two Priests of this City telling them the blind led the blind and both would fall into the ditch and as it happened one of them was blind which was more than I know for I had never seen their faces before but these men being guilty inwardly of the Charge soone proved it by their fruits and actions who presently caused me by reason of their complaints to be had before their Rulers who being willing and ready to satisfie their malicious desires did soon tender me the Oath as there being not any seeming just cause