Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	case_n	king_n	law_n	2,786	5	4.8506	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46774	Two letters written to a gentleman of note guilty of common swearing. By B.J.	B. J.	1691 (1691)	Wing J5A; ESTC R216972	28,794	72

But out-brav'd with big Looks and Bug-Words draws on himself scorn and contempt O divide not Honorem ab Onere Do not decline those Burdens which cleave to the Honours you sustein Harden your face against all the Temptations that would Warp you another way Contemn the Frowns the Favours and the Letters of Great Ones in Comparison of that Trust which Greater Ones than they the KING and State and yet a Greater than they the Great GOD of Heaven and Earth hath reposed in you Gird your Sword upon your Thigh and keeping ever within the Compass of your Commission as the Sun in the Zodiack Go on as a Gyant that rejoyces to run his Race So shall the Wicked fear you the Good bless you Posterity praise you your own Hearts cheer you and the Great God above Reward you TO speak to you once more Sir in your Military Capacity if I may Adventure so far upon the Sharps to approach the Armed Champion with nothing but this little Sling in my hand as the apprehension of your Danger and the necessity of your Case is my Call So the Goodness of the Cause with my Affiance in him whom I plead it for is all my defence Your Post I confess Sir is Honorable appearing in the Head of a Company to Fight for your King and Country Laws and Religion And we that stay at home as we ought to Assist you all that Lies in us with our Prayers So to neglect no opportunity of expressing our Thankful Resentment of the Noble Service when you are pleas'd to engage in Hazzards and Hardships for us He very ill deserves to share in any the Advantages of your worthy Enterprize who does not Honour and Heartily Wish you well But how he should truely Honour you who is nothing concerned for that which is your greatest Dishonour or in earnest desire your Welfare who nener Cares though you lye and dye in the most dangerous Damning Wickedness as he would not let your Beast lye in a Ditch if he could help it I do not understand And for my part Sir I cannot but take this Plain-dealing with you for the best expression of my real inclination to serve and do you all the Good I am capable of Should I be so unhappy as be misunderstood I must bear that Cross But now a Door is open to me I shall not spare both for my own sake and yours also that take up Arms for us to Cry aloud of that which so fearfully Endangers all IF Souldiers and Seamen who carry their Lives in their hands and Border so much nearer than the rest upon another World will verifie the common observation made upon 'em That Swearing Damning and all God-despising so rife among them passes for the Fashionable Badge of their Profession and a Characteristick Note to distinguish them from other men They only tell us what Anomalous Creatures there are in Humane Nature as well as of Bruital Kind and that Africk is not the only Part of the World which breeds Monsters when we can find so near Home such Profligate Offenders as give too manifest Specimens what a Mighty Empire has the Devil to Sweep down even Stars with his Tayl To Metamorphose Men and make them like himself Rage the more Because they have but a short time yea and be then worst when they have all the reason in the world to be Best of all when they are going into the Field or upon the Waters to fly out upon their Judge Eternal at whose Bar they are ready to hold up their Hands and mistake the best of Friends for their chiefest Foe like a sort of Frantick Theomachi that had no design upon Small or Great but only that King of Israel who is the Lord of Hosts to send up Volleys against Heaven and dare the Divine Vengeance Of whom we are Tempted to say quite contrary to what the men of Lystra did of Paul and Barnabas The Devils are come up to us in the likeness of Men when with with this Hellish Oratory they shew themselves so Learned in the Depths of Satan and discharge such Eruptions as if they carryed an Aetna or worse Fire within Gent. Call we need not be at the pains to draw their Picture who Limn themselves in such hideous Blasphemies as speak their Parentage too plain and point out who is their Father that Teaches them no better To whom agrees Sir Edwin Sandy's Observation of some that think it a Glorious Grace to Adore the King of a Country but to Name or think Reverently of the Creator of the World to proceed from a Timerous very Base-mindedness and Abjectness The Souldiers Profession and Exercise saies that Worthy Knight was of Old reputed the only School of Virtue So that the Wisest Philosopher thought the Lacedaemonians therefore more Vertuous generally than other Nations because they followed the Wars more At this day 't is a Cause in all Places of clean contrary Effects and now Infam'd with all Vice and Villany Blasphemings have so prevailed now in our Christian Camps that if any Refrain them he shall be upbraided as no Souldier or Gallant minded Man That the very Turks have the Christians Blaspheming of Christ in Execration and will punish their Prisoners for it yea the Jews in their Speculations of the Causes of the strange Successes of the Affairs of the World Assign the Reason of the Turks so prevailing against the Christians to be their Blasphemies and Blasphemous Oaths which Wound the Ears of the very Heavens and Cry to the High Throne of Justice for speedy Vengeance WELL may the Enemies Laugh among themselves to see such goe to Fight for the Reformed Religion who themselves so hate to be Reformed and while they carry the Bible in their Colours nothing but bid Defiance to its Blessed Author with their Tongues How low then must be our hopes of a Blessing upon the Service of such Miscreants Or though the Almighty who it 's true can make the Worst Instruments serve the Best Purposes as Judas himself who meant nothing less was made subservient to the Worlds Redemption Though he should give Prosperity to the Arms of ill Men for the sake of a Good Cause as sometimes he Flushes the Espousers of a Bad to Fat them up for Slaughter Though he throw the Bryars in the Gap to stop the Enemies Incursions yet after that service what are those Bryars good for but the Fire But how much Sir might such as you do to stop the spreading Contagion of this Epidemick Plague so hot in our Armies would you but Phineas-like stand up and Execute Judgment and imploy the Influence you have upon those under you to make them feel the smart of it on their Backs or in their Purses if not in the very Part Offending For I need not acquaint you Sir what are the Rules and Articles of War you know this is one That if any Officer or Souldier shall presume to Blaspheme God he shall have his