Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	father_n	see_v	1,602	5	3.6371	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26757	The confession of the faithfull witnesse of Christ, Mr. John Bastwick doctor of physick wherein he doth declare his education and the grounds of his conversion and constancie, in the true professions of Faith : with the reasons wherefore hee became an adversary to our bishops whom he proveth to be the toes of antichrist and dangerous prelates to abide in our church : with a relation of their great pride in setting the kings picture over their dresser in the high commission court, with his hat off and his crown and scepter laid downe before their worships like a delinquent / by Iohn Bastwick...	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing B1059; ESTC R1532	6,239	9

authority and barbarously reviled me for my paines most impiously likewise vilified the holy Scripture saying in their Sessions that they looked for some great matter in my book finding me so confident but more diligently reading of it they found nothing but Scripture in it which was the refuge of all Schismaticks and Hereticks and that the Scripture could not be known to be Scripture but by the Fathers nor distinguished from the Apocrypha but by the Fathers nor the meaning of the Scripture could not be known but by the Fathers and because the Fathers as they said were in their interpretation diverse from mee which notwithstanding is not so therefore they condemned me But I pray are not all these blasphemous Popish and Damnable assertions could worse have b●n forged in the very conclave of hell Is not this I pray you to tell the spirit of God to his face he lyes and to teach another way to heaven then by the Scripture which Christ the Son of God sende●h us to and all the Prophets and Apostles as to the Instructers of the simple and able to make the man of God wise to salvation perfectly furnished to every good work and the which the holy Ghost compares to a Guide a Lanthorn for direction and a light to conduct us in this our Pilgrimage peregrination through the errors of the world and to keepe our feet in the paths of truth and with the Prelates this great and glorious light this Scripture must be so obscure as it must be inferior to all things that have a power in themselves to declare and demonstrate their own nature as fire to be fire gold to be gold light to be light But the Scripture onely that cannot be known but by the helpe of others to be the Word of God it cannot be the word of God without the Fathers and their Interpretation of them for the Scriptures themselves they are the onely refuge of Schismaticks the cause of all errors and that that commeth confirmed and proved onely from Scripture is ever to be suspected with the Prelates O Blasphemy yea the booke that hath nothing but Scripture must be adjudged to the fire and the Author of it given over to the Divell fined 1000 ls and cenfured to pay the costs of sute be debarred of his practice only support left for the reliefe of his distressed family to the utter undoing of him his poore wife and children and all this for sooth because there was nothing but Scripture in it O horrible Impiety The truth is howsoever they seemed to condemn it because it had nothing but Scripture that was not the occasion but the very cause was because I writ against the Pope Father Antichrist such correspondency there is now betweene the Pope and the Prelates that one cannot write against him but the Prelates say by and by that they are meant by it The Grolls IT is worth the looking on to see the pride of the Prelates in setting the Kings picture over their dresser in the high Commission Court for they have placed his Highnes standing with his hat off before their Worships like a delinquent his Crown Soepter laid low as the poore Emperors and Kings were wout to stand before his impiety the Pope when they were cited to his Courts Of which stories you may read many in King James his Apologie to goe no farther and in this very manner have they set up the Portraits of our renowned King And the very intrinsecall Marry-bone of the matter is they trample upon his Imperiall dignity while they seeme to honour him with whom they make themselves in the meane time Ch●ckmates for they say they were before Christian Kings and had their thrones and that they were not beholding to them for their Honour and Dignity of Episcopality for they were Jure Divino that they were FINIS