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	love_n	love_v	1,580	5	6.8174	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80534	The Iesuit, and the monk: or, The serpent, and the dragon: or, Profession, and practice. Being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1656. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C622; Thomason E897_5; ESTC R206691	27,529	33

was the head of a thousand and three hundred Monks whom that he might the better distinguish and govern he divided into four and twenty Classes according to the number of the Letters in the Greek Alphabet so far forth that in what Letter soever they were placed their Natures and Manners should be deciphered and repre●en●ed by the shape of the Letter Those whom Nature had endowed with a direct and simple Disposition for in those times there were many such he put into the Classis of Iota and they bore that Name Now is the plainest and simplest Letter of all others it being but one right little line struck downwards But his involv'd cunning and obscure-hearted Monks if less cunning he called ζ if more ξ because these are Serpentine Dragonish and winding Letters Verily-Verily they are our Saviours holy Words I never saw I would I could say the contrary an Iota Jesuit or Monk in all my life but of ● and ● Jesuits and Monks I have seen whole swarms being people of dark and crooked Hearts and of tongues having all irregular motions and moving through every dark place in the whole Labyrinth of a Lye Allow me freedom a little I know a Yorkshire Knight Mistake me not He is no Monk but his Brother is their Lord Prelate in Germany for such they prefer beyond the Seas who are allied to rich persons in England and there governs another would say a nasty crew I may not I dare not I will not a few Monks whom he multiplies with his own poor kinred yea there he sells strong drink to the drunken Germans The Knight will tell you in his York-shire Language that he has been a Pilgrim at Jerusalem and that there he thrust his right arm even up to his shoulder into the hole on the top of Mount Calvary wherein the Cross of our Saviour was fastned My scope is This Arm notwithstanding it was straight in the ground where the foot of our Saviours Cross stood turns and winds it self in the world and has more strange motions of the Serpent in the business of gain and lucre than any other Arm in York-shire yea of those that never were enquiring into the hole at Mount Calvary Their Arms will winde and turn their Hands their Tongues their Hearts These great Professors without performance are as they are call'd Phil. 2. 5. Natio prava perversa a crooked and perverse Nation and belong to the crooked Serpent Job 26. 13. To shut up this Note Nieremb Hist Naturae lib. 6. c. 9. Nierem●ergius writes of a stinking beast in India the excrement of which is living Snakes Reflect at your leisure upon a Passage in Geffrey Chaucer unto which I adde my grain If that stinking Beast the Devil were in a condition of exercising vital operations that is the acts of life I will not say in his old shape of a Serpent but as a Dragon he could not analogically and agreeably have other Excrement than an English Jesuit or my Heart bleeds Tears Monk they are so Dragonish so fiery so full of new shapes so lying so like the Devil I am now yours Beloved First think with your selves Had this Prodigie of mischief march'd on and caught effect as in the death of the little Infants St. Cyprian Ep. 24. for as St. Cyprian takes into Consideration Infantia innocens ob nomen ejus occisa est Innocent Infancy was fitly killed for his Name As I say in the death of the little Infants Mat. 2. 18. Rachel wept for her Children and would not be comforted because they were not How many Rachels should we have had weeping amongst us Rachel in the Oriental Tongues signifies a Sheep and she mighr well weep for her little Lambs cruelly slain in rhe cause of the Lamb of God Secondly Beloved Let me commend unto you the Exhortation of St. John who as he was the beloved Disciple most and chiefly exhorted his Disciples to Love 1 Jo. 3. 18. My little Children let us not love in Word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth Little Children love sincerely Mat. 18. v. 2. 4. and therefore our Saviour set one in the midd'st of his Disciples exhorting them to be as that little Child The Word is here distinguished from the Tongue An unprofitable word may perhaps break loose for want of continual attention but he that gives over the iustrument of Speceh which is the Tongue unto Fraud and falshood is himself altogether unprofitable If ye cannot love spiritually love morally Psal 139. 4. There is not a word in my Tongue Others set it forth Non est dolus in linguâ meâ There is no deceit in my Tongue S. Chrysost in hunc locum Or as another in St. Chrysostom Non est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is not another and another Speech there is no Contradiction betwixt my mind and my Mouth I concentre my Heart and my Countenance in my Tongue Thirdly Beloved Ye will hear all this Powder-Plot contradicted by them and thrown back upon those who then wore the Names of Puritans This as other Things of the same badge makes evidently plain that as it is Jo. 8. 44. They are of their Father the Devil and that the lusts of their Father they will doe he was a lyer and a murderer from the beginning They are Lyars Slanderers c. Plin. nat hist lib. 8. cap. 22. Pliny speaks truly Nullum tam impudens Mendacium est ut Teste careat There is not a lye so impudent but it is furnished with a witness Now do I greatly want Raphael Urbinus an Italian Painter who having pictured St Peter and St. Paul with red faces and being demanded the reason by a Cardinal his noble Customer answered That he pictured them as now they were in Heaven mainly blushing in the sight of their wicked Successours I would have St. Ignatius Loiola painted with a very red face a face as red as fire and be not offended if I modestly use thy name in the cause of Eternity St. Bennet with a face red beyond fire and as if he had been even now O sad News plentifully entertained at Lamb spring where his Monks sell Beer that paints a deep red in the faces of the merry Germans Now I have said this I am sorry I have a relenting heart beyond Decency Fourthly Beloved Let us heartily bless God that hath delivered us There is Laus Mentis Laus Oris Laus Operis the praise of Mind the praise of Mouth the praise of Work Let us praise him chiefly with our utmost praise that is with holy lives and Conversations For Mouth-praises God's praises in Iob are excellently coincident with our Deliverances Job 5. 12. He disappointeth the Devices of the Crafty so that their Hands cannot perform their Enterprise v. 13. He taketh the wise in their own Craftiness and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong And so forward The Greeks and Eastern Christians use a verie pious