Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	concern_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	35	3	9.0896	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91834	Albania or, Certaine concernments of Great Britanny. With an explication of the present state thereof; truely represented under the faigned person of Albania. / By George Raleigh.	Raleigh, George, b. 1600?	1641 (1641)	Wing R150; Thomason E179_16; ESTC R7782	47,700	65

his imagination and well suspected never to have beene more than by the fabulous report of foolish Legends which are commonly repeated in the Sermons of the Fryers to withdraw the memories and minds of their hearers from the love of the sacred Oracles But to heare what blasphemies and absurdities are contained therein any modest eare would blush and the Reader that made conscience of truth would be altogether ashamed But why stir I this filthy puddle what doth not this pretended undertaker to manage all things in heaven earth presume He can make of a creature a God as of bread in the Sacrament of the Eucharist by the vertue of Transubstantiation Hee can make God as a creature by turning the glory of God into the similitude of a corruptible creature This Agnoa is thy holy Father so omnipotent and so rare a wonder worker And I am not so much ashamed of thy grosse ignorance that may well be called the mother of such devotion but of great Potentates and worldly wise politicians so well do carnall doctrines agree with great wealth and projects that love to be blindfolded and stumble in the darke in such a Sunshine of the Gospell and light of the truth as shines round about them and yet they as that silly old woman in Seneca though she were stark blind would not be perswaded that shee could see nothing was caused onely by the darknesse of the roome and no defect of her eye-sight will make no question but that they only are in the right and will maintaine the infallibility of their supreme guider and defend with tooth and naile lies and wonders treasons and murders by clipping of Orthodoxe truths with an Index expurgato●ius or harsh censure and clapping in forged inventions and manifest falshoods into many of those learned Authors workes and treasure them up in the Archives of their Babylonish Vatican that according to the beleefe and after the manner of their forefathers they as the true Catholiques of Verana are onely within the pales of the Church and that all such as are otherwise minded are capitall heretiques and worthy by sword and fire to be rooted out from the face of the earth and the society of mankind But thankes be to the Almighty that takes our part so that rage how they will wee shall never be left wholly to their power although for our sinnes they may prove sometimes as the Canaanites to the children of Israel in those times thornes to our sides It shall be for a tryall to bring us to repentance and cause us to sticke more neere unto our God whom whilst wee onely serve will against all enemies tempopall or spirituall mightily defend us but those which in this manner strive against him are worthy in my judgement I am not so uncharitable to have them drowned and so to perish body and soule to be set up to the chin in the mad mans poole till they come to see their folly and be capable of some recovery and thus Agnoa said thee must you be dealt with if you meane to stay here or shortly resolve to recant your errours without delay and declare your mind plainly without any equivocation or mentall reservation Agnoa who was as it seemes of a very flexible disposition and somewhat easie to be wrought upon as having neither Sophistry nor subtill distinctions to set a faire colour upon a foule matter nor impudencie flatly to deny or contradict those apparent truths which Aletheia had delivered and being out of the sight and advise of any Erra Pater that might disswade her promised to be ruled by their counsell When Astene one of Albania's faithfull servants and that was very carefull of her Mistresses welfare and guilty of nothing so much if tendernesse of conscience in things indifferent be an errour as of too nice restraint of Christian liberty when she saw that Agnoa whose breeding and condition did so much differ from hers was like to be admitted for a fellow servant she could not brooke it upon any termes and was about in a passionate way to shew some tokens of her displeasure but that Aletheia who well knew her nature perceiving and much misliking by the way of prevention first began Astene said shee you need not be so much troubled as by your countenance appeares in that we have condescended to the request of Agnoa wherein wee do neither approve nor meane to beare with her ignorance and errour but hoping some good may be wrought upon her by reclaiming her from her wrong opinion and instructing her in the knowledge of the truth I am sure you cannot be so much her enemy as to begrudge her the one nor so uncharitable as not to joyne your helping hand with ours in the other Let not her simplenesse cause in you either disdaine or contempt and consider that no one can presume to know so much but that there is a great deale more to learne neither need you be ashamed in somethings to be better informed I confesse you are very zealous in your profession and I beleeve without dissimulation and there cannot be too much zeale in matters that concerne immediately the glory of God but in some causes zeale must be moderated with discretion when a circumstance may be used or not and the worship of God no wayes lessened or the more furthered thereby in which respect Obedience is better than Sacrifice Beare you with Agnoa's infirmities as those which are stronger beare with your weaknesses Consider we hate no ones person but their ill qualities and we judge 〈◊〉 to be so bad as to deny him our prayers and endeavours for his amendment His obstinacie when there is occasion shall not diminish our charity Wee do not detest Idolana so much as not to desire or be glad of her reformation in Doctrine and Manners We depart only from her corruptions as she is departed from the purer times and Primitive Doctors We goe no further from the falshood of her traditions but as wee may come neerer to the truth of Gods Word I wish her Doctrine were as consonant unto ours as ours is to the Scriptures and so agreeing with Us in Ceremonies as we are different from it in superstitions Wee do not any good we do the more as in opposition to her but because it is commanded and do not take the contrary of her actions to be the best rule to square our devotions Wherein shee erres not from the truth wee may not dissent from her Who would hate the good conditions of any man for the rest of the bad qualities in him Who would fast the rather or eate f●sh onely upon Fridaies if the Papist should eate nothing but flesh that day or who would make invitations the sooner upon those dayes designed by our adversaries to abstinence Or what Minister of the Gospell would be the lesse scrupulous to say his Service in white if he did know a Priest of Idolana without Cope or other like Vestment to say