Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03875	The mirrour of mindes, or, Barclay's Icon animorum, Englished by T.M.; Satyricon. Part 4. English	Barclay, John, 1582-1621.; May, Thomas, 1595-1650.	1631 (1631)	STC 1399; ESTC S100801	121,640	564

have there played the trewants through wanton idlenesse or dulnesse of Nature may by the helpe of a little money attaine the degree of Advocate onely by buying the suffrages of the other advocates to whose testimony concerning the suffiency of Students the Magistrates and Iudges give credit Which was by an ancient custome that such honour should bee given to theyr testimonies in the old time before the mindes of Learned men and Lawyers were subject to so base a mercenary way And these men so undeservingly admitted to that degree doe afterwards live in ignoble Colonyes and among soules of their owne dulnesse will serve to make wretched advocates before a blind Tribunall Or if they bee borne of rich parents they are straight received for their wealth and afterwards which is the griefe are made Magistrates But those that have adorned a happie wit first with law and afterwards with eloquence perfited it they with their worth doe highly honour the whole ranke of advocates Sca●se in any other men are the Studies of humanity so truely found or so great and happy a care in good Learning insomuch as they seeme to instru●t the Muses whom austere and rude Philosophers have kept as wilde and rusticke out of the society of men to all the abilities of a civill life and taking them from their secret and mountainous aboades fit them for the true light of Conversation But some of them offend by affectation of too much Eloquence and heated with the incitations of Youth and vaine glory divert from their duty of advocation They desire onely to tickle the eare of the Iudges and Auditours with pleasure and of all the company doe lesse good to no man than theyr Client and as the Poet of old scoffed when they should speake of Goates they love to beginne theyr discourse with the warres of HANNIBALL to rehearse the overthrow at CANNAE and the stayning of AVFIDVS with Roman blood Others of them are great by exercising theyr wits in a long custome of deceiving and to the ruine of innocence prostitute theyr mercenarie faith to the patronage of any Cause So to beare downe the true evidences to draw an artificiall shadow and to make theyr wits have more to doe than the Lawes themselves in a Court of Iustice are things which proove enough this publike mischiefe there are no causes no offences questioned but may finde a Patron if they bring money which as a thing quite outweighing all love to their Countrey can never want observance and respect * ⁎ * The sixteenth Chapter Of Divines Of Rulers in Religion LEt some of barbarous and unpolish'd natures scoffe as they list with contemptuous jests at the Majesty of learning and account that mind manly and noble which eschewes all the Muses as base and uselesse yet notwithstanding their estates are oftentimes lyable to the power of learning which reignes in all cases and in judgment seates which ought to be governed by the praescript of science they use to tremble forgetting both their birth and boldnesse But there is another and a greater power which gives learning a domination over all Mankind the administration of Religion and holy rites which is committed usually to men of learning and which truely reignes over most mens mindes curbing no lesse all others who are forced of necessity to conceale their Atheisme and Impiety Nor is there any estate so poore or of so ignoble a birth as can keepe a man from high fame who in the way of religion puts forth himselfe above the common honesty or badnesse And least we should thinke that this power of learning hath not taken effect how easily may we reckon up the names of men unarmed and onely powerfull in their bookes who in this age living under meane roofes and contending in points of Religion have set these great and proud contemners of the Muses together by the eares Bearing as it were the ensignes before Princes and Nations to calamitous and deadly warres which yet as it seemes is not wholly appeased with our calamities nor hath consumed the seeds of all that bitternes which brought it forth There can be therefore no survey of mindes more profitable than of those which in these manifold stormes of the world doe sit at the sterne of religion And these are to be distinguished into divers rankes some as Captaines doe begin new religions and eyther have true wisedome or run headlong in ambitious errour So was he that by lawes given from heaven governed the Jewes returning out of Aegypt So was the great Creator of heaven and earth who taking upon him man's nature did by his death open the way of life to Mankinde And so because heere we describe not onely honesty but fortune which playes her games in humane affaires was Oh villany That man which infected with his venome first Arabia and Syria afterward whatsoever lyes betweene the Hellespont and India and now from thence all the Countries as farre as the hither part of Hungary and with his sacrilegious superstition hath corrupted almost all Affrica And those whom true and caelestiall inspirations have led to the Majesty of founding religion are not to be looked into by us bnt onely with faith and adoration But others who are not afraid in so great a matter to abuse Heaven and coosen the people must of necessity have such a minde as beleeves nothing at all eyther of their owne Lawes or of Heaven as spares no vertue nor forbeares unlesse 〈◊〉 in show any vice but 〈◊〉 especially ●●efull to gaine to themselves a 〈…〉 turning those lawes which they make to the lust and superstitions of their owne Nation Nor can those which offend in this kinde as in other wickednesse it oft falls out be deceived themselves or blinded with love of their owne opinions or the things in question but being conscious to their owne wickednesse they know themselves to be impious and the plagues of Mankind especially when to perswade the people to such a serious novelty is required a most bold presumption in subtill wit and besides many lyes are to be invented as namely that they saw or heard the Deity that they consulted with him and whatsoever else those lewd impostors use to averre But this is not a mischiefe incident to every age for but few and not alwayes with successe have gone so farre as to that most impious audacity There is another kinde of men and farre more frequent of those who professe not to forsake the religion of their Fathers or to broach any novelty but onely with more pure precepts to roote out errours which by humane corruption and contrary to the minde of antiquity have crept into religion And these men carry a most magnificent show of honesty and reverent wisedome for who but subtill and industrious men would venture on so great a matter And lastly the very desire of innovating and differing from other men doth almost alwayes finde a multitude of followers The wrangling of such interpreters have