Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	day_n	good_a	lord_n	2,583	5	3.5431	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95903	Vicissitudes progress, with its convoy through the counties of Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Middlesex, to Westminster and to London. By way of premonstration.		1648 (1648)	Wing V336; Thomason E452_5; ESTC R203899	14,716	16

to your Religion and Liberties Will you pull down what with so great difficulty you have built up Why do ye suffer Horse to be at this day listed in your City by that Enemy and do not apprehend them that do it You do not onely evil your selves but you cause and encourage others to do like you The eyes of the Kingdom are upon you as formerly by your good example many were forward to the help of the Lord against the mighty so now by your evil example many draw back and are seditious yea strengthen the hands of the enemy that they may be mighty again and then they will destroy you Was Meroz cursed because they came not out to help the Lord against the mighty and can London be blessed if they help the mighty against the Lord yet Meroz was not engaged by any Covenant Isa 30.1 nor by so great an interest as London is Wo unto the rebellious City saith the Lord that take counsel but not of me that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit that they may adde sin unto sin Isa 1.21 May it not be said of London as once of Jerusalem How is the faithful City become an Harlot It was full of Judgement Righteousness lodged in it but now murtherers thy silver is become dross c. You that could not have endured to hear reproach in private against the Authority of Parliament now are reproachers your selves and joy to see and read base and scurrilous Pamphlets and encourage them that vent them in your streets to all parts of the Kingdom It cannot be but you must be brought into the refining furnace shall God visit the corrupted streams and not visit the fountain that corrupteth the sword hath gone round through all Counties and Towns and shall it escape London it is not to be hoped without there be a general Reformation and a Humiliation to divert it If London drink the dregs of Gods wrath it will be bitter look to it and look for it ye that are secure in your sins and wish the Enemy may enter your streets you shall not escape when that day cometh for God will finde you out and make them that you account your friends to be your destroyers remember therefore from whence ye are fallen and to what you are changed and do your first works Objection We are the same we were we are not changed but the cause is not that it was our first Engagement was for Defence of our Laws our Religion Priviledges of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject and withal to preserve the Person and Honor of the King in the preservation of these but our Laws are changed our Religion lost Parliament forced to do and undo our Liberties infringed Trade discouraged and decayed the King contemned the Peace of the Kingdom retarded and we who have born the heat of the day spent our blood and wasted our Estates are now rejected as Malignants because an Army may not govern over our City to force a change in our Religion and Government c. all which is contrary to our first engagement but is the design of the Army For answer you are not the same you were though grant you or many of you have had discouragement but the truth is you are poisoned in judgement by your frequent converse with Delinquents who works upon your discontents and jealousies and breed jealousies to that end between you and the Army between the Presbyterian and the Independent so as you dare not trust one another no not so much as a Christian dare trust a Turk but upon meer jealousie they have put you upon designs against the Army and the Army upon revenge against you neither justifiable among Christians Is this the way of God or can men that are godly do such things these are fruits of ungodliness from City and Army In a word your Laws are not changed nor changing but they are broken in pieces by both your disobedience your Religion is not lost but it is thrust out of your Churches as out of your houses and affections by your neglect of Duties your prophanation of Sabbaths contempt of Holiness and your ordinary practice of execrable Impieties which is grown bold and audacious impious in the sight of God and men so as to swear to be drunk to whore to break the Sabbath scoff at holy Fasts revile Magistracy to deride the Ministers and the very Gospel is to be secure but to be observed not to be one of them that do thus or to reprove any their wicked practices is death or threatning of ruine at the least is this to be as ye were when ye durst not be prophane but fill'd your Churches on Sabbath days and Fasts days not the Fields and Brothel houses as now You say the Parliament is forced God forbid though 't is too true it hath been so but by whom I wish the City as well as the Army were not guilty of some forcings Your Liberties are not infringed except you count that infringment that you are restrained from destroying your selves and your posterities Nor is your Trading discouraged but furthered by the Parliament it is true by your own divisions you have caused Forrain Merchants to be jealous to trust or trade with you at present You know a little before this Parliament begun your Trade was discouraged and lost Who did that the Parliament redeem'd it when all Trading was cut off by Monopolies so as you all cryed out you were undone without remedy when that projecting old Lord Goring was a more smoking Monopolizer then ere he was a Soldier yet now you flie to ayd him is not this a change do you think to mend Trading by bringing in old Monopolizers be sure as you live they cannot live without their old trade you do well to love them that hate you but you shall finde they will grow rich and make London poor the eye of envy hath been upon you long you have been thought too great to be ruled now they will rule you if ye provide not against it and make you as little as your yonger brethren It may be the revolting of our Ships may prejudice your Trade a little but that 's your own faults who have given ill examples and discouragement to Land and Sea it is the fruit of your own devices That the Peace of the Kingdom hath been retarded I deny not I blame not the City nor Parliament more then the Army who were thought very faulty in that particular I believe they have repented of it and I hope God hath forgiven it therefore I accuse none it is sure we mist time it were well it were redeemed But to your Objection that you have born the heat of the day and are now rejected c. I say little but wish those that desire peace to the Kingdom to be at peace one with another I know the Army were too high and so were the City too but let 's be friends it