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	great_a	see_v	4,001	5	3.3205	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78570	Chaos.		1659 (1659)	Wing C1937; Thomason E988_22; ESTC R208122	4,168	8

CHAOS ANte mare terras as the wanton Poet sings rudis erat molis quem dixere Chaos It might be well wished the sober heads of these times could use the Poets words erat ante but as if Fortunes Wheel were turned upside down we may seem to be in the first condition of things again ubi mollia pugnant dur is The Tail commands the Head and all things are out of course insomuch as a Solon was never any where more needful And the childrens burthens are grown so great as if a Moses appear not in time it may be feared deliverance will come too late After Nebuchadnezzar knew that the most high bears rule his Kingdom was restored England no doubt wishes their Rulers had learned the same lesson and if they have that the practice thereof may appear in publike for though the Sword seems satiated with bloud yet the Elements threaten Vengeance if we return not And though for Rulers offences the People suffer yet they seldom escape Scot-free It were to be wished examples hereof were not so obvious in this Generation as they have been Oh that Englands Rulers may see the work of the day that Pride Tyranny and Oppression may receive their reward which whilst men accused of greatest crimes sit as Judges in their own cause cannot be expected nor whilst any of those who have voices in making Laws shall be admitted the Sanctuary of a Prison to shelter themselves from the penalty thereof can be hoped for O horrenda impudica rabies And that the People follow their Guides is sadly witnessed by this days Verdict of a Devonshire-Jury at the Upper Bench Bar who in despight of the Judges honest honourable and wary Advertisements betrayed the Innocent to the Fury of her over-potent Adversary and set the guilty free whereby they have used their utmost endeavours to prostitute their maids daughters and wives to the lustful abusion of the wicked at their wills It were happie if every day spoke not the same or worse language so much resembling that of Babel or Sodom as nothing ever appeared so like the Poets old Chaos as this present Age. These few particulars amongst the innumerary numbers of Babylons brats daily dispersed to the abusion of all that hath any resemblance of Goodness compels that hand which never intended any such thing to command the Press which now hath liberty beyond measure to measure even Immensity it self not purposing to accuse any for robbing the Publike to erect a Private interest nor for pretended relieving the Publike to strain the strings of their Inventions to contrive new Impositions nor yet for pretended Frugality to the Commonwealth to destroy thousands of the Commons by denying justice thereby cherishing all villany and wickedness in the highest measure But when the Publike Faith of a Nation turns Bankrupt who shall be accused the Borrowers or the Lenders Sure if the Borrowers had not promised fair the Lenders had not been O unhappie hand that ever drew Sword to countenance such things as the Paper blushes to bear the news of Yet O happie age that affordest Hands to effect what Heads cannot do Yea O happie people who live in such an Age where God commands the meanest of things to be means of Deliverance Surely he hath Mercies yet in store for such a people if embraced if not let Moses and the Prophets declare the issue or rather the Saviour of the worlds weeping over Jerusalem admonish to beware of what that rebellious City shortly after suffered And if any shall say these Lines fell from Rabshakeh's Pen let them consider their origine their birth and growth is from Chaos But the Poets word ante gives hopes that as his ante was the fore-runner of better composures where was mare coelum terras so this present time elapsing this Generation may hope to see mare terras in their proper places and coelum supervolutans illuminans recreans For never had Nation a Magistracie better schooled and discipled nor did ever Magistrate govern a people so generally capable of the best Rule of Government as this is But if with Miles the Frier's man in the Fable we flout and abuse this coy Mistress TIME and improve not the advantage and opportunity thereof she will be gone and then repentance may come too late Now that Chaos-like out of which Order was produced matter may be administred for the framing of such a structure of Laws and Regiment or at least some Instruments brought to search for some Foundation or to discover some Quarries or other materials fit for so great a Fabrick which is not to be expected to be done all at once and all in one day by any one private hand nor yet from all the heads of our Governours at present whose cares for speedy remedy to prevent imminent dangers takes away much of their time from these other contrivances And though no one piece of what shall here be offered shall be found fit stuff to build withal yet may other more dextrous Artists be hereby invited to furnish the proper materials for the very work it self Chaos never travelled or if she did it was when she was in the womb of Nothing So she brings no customes from other Countries nor Laws from other Lands onely as the birth is produced in its proper dimensions not respecting any other feature or proportion in the whole frame of Nature who lest any part or member thereof should steal anothers right hath framed all creatures Animate and Inanimate if such a conjecture may be imagined in a convenient disparity each to other yet so as there is still an harmonious parity in the whole So Chaos neither doats upon her neighbour-customs more then is convenable nor is she affected with strange novelties fetcht from far Countries so ardently as to surfeit thereon she is neither bewitched with the beauty and riches of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio neither is she enamoured with the Cantonian formalities All the Mitres in the Conclave of Rome cannot invite her to fetch her Laws from Italy nor all the Decencie and Liberty of Amsterdam furnish her with more then some miss-shapen pieces which she purposes to polish for her own purpose She purposes not to pry too deep into the Spaniards Sun-burnt Inquisition nor yet roave too far in the frigid Zone of the Tartarian Territories but out of her own store Chaos-like is her furniture onely the deck and dress may seem to be sometimes borrowed from one sometimes from another Yet unless she be new built so as to suit with the temper of her own climate she will be unserviceable and her fruit abortive Chaos considering that in six days a Creation of excellent beauty and proportion suiting to the magnitude thereof in number weight and measure was by an all-powerful hand produced has propounded to her self fix days work for perfecting of her intended Creation Creation she calls it because she finding all the Rafters of her old Building