Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	early_a	great_a	25	3	2.1119	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54841	Empsychon nekron, or, The lifelessness of life on the hether side of immortality with (a timely caveat against procrastination) briefly expressed and applyed in a sermon preached at the funerall of Edward Peyto of Chesterton ... / by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2182; ESTC R33405	28,827	44

against my person and which is infinitely sadder against my * God too yet this doth signifie no more then that they are stomackfull in their afflictions and like the metalsome Cynaegyrus in no particular but this that when his hands were out off he pursued the enemy with his teeth A printed Pamphlet comes to me subscrib'd and sent by Edward Bagshaw with your pardon be it spoken for 't is not handsome in your presence to mention the name of so foul a thing which neither the gravity of my Calling nor the price I put upon my time nor the reverence I bear to your advice will permit me to answer in more then two words For whereas it amounted to these two things to wit his railing against God as the Author of sin and his railing against me as a grievous sinner without the offer of any proof 〈◊〉 the one or the other To the first I say No to the second Nothing As for his blasphemies at large his inconsistencies with himself his frequent confessions that he is ignorant of what he presumeth to affirm his impotent slanders his most unsavoury scurrilities his pique at my cassock and my cap his evil eye upon my Rectory and female Readers to the honour of your sex and shame of ours last of all for his impenitency and resolutions to persevere in his crying sins against that person of all the world whom next to God and his parents he ought to have had in the greatest reverence I shall leave him to the mercy of one or other of my Disciples who being as much his Iuniors as he is mine may have youth enough to excuse if not commend them for cooling the courage of so prurient and bold a writer But for my self I have determined so to profit by what I preach in the following Sermon as not to leave it in the power of every petulant undertaker to dispose of my hours in altercation They that look to live long before they * look upon the grave may trifle out their time with better pretensions to an excuse but I who have lost so much already and have also had as I may say so many trials for my life at that bar of mortality the bed of sickness which makes me consider it as a perishing and dying life cannot think it so much as lawful to dispute it away with an itching adversary who however insufficient to hold up his quarrell is yet too restless to lay it down But I proceed to that subject from which my thoughts have been kept by a long parenthesis of which I love to be speaking on all occasions that can be offer'd because I find so much in it of which I cannot but speak well and no less to the honour of his memory then to the profit and pleasure of his survivers He was certainly a person who liv'd a great deal of life in a little time especially dating it as he did from the memorable point of his renovation When I consider him in his child●ood at the university of Oxford I am sure some years before you knew him exciting others by his example to mind the end of their being there how strict and studious he appeared throughout his course how much farther he went before in point of standing and proficiency then he came behind others in point of years how much applauded he was by all for his publick exercises in Lent both as an Oratour at the desk and as a Philosopher in the Schools how like the brave Epaminondas he added honour to his degree which yet to us of his form was all we were able to attain when I reflect upon his progress through much variety of Learning through every part of the Mathematicks especially through Algebra the most untrodden part of them and when I compare with all this the great sobriety of his temper his unaffected humility and after a publick aberration his perfect return into the way out of which for some years he had unhappily been seduced last of all when I remember how whilst nothing but prosperity made some in the world to hug their errour he hated his so much the more the more he had prosper'd by its delusion which was an argument of the most generous and christian temper I think I may fitly affirm of him what was said by Siracides concerning Enoch that being made perfect in a short time he fulfilled a long time I do the rather think it a duty to praise him after his decease the less he was able to endure it whilst yet alive And I conceite my self the fitter to speak a little in his absence of his perfections because so long as he was present I onely told him of his faults Never leaving him as a Monitor untill I thought he left them For having found him my noble Friend and which in honour to his memory I think it my duty to acknowledge my very munificent Benefactor I could not be so unkind a thing as not to afford him my reprehensions yet still attended with respect in whatsoever regard I could think them useful And 't was the mark of an excellent judicious spirit that he valued me most for my greatest freedom in that particular Even then when our heads were most at enmity by the over great influence of his Fathers persuasion upon his own there still remained in both our hearts a most inviolable friendship And yet the chiefest instance of mine was onely my often having been angry with what I conceived to be a sin against which by Gods goodness being sufficiently convinced he grew at last to be as angry as friends or enemies could have been He had impartially considered that sacred Aphorism that to refuse instruction is to despise one's own soul And he who could not be thankfull for being chid was judg'd by him to be unworthy of any honest man's anger Nor can I imagine a solid reason why he was careful in time of health to be speak my presence in time of sickness of which you are able to be his witness unless because he did esteem me the most affectionate person of his acquaintance by his having still found me the most severe To conceal his great failing which was so far scandalous as it was publick and apt to be hurtful by the reverence which many men had to his example and only to speak of the best things in him were rather to flatter then to commend him But yet as the Scripture hath said of David that he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord save onely in the matter of Uriah the Hittite so I think I may say of your self-departed that unless it were in that one unhappiness of ingageing himself in an ugly Cause which yet be seriously repented and so was fitted for that early but most exemplary death which happily opened a door to his immortality his greatest vice was but this that he modestly concealed too many virtues The remarkable manner of