Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	know_v	2,974	5	4.2147	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00049	Thrifts equipage Viz. fiue diuine and morall meditations, of 1. Frugalitie. 2. Prouidence. 3. Diligence. 4. Labour and care. 5. Death.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1622 (1622)	STC 1004; ESTC S118663	33,126	66

guide all thy wayes His secret Counsels search not but admire and praise And yet because God all doth here dispose Thou like a senslesse Idol must not stand God gaue thee not for nought eares eyes hands nose A will to do a wit to vnderstand Employ these alwayes by his iust command The whole successe leaue to his Prouidence Acknowledge all good blessings from his hand And labour with all care and diligence To thriue in Goodnesse Grace and all Intelligenc● But aboue all from murmuring refraine Or magnifying fl●shes arme or might So axe may boast that it along hath laine The Cedars and the Plane may claime as right That by it's worke thy roofe so faire was dight So may the rod of Moses bragge and boast It all the Wonders did in Pharao●s sight The Asses Iaw-bone that it slue an host But most the house when Samson pulled downe the post On whom we ought to cast eu'n all our care To him we must ascribe the Praise of all In his hand both our Soules and Bodies are By Power of his Breath we stand and fall From him all was is now and euer shall Of all the things done vnderneath the Sunne The Wiseman sought a reason naturall But was as blind as when he first begunne Though first he thought he could discouer any one Gods counsels shall for euermore indure His thoughts stand firme in eu'ry generation Our hearts he fashions and conceiueth sure Our workes and secretest imagination Who to the Rau'ns giues food and sustentation So gouernes all they nothing here shall need That wait on him with patient expectation With temporall and heau'nly he doth feed All those that craue aright of him spirituall ●eed In number measure weight he doth dispose Of all things He preserues both man and beast When care and paines may saue thee from thy foes Vse diligence to God commit the rest And when thou art so mightily distrest Thou canst no helpe in arme of fles● behold Vpon his prouidence that made thee rest That in thy mothers wombe thy members told And in his Booke hath eu'ry one of them inrold Good counsell gaue that Heathen Haue a care Vnto thy selfe most of thyselfe take heed He meant Lusts and Corruptions which are Within vs which to vs most danger breed With others we deale warily indeed Lest they deceiue vs by their subtilty But our owne vile affections little heed Although we haue no greater enemy Thus we escape Gaths sword and on our owne do di● The Iewes may with their Oratour conspire Pauls ruine nothing shall to him befall But to aduance his Crowne and Gospell hier So as his bonds in Caesars Iudgement hall Are manifest and famous 'mongst them all To the Elect and those that truly loue Nothing but for the best shall euer fall This by examples thousand I could proue Happy who finds it written in his heart by loue The Lyons want and hunger may endure Who se●kes the Lord wants nothing that is good The Angel of the Lord him keepes secure From his owne lusts hels fury wickeds mood This of the weakest may be vnderstood If ought here passeth thine intelligence Sucke thou the milke and leaue the stronger food Here ends my song of heau'nly Prouidence Next followes her attendant humane Diligence MEDITATION 3. Of Diligence WHo with a prudent heart and godly minde Wil take a view how things are wrought below In all effects shall good and euill find As cause is good or ill from whence they flow Thus God first Cause of all thy actions know As they be good thy selfe as they be ill Which doth Gods pow'r and goodnesse greater show In vsing heere mans vile corrupted will As second cause his sound good purpose to fulfill All euill then comes from mans vicious will Not moou'd thereto by meere necessity As senselesse Agents are to good or ill But giues consent thereto most willingly By Natures Light we good from ill descry But this vs onely leaues without excuse When seeing better we the worst doe try And thus God of mans malice makes good vse And he is iustly punished for his abuse Oh mans peruersenesse grant him least freewill And he becomes vaine proud and insolent D●ny him any power to doe or will And he growes lazy slothfull negligent First kinde are meritorious impudent And merit for themselues and others will The other Epicure-like take content In pleasure eating drinking of their fill Or in an idle melan●●●lique sitting still But Diligence the Grace I next propound For this last euill is best remedy This Viper which most dang'rously doth wound Our soules with senselesse spirituall Lethargy And brings too aspish-lazy Accidy Most perilous because we feele least harme Oh this is Satans subtillest Lullaby Our soules with stupid lazinesse to charme And then of spirituall armes and weapons to disarme Thou that hast promis'd endlesse happinesse To all which at thy comming thou dost-find Intent vnto their Masters businesse And diligent in body and in minde Make all my Soules and Bodies powr's inclind To Diligence whilst I her praises write Vnloose the chaines the fetters strong vnbind Of Sloth and Dulnesse which to blackest night Leade blindfold drowsie soules that take therein delight Vigilance Industry and Diligence So like indeed one to another are My plainer Muse scarse sees a difference And therefore all will but as one declare Our soules and bodies powers they prepare In eu'ry noble Vertue to transcend Nothing on earth that 's admirable rare Without these can be brought to perfect end On these do honest care and labour aye attend For godly iust and necessary cares Are parts substantiall of Diligence And as she for the future thus prepares Hauing to Truth and Iustice reference She is a Grace of wondrous excellence But if she spring from Enuy emulation Ambition Feare or other base pretence She is a curious base abomination The busie vice that author is of desolation Industry best agreeth to the mind In which she frames a quicke Dexterity In Arts and Sciences the right to find And they that know her wondrous energy In Phisicke Law and in Diuinity Know that she tends the neerest to perfection And is to humane imbecillity Most sound defence secure and safe protection 'Gainst Satans Malice their owne Lusts worlds i●fectio● We well Dame Nature may the Mother name Of noble Industry and Diligence Yet oft we see their wondrous force doth tame Things against Nature without violence All other Vertues glorious excellence Which we in Heroes iustly do admire Haue their Beginning and Perfection thence Where Industry and Diligence conspire Wants nothing that we can in mortall man desire For as she many euill things amends So is she of all good the consummation Most dissolute base manners she commends Soone vnto honest thrifty reformation An infirme body by exercitation And Diligence becommeth strong and sound She frees old-Age from grieuous molestation Of painefull sharpe Diseases that abound Fields of the diligent are fruitfull

Cruelty which him fast followeth And doth so fast with cords and fetters binde That eu'ry minute threateneth his Death And scarcely suffers him to draw his languid breath Yet if this Light of heau'nly Prouidence Shines to his Soule then all Anxiety Feare Care Distrust are banisht quite frō thence And he releeu'd in all extremity Then knowes he that one gracious Maiesty Heere by his power so directeth all By wisedome rules and by his Bonity Disposeth so that nothing euer shall But for Gods glory and his owne good him befall To fleshes obloquy some giuing way Confesse the highest Powers gouerne all But that with mortals heere they vse to play As we at hazzard tosse a Tennis-ball Some all would haue by Chance and Fortune fall Some others grant that God doth all incline But that mans wit and will must worke withall These men with God in gouernment doe ioyne And his most constant purpose to mans will confine Some to excuse God grant that Power diuine Permitteth euill but not with his will And suffreth Satan heere to blind the eyne Of Reprobates but no wayes ill doth will But sure God willingly permitteth ill Since by his power he goodnesse able is To draw from ill his purpose to fulfill For thus did Pharaoh wilfully amisse Yet God turnes all to 's glory and his chosens blisse As Sunnes pure beames exhale from filthy Oose Foule vapours which no whit the Sunne defile So doth Gods Prouidence of ill dispose Yet of no euill he partakes the while And as not in Sunnes Beames but in the soyle The matter of th● vapour doth consist So in mans heart is Bitternesse and bile And not in God who euill doth resist Or turnes such euill into Goodnesse as he list Thus Kings Priests Rulers Elders all combin'd Against the Lord and his anointed Sonne And Pilat● Herod Iewes and Gentiles ioynd To doe what God decreed to be done But they ment wickedly eu'n euery one The people a vaine thing imagined To crucifie the Lord of Life they runne But God we see thereby hath quickened The members all whereof he is the glorious head As when we see faire Phoebus gentle beames Vnited in a burning glasse enflame We vse not to accuse Sunnes gracious gleames For such offence but Burning-glasse doe blame Wherin without the Sunne 's nor heat nor flame So when we see the wicked man abuse The fairest gifts of Nature to his shame The Author of them we must not accuse But wilfull man that doth them heere vnduly vse Good Powerfull Wise Disposer of all things So w●se thou all Disorders ordrest right So good thy Goodn●s good from euill brings So pow'rfull all subsist vpon thy might How should an ignorant weake wicked wight Conceiue thy Wisedome Power and Prouidence Much lesse by Simile it more inlight It farre surpasseth mine intelligence Things knowne I doe admire the rest I reuerence But I by Prouidence diuine am led To passe the bounds of f●ugall meditation Pardon great Clarkes that I haue meddled To taste a mysterie by Contemplation Worthy your argument and disputation I was desirous to resolue my minde In this high point of heau'nly moderation Wherein most wondrous comfort I doe find To see how things on earth are first in heau'n design'd Who can suppose this world so perfect rare Not gouern'd by one pow'rfull prouidence Since all which without moderat●urs are Consisting of the foure first elements Can not continue Houses ●enements Without a tenant ruine and decay Vnpruned Vines doe loose their excellence Mans Body failes when soule doth passe away So would this Vniuerse should God forbeare a day As members of a man aright do moue First by his vnderstanding and his will So doth this Vniuerse by God aboue And all concord his pleasure to fulfill Who duely wait on Prouidence he will Make happy heere and blessed euermore Not that he doth the carelesse idle fill With blessings temporall or heau'nly store Who will not row on Sea shall neuer come a-shore It is a dangerous and impious thing Thus to dispute with Prouidence diuine Mine arme nor good nor bad to passe can bring All 's done by the Almighties firme designe The written Word must be our square and line Gods secret purpose and reuealed Will Confound not by a vaine conceit of thine Thus Theeues may blamelesse true men rob and kill And say they but Gods secret purposes fulfill For Prouidence doth not vs mortals tend As mothers infants newly brought to light Which haue no strength themselues then to defend 'Gainst ayers iniuries or forreine might But as the Father that his Sonne hath dight With strength and weapons 'gainst his enemies Directeth him to order them aright And to defend himselfe from iniuries Religion neuer negligent and idle lyes They that are godly and religious With Prouidence sweet Diligence do ioyne God that without our selues hath fashion'd vs Without thy selfe saues neither thee nor thine And therefore prudent men prouide in time Against all future want that happen may When therefore we for morrow do designe Things necessary none can iustly say Or iudge vs too much carefull for the following day The Lord of all did needfull things prouide Therefore the bagge false Iudas carried The Loaues and Fishes which he did diuide Amongst fiue thousand which him followed Th' Apostles carri'd for their dayly bread Paul temp'rall Almes prouideth for his Nation Where he the spirituall had published Ioseph from N●le comes to make preparation To saue aliue old Iacob and his generation Of these learne to prouide things necessary Of Beasts to shunne and to auoid all ill Who neere things hurtfull to them do not tarry Nor nigh vnto those places trauell will Where they into a Ditch haue lately fill The Bird escapt eschewes the Fowlers gin Nor will be tempted more with all his skill The fish that finds the hooke the bait within Thence to prouide against such danger doth begin Things past for future are sound documents He that is wise the euill doth foresee And hides himselfe from many nocuments Which can not by the foole auoided be Most admirable vertuous wise is he That things foreseeing wisely can prouide Nothing on earth without a cause we see Though them the highest Wisdome so doth hide They can not by our feeble reason be descride The World may be compared to a Stage We mortals to spectators they that stay Without to see her antique equipage Doe truely as they ought behold the play The curious that about the Stage do stray And pry into the secret tyring roome Are by Stage-keepers often driu'n away All must not into Natures secrets come Although she many Mysteries reueale to some How dares proud man inquire so curiously Of Gods ●id counsels and his secret will The Bethshemites into the Arke did pry And God with sudden vengeance them doth kill Prouide thee good things and auoid the ill So maist thou many liue and happy dayes Presume not to be wise aboue thy skill By Gods reuealed will