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	work_n	6,191	5	6.9192	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05633	A more full answer of John Bastwick, Dr. of Phisick made to the former exceptions newly propounded by another wellwiller to him, against some expressions in his Letany, with his reasons for the printing of it. All set downe as more articles superadditionall vpon superadditionall, against the prelats. This is to follow the Letany as a fourth part of it.; Litany. Part 4	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1575; ESTC S104510	13,880	12

A MORE FVLL ANSWER OF JOHN BASTWICK Dr. OF PHISICK Made to the former exceptions newly propounded by another wellwiller to him against some expressions in his LETANY with his reasons for the printing of it All set downe as more Articles superadditionall vpon superadditionall against the Prelats This is to follow the LETANY as a FOVRTH PART of it Printed in the Yeare of the English Prelats malice and crualty against and upon Gods faithfull people 1637. The fourth part of the Letany OF JOHN BASTWICK Doctor of Phisick VVorthy Sir AS I most kindly thanke you for the many favours you shewed me in my prosperity so I do heartily for your well wishes towards mee in this my captivity and as I do cordially thanke you for both so I do likewise promise all reciprocall endeavour in all Offices of love in way of remuneration and so much the more your humanity deserves it because you condole not onely my present desolation but study to prevent further fury in my adversaries which will tend to my greater ruine as you say if they have any just or but seeming ground for it and therefore you have freindly I thanke you advertised mee of some danger you feare will come upon mee if my Letany should be published in regard of some expressions in it as that I seeme to vilifie the Service of the Church established in the Kingdome by Parlament and that I call the Prelate of Canterbury VVilliam the Dragon and his brrther of Yorke the abby lubber of the North now they being privy Councellors such speeches will be adjudged scandalous as you suppose and therefore that I shall be censured for Scandalum Magnatum And withall you thinke it is a revillng those in authority which the Angel would not doe to the very Devill And this is the summe of what you have to object against my Letany To all which although I haue formerly answered in my letters to others yet because I know not whether you may ever see them I thought fit in breife to reply as followeth And first whereas you seeme to intimate by your words that I should either totally suppresse the printing of my LETANY or els take out those words I conceive neither of both by any sound reason ought to be done for that the LETANY is printed the Prelats are the cause of it and of the writing of it for would they have let mee followed my owne imployments I should never have troubled my thoughts about them for I most ingenuously confesse unto you that nothing more greeves mee the that I am constrained to make those men a subject of my discourse that at other times I would scorne to make an object of my cogitations but they I say having by their unhuman and unchristian proceedings deprived mee of liberty and all lively hood and by this meanes ruined mee and all mine and to all this threatned farther calamity and misery unto mee as the slitting of my nose the branding mee in the forehead the cutting of my eares all which things being dayly related unto mee by others I must confesse it put me upon my devotions and was the onely cause of my Letany and had not their thundering words come unto mee I should never have done any thing in English but that my country men might see something into the Prelats well meaning towards the Church and State and withall might be stirred up to a diligent endeavour to prevent the mischeif as they feare God and honour their King and lowe their religion and country I writ that treatise and sent it to my good Angel but hearing withall that some evill Angells were abroad and had misinterpreted it and the Prelats threatned me yet more cruelly for that then I resolved to make that publick which otherwise should have been for my owne use and the benefit of some few frends onely and this is one of the causes of the printing of it and all my other superadditionall articles against them For at the making of it I had never thought to have lived a day the plague on every side environing mee about and many poore people coming up to my chamber for cure with soares running on them all the Physicians being gone out of towne and therefore my danger being so great and all possibility of escaping of it being also taken away I tooke my self then to my Letany and that it seemeth was not well taken by M. Preists Prelats neither could they conceale their venome and evill intents but must for the greater terror of others divulge them and they as I said coming frequently to my intelligence for feare withall that they should adulterate my true copy I therefore writ over another with my owne hand which I got to be copyed out and so let some of my freinds see it and such also as had been many yeares in the High Commission Court and that knew very well I slandered them in nothing I said onely out of their good affection towards mee they feared and that very much that the Prelats would proceed to the extremest and rigerousest punishment that by law could be inflicted upon mee For their Kingdome was first by bloud begun and established and by bloud hath hitherto been continued and by bloud onely shall be perpetuated but for my bloud and life I stand not for that so that the truth may be knowne and their wickednes plots and cruelty be discovered and truely next unto the especiall providence of God which allwayes bringeth good out of evill I may thank the Prelats for the honour of this good worke cost it mee what it will for they onely were the cause both of the beginning and publishing of it for if they had not breathed out threats against mee presaging their bloudthirstinesse I should never have studied to dive so far into this businesse in the which through Gods blessing I have made so good progresse as I hope all those that either feare God or their King or love their countries through the whole Christian world with all the Christian Kings Princes and Emperors and all free States will manifestly see not onely the little need of the Prelats Government in their Kingdomes and Countries but the great mischeife and damage they bring to all Common-Wealths and Nations where they dwell And to say no more but the verity there is as little need of them and their jurisdictions in Kingdoms for the well administring of them as is in our Christian and holy profession of the Service-booke which yet never either begot grace or the feare or love of God or increased any gift of God in any and is well knowne to the whole corporation of those that call upon the name of God in sincerity that it doth not onely hinder goodnes but doth hurt and that abundantly indeed were there no other just cause of casting of it out but that it doth no good this I say were enough to remove it but especially when it is a cause of