Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	salvation_n	work_n	5,482	5	6.3075	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15745	Palladis palatium vvisedoms pallace. Or The fourth part of Wits commonwealth.	Wrednot, William.	1604 (1604)	STC 26014; ESTC S111763	39,902	146

man commit an escape or offence his intention and meaning being good God forbid that it should be obiected vnto him because he did euill against his will Augustine Those are not fault worthy who commit small offences that greater may be anoyded for it is not losse to loose a little if by the losse thereof a great deale may be saned Idem It oftentimes happeneth that whilest wicked men cannot defend those faults whereof they are accused become impudent and so waxe proud in their owne defence and séeking to find out faults in him who accuseth thereby thinke themselues blamelesse and i● be so they cannot finde out ought which they may iustly blam● then they finde hoales where no hoales are that they may haue wherewith to cloake their owne vices Gregorie Although things are true yet ought they not to be beléened without sufficient proofe or confession of the delinquents themselues for not he that is accused but he that is conuicted is guiltie Bernard This is a great fault in many men that when they should repent them of their faultes they frame excuses and so ●●●end more by drawing defences for their faults from thence whenes repentance ought to procéede Cassiod Example HE that liueth well secretly and giueth no example vnto other mens procéedings may be compared vnto a coale which burneth inwardly but outwardly séemeth to be dead But he who leadeth ●n vpright life both privately and publickly may be compared vnto a Lampe which burneth it selfe and giueth light also vnto others Gregorie It is a thing ingraffed by nature that a shamefast man should loue him that is chaste a wise man him that is discréete a pittifull man him that is liberall and that all men should loue their owne vertues in other men also Oftentimes the very countenance of an honest man is a chastisement vnto the vniust and a ioy vnto the vpright Ambrose There are many men who are more readily drawne vnto the loue of heauen and heauenly things by example then by preaching Gregorie I estéeme no counsail● better 〈◊〉 if thou desire to instruct thy brother ●● those things which ought to be done that thou stirre him vp vnto better ●●uing not perswading him by 〈◊〉 but by déede and actions Idem No man is more hurtfull in the Church then he who liuing 〈◊〉 cloaketh his actions with the name of holinesse or by reason of his order or degrée For no man presuming to reprooue him because of his ministery his faults are more hurtfull by example vnto others because others 〈◊〉 rence the offender by reason ●● his order and thinke that lawfull ●● be 〈◊〉 by themselues which their gho 〈◊〉 ther doth before them Idem Euery one who being a ruler 〈◊〉 wickedly and vniusly in the sight of those ouer whom he ruleth as much as in him lyeth destroyeth them and although it may so fall out that some not imitating him escape yet all as for him perish The later day is a Scholler vnto the former A wise man by an others fault will indeuour to amende his owne It is good to tread our prede●essors steppes if they haue gone well before vs. Seneca Euery good Christian ought to take example of good life at Christ and his actions Bernard F. Flattery WHosoeuer flattereth euill liuers layeth a pillow vnder the slugg●●ds head insomuch that he who ought to be reprehended for his sault being incouraged therein becommeth worse and worse Gregorie As the scoape of the Orator is by loue to perswade and of the Phisitian by medicines to cure Euen so the slatterer intendeth by his faire wordes nought but to deceiue Chrysostome Euery flatterer is an enemie vnto vertue and dooth as it were strike a naile into his eye with whom be communicateth and ought by so much the more diligently to be looked vnto by how much the more he séemeth to loue Chrysostome Nothing so much corrupteth mens mindes as flatterie for his tongue cutteth more kéene then the weapons of our persecutors Hierom. Deceiuable flattery is a most creuen thing Augustine The tongues of flatterers binde 〈◊〉 in their vices for it delighteth a man to doe those things for which he feareth not the reprehender but also looketh to be praised for performing them Idem When we are passing vnto our heauenly country we ought not to giue eare vnto the Syrenian songs of flatterers Hierom. Flattery is the very nurse of sinne which is accustomed to administer mater vnto those who doe amisse as eyls yéeldeth liquor vnto the flame Beda We are then faithfull when we performe in déede that which we promise in wordes Idem Infidelitie is by nature like vnto a sandy barren ground which is alwaies fruitlesse be it neuer so well watered Chrysostome That man hath all in himselfe which hath himselfe but no man hath himselfe which hath not God and he hath God who beléeueth in him and acknowledgeth him to be the author of his saluation Cassiod He that looseth his faith hath nothing else for to loose Seneca Faith is an assured conceiuing of the trueth without any knowledge of the cause thereof Idem As to be alwayes learning argueth that a man is neuer perfect euen so alwayes to séeke for witnesses argueth that a man vnwilling to beléeue Chrysostome As the hard stones being wrought in a worke are permanent so the Gentiles albeit they are hardly brought vnto beléefe yet once beléeuing they perseuere therein Idem Doe not vnderstand that thou mayest beléeue but beléeue that thou mayest vnderstand for vnderstanding is the reward of faith Augustine Faith is more wealthy then all wordly riches more strong then all humaine strength more wholesome then all earthly Phisick G. Greese THere is no griefe which by tract of time is not lessened and diminished Cicero A good courage in extreame gréefe is a remedie therof Idem No man can gréeue long and much withall for so hath louing nature disposed that our griefe might be eyther short or tollerable and this is a comfort in ex●reame anguishes that eyther they will endour liues or we ouercome them Senaca Griefe if thou yéelde vnto it will breake t●y heart but if thou resist it it will be ouercome of thée He more easilie vndergoeth griefe who is accustomed therevnto then he that hath seldome tasted thereof Cicero Euery man is by so much the more perfect by how much he dooth more throughly conceiue anothers griefe Gregorie A due consideration of the cause thereof dooth mittigate the sharpnesse of the griefe He that is endued with fortitude despiseth and setteth light both by griefe and death it selfe Cicero We may hardly beléeue a gréeued minde for griefe will compell the innocent sometimes to frame a lye Seneca He is riche who is able to beare with an vpright minde whatsoeuer euilles or vexations doe happen Idem We haue greater cause to gréeue when ones owne desert caused the same then when we are punished wrongfully for we ought rather to ioy then gréeue when we suffer vniustly Idem