Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	ghost_n	son_n	4,633	5	6.0871	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16466	The breuiarie of health vvherin doth folow, remedies, for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man.	Boorde, Andrew, 1490?-1549.	1587 (1587)	STC 3377; ESTC S120760	193,922	314

and kill themselues or els to hurte and kill any other thinge therefore let euery man beware of them and kéepe them in a sure custody The cause of this matter This matter doth passe all maner of sickenesses and diseases and is a fearefull and terrible thing to sée a deuill or deuylles shoulde haue so much and so greate a power ouer man as it is specifyed of such persons diuers times in the Gospell specially in the ninth Chapter of sainct Marke Christ sending his disciples to preache the worde of God geuing them power to make sicke men whole lame men to goe blynde to sée c. Some of them did goe by a man that was possessed of deuils and they could not make him whole Shortly to conclude Christ did make him whole The disciples of Christ asked of him why that they could not make the possessed mā of the diuels whole And Iesus Christ sayde to them this kinde of deuilles can not bée cast out without prayer and fasting Héere it is to bée noted that now a daies fewe or else none doth set by prayer or fasting regarding not Gods wordes in this matter I doe feare that suche persons bée possessed of the diuell although they be not starke madde and to shewe further of demoniacke persons the which be starke madde The first time that I did dwell in Rome there was a gentilwoman of Germani that which was possessed of deuils was broght to Rome to be made whole For with in the precinct of S. Peters church without S. Peters Chappel stādeth a piller of white marble grated roūd about with Iron to the which our Lord Iesus Christ did lye in himselfe at his deliuering vnto Pilet as the Romynes doth say to the which piller all those that be possessed of the deuill out of diuers coūtries nacions be brought thether and as they say of Rome such persons be made ther whole Among all other this woman of Germany which is CCCC myles and odde from Rome was brought to the piller I then there being present with great strength and violently with a xx or mo men this woman was put into that pyller within the yron grate and after hir did go in a priest and dyd examine of the woman vnder this maner in the Italiā tongue Thou deuil or deuils I doe abiure thée by the potenciall power of the Father of the Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ by the vertue of the holy ghost that thou do shew to me for what cause that thou doest possesse this woman what words was aunswered I will not write for men will not beleue it but wolde say it were a foule and great lye but I did heare that I was afrayed to tary any longer least that the deuils should haue come out of hir to haue entred into me remembring what is specified in the chapter of S. Mathew when the Iesus Christ had made two men whole the which was possessed with a legion of deuils A legion is ix M.x. C. nynty and nine the sayde diuels did desire Iesus that whē they were expelled out of the aforesayd two men the they might enter into a herde of hogges and so they dyd and the hogges dyd runne into to Sea and were drowned I cōsidering this and weke of faith and a feard crossed my selfe durst not to heare and sée such matters for it was to stupendious and aboue all reason if I should wryte it in this matter I dyd maruell of an other thing if the efficacitie of such making one whole did rest in the vertue that was in the pyller or els in the words that the priest did speke I do iudge it should be in the holy words that the priest did spek and not in the pyller for and if it were in the piller the Byshops the Cardinalls that hath bene many yeares past those that weare in my time they that hath bin since wolde haue had it in more reuerence not to suffer rayne hayle snowe such wether to fal on it for it hath no couering but at last when that I dyd consider that the vernacle the phis●omi of Christ scarse the sacrament of the aulter was in maner vncouered al. s Peters Church downe in ruyne vtterly decayed and nothing set by considering in olde chapels baggers and baudes hoores theues did lye within them asses and moyles did defyle within the precinct of the Church and bying and selling there was vsed within the precinct of the sayd Church that it did pytie my hart and mynde to come and sée any time more the sayd place and Church Then did I goe amonge the fryers mendicātes and diuers times I did sée reuelathes pro de functis hange vpon fryers backes in walettes then I went to other religious houses as the Celestines to the Chapterhouse and there I did sée nulla ordo And after that I did go amongst the monkes canons cardynalls ther I did sée horrer inhabitants Ten did I go rounde about Rome in euery place I did sée Lechery Boggery deceit and vsery in euery corner and place And if S. Peter Paule do lye in Rome they do lye in an hole vnder an Aulter hauing as much golde syluer or any other Iewel as I haue about mynine eye if it do rayne hayle or snowe if the winde stand Estwarde it shall blow the raine hayle or snow to S. Peters spelunke wherfore it maketh many men to thinke that the two holy Apostles should not lye in Rome specially in the place as the Romaines say they do lye I do meruail greatly that such an holy place so grate a Church as is in all the world except S. Sophis churche in constantinople should be in such a vyle case as it is in considering that the byshop of Romes pallice his castel named castel angil standing vppon the water or great riuer of Tiber within Rome other of their places all the Cardinalles places be so sumptiously maintained as well with out as in maner within and that they will sée their Cathedral church to lye lyke a swynes stie Our Peter pence was wel bestowed to the réedifying of S. Peters church that which did no good but to norish and to maintaine war And shortly to conclude I did neuer sée no vertue nor goodnes in Rome but in byshop Adryās dayes which would haue reformed diuers inormites for his good wil pretēce he was poysoned within iii. quarters of a yere after he did come to Rome as this matter with many other matters mo be expressed in a boke of my sermōs now to cōclude whosoeuer hath ben in Rome hath sene their vsage there except grace do work aboue nature he shal neuer be good man after be not these creatures possessed of the diuell This matter I do remit to the iudgmēt of the reders for god knoweth that I do not write half as it is or