Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	king_n	5,512	5	3.6764	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27550	Better late than never		1689 (1689)	Wing B2083; ESTC R23548	6,711	4

been deaf to all your Charms hated your Principles and had washed their Hands but a little before in the Blood of your Friends and with them overthrew that King in hopes by making to have got and kept another to your selves who convinces you every day he does not love your Persons and is affraid of your Principles Reflexions on these Errour● may be of some use to you now when Things seem to look as if we were not at an End of our Changes Be not deceived therefore again and let not Names fright you It is a dangerous Civil Superstition you have too long abused your selves with I should think what you have done and undone given and paid suffered and are like to suffer by Taxes Affronts and Disappointments should perfectly cure you of Traditional-Hates and make you examine carefully ●f King JAMES has all that real Mischief and Terror in him by the Insinuations of which you have long govern'd the Mobb against him If you have not at last given away where it may be too strong for you when you ●●ed it for your selves or those from whom ●ou may have fairer Quarter Whether we ●egard his Humour his Age his Interest after what he has seen suffered and yet fears methinks he cannot be so terrible to us To this add the Minority of his Son and the Inconsiderableness of his Party and that he must of necessity to preserve both allow us a better Bargain than we 〈…〉 any body else Think also with your selves if he desires to be a Tributary Prince or to be restored to a wasted Country or if it be possible he should be restored before it be so unless it be with the Consent of his People and whether it be not your great Interest to hasten it before France be at leisure to do it in a way not agreeable to him or you It is too advent'rous and sanguine in my Opinion to put all into the Power of such an Accident If you think of it quickly you prevent the French King and oblige him to consent to his Return but if you are obstinate perhaps he has the means of continuing the War till you can no longer resist and then you are to receive Terms instead of giving them And though King James were out of the Question it is your Interest to prevent this but he is the next and Infallible Means of doing it as you may manage the Business He must be a wise and unskilful Mariner that will never weigh Anchor but when he can said before the Wind. Improve all the Opportunities that offer themselves to you to the Noble End you aim at and henceforward overlook none nor mistake any Let your Thoughts be as large as your Subject freed of the Biass a narrow Education and Home-spun Prejudice are apt to give them This must be allowed to be one of the most incurable Distempers our Natures suffer under but where there is so great a stock of good Sense already as you are Masters of our present great Miseries must enlighten you And to be yet freer with you since our Fears are of France and not without Cause as the matter has been managed I must cell you that there are things to be gathered out of the knowledg of the present King of France his Temper and Affairs from which you might draw Conclusions of more Security and Benefit than you are aware of and all your Obstinacy will give you But it you will rail on without considering whether you can have any Remedy against your Fears and overlook those that offer themselves you are of an unfortunate Disposition If there is no way for you to understand these things you lie under unhappy Circumstances If I might advise you should not mix so much Passion with your Discourses but should cast about whether something very probable has not lately appear'd to let you into juster Observations And be likewise assur'd that so long as you continue morose 〈…〉 and choose to be destroy'd rather than saved against your Prejudices every Body will be afraid to tell his Tale to you though it be never so true and good a one So that you will be the last left to maintain That which yet will destroy you if it stands and be marked as the most Inveterate Enemies of Successive Monarchy though you might have it within your own Bounds to which that very part of the Church of England that hath been so much your Enemy and which you ought to value for being true to its Principle if that be still a Vertue with you I am told is far from being averse from improving as well as imbracing so fair an Opportunity and Advantage This is written out of meer good will to you be not so barbarous as to guess the Author to his Prejudice guess his meaning if you can he wishes as well to you as he does to all his dearest Interests upon Earth and hath on purpose avoided all the Beauties of Language and every specious Ratiocination that his Stile and his Representations might be as plain as his Heart which he assures you is Yours