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	sin_n	4,328	5	4.6860	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01471	A garden of graue and godlie flovvres sonets, elegies, and epitaphs. Planted, polished, and perfected by Mr. Alexander Gardyne.	Garden, Alexander, 1585?-1634?	1609 (1609)	STC 11596; ESTC S118827	34,736	98

in thy Seruice true and knowledge they Are now more raw and inexpert alway Nor they before haue beene be many fold When blindly thay idolatriz'd of old And whair a kind of knowledge is the which To any of sufficiencie is such Yea requisite as is and should euin Sufficient for th'Inheritors of heauin Jt is yet seene for the most part to be Conioynd in league with such hypocrasie As makes Thee that does searse the secret raen Detest abhor more hate them and disdaine Then if they had in all their Errors ill And in dark ignorance continued still Now for that few of vs and remanant Which truly still of grace participant And faithfully in thee beleeued haith It is with such infirmitie of faith And with so small correction of our Forepast trespasses and behauiour That our profession that notorious Should be of thy great Gospell glorious Supported is and borne with so few stuites And so small shaw of good and godly fruites Whose dignit ' and excellencie alon Requireth more than we can minde vpon So that this makes our Enemies and Foes Condemne vs and some also are of those That are our owne which doubtingly suspect Giue we or no be thine and thy elect The cause of this our state we grant whairin We stand it is the hudgenes of our sinne That beeing put in trust for to possesse This treasure of infinite worthines Thy Gospell great and be preferred thus Before our neighbours Christians with vs And yet in grait Obedience to Thee Behinde them all we will confesse are wee In knowledge first bot we are last in zeale In Doctrine far before them bot we faill To practise what is preach'd and ay we finde In Discipline we ever are behinde The bands aod holie ȝock Lord of thy Law Full heavilie we suffer thoill and draw Whereby our liues too vitious and vaine We should amend correct reforme and straine Our fond affections all and everie thing In vs enorme we should in bondage bring The Gospell that vnto vs did aduce Of honors and of pleasures frier vse It welcome was and we did it embrace Bot that same Gospell that our wickednes Reproved and did threatten punishment We was there-with no thing so well content It that did our Ambition rebuke We skarcelie heard or lent thereto a looke And that thereof that does most neerlie touch Salvation of the Soule we make of much Bot that againe that doeth directlie more Seme to respect O Lord thy heavenlie glore And to the profite of our Neighbours all We make no compt nor care for it bot small And though the treasure of thy Word hes bene A pretious gift as like was never seene Th' assured signe of our Salvation Which to vs bairlie came not nor alone Bot with aboundance plentifull and peace And permanent so long and large a space As surelie never this litle thankfull Land Before in many passed ages fand Which benefits our neighbour Nations long Haue looked for and wish'd thir them among This makes vs Lord herefore accursedlie A great deall more in fault and giltie be Because we haue still proven our selfs so plaine Vngratfull for those thy great gifts againe There is likwise an other Ledder heir Whereon our sins they seme and they appeir To mount and clim more high in that that Wee Surmount into this lifs commoditie Our old Ancestours that profest with vs Even this thy holie Gospell glorious And yet we are yea everie day be day A great deale worse aud wickeder nor thay In blessings out-ward we be far aboue Our Nightbours yet far les to Thee in loue And grants we falt even in the grosse offence Of th' outward tokens of Obedience SCOTLAND HER GRIEF AT HIS Majesties going into England O England now exult Aud sing a cheerfull sang Now may thou joy since such a Roy Neu'r over thy Regions rang Our Soveraigne sweet our Jemme Iosias and our Iames The onely Starr that guids thy state And brights thee with his beams Thou now posseids with peace And hes with Loue at length That never could be win with war Nor yet constraind be strength Faits Time and Right hes made Thee to triumph into That not thy Martiall minded Men Nor actiue deeds could do The onely Ornament And Sun-shine of the Earth By destinies ordainde to bruke All Britaine or his Berth Thou hes and now enjoi's Our verie Soule and Sark A Dy'mond in thy Dyall set The hight of Honors wark These Royall vertues haill That thou to fore hes found In thy preceeding Princes all Even from his birth abound And gloriouslie into His Princelie person shine O England to thy comfort now And Scotland vnto thine In deed Thou should rejoice And be appleased since But grudge thou saw with glore the great Preferment of thy Prince For now thou may behold His Hienes Head to hemme Beside the old vnconquest Crowne A Triple Diademe All men may clearlie know What God his wisdome wroght And by thy Prince his patience Beyond beleif is broght Unto an happie end For in the British Throne Religion raign 's Peace there is plac'd And Iustice joind in one There Majestie does moue There Fortitude is fixt And there with Rigour or Revenge Is marvellous Mercie mixt There may thou view from East And from the setting Sunne Elected Legats send and from Remottest Regions runne T' applaud thy Prince his praise Their Pretious presents brings From Europe Afric Asia And from Amerik Kings Not that thy Lord inlaiks For his great state such store No no his Highnes hes his owne In infinite before Bot yet because they see Him blessed from aboue Thus they resort to signifie Vnto thy Lord their loue So Inely thou may joi's To heare his Name renound Since from his boundant benefits Some back to thee rebound And yet I grant thy griefe Is greater then thy gaine For but thy Head vnhappie thou Dismembred mone remaine And now shall heare his will Bot be commission that He from his mouth mellifluous Wont to communicat Most patiently and as Thy Parent and thy Prince Divulgating his Laws with loue And diuine Eloquence Thou must solicite be And carefull now t' inquire What credit beares the spurring Posts To the Synedrion heir Poore Orphane widow like Be thou in sable seene While as thy sister England goes Now gallantly in greene And like pale Lnna loure VVhen her Apollos light Is in eclipse or with a cloude Secluded from her sight For loe thy golden Sunne Into the South he shines VVhile thou Solsequium-like for thy Abstracted Titan tynes A bodie hudge thou ar Exhibit but a Hart. Vpon the worlds inconstāt stage To play the Monsters part Poore Ladie now thy Life Thy Lord and thy Belou'd And next that mightie Mobile Thy Mouer is remou'd Yet for thy great King Iames His Iubile reioyes Since he aboue the British blood Thy old now freinded foes Thou to his honour high Dilucidlie decerns With measure howe he moderates And like