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	life_n	see_v	2,826	5	3.2572	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96743	Carmen expostulatorium: or, A timely expostulation vvith those both of the City of London, and the present armie, vvho have either endeavoured to ingage these kingdoms in a second warre; or neglected the prevention thereof. Intended, for averting (if it may be possible) of that generall destruction thereby threatened; and to that purpose, hastily (upon the immergent occasion) published. / By Geo. VVither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3149; Thomason E401_10; ESTC R201776	13,426	24

like men as may Be so reli'd upon as to ingage Your Citie now a second warre to wage If so Oh! be more cautious be more sage Oh where where now is all that piety That prudence and that Christian charity Which you pretended to where is that care Of publike safetie which did once appeare Where is that conscience of the preservation Of your owne families from desolation Which doth or should in ev'rie Christian dwell That is not far below an Infidell Oh! be not wilfull in the prosecution Of an unfit and frantick resolution Which doubtlesse by the malice of the Devill And by his instruments is now for evill Instill'd into you that he might make void Those hopes which we e're this time had enjoi'd If want of faith and love to one another Indanger'd not our perishing together Be therefore well advis'd what will ensue Before this cursed warre you do renew Be not deluded or provok'd by those Who care not how your Citie they expose To hardship and to hazzard For it may Indanger all if J know what I say Invite you not from ev'rie quarter hither Those plagues and those confusions altogether Of which most places now have had a tast Lest all the storm descend on you at last And you constrained be to swallow up The verie dregs of their most bitter cup As you by Riddles intimation had Though you of them out small accompt have made And as all use to doe whose sins are ripe And take no warnings till they feel the stripe Regard not what your flatterers pretend But rather hearken to your faithfull friend Who plainly doth fore-see the sad effects To which your course intended now directs Be yet perswaded your own selves to pity Your friends your little ones your wives your City And do not unadvisedly fulfill Your foes designes by your perverted will What is' t to me what course you pitch upon Who to the world-ward wholly am undone And ruined alreadie by neglects Of justice on th' one side and by th' effects Of war on t'other and whose cheef wealth lies In those things which the world doth most despise And which I hope till I my life shall finish Nor peace nor war nor ought els shall diminish What have I got or what can I obtaine By seeking thus your madnesse to restraine But their displeasure who delight in war And my despightfull foes alreadie are The profit will be yours And this alone My recompence will be that I have done My dutie in perswading you unto That which my heart believes you ought to do Contemn not therefore what I now advise Though I may seem despised in their eyes Who counsell otherwise Seek to be quiet And add this short-receipt unto your diet To qualifie your selfe-destroying-rage Take Time Rue Patience and as much of Sage As may be needfull Then mix speedily All these ingredients and them so apply As you have oft been taught So GOD shall cure Or qualifie this English-Calenture Which is an Epidemicall disease That on this nation every where doth seize As did the Sweating Sicknesse If we may Confide in what Chronologers do say Why will ye perish and indanger all Your neighbours and three Kingdomes by your fall Since you may shun it and be safe and blessed A refuge to the needie and oppressed What moveth you that to escape a feare You flie into a mischiefe or a snare What is it makes you feare where no feare is And fearelesse of true dangers but ev'n this That neither of GOD'S threats you awefull grow Nor love your neighbour as you ought to doe Some of you have it seems a thirst for blood And peradventure for that reason GOD Will give them blood to drink Their heart is far From peace and he will come to them in war The sons of Consolation have been scorned And therefore he his Messengers hath turned To sons of thunder who as they desire Will speake to them in Sulphure and in Fire A Spirit of detraction and of lying On paper-wings among you hath been flying Till as it seems GOD hath for that offence Expos'd you to a reprobated sense Believing lies and to an Appetite Bewitched with a gluttonous delight In blasphemies and falshoods which are vented For every mornings breakfast newly minted And that grosse diet hath begot in you Those evill humours which distemper now Your Bodie-Politike and makes your Peace Disrelish by a loathsome nauseousnesse You may perchance believe by their delusions Who have abus'd your trust to your confusions And their own shame that you your selves are banding For Christ his Kingdome And arm for withstanding Of his opposers But take heed I pray Lest you prove rather to be such as they Who think they do GOD service when they spill The blood of those who seek to do his will I will and must acknowledge that in you There is a zeale But this is also true That most of you have not obtained yet That knowledge which true Zealots doth befit Religious I confesse you are and so The Jewes were too when GOD did overthrow Their greatest City yea they never seem'd So worthily devout to be esteem'd According to their Law yet then GOD shook Their whole foundation and quite from them took That Law and place for which they did not spare Their lives nor ought which unto them was dear Yea through that means by which they would prevent That losse they lost it Ev'n when innocent And guiltlesse blood they spilt And they who run Their course will doubtlesse fare as they have done Your selves therefore delude not with bare showes Of sanctitie but seriously dispose Your minds to charity that Christian peace May setled be and bruitish discord cease For all your pious and your morall works Are nothing better then are those of Turks Or Pagans till a will renew'd doth move To action by a principle of love You preach but preach ye Christ with lesse contention And that shall be of strife a good prevention You write but put lesse gall into your ink And let not your expressions tast and stink Of bitter slanders to the provocation Of vengeance and of furious indignation For when from us unseemingly speeches flow Although out cause be right we are not so You fast But if you fast not more from strife Oppression pride and from a wicked life Your fastings never will procure your peace But rather your confusions more increase You pray But pray as Phineas did and wee Shall better fruits of your long-prayer see You list your selves the Army to resist But to be reconcil'd have better list Then you have had And seek and follow more The likely way of peace then heretofore For you may conquer more with loving words Then with your pistolls and your naked swords And you shall get more profit and more praise Then by those Forces you intend to raise And thousands who would dying curse your rage Shall live and blesse you in another age What makes you and