Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	law_n	4,029	5	4.5431	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87142	Englands out-cry, for the sad distractions now lying upon the church and state. Wherein shee humbly implores mercy from God, pitty from her soveraigne, and justice on her enemies. Laying downe, both the primary, and secondary causes, of her fresh bleeding calamities. So that judicious, simple, all may see, the first promoter of this misery. Reade diligently, consider carefully, and make what thou hast read, a case of conscience. VVritten by J. Harris. This is licensed, and entered, according to order	Harris, John, Gent.	1644 (1644)	Wing H857; Thomason E3_7; ESTC R210021	4,175	9

Englands Out-Cry FOR The sad distractions now lying upon the Church and STATE Wherein shee humbly implores mercy from God pitty from her Soveraigne and justice on her Enemies Laying downe both the primary and secondary causes of her fresh bleeding calamities So that Judicious simple all may see The first promoter of this misery Reade diligently consider carefully and make what thou hast read a case of Conscience VVritten by J. Harris This is Licensed and entered according to Order London Printed by T. Forcet Iuly 24. 1644. Englands Out-Cry FOR The distracted divisions of Church and State T Is a sad signe when mercy proves the forerunner of misery when temporall injoyments for a minute ushers on an age of scarlet calamities when gentle entreaties worke not the desired effect then smarting corrections must inforce by power what love could not bring to passe by courtesie Such is the case of England po●●e miserable distracted almost destroyed England I who was term'd the Virgin Island the Southern Arcadia the land flowing with Milke and Hony where plenty of all good and delightfull pleasure had its residence where Peace brought Honour to the Prince and Riches to the People where the Soveraignes sole delight and study was to preserve the Subject and the Subjects care guided by Conscience to observe the just commands of the Soveraigne where the Prince hated Tyranie the Preachers Popery and the Subject fear'd no slavery but every degree lived in the feare of God in the favour of the Prince injoying the fruits of their own Vine I even I am now become as a widdow mourning for the losse of her espoused Love instead of singing joyfull Anthems I am inforced to take up a great lamentation and cry out with the Prophet Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night 〈◊〉 the slain of the daug●●ers of my People But alas poore ENGLAND what will 〈◊〉 vaile thee to lament now when the acceptable time is past how happy haddest thou bin haddest thou known in this thy day what had belonged to thy Peace but the day is gone the night is come and darkenesse covers the face of the whole earth mercyes could not prevaile threatning must subdue threatnings could not subdue Iudgments must destroy plagues could not forwarn us though brought upon us yeare after yeare therefore the sword must now destroy us In this great strait to whom shall poore ENGLAND complain if to God he cannot but appeare a just avenger a displeased Judge an incensed Father for the slaughter of his beloved Sonne whom ENGLAND hath cruelly crucified it may be justly expected that in stead of finding favors a storme of fiery indignation will be showr'd upon me If I complain to neighbour Nations in stead of redresse I shall find derision rejociyng at my misery glorying in my downfall I that was the heigth of their envie and admiration am now become the subject of their wish a desolation if I complain to my own none will heare me J have often with prayers and teares sayd O King Heare me and have mercy on mee but alas Flatterers stood so thick between him and me that all I said was to no purpose when I came with a Petition for Peace he was so busie with a Councell of Warre that my labour was lost and in all my religious endeavours to prevent this lasting misery I found so many Crosses that being altogether disheartned I sate me downe to consider what the cause might be that so many Papists were turn'd Protestants so many Courtiers turn'd Souldiers so many Prelates made Peeres so many Ladyes made Councellors so many Knaves put in authority and the sequell of all I have found to be that England having abounded in sin of all kinds abused mercies slighted threatnings surfeited with Manna was grown sick of a Plurisie and these were appointed by a divine Decree to be the Horsleeches that should suck away the corrupted and putrified blood bred from the evill Court humours and thence diffused through the body of the whole Kingdom● and in this they very well agree for they have shewed them●●●ves insatiate blood-suckers not satisfied till by their abounding ●●ey have burst themselves and almost ruined what they were ●rdained to preserve the cure proving much more desperate ●●en the disease so much by the way Sinne I found to be the pri●ary and chiefe ground of my sufferings to looke back onely to ●●e dayes of Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory had England●●en been humbled for the blood-shed in the Antichristian per●●cution of Queene Mary whose memory bringeth timely ●●rrow to my heart the Enemie had never obtained such an ad●antage and encouragement as he had to worke and plot so ma●● wayes and stratagems to destroy our then Faiths defendor ●●th the Protestant profession for sinne gives the devill an advantage and when a man lyes open unguarded 't is a happy advan●age for an enemy to take to kill him penitent sorrow prevents ●●nne had ENGLAND made a progression in a Religious re●ormation in the dayes of King Iames and not sat downe in a Wildernesse as beeing content to be onely freed from that ●GYPTIAN slavery not regarding to make a further progress into the land of Canaan Rome had not found such an opportunity to corrupt our Clergy and to bring us back again to make Bricks to subject our selves to Peters chaire and to endeavour the advancement of the antichristian Kingdome Romes Antagonist Prince Henry had not been destroyed nor so many famous and deserving Peeres had their lives shortned but onely to make way for the advancement of Romes Empire and the destruction of poore ENGLAND to what end was so many Parliaments dissolved and Parliaments so long discontinued but to subvert Religion and destroy the Law to what end was the Spanish faction so much favoured but to shew that they had declared themselves ready to protect England with a Spanish Fleet a Powder conspiracy an ●rish rebellion an English invasion to the totall destruction of it's Religion and Liberty can any man be so sottish as not to see the Bishops De●nes and Doctors going in Procession to Rome just when they began to persecute Purita●●● with one ●●●d and entertain ●esuits Fryars 〈…〉 plucking them to high 〈◊〉 with both ●and can it seeme reasonable that a Papist should love a Protestant or Spaine love England where there is no Antipathy but in principles of policie can it be a matter reasonable to think that they that now declare themselves the Law's defenders against the Kingdome will maintaine them for the King could he be wonne to put them in execution against them or may it not appeare as great a principle in the Papists of Spaine and France to endeavour the promotion of their Antichristian cause against England as it is in England to maintain ours against them certainely it cannot be denied yet such is Englands misery Her off-spring prove abortives and Viper-like endeavour to