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	let_v	lord_n	2,934	5	3.6705	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88519	Look about you: a discourse directed to the Lords of the upper house of Parliament in the first place, to the honourable the House of Commons, to the Right Honorable Lord Mayor of the Citie of London, the aldermen his brethren, and to the commons of the said citie. And lastly, to the whole body of the Kingdome of England, who ought to put this counsell in practice, for the preservation of their lives and liberties: namely, look about you. / Written by a Lover of his Countrey, and a faithfull servant to the high Court of Parliament.		1643 (1643)	Wing L3005; Thomason E85_35; ESTC R13026	3,883	8

trust them not but Looke about you Your have heard and so have all this City your honourable selfe and some other worthy and well-affected Citizens desiree by his Majesty as Delinquents to be given up to imprisonment let not that thunderbolt amaze you it is farre enough thanks be to God from piercing you In your discretions consists a great part of the advancement of the present cause for the glory of God and good of your Brethren now your hand is put to the Lords ●●ough pull it not backe but endevour cheerfully and couragiously to animate the Citizens and able persons resident within your walls to contribute largely to the maintenance of these wars till an honourable and just peace with which truth may walke hand in hand give a period and no good man but wishes it to all these civill distractions wars and tumults howsoever forget not this axiome but weare it imprinted in the tables of your hearts Looke about you And you the wealthy and well-affected Citizens under the government and charge of the said right Honourable the Lord Mayor and his Brethren it principally concernes you to looke about you you are the Indies which those blood-thirsty Cavaliers have aimed at your wealth your plate and other riches which like the Spaniards Indies they have still made a reckoning should fall as a prey into their fingers and certainely they would use as little mercy to you here as the Spaniard did to them there it is neither respect of kindred friends or acquantance that should any whit moderate the rapacity of their hands or licenciousnesse of their appetites should they once gaine the superiority in these warres and enter your goodly City by force neither your wives or beautious daughters should escape their violent lusts all that is deare and precious to you would be given up a spoile to their avarice and therefore I say to you Looke about you and doe not like Aesops Dogge in the Fable catch at the shadow and forgoe the substance doe not let a little covetousnesse of saving part of your wealth make you forfeit the whole but as the Israelites in the Wildernesse did consecrate all the Jewells of Gold and Silver with a willing mind toward the building of the Tabernacle so throw you in every one out of the abundance of your store plate and moneys into the treasury of that sanctuary of yours and the whole Kingdomes liberty the Honourable the High Court of Parliament God will restore it you an hundred fold since it is chiefly intended for the promotion of his service the rescuing His Excellent Majesty from the inthralment of the Malignant party and for the estabishment of peace againe in this our Israel in this case therefore be wise and looke about you And lastly to you the Nobility Knights Gentry and Yeomanry diffused and dispersed through this Kingdome of England to you I present the same lesson Looke about you you have already seen the calamities of your neighbours and felt your owne you have either had fire and sword in your owne dwellings or heard of it in your friends and fellow-Subjects not one County in this populous Kingdome escaping the dreadfull and pitilesse assaults of these desperate and blood-minded Cavaliers I may therefore with just reason advise you to looke about you and whilest you have yet time left associate your selves to the faithfull and conforme your actions to the proceedings and directions of the High court of Parliament send forth all the able young men amongst you well prepared and harnessed for battell to their assistance against these Malignants that study to inslave you your estates and liberties the Parliament is the tower of your refuge and under God the strong hold and castle of defence you must trust to let not other hopes or pretences deceive you but submit your judgements to theirs whose wisdomes will breed your welfare and tranquillity willingly impart your estates and lives if need be to their defence and protection who will defend and protect your freedomes and livelihoods from all dangers and make this Kingdome flourishing and fortunate by their institution of Gods Lawes for the security of the Subject which will in happy time be brought to good effect if you take my poore and humble counsell Looke about you FINIS