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	lord_n	people_n	4,203	5	4.5705	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01596	A perticuler and true narration of that great and gratious deliuerance, that it pleased God of late to vouchsafe vnto the cittie of Geneua namely vpon the. xij. of December last in the yeere 1602.		1603 (1603)	STC 11726; ESTC S103017	4,230	14

Halbards and Swordes all resolute to die or to repulse the Enemie ere he should waxe stronger which thing succeeded well For the Enemie hauing perceiued that by the discharging of a Canon that was on the Bulwarke of the New-gate being charged with Chaynes and Nayles one of their Ladders beeing broken and betwixt thirtie and fourtie of their men which were comming vp sore maymed were greatly astonished and none of them durst afterwards come vp Those which were got into the Cittie were also much amazed and began to flye hearing the sound of the Retraite running downe with more haste then they came vp a part of them did fall head-long downe into the Ditch the rest beeing an hundred or sixscore were either killed or sore hurt except thirteene who being taken aliue refusing to confesse any thing were hanged the same day notwithstanding their offering of great Ransome The fight dured from three of the clocke to fiue At the breake of the day the Enemie retired to Bonna and Roche Monsieur Dalbigny was at the foote of the Ladder making shew to come vp but seeing al succeeded not wel feygned to haue a qualme come ouer his stomacke and so retired himselfe Amongst the prisoners that were hanged were Messieurs de Sonas Schaffardon and Dartinac their sentence was that hauing in open peace attempted against the Cittie they were not to be esteemed as Prisoners of Warre but as Robbers and Martherers and that therefore they deserued death Then was there a Galhouse of purpose set vp on the Bulwarke of the New-gate whereon they were hanged in the afternoone the same day The dead besides these thirteene were about foure score besides those which were drowned in the Ditch and many sore maimed Among the dead was the sonne of the Marquesse De Lullin the sonne of the Marquesse De Trefort Monsieur de Cornage de La Tour Liue-tenant and Aancient-bearer to Monsieur Dalbigny The heads of all the dead men were cut off and set on Poles vpon the Walles where they first entred their bodyes were cast into the Rhosne The Enemie retired themselues to a Village called Etrenblieres distant some League from Geneua carying many of their dead and maimed men amongst the which were the Baron De La Valdisaire Generall of the Footmen and many others of Commaund and being ariued at Roche and making a reuiew of their men found betwixt three and foure hundred of them wanting The Duke caused foure Captaines beeing Spaniards to be hanged for not executing their charge in assaulting of the towne on the other side which being done he himselfe rode post to Thurin Those of the Cittie lost some sixteene men amongst whom was Monsieur Canal one of the Priuie-counsel being three score and tenne yeares olde Captaine Vandell Marke Cambiago Peter Cabriol Masster Nicholas Masson Bandieres Debolo and some others and some twentie hurt The Cittie was presently relieued with three hundred Swytsers of Berna being their neighbours and confederates looking dayly for more Praysing the Lord for this great and wonderfull deliuerance a singuler continuance of his mercy that hee laughing at their complots had taken the cause of his people into his owne hands and as a iust Iudge discomfiting their Enemies hath made them sinke downe into the Pit which they had prepared for those that know the Lord and trust in him Let therefore Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord is mercie and great redemption OF all this Narration there is a double vse and he that hath a sanctifyed hart shall no doubt profit by it therein First wee may see what affiance or trust is to bee giuen to the wordes and promises of the Popish and Spanish faction of the which the Sauoyard is not one of the least limbes or members and that should mooue vs not to bee so readie to relie or rest vpon their fayre wordes and speaches as some would haue vs but to carry our selues if not suspitious of them yet warily with them and the rather because it is a receiued maxime amongst them and as one would say an ouerruled case that Fayth is not to be held with Heretickes such as they vniustly hold vs to bee Secondly wee may behold that great regarde and more then fatherly care that the Lord hath to preserue and defend them that with godly sinceritie and singlenesse of hart walke in the obedience of his whole trueth and that should on the one side prouoke vs to bee more zelous of his glory then in these cold and carelesse dayes many men would haue vs and wee are in deede And on the other side it should stirre vs vp with confidence of hart and assurance of hope wholly to depend vpon him who though for the tryall of our Fayth the proofe of our Patience the punishment of our Sinnes and sundry other causes best knowne to his owne Wisedome hee appoynt vs to bee sundry wayes exercised yet will together with the temptation make an issue out of the same and prouide a way for vs to escape as shall bee most for his glory and our good And this should bee no meane comfort vnto vs in the dayes of our tryalles and tribulations FINIS