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	matter_n	see_v	3,060	5	3.1155	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04134	Cum bono deo. A remonstrance to the Godly party. Two maine quæries, which stand much usefull fo these our times. ... And a vindication of both. / By Andrew Logie sometime Arch-Deane of Aberdene; Penned by the author, ann. 1654, and printed 1661.	Logie, Andrew.	1661 (1661)	Wing L2840; ESTC R180013	29,338	52

Cum Bono DEO A REMONSTRANCE TO THE GODLY PARTY Two maine Quaeries Which stand much usefull for these our times The One is anent that which made this wofull Diaphragma or Dissepimentum this Division twixt KING State and Church And this is Episcopacy The Other is anent that which hath so pittifully rent our Church in her self so stands maceries paries intergerinus or intergerivus The partition-Wall twixt our PROTESTERS the GODLY PARTY as they are pleased out of a more then a Pharisaicall pride superciliously to arrogate this title to themselves and the Assembly-men So that it is turned questionable with not a few with us to day which of these two contrary Factions we should acknowledge for our true Representative Church both these acclaiming in jure this Title to thēselves AND this is If our Commission of Church did rightly determine anent the receiving in into the bosome of their Army of Nuncupative Malignants in such a nick of time exigence of Affaires or pronounced therein clave errante Numerò If that Engagement stood lawfull with the One or unlawfull with the Other AND A VINDICATION of Both By ANDREW LOGIE somtime Arch-Deane of Aberdene Penned by the Author Ann. 1654 And printed 1661. OF Episcopacy THe First Quaere shall be this If Episcopacy The ORDER it self may be justly outted because that the Name or Title wherby the men in the order entitled or designed viz. Episcopus which is rendred in our ordinary language Bishop doeth seeme to our Disciplinarians forsooth sapere fastum to savour of pride and arrogancy Answere GOod LORD What presumptuous and bold as unwarrantable ignorance is this from off of the Name from whence men in a CALLING receive their denomination to raise grounds or reasons to infirme and weaken a CALLING Is not this Ludere in vocibus rather then seriò agere nay impiè ludere in re tam seria But to the Point This their Alleadgeance is false for this is a TITLE oneris potiùs quàm Honoris of a burden rather then of honour Doth not this very NAME Episcopus or Overseer import and designe Curam et solicitudinem which requires no little vigilancy and carefulnesse And so as Honos or Honour is conferred to them so an onus or burden is imposed on them and thus it is incumbent on them as praesse so prodesse since dignity and duty go together This very Name of GODS own imposition is like a Memento or as the voyce of a Cryer to sound out wholsome admonitions and instructions on both sides for to them Aurem vellit et admonet it pulleth them by the eare and admonisheth them of the heavy burden imposed on them and weyghty charge entrusted them That they so oversee as men who must one day reddere rationem villicationis suae give render and make an accompt of their inspection and oversight And on the other hand IT bears on them who are cōmitted to their inspection and oversight the returne of a reciprocall duty of acknowledgement subjection and submission But I cannot sufficiētly wonder That men of Learning should yea or could have stumbled at this though the Name whereby they are designed should import no slender Honour or Prerogative seing that as if the Earth could not sufficiently furnish us titles of Honour to dignifie that Office or Calling accordingly wee finde the Heavens sought unto to afford according Titles to set forth the high surpassing great dignity of that so eminent and honourable an Ministration and so ennobled by the blessed TRINITY IT is to be wished as Gregory saieth well on that they are called Angeli Domini exercituū Mal. 2.7 ut dignitatem servarent in nomine quam explent in operatione yea et è converso ut quam dignitatem obtinent in nomine explerent in operatione Numero ut nomina rebus responderent suis et res nominibus If we should be pleased to prove idle seek out any lurking Pride in vocables we might arcesse their Presbyters or Elders Seniores of no lesse arrogancy so call their divine and so much cryed up office of Eldership in question which were a piacular sin for doeth not the French word Seigneurs as if ye should say Senieurs flow from that of Seniores nay and Senatores too but this is but an idle Logomachy or vaine contest about words But this shews forth to the full as their hate and aversation of the matter or Office so their best poore willingnesse to beare out their point and roote out the Order If this were safe and sure argumenting Why might we not no lesse justly cry out against the dignity of Christians under Christs Kingdome where we are said in common to be made in Him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into a Royall Priest-hood wher every word serves to advance the surpassing great dignity of our Condition under the Gospell above that under the Law IT wonders me not a little How that these men who bowed the knee to Independency and proved active and instrumentall to bring in a Paritie in State as in Church grudged not and excepted against the usurped name of a Lord Protector since that the Prophet Isai fore-prophecying of Christs Kingdom Is 32. from the beginning may justly seeme to vindicate this Title to that Man Christ Who is both GOD and Man and so can only prove an hiding place from the winde a covert frō the tempest How is it that they so deeply forgot themselves as shuning Charybdis they should so willingly as willfully cast themselves into Scylla esclave themselves to a farre higher and harder dependency where their least finger proved bigger then were their Fathers loynes Certes me thinks it no wonder That men who made it no scruple or conscience to cast off their RVLER whom GOD had set over them Their just Titular KING though GOD Himself to dignify the Office of Kings is pleased to impart to them and cōmunicate with them His Name and Office by an Ego dixi dij estis I have said yee are gods Ps 82.6 That they bearing His Image and Superscription as it were might labour to be answerable to their Prototypon and so strive to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lively Images of GOD in ipso judicandi munere in their due administration of Justice I say I can think it no wonder That these who scrupled not or made the least conscience to make such an alteration in State should not stand on this to banish all order in Church and so bring in confusion in both Truely these so grave and learned Divines and pious Reformers arcessing from the bare and naked Name grounds and reasons to infirme the Office may not without just cause seeme to resemble that Rhetorician who could Mirifice res exiguas verbis amplificare wonderfully amplifie small matters with hye words whom Agesilaus thought no more commendable for it then the Shoe-maker who should make great shoes for little feet Thus you see That this is no