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	part_n	see_v	3,501	5	3.2009	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77278	An English-mans fundamentall appeale. Or, The third humble petiton and addresse of Captain William Bray	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4301A; ESTC R231103	3,628	4

and trampled upon any longer And for Argument to your declared exemplary understanding your Petitioner hoping it may receive a revived Impression desires to mind you with your own Declarations in answer to the late King Charles which will restifie for him and plead his cause as will appear in the book of Collection of Declarations Printed by Mr. Edward Husbands by order and direction of the 24 March 1642 Page 694 Wherein you express your selves in this manner viz. Whatever be our inclination Slavery would be our condition if we should go about to overthrow the Laws of the Land and the Propriety of every mans Estate and Liberty of his Person for therein we must be aswell Patients as Agents and must every one in his turn suffer our selves whatever we should impose upon others And in your Declaration of the 19th of May 1642 Page 202 wherein you expresse these words viz And as his Majesty doth gratiously declare the Law shall be the measure of his Power so do we hearttly profess that we shall alwaies make it the Rule of our Obedience And therefore as Christ that perfect Pattern of natural Justice and supernatural Power and Mercy John 5.30 doth use these words viz. As I hear I judge and my Judgment is just because I seek not mine own will but the will of my Father which hath sent me So I humbly suppose I may say and apply as I have heard or read in the righteous Foundations and Principles of the Law from our Ancestors and also averted by your own Writings As I hear I Judge and believe there is a Rule of direction to me to beleive my judgment is just because I seek not my own Will grounded as an Innovation upon my own Judgment or private opinion but founded upon your own Declarations which testifie to the Case As for the third part of your Petitioners aforesaid Application he doth humbly confess since he did see a great or generall endeavours and application for a restauration and reinvestiture to Government and to accept of Trusts and places of profit Power and imployment he could not think his said address to be any just cause of offence to you as the case is but rather receiveable with chearfull intention to do Justice But your Petitioner seeing and continually feeling after 11 years sufferings and neglects that his said Application of the 18th of June was ineffectuall he made another of the second of July following and apprehending that his place of trust and investiture might not be with your likeing did not particularly mind that third part of his said addresse being willing to endeavour patience of mind and subjection rather then any such thing as any part or portion in YOUR GOVERNMENT Therefore your Petitioner doth now againe by all obligations humane and divine request and desire of you to manifest a Presidentall or exemplary Justice and good Conscience suitable to a great Counsell as to the speedy consideration of his arreares losses dammages and disbursements intendedly for your lawfull preservation and speedy and just satisfaction for his almost three years arbitrary Imprisonment that so he might not be any longer neglected destroyed and undone contrary to the Rules of all just Law Humanity and Conscience and in case your said oppressed Petitioner shall obtaine Justice in his affection and respect he desires to beare to gratitude he shall pray that God would extend his Wisdome and the power of his God-head to and for you and your posterity if you or they shall have any occasion to desire or expect Justice and goodness from any future Government Authority or Generations in the World WILLIAM BRAY. 29th September 1659.