Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	hear_v	lord_n	see_v	2,877	5	3.4356	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13756	The defence of Iob Throkmorton against the slaunders of Maister Sutcliffe taken out of a copye of his owne hande as it was written to an honorable personage.	Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601.	1594 (1594)	STC 24055.5; ESTC S101276	26,227	44

were as you Maister Copinger for those I assure you were my wordes vnto him I would rather suspecte this that you speake of to be some meere illusion of the Deuill then any sounde reuelation from God c. Well saith he Maister Throk striking his hande vpon the deske that was by me what so euer you and others doe thinke of the strangenesse and impossibilitie hereof I am out of doubt of the trueth of it being more then once or twice and that after many conflictes agonies and trialls assured thereof euen by the holy ghost him selfe from heauen and that the Lorde him selfe hath appointed me for some speciall work of his to his glorie In which speeches of his me thought I sawe some wilde and strange cast of his countenance Nowe when he sawe that after all these his perswasions protestations and fearfull imprecations he could by no meanes fasten vpon me any liking of these his extraordinarie reuelations though he often alleadged Maister Knox and some others vnto me he grew in th' end to this that there was a worke to be done for the Church which the Lord would not haue wrought by such men of great giftes as Maister Egerton Maister Cart. and my selfe were for so it pleased him to couple vs togither But this must be effected forsooth by men of base accompte of no giftes such as are as it were the verie abiectes of th' earth For euer saieth he the Lorde woorketh the greatest woorkes by the weakest instruments And herevpon it was that he began to commende and extoll this Hacket vnto me as a very rare notable man and yet such a one as could not reade a letter on the booke One that in deede had bene as he saied a vile and prophane wretch in his dayes but was wonderfullie altered and come home A man that would not sticke in all humilitie to acknowledge the sinne of his former life with detestation and was nowe become a conuert forsooth and a diligent hearer of the woord To this effect I assure you and with manie moe wordes then I can well vtter did he blaze out the praises of this newe prophet of his And then seeing some others come vp to me about busines he snatched vp his papers and thrusting them into his bosome he tooke his leaue for that time But you must vnderstande Madame that before this conference of ours he wrote vnto me and finding belike that my answere was not to his satisfaction he founde this meanes to steale vpon me as I haue described His letter was to the very same effecte as his speeches were to witte That he hoped to liue to doo some seruice to the Church of God That what so euer perswasions men vsed vnto him to desist and breake off his course yet he had no cause to be discouraged because he had his warrant from heauen Further that with the Lorde the greatest workes were euer brought to passe by the weakest instrumentes c. Implying enforcing still that this Hacket forsooth whom all this while I neuer sawe nor heard of but by Copingers report must be the man that must doe the feate because hee was a weake one and vnlearned Vnto this letter of his purposelie to aduise him to beware what he did and to looke before he leapt I wrote him that answere which they haue nowe in their handes and which Maister Copinger kept in his bosome among other papers euen the same that desperate Maister Sutcliffe and the Pretended conspiracie haue thus printed and published by patches and pieces with so manie c. I muse they would not publishe it altogither as it was vnmangled It had sure bene a great deale fairer play especiallie in a cause that concernes as is pretended a mans life credite and good name I thanke God Madame if they doe not adde or enlarge or if they doe not curtaile it clippe it enterline it and transforme it I doe not feare the view of that letter to be presented at anie time before the Lordes and my selfe to be censured and punished as they in their wisedomes shall thinke my ouersight that way to deserue For vnlesse I greatlie deceyue my selfe the very shreades of that letter which they haue thus dismembred renting one clause from another yea and by their leaue altering and ouerstrayninge some wordes too doe notwithstāding if they be rightly weighed sufficienlie cleare me in th' eies of all vnpartiall and indifferent minded men And yet it may be they knowe that the whole letter would haue cleared the suspicion much more Therefore vtterly to suppresse that whiche would cleare a Puritane most was for them the wisest though peraduenture not the conscionablest course It may be and it is like enough if they haue all his papers that they haue also another short letter of mine in aunswere to another of Maister Copingers who writing vnto me thus Deare brother I hope ere it be long you shall see an alteration I answered him euen vnder the same letter both in one paper thus Such an alteration as would breede a reformation and not a confusion I would be hartilie glad of and I doe daily pray for Seeing they are so ful of their printing I would wishe they had bene so kind-harted to haue printed this too Nowe that your Honor may the better iudge whether I be herein injured or no or whether it be vpon the spleene as it were without cause that I doe thus complaine It may please you a little to consider with me of these fewe particulars ensuing First whereas Maister Copinger in his letter seemed to be sorie that I should be one of those that did condemne his course and I assured him that as I was not ouer hastie to condemne him in a matter that I knew not of nor had anie acquaintance with but only hearde of at the second hand as it were by certeine buzzes flying reportes abroad c. All that former part of my letter those wordes that make so manifestly and apparauntlie for my clearing and wherein I doe vtterlie disavowe all knowledge and acquaintance with those courses of his because they would so faine haue me seeme guiltie is quite left out suppressed not a word of that I warrant you Then whereas the whole drift and scope of my letter is a meere disswasion of Maister Copinger to goe on with anie sole or singular course of his owne head and that hee take both his eyes in his handes and be sure of his grounde before he striue to put any thing in execution they haue laboured to invert all strayning and stretchinge both my words and meaning quite against the haire as may appeare by their marginall note striue to put in execution whereby they would make the world beleeue if they could that Throk was no disswader but rather an encourager and egger on of Copinger to put in execution that which before he had conceiued in his braine And nowe to mende the matter in the necke