Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	judge_n	law_n	matter_n	2,527	5	5.5457	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01871	Londons cry ascended to God, and entred into the hearts, and eares of men for reuenge of bloodshedders, burglaiers, and vagabounds. Manifested the last sessions, holden at Iustice Hall in the old Baily the 9. 10. 11. 12. of December, Anno Dom. 1619. Likewise heerein is related, the courts legall proceedings, against the malefactors that were executed at Tiburne and about London, and the chiefest offenders, there offences and confessions at large expressed.	Goodcole, Henry, 1586-1641.	1620 (1620)	STC 12011; ESTC S118382	8,378	24

the heate thereof extendeth it cherisheth making it to yeald foorth the fruit in dead time season and place Because where the corne groweth and by the Sunne is rypened the Cockle doth likewise prosper is that in the Sunne or in the Garden the flower nettle and the thorne the sweet heathe and the stincking weede or the tilled lands with the bushes Briars or Brambles is that the cause of these contrarieties nothing lesse All mankinds nature with sinne is corrupted and depraued in Adam all things there natures change mans heart of innocencie is nowe made nought Gods blessed earth before mans transgression now after his digression accursed it is with barrennesse bringing foorth vnprofitable fruites such as Nettle Thornes and Thistles and Bryars to hinder the plentifull groweth of any good of which corrupt kind namely of bad in each nature climate and quality the worser part exceedeth the best more bad ground then good more sinners then Saints more vitious then vertuous there is in the whole world a deludge of Iniquity more prone swifter running after all manner of wickednesse to perpetrate them then willing to performe any of the least Office or intertaine such motion inclining vnto God or goodnesse Princes in their Lawes and Courses imitate that lust One in Heauen Iustice and Mercy kisse and méet each other Rewards they promise to the vertuous and Threatening of Punishments to the wicked the one to incourage in their way the other to deter and retyre in their way experience how they are honoured and promoted that are sauoured with integritie and instruments of punishments as Sword and Fire that to good are refractorie yet will not God punish nor adiudge nor condemne but hee before visites the sinnes and offences of the people The Kings Maiesty imitates his God in this whom he vnfainedly feareth and serueth This God on Earth with the Sunne Moone and States of Nobilitie Clergie and Gentrie his Court is centured and gloriously adorned and are come to visit and inquire To iudge the cause and discerne betwéene the people he appoints the reuerend Iudges and ciuill Magistrats to discerne and search into the Cause and to the Malefactor they call others to testifie in there Legall Procéedings that they will not in any the least manner be taxed with iniustice or wrong The Fact and Prisoner are produced and publikely in Court read Euidence of the matter of fact vpon Oath sworne and bound at a day of appearance to iustifie the truth and nothing but the whole truth as they would haue God to helpe them THE MANNER OF THE Courts Proceedings VPon the Oathes and deliberated inquiries of 15. reputed honest conscionable men now all Causes are begun to be consulted of and least they should erre in the Termining and yéelding of their Verdict if ought they doubt they addresse themselues vnto the reuerend Iudges and Honourable Benchors to be by them of their doubts resolued in the matter informed how to procéed iustly truly and conscionable And that these thrée things shall concurre and agrée in their procéedings namely iustly truly and conscionably to inquire and search out the truth they solemnly euery man take their Oathes on the holy Euangelist to the vttermost of their power so to doe the accuser is sent vp with the Bill of Indictment against the prisoner to them preferred Oath made of the manner of the Fact wherein they cannot erre without wilfully they will And behold the vigilant eye of Iustice They haue a Kéeper sworne to attend their going in and commings forth that none shall heare their priuate conferrings Where they sit none approcheth that place after testimonie giuen that by this meanes sauour and hatred may be layd aside if in one mans brest yet not in many for there are fifteene in number of them and if that one will disagree they exclude him and chuse another And that there may not be the least inuasion sinister dealing for parson or priuate causes or respects the Keeper that attendeth them is not to approch vnto them vnlesse they call him nor to speake with them except it vs to know whether they be agreed of their Verdict or no and then to proclayme to the Court a Verdict and to vsher them into the face of the Court there to manifest and declare what they haue done in those weighty matters committed to their trust iudgement and conscience Whose Names I haue here set downe The Names of the Grand Inquest for London Thomas Gresham Richard Brislow Iohn Allen. Thomas Riley Iohn May. Gutbert Haselwood Thomas Gommersall Henry Perkins Clement Pargiter Iohn Smith William Checkley Iohn Collet Thomas Gatwood Iames Ballard Iohn Tilney The Names of Middlesex Iury for the Quest of Inquirie Iohn Waterwoorth Francis Marsh William Gualter Thomas Bates Thomas Chatfield Nicholas Day Thomas Faulkener Richard Barnes Robert Browne Iohn Baker George Smith Thomas Stanger Francis Andrewes Iohn Monday Edward Saunders Nathaniel Lomsden Iohn Smith William Stanley Zacharie Howe These by the Worshipfull Bench are told what a weightie matter they are about the peace and prosperitie of a King and a whole Kingdome the honour and glorie of God his Church and Gospell they must inquire of the seditious disturbers and of the hurting slaying of the persons stealing their goods or chattels if any such Malefactors be brought before them they all ioyntly must agrée acquite or condemne And behold how God himselfe approueth of what is done by reuealing most strangely as consequently I will relate on a sudden the secret lurking Malefactor and the dubious hidden Truth nay in the end themselues to say both Iury and Iudges are cleare and iust and vpright in what they haue done in their Proceedings Iustice imitates God two manner of wayes in their Proceedings not rashly doe they begin but first here is their preparation Inquirie whether the Crime bee so or no iustly whether there be cause or matter to punish or spare or the Originall whence the accusation or scandall should tise Reason Conscience and Law these are the Guides and Lights to informe their Vnderstanding to speake to iudge and deeme of the Cause and Prisoner fairely each party the accused and accuser are face to face where what he can obiect must be vpon Oath and the Prisoner after such testimonie deposed against him is suffered to speake as much as hee can for himselfe and with patience they heare him and most temperately modestly mildly and charitably the Iudge of the Court replyeth answere according to the nature of their Offence Mercifully lento pede with God slow to anger sorrie for the Offences of the People with temperate inuections Witnesse that often Miserere which by heart is learned for not a Letter of it one among a hundreth almost can truely tell yet this mercifull warning they vse And when Sentence is to procéede from such a Doue Gall from such swéetnesse bitternesse as the Lawes rigour Religious Exhortations good Perswasions by that Tongue vttered and vnfained Sorrow and