Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	law_n	people_n	4,588	5	5.1230	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79907	The voice of truth, uttered forth against the unreasonablenes, rudenes, and deboistnes of the rulers, teachers and people of the island Barbados. Through one, who hath suffered by them, for the testimony of a good conscience, and the word of God, known by the name of Thomas Clark.	Clark, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing C4562A; ESTC R171379	7,419	13

that manner several stood beating me with their Staves as I was told after I was recovered and when my sences were come unto me it was laid upon me to speak to the People in Love to shew them the Evil they had done and desired that the Lord might not lay it to their charge for which several of them fell upon me again and beat me and punched me with their Sticks very much and so continued following of me for a good space on my way This was also done in the sight of Magistrates and several others Officers that were there who had Power to have prevented it but did not but rather strengthened the People I pray God it be not laid to their charge Also by Matthew Gray Priest of the same Parish sometimes after upon the Day the King was Proclaimed came Drunk to a Tavern over against my house and I looking out at my Chamber-window he seeing me called to me and held up his Horse Whip shaking at me and said Tom you must come no more to my Church for now said he we have got a King and so set Boys and other Rude People to stone me in at my Window and also several Persons with their Guns who shot at me by which I received some injury at which he rejoyced and leaped and skipped about the Roome and further endeavoured in my hearing what he could to get the People to pull down my house and more I was informed that he bid some to fire my house but before he came the People were quiet and offered me no wrong Also Thomas Manwaring Priest at Speights Town came into the house of Anthony Long where I was about some business he behaving himself much contrary to a Minister of the Gospel in vain words and unseemly behaviour I told him that he being a man that took upon him to be a Teacher of People ought not to do such things but rather reprove them upon which he calling me Quaking Logger-head and Rascal and many such like words and told me he would have a Law made to cut off my Ears I told him I had not done any thing worthy thereof and he being filled with Envy went away Railing and Raging at me without a cause after which he promised to give me and some other Friends a meeting but never did though I and my Friends waited some time upon it Afterward he sent me a Note wherein he writ that provided I would come alone by my self without any other with me to Richard Cluffs house and also to come in such a frame of Spirit as might induce him to hear me then he might Discourse with me and afterwards I carryed a Letter to his house which was written to him by two Friends but when I came there he refused to speak with me and also to receive the Letter which I sent in to him but he returned it again by his Clerk who gave it me and told me that his Master would have nothing to do with me nor yet with my Papers and soon after the said Manwaring writ me a Letter in which was these words viz. Thomas I am sorry if the Zeal of thy Spirit be to quick for thy Discretion and that a Cudgel must beat that out of thee which the Devil hath blown in And subscribed his name Thomas Manwaring Also Francis Smith Priest of Thomas Parish being an aged man I meeting him upon the Road very drunk I told him It was high time for him to forsake those Works of Darkness His answer was that it was high time for me to become a Rogue and a Whelp All this with much more that might be mentioned have I suffered besides the Sufferings which I have born with the rest of Friends by Cruel Mockings Scoffings Stonings and Cruel Threatnings which hath deeply been cast upon us both in our houses on the high wayes and other Places as we have passed quietly upon our honest occasions all which we have born patiently without rendering Evil for Evil And these things have been laid before some of you yet no redresse have we had neither is any amongst you that have laid these our Sufferings to heart nor at all reproved any of the Evil Doers for any of these things which have been the Cause of these our Cruel Sufferings but have rather strengthned them therein Notwithstanding the King set forth a good and wholsome Proclamation for the punishment of the Evil Doers which thing you put not in Execution whereby all honest sober People do see that you do not only cast the Righteous Law of God behind your Backs but also the Just Act of the King Therefore all ye Rulers Judges and Justices and all other Officers under you in this Island of what sort soever Consider what you have done and what you are doing and lay these things to heart and Dread him who is a Dreadfull and Terrible God and is Mighty in Majesty and Power he it is that Pleadeth our Cause for us and taketh notice of all your Actions whatsoever you do or suffer to be done against us be they done never so secretly and will in no wise let the guilty go free but a Day you shall know and assuredly will come upon you that not one of you shall in any wise escape his hand in which Day the Holy God the Righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth will awake his Living Witness in every of your Consciences then you shall see and know that the Lord hath Regard to his People whom you have caused to suffer under you by Cruelty and Oppression and then will he present to your open views the Cryes and Groans of the oppressed and all that have unjustly suffered under you and then shall you read before you as in a Book our Sufferings and our Burthens which you have so heavily laid upon us which we have patiently born in this the day thereof and these things in Love and Tenderness have been laid before you that you might not be Ignorant of them which thing hath been slighted by you and would not be convinced of the Evil thereof but have rather replyed with hard speechs and great Threatnings given forth by some of you against the Innocent and Beloved of the Lord though despised of men and forsaken and then shall all our Sufferings which you have suffered to be done against us be removed from us and we eased and you troubled and so it must be that which hath caused our trouble must become your shame and this will be our Joy that we have suffered for the Testimony of a good Conscience and then that which is our Joy will be your greatest Sorrow and the more you desire to be at ease the more will your Sorrow encrease for verily now is the Lord making enquiry among you and hath considered the Cry of his Suffering Seed throughout this Island and the Groans and Sights and Tears are now beheld and are entered into the Ears of the Lord God of