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	prerogative_n	1,605	5	10.3114	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96762	Mr. Wither his prophesie of our present calamity, and (except we repent) future misery. Written by him in the yeare 1628.; Britain's remembrancer. Selections	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3182; Thomason E89_28; ESTC R1830	7,644	15

their Land Shall quite be worne Instead of whom shall rise A brood advanced by impieties That seek how they more great and strong may grow By compassing the publique overthrow They shall abuse thy Kings with Tales and Lies With seeming love and servile flatteries They shall perswade them they have power to make Their Wills their Law and as they please to take Their peoples goods their children and their lives Ev'n by their just and due Prerogatives When thus much they have made them to beleeve Then they shall teach them practises to grieve Their Subjects by and instruments become To helpe the scruing up by some and some Of Monarchies to Tyrannies They shall Abuse Religion Honesty and all To compasse their Designes They shall devise Strange Projects and with impudence and lies Proceed in setling them They shall forget Those reverent usages which doe befit The Majestie of State and raile and storme When they pretend disorders to reforme In their high Counsells and where men should have Kinde admonitions and reprovings grave When they offend they shall be threatned there Or scoft or taunted though no cause appeare What ever from thy people they can teare Or borrow they shall keepe as if it were A prize which had beene taken from the foe And they shall make no conscience what they doe To prejudice Posterity For they To gaine their lust but for the present day Shall with such love unto themselves endeavour That though they know it would undoe for ever Their owne posteritie it shall not make The Monsters any better course to take Nay God shall give them for their offences To such uncomely reprobated sense And blind them so that when the Axe they see Ev'n hewing at the roote of thine owne tree By their owne handy strokes they shall not grieve For their approaching fall no nor beleeve Their fall approacheth nor assume that heed Which might prevent till they fall indeed Marke well oh Brittaine What I now shall say And doe not slightly passe these words away But be assured that when God beginnes To bring that vengeance on thee for sinnes Which hazzard will thy totall overthrow Thy Prophets and thy Priests shall slily sow The seeds of that dissention and sedition Which time will ripen for thy said perdition But not unlesse the Priests thereto consent for in those dayes shall few men innocent be grieved through any quarter of the Land In which thy Clergy shall not have some hand If ever in thy fields as God forbid The blood of thine owne children shall be shed By civill discord they shall blow thy flame That will become thy ruine and thy shame And thus it will be kindled when the times Are nigh at worst and thy increasing crimes Almost compleate the Devill shall begin To bring strange Crotchets and Opinions in Among thy Teachers which will breede disunion And interrupt the visible Communion Of thy establish't Church And in the steed Of zealous Pastors who Gods Flocke did feed There shall arise within thee by degrees A Clergie that shall more desire to fleece then feed the Flock A Clergy it shall be Divided in it selfe and they shall thee Divide among them into severall factions Which rend thee will and fill thee with distractions They all in outward-seeming shall pretend Gods glory and to have a pious end But under colour of sincere devotion Their study shall be temporall promotion Which will among themselves strong quarrels make Wherein thy other children shall partake As to the Persons or the cause they stand Affected ev'n quite throughout the Land One part of these will for preferment strive By lifting up the Kings Prerogative Above it selfe They shall perswade him to Much more then Law or Conscience bids him do And say God warrants it His holy Laws They shall protect to justifie their cause And impudentlie wrest to prove their ends What God or better purposes intends They shall not blush to say that ev'ry King May doe like Solomon in every thing As if they had his warrant and shall dare Ascribe to Monarchs rights that proper are To none but Christ and mixe their flatteries With no lesse grosse and wicked blasphemies Then Heathens did yea make their King believe That whomsoever they oppresse or grieve It is no wrong nor fit for men oppressed To seek by their own Laws to be redressed Nay further to their wicked ends they shall Apply the sacred Story or what ever May seeme to further their unjust endeavour Ev'n what the Sonne of Hannah told the Jewes Should be their scourge because they did refuse The Sov'raignty of God and were so vaine To aske a King which over them might raigne As Heathen Princes did that curse they shall Affirme to be a Law Monarchicall Which God himselfe established to stand Through all ages and in every Land Which is as good Divinity as they Have also taught who doe not blush to say That Kings may have both Wives and Concubines And by that Rule whereby these great Divines Shall prove their Tenet I dare undertake If found it hold that I like proofe will make Of any Jewish Custome and devise Authoritie for all absurdities But false it is for might all Kings at pleasure As by the right of Royaltie make ceasure Of any mans possessions why I pray Did Ahab grieve that Naboth said him nay Why made he not this answer thereunto If what the Prophet said some Kings would doe Were justly to be done thy Vineyard's mine And at my pleasure Naboth all that 's thine Assume I may why like a Turkie-chicke Did he so foolishly grow fullen-sicke And get possession by a wicked fact Of what might have beene his by royall act If such Divinitie as this were true The Queene should not have needed to pursue Poore Naboth as she did or so contrive His death since by the Kings Prerogative She might have got his Vineyard Nor would God Have scourg'd that murther with so keen a rod On Ahab had he aked but his due For he did neither plot nor yet pursue The murther nor for ought that we can tell Had knowledge of the deed of Jezabel Till God reveal'd it by the Prophet to him Nor is it said that Naboth wrong did doe him Or disrespect in that he did not yeeld To sell or give or to exchange his Field Now if what here is mention'd thou dost heed Oh Brittaine in those times that shall succeed It may prevent much losse and make thee shun Those mischiefes whereby Kingdomes are undone But to thy other sins if thou shalt adde Rebellions as false Prophets will perswade Which likely are to follow when thou shalt In thy profession of Religion halt Then will thy Kings and people scourge each other For their offences till both fall together By weakning of your powers to make them way Who seeke and looke for that unhappy day Then shall disorder ev'ry where abound And neither just nor pious man be found The best shall be