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	prince_n	time_n	3,325	5	3.4597	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67039	A Word in due season to the ranting royallists, and rigid Presbyterians &c. by a person wholly disinterested in any of the late or present factions.		1660 (1660)	Wing W3542; ESTC R35271	4,365	13

A WORD in due SEASON TO THE Ranting Royallists AND Rigid Presbyterians c. By a Person wholly Disinteressed in any of the late or present Factions Printed In the Year 1660. A WORD in due SEASON TO THE Ranting Royallists AND Rigid Presbyterians c. Gentlemen IT is too manifest That in the first Warre some of you I mean the Outragious Royallists did more prejudice the KING your Master then the Swords of his Enemies many of you brought more Scandall on Him then their tongues And as Divines tell us It was not only Judas that Betrayed nor Pilate that Condemned nor the Jews that Buffeted our Saviour but every presumptuous sinner acted and still acts his Part in the Tragedie so by Gods just Permission and for our deserved Punishment your Exorbitances I fear conspired with the malice of others in bringing that sacred and innocent head to the Scaffold What an odium brought you upon his Actions What a jealousie upon his Counsels Nay what contempt upon his Person and Authority The worst of their Proceedings from thence received I will not say Justice nor scarce Colour but sure I am that what pretence they had they borrowed of you Otherwise his Innocency fighting with Armes Charity bindes me to believe in his judgement purely defensive and with frequent Sollicitations pursuing Peace would either have prevailed with the Parliament for an Accommodation or left them generally condemned as malicious Contrivers and obstinate Continuers of the WAR whereby most of the good people of England but especially of London and the Associated Counties would soon have been undeceived as they have since been by late and wofull experience for it is well known that many then the fiercest Zealots for our unhappy Reformation never hated the Person of their SOVERAIGN nor envied his just Power but sincerely loved him and heartily embraced his Govenment yet being first terrified by your threats and exasperated with your Provocations were afterwards by their factious Teachers and Ringleaders too easily cheated of their Loyalty and led captive as it were into meer Sedition under the specious but stale pretence of removing evill Counsellours and rescuing his Majesties Authority and Person as they were told out of the hands of a desperate Crew which abused his goodness and facility The truth whereof doth since evidently appear by their frank confession hearty contrition and late most effectual endeavours with sober and generous Actions to cancel the memory of their former errors and satisfie the World at least the judicious they never sinned presumptuously for insolent and malicious Treason commonly festers the soul and ends in the gangrene of a despairing and implacable Guilt whereas their desire to trust that Prince whom once they disobliged savours though of much Errour at first yet now of more Ingenuity and must be construed to proceed only from such soundness of heart and clearness of spirit as by good men ought to be highly cherished and perhaps far better esteemed then the meer ostentation of perseverance in pretended Loyalty but real Animosity Wherefore Gentlemen in true friendship to you whom I would willingly in part excuse upon the score of your great Suffering and Oppression which transports even wise men but especially in zeal of his service whom we all professe equally to desire give me leave without offence a little to expostulate with you Do you think it a small matter That after a long consumption of our bloud and spirits in a civil War or a Peace more hostile then it God hath at length miraculously afforded us a possibility of Settlement That after a tedious night of Egyptian darkness and bondage God hath given you a glimpse and indeed as yet but a glimpse of hope That you as Englishmen may in due time with others enjoy your birthright viz. an Equal Protection and Benefit of the Law and will nothing now already content you but absolute Dominion and to have all things prostrate at your feet Is this a fitting return of thankfulness to God for your deliverance begun or a probable means of prevailing with him to continue and perfect his mighty worke Have you so soon forgotten your Sequestrations Prisons and Scaffolds Can you remember no sins of yours that entitled you to those Punishments or might modestly oblige you at least to confess the justice of God in the unjustice of Men but must all your sufferings be imputed to meer supererogation and glorious Martyrdome Was it a Crime unpardonable in your Adversaries as you pretend to rebel though many of them transgressed more out of ignorance then contempt of their Duty and is it no fault in you who glory in being so Orthodox to breath out Violence cherish your lusts and steep your souls in Revenge Are you of the Nature of those Elements which in our Proverbial dialect are good Servants but ill Masters and which if not confin'd will drown and devoure all Were you fatally design'd either to be Slaves or Tyrants Gibeonites or Bashawes Are you like those in Bedlam not to be tamed but with hunger and stripes Can you imagine the lofty pretences of a Party which hath been so often foyled so long supprest so much suspected will consist with the satisfaction of others more considerable the Settlement of the Nation the Exigence of Affairs Or can you ever hope to carry it with a high hand by your silly Rhodomontado's Hath not experience yet made you sensible That the People of this Nation having tasted the forbidden fruit are now become sinfully wise That their eyes being indeed opened but withall their natures vitiated and wils depraved they are quite fallen from their primitive innocency so as I fear the KING if restored must buckle to inconveniences and Reign at least for some time rather as a Probationer then a Prince Were not some of you drinking your late Masters health whilst his Cause nay perhaps himself was bleeding his last Have not you since served his Son much at the same rate and with like success Will you never learn to govern your Passions to allay your Cups or turn if not truly Virtuous yet ordinarily Discreet so at least as not to fall miserably into the Pitty of your Friends the Scorn of your Enemies and Obloquie of the People That a Righteous cause may no more be blasted with your Scandals Good men branded for your Licentiousness and the sober and numerous Royal Party which certainly hath no Peer for constancy justice and modesty decimated as it were again in its reputation for the Enormities of a few that being God be thanked your number Do you not know how the KING disowne's you the People dislike you your Friends blush for you and the Enemies of our quiet now make use of your exorbitances or treacheries a belief of the latter your irrational Rantings extort from me to obstruct a lawfull and happy Settlement And if which God in mercy prevent now in this great Crysis of our hopes and fears through your folly and