Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wit_n	world_n	worthy_a	29	3	5.9932	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10715	Opinion diefied [sic]. Discouering the ingins, traps, and traynes, that are set in this age, whereby to catch opinon. Neither florished with art, nor smoothed with flatterie. By B.R. Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1613 (1613)	STC 20994; ESTC S115920	36,020	66

It is therefore the wakefull eye of Reason that must continually keepe Centinell ouer our passions that wee bee not luld asleepe in our owne selfe conceites our iudgements dazeled and made drunke with our foolish Opinions What it is that onely bridleth Opinion Chap. XXXI KNowledge is it that still fenceth the body from al foolish and erronious Opinions and it is celestiall wisedome that is able truly to discerne of opinion And as a man that is blind folded and should be appointed to remoue himselfe to a certaine place is liker to fayle then to performe his purpose so those vertues that bee potentially ingendred in our minds if they be not ayded with instruction doth often come to naught because the minde is not satisfied with nature alone but hath neede of a politicke vsage of Reason which may cleanse and scoure the soule by taking away the dim vayle of opinion from whence ariseth all the errors in men for in case good and euill were well knowne and perceiued euery man woulde chuse the good and leaue the ill and therefore may vertue be sayd to be a wisedome and an vnderstanding to chuse the good vice againe a lacke of foresight and an ignorance that leadeth to iudge falsely because men neuer chuse the ill with Opinion that it is ill but they are deceiued through a certain likenesse of some thing that is good the Art therefore that teacheth to discerne the truth from falshood may well bee attayned vnto and the vertue by which we chuse this good indeed may be called true knowledge which cannot bee ouercome by any affection that proceedeth from the bodie especially where the minde is well gouerned and ruled by Reason for such force Reason hath that she maketh the sences euer ready to obey so that although our sinewes our bones and our grosse compacted flesh haue no Reason in them at all yet when there springeth in vs the motion of minde that the imagination pricketh forward and shaketh the bridle to the spirites all the members are in a readynes the feete to runne the handes to vndertake and the whole bodie to doe and indeuour any thing that the minde thinketh vpon It is requisite therefore that knowledge should euermore march in the foremost rancke for although Appetite may sometimes haue a longing after thinges that be good yet being blinde of her selfe shee cannot make election of the good from the bad therefore hath Nature so ordained that to euery vertue of knowledge there is annexed a vertue of longing and the soule hath three manner of meanes where by she may learne to know as namely first by Sence againe by Reason and lastly by vnderstanding of Sence there ariseth Appetite or longing and this is no lesse common to bruite-beastes then to men of Reason ariseth Election or choyce which is proper to man onely of vnderstanding by the which man may be a partner with Angels ariseth Will and therefore whatsoeuer is not vndertaken with knowledge by the choice of Reason is accomplished by false opinion by the longing of the Sences and then is reason in her most especiall perfection when shee beholdeth some purposed ende whereunto she leuelleth and directeth her actions Knowledge as I would define it is vnderstanding tempered with reason neyther vaunting it selfe for any action of our owne nor of any others that wee loue or belong vnto vs and knowledge is it that doth refine vs from the dregges and filth of the common people it serueth as a Ladder to climb to Honour and dignity it calleth vs from earthly vanities to things celestiall and diuine knowledge giueth vs new eyes to spie into the demeanures of flattering Parasites that wee cannot bee easily deceiued in our Opinions and knowledge doth so vnmaske any mans eyes to see into himselfe that Opinion can neuer make him blind It is not Opinion that knowledge doth holde but iudgment that laboureth euery thing with discretion and wisedome what ryseth from the sences are affections what affection thinketh is opinion but knowledge determineth rightly of euery thing Make much of this wisedome take her in thine armes imbrace her set foolish opinion aside for they are but foolish wise men that are ouer reached with it Opinion Diefied Chap. XXXII BY this that hath beene sayde may bee perceiued the Potency of Opinion we see Christian kings Princes and Potentates they are in nothing more ouer swayed then they are by Opinion the Pope and all his Cleargie are but the vowed votaries of opinion the great Emperour of the east that ornifieth himselfe with so many high titles what is he but the very slaue of opinion Olde men yong men wise men learned men they are all led and ruled by opinion What were those great Philosophers but Fauorites to opinion Nay looke into Philosophy it selfe what is it but Opinion What traps what traynes what labour what paines but to catch opinion We spend our time wee spend our witte wee spend our wealth we spend poore soule all and but to win opinion What was it but to win the Opinion of the multitude that Pilate deliuered Christ to be crucified who by his own confessiō found no iust cause in him that was worthy of death Thus we see there hath beene no time no age no place nor person but opinion hath raigned ruled and swayed Opinion hath thus reuelled from the beginning of the world it wil so continue so long as there is a world Let it suffice that all worldly happines hath his being onely by opinion Finding then opinion to be thus regall thus mighty and magnificent as Christofer Marcellus in the Counsayle of Laterane sayde to the Pope Tu es alter Deus so say I to opinion Thou art an other God heere vppon Earth FINIS