Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woe_n	word_n	wrath_n	25	3	7.5287	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78141	The royal robe: or, A treatise of meeknesse. Upon Col. 3. 12. wholly tending to peaceablenesse. / By James Barker, minister of Redbourn in Hartfordshire.	Barker, James, Minister of Redbourn.	1661 (1661)	Wing B769; Thomason E1857_1; ESTC R19561	107,888	272

miserum est quod in naturam consuetuilo perduxit Scneca ibid. able to bear it when it was an Ox how easie will he bear the injuries of malicious men that hath attain'd the habit of Meekness it is nothing to such an one to be reviled or slandered Ut quisque contemptissimus ut maxime ludibrio est ita solutissimae linguae est Senec. lib. in sap non cadere injuriam cap. 11. who can pass by evil language with neglect and contempt Neglect will sooner kill an injury than Revenge all the harm a common slanderer can do with his foul mouth is but to shame himself and to seem to be touched with an injury is an advantage which an enemy looks for Contempt is the best Remedy in a cause-less wrong for to contemn an enemy that is full of malice but wants might is better than either to fear him or answer him in such a case contempt of an injury and Courtesie to him that offers it puts both out of Countenance Thus Meekness begets peace and quietness by setting a man in a way to pacifie an enemy by silence and softness 1. By silence Anger is a short frenzie what profit is it nay what folly were it to exchange words with Quis enim phrenetico medicus iracitur idem ibid. one that is frantick Return not then reviling with reviling but if an enemy set fiercely upon us and open his mouth wide against us give way let him vent his spleen and the storm will quickly cease let him alone and he will the sooner come to himself the way to break an enemies spight is not to meet him in his fury to give rebuke for rebuke but rather give place to wrath Anger is the sickness of the mind he that would cure the sick must not administer physick in the fit So if thy neighbour be angry forbear him give place for the present deal not with him in the fit but set upon him when he is more calm and capable of Counsel Outragious passions are violent and against nature as a stone forced upward strong at the beginning and the further it passeth the more it weakneth until at last it return to the natural course again therefore a little space must be given for the passionate to draw back for the patient to put forward Passion prevails on the sudden but Reason gathers force by leasure Serpents when they Primi ejus ictus acres sunt sicut serp●ntium venen● a cubili rep●ntium nocent innoxii dentes sunt cum illos f●equens morsus exhausit Senec lib. de ira 1. cap. 16. Pro. 15. 1. 1 Cor. 4. 12. first creep out of their dens are full of poyson their sting is mortal it were madnesse to abide their bites but after they have spent their venom with frequent bitings you may handle them without harm Secondly By softness is anger pacified a soft answer turneth away wrath which Saint Paul and his fellow Apostles knew full well and therefore they went a meek way to work with their enemies being reviled say they we bless being persecuted we suffer it being defamed we intreat and this Course must we take if ever we look for peace with God or comfort in our Souls And surely there is little safety to him that is hasty rash or easily angry for Anger makes many enemies divides friends turns love into passion passion into grievous words and sometimes words into blows and then a third Adversary to both hath a fair Advantage to insult over them Judah is hot against Israel Israel against Judah and the King of Syria smites them both And the common enemy of Mankind whilst we in heat wound one another wins upon us all If men will be contentions let them contend as Aristides and Themistocles strive to exceed one another in vertue We read of the King of Israel that he commanded to set bread and water before the hoast of the King of Syria when he might have slain them and he lost nothing by it but by his courteous and gentle using them he did so work upon them that he prevented succeeding quarrels ● Kin 6. 23. so that the bands of Aram came no more into the land of Israel He that would live securely must live peaceably for by Contention comes no good to strive with a superiour Nam cum pa●e contendere anceps est cam superiore fur●osum cum inferiore sordidum c. Senec lib. 2. de ira cap. 34. Jam. 3. 5. is madness with an equal doubtful with an inferiour sordid and base with any full of unquietness Let every man therefore refrain his spirit for when men that are hasty and given to quarrel do meet it is as when the flint and steel do clash the issue is fire and how great a matter will a little fire kindle and when the fire begins to kindle who knows where it may end it may begin in a poor Cottage but ends in the ruin of Princes Palaces Break off the beginnings of strife for anger to the mind is as a coal on the flesh or garment cast it off speedily it doth little harm let it lie it frets deeply The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water like a breach in the sea therefore the Wiseman well adviseth * Pro. 17. 14 Parva verba multoties homicidium perpet averant Chris in Mat. 5. super illud qui dixirit fratri suo fatue quosdam unius verbi contumelia non aequo animo latae in exilium projecit qui lovem injuriam silentio ferre noluerint gravissimis malis obruti sunt Senec. de ira lib. 2. cap. 14. prope si nem Pro. 23. 29. leave off contention before it be medled with How many are there who have suffered a sword in their bowels because they would not suffer a lye in their throats and a rash word hath been sometime the occasion of a world of blood-shed It is a proverb the hasty man seldom wants wo for it is with a man given to wrath as it is with a man given to wine who hath wo who hath sorrow who hath wounds without cause Prov. 23. 29. for a mans hasty spirit hunts him into snares whereas of suffering comes ease ease and quietness is the effect of quiet suffering Learn of me saith Mat. 11. 29. Christ for I am meek and lowly and ye shall find rest for your souls for if a man observe it when he can bear injuries and pass by indignities and suffer reproaches quietly he shall find such a tranquillity in his spirit such peace and content in his heart as if he had gained some victory But a man may wrong himself in being too gentle and patient for put up one injury and you shall have enough V●terem ferendo injuriam invites novam Aug. Gel. nocte Attic. lib. 18. to pass by one injury is to draw on another the Ass doth never want a burden because he never refuses to bear one and he