Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	work_n	world_n	yield_v	31	3	6.5158	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52139	The rehearsal transpros'd, or, Animadversions upon a late book intituled, A preface, shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing M878; ESTC R202141	119,101	185

too into the ba●…gain and they may be g●…atified with some new Ecclesiastical Power or some new Law against the Fanaticks This is the naked truth of the matter Whereas English men alwayes love to see how their money goes and if the●…e be any interest or profit to be got by it to receive it themselves Therefore Mr. Bayes I will go on with my business not fearing all the mischief that you can make of it There was saith he one Sibthorp who not being so much as Batchelor of Arts by the means of Doctor Pierce Vice-Chancelor of Oxford got to beconfer'd upon him the title of Doctor This Man was Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire and hath another Benefice This Man preaching at Northampton had taught that Princes had power to put Poll-money upon their Subjects heads He being a man of a low fortune conceiv'd the putting his Sermon in Print might gain favour at Cou●…t and raise his fortune higher It was at the same time that the business of the Loan was on foot In the same Sermon he called that Loan a Tribute Taught that the Kings duty is first to direct and make Laws That noting may excuse the subject from active obedience but what is against the Law of God or Nature or impossible that all Antiquity was absolutely for absolute obedience in all civil and temporal things And the imposing of Poll-monie by Princes he justifi'd out of St. Matthew And in the matter of the Loan What a Speech is this saith the Bishop he observes the forwardness of the Papists to offer double For this Sermon was sent to the Bishop from Court and he required to Licence it not under his Chaplin but his own hand But he not being satisfi'd of the Doctrine delivered sent back his reasons why he thought not fit to give his app●…obation and unto these Bishop Laud who was in this whole business and a rising Man at Court undertook an answer His life in Oxford faith Archbishop Abbot was to pick quarrels in the Lectures of publick Readers and to advertise them to the Bifhop of Durham that he might fill the Ears of King James with discontent against the honest men that took pains in their places and setled the Truth which he call'd Puritanism in their Auditors He made it his work to see what Books were in the Press and and to look over Epistles Dedicatory and Prefaces to the Reader to see what faults might be found 'T was an observation what a sweet man this was like to be that the first observable act he did was the marrying of the Earl of D. to the Lady R. when she had another Husband a Nobleman and divers Children by him Here he tells how for this very cause King James would not a great while endure him 'till he yeilded at last to Bishop Williams his importunity whom notwithstanding he straight strove to undermine and did it at last to purpose for saith the Ar●…hbishop Verily such is his undermining nature that he will under-under-work any man in the World so he may gain by it He call'd in the Bishop of Durham Rochester and Oxford tryed men for such a purpose to the answering of my Reasons and the whole stile of the Speech runs We We. In my memory Doctor Harsnet then Bishop of Chichester and now of Norwich as he came afterward to be Arch-bishop of York preached at White-Hall upon Give unto Caes●…r the things that are Caesars a Sermon that was afterwards burned teaching that Goods and Money were Caesars and so the Kings Whereupon King James told the Lords and Commons that he had failed in not adding according to the Laws and Customs of the Countrey wherein they did live But Sibthorp was for absolutely absolute ●…o that if the King had sent to me for all my Money Good●… so to the Clergy I must by Sibthorps proportion send him all If the King should send to the City of London to command all their wealth they were bound to do it I know the King is so gracious he will attempt no such matter but if he do it not the defect is not in these flattering Divines Then he saith reflecting again upon the Loan which Sibthorp called a Tribute I am sorry at heart the King 's Gracious Majesty should rest so great a Building on so weak a Foundation the Treatise being so ●…lender and without substance but that proceeded from an hungry Man Then he speaks of his own case as to the Licensing this Book in parallel to the Earl of Essex his divorce which to give it more authority was to be ratified judicially by the Archbishop He concludes how finally he refused his approbation to this Sermon and saith it was thereupon carried to the Bishop of London who gave a great and stately allowance of it the good man not being willing that any thing should stick with him that came from Court as appears by a Book commonly called the seven Sacraments which was allowed by his Lordship with all the errours which have been since expunged And he adds a pretty story of one Doctor Woral the Bishop of London's Chaplain ●…olar good enough but a free fellow-like man and of no very tender Conscience who before it was Lic●…nsed by the Bishop Sibthorps Sermon being brought to him hand over head approved it and subscribed his nam●… But afterwards he●…ring more of it went to a Counsel at the Temple who told him that by that Book there was no Meum nor Tuum left in England and if ever the Tide turn'd be might come to be hang'd for it and thereupon Woral Woral scr●…ped out his name again and left it to his Lord to License Then the Arch-bishop takes notice of the instructions for that Loan Those that refused to be sent for Souldiers to the King of Denmark Oaths to be administred with whom they had conference and who disswaded them such persons to be sent to prison c. He saith that he had complain'd thrice of Mountagues Arminian Book to no purpose Cosins put out his Book of seven Sacraments strange things but I knew nothing of it but as it pleased my Ld of Durham and the Bp of Bath so it went In conclusion the good Arch-bishop for refusing th●… Licence of Sibthorps Sermons was by the under-working of his adversaries first commanded from Lambeth and confined to his house in Kent and afterwards sequestred and a Commission passe●… to exercise the Archie piscopall Jurisdiction to the Bishops of London Durham Rochester Oxford and Bishop Laud who from thence arose in time to be the Arch-bishop If I had leisure how easy a thing it were for to extract out of the Narrative a just parallel of our Author even almost upon all points but I am now upon a more serious subject and therefore sh●…ll leave the Application to his own ingenuity and the good intelligence of the Reader About the same time for I am speaking within the circle of 20 30 and 40. Caroli

hath shut that Ecclesiastical Polity and Mr. Bayes's too out of doors But for the Friendly D●…bate I must confess that is una●…swerable 'T is one Mr. Hales of Eaton a most learned Divire and one of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of E●…and and most remarkable for his Suff●…r ●…gs in the late time●… and his Christian Patience under them And I re●…kon it not one of the least 〈◊〉 of that Age that so eminent a Person should have been by the Iniquity of the ●…es reduced to tho●…e necessities under which he lived as I account it no small honour to have grown up into some part of his Acquaintance and convers'd a while with the living remains of one of the clearest heads and best prepared breasts in Christendom That which I speak of is his lit●…le Treatise of Schism which though I had read many years ago was quite out of n y mind till Loccasionally light upon 't at a 〈◊〉 stall I hope it will not be tedious though I write 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 few and yet whatsoever I ●…mit I shall have left behind more material Passages Schissm is one of those Theological Scarcrows with which they who use to uphold a party in Religion use to fright away such as making inquiry into it are ready to relinquish and op●…ose it if it appear either erroneous or suspicious Schism is if we would define it an unnecessary separation of Christians from that part of the Visible Church of which they were once members Some reverencing Antiqu●…y more than needs have suffered themselves to be scared with imputation of Schism more than needs Nothing absolves men from the guilt of S●…sm 〈◊〉 true and unpretended Conscience But the Judgments of the A●…cients many times to speak most gent●…y are justly to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the cause of 〈◊〉 is ●…essary ●…ere not he 〈◊〉 separates but he th●…t is the cause of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Schismatick Where the occasion of Separation is unnecessary neither side can be excused from guilt of Schism But who shall be the Judg That is a point of great difficulty because it carries fire in the Ta●…l of it for it brings with it a piece of Doctrine which is seldom pleasing to Superiours You shall find that all Schisms have crept into the Church by one of these three waies ei●…her upon matter of Fact or upon matter of Opinion or point of Ambition For the first I call that matter of Fact when something 〈◊〉 required to be done by us which either we know or strongly ●…ct to be unlawful Where he instances in the old great Controversie about EASTER For it being upon error taken for necessary that an Easter must be kept and upon worse than error for it was no less than a point of Judaism forc'd upon the Church thought further necesseary that the ground of the time for the Feast must be the Rule left by 〈◊〉 to the Jews there 〈◊〉 a stout Question Whether 't was to be celebrated with the Jews on the fourteenth Moon or the Sunday following This caused as great a Combustion as ever was the West separating and refusing Communion with the East for many years together Here I cannot see bus all the world were Schismaticks excepting only that we charitably suppose to excuse them from it that all parties did what they did out of Conscience A thing which befell them by the ignorance for I will not say the malice of their guides and th●…t through the just judgment of God because through floth and blind obedience men exa●…ed not the things they were taught but like beasts of burthen patiently couched down and indifferently underwent all whatsoever their Superiours laid upon them If the discretion of the chiefest guides of the Church did in a point so trivial so inconsiderable so mainly fail them Can we without the imputation of great grossness and folly think so poor-spirited persons competent Judges of the Questions now on foot betwixt the Churches Where or among whom or how many the Church shall be it is a thing indifferent What if those to whom the Execution of the publick Service i●… committed do something either unseemingly or suspicious or peradventure unlawful what if the Garments they wear be censured nay indeed be suspicious What if the gesture or adoration to be used to the Altars as now we have learned to speak What if the Homilist have preached or delivered any Doctrine of the truth of which we are not well perswaded a thing which very often falls out yet for all this we may not separate except we be constrained personally to bear a part in it our selves Nothing can be a just cause of refusing Communion in Schism that concerns Fact but only to require the execution of some unlawful or s●…spected Act. For not only in Reason but in Religion too that Maxim admits of no release Cautissimi cujusque praeceptum qued duobitas ne feceris That whatsoever you doubt of that you in no case do He instances then in the Second Council of Nice where saith he the Sy●…od it self was the Schismatical party in the point of using the Images which seith he all acknowledge unnecessary most do suspect and many hold utterly unlawful Can then the injoining of such a thing be ought else but an abuse Can the refusal of Communion here be thought any other thing than Duty Here or upon the like occasion to separate may perad venture bring personal troub●…e or danger against which it concerns any honest man to have Pect●… 〈◊〉 Then of Schism from Opini●…n Prayer Confession Thanksgiving Reading of Scripture Administration of Sacraments in the plainest and the simplest manner were matter enough to furnish out a sufficient Liturgy though nothing either of private Opinion or of Church Pomp of Garments of prescribed Gestures of Imagery of Musick of matter concerning the Dead of many Superflu ities which creep into the Church under the name of Order and Decency did interpose it self To charge Churches and Liturgies with things unnecessary was the first beginning of Superstition If the Fathers and special Guides of the Church would be a little sparing in incumbring Churches with S●…perfluities or not over-rigid either in reviving obsolete customs or imposing new there would be far less cause of Schism or Supersti●…ion and all the inconvenience likely to ensue would be but this They should in so doing yield a little to the imbecility of their inferiours a thing which Saint Paul would never have refused to do It is alike unlawful to make profession of known or suspected fal●…hood as to put in practise unlawful or s●…spected Actions The third thing I named for matter of Schism was Ambition I mean Episcopal Ambition One head of which is one Bishops claiming Supremacy over another which as it hath been from time to time a great Trespass against the Churches Peace so it is now the final ruine of it For they do but abuse themselves and others who would perswade us that Bishops by Christs Institution have any