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_v	workman_n	world_n	12	3	4.2325	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00350	De co[n]temptu mundi The dispisyng of the worlde / co[m]piled in Latyn by Erasmus Rot. ; and translated in to Englyshe by Thomas Paynell ...	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Paynell, Thomas.	1532 (1532)	STC 10470.8; ESTC S878	52,338	112

the dyuels O howe contraryly they stryue and contende to gether For after the diuel hath caught vs on his hoke with a lyttell bayte of false delectation O good lorde into what horrour or vglynes into what filthynes and into what myseries dothe he caste vs And at length whan he hath deluded and mocked vs his fyl he strāgleth vs. God by very litel and short solicitudes and grefes the whiche we suffre nat through any faute of y e thynges but throughe our owne faute leadethe vs to ioy incredible and at length he gyueth vs the blisse of heuen The dyuels promotion is disceytefull his warfare is sower and his wages whiche as the scripture dothe witnes is deth is mooste sower of all Goddis obligation is faithfull and sure the longer that his warre endurethe the sweter and more plesant hit is and his wagis whiche is blessed immortalite is moost swetest of all The lyfe of them that folowe the diuell is wretched the deth more wretched after dethe a lyfe mooste wretched of all But to goddis seruantes the life is welthy the deth more welthy and after deth foloweth a lyfe moste welthy and blessed of all Who wolde nat mooste gladly yea and frely make warre vnder so easye so liberall a capitayne whiche puttethe vs to so swete labours If thou gyue but lyttell credence to my wordes harkē to hym exhortynge vs y t can nat disceyue for what leasynge can trouthe make Take my yocke vpon you and ye shal fynde rest for your soules for my yocke is swete and my burthen lyghte What ioye troweste thou after theyr victorie shall they haue triumphynge in heuen euerlastyngly with mooste highe renowmed pompe to whom the labour of the warfare here is so delectable Howe pleasante shall that happye libertie be if his yocke be swete to vs I wote well there be some that wyll take for a wōder these wordes that I haue saide but vndoubted they be of that same sorte whiche most lyke vnto brute beastis deme all felicite to reste and be in the taste of the mouthe and pleasure of the bealy Hit is harde to make suche to beleue that the labours wher vpō the lyfe of religious persons is employed be neyther greuous nor heuy or peynfull but rather pleasant iocunde But seinge suche felowes wyll nat beleue y e very trouthe I wolde they shulde serche and make a profe therof them selfe And on peyne of my lyfe they shall nat be disceyued so that they do theyr beste and assaye hit as they ought to do What if hit irke or greue them to make a profe Than truelye I wolde that they shulde gyue credence to those that haue proued religion For sothe I dare affyrme it with an othe that euery thynge in religion is full of pleasure Nothinge is more plentiful or abundant thā our pouerte nothȳge is more restfull than our labour or trauayle our abstinence and fastynge is ryght suffisant our narowe or strayte rowme is to vs large wyde and brode our watchyng is to vs more gladder than any slepe But I shulde swere this vpon a boke yet some wolde nat beleue me Yea they wolde deme me ioyning those so contrary thynges to gether no wyser than he that wolde go about to proue that the darkenesse is lyght and the light darkenes that the fire is colde and the water hotte But what shulde one saye to these beastlye creatures the whiche haue no reason nor they vnderstande no higher than the corporall sensis Well yet I wyll nat leaue them so They muste be allured and drawen with some argumēt very familiar and playne to their vnderstandynge that by those thynges the whiche vnto them be moost notable they maye coniecte what these thynges be of the whiche they haue but small knowlege Let vs trayne them in to the countrey or els if that be greuous vnto them let vs go nere home to the hauen and call to vs one of the mariners whiche we wyll and say Come hither good felowe is nat the labour and toylynge that thou haste a shypbourde very greuous peynefull to the No sayth he it is a pleasure Howe shulde that be For in this maner gettyng of thy lyuȳge semeth to be mo and greatter incōmodites than in any other Hit is treuthe saythe he But than on the tother syde there be many thynges that greately encorage and comforte me Fyrst what thyng is it that swete luker or wynnynge dothe nat make pleasaunte Nothynge is more plentifull or rycher than the see There be many alyue at this day whiche were very poore nowe by trauaylyng and turmoylynge on the see onely they be excedynglye riche Who can tell whether hit shall be my chaunce lyke wyse or no Farther the customance and continuall vse therof easeth a great parte of my grefe the whiche cōtinuall custome in thynges is without doute of so great effecte that nothynge is so greuous or paynfull to be done but that the ofte doynge therof maketh it eyther pleasante or at the leste lyght and easye And lastly there be certayne thynges the whiche do mitigate and make vs to forget the peyne of our labour and toylynge as syngynge talkynge propre sportis and a thousande other suche lyke thinges Ye haue harde this I thȳke playnelye inoughe Nowe if we shulde go from warkehouse to warkhouse I trowe euery man wolde answere and saye to vs the same or very lyke wordes What foloweth thā Truely if vncertaine hope for so small and vile luker maketh so greuous labour and toylyng pleasant to these labourers workemen Why shulde nat y e most certayne and sure abydynge for euerlasting felicite cause and worke the same in vs If contynuall vse and customance be of so greate effecte and may do so moche amonge them for what cause shulde hit nat do lyke wyse in religion If they haue wayes with the whiche they alleuiate and ease theyr incommodites and grefes no doubte we haue many mo and better to mitigate our tribulations and peynes Howe that farre greatter liberte is in religion than in the worlde The .ix. Chaptre BRefely to speke these .iii. thynges be in religion Libertie Tranquillite pleasure Of Libertie wherof I wyll fyrste entreate all we be moost desyrous euery man aborreth seruage and thraldome in so moche that many haue kilde them selfe for very hate therof whiche estemed lybertye better than lyfe and deth better thā seruage wherfore if folkes delite so moche in libertie that to bye false libertie cost them so derelye howe gladly oughte they to enbrace and desyre the institution of our lyfe as it wherin is perfecte and trewe libertie But here some ignorant felowe wyll say to me If libertie after Ciceros diffinition be to lyue as y u wylte thy selfe I can nat se howe you religious men shulde haue any libertie at al for ye lyke byrdes shutte in a cage dare aduenture to do nothinge neither to eate nor speke to slepe nor wake to