Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	authority_n	person_n	12	3	4.0063	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65149	A voice to the city, or, A loud cry from heaven to London setting before her her sins, her sicknesse, her remedies.		1665 (1665)	Wing V681; ESTC R219249	10,815	18

A Voice to the City Or A Loud CRY from HEAVEN TO LONDON Setting before her Her SINS Her SICKNESSE Her REMEDIES Mich. 6. 9. The Lords Voice cryeth to the City hear the Rod and who hath appointed it LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXV A Voice to the CITY OR A loud Cry from Heaven to London c. WHen iniquities are ripe and a sinful people have filled up their measure the holy and righteous God though he tarry long yet at last visits with severe Judgements and breaks out in fury against them and sayes them 〈◊〉 thus he did by the old World thus he did by Sodom and Gomorrah thus he did by Jerusalem it self when they despised his M●ssengers and slew his Prophets till wrath brake out upon them and there was no remedy Now that you may not be cheated in the Causes of this so sad a Calamity nor be abused by a generation of hard hearted sinners whose God is their belly whose constant practise is to blind the people that their noon-spots may not be seen and to feed you with fallacies assigning that for a Cause which is not a Cause as in the Primitive times the Heathen Priests and their party would constantly perswade the Emperors and Rulers that all Defeats in Warr Plagues and Desolations came upon them for suffering the Christians to live amongst them I say that you may not be cheated in so weighty a concern I shall present to your view the express Causes assigned in the Scriptures for which God did send forth his destroying A●gel to depopulate and they wast Cities and Nations 〈…〉 memorable Plagues we read of was ● Phar●●h and his people Exod. 12. 29 30. At midnight the 〈…〉 all the first-born of Egypt and Pharoah rose up in the night he and all his servants and all the Egyptians and there was a great cry in Egypt for there was not a house where there was not one dead that this was the Plague you may see v. 13. and Psal● ● 50 51. What was the reason of this what was Pharoahs provoking sin It w●● oppression of the people of God be would not give them liberty to serve God he would not let them go they desired neither places of favour nor profit they petitioned not for the Temples nor Re 〈…〉 onely they would have liberty to serve God as 〈…〉 had appointed but this would not be granted ther●fore teh Lord punisheth the Egyptians with this noysome disease 2. Another sore Plague we read of Numb 16. and the great cause of this was offering of strange fire humane inventions in the Worship of God and resisting Moses and Aaron the true Ministers of God it 's true the men that did this thing might seem to have humane Authority enough for so doing for they were persons of Honour Rank and Quality v. 2. They rose up before Moses with certain of the Children of Israel two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assembly famous in the Congregation men of renown and being thus assembled they would have fire and Sacrifices as liked them best or rather as suited best with their own lusts for fleshly Worship best agrees with fleshly Worshippers but the holy God who is very precise and jealous in point of Worship would not take it at their hands he ' 〈…〉 have no services but of his own making it must be fire from the Altar the Spirit of God that must inkindle our Sacrifices and the Institution of God that must warrant them hereupon God causeth the Earth to swallow up the Ring-leaders quick and their abettors were smitten with the Pestilence v. 41. Humane Inventions in the Worship of God have often times brought the plague upon his people See Psal 106. 29. Thus they vexed him with their inventions and the Plague brake in upon them They would needs adorn the Worship of God with Heathenish Customes and make it trimmer than God made but God abhors this and will not bear it So Ez●ck 9. there you have the destroying Angel sent forth to smite the City Jerusalem with the Pestilence his Commission very large to spare neither old nor young Maid nor suckling Child and the cause of this severe stroke you have assigned cap. 8. Those who had professed better things are now guilty of Idolatry they are engaged in heathenish rites and customs and besides this they were grown bloody persecutors and scoffers at Religion cap. 8. v. 17. Is it a light thing that they commit the abominations which they commit here for they have filled the Land with violence and have returned to provoke me to anger and lo they put the branch to the nose They had once left off Idolatry as abominable but now they are returned to the vomit now they are violent persecutors of such that will not wallow in the same mire with them now they are turned jeerers and scoffers so cap. 9 v. 9. and upon this God tells the Prophet v. 10 As for me mine eye shall not spare neither will I have pity but I will recompence their way upon their head so Ezek. 5. 11 12. Wherefore as 〈◊〉 saith the Lord God surely because thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all thy detestable things and with all thy abominations therefore will I also diminish thee neither shall mine eye spare neither will I have any pity a third part shall dye with the Pestilence and with Famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee c. 3. We read of another great Plague Numb 25. there were two ingredients in the provoking-cause of this Pestilence the one was Idolatry v. 2 3. they joyned themselves to Baal-Pe●r and bowed down to Heathen Gods the other was their abominable uncleanness they were become debauched Whoremongers and Adulterers impudent open-faced Letchers as v. 5 6. Behold one of the Children of Israel brought a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the Congregation of the children of Israel Now the person to whom this gaudy Harlot was brought by his ranting Pimp was none of the common sort no ordinary person but a Prince which made the crime the greater v. 14 Now the name of the Israelite was Zimri the Son of Sal● a Prince of the chief House among the Simeonites and the name of the Midianitish was Cosbi the daughter of Zur he was head over 〈◊〉 people and God was angry with Israel for having among them such loud and lothsome sins when such as should have been examples of Honor Honesty and Sobriety to the inferior people were Encouragers of all manner of leudness this provoked God to send the Plague among them 4. Another sore Plague we read of 2 Sam. 24. and the reason was because David though a good King and a man after Gods own heart in most things yet for the sinfulness of his people was left to be tempted by Satan to a carnal con●idence and vain boasting in the arm of flesh and therefore would needs have a Muster-rowl of all