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	bring_v	moses_n	187	4	7.4013	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66065	Of the creatures liberation from the bondage of corruption Wherein is discussed I. What is most probably meant by (the creature.) II. The vanitie or corruption from which it shall be delivered, and its unwillingnesse to that vanitie. III. The manner or way of its deliverance. IV. What creatures are conceived as most capable of this, and of their use after restauration. V. And lastly is discussed that glorious libertie of the sonnes of God into which the creature is to be reduced. Discursu philosophico--theologico, by John Waite, B.D.	Waite, John, fl. 1666.	1650 (1650)	Wing W221A; ESTC R220792	121,459	399

Skinnes to the end they might be hunted for with more diligence taken and destroyed so that this Land praised be God hath not of a long season been troubled with these dangerous and ingluvious Beasts Fourthly the serpent hath been an instrument not only to deceive our first Parents but to punish many of their posteritie Amos. 9.3 Amos 9.3 Though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the Sea thence will I command the Serpent and he shall bite them And Numbers 21.6 Num. 21.6 When the people which he had brought out of Aegypt murmured against him he sent fierie Serpents amongst them and they bit the people Deut. 8.15 and much people of Jsrael died and Deu 8.15 In that terrible wildernesse were fierie Serpents and Scorpions Now they are called fierie Serpents either qualitative in regard of themselves because they had much choler and fierie nature in them or else effective because they caused burning like fire or an extream and painfull heat in the flesh of those whom they had bit Lucas Osiand in locum c. Lucas Osiander thinkes they might be so called from both morsu suo venenum ealidissimum infectis infunderet ut pestifero ardore correpti miserime vitam finirent that kind of Serpent did in its biting or stinging of them infuse a most hot venome into such as they infected so that being struck into a grievous heat they died most miserably Conrade Pellican thinks that ferventi et venenoso anhelitu they did inficere both corpora et aerem that with their fiery hot venomous breathings they did not onely infect their bodies but even the Air also and no marvell then if many of the people died Fiftly and lastly see how by more contemptible sensible creatures he hath punished man to let al the insensible passe as if the whole creation or every creature were willing to be revenged of him for the forfeiting of Gods favour and the bringing of such a miserie or curse vanitie or slavery upon them To let Ratts and Mice Passe with which we read whole Ilands to have been vexed and plagued I will but briefely instance in those poor base and contemptible impotent creatures sensible which God used in the plaguing of Aegypt Exod. 8.3 Exod. 8.3 God threatened to plague Pharaoh with Frogges in such abundance which the river should bring forth that they should go up and come into his house and into his bedchamber and upon his bed and these in such multitudes to glore upon him as come to devour him could not but for the present exceedingly affright him and these were to do the like in the houses of his servants and of his people and to come up into their Ovens and into their kneading troughs which could not but be loathsome and troublesome to looke upon See the like by as contemptible things Exodus Exod. 8.17 8.17 All the dust of the Land became Lice upon man and upon Beast and this the Magicians of Pharaoh were not able to imitate God suffered them to go no further least they should have been thought to have been as potent to have done Miracles as Moses and Aaron Therefore when they saw this they confessed Vers 19. Digitus Dei est hic Vers 19. this is the Finger of God Yet by as contemptible as these Exod. 8.24 Exod. 8.24 He sent such a swarm of Flies into the House of Pharaoh and into the houses of his servants and people that the Land was corrupted by reason of that swarm of Flies Yet howsoever God suffered the Magicians to bring out some Froggs by the skill of the Devill in applying naturall causes or at least in outward shew and appearance yet Non potuerunt abigere they were not able to drive or take away the Froggs that Moses and Aaron had brought up but Pharaoh must be forced to sue and seek to them for that And the Lice you see they could not produce that Pharaoh and his servants might the better consider by what meanes they produced the Froggs Lastly See but what he did by the Locusts Exod. 10.4 5 14 15. Exodus 10.4.5.14 15. Never were any such Locusts seen before yet so long as they did but affright and Plague them and struck them not dead in great number but struck their Cattle their grounds their fruits afflicted their bodies but took of his hand before he took away life so long tho they were affraid of Israel and could have wished them well quit of them but yet the Courtiers and men about the King were not so vehemently urgent for their departure but now whē Pharaoh and his peoples wickednesses were at the full now God fell upon the Sonn that sprung out of his own bowells yea upon him that should have succeeded him in his Throne upon all the Noble mens Herds in Aegypt upon the Gentry and Commonalty all had a like share the rich could not any way avoid the last and most terrible blow any more then the poorest beggar Exodus 12.29.30.31.32.33 Exod. 12.29 30 31 32. At midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the Land of Aegypt from the first born of Pharaoh that sate upon his Throne Qui sessurus erat super thronum ejus as Junius reads which was about to sit upon his Throne or was to succeed Pharaoh in sitting upon his Throne Others Versio vulgaris Qui sedebat in solio ejus which sate on his seat Some think that his first born was Adultus come to be a man was of ripe years and did sit on the Throne with him to be accquainted with the government of the Kingdom Yet if we look upon the words only Grammatically and in themselves without collation with the contextualls we may referr the Relative qui to Pharaoh ad primogenitum Pharaonis qui scilicet Pharao sedebat in solio ejus id est in Throno suo Regali to the first born of Pharaoh which sate upon his throne that is which Pharaoh himself sate upon his own regal Throne and not unto his first born If you urge the Pronoune ejus which sate upon his Throne And would conceive it spoken as Emphatically rather then simply declaratively and so have it to note out diversity of persons though the same place I answer Though I shall not oppose this because I know many learned men do so conceive of it yet if we stand upon Grammaticals I see not how the text will necessitate the reader to that sense for his may have relation to Pharaoh as well as to his first born as I have said And collate it with the next Passe thus Vsque ad primogenitum captivi qui erat in ergastulo as Iunius reads or usque ad primogenitum captivae ancillae quae erat in carcere as others unto the first-born of the Captive that was in Prison or in the Dungeon Now qui in that place may have relation as well to the Captive as