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	calf_n	commit_v	13	3	6.3144	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79511	Nathans parable. Sins discovery, with it's [sic] filthy secret lurking in the brest of men. Or, some few discoveries what the sinfulness of sin is, and spoile it hath made on man, in nine particulars. With the sad experience of it on the author: written, if it may be, to warn all men, especially, the saints, to take heed and to beware of sin. With a letter written to his excellency the Lord General Cromwell. By Edmund Chillenden.	Chillenden, Edmund, fl. 1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3877; Thomason E723_3; ESTC R207232	24,570	27

of dignity and the excellency of power Deut. 21.17 all this by sin excellent Reuben becometh weak as water and should not excel because he sinned in going up to his fathers bed so our first parents were by sin spoiled for whereas they were glorious creatures fit companions for God with whom there was sweet fellowship and communion Prov. 8.30 Job 17.5 Job 5.23 yet by it man becometh an enemy to God Rom. 8.7 and is filled full of all villany and wickedness yea the very thoughts of his heart Gen. 6 5. are evil and desperately wicked Jer. 17.9 the minde is without the knowledge of God the very consciences are defiled Tit. 1.15 1 Tim. 4.2 so that now they are become vile filthy and abominable beasts having vile affections being fraught with all unrighteousness wickedness maliciousness wrath envy covetousness inordinate lust being empty and void of all that is good but full of all poisonous evils Psal 81.11 Prov. 1.25 30. Isa 28.12 Rom. 1.2 9. Mat. 12.44 Psal 36.1 fit companions for none but the divel and his Angels Mat. 25.41 Go ye cursed in 〈◊〉 everlasting fire prepared for the divel and his angels for doggs swine and such like creatures Rev. 22.15 for as sin made the Angels divels so it hath made men of the nature of divels therefore our Saviour saith to the Jews You are of your father the divel whose children you are Joh. 8.44 and he called Judas a divel Joh. 6.70 have not I chosen twelve of you and one of you is a divel This havock hath sin made 2. Sin maketh a man a servant yea a slave not only to it self Rom. 6.20 servants of sin but ver 19. to uncleanness unto iniquity T it 3.3 to be foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another What a slave was Sampson to his Dalilah Judges 19.4 15. How did he serve her he was her very slave he parted with his great and glorious strength and excellency he discovered to her his very heart Judges 16.17 And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him that his soul was vexed unto death and told her all his heart which was his ruine What is it that man will not do to be a servant and slave to sin to serve one base lust or other what a slave was David to his Bathsheba how did he travel to serve and be a slave to his lust that he might obtaine it and to carry it secretly 2 Sam. 11.2 to 18. 3. Sin bringeth shame Rom. 6.21 For it is a shame saith the Apostle to speak of those things that are done of them in secret Eph. 5.12 but before sin came man could look God in the face with boldness and not be ashamed Gen. 2.25 And they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed but so soon as sin had taken hold on him he seeth his nakedness and so is ashamed Exod. 22.25 the people commit a sin in worshiping the molten calfe Moses seeth their nakedness for Aaron hade had made them naked unto their shame amongst their enemies Hos 2.3 Rev. 3.17 16.15 this was the cause that poor Laodicea was so poor miserable blinde and naked because she had sinned was lukewarm in the matters of God neither hot nor cold sin had so spoiled her and made her miserable shameful God he threatens Israel for their sins Deut. 28.48 that they should serve their enemies in hunger thirst and nakedness to their shame for indeed shame and confusion is the fruit of sin Isa 65.13 where such as were not sinful should rejoyce but sinners they should be ashamed even all that trust in graven Images they shall be turned back they shall be greatly ashamed Isa 42.17 Dan. 9.7 8 9. A wound and dishonour a shame such as shall not be wiped away such a reproach as will stick for they do not know whither to cause their shame to go 2 Sam. 13.13 compared Prov. 6.33 4. Sin maketh man accursed yea it hath caused a curse to come on all creatures for they are all brought under bondage curse and slavery Gen. 3.17 Cursed is the ground for thy sake thorns and thistles shall it bring forth in the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread till thou return to the dust Rom. 8.20 For the creature was made subject to vanity and the whole creation groaneth and travelleth in pain until now It is sin onely that hath caused this and where it is entertained there is no blessing to be expected but a cursing for he that hideth huggeth and loveth sin shall not prosper Prov. ●8 13 but he shall be cursed in his very blessings Mal. 2.2 for God and sin is at mortal enmity Rom. 8.7 To be carnally sinfully minded is death for it is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither can it for it will alwayes be like the divel opposing of God and striving to be above and therefore where this enemy sin is entertained God most and will set his face against that man Levit. 17.10 20 3. Ezek. 14.8 as his mortal enemy that harbors so arch a rebel to his crown and dignity as sin is for God hateth it loaths it and cannot endure it Rev. 2.25 He there speaking to the Church of Pergamos though he did love her and commended her for many good things that were found in her but her sins he could not endure and saith Thou hast them that hold the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans which thing I hate his Soul did abhor such a people Deut. 32.19 Levit. 26.30 Psal 78.59 He was wrath and greatly abhorred Israel for they had provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousie with their graven Images therefore he was wrath and greatly abhorred Israel that were before his beloved people under blessings and mercies but their sins brought all these curses on them as may appear by these Scriptures Deut. 11.26 28. 29 19 30.1 Joshua 6.18 Deut. 28.15 29 20 21 27. 2 Chron. 34 24. Heb 6.8 Deut. 27.15 to 26. The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked Pro. 3.33 and nothing shall prosper he undertaketh Psal 1.4 6. 35.5 Prov. 11.7 the very hope of the unjust man perisheth Hos 13.3 and this is the state of a sinner that while sin rules and reigns in their mortal bodies they do nothing else but delight in the cursed works of darkeness which they are ashamed to bring to light that let him turn which way he will still curses and plagues attend him Deut. 27.15 to 26. it makes a man a horror and an abomination or hated of his neighbor Prov. 29.27 compared Prov. 14.17 A man of wicked devices is hated 2 Sam. 13.22 for Absolom hated Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar he had wrought a wicked device and therefore was abhorred by him 5. Sin it robs and