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	hand_n	stretch_v	66	3	10.8508	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36316	Earthquakes explained and practically improved occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8, 1692 in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea / by Thomas Doolittle ...	Doolittle, Thomas, 1632?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing D1883; ESTC R12441	54,165	169

the top to the bottom and the Earth did quake and the Rocks rent and the Graves were opened and many Bodies of the Saints which slept arose and appeared unto many Matth. 27. 45 51 52 53. Writers do affirm that by this Earthquake not only Golgotha but the whole City and the Regions near were terribly shaken and some that in Bithynia and in Thracia certain Towns were overthrown but how far this Earthquake was extended is uncertain 7. Amongst these also must be ranked the Earthquake at the Resurrection of Christ Matth. 28. 2. And behold there was a great Earthquake 8. Of the same Nature was that when the Apostles were praying the place where they were was shaken God giving them by this Miracle a Testimony that their prayers were heard Acts 4. 31. And when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together The Greek word properly signifies to be moved up and down like the Waves of the Sea and is the same with that in the present Text where it is said by the Earthquake the foundations of the Prison were shaken which also I reckon to be of the number of those that are caused miraculously and immediately by God without those Causes that others are produced by What may be inferred and learn'd from this 1. May we not learn the certain Existence of the Deity Doth it not follow there is and must be a God if we may argue from an Effect to a Cause when there is an Effect that cannot be ascribed to any Creature must there not be a Being that is and is no Creature when things are done that are not done by finite power must there not be an infinite power by which they are done when there is no medium betwixt that which is finite and that which is infinite when any thing is effected of which no natural Cause can be named must there not be a supernatural Aaron at God's command stretched out his hand with his Rod and smote the Dust of the Earth and it became Lice in Man and in Beast all the Dust of the Land became Lice throughout all the Land of Egypt and when the Magicians did so with their Inchantments to bring forth Lice and could not did not these Magicians themselves say unto Pharaoh This is the finger of God Exod. 8. 17 18 19. When there have been such shakings of the Earth that no Man can say and prove what he saith that they were done by second Causes may not should not every Man say in these was the finger of God If you cannot gather there is a God by what he doth by Creatures cannot you conclude there is a God when things are done and not by Creatures 2. May we not learn that this God never wants means to effect whatsoever he pleaseth What he doth not do by second Causes he can do without them Jonathan when one of these Earthquakes happened said It is all one with God to save by few or by many 1. Sam. 14. 6. So it is all one with God to save by few or none and to do what he will with means or without them When he doth not shake the Earth by Causes got into its Bowels he can and hath shaken it without And indeed if he brought it out of nothing without any instrumental Cause for in Creation there can be none why may he not when it is created shake it till it tremble without any instrumental Cause cannot he that doth the greater do the less 3. Hath God made the Earth to tremble without any Natural Causes have not ungodly Men cause to tremble even then when there is no visible sign no reason from any Natural Causes to fear punishment and ruine Is not their own sin as meritorious of God's Wrath and sore Displeasure with the thoughts of God's infinite hatred of it and his Almighty Power to punish it a sufficient reason why they should fear and quake and tremble what tho' they live in such places and parts of the World that are not so subject to Earthquakes as some other places are Will they say First We live upon that part of the Earth that is only stony and hard and not soft and tender and therefore no fear the Earth should quake and tremble under us Secondly Will they say we dwell upon that part of the Earth that hath not those Caverns in which those Vapours that cause Earthquakes are generated therefore we are in no danger In the Body of Man winds and vapours are sooner and more stirred in the bowels and hollow parts thereof than in the hands and bones and more close and solid Members In subterraneous Caverns rather then in close and rocky places is the matter of an Earthquake but such is not that part of the World where we inhabit Thirdly Will they say we live in Inland Towns and not near the Sea which are most obnoxious to such Earthquakes because such places are more easily filled with Vapours therefore we need not fear Fourthly Will they say Let them live in fear of Earthquakes where the Earth they live upon is both soft and full of Caverns and near the Sea as most liable thereunto Let them quake when the Earth doth not because it is so subject in such places to such trembling fits but our Habitation is on hard and rocky solid places without such Concavities and in the midst of the Land remote from Sea and therefore secure enough Did you speak true before you were aware when you said you were secure Yes and let me add your heart seems to be more stony and rocky and hard than the place you boast you live upon as if God's Arm were so short he could not reach you as if your Mountain stood so strong it could not be moved nor shaken Do not you know have you not heard that God hath shaken the Earth by his own immediate hand without those Natural Causes and Rocks and Mountains too Fear to sin cease to provoke the Eyes of his Glory for he can reach you with his own hand and shake your strongest Tower by his own might without other Causes Quest III. What are the Natural Causes material and efficient of an Earthquake and how may it be described I. Concerning the Material Cause there are divers Opinions amongst Philosophers Seneca in his sixth Book of Natural Questions reckons up many Some say the Cause is from Water some from Fire some from the Earth it self and some from Spirits not Immaterial some in more of these and some in all of them Some of these Seneca doth confute and establisheth his own Opinion concerning Spirits That you may not mistake the word Spirit in this place which is taken otherwise than in Divinity as the Souls of Men and Angels are called Spirits let those that are not acquainted with the Philosophical Physical acceptation of it take this Explication of it according to Regius Exhalations or risings up are either from water and then they are called