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	numb_a	strife_n	17	3	10.3211	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57544	The disabled debtor discharged: or, Mary Magdalen pardoned Set forth in an exposition on that parable Luke 7. 40.-51. There was a certain creditor, which had two debtors, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, minister of the gospel.; Mirrour of mercy, and that on Gods part and mans. Part I	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1821A; ESTC R222102	218,172	327

forces at the very entry blessed be God that hath kept our Teachers from the least taint of that Heresie and stirred up the heart of his annoynted to fire out this blasphemy from amongst us where it began to peepe which overthrows our Faith and directly undermines the office of Christs Mediatorship For suppose Christ a meere creature how can we rest assured that his Obedience and Passion was satisfactory for us that the blood of the New Testament beares any price or is of valew for our Redemption or that our ghostly Enemyes the Divell Death and Hell are conquered and overcome by him Cursed is the man saith God who trusts in man Ier. 17.5 If Christ be not God as well as Man We of all men are most miserable our Faith is vaine and we are yet in our sinnes Quest But why then doth our Saviour so commonly and ordinarily speaking of himselfe call himselfe the Son of man Mat. 8.20 9.6 10.23 11.19 12.8.32 13.37 41. 16.13 27 28. 17.9 12 22. 18.11 19.28 20.18 24.27 25.31 26.2 24 45 64. In formam servi transissse nō est naturam Dei per didisse Hilar Rest Qui dixit hominem non negavit Deum when Christ called himselfe the Sonne of Man he did not deny himselfe to be the Sonne of GOD. Hee thus styled himselfe so openly and ordinarily for two Reasons First In respect of Himselfe for that Hee was true Man not only a Man but the Sonne of Man Borne Man having flesh and blood no where els but from man Secondly In respect of his Hearers who commonly esteemed no other of him then meere Man though perhaps a great and holy man Matth. 13.55 Mark 6.5 In short it was partly out of his lowlinesse and partly out of his Love that he so stiled himselfe He that scorned not our Nature 〈◊〉 disdained not our Name in the worke of our Redemption titles were of little or no use He might have taken greater Titles on him than the Sonne of Man but going about that worke He was content with a meane one This base Title for the time of his abasement best pleased him Believe it and maintaine it for the God of Heaven will Christ is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very God His Incarnation will rather be a Proofe then Disproofe Deus erat in Christo saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.19 God was in Christ That God-Head appeared though covert in the Flesh yet overt in his Actions He mightily declared it both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Evangelist both miraculis and oraculis by his Doctrine and Miracles saith Tertullian Never man spake as He spake Iohn 7.46 Never man did as Hee did Matthew 9.33 Object But the revealing of Secrets and discovering what was in the Heart hath bin done by man 1 Sam. 9.19 2 King 5.23 26. Act. 5.3 So 1 Cor. 12.9 It appeares there were such as had the spirit of discerning Vse 2 Resp True but this was made knowne to them by speciall Revelation nor did they know all things Elisha knew the secrets of the Assyrian King yet he knew not the calamity of his worthy Hostesse The finite knowledge of the ablest Seer reached but so far as it pleased God to extend it Quid tam altū tam prosundum quàm mens homimis quae quasi in volucro quodam corporis tegitur occultatur ut eam haud facilè quisquam introspicere speculari queat Amb. inst it Virg. 3. Christ knew of Himselfe He had no need that any man should testifie of man for he knew what was in man Ioh. 2.24 And he knew exactly and certaintly not conjecturally and by way of ghessing as men and divels know the thoughts of us Secondly This should teach us to take heed how we passe sentence upon the inward intentions and purposes of men this power is Gods and belong to him what have we to doe to usurpe it It is a Well too deep for us to draw in And yet such is the presumption of some that they will take upon them infallibly to know what is in the bottom of that Well whence ariseth jealousies and contentions many times as causelesse as pernitious Indeed by some discoveries there may be some conjectures but let not a small Conjecture make thee a great Offendor Every Key a man meetes with is not the right one for this Lock every likelihood thou apprehendest is not a sure signe of what is within the breast Not to let a man be private in his House is a great injury not to let a man be private in his Heart is a greater Vers 40 Lastly let us be perswaded hence to be as upright before the Lord in Thought as we are just in Dealing before men It is not the white Fleece God especially eyes but the sound Liver Hee hath windowes into the soule and there sees that hypocrisie which lyes lurking close Hee is very list of hearing and well understandeth what the heart thinketh And as before was shewed will answer us accordingly Thus much for the manner of their objecting now to the matter Who is this that forgiveth Sinnes also Text. In absolving this poore Penitent Christ did no other then what his Office required For this he is excepted against by these Pharisees present with him at the Table Doct. The best may be excepted against and caviled at for well doing There is none so holy but he may be hardly thought of for doing that which yet he is bound to doe by virtue of his Calling Numb 16.3 Moses and Aaron shall be censured neither the one nor the other shall escape the strife of tongues Numb 12. Some and such as have it may be least cause of all will be charging them with medling too much and taking more upon them then was fit Some dare charge them both with Ambition and Instrusion Vers 33 I need not looke so sarre to confirme the truth here taught If you looke a little before my Text there you shall sinde that Iohn the Baptist a holy man sanctifyed from the womb A great Prophet none greater ever borne of a woman And highly esteemed by all the people One very austeere and retyred in his life whose Doctrine was sutable unto it The Axe to the Root The Fanne to the Floore The Chaffe to the Fyre And in all points walking worthy of his Place and Office which required that austerity and yet he cannot escape censure They said he hath a Divell Vers 4 Christ holier then he whose shoces being latched as Iohn confesseth hee was not worthy to unloose comes in a milder and more sociable way He ●rings the Olive branch of peace in his mouth He goes to Feasts drinks wine is affable with all He heales the sick rayseth the dead seekes up and saves what was lost And for his paines he is charged to be a gluttonous man a wine bibber and a