Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	law_n	sin_n	1,487	5	5.2539	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42201	Hugo Grotius Against paganism, Judaism, Mahumetism translated by C.B.; De veritate religionis Christianae. English. Selections. 1676	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2082; ESTC R33798	40,194	106

by such impression the act of the Will should necessarily follow then the power of deliberating and chusing which we feel c Eusebium vide praep Evang. 6.6 in our Souls had been given in vain then the equity of all Laws d Justin apol 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nisi il electione libera a facultatem habet humanum genus ut turpia fugiat honesta sumat in neutram partem ipse ascribenda actionis causa of rewards and punishments were taken away First because in that which is plainly inevitable there can be neither merit nor demerit neither praise nor dispraise And farther being there are some acts of an Evil Will if these come by a certain necessity from Heaven in as much as God hath given such a power to Heaven and Heavenly bodies it will now follow that God who is most perfectly good is the true cause e Contra quam dixit pluto de repub 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of moral evil and whereas by Law made he professes himself to hate sin the inevitable cause whereof he hath inserted in his Creatures by consequence he must will things contrary to each other the same thing to be and not to be and sin must be committed in that which one does by Divine impulse 'T is more probable which others say that by influx of the Stars the Air first and then our bodies are touched and imbibe certain qualities which often excite in the Soul correspondent appetitions by which the will is moved and many times prevailed with But this so granted maketh nothing to that question which we have in hand For Christian Religion because it very much wi●hdraws men from those things which are pleasing to the body could not have beginning from bodily affections and therefore not from the power of Stars which as we have said work not upon the Soul but by those affections The wisest of Astrologers exempt from the Law and Regiment of Stars such men as are truly wise f Ptol. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Potest vir sapiens multas astrorum efficientias avertere and Virtuous and such in truth were they who first took upon them the Religion of Christ as their life demonstrates And if we attribute also to erudition and good Letters any value against the inclination of the body there have been always among the Christians men of good note in this respect Lastly the effects of the Stars as the most skillful do acknowledge regard the several quartets of the World and are temporary But this Religion continnes now Sixteen hundred years not in one but in most distant parts of the World and under very diverse constellations XII Many points of Christianity approved by wise Pagans But Pagans have the less to oppose against Christian Religion because all the parts of it are of such integrity that by their proper light they do as it were convince the minds of all So that even among Pagans have not been wanting such as have said severally what our Religion hath all together Namely that Religion is not placed in rites a Menander Deo sacrifica semper ingenio probo Cic. Cultus deorum est optimus ut cos semper pura mente veneremur Persius compositum jus fasque animi c. but in the mind that he is an adulterer who hath had a desire b Intus adulter erit Ovid. to commit adulter that injury is not to be c Menander Ille vir virorum est optimus Qui melius aliis callet ferre injurias repay'd that one Wife d Vide Eurip. Andron is to be joyned with one man that the Covenant of Marriage ought to be e Val. Max. l. 2. c. l. perpetual that it is the duty of man to do good to f Homo sum humani nibil à me alienum arbitror Ter. every one specially to the needy that that we must abstain from g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyth. swearing as much as we can that in food h Satis est populis fluviusque Ceresque Luc. and rayment we must be content with that which nature requires And if there be any thing in Christian Religion hard to be believed like things are found among the wisest of the Pagans as that of the immortality of Souls and that of a return of bodies to life again So Plato i Epist ad Dion taught by the Chaldeans distinguishes the Divine Nature into the Father the Fathers mind which he also stiled the offspring of God the maker of the World and the Spirit which contains all things That the Divine Nature may be united with the humane k Lib. 6. Julian so great an Enemy to Christians did believe and gave an Example in Esculapius whom he thought to have come from Heaven to teach men the Art of Physick The Cross of Christ offended many but what things do not the Pagan Authors say of their Gods that some were in service to Kings others thunder-struck others cut and wounded And the wisest of them affirmed Virtue is then most joy ous when 't is at the dearest rate Plato in his second De repub l Unde Cic. Bonus ille vir vexetur rapiatur damnetur c. prophetically saith To exhibite the Righteous man 't is requisite that his Virtue be spoiled of all ornaments that he be accounted by others wicked that he be mocked and at last Hanged And certainly to set forth an example of the highest Patience was otherwise impossible HVGO GROTIVS AGAINST JUDAISM I. Address to the Jews WE know the Jews are the progeny of a Rom. 9.10 11. Holymen whom God was wont to visit by his Prophets and his Angels Of this Nation was born the Messias and the first Doctors of Christian Religion theirs is the Tree into which we are inoculated they the keepers of Gods Oracles which we reverence much as they do and with St. Paul we send up sighs to God on their behalf praying for the speedy approach of that day when the b 2 Cor. 3.14 Vail being taken off which hangs before their eyes they shall with us clearly behold the c Rom. 3.27 completion of the Law and when according to the Old Prophecies we that are strangers shall every one lay hold upon the skirt of an Hebrew d Zach. 8.21 with this request that we may all joyn together in the Worship of that one God the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. II. Christs miracles cannot be denied by the Jews First then let not the Jews think that unjust in our Cause which they judge to be equal in their own If a Pagan ask Why they believe the miracles done by the hand of Moses they would say nothing else but this There hath been delivered down such a perpetual and constant report thereof amongst them that it could not but proceed from the Testimony of those who had seen the miracles namely that the Widdows Oyl a 2