Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	action_n	good_a	sin_n	1,408	5	4.8951	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67742	Carnal reason, or The wisdom of the flesh how foolish, deceitful, dangerous, reprobate and divilish; together with rectified reason, or the wisdom of the spirit, how divine, transcendent, safe, profitable and delightful: as also, how many was at first created; how he is now corrupted, and how he may be again restored: being three fundamental principles of Christian religion; which few do indeed know; and yet he who knows them not, cannot be saved. By Junius Florilegus. Licensed and entred according to order.	Younge, Richard.	1669 (1669)	Wing Y142; ESTC R218076	22,612	22

which is ●●●vier than Mountains of Lead be lying on their backs Nor can it be expected that dead persons should be able to choose the good and refuse the evil Those that are dead tell them of everlasting burnings they fear it ●t Offer them everlasting joys they value them not Again This may serve to inform you why they are never troubled for their sins be they as wicked as Heliogabalus was who ●●vented all new vices he could and destroyed the memory of all ancient vir●●●s How many men live as if the Gospel were quite contrary ●o the rule of the Law As if God were neither to be feared nor ●ared for as if they were neither beholding to him nor stood ●●aw of him both out of his debt and danger yea as if there were no God to judge nor Hell to punish nor Heaven to reward That 〈◊〉 even make a trade of sin and live as if they had no souls to ●●ve Such as have shaken out of their hearts the fear of God the 〈◊〉 of the world the love of Heaven and the dread of Hell not once ●uring what is thought or ●poken of them here nor what becomes ●f them hereafter yet nevertheless be their sins never so many ●nd innumerable for multitude never so great and hainous for ●●ality and magnitude not one of these sins ever trouble them ●●a they can find wherewith to boast of As that they are no dissemblers yea they hate the hypocrisie of Professors they do not ●●stifie themselves and despise others like the Puritans they are ●ot factious singular censorious c. they pay every man his ●wn and do no man wrong they love an honest man with their ●earts c. and as touching their Faith in Christ they never doubt●d in all their lives a plain confession that they ●re strangers to ●aith for he who never doubted never believed nor were they ever ●●oubled in mind as many scrupulous fools are an evident proof ●hat Satan the strong man keeps possession whereby all is quiet and in peace ●esides which strikes the nail up to the head they are no Changlings ●●ey are the same they were ever a plain confession that they are ●et 〈◊〉 Devils children 〈◊〉 But this is not all for admit these blind Sensualists are so no●●riously vicious that Sata● cannot cover their sins or totally ●●ind them rath●r than own their own wicked●ess they will plead the goodness of their hearts desires meanings As whatsoever thier words and actions be they thank God they have as good hearts and mean as well as the best As commonly they think best of themselves that have least cause Nor can the best Preacher alive ever bring them off of that cursed principle of nature laid down Revel 3. They are rich and wise and good enough and want nothing when indeed they are wretched and miserable and poor and b●ind and naked of all spiritual endowments Verse 17.1 Tim. 6.4 onely they want eyes to see the same And no wonder for Satan who is the God of this World and the Princ● of Darkness Ephes. 2 2. so rules in the darkness of their understandings and so blinds the minds of his servants that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ cannot shine unto them Whence their deceitful hearts serve them as Jae● did Sisera who promised him protection and safety but paid him with shame and ruine Iudges 4.18 to 22. It is very observable how there are none more jocond confident and secure than the worst of sinners they can strut it under an unsupportable Mass of Oathes Blaspemies Thesis Murthers Adulteries Drunkennes and other the like sins yea can easily swallow these Spiders with Mithridates and digest them too 〈◊〉 when one that is regenerate shrinks under the burthen of wandring thoughts and want of proficiency But why is it they are dead in sin● Ephes. 2.1 Revel 3.1 Now lay a Mountain upon a dead man he feels no● once the weight To a Christian that hath the life of grace the least sin lies heavy upon the conscience but to him that is dead let his sins be as heavy as a Mountain of Lead he feels in them no weight at all The more grace the more spiritual life and the more spiritual life the more antipathy to the contrary whence none are so sensible of corruption● as those that have the most living souls But had they eyes they would see that those streams of defilement that are in their lives do but shew what a fountain of wickedness there is in their hearts Even as a little ware men lay on their stales does shew the great abundance they have in thei● shops and Warehouses Poor souls they brag of good hearts when th● heart of mam by nature is like Hell it self whose fire of lust is unquenchable For all those monstrous impieties which the lives of men are tainted with are not to be compared with the venome that lurks in the heart of every man by nature But alas how few see in themselves a general defect of all righteousness and holiness wherein at first they were created How few are convinced of an antipathy in themselves to all that is good and that the● are haters of Go● by nature That they are dead in trespasses and sins and that th● Devil works in them his pleasure and that he possesseth the hear● of every ●nregenerate man Ephes. 2.2 yea touching these o● any other saving truths there is no convincing them Neither is this that you have heard all or the worst for they not onely think themselves thus wise and good but they think as basely of those that are better As it 's worth the●●observing how basely these Sensualists think of the Religious and their ways● O what a poor slave do they hold the man of a tender Conscience They dare deny any fact and wager lyes with that Grandfather of lyes and Lyars we dare not tell an untruth though it were to save our lives They dare drink themselves into beasts we dare not lest we should never be recovered again unto men They dare sin God in the face and presume upon his patience we fear him as a consuming fire c. But you must know that until we are born again we are like Nicodemus who knew not what it was to be born again Iohn 3.4 Until we become zealous our selves we are like Festus who thought zeal madness Acts 26.24 Until we be humble our selves we are like Michael who mocked David for his humility and thought him a fool for dancing before the Ark 2 Sam. 6.16 For to carnal-minded men all Religion seems foolishness 1 Cor. 1.18 It faring between the Sensual and Spiritual as it does between Youth and Age For as Young men think Old men to be f●ols but Old men know the Young to be fools so Worldlings think the Religious fools but the Religious know them to be fools because they have had the experience of both conditions as the old have been young but the