Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adam_n	sin_n	sin_v	1,755	5	9.4959	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93346	Englands pressures: or, The peoples complaint, humbly related, for information and for satisfaction of the grounds and causes thereof, and communicated to the inhabitants of England, in the severall cities and counties of the kingdome. Also, a short reprehension to factious, seditious sinners, with a Christian exhortation to reformation, to brotherly unitie and concord, and conscionable performance of covenant, by assurance of Gods blessing, a glorious deliverance, with establishment of truth and peace to the three kingdomes. / By George Smith, Gent. Imprimatur John Downame.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1645 (1645)	Wing S4035; Thomason E295_9; ESTC R200196	33,562	43

of Zion the City that God loved l Lam. 5. 1● 12. Women were ravished in Zion Maids in the Cities of Juda Princes were hanged by the head the faces of the Elders were not honoured c. Infinite are the miseries calamities of Warre beyond my expression they are dayly written in Characters of blood and to whom shall we goe for helpe of whom shall we complain or where can we have redresse in all these things If we complain we must complain either against God or against something else but to complain against God we cannot for m Psal 145. 17. God is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his workes wicked Phara●h acknowledgeth n Exod. 9. 27. to Moses the Lord is righteous o Lam. 3. 33 God doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men p Ezra 9. 13. and he punisheth lesse then our iniquities deserve And to complaine against men is but like the Dog to be angrie at the stone that is throwne at him For we know or should know that men are but Gods instruments whether they doe us good or hurt Shimei curst David but David knew it was because q 2 Sam. ● 〈◊〉 God had bid Shimei curse Israel was afflicted by Jabin by Midian by the Philistims c. but it was because r Judg. 3. 8. Judg. 3. 3. Judg. 6. 1. All affliction is from God and for sinne the Lord had sold them into their hands they were never afflicted by any people but God delivered them up to the enemie nor were they ever afflicted by any men or meanes in their owne Land but by the hand of God and God afflicts no man nor suffers any man to be afflicted but for sinne sinne onely is our destroying enemie And surely We have nothing to complaine against ●●t our sinnes we have nothing to complaine against but sinne if we complaine of wickednesse in men it is but to complaine of other mens sinnes if we complaine of their wicked actions as they are hurtfull to us they are but Gods ins●ruments to punish us for our sinnes against God G●d useth very wicked men as his instruments to punish the sinnes of his people for God useth and that u●ually very wicked men to be his instruments to afflict his people he punisheth sinne by sinfull men that is when God will punish or afflict a people or a man he letteth wicked men loose to act their owne w●ll in wickednesse to imprison to oppresse to plunder to burne Houses Townes and to kill and destroy c. That men erre in counsell grow at variance are robbed wounded killed or are betrayed by those they trusted or spoyled by those they should be preserved it is all of God and from God It is true Divisions among m●n are just punishments of sinne that divisions among men in matters of judgement or practise are occasions of Commotions and Warres c. yet the efficient cause is from God for when by sinne men are divided from God God puts divisions among men so long as Adam stood reconciled to God all the creatures were at peace with him but when Adam had sinned the creatures were at variance with him and among themselves while Solomon walked with God God gave him peace with all men but when ſ Kin. 11. 9 Solomo●s heart was turned from God then God was angry with him t vers 14. 23 and the Lord stirred up Hadad and Rezen to be adversaries to Solomon you know that Ashur and Assyrian are called u Esa 10. 5. the Rod of Gods anger their malice and their weapons were but Gods indignation they held the staffe but God guided the hand w Esa 45. 7. I the Lord doe all things God stirred up the spirit of x 1 Chro. 5. 26 Pull and of Tilgath-Pilnesar c. But for your fuller satisfaction Whence the ground and cause of all division is give me leave to expatiate my self a little in this thing that I may fully informe your judgments whence all divisions crosses afflictions come and how they may be reconciled and in this I shall impart nothing but truth to you for I meane not nor is it my Genius to use disguise like the woman of * 2 Sam. 14. ● Tek●ah nor to speake by Tropes Figures better set forth numbers then men or truths nor can I tell you any thing by way of Prophesie what shall be or when your miserie shall end as Elisha did of the Famine in a 2 King 9. 1. Samaria nor as the Prophet that told the people that to morrow the Lord would deliver their enemies into their b 1 Chron. 20. 15. hands for God Almightie doth what he will and when he will Times and Seasons are in his owne c Acts 1. 7. hands and not for mortalls to know but I will truly shew you what God hath done and what he doth by his all-guiding providence every day by which you may see and know who and what it is that hurteth you and against that you have cause onely to complaine Affliction saith holy d Job 5. 6 Job doth not spring from the dust it is not from below but from above Let mens malice be never so great their ends never so mischievous and their contrivance never so secret God rules guides and disposeth all that they doe l●● men purpose what they will e Pro. 16. 33. God disposeth of their purposes to his owne end who alwayes useth wicked men as instruments to worke his owne designe and usually disappointeth them of their owne ayme which chiefely they intended for their end is quite contrarie to Gods end That God useth all the counsailes and actions of men to his owne purpose All counsailes are ordered by God you shall see God complaineth that the f Ezek 11. 2 Examples Princes of Israel devised mischiefe and gave wicked counsaile God complaineth of the wickednesse of their hearts but you may see God makes his owne use of it and makes that to be a meanes to g Verse ● bring the sword upon them which was the thing they feared againe you shall see that Israel is threatned with the sword That it shall abide on their Cities and devoure them because of their owne counsailes yet God saith of himselfe h Ier. 19. 7. I will make void the counsailes of Iudah and Ierusalem and will cause them to fall by the sword God complaineth that the Princes of Zoan are become fooles and the Princes of Noph are deceived and they seduced others but the Text saith the i Esay 19. 13 14. Lord mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of them That Rehoboam forsooke the good counsaile of the grave ancient Counsellor of his father and followed k 1 King 12. 13. the counsaile of young men to oppresse and tyrannize over his people it was not by chance the young men shewed the wickednesse