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A64467 The reconciler of the Bible inlarged wherein above three thousand seeming contradictions throughout the Old and New Testament are fully and plainly reconciled ... / by J.T. and T.M. ... Thaddaeus, Joannes, fl. 1630.; T. M. 1662 (1662) Wing T831_VARIANT; ESTC R33916 334,239 278

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condemnation whereof we are redeemed by Christ 778. Mat. 5.22 Whosoever is angry with his brother is in danger of judgment Eph. 4.6 Be angry but sin not That anger is unlawful when any one without just cause is angry and more with the person than the faults for his own cause and not for Gods cause Thou shalt not kill It is lawful when for Gods glory we are angry with their sins and not with the persons Also the Apostle warns us to moderate this just anger that we offend not by anger against God or our Neighbour * Mat. 5.22 with Eph. 4.6 Anger is twofold either advised or unadvised the former place speaks of unadvised anger the latter place of advised anger Anger is such as ariseth from good principles the love to God guided thereby Secondly It hath for its end the Glory of God of this anger the latter place There is anger which looks at private revenge and springs from private injuries that is excessive in its heat of this in the former place 779. Mat. 5.22 He that saith to his brother Thou fool shall be in danger of hell fire Luk. 24.25 O fools and slow of heart to believe Gal. 3.1 O foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you Christ condemns a contumelious despising of our brother and a reproachful aspersion of foolishness but he in his way to Emaus cals Cleophas and his fellows fools not out of a vicious desire but for their dulness and folly because they believed not the Prophets nor the Word of God so the Apostle called the Galatians foolish * 780. Mat. 5.29 If thy right eye offend thee c. Exod. 20. Thou shalt not kill The former place hints that there is a twofold Body 1. of flesh 2. Of sin now whether of these Members whether outward or sins if they stand betwixt us and Christ we must cut them off and cast them from us The second place condems murther it forbids not a mans parting with any thing though a member of our body to serve Christ It forbids us to kill our selves but not to part with our selves for Christs sake or Cause 781. Mat. 5.25 Agree with thine Adversary 1 Pet. 5.9 Whom resist strong in the faith The first place is concerning all adversaries in general with whom we must agree according to the rule of Charity The latter is concerning the devil in particular whom we must alwaies resist being armed with heavenly weapons against him 782. Mat. 5.32 Whosoever puts away his wife unless it be for fornication causeth her to commit adultery 1 Cor. 7.11 If shee depart let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband Fornication or Adultery is the principal cause of divorce betwixt those that are married but other causes as witchcraft impotency malicious forsaking do not so dissolve the bond of Matrimony The Apostle speaks of desertion and in that case reconciliation must be first endeavoured before the party forsaken or forsaking should be left out of Matrimony * Mat. 5.32 with 1 Cor. 7.15 Laws are Moral Civil or Politick and among particular Laws are those of permission and toleration which were such as did not approve of evil which they conceived but did only tolerate and permit that evil which could not be avoyded for the preventing of a greater evil which otherwise would fall out such were those Laws Deu. 23.10 21.15 This Law of divorce was not an approving of the giving a Bill of divorce for every light cause but tolerating of it for the preventing of a greater mischief even murther For the nature of the Jews was this if a man once took dislike to his wife he would never be at rest till he had shed her bloud if they might not be parted asunder this Law of divorce was only to restrain this evil The Law did not allow a woman to put away her husband because there was no such fear of blood but the man to put away his wife Besides the Law doth not bid a man put away his wife but only permits it The second place speaks of a malicious and willing departing of the Unbeleever which dissolves the marriage but this is no cause of giving a Bill of divorce only Adultery causeth that Here the beleever is a meer patient and the divorce is made by the unbeleever who unjustly forsaketh and so puts away the other * 783. Mat. 5.32 with Mat. 19.29 Whosoever forsaketh not wife c. The former place speaks of a separation by divorce The latter place of forsaking a wife not by giving a Bill of divorcement but that which is caused by imprisonment banishment or death * 784. Mat. 5.32 with Tit. 3.10 Avoid an Heretick after once or twice admonition The former speaks of private persons and of a divorce allowed by the Law permissively The latter place speaks of that Commandment which is not given to every private person but to the Ministers of the Church who after one or two admonitions are to excommunicate and cut off all Hereticks from the Church Secondly It hindereth not but that the bond of marriage may remain sure and firm though one of the parties be cut off from the Church 1 Cor. 7.12 It is one thing to be cut off from the Church another thing to be cut off from bed and boord 785. Mat. 5.39 Resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek turn the other to him also Joh. 18.23 If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil if well why smitest thou me The manner of resisting evil is either of retaliation with injury And this Christ forbids or of just defence by which without injury we drive off injuries by Reason or Law So Christ said Why dost thou smite me Not out of a mind desirous of revenge but from a well composed heart he spake that and it is lawful for godly men to complain to the Judge of injuries done unto them * Mat. 5.39 with Joh. 18.23 The former place bids us not resist or arise against the evil one to requite like for like according to the injury done unto us It forbiddeth not resisting evil for we may resist evil by a lawful defence as Christ did by lawful reasoning but he forbids resisting evil by private revenge for he speaketh to his Disciples as to private men Luk. 6.27 The latter place shews an example of Christs reasoning with them about evil offered to them but not of his resisting evil with evil smiting with smiting but readiness to suffer more or turn the other cheek * 786. Mat. 5.39 with Rom. 13.4 Gods Ministers for executing wrath or revenge Revenge is twofold private or publick Private when those who are no Magistrates will revenge themselves on such as do them wrong Instead of pardoning they resist and revenge themselves Publick revenge is when the Magistrate according to Justice and the Law of God punisheth an evil person that wrongeth his brother The former place is of private the latter of publick revenge There are two
grew greater by the dignity of those that went forth and greatest of all whe● others joyned themselves to them that had not set down their names 423. Ezra 3.8 The Jews built the wals of Ierusalem after their return Zach. 3.4 Ierusalem shall be inhabited without wals Zach. 2.5 Under the name of Ierusalem Zacharias prophesieth or the Church of Christ and the heavenly Ierusalem the majesty of it is larger than can be comprehended in one City of which God is the wall a fire round aboue and glory in the midst of her 424. 2 Ezra 5.9 10 12. Nehemias reprehends the richer Iews because they thought to live by usury Gen. 47.23 Ioseph bought the Land of Aegypt and the people thereof he made subject to Pharaoh for cor●● The Aegyptians were punished by God for their iniquities the Iewes after their returne into their Countrey were so proved the richer Iewes oppressing their poore brethren with biting usury did burden them which Ioseph did not 425. Ezra 6.3 Cyrus the King decreed that the house of God should be built at Jerusalem and let them lay the foundations the height thereof sixty cubits and the breadth thereof sixty cubits 1 Kings 6.2 The house which King Solomon built for the Lord the length thereof was sixty cubit the breadth twenty cubits the height thirty cubits The structure of Solomons Temple was more beautifull than this 2 Chron. 3.3 Agg. 2.3 Ezra 3.12 therefore the Elders that saw this wept because the beginnings of this did not seem to answer the Majesty of the former Temple * Ezra 6.3 with 1 Kings 6.2 Cubits are common or sacred the common are half the length of the sacred which were unknown to the Heathen In the former place they are taken for common cubits and so the former Temple e●ceeded the latter And the number of them may be reckoned from the bottom of the foundation to the top of the outside and from the ou●●ides of the Temple including the thicknesse of the Walls and of the Chambers adjoyning And so this Temple will be less than Solomons besides Solomons exceed the other in proportion ornaments outward and inward 426. Ezra 7.7 And there went up some of the children of Israel of the Priests and the Levites unto Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes Chap. 1.1 Jerem. 25.12 34.10 2 Chron. 3.22 In the first yeare of Cyrus King of Persia the Jews had power given them to go up to Jerusalem After that Cyrus had given licence to them to return from Babylon to Jerusalem many with Ez●●ras and Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem under the reign of Artaxerxes 427. Ezra 10.32 The houses were not builde Vers 3. Let not your doores be opend Their houses were not fully built the Cities had gates 428. Ezra 8.18 Ezra read in the book day by day Eza 3.4 They kept also the feast of Tabernacles as it is written This was a singular example of piety for they were not bound to do so by the Law yet they came willingly day by day to hear the book of the Law 429. Ezra 10.32 Also we made ordinances amongst our selves yearly to charge our selves with a third part of a shekell for the work of the Lord. Exod. 30.13 They shall give every one that passeth amongst them that he numbred half a shekell Moses once by Gods command laid on them that tribute and Ioas at the renewing of the Temple ordered that every one should give what he pleased so Nehemiah ordained the third of two shekels by the year to restore the Temple not from the Law but from necessity 430. Ezra 11.6 Of the children of Phares that dwelt at Ierusalem were four hundred sixty eight Benjamin nine hundred twenty eight 2 Chron. 9.6 Iehuel six hundred and ninety Benjamin nine hundred fifty six First the chief are set down to whom a dwelling fell by lot then other voluntary inhabitants who chose a habitation willingly NEHEMIAH * 431. NEhemiah 8.18 with Leviticus 23.36 and Ezekiel 3.4 The former place speaks of what was done extraordinarily by the people The latter what was usuall for the people to do as their duty * 432. Nehem. 11.5 My God put it into my heart c. to reckon by genealogies c. 1 Tim. 1.4 Neither give heed to endlesse genealogies The Jewes were to observe and keep their genealogies because they were to know of what Tribe Christ was Saint Paul forbids not making or reckoning up Genealogies simply But he forbids our spending our time and study in seeking out Genealogies which were endlesse By endlesse may be understood those of the Iews who were turned Christians which were so addicted to these Genealogies that they might have a pretence of claiming kindred of Christ that they made no end of drawing down their lines of descent from David or from Abraham or because the Questions moved concerning Genealogies by reason of the slender proof and ground they had for them could receive no determination or end * Nehem. 11.6 The sons of Perez were four hundred sixty eight with 2 Chron. 9.6 Six hundred and ninety In the former place mention is made of those who came by lot to inhabit at Ierusalem In the latter 2 Chronicles 9. not only of such but of voluntary inhabitants as Ephraim Benjamin and Manasseh ESTHER THe Book of Esther is so called from Esther who was Ahasu●rus wife here is shewed how Ahasuerus divorcing Vashti chose Esther to be Queen Haman the enemy of the Jewes and of Mordecai is hanged Mordecai is made Provost of the Kingdome It contains the History of twenty yeares Ezdras was the writer of it or else the men of the great Synagogue 433. ESther 1.12 Ahasuerus divorced Vashti because she refused to come at his commandment Matth. 19.9 Whosoever shall put away his wife except for fornication and shall marry an other committeth adultery The pride of Vashti hurt not the King alone but all the people and Princes of the Kingdom by shewing a kind of dominion over the King before other women Now adayes men do not divorce their wives but for the cause of Adultery onely and they are bound by the Laws of God and man to obey their husbands 434. Esther 9.21 Mordecai sent to the Jewes in all the Provinces that the fourteenth and fifteenth dayes of the moneth Adar should be held for festivals Deut. 4.2 Chap. 12.32 What I command you this day you shall not add to it The ordinance of Mordecai was not against the Law nor was it a feast of Gods worship but onely commemorative for the divine wonderfull deliverance of the people of the Jews JOB THis Book is so called from Job who was also called Joab King of Edom. Gen. 36. Moses is thought to have written that Book for an example of patience therein is contained the affliction of Job and contention with his friends and disputing with them God ends this controversie at last and restores Iob to his former prosperity The History appertains to