Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bad_a	good_a	sin_n	1,576	5	5.0139	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33343	The saints nosegay, or, A posie of 741 spirituall flowers both fragrant and fruitfull, pleasant and profitable / collected and composed by Samuel Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4555; ESTC R23711	51,972	277

the glory is departed 468 As in a structure the stones cannot subsist in the building by any qualities or inherent vertues of their owne but only by the direct and perpendicular dependence subsistance which they have upon the foundation so in the Church no graces nor inherent excellencies do hold men up but onely the full and sole reliance and subsistance of the soule upon Christ 469 As God furnished Cyrus with treasure for the building of the Temple so hee furnished many of the Heathen with much light of knowledge and literature for the benefit of his Church and children 470 The common-wealth is a ring the Church a Diamond both well set together receive and return lustre each to other 471 Some cut off the flesh of the churches maintenance under a pretence to cure her of a tympany of superfluities 472 Whosoever hath not a pearle of prejudice in the eye of his judgement must needs confesse it to be sacriledge to take away the dowry of the church without assuring her any jointure in lieu of it 473 We should beseech God so to sanctifie his creatures to us as that they may not be either theeves against him to steale away his honour or snares to us to entangle our soules 474 A man can never be brought to God till hee forsake the creature nor can hee be brought to forsake the creature till he see vanity in it 475 When any creature looseth any of its native and created vigour it s a manifest signe that there is some secret sentence of death gnawing upon it 476 As pricks and quavers rests in musick commend the cunning of the Artist and delight the hearers as well as more perfect notes so the meanest of the creatures had so much goodnesse in them as might set forth the glory of God and minister content to the mind of man 477 As some promises are in our hand performed already as rewards for our service past so others are still before our eyes to call and allure us as the price unto which we presse 478 Gods promises are full of consolation as a dugge is of milke therefore when wee faint wee should milke out consolation out of them which will relieve and stay our hearts 479 Plausible and witty evasions to avoid perjury are but the tying of a most artificiall knot in the halter therewith to strangle ones owne conscience 480 An oath being the highest appeale perjury must needs bee an hainous sinne 481 An oath is the strongest bond of conscience the end of particular strife the souldier of publike peace the sole assurance of amity betwixt divers nations made here below but enrolled in his high court whose glorious name doth signe it 482 A resolution is a free custody but a vow is a kind of prison which restrayned nature hath the more desire to breake 483 As Sampson was bound in vaine with any cords so long as his haire grew into its full length so in vaine doth any man bind himselfe with vowes so long as he nourisheth his lusts within him 484 Truth sometimes seekes corners as fearing her Iudge though never as suspecting her cause 485 Truth hath alwayes a good face though often but bad cloaths 486 Truth is like our first Parents most beautifull when naked it was sin that covered them and its ignorance that hides this or if shee doth appeare in rayment of needle worke it s but for a more majesticke comelinesse not gaudy gainesse 487 As those parts of the naile next to the flesh which at first are softer then the rest doe of themselves grow into that hardnesse which is in the rest so the consciences of all men have the seeds of that insensibility in them which makes them at last deafe to every charme and secure against all the thunder which is threatned against them 488 Some have sluces in their consciences and can keepe them open or shut them up at their pleasure 489 That is the best glasse that shewes the smallest spots the brightest light that shewes the least motes the finest flesh that is sensible of the least pricking so that conscience that is sensible of the least sinne or fayling is the perfection of Christianity whereunto wee all should strive to attaine 490 Lay an heavy burthen upon a whole shoulder and it goes away with it well enough so if the soule and spirit be sound God enable a man to beare it diseases imprisonment disgraces c. are easily born 491 The frame of the spirit in the voluptuous ambitious and riotous person is like the lower part of the Elementary Region ful of unquietnesse because the seat of winds tempests and earth-quakes whilst the beleevers soule is like that part towards heaven which is always peaceable and still enjoying true rest and joy 492 As the operation of the Sunne is strongest there where it is not at all seene in the bowels of the earth so the Iudgements of God doe often lye heaviest there where they are least perceiued viz. in a hard heart 493 If a little stone falling from an high place doth more hurt then a farre greater that is but gently laid on how wofull must their case be who shal have mill-stones and mountaines throwne with Gods owne arme from heaven upon them 494 As Gods wrath is heavy and so exceeds the strength of nature to overcome it so its infinite also and so excludes the hope of nature to escape it 495 Warnings of Gods Iudgements are least feared by those whom they most concerne and most feared by those whom they least concerne 496 Men marked out by God for destruction will runne their owne heads into the halter 497 As Generals when a generall fault is committed by their souldiers cast lots and pick out two or three put them to death that the Army may bee saved so the Lord takes here and there one and followes them with open and great judgements and lets the generality alone because hee would spare man-kind 498 Man by meanes of propagation attaineth to a kind of Immortality and eternity and in his posterity surviveth himselfe 499 Children of beleeving parents are by vertue of their parents coppy and Gods gracious entail within the compasse of his Covenant Gen. 17.7.10.11 Act. 2.39 Rom. 11.16 i Cor. 7.14 500 Many make an Idoll of their posterity and sacrifice themselves unto it 501 Hee that chooseth rather to dye then to deny Christ is once for all a Martyr but he that chooseth to live a wretched life little better if not worse then death rather then to doe evill is every day a Martyr 1 Cor. 15.31 502 Were it the punishment not the cause that makes martyrdome wee should bee best stored with confessors from Iayles and martyrs from the gallows 503 Lawyers which oppose and wrangle against a good cause or undertake the defence of a bad are both equally most unworthy the very morall vertue of an honest Heathen 504 He that brings himselfe into needlesse danger dies the