Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	faith_n	grace_n	2,759	5	6.0361	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87170	Topica sacra: spiritual logick: some brief hints and helps to faith, meditation, and prayer, comfort and holiness. / Communicated at Christ-Church, Dublin, in Ireland. By T.H. minister of the Gospel.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1658 (1658)	Wing H917; Thomason E1769_2; ESTC R202373	72,620	183

Redemption unto his People He hath commanded this Covenant for ever Holy and Reverend is his Name Psal. 111.5 9. c. and t is this will afford Death-bed Comfort 2 Sam. 23.5 Although my house be so not with God yet he hath made with me an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow Now then though all these things are phrased in the Language of men yet not without warrant from the Holy Ghost who condescends thus to lisp out the misteries of Salvation else we could not understand or take in any thing of them and though they are all but one act in God as all his Attributes are but one Divine Excellency and Glory the Divine Essence it self but this is too big to come in all at once into our narrow hearts therefore God lets out himself by degrees by drops beams as we may bear it 't is so in the discovery of himself and 't is so in the discovery of his Councill and operations concerning us in Christ Jesus And though the operations ad extra are undivided but according to an ancient agreement between them the operation is attributed to that person the manner of whose subsisting appears most in it beginning work to the Father carrying on to the Son finishing to the Holy Ghost Yea though many disown and dislike these things yet now go and put them home to God and if he will own them and bear his witness to them and seal them upon thy heart it will be sufficient for thee to shame thee for all thy hard thoughts of him and to secure thee from the like tormenting fears for time to come and I know it he will work wonders if thy Spirit be stirred up to put him to it rather then be wanting in his witness to so great a Truth as this and so shalt thou be as Iob speaks delivered for ever from thy Judge from all frightfull Ideas and Apprehensions of him as an angry severe Judge and enabled to walk with him all thy days as with a most indulgent and tender hearted Father But what is all this to me may a poor soul say though I assent unto it and think I believe it if my Faith prove a false blaze of Fancy Presumption vain Hope and thou hast cause to fear and suspect it because it hath not the vertue and operation of that plant of Paradise The Faith of the operation of God the Faith of Gods Elect Is this thy case many times go order thy cause before him fill thy mouth with Arguments go bow thy knees unto the God Father of our Lord Jesus And 1. Tell him he knows how thy heart is carried forth towards him only according to the terms tenour of a Covenant of Grace and not of works thou canst not by any means away with that that he should deal and do by thee as thou dost by him no thou canst not find the life of thine hand as 't is said of some Isa. 57.10 thine hands are not sufficient for thee as 't is said of Iudah Deut. 33.7 And will he trample upon worm that would fain creep towards him only in that way which he himself hath chalked out and is so pleasing to him Secondly He knows that the sole ground of thy confidence is the precious and plentious Grace of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ which tels thee that Christ dyed for sinners enemies ungodly impotent ones and ask him if he have ever a soul with him in Glory that was not once such an one that many are ransomed and pardoned by Christ but not how many Why maist not thou be one of those many That Salvation is neither of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy Rom. 9.16 even to the prisoners of unbelief Rom. 11.32 these and a thousand such like precious things the Gospel uttereth Ask him now if thou must be ashamed of the Gospel as thou hast been of the Law of thy looking for life by it and if he will reject this confidence also so that thou must not prosper in it Thirdly Ask him if there be not a double reconciliation plainly taught in the Doctrine of the Gospel the one actually purchased by the death of Jesus Christ and acknowledged by God at that time the other at the conversion of a sinner when he lays down his arms and enmities and the knowledge of the one is the means to the other Hath God then stirred up all his wrath again and will not suffer a poor soul to come near him who would fain receive the attonement and be made friends with him Fourthly Ask him wherefore hath this Gospel been brought to thine ears to thine heart but that thou shouldest trust in it and that perfectly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} even to the end 1 Pet. 1.13 Did he not call thee to Repentance and will he now repent of his Calling that cannot be for his gifts and calling are without Repentance Rom. 11.29 Did he not bid thee come unto him upon those waters of the Sanctuary And must thou now sink and perish to allude to that of Peter Mat. 14.30 Fifthly Tell him he knows how fully how thankfully thy soul submits to that Righteousness which is revealed of offered in the Gospel and none perish in unbelief but they who are ignorant thereof or submit not thereunto Rom. 10.3 Once indeed thou wert proud of thine own poor polluted Rags but hast now cast them all away and said unto them with detestation get ye hence and wilt never gather them together again but blessest him with all thy heart and soul for that better provision made in the Gospel and wouldst fain appear daily continually before him cloathed with that righteousness which Christ came on purpose to bring into the world Dan. 9.24 Sixthly He knows thy heart closeth with Christ for sanctification as well as Righteousness to justifie thy Faith as that must justifie thy person it closeth with the whole Gospel with whole Christ in all his offices and that there is nothing more desireable to thine eye then that holiness which the Gospel requireth promiseth and promoteth How fain would thy soul be his Glass wherein he might view all his own Gloties Vertues Beauties Graces by reflection And will he break this glass in pieces Seventhly and lastly Ask him if he will but stand to that one good word spoken in his name by his servant Rom 5.20 where sin abounded Grace did much more abound this is not the spawn or spume of thy fancy nor hast thou met with this saying in some good book whose Author might be mistaken but if God will make it good as thou thinkest him bound to do even for the Glory of his Grace Wisdom and Truth thou canst tell where there are superfluities of