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	word_n	3,386	5	4.6780	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78621	Faith in Gods promises, the saints best weapon: or, The great use and availableness of faith, both for the support and growth of saints in times most perilous. Plainly discovering that the want of faith in the way of Gods promises, is the great cause of the want of Gods presence. With several considerations for the encrease of faith, tha[t] henceforth the saints may by faith so draw nigh unto God, and in faith so wait upon God, as with certainty of receiving from him. Whereunto is added something concerning the great errour and mistake of many men concerning the true Christ, and how he is said to be in his people; with other things very necessary to be known in order to saints resisting the temptation of the present times. / Set forth as (useful for all people, but) especially intended for the good of such as are returned to the good old way of the Lord, by Matthew Caffyn ...	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.	1660 (1660)	Wing C207; ESTC R170345	46,339	55

as that he therewith may be able both to pay his debts and to live comfortably on the rest 2 Kings 4.2,7 Wherefore he makes it his great work to seek first the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof being that which is required on his part in the doing of which he believingly waits for the fulfilling of that promised on Gods part namely that he will add all such things being also encouraged in this his confidence with those weighty considerations published by the Lord Jesus for that very end to beget Faith in his Disciples namely that God doth feed the Sparrows and richly cloath the Lillies of the Field and therefore surely will much more take care for those that are his adopted children for whom he spared not his own Son to do them good and therefore as the Apostle reasoneth most surely will with him the mercy of mercies freely give all other good things Also this believing man considers that if he should care and carp doing what possibly can be done yet cannot add one cubit to his stature as Christ witnesseth as his own former experiences witnesseth and as the apparent event and issues of mens carping cares and intemperate thoughts witnesseth therefore he with all seriousness and readiness of mind commits his condition to the gracious God who hath promised never to leave nor forsake his People so that he boldly prayes to God for his daily bread and as confidently expects it of him yea and as certainly receives from him which he receives with thanksgiving being one of them that believes and knows the truth And thus while others depend upon visible things and so have them to wit Lands Livings Tradings Relations Powers often in their minds affections and consequently under many piercing cares and Soul-vexations while depending thereupon while others I say are thus the believing man whose dependance is not upon things that are seen but upon the Lord contrariwise hath the Lord often and much in his mind for men are apt to mind that which is their constant help and so this man having the Lord much in his mind is thereby wrought into his fear kept tender of his glory and greatly affected with and much desirous of the much-wanted presence of his good Spirit and thus his mind and the Meditations of his heart is much in Heaven with God in Faith praying unto him for the same and much there expecting what in Faith he hath prayed for and having received much there also in praysing his Name therefore by all which he is become much heavenly-minded spiritually framed able to say as they of old My conversation is in Heaven when others onely reads of it and talks of it but knows it not in themselves O therefore how much more blessed is it to live by Faith than by sight it being both a God exalting and a Creature-comforting state and condition But why do I speak these things Not because I think that any will say in words that 't is better to live by sight than by Faith But alas What is it for men to acknowledge what is best and yet still abide in what is worst For I would pray you to consider whether or no it be not some visible thing in present being that gives you your hopes of daily bread rather than the sure Promises of God Is it not both your words and in your inward thoughts that you hope to live comfortably and to bring the year well about in that you have either Lands in possession as your own or a good Farm or good Trading or good Friends or the like If not so I would know what means then the usual complaints discontents great fears and vexations of spirit when at any time these outward things fail or begin to fail If your hopes did arise from the onely pure fountain to wit Gods gracious Promises Why then should you be so disquieted For the decaying or failing in measure of these outward things doth not make Gods Promises to be no Promises he abideth faithful and all his Promises are Yea and Amen in Christ You indeed may sometimes in the time of need and in the day of trouble pray unto God that he would give you daily bread and that he would deliver you out of trouble it being generally known that Saints should do so and from hence conclude that your dependance is upon God and possibly you may be a telling others that you desire and Oh! how good a thing it is to trust in God and rely upon him in all conditions c. When alas and for the Lords sake consider it you all that while may be far from trusting in God indeed and even such who draw nigh to God with your mouths when your hearts may be far from God even depending upon and trusting in things visible instead of a heatty believing in God whom you pray unto with a serious and constant waiting upon him for to receive that which you have asked of him Contrariwise as the Faith of the Faithful renders them happy and in all conditions comfortable so the Unbelief of the Unbeliever renders him miserable and in all conditions comfortless it being a most bitter root from whence springs many yea a very great multitude of corrupt branches the fruit whereof hath so mightily corrupted the earth for the purging of which there is but little hopes till such time the bitter root to wit Unbelief be plucked up out of the hearts of the Sons and Daughters of men which remaining in the hearts of the Children of Israel kept them out of the promised Land for although their sins were many bearing divers names yet by the Apostle Heb. 3.19 't is said They entred not 〈◊〉 because of their unbelief as if that were the root or cause of all or most of the rest And again those that did enter in in after-times were broken off because of unbelief Rom. 11.20 In some certain places Christ did not do many mighty works because of their unbelief Mark 6.5 Mat. 13.58 He that believeth not is condemned already because he believeth not in the onely begotten Son of God John 3.18 For what consider I pray you is the cause of mens so dishonouring God by transgression Hath not Israel heard doth not Israel know Yes verily they have both heard and known but the Word preached doth not profit them not being mixed with Faith in them that hear it Heb. 4.2 They well know that they should improve their time to the best advantage sometimes in the Closet in serious and sober Meditations sometimes in solemn Prayer and Supplications to ●od and sometimes in Praying with Fasting but alas Unbelief riseth up and too much keeps under the Light of Truth in their Souls filling them with distrustful thoughts even how then they shall live and maintain their Families Wherewith to eat and wherewith to put on if thus they should spend their time And so it comes to pass that men too too much are found dwelling