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	good_a	work_n	1,567	5	5.8652	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52954	A new plea for the Parliament and the reserved man resolved from the serious consideration of the state of controversie betweene the King and the Parliament : together with severall answeres to some common objections about this subject : as also advice to those who are yet unsettled in their thoughts hereabout / by a Wel-willer to King and Parliament.	Wel-willer to King and Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing N704A; ESTC R41051	19,162	17

because our Redemption draweth nigh out of this eater will came sweetnesse and light out of this darknesse the immediate fore-runner of a cleere and warme day is a misty morning Christ ascended from his Crosse to his Crown so shall his Churches though now for a little while the cry of the Churches of Christ be how long Lord how long c. yet suddenly their songs shall bee Babilon the great is fisten is fallen he will shortly take down your harpes from the Willow Trees and teach you to warble out the Songs of Sion in the Land of Canaan Fourthly consider that God will doe his great wonders of judgement upon the wicked of the World by his Church and people c. at a time when they shall bee most confident of utter ruinating his Church the whole current of the Scriptures declares that God will make his Church his battle dxe and weapons of his Warfare that by his Churches be will beat in pi●●es all the Nations of the Earth and that hee will make Sions hornes Iron and her hooses Brasse c. and that Ieralclem shall be a cup of trembling and a hu●chen-s me si ne and that all that harthen themselves with it shal be broken to pieces by it and though men gather themselves 〈…〉 formed and for the time of it it shall be when they say ●●●our our eye looke upon zi●n and let her be defiled It shall be then when all the who●● Eaten shall bee fil'd with admiration both of the suddainnesse and irrecoverablenesse of their ruine Firstly Consider that the state of this present time and the face of things now doth abundantly intimate that this cannot be long and that the very quarrell in which Antichrist shall fall and the Churches of Christ shall rise is now begun in this Kingdom For First the cause is purely the glory of Jesus Christ his Word and Worship this is the very quarrell between Christ and ●ntic●rist M●●●●eil and the Dragon as the word in imates Secondly the followers and fig●●ers in this Battell are the Angels of Michael and the Dragon who rank themselves on the one side but gouly honest men c. and on the other but Papists and Atheists c. Thirdly this quarrell is generall as the last and greatest quarrell must be for the good Party now through the Christian world waits with prayers and teares for a good successe here in England and the Pepish partie also with all their endeavours in Spane France Ireland Denmark c. seek the surtherance of successe on their sides Fourthly God hath hitnerto managed and followed the Cause after the same method as he will in that quarrell Michael will not goe but with his Angels but yet he will so mannage the businesse as that it shall appeare that he is Michael the mighty God and hath he not done so in all the Battels hitherto in this present Controversie Hath he not appeared in glory at Keynton Battell to the terrour and amazement of the Adversaries though like hardned Pharash's they will not acknowledge Gods wonders how did he appeare a Brainford though our Advertaries brag at the sucess therof as they may with everlasting shame and reproach for their Treachery Cruelty and Cowardizc when they came with a full intent to be drunk with our blood and to swell with our wealth to plunder our City though they have the face to deny it when some of the chiefest of them sent word to some of their friends in London to change their lodging and secure themselves in such and such places intimating their intentions of blood c. yet how did God drive them away by two broken unprovided Regiments though they came intentionally the whole Army consisting of many thousands c. how hath God appeared at Winchester at Chichester c. surely all this doth afford matter of incouragements in this Cause Therfore if any considerations of the right or left hand Liberty or Religion inward or outward man will take held upon us we should hold on in the worke and give out our selves in our Prayers Estates and Persons now or never better it is to part with some now like men then with all hereafter like slaves did you but know the consequences of this Warre you would count it the best Husbandry to spare from your backs and bellies to maintain it be not deceived with conceits of a Peace and an Accomodation let the hatefull memory of that man be written in blood who delights in blood yea let him have blood to drink for he is worthy let in ward and outward trouble be his portion that desires not Peace with truth and holinesse but there is all improbability at least as yet of any such Peace for the interruption of the Protestant cause in Ireland occasioned by if not aim'd at in these present distractions the insurrections of the Papists and the risings up of severall Armies throughout the Kingdome besides the greater Body with the King to wit the Earles of Newcastle Cumberland Wo●cester Sir Ralph Hoprens c. the continuall Discoveries of Preparations beyond Seas by Factors gone over to that purpose for Armes and Ammunition c. are sufficient intimators to any man of the me nest capacitie that it is very unlikely that we shall have a good Peace from them as the case now stands The Peace of the Gospel and of the Kingdome is the Crown we fight for and therfore our Parliament Worthes are now labouring for such a Peace without any more shedding of blood which if it could be attain'd would be the joy of every honest heart only this we feare our Enemies Designe in pretending a desire of Peace is to delay if possibly untill the Spring in which time they hope to gather strength and recover that blood which though they will not confesse they lost in the Fall Happily they intend to make up their number again with an Army of Irish Rebels for doubtlesse the Irish and English Rebellion against the Peace of the two Kingdomes is all of a blood and breeding but let them come we feare nothing that blood is as corrputed as the former and God will let it out Our Cause is good God is with us and their Rock is not as ours our enemies themselves being Iudges He hath shewed himselfe glorious in his belinesse fearfull in praises working wonders He hath thrown down mountaines fill'd up vallies renewed his works of Workers Be bold and confident that beleeving in his Name without feare he 〈◊〉 leave us untill we doe enjoy the glory of God in Canaan FINIS