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	know_v	see_v	1,586	5	2.9951	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92055	The armies remembrancer. Wherein they are presented with a sight of their sinnes and dangers. And also with a Scripture expedient for their preservation. / By a cordiall friend to the kingdomes welfare, Rr.	Rr.	1649 (1649)	Wing R2166; Thomason E537_6; ESTC R14971	36,097	40

as shew your selves to be despisers of Christ by despising his Messengers and Ministers Are not you such as by your mockings and scorning of the Prophets have provoked the Lord even till there be no remedy What meaneth the horrible contempt you have cast upon them both by your words and actions I speake not of the Prelaticall Clergy but of the Ministers who have now suffered both from them and your selves and find their last wounds deepest because received in the house of their friends Doe not you show your selves to be apostatized from them both dogmatically and morrally both in your judgements and affections How are those Ministers in which many of you delighted and rejoyced in their light now fleighted by you are you not being puffed up with spirituall pride and conceitednesse ready to thinke your selves so full of knowledge so rich in gifts and parts that you can reigne as Kings without them 1 Cor. 4.8 and are you not so taken with the Priests of your owne making of the lowest of the people and so enamered with your owne Buffe-coate Chaplaines that the Black-coates the Priests as you frequently in dirision call them such as have the truth of their calling sealed by the conversion of soules are now decryed by you as Antichristian Oh that you could but see how wofully Satan hath beguiled you by this Stratagem and brought you to bite the brests that have suckled you and being bewitched as were the foolish Galuthians like foolish children know not your own spirituall Fathers by whom you first beleeved Oh that the sinfulnesse of the cause and the sadnes of the effects might affect your hearts for from this corruption in your judgements concerning the lawfulness of their calling you who formerly could have plucked out your eyes for them are now ready to pluck out theirs not only forsaking but opposing them and that the more they show their zeal for Christ and love to you in opposing you in your Errors and these your ungodly and unchristian courses I beseech you Sirs pardon me if I cry out for my Fathers the charets of Israel and the horsemen thereof when you would snatch them away from me and the whole Kingdome in a fierie charet I mean in your burning zeal against Tithes to paid any more which that judicious Patriot in his Reasons against the agreement saith himself p. 12. I beleeve that taking away the Ministry of the Gospel with their maintenance lieth at the bottom of it But admit this should not be the bottome of it this should not lie at the root to root them out as being Antichristian yet this will lie at the top as a visible design to starve them out of their Ministeriall imployment and either expose them with their Families to beggery or else to doe more then leave the Word of God and serve Tables which the Apostles though they could preach extempore did account a great diversion from their Ministry and to goe dig for their living and get it by the sweat of their browes Oh friends weigh these things seriously and consider whether from the aforesaid premises you give not them occasion to conclude that you are very unkind and that you walk not as becommeth Saints in relation to them and withall from what they may fear by the Students you put into Sion Colledge and other of your carriages towards them may bring up the Reer against them for their non conformity to their new Metropolitans Thinke seriously whether you have not given them occasion sadlie to complain That they have nourished and brought up spirituall children but they have rebelled against them But to charge on are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God in relation unto all that doe professe godlinesse that are now divided into Independents Presbiterians and Interpendents Have not you cause with that Primitive Penitent having offended the Church of God to cast down your selves in your thoughts at the feet of all Professors of Religion saying with him Calcate me salem incipidum Tread upon me unsavory Salt Oh that God would but give you humble apprehensions of your selves under this consideration as having in you sins against the Lord your God in relation to the Saints indeed that not only those Professors of Religion that dissent from you but even against those of your own party who are not grossely corrupted in their judgements and blinded with self-interests as being in great places of honour and profit but do all look upon themselves as extreamly injured by your unwarantable walkings and must needs withdraw from you as brethren that walke inordinatly It was Davids prayer that none that trusted in God might bee ashamed because of him But have not you filled the faces of Professors of Religion with shame and blushing Because that finding necessity for sinning but a sinfull plea they know not how to use it to their upbraiding adversary either in your behalfe or their owne and therefore because of you must hang down their heads But is this all no you have not by your aforesaid miscarriages filled their faces with shame but made them stink Gen. 34.30 they may truly say with Jacob you have troubled me and made me to stinck amongst the inhabitants of the land and being few in number they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me Oh sirs let this take hold on your hearts the wrong you have done to your brethren by exposing them to danger I doe confesse that formerly the opposition that was made against professors was for their holinesse indeed because that they were such as by their frequent attendance upon the Ordinances their care to worship God in them according to his own will their mortification and contempt of the world their sobriety and not conformity to the vaine fashions of the time and their not daring to do evill that good might come of it did judge and condemne the world even by their actions and therefore though they were persecuted and opposed yet their persecutors either by hand or tongue could not from their exact innocent walking but be convinced in their consciences that those whom they did persecute were more righteous then themselves never did them any personall injury But is not in these times the naturall enmity of the world exasperated through the iniquities of many professors when instead of those gracious effects of the power of godlines which did imbellish adorn Religion Contrary lusts are more visible such as a libertie to follow the vaine fashions of the times to be free and liberall in the use of the creature feeding without feare as Jude speakes to be selfe seekers in time of calamatie unfaithfull in promises and trust and yet for all this to bee exceeding proud and censorious concluding themselves to be the onely Saints and therefore are to have the high places of the earth as the only fit men for places of Government and none so zealous for the