Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	body_n	call_v	1,610	5	4.6657	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50229	A sermon, occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder, preached at Boston in N.E., March 11th, 1685/6 (together with the confession, last expressions, & solemn warning of the murderer to all persons, especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end) / by Increase Mather ...	Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. Exhortation to a condemned malefactor.	1687 (1687)	Wing M1248; ESTC W19800	66,053	133

take heed of those sins as they love their Lives or Souls I know not but that it may be for Edisieation and tend to God's Glory if I should read in this great Assembly what I received in Writing from this dying distressed Creature It s this which followeth I James Morgan being Condemned to dye must needs own to the glory of God that He is righteous and that I have by my sins provoked Him to destroy me before my time I have bin a great sinner guilty of Sabbath-breaking of Lying and of Uncleanness but there are especially two Sins whereby I have offended the great God one is that Sin of Drunkenness which has caused me to commit many other Sins for when in Drink I have been often guilty of Cursing and Swearing and quarrelling and striking others But the Sin which lies most heavy upon my Conscience is that I have despised the Word of God and many a time refused to hear it preached For these things I beleeve God has left me to that which has brought me to a shameful miserable death I do therefore beseech warn all persons young men especially to take heed of these Sins lest they provoke the Lord to do to them as He has justly done by me And for the further peace of my own Conscience I think my self obliged to add this unto my foregoing Confession That I own the Sentence which the Honoured Court has pass'd upon me to be exceeding just in as much as tho I had no former Grudge and Malice against the man whom I have killed yet my Passion at the time of the Fact was so out-ragious as that it hurr●●d me on to the doing of that which makes me justly now proceeded against as a Murderer Thus does this miserable man confess But how many are there in the Congregation that this may strike terror trembling into their souls O Lord how many are there in this great Assembly who have lived and do live in those very sins for which this Man confesseth that God has been provoked to destroy him Let sinners hear take warning this day This man now that the Terrors of God have awakned his soul bitterly complains of two Sins especially one is that of Drunkenness And indeed Drunkenness has bin a bloody sin it has bin the cause of many a Murder The man here who is now flying to the Pit confesseth that in his Drink he was wont to Curse Swear and to quarrel and strike those near him and he acknowledged to me that he had made himself grievously drunk the day before he was left of God to commit the Murder which he now must dye for yea and that he had that very night bin drinking to excess and that he was not clear of drink at the time when he did the bloody Fact. And does not the Scripture say Who has wo who has sorrow who has contentions who has babling who has wounds without cause They that tarry long at the Wine c. Prov. 23. 29 30. Wicked men when they are in drink will fall to Quarrelling words will bring on blows and those blows will cause wounds and those wounds may perhaps prove mortal and then what Woe Sorrow followes O how many have by means of this sin been guilty of Interpretative Murder ● They have caused others to dye by making them drunk There has been an horrible thing done in this place some wicked persons who they are God knows have given or sold strong Liquors to the Indians and made them drunk also and several of them have dyed in that condition Let such know that the Lord will judg them yea He will judg 'em as Men that have shed blood shall be judged they must answer for the blood of Souls and Bodyes too Most wicked and miserable Creatures they are that to gain a few pence will bring upon themselvs the guilt of the blood of Souls of Bodies too And this bloody sin of Drunkenness has bin the cause of many a Self-Murder how many have made themselvs the woful Martyrs of Bacchus thereby By Drunkenness Intemperance they have brought their Bodies to the Grave and their Souls to Hell before their time It is an unhappy thing that of later years a kind of Strong † Reverend Mr Wilson once said in a Sermon there is a sort of drink come into the country which is called Kill Devil but it should be call'd Kill men for the Devil Drink kath been common amongst us which the poorer sort of people both in Town Country can make themselves drunk with ●● cheap easy rates They that are poor and wicked too Ah most miserable Creatures can for a peny or two pence make themselvs drunk I wish to the Lord some remedy might be thought of for the prevention of this evil It 's a very sad thing that so many Bodyes Souls should be eternally ruin'd and no help for it How few are there that if once they be addicted to ●his vice do ever truly repent of it or turn from it There was a Man who hearing that his Son took evil courses and that he followed such a vice well said he I hope he 'll leave that and that he was given to another vice I hope said he he 'll leave that too but it was told him that his Son was given to Drunkenness also Nay then said he I have no hope of him I will not say as he did There is no hope that ever a Drunkard should repent but I say there have been but few such Instances in the world How rarely have any of you known a man that has been addicted to this Body-destroying and Soul-murdering Iniquity that has truly repented of it or turned from it again O then Let Men that have any love for their Lives or Souls beware of this bloody Sin. But the other Evil which this undone Man does especially cry out of and which now that he seeth his Soul going into Eternity he saith lies most heavy upon his Conscience is his Despising the Word of God. I do not wonder to hear him speak so for I have known several Condemned persons who have made the same out-cry O nothing terrifies our Consciences like the thought of This that we have neglected the Means of grace And what think you of Sinners in Hell who are wayling for this with tears of blood for ever ever whose doleful and bitter cry is O the Sermons which we once heard or might have heard but would not Ten Thousand worlds would we give for an opportunity to hear one of those Sermons again with any hope of finding Mercy with God. O you that have lived under the Gospel but despised it think of this Verily I say unto you all the sins in the world will not damn like this Suppose a man to have bin guilty of Adultry or Murder or the most horrid Transgressions against the Law of God these will not damn his Soul

Egyptian darkness for evermore On the heel of the former this second Proposition taketh hold 2. SALVATION will most undoubledly be the Fruit of a Believer's Looking unto the Lord Jesus Christ The great God who once said unto upright man Obey and live now saith unto lapsed man Believe be saved and truly an Exceeding great multitude whom no man can number have bin happy witnesses to the Fulfilment of it It is that which our Lord has ordered to be proclaimed unto every creature I mean as the Hebrews do by that Phrase unto every man in the world Marc. 16. 16. He that believeth shall be saved And when a convinced Jayler was solicitous about his everlasting Weal the Messengers of heaven gave him this Testimony which surely the convinced Prisoner that I have before me may very reasonably look upon himself as concerned in Act. 16. 31. Believe on the Lord. Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved Thus also it is represented as the Property the Priviledge of true Believers in Heb 10. 39. We are of them that believe unto the saving of the soul Verily a man does no sooner look unto Jesus Christ in away of Beleeving than a Sentence of Salvation is passed upon him and all the Promises yea and all the Attributes of the Eternal Jehovah are engaged for the execution of it ¶ Shall we descend unto some Particulars Every part of that Salvation which Jesus Christ is the Author of ever follows upon Looking Believing for it As those three comprehensible and inexhaustible Treasures of life in 2. Cor. 13. 14. even the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Communion of the Holy Spirit are to be got by Booking So particularly the voice the sweet soul-mel●●ng vo●ce of the Lord Jesus Christ unto Sinners is LOOK unto Me and you shall be Justified Hence not to speak of the large Discourses on this point in the Epistle to the Romans concerning whom the spirit of Prophecy fore-saw that they would apostatize from their Orthodox Perswasion and Professions herein It is said in Joh. 3. 18. He that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ is not condemned No he is in Christ and there shall not one Condemnation fall upon him as the Appostle else-where has it tho' he may have deserved a Thousand Million He is saved from the horrendous Wrath Curse of God. The Free Grace of God forgives all his transgressions and accepts him as righteous imputing the Righteousness of Jesus Christ unto him the just holy God that was once angry with him every day now sayes unto him Fury is not in me Fury is not in me And he rejoices with such a white stone put into his hand as that Paralitick had unto whom it was said Son be of good theer thy sins ●re forgiven thee Yet again The voice of the Lord Jesus unto sinners is Look unto Me and you shall be Adopted Hence is it averr'd in Gal. ● 10. Y● are the children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus Thus these blessed believing Lookers shall be saved from the doleful Family of the Devil they shall be taken into the number they shall have a Title to the Felicity and Dignity of them that are the sons of God the Angels now call them Brethren and the Almighty Magnificent Governor of the world saies unto them Ye are my sons my daughters Besides all this the Voice of the Lord Jesus unto sinners moreover is Look unto Me and you shall be Sanctified in regard of this it is that He has said in Joh. 3 36. He that believeth hath everlafling life the Seed the Spring of it is in Him. Truly such a man shall be saved from his slavery to the Enemies of his soul He shall be renewed in his whole man after the Image of God and be enabled more more unto a dying to sin and a living in Grace his spirit his soul his body his All is now under an enobling Dedication unto the Service of shewing forth the praises of God a curious Needle-work made by the fingers of the eternal Spirit covers him adorns him makes him more excellent than his neighbour And Oh what peace even the peace of God that passeth all understanding O what Joh even Joy unspeakable full of glory Oh what Assurance Oh what Perseverance in this life will flow from these unto the saved Believer Finally the Voice of the Lord Jesus unto sinners likewise is Look unto Me and you shall be Glorified On this score has the beloved Disciple said in 1. Joh. 5. 13. You that believe on the Name of the Son of God may know that ye have eternal life Oh how firmly is Eternal Life ensured unto Believers Certainly those Christ-prizing Ones shall be saved from the second Death they shall awake in the upper world in the future world they shall behold the Face of God and Christ in Righteousness and be satisfied with His likeness The Lamh shall feed them and lead them to Fountains of Living water they shall enter into the Joy of their LORD they shall drink of the Rivers of pleasure at the right hand of GOD for ever more they shall so partly at their Dissolution they shall so fully at their Resurrection they shall so in the Heaven of Heavens until the very Heavens be no more Such is a little of the Be ye saved which all Believers hear from their heavenly Friend from their Undertaker on high So great Salvation will a Believing LOOK procure But that this Gospel may have a fit and fult dwelling in your hearts there is one Proposition more to be laid into your Understandings 3. The Lord Jesus Christ in His Gospel does graciously earnestly INVITE all men thus to Look unto Him and be saved That ever-glorious One whom God has exalted to be a Prince and Saviour to give Repentance unto His Elect with Remission of sins He hath with a matchless degree of Favour and Fervour too ad●is●● Man-kind about this matter He hath reviv'd a dying world with such sweet words of his mouth as these O ye perishing Out-casts I am a Saviour infinitely able ready to relieve the Distresses which you are plung'd into I require you and entreat you therefore that you don't keep at a distance from me And for this cause it is that in Isa 65. 1. he makes according to the Apostolical Interpretation in Rom. 10. this proffer even to the very Heathen O let the blackest blindest Negroe at the further end of this Assembly count himself bound to answer such a Call Behold me behold me q. d. O that you would LOOK at me for my SALVATION We have indeed a most precious Bible in our hands that Book of Life I see in those hands too that must dye pinion'd before many dayes have roll'd away man do you first look downward upon that and so look upward unto Him from whom it comes it is a Bible iudited by the Spirit of