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	great_a	vein_n	1,434	5	9.4641	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15826	The saints sufferings, and sinners sorrowes. Or, The evident tokens of the salvation of the one, and the perdition of the other Phil. I.28, 2 Thes. I.6,7	Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.	1631 (1631)	STC 26087; ESTC S101332	67,289	372

death is a sad symptome of some severe and unspeakeable sorrow Passe we to his prayer and see with submission how hee intreateth for the departure of it Father if there be any possible meanes to redeeme man without mee and save me from the sorrow I am in let the bitter Cup escape my taste It is not a thing I sue for once but againe and againe I continue my fuite and seeke more earnestly than ever formerly in any prayer I expressed my selfe unto thee It was no small burden that Christ would have shifted from his shoulders and setled upon some other meanes and mediation Hee will not shrinke to have man saved but it would glad him to see himselfe eased If it be possible my will is to bee eased but thy will bee obeyed what ever I suffer From sorrow Christ fals to prayer from prayer into an agony and then he prayes more earnestly as the burden is increased Now he sweates and drops with bloud It passeth through the veines flesh skinne not like some thinne dewie sweat by an ordinary transsudation that Physitians discourse of for cause and cure but it breakes violently out by great lumpes and leapeth forcibly from his veines and with a strong current is cast from them to his upper garments rumbling to the ground To talke of diseases when veines burst breake open their mouthes or have their coates and containers thinned to sweat out the bloud is idle to tell us of examples of the like blasphemous Never was there sickenesse sorrow or example like this meerely from apprehension and true consideration of his owne sufferings to be thus perplexed no cause antecedent or conjunct but what passed betweene Christ our Saviour and Suretie and his Father angry and displeased for our sinnes This first combate had beene enough to have annihilated or swallowed up a meere creature Angel or Man His Passion upon his Crosse His preparation in the Garden brings him better armed to his Crosse he passeth by the wrongs of men and Angels yet the one with the power of the hand and the other with the hand of power doe to him their worst for divers houres The power of darkenesse after mans malice was ended laid at him and left him not for many encounters Hee that in the Wildernesse assaulted him thrise and often afterwards in the course of his life brings now all the power of hell and for his farewell to the world hopes to have successe in his and all our ruines and destructions But these are light skermishes and meane affronts to that which followed All these are not worth the speaking of he never opens his mouth to complaine of such dealings and deeds of darkenesse enough to plunge the best of us into hell but after these troopes of wickednesse shaken off he fals to the greatest shocke and meetes with his match His Father now takes him to taske and turnes him to another tune He is compelled to cry out and utter words of complaint fearefull for despaire if that word My Father had not supported his faith My God my God why hast thou forsaken me here is apprehension of dereliction and desertion there is nothing that keepes Christ to God but faith On his Fathers part he complaines of desertion on his owne he will not despaire as long as God is his in application The Father leaves the Sonne cleaveth and claspeth close about him Suppose the case had beene mans in either of these assaults hee had upon the first apprehension been not onely dismayed but confounded Yet this would have put him into desperation and despaire for ever He had not been able to lispe one word of a better life or laid the least of his thoughts upon God In stead of my God he would have blasphemed and gnashed his teeth at his tormentor Deare Christians dread this fire that fastened upon the Innocent Sonne of God and thinke what extremity it would be to you but to touch the most utmost flame Learne for ever to obey his Gospel and bee thankefull for his mercy and deliverance Viter darkenesse The greatest comfort of the fire is light heate without it is an hell in our bodies and we see a burning Ague how it scorcheth us and sends forth nothing but smoake and poyson It distracts men with rage and madnesse Poore soules we never felt such a fire in the sharpest Ague as we shall find in our soules when hell fire entreth us and we it Vtter darkenesse is but a privation yet the losse will make it a sensible torment The Father of lights is God that will bee gone The Fountaine opened to us is Christ but he will not visite us The light of Grace and Glory vanish with the Spirit No inward or outward light to comfort us will shew it selfe Heaven and earth will curse us wee shall be blind in our selves and burne without sight of our owne miseries Sense shall not be wanting nor sorrow to our senses Let darkenesse dismay us to disobey and let the light whiles we have it stirre us up to follow it The never-dying Worme The worme that gnawes upon the living man and eates him up being dead may both be killed and consumed with us but this Worme is as immortall as our selves Wee may desperately send our soules from our bodies but sinne and conscience cannot be dismissed We may sooner part with our selves than with our tormentors It were well a man might be as a flint in a rocke of stone which as it findes no pleasure so it feeles no paine but this will not be granted his wounded Spirit will never leave him Prov. 18.14 A man sustained by the Spirit of God may beare any infirmitie but when his owne spirit is as much wounded by God as himselfe what man shall beare it Once againe remember the Gospel and let it helpe and heale this misery Vtter perdition Wee often pitty men when we heare Briefes of utter undoing and we commonly complaine of lamentable losses as if all were gone when we have parted with no more than our worldly goods Never thinke men of being undone in spirituall losses There is not the poorest Begger in the world but in losing his soule he leaveth more than a King that is cast out of his kingdome nay his losse is greater than to lose the whole world Better the soule bee saved than a world purchased and yet sottish sinners to seeke wealth upon earth will hazzard their soules I lose my goods yet I am not utterly undone as long as I have friends I lose my friends yet I am not utterly undone as long as I have my selfe I lose my life yet still I am farre from being undone as long as God stands by me But then I am undone indeed when I have lost God then have I lost my selfe And all good Christians once more heare me friendly and favourably feare God love his Gospel live well and never feare to dye ill Many wretches feare to suffer ill that never feare