Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	church_n	member_n	1,786	5	7.7946	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66756	An improvement of imprisonment, disgrace, poverty, into real freedom, honest reputation, perdurable riches evidenced in a few crums & scraps lately found in a prisoners-basket at Newgate, and saved together, by a visitant of oppressed prisoners, for the refreshing of himself and those who are either in a worse prison or (who loathing the dainties of the flesh) hunger and thrist after righteousness / by George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3163; ESTC R14994	55,794	128

Nor in his Head-piece trust repose No nor unto What Self can do But take thou Davids sling And what he took Out of the Brook Of Grace among them fling A Meditation whilst he was taking a Pipe of Tobbacco THough some perhaps will think the things I do Much less then Idleness amount unto Yet to have no work troubles me at least As much as therewith to be overprest And then to be quite Idle I had rather Pick strawes catch Flies or shells and Pebles gather Or as I sometimes do the time to pass Number my steps or tell the panes of glass And often when a trifling act is done Make some good use of that which promis'd none Here all alone I by my self have took An Emblem of my Self a Pipe of Smoke For I am but a little piece of Clay Fill'd with a Smoke that quickly fumes away This Vanity our Clymat never knew Till near the time in which first breath I drew And otherwhile it is of wholsome use Though for the most part subject to abuse Since first I smookt it after it came hither I laid it by nigh thirty years together And for my healths sake then did reassume That Bauble wherewith we Tobbacco fume Not hitherto disabled to forgo it If any way offensive I should know it And that in mind as well as bodily I might he someway profited thereby Such Meditations come into my thought As these which now unto my mind are brought Ev'n as this Pipe was formed out of Clay And may be shapeless Earth again this day So may I too So brittle that one touch May break it this is I am also such When it is broke made whole it cannot be By Humane Art so will it fare with me When I to dust shall be reduc'd by Death Until reviv'd by an Eternal Breath This brittle ware we oft have strangely seen Preserv'd from breaking and so I have been When foul it growes it must be purifi'd By Fire I in like manner must abide Those Fiery-Tryals which will purge away That filth which is contracted every day Moreover when therein this Herb's calcin'd Such things as these it brings into mind That Custom by degrees prevaileth still To draw us both to what is Good and Ill For when this customarily is taken It can by very few be quite forsaken Or heeded how they turn unto abuse That which is otherwise of some good use Yea so it them deludes that oft they think That is well scented which doth alway stink Yet me it makes with thankfulness to heed How GOD wraps up a Blessing in a Weed And how when I have weighed things together He makes one vanity to cure another Turns that to Good which was perhaps for Evil At first sent in among us by the Devil It minds me too that as this Herb by fire Must be consum'd so must all our desire Of Earthly things and that wherein we took Most pleasure turn to Ashes and to Smoke When I had writ thus much of what I thought My Candle and Tobbacco were burnt out A Hint of that which may hereafter if not despised conduce to the Setling of Peace and Concord in Church and State This Scrap though some will not disgest Is cast in here among the rest ELia's like I thought my self alone A while ago and of my mind knew none But many I now hope here living be Who joyn in one Faith and one love with me My Soul I long time seemed to possess As when the Baptist in the Wilderness Was to be Disciplin'd and there prepar'd For that which he performed afterward As when he Preach'd Repentance in his dayes High Priests nor Lawyers Scribes nor Pharisees Nor of the gay Herodians any one Nor many but the Vulgar sort alone Regarded it so likewise I might say Of all my Premonitions to this day And may for ought I know without regard Pursue my Work till I have his reward If so it happen I am well content To follow such a holy Precedent I am now as it were one in exile Like John when banish'd into Pathmos Isle And to the seven Churches in these Nations As he then to the Asian Congregations Had somewhat to expresse so I from HIM As I believe who sent his mind to them By that Disciple have a needful Errant To be delivered by Authentick Warrant Which must lie Dormant until them to hear it GOD shall prepare and fit me to declare it Mean while I cast in this Preoccupation To be a furtherance to that Preparation Whereto GOD's Grace will ripen me and The● Hereafter in his own appointed time If nothing that shall be Co-incedent Doth intervene that purpose to prevent Thus Christ did to a future time adjourn What he had then spoke might it have been born And his example doth instruct my Reason To chuse for every work a proper Season I have a Love for all the whole Creation Much more for every Christian Congregation I for each Member of them whatsoere Infirmities I see in them appear Have such a Love and so inlarged that I can with every Church Communicate In all Essential duties though they may Be sometimes much abus'd with an Allay Because what me therein offendeth I Without offending others can pass by And at another time in private seek To make them understand what I dislike And by a meek compliance in what 's good Bear with a failing not well understood Their Ignorance or misled Consciences Give me no cause of Personal offences So they the Fundamental Truths profess Without malicious minds or wilfulness Or by approving or continuing in Prophanness and committing open Sin For since he that knows most knows but in part And hath a Cloudy Region in his heart They of my Pitty rather Objects be Then of my hate They so much hurt not me As damnifie themselves And I thereby Have of my Meekness Faith and Charity Those Exercises for which if I have them In true sincerity GOD chiefly gave them And which way can they better be employ'd Then that a common good may be enjoy'd And that we to our Brethren may extend That mercy when we think they do offend Which GOD's long suffering doth vouchsafe to us And since he did command it should be thus The Church Catholick is a Corporation Whereof the several Churches in each Nation Are Bodies Corporate as here we see In LONDON many Corporations be Members thereof distinct govern'd by Laws Peculiar to themselves as they found cause To constitute them yet unto all these Belong the Cities gen'ral Priviledges And every Individual Person there Conforms unto those Lawes which proper are To this whole City and they live together In Peace without intruding on each other What hinders but our Ignorance Ambition Our Avarice and Love to Superstition That Christian Congregatious may not thus Be form'd and regulated so with us That we may live henceforward in true Peace Morality and Piety increase Prophanness be supprest and