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	cure_v	disease_n	1,586	5	7.9009	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07204	The cure of cares or a short discourse, declaring the condition of worldly cares; with some remedies appropriated unto them Penned for the use of all, but is most proper for such as be distressed. By Henry Mason parson of S. Andrews Vndershaft London.	Mason, Henry, 1573?-1647.	1627 (1627)	STC 17605; ESTC S102308	30,687	60

our hearts to meditate on the vanity of worldly things or on the comforts and peace of a good conscience or on the shortnesse of this life or whatsoever other good matter that we can most willingly receive and entertaine For such will finde the easiest entrance and are likely to abide the longest with us And if our former thoughts and cares do interrupt us and intermingle themselves against our wills and so breake off or hinder our meditations yet we must then force our selves to call home our wandring thoughts and labour to drive out these fansies as (a) Gen. 15.11 Abraham drove away the birds that lighted on his sacrifice 2 We may for the same purpose betake our selves to good company such as whose words may minister grace to our hearts when wee heare them and whose savoury talke may possesse our mindes with a love and liking of them For look how much we give our mindes to marke such mens discourses and so much wee pare away or diminish of our distracting thoughts 3 Wee may and it will be most availeable if wee do bend and set our selves about the reading of Scriptures or perusing of some other wise and sober writings which may both take up our thoughts and informe our mindes So it seemeth David did in the times of his distress (a) Psal 119.23 Princes saith he did sit and speake against me but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes And againe (b) Psal 119.92 Vnlesse thy Law had beene my delight I should then have perished in mine affliction By which speeches we may gather that David did not sit downe and bemone himselfe with discontented thoughts but hee ranne to Gods word and did meditate in his law and had comfort from thence in all his troubles And so should wee doe if any feares afflict our mindes we should goe to the Booke of God and busie our selves with thinking on the sweet sayings that bee there delivered and taught 4 Wee should set our selves with as much chearfulnesse as we may about the businesses and works of our honest callings For these are duties that God requireth at our hands and they bee employments that wee are well acquainted with and such businesses withall as new occasions every day will put us upon and in these respects it will bee the more easie to busie our mindes about the ordering of them And if these have their due place carefull thoughts will have the lesse roome These are the diversions which we may use in this case and if thus or in any other the like kinde we set our heads and hearts on working wee shall both busie our mindes with good thoughts that may profit us and keepe out worldly cares that would annoy us But if when cares and feares do seize upon us we avoyd action and shunne company and cast off the care of our callings and get into a corner that wee may give scope to our cares and may invent arguments to amplifie our misery it is no martiell if our feares and cares and unquiet thoughts get head against us when as our selves do uphold them with our owne hands II. Rule 2 We must strive to take away the cause that breedeth these unquiet cares For as in healing sick bodies Physicians never think the cure to bee sound till the cause of the disease bee removed so it is in healing sick and distempered mindes there can bee no sound cure till the cause which first bred the disease and afterward doth uphold it be removed or taken away Now the causes of this sicknesse which in this place we endeavor to cure are especially these two An immoderate love of worldly things and a fearfull distrust of Gods providence and fatherly care over us 1 An immoderate love of the world is a cause of inordinate cares because (a) Matt. 6.21 where our treasure is there will our hearts also be as our Saviour saith If our treasure that is that which wee esteeme and desire and love as some speciall jewell of great worth if it be in heaven then our hearts will bee in heaven ever thinking upon and ever longing after the celestiall joyes and the society of the glorious Saints and Angels and the presence of the blessed Trinity in the enjoying whereof is fulnesse of joy for evermore And if our treasure be upon earth if we desire and love the things of this life as our greatest good then our hearts will be upon the earth still thinking on the world and ever reaching and gaping after it Wee shall sometimes bee studying how to get them and sometimes how to increase them and sometimes how to dispose of them and when wee have nothing to doe about them yet our hearts will delight to looke upon them and to handle them as the worldling often telleth over his gold and silver not because hee knoweth not the summe but because he delighteth in the sight and sound of it And if once these things bee lost which are so much loved the heart followeth after them mourning and sorowing that his joy is gone as when David tooke Michal away from Phaltiel her supposed husband (a) 2 Sam. 3.16 he went with her along weeping For that which a man doth love immoderately when hee hath it for that hee will mourne immoderately when hee hath lost it And hence it is that because Rachel did too excessively desire childrē before she had them therefore the (b) Ier. 31.15 Prophet doth bring her in as a paterne of them that mourne for their children when they are not For as it fareth with things that appertaine to the bodie those that are loose from the flesh as our clothes and armour are these wee can put on and off without annoyance or paine but that which sticketh to our flesh as the skinne doth if that be pulled or plucked from us it putteth us to paine and breedeth smart and sorow so it is with the things of this world if they be unto us as our clothes things without us such as we desire only for our use then wee can both possesse them and lose them with patience and contented mindes as wee see it was with Iob when hee had lost all that ever hee had (c) Iob. 1.20 21. hee fell downe upon the ground and worshipped or praised God and said Naked came I out of my mothers wombe naked shall I returne thither the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. Iob when hee was stript of all his goods and servants and children all the store that he had in the world hee thought of himselfe no otherwise then as of one that is naked and stript of his clothes and therefore hee endured the losse of all with great patience and praised God as well when hee tooke them away as when he gave them He remembred that hee came without them into the world and must goe without them out of the world and therefore