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	life_n	soul_n	5,160	5	5.5664	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20717	The true friend, or A bill of exchange expressed in a sermon preached at White-hall: vpon Sonday the XIII. of December, anno Domini, 1629. By Iohn Dovvle, Doctor of Divinitie, and his Maiesties chaplaine.	Dowle, John.	1630 (1630)	STC 7101; ESTC S118447	17,369	80

to have a reason for what God requireth at their hands and here in my Text so they shall Take his counsell and bee of courage and doe it and the third and last part of my Text will tell you Why. Because a time shall come when you your selves shall faile and want and these friends of yours shall receive you into everlasting habitations And there is the Cui bono the end and purpose for which all this is to be done Vt quum defecerîtis That when you shall faile They may receive you into everlasting habitations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When you shall faile that is saith Caietan è presenti vitâ out of this present life Vt cùm defecerîtis When you shal want that is when you shall want breath in plaine English when wee shall dye As if our Saviour by this verie forme of speech would teach us That our studie and overmuch care for the increase of those earthlie treasures here is an evill disease under the Sun indeede a verie consumption of our selves for even whilest we labour and vexe our selves and our soules to gather them we our selves consume want faile and die Cùm defecerîtis When you shall faile when is that Brieflie when the Sunne the Moone and the Starres shall be darkened when the keepers of the house shall tremble the strong men bow themselves the grinders cease and they shall bee darkened that looke out of the windowes as it is Eccles 12. 3 4. That is Eccles 12. 3 4. when all the powers and faculties of our soules and bodies shall faile and cease then loe then the remembrance of one deede of charitie which thou hast done shall doe thee more good than the possession if thou hadst it of both the Indies Then and in that houre it shall more glad thy soule that thou canst say with meeke Moses Whose Asse haue I taken Num. 16. 15. Num 16. 15 or with righteous Samuel Whose Oxe have I taken 1 Sam. 12. 3. 1 Sam. 12. 3 than if thou couldest say All the sheepe and oxen upon a thousand mountaines were thine owne by oppression and wrong Then then when thine eyes shall waxe dimme thy feete as the Text is faile under thee when thine owne children are presentlie to be fatherlesse and the wife of thy bosome a widdow oh what an unspeakable comfort shall it be to thee that thine owne conscience shall then cheare up thy drooping soule with the sweete remembrance of what thou hast beene unto others I have beene eyes to the blinde and feete was I to the lame I was a father to the poore and I ever caused the widdowes heart to reioyce Job 29. Iob 29. 15 15. Pericles an Heathen as Plutarch hath it in his life although hee knew not what should become of his soule when his bodie failed yet hee could rejoyce on his death bed for that he had never given any of the men of Athens for there he lived any cause to goe from him sorrowfull Could such a consideration as this comfort a dying Heathen and shall it not much more rejoyce a Christian that he can in his dying bed say truelie to his soule I have done no man wrong I have taken away no mans oxe I have oppressed no man I have laboured with my hands I have eaten mine owne bread I have now finished my course I am readie to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give unto mee and not to me onely but unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4 5 6. Cupio dissolve I desire 2 Tim. 4. 5 6. therefore to be dissolved and to be with Christ Come Lord Jesus come quickly Beautie shall wither knowledge decay strength faile and therefore dum bodié whil'st it is yet called to day before you faile too Remember thy last end non peccabis in aeternum and thou shalt not doe amisse for ever Thou maist doe amisse againe and againe but not for ever the end of such a man is peace at the last A time there shall be when Riches Beautie Knowledge Strength yea your selves shall faile and in that day and that houre shall the rich man say of his golde his silver his store as Iob did of his friends Miserable Comforters are ye all then shal the wiseman say of his knowledge his Arts his skill as Iob did of his friends Miserable Comforters are ye all Then shall the Minion say of her Beautie her cropping her curling and her painting as Iob did of his friends Miserable Comforters are ye all Iob 16 2. Then shall the consideration Iob 16. 2. of one houre spent in devotion be more worth than all the golde of Ophir So let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like unto his The worldling who had his hope here below shall sing Loath to depart Then shall the Saint be comforted then shall he despise this thicke clay and treade the Moone under his feete then cries he in his heart Woe is me that I am constrained to dwell in Mesek and to inhabite in the Tents of Kedar Cupio dissolvi I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ for that is best of all and therefore Come Lord Iesus come quickly Cùm defecerîtis When you shall faile If you faile thus your failing is no faile for although your legges faile under you your tongues faile in your mouthes your eye-sight faile your strength faile your friends faile your selves faile all faile you at once yet all this is no faile but a retreate that by such going backward you may gather strength to gaine eternitie in heaven where there shall be no more decaying no more failing no more disease no more death To conclude this point when we die we faile al earthly things which have depended on us And on the other side all those things faile us in which we have trusted we then part with all our goods our wives our children nay with our very faith and hope too onely our charitie she followes us still in death wee take our leave of all our friends but onely our good works and they will follow us so saith the voice from heaven Rev. 14. 15 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest Rev. 14. 15 from their labours and their works follow them Or as our Text is they are like so manie Harbingers they goe before to receive us into everlasting habitations and that is the last word of the last part of my Text. And of that together for that I cannot now take it asunder They there is the parties Shall receive there is the action Into everlasting habitations there is the place They shal receive you In aeterna tabernacula Into everlasting habitations They shall receive you They Which