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	nature_n	soul_n	2,893	5	5.2542	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28412	The Bloody murtherer, or, The unnatural son his just condemnation at the assizes held at Monmouth, March 8, 1671/2 with the suffering of his sister and servant, for the murther of his mother, Mrs. Grace Jones, for which the said son was prest to death, his sister burnt, and his boy hang'd : with a true accompt of their trials, penitent behaviour, prayers, speeches, and circumstances thereunto relating : with letters of several worthy divines.		1672 (1672)	Wing B3259; ESTC R18868	28,377	74

done more for you than a Brother or Sister can do Can a Mother forget her Child saith the Prophet Isa 49.15 But can a Child forget a Mother Could you forget what pains she underwent in bearing what trouble in nursing what care in providing for you But then if you consider yet further How suddenly you thrust her out of the world whereby she was deprived of time to put the affairs of her Soul in order it may more humble you and consider whether depriving her of space to call on the Lord for mercy you may not have hurt her Soul more than her Body especially if she was taken away in an unprepared estate And further all this was done not rashly in your drink or passion but was a premeditate and deliberate act of your Soul Oh! how doth my Soul bleed at the consideration of your horrid Sin mine Eyes are not dry whilst I write I know not how yours are in reading it As t' was an act of your hand your body was guilty of the Sin but as it was a deliberate act your Soul is partaker in the guilt and both Soul and Body defiled with your Mothers blood But alas my Brother the act is not all though bloody the corruption of Nature and Fountain that sent forth those bitter streams is to be bewailed The Cause is worse than the Effect that deep pollution of your Nature and that corruption which put on this wicked act is to be bewailed The sins of your life which provoked God to give you up to shed a Mothers blood are to be lamented It is like by committing many other sins and by neglecting to serve God your heart came to be hardened by degrees and so from one wickedness to another till at last you adventured on this high crime Think then I beseech you in how full a manner your Heart was under the dominion of the Devil and what quiet and peaceable possession he had of your Soul so that if this sin had not been committed you might have perished for your other transgressions And now I beseech you to consider whether it doth not concern you to think in what a woful estate your Soul is when a studied and deliberate slaughter of a Mother fills up the measure of your sins what hope remaineth of escaping Eternal misery without deep and sound Repentance when the Scripture saith expresly that Murderers are shut out of Heaven Rev. 22.15 I write not this to drive you to despair but to draw you to Repentance And oh that you would cast your self down in the dust and bitterly bewail this bloody and black sin with the sins of your life which prepared you for this Oh that you would be continually on your Knees begging for Pardon and Peace Oh that your head were a Fountain of Tears and that you could weep day and night for the wrong you have done not only to your own Soul but also to him that made you and her that bare you Great sins must have great Repentance 't is not true except it he very deep 't is not true except it be for all as well as some 't is not true except it be for sin as sin t is not true except it bewails original corruption as Davids Repentance of his Murder and Adultery left not his depravity unlamented Psal 51.5 Now that you may not miscarry this great work of such high concernment but that your Repentance may be Repentance unto Salvation never to be repented of I beseech you for Gods and your own Souls sake to observe and follow these directions 1. Beware of whatsoever may be an hindrance to the true humiliation of your Soul Take heed of too much company or bad company privacy or retiredness may be much for your advantage vain company will have vain discourse desire all such to depart from you whose discourse tends not to your Souls profit let only such be conversant with you who will help you in your work which is to fit your self for an happy Eternity 2. Take heed of worldly and vain discourse loose not precious time in unprofitable talk spend not your Breath otherwise than in penitent sighs groans and prayers and in giving warning to such as come about you to avoid the sins which brought you to this sad condition 3 Take heed of pleasing your appetite in taking too much drink or in a too liberal use of meats be much in fasting which is an help to Prayer and let the diet you take be moderate and mean as becomes one that judgeth himself unworthy of life or comfort abstinence from the enjoyments of this life is a great help and furtherance of mortification and humiliation Bishop Atherton found that by shutting the Windows making the room somewhat dark was helpful to humiliation 4. Take heed of thinking that if your life pay for your Mothers you do thereby make satisfaction to God for though that be some satisfaction to the Law of the Land yet not to God who is only satisfied by the death of his Son Jesus Christ which satisfaction you must lay hold on by Faith and apply the blood of Christ to wash away the foul sins of your Mothers blood And such faith cannot be separated from true repentance therefore you must practice the one that you may be assured of the other 2. Embrace all means that may further and promote you in the way and work of Repentance 1. Read much in the Scriptures and such Soul-searching Books as may help to awaken direct comfort and further you in the way of Salvation especially look much into those books as treat of Conversion Repentance and the last things as Death Judgment Heaven and Hell it would do well also to get such Books as have been set forth of penitent Malefactors as Bishop Atherton Nathaniel Butler Thomas Savage and others who being cast into Prison for great crimes were through Divine mercy brought to Repentance and left the world not without hope of Salvation read also the Penetential Psalms and labour to get your heart affected by reading and be not contented except you profit by it 2. Meditate much on the guilt of your last great sin and the former that led you to it wast no thoughts about the world or worldly things think much how God might possibly chastise your Parents for their worldliness in and by you for whom it may be they were more careful to provide than for their immortal Souls And think also of your own ingratitude who requited a dear Mother so evil as to take away her life whose greatest fault it may be was that she was too eager to make you great and rich in this world Think also of the strict Justice and severe vengeance of God whose wrath is a consuming fire and also who is a terrible avenger of Innocent blood which cryeth for vengeance think also what is like to become of the Body and Soul of that poor wretch who was your Companion in guilt and