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	see_v	soul_n	2,772	5	5.0753	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17510	The vvidovves ioy. Or Christ his comfortable saluation to a comfortlesse widow being obseruations no lesse profitable then comfortable for the losse of our deceased friends. By W.C.	Cragge, William, 1595 or 6-1636.	1622 (1622)	STC 4323; ESTC S114181	18,275	52

man leane it will runne into his hand Secondly as this woman was wealthy and of good esteeme so shee was a widow shee had beene before a married woman and as shee had participated of those blessings which attend VVedlocke so shee had many times felt those cares which are incident vnto those who haue the care and charge of a Family and being made a mother felt no doubt the trueth of Gods sentence I will greatly encrease thy sorrow in sorrow shalt thou bring foorth thy children and yet to adde more vnto her griefe and which may seeme the greatest griefe of all her husband one halfe of her selfe dyes and that not in his old and decrepit age when all his pleasure was gone and life it selfe growne to be but labour and sorrow but in the flower of his youth and not long after his mariage which probably may be gathered by this that hee left but one onely sonne and this our Sauiour calles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a yong Stripling all which must needs make her widow-hood the more grieuous widow-hood in it selfe beeing a crosse great enough insomuch that the Prophet Dauid reckoneth and puts it among his Imprecations and curses on Gods and his enemies Let his children bee Psal 109. fatherlesse and his wife a Widow So the Prophet Ieremie Lam. 1. 1. Lamenting and bewailing the miserable estate of Ierusalem speaketh thus How doth the citie remaine solitary that was full of people Shee is as a widow And Chapter 5. 5. Wee are fatherlesse without fathers and our mothers are Widowes yet all this while she beares these crosses manfully she yeelds not vnto thē shee breakes not into open weeping but comforts her selfe calling to minde those many and sweet promises and comforts made by God vnto VVidowes for God hath promised to defend the fatherlesse and widowes The Lord your God is God of gods which doth right vnto the fatherlesse an Widowes And Psalme 146. 9. The Lord keepeth the Stranger he releeueth the fatherles and Widowes Yea the Lord commits the care of them vnto Magistrates charging them and all others Ex. 22. 22. You shall not trouble the widow nor the fatherlesse childe yea the Lord out of his loue and care towards them appoints part of the Tythe for their reliefe Deut. 14. 29. Hee would haue them to bee remembred in their Feastes Hee menaceth a curse against him that Deut. 27. 29. wrongeth the widow Cursed be hee that hindreth the cause of the stranger the fatherlesse and VVidow And Ieremie 5. 25. hee reckoneth the neglecting of the widow one cause of the destruction of the people VVith these and many other promises which shee found in Scripture no doubt but shee did continually comfort her selfe in her widow-hood that though shee were yong yet she did not affect a second marriage and besides shee tooke it as a pledge of Gods great fauour vnto her that hee had giuen her a sonne to bee a stay and a comfort vnto her in her widow-hood But see to adde yet more vnto the complement of her miserie God who knowes how to giue vs tearesto drinke in measure and knoweth best when he hath laid sorrow affliction enough vpon his children leaues not the widow thus As not shee so neither are wee worthy to know whereunto wee are reserued This her yong sonne dyes who was the light of her eyes and the ioy of her life To shew vnto vs thus much by the way that not onely old men must but the yongest that is may die wee are no sooner come into the world but wee hasten out of the world The pace of death is soft and sure and euery man is a dying man till he be dead And therefore wee must so set our mortality before our eyes as to thinke euery day our last day and labour carefully to redeeme the time ill past because so vncertaine is the time of our abode But what had this yong man done thus vntimely to bee cropt off in the budde of his yeeres Hee was but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a very yong man as his tender yeeres could not patronize good counsell and want of grauitie giue authoritie to his person to be a president of vertue so it is likely he was not yet misled by the errors of youth much lesse could hee haue beene a ring-leader vnto euill Or why should we lay sinne to his charge when the holy Ghost layes none but rather charitably yea confidently perswade our selues that hee that was now about to doe so much for his body had before done much more for his soule Happily God tooke him away that hee should not see the euill to come And truely if the mother had rightly considered this it had beene a cause rather to mitigate then any way to exasperate or aggrauate her griefe that God had so timely thus well prouided for her son that though she had lost a sonne yet heauen had found a Saint and though hee had beene neuer so deare and precious in her eyes yet to haue reioyced that shee had layd vp her treasure in heauen Had hee beene an vnnaturall Cain a prophane Esau a proud aspiring Absolon an vsurping Adonijah this might haue redoubled her griefe to consider that from her loynes a chip should haue beene hewen to make a fire-brand in hell But to haue a godly yong Iosiah to be taken away in his tender yeeres that he might not see the euill to come might cause her rather to magnifie his mercie then to whine vnder the rod of correction And heereof should all parents make a comfortable vse when at any time God shall deale with them in the like case by remoouing their hopefull yong plants from out of his nursery of grace heere and transplanting them into his Orchard of glory in heauen there to flourish as Palmes for euermore But had this her sonne bin taken away in his infancy her sorrow had been the lesse shee had sustained paine and sorrow in bringing him into the word care and feare in his nurture and education and now that shee thought to haue receiued some comfort in him for whom shee had often both wearied and disquieted her selfe behold he dyes Thus it pleaseth God many times to deale with his dearest children to lay affliction after affliction putting into all their cups of comfort and contentments bitter drams of sorrow griefe Whence wee may learne first how vncertaine a thing it is to expect any certaine comfort in this world we are all subiect to vicissitude change and alteration We must not expect any perpetuity of felicity here lest wee should forget to looke after any other heauen then heere on earth Doe not we see by experience that kingdomes haue their declensions and Crownes and Scepters their crosses and shall priuate and particular persons expect greater stability Secondly it must teach vs how to entertaine comforts when God sendes them euen as the Apostle bids vs the world so to vse them as though