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	soul_n	whole_a	1,465	5	5.4082	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05710	The new arival of the three gracis, into Anglia Lamenting the abusis of this present age.	Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.	1580 (1580)	STC 1584; ESTC S112724	36,047	48

doth threaten lasting payne To those which plentie had on earth and yet for scarcitie sought their furious rage with Chimera a lasting place hath bought And for as much as we do doubt of ioyes for to inshew we will conitinue as wée are lo this is certayn trew Not leauing now our wontid lore each one of vs in kinde proceading so as we began in this you know our mynde When goods we haue all men vs loue as kings among the rest if naught at all then Begger like in ragges must be adrest For Gospels predicacion preach still who that will wée sée therin none other grace we will not come their till For who that will the Scriptures feare shall euer bée in doubt when Skie doeth fall then Larks shall haue a place to sore about Thou Hidra fell deuoyd of grace reforne and that with spéed els lasting payn shalbe thy gayn the Lawe hath so decréed Thalia Plenteusnes PLentifull are the works of the Lord in wisdom hath he made thē all for with the Lorde ther is mercy and with him is plenteouse redemption for as by the plentifull gracis proceading from God the children of Israell wer delyuerid so shall euery such nacion likewise that seeketh by obedience obtayn the lyke haue due consideracion then of the plentifull gracis proceading frō God héere on earth to féede not only our corporall bodies with the fruits growing on the same for the tearm of our natural liues but also the vnspeakable vertues which doo as mighty riuers so plentifully ouerwhelme in manner the whole face of the earth that scharcely or not at all any one is able to say he neuer haue passid by or through them or being at one tyme or other mould so that not one of the séeds of mankind is able to excuse him selfe for the not knowing of so plentifull gracis proceding from so mercifull and heauenly father in what damnable state case or being are those mē who lasciuiously liuing in this vate of misery do séeke to escape from that which séeks to saue them and to imbrace that whi●h vtterly if continuance remayne in ill to consume and destroy thē Tantaleum poculum libernus the very heathē Philosophers hath not ceasid to depict out dyuers and sundry warnings and all to that ende that vertues might be imbraced and vice subuertid ouerthrowen because that like as some festcrid vlcer being once rootyd in the flesh and toucheth the bone seaceth not by littel and litle till it haue by such infection masterid the whole body and brought it to subiection forcing it to geue place vnto death the first ende of corporall life Therefore as corrupt infections be the cause of the bodyly death so the wicked thoughts ingendering contempt of godlines hastens the soules distruction who would not therfore seyng so great daungers to inshew by meanes of disobedience séeke to please so excellent a Lorde and protector that so mercifully and so plentifully powrith forth before vs so many seueral gracis therby to pluc● vs yea as it wer by force from so many euils which for sinne is left to possesse vs for as gold is tried in the fornace so that good men be tried in tyme of aduercite which aduercite is the dayly resisting of the flesh agaynst the spirit The awayting of our aduersary Leo rugens to none other end is but to destroy not the bodies of men only but also their soules And in getting inordinat goods through the desier therof maketh such most miserable Beggers from the knowledge of God And the vayne hope in this life maketh them think to be frée frō such sinne when in very déed they are most bond imppes of that infernall fuery Such is the sufferance of our iuste Judge when he seeth whervnto man is inclined in that his felicite is wholy set on those things which his fleshy eyes beholdeth regarding it more better assurance then the promised place to come what followeth but a flat distrust of gods promises to this ende therfore is Satan sufferid to be amōg the sonnes of men to styre vp strife to vere and molest them for which disobedience first of all the great Dragon that olde Serpent was cast out no more to be among the Juste for enuy wherof as a roring ●iō he séeketh to deuour the whole race posterite of mankind notwithstanding his power recheth no further then the Lord permitteth as manifestly apperith by that pacient Iob whom the Lord of Ostes sufferid for a tyme to be molestid saying vnto Satan al that he hath be it in thy power only sée that thou spare his life the constancy of that iust moueth euery true Christian to hope that after dark and stormy tempest of tribulacions in this life for the hauen of felici●e or triumphant glory not by due desert but by grace only in Christ and none but he a sufficient warning is this to those that haue ●yes to sée mouths to speak ears to heare hearts to conceue with a continuall wisshing for the coming of our only Lord and sauiour Christ Jesu But to those that haue eyes sée not ears and heare not because they loue not mouth to speake and doo not harts to conceaue and regard not in such the Gospell abides not Because God hath geuen them ouer to vnclennes through the lusts of their own herts to defile their own bodies among them selues which chaunged his truth for a lye and worshipped and seruid the things that bée made more then him that made them which is to be praysed for euer and euer Amen And as they regardid not to know God euen so God delyuerid them vp vnto a lewd mynd that they should do those things that were not comely being full of all vnrighteousnes fornicacion wickednesse couitousnes maliciousnes full of enuy murther debate dicept euil conditioned whisperers bakebiter● haters of God disdaynfull proud bosters bringers vp of euyll thinges disobedient to father and mother without vnderstanding couenant breakers vnlouing truce-breakers vnmercifull which men though they knew the righteusnesse of God consider not how that they which commit such things are worthy of death not only they that do y e same but also they which haue pleasure in them that do them What plentiousnes can be more then this wher such store of ensamples are to bring vs from vyce to vertue from being in bondage to perfect fréedom frō sorow to ioye from pouerty to riches from werines to ease from sicknes to health from corruptible thoughts to selestial mocions praysing and lawding God for his so plentious gracis worthy deseruing thanks to him which liueth for euer and euer The obstinate for all this will not be reclaymed and therefore voyde of all hope by this my warning without the greater grace mercy of God in Christ Jesus The very heathen are to be preferrid before such whose words remayne to the vtter ruen of all vnthankfull Christians When a resonable