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
A63668	A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. Guide for the penitent: or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin.	1677 (1677)	Wing T292; ESTC R219156	74,175	230

resolved with thy Servant David to take care of my ways that I offend not in my tongue but have many times vainly and inconsiderately let it loose and either to please the Company or my self I have spoken words which might unhappily prove occasions of sin both to them and me without regard or remembring how great Flames such little sparks might kindle But I Repent O my God I Repent I do infinitely condemn my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XVIII Wo Wo unto me O God that all the parts and faculties of my Soul and Body have been abused and have not served the Laws of their Creator but have so eagerly and constantly pursued the corrupt desires of a seduced Heart that I have cause to fear that either my whole life may be looked upon as one continued sin or at least as having admitted so few inconsiderable Pauses that if thou shouldst enter into strict Judgment with me I should not have the confidence to say when or where or wherein I have been innocent But I Repent O my God I Repent I am confounded and astonished at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XIX Wo unto me O God that I have wretchedly failed even in my best endeavours that I have been cold in my Devotions weary of my Prayers inconstant to good purposes dull and heavy in the way to Heaven but quick and active in all the ways of sin having made it the whole business of my life rather to seem to be Religious than really to be so But I Repent O my God I Repent I Accuse and Judge and Condemn my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XX. Wo Wo unto me O God that I have not washed mine hands in Innocency when I have gone unto thine Altar nor made mine heart ready to receive the bread that came from Heaven but have failed in my Preparations and have not sufficiently considered either mine own unworthiness or the high secrets of so great a Mystery But I Repent O my God I Repent I am grieved and troubled at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXI Wo Wo unto me O God that having so often received those inestimable Pledges of thy love the precious Body and Blood of thy dear Son in the Holy Sacrament I have been so unwary as to admit my former sins under the same roof with thee and have unhappily done what lay in me to drive thee from me But I Repent O my God I Repent I am infinitely ashamed at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXII Wo Wo unto me O God that my Repentance the only plank left me in the Shipwrack of my Soul hath been so weak so slight and so unsteady that every small blast of a new Temptation hath been able to drive me from it and by frequent Relapses into sin gives me cause enough to repent even of my vain repentance But I Repent again O God again I I Repent I hate and loath and abhor my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXIII Wo Wo unto me O God that having received my Life and Being and Preservation from thee with so many advantages to have made me happy in this world and blessed in the next I have been so abominably unthankful that I have cast all these thy Blessings behind me and returned thee nothing back for all thy favours but affronts and injuries and sins But I Repent O my God I Repent I am confounded and astonished at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXIV Wo wo unto me O God that being Redeemed by the Death and Passion of thy dear and only Son I have not laid his bitter Agonies to heart nor made right use of the precious Ransom which was laid down for me That I have not yet sued out my pardon with such Penitent Tears as thou requirest nor laid hold of the benefits of it by a lively Faith but have chosen rather stupidly to continue in my Sins and to neglect the Blood of the Covenant as an unholy thing But I Repent O my God I Repent I hate and loath and abhor my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXV Wo Wo unto me O God that thy Holy Spirit I have grieved thy Counsels I have rejected thy Motions I have quenched and have entertained the Lusts and Vanities nf this life with far more earnest and passionate affections than all thy Holy Inspirations But I Repent O my God I Repent I am utterly ashamed and confounded at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXVI Wo Wo unto me O God that having thus far opened my guilty heart before thee I have left so many Sins behind that I cannot number them some that I have really forgot some that I would forget if my Conscience would give me leave Sins known that I cannot conceal and sins secret such as I have taken so much care to hide from others that they are now become hidden from my self But whatsoever they are or wheresoever they are registred whether in my own Conscience or in any other Record that may be proved against me in the day of Judgment I call the whole Court of Heaven to witness That I do sadly Repent my self of them all That I do abhor my self for them all That I resolve stedfastly to renounce them all Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner Amen Amen The Penitent Soul having made this or the like Confession prepares and stirs up it self to true Contrition WHat shall I say more unto thee O thou that art the Judge of the whole Earth or what shall I do more I have ransacked my breast and laid it open I have spread it before thee as Hezekiah the blaspheming Letter of his Enemy I do not desire that there should be so much as any fold or pleight or corner of it hidden from thee Or if this be not enough to transact this great business of my Soul between me and thee alone and that possibly I may flatter my self in the several acts of my intended Penitence I am ready to go farther and to make my self the more ashamed of sinning with all humility to confess these sins of mine to some of those servants of thine whom thou hast placed between mee and thee and to whom alone under thee thou hast so clearly given the power of Absolution O deal with me then as thou didst with thy Servant David who no sooner confessed his sins but thou forgavest him all his iniquities But are there not they who confess their sins and have the impudence to glory in them or at least pass them over without any act of real Contrition or any remorse at all But O my God if my heart deceive me not I am none of those for I can neither glory in my shame nor can I be satisfied with my self when I appear with dry eyes before thee After this Preparation these