Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	england_n	king_n	1,414	5	3.7575	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81088	A vvord in season to the kingdom of England. Or, A precious cordiall for a distempered kingdom. Wherein are laid down things profitable, and usefull for all, and offensive to none that love the truth and peace. / By the meanest of the servants of Jesus Christ, M. Cary.	Cary, Mary.	1647 (1647)	Wing C739; Thomason E393_26; ESTC R201606	11,809	16

A Word in Season TO THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND OR A precious CORDIALL for a distempered KINGDOM Wherein are laid down things profitable and usefull for all and offensive to none that love the Truth and Peace By the meanest of the Servants of Jesus Christ M. Cary. ISAIAH 48.17 18 19. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer the Holy one of Israel I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit which leadeth thee by the way which thou shouldest go O that thou hadst hearkened unto my commandments then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea Thy seed also had been as the sand and the off-spring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me LONDON Printed by R. W. for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spred Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1647. To the READER WHoever thou art that readest the insuing discourse know that if thou art one that art active in helping on of that which I call the positive part then thou doest what lies in thee to bring happiness and tranquility to thy native Kingdom and however it go with others thou shalt surely reap the benefit of it either internally or externally or both But if thou art one that drivest on the negative part thou art one that endeavourest to drive on thine own ruine and this I hope thou wilt plainly see in the perusing of it wherein I should have been far more Copious but knowing that generally brevity is affected I have endeavoured to say as little as could be spoken if I said any thing in the things that are most generally acknowledged and to be as compendious as I could in the things that are though clear in themselves more stumbled at by some Now therefore if thou wouldst not be the contriver of thine own ruine but desirest thine own and the Kingdomes prosperity then desire strength from above to overcome all the temptations under which thou art and lay aside all the designes which thou hast on foot in which it may be thou aimest at thine own outward advantage wherein thou crossest all or any of the particulars laid down in the positive part of this discourse so shalt thou have thy desires satisfied which that thou mayest obtain is the aim and fervent desire of Thine in any Christian office of Love however thou dealest with me that lies in my Power M. C. A word in season to the Kingdom OF ENGLAND THe great God having wrought by his owne arme great deliverances for this Kingdome of England doth doubtless now expect that England should bring forth answerable fruit when he had hedged and fenced his vineyard Isa 5. and bestowed choyce favours upon it he looked saith the text ver 4 that it should bring forth grapes and it brought forth wilde grapes It were well for England if he had not just cause so to complaine of it But that it may not be so let all the people from the highest to the lowest from the King that sits upon the Throne to him that sits upon the Dunghill let Parliament and Synod Citie and Country attend to the insuing discourse and let it sinke deep into their spirits which doth contain a Narration wholly drawne from the Scriptures of those paths which a nation walking in them will be the readiest way and shortest cut to a happie and flourishing estate But though this discourse concerne all and therfore in generall I call upon all to atend unto it yet in a more peculiar manner I shall direct it to you Chaire-men that is to say you that sit at the Sterne you that are the heads and rulers of the people and are in places of authoritie for you are to act for the whole kingdome and what is done by you is done by them and either the benefit or the evill of it will reflect upon the whole therefore to you in particular I shall direct my discourse and let all others observe so much of it as concerns them in their severall places and stations But before I come to the positive part of my discourse to lay downe what those paths are which are the paths of happiness c. I shall first brieefly lay it downe negatively what it is not but what is the way to ruine because the Scripture so lay e it downe also and shall then more largely lay downe the positive part for the making of it most cleere and perspicuous to every eye if posible and shall answer those objections which possibly some may make against it As for the negative part 1. Oppression of the poor suffering the violent man to afflict the needy and the neglect of doing justice in their behalfe is not the way to happiness but the way to ruine Psa 12.5 for the oppressing of the poor and for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety c. Isa 5.7 9. He looked for judgment but behold oppression for righteousnesse but behold acry and what 's the effect In mine eares said the Lord of hosts of a truth many houses shall be desolate even great and faire without inhabitant when by unjust and unreasonable wayes men shall pluck away the lands or estates or detaine the wages of the poor and needy or those that in comparison of themselves are in a meane condition on purpose to feather their own nests and to build them great and faire houses it is the ready paths to destruction and to leave their houses without inhabitant 2. The abounding of such vices as these in a kingdome without the due execution of justice upon them is the way to bring in destruction upon a kingdome as drunkenness adultery fornication swearing c. Isa 5.12 Woe to them that rise up in the morning that they may follow strong drinke that continue untill night till wine inflame them c. Rom. 10.8 They committed fornication and fell in one day 23. thousand and because of oaths the land mourns saies the Prophet Jeremiah 3. To refuse to stoope to the Scepter of Jesus Christ and not to admit of him as King and consequently to receive all rules for worship from him and to be governed by him in all spirituall respects but to follow the precepts and commandments of men therein is the way to ruine As for those mine enemies that will not have me to raigne over them bring them hither and slay them before me 4. The troubling wronging and oppressing the Saints of Iesus Christ is the way to ruine a kingdome For he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of Gods eye and they are the props and pillars of a kingdome and that kingdome that shall turne those Lots out of it whether it be by death or by banishment takes the way to set it selfe on fire and to open a gap for a devouring enemie to come into it 5. And lastly That kingdome that