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	fruit_n	good_a	2,614	5	4.5284	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27120	The blood of righteous Abel crying from the ground being a lamentation for and a warning too [sic] all that have a hand against the innocent people of God, especially intended for the rulers and priests in Hamshire ... / by W.B.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1659 (1659)	Wing B1519; ESTC R29028	11,493	9

into contempt who are seeking honour and glory to your selves in the earth whose peace is your life who love the praise of men and pleasures more then God a sword is coming upon you all and you are for the slaughter of the great King who is our lawgiver and Saviour and our peace who is come a light into the world and is the true light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world meek and lowely upon the wild asses coalt hear this ye deaf and see ye blind and be still and hearken ye flouds of ungodly men who compass the Saints about and the beloved city with lies and plottings of falsehood whereby you think to weary out the dear children of the most high fire is coming down from God out of heaven to devour you and you shall not be able to quench it ye are the pricking briars to the house of Israel ye are the thorns the dross and the stubble the Lord God Almighty of power will you consume the decree is sealed against you a witness I am for the eternal God of life against you all in all your deeds of darkness and hard speeches my outward life is not deer unto me ye devouring beasts of the field I have given it up and you may take it for he that departeth from iniquity is become your prey But the Lord God will plead our cause in righteousness and his eternal witness the light in your consciences will answer your condemnation to be just and your destruction to be of your selves for you have been warned from time to time by the servants of the Lord without you and reproved by the light his true prophet within you that you might escape flee from the wrath to come which if you proceed in the harness of your hearts in afflicting his dear children it will over take you and because of these things my soul is moved knowing the terrors of the Lord against you and a doleful lamentation is on me and my very bones are pained and my heart is hot within me the whole earth is moved with the fierce indignation of the Lord his vengeance plagues and eternal judgements without mercy do I proclaim against you all from the mouth of the Lord God of hosts except you speedily repent for you have greived his spirit and you have afflicted his dear children these many months yet have you been intreated by them with many tears and often warned and the Lord have we even intreated for you as Abraham did for Sodome Moses for Pharaoh that you might not wholly be condemned with an utter overthrow but rather that you might repent and live but our righteous souls are vexed and grieved with your pride rebellion and filthy conversation from day to day and no answer from the Lord have we concerning you but the red sea of his wrath wherein you will be utterly swallowed and drowned and not one will be left and fire from heaven as snares upon you will be rained for every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire and every plant which my heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up Consider this ye that forget God ye that forget mercy whose bowels are shut up whose hearts are hardned from his righteous dreadful fear lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you for our God is a consuming fire and is terrible to the heathen that know him not whose fire is in Sion and his furnace in Jerusalem and from thence our deliverer comes who turns away ungodliness from Jacob. But is not envy persecution and oppression ungodliness and wrath pride and injustice are not these things ungodliness and unrighteousness consider and weigh it in the even ballance the light in your consciences to which I speak which will answer the truth without covering and is my witness in you all for the Lord God and heareth my voyce therefore stop not the ear lest you are shut out for ever then shall you cry but he will not hear you and is not the wrath of God to be revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men or is envy pride cruelty oppression tiranny and persecution and laying snares for the innocent and harmeless without cause is this good fruit or the fruit of the spirit of God who among the saints in these things is your example or doth the heavenly plant bring forth such fruit nay verily will Gods witness answer me and are any the sons and children of God but who are joyned to the heavenly plant or led by his spirit which guides unto all truth out of unrighteousness into soberness quietness love peace patience long-suffering humility and gentleness c. and are not the children of God in these things manifest and are not the children of the divel in the other ground bringing forth other fruit of the curse also manifest But if you will not hear nor lay these things to heart and give over afflicting oppressing and grieving my dear children and tender babes that cry unto me night and day and give glory to my great and dreaful name by returning from the evil that is in your hands I will destroy you and your seed from off the face of the whole earth blot out your name from under heaven and your remembrance shall stinck and be a grief to my chosen yet shall they rejoyce over you when the smoke of your torment shall ascend up for ever and ever saith the Lord God Almighty For thus saith the Lord God these people whom you hate and seek many waies to ensnare and take counsel together against and abuse and persecute and imprison whip stone revile and reproch by the name QUAKERS who abide faithful to my son the light of the world that lighteth every man that cometh into the world they are dear unto me my chosen my dear children my beloved ones and he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of mine eye whose cry is entred into my ears and my pitty is towards them and my bowels are moved for them for whose sake I will reprove Kings and kingdomes shall be overthrown that rise up against them and every tongue that rise up in judgement against them will I condemne for I the Lord search the heart and try the reins and will reward every man according to his deeds Therefore consider these things ye proud and scornful men who are of the birth born after the flesh persecuting the birth of the spirit being moved with envy wrath which is of the Divel against an innocent people whom the Lord God will preserve and doth though out of your sight whom the God of this world hath blinded and all you false teachers deceitful workers who use your tongues both to pray and also to lye flander and revile whose hearts are exercised in covetous practises and yet sometime for a cloke will speak against it as if one