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	good_a	see_v	2,547	5	3.0771	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25742	Order and disorder, or, The world made and undone being meditations upon the creation and the fall : as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis.	Apsley, Allen, Sir, 1616-1683.	1679 (1679)	Wing A3594; ESTC R31266	45,515	85

Almighty Maker doth dispence To earthy creatures heavenly influence By it with angels swiftness are our eyes Exalted to the glory of the skies In whose bright character the light divine Which flesh cannot behold doth dimly shine Thus was the first Day made God so call'd Light Sever'd from Darkness Darkness was the Night Canto II. AGain spoke God the trembling waters move Part flie up in thick mists made clouds above Part closer shrink about the earth below But did not yet the mountains dry heads show Th' allforming Word stretcht out the Firmament Like azure curtains round his glorious Tent And in its hidden chambers did dispose The magazines of Hail and Rain and Snows Amongst those thicker clouds from whose dark womb Th' imprison'd winds in flame and thunder come Those Clouds which over all the wondrous Arch Like hosts of various formed creatures march And change the Scenes in our admiring eyes Who sometimes see them like vast mountains rise Sometimes like pleasant Seas with clear waves glide Sometimes like Ships on foaming billows ride Sometimes like mounted warriours they advance And seem to fire the smoaking Ordinance Sometimes like shady Forests they appear Here Monsters walking Castles rising there Scorn Princes your embroider'd Canopies And painted roofs the poor whom you despise With far more ravishing delight are fed While various clouds sayl o're th' unhoused head And their heav'd eyes with nobler scenes present Than your Poetick Courtiers can invent Thus the exalted waters were dispos'd And liquid Skies the solid world enclos'd To magnifie the most almighty hand That makes thin floods like rocks of crystal stand Not quenching nor drunk up by that bright wall Of fire which neighbouring them encircles all The new built Firmament God Heaven nam'd And over all the Arch his windows fram'd From whence his liberal hand at due time pours Upon the thirsty earth refreshing showers And clothes her bosome with descending Snow To cherish the young seeds when cold winds blow Hence every night his fatning dews he sheds And scatters Pearls amidst th' enamel'd beds But when presumptuous sins the bright arch scale He beats them back with terrifying hail Which like small shot amidst his foes he sends Till flaming Thunder his great Ordnance rends The clouds which big with horror ready stand To pour their burthens forth at his command But th' unpolluted air as yet had not From mortals impious breath infection got Enlightned then by a superiour ray A serene lustre deckt the second day Th' inferiour Globe was fashion'd on the third When waters at the all-commanding word Did hastily into their channels glide And the uncover'd hills as soon were dried In the same body thus distinct and joyn'd Water and earth as flesh and blood we find The late collected waters God call'd Seas Springs Lakes streams and broad Rivers are from these Brancht like life-feeding veins in every land Yet wheresoe're they seem to flow or stand As all in the vast Oceans bosome bred They daily reassemble in their head Which thorough secret conduits back conveys To every Spring the tribute that it pays So ages from th' Eternal bosome creep So lose them selves again in that vast deep So Empires so all other humane things With winding streams run to their native springs So all the goodness mortals exercise Flows back to God out of his own supplies Now the great fabrick in all parts compleat Beauty was call'd forth to adorn the seat Where Earth fixt in the Centre was the ground A mantle of light air compast it round Then first the watrie then the fiery wall And glittering heaven last involving all Earth's fair green robe vi'd with the azure skies Her proud Woods near the flaming Towers did rife The valleys Trees though less in breadth and height Yet hung with various fruit as much delight Beneath these little shrubs and bushes sprung With fair flowers cloth'd and with rich berries hung Whos 's more delightful fruits seem'd to upbraid The tall trees yielding only barren shade Then sprouted Grass and Herbs and Plants Prepar'd to feed the earth's inhabitants To glad their nostrils and delight their eyes Revive their spirits cure their maladies Nor by these are the senses only fed But th' understanding too while we may read In every leaf lectures of Providence Eternal Wisdom Love Omnipotence Which th' eye that sees not with Hells mists is blind That which regards not is of bruitish kind The various colours figures powers of these Are their Creators growing witnesses Their glories emblems are wherein we see How frail our humane lives and beauties be Even like those flowers which at the Sun-rise spread Their gawdy leaves and are at evening dead Yet while they in their native lustre shine The Eastern Monarchs are not half so fine In richer robes God clothes the dirty soyl Than men can purchase by their sin and toyl Then rather Fields than painted Courts admire Yet seeing both think both must feed the fire Only Gods works have roots and seeds from whence They spring again in grace and excellence But mens have none like hasty lightning they Flash out and so for ever pass away This fair Creation finisht the third day In whose end God did the whole work survey The Seas the Skies the Trees and less plants view'd And by his approbation made them good In all the plants did living seeds enclose Whence their successive generations rose Gave them those powers which in them still remain Whereby they man and beast with food sustain Thrice had the day to gloomy night resign'd And thrice victorious o're the darkness shin'd Before the mediate cause of it the Sun Or any star had their creation For with th' Omnipotent it is all one To cause the day without or by the Sun God in the world by second causes reigns But is not tied to those means he ordains Let no heart faint then that on him depends When the means fail that lead to their wisht ends For God the thing if good will bring about With instruments we see not or without The fourth Light having now expell'd the shade God on that day the Luminaries made And plac'd them all in their peculiar sphears To measure out our days and months and years Which by their various motions are renew'd And heat and cold have their vicissitude So Springs and Autumns still successive be Till ages lose them in Eternity The Sun whom th' Hebrews Gods great servant call Plac'd in the middle Orb as Lord of all Is in a radiant flaming chariot whirl'd And dayly carried round abut the world By the first Movers force who in that race Scatters his light and heat in every place Yet not at once Now in the East he shines And then again to'the Western deep declines Seeming to quench his blazing taper there While it enlightens the

In guiding mens unto his own designs In these outgoings would I sing his praise But my weak sense with the too glorious rays Is struck with such confusion that I find Only the worlds first Chaos in my mind Where Light and Beauty lie wrapt up in seed And cannot be from the dark prison freed Except that Power by whom the world was made My soul in her imperfect strugglings aid Her rude conceptions into forms dispose And words impart which may those forms disclose O thou eternal spring of glory whence All other streams derive their excellence From whose Love issues every good desire Quicken my dull earth with celestial fire And let the sacred theam that is my choice Give utterance and musick to my voice Singing the works by which thou art reveal'd What dark Eternity hath kept conceal'd From mortals apprehensions what hath been Before the race of Time did first begin It were presumptuous folly to enquire Let not my thoughts beyond their bound aspire Time limits mortals and Time had its birth In whose Beginning God made Heaven and Earth God the great Elohim to say no more Whose sacred Name we rather must adore Than venture to explain for He alone Dwells in himself and to himself is known And so even that by which we have our sight His covering is He clothes himself with light Easier we may the winds in prison shut The whole vast Ocean in a nut-shell put The Mountains in a little ballance weigh And with a Bullrush plumm the deepest Sea Than stretch frail humane thought unto the height Of the great God Immense and Infinite Containing all things in himself alone Being at once in all contain'd in none Yet as a hidden spring appears in streams The Sun is seen in its reflected beams Whose high embodied Glory is too bright Too strong an object for weak mortal sight So in Gods visible productions we What is invisible in some sort see While we considering each created thing Are led up to an uncreated spring And by gradations of successive Time At last unto Eternity do climb As we in tracks of second causes tread Unto the first uncaused cause are led And know while we perpetual motion see There must a first self-moving Power be To whom all the inferiour motions tend In whom they are begun and where they end This First eternal Cause th' Original Of Being Life and Motion GOD we call In whom all Wisdome Goodness Glory Might Whatever can himself or us delight Unite centring in his Perfection Whose Nature can admit but only One Divided Soveraignty makes neither great Wanting what 's shar'd to make the summ compleat And yet this soveraign sacred Unitie Is not alone for in this one are three Distinguisht not divided so that what One person is the other is not that Yet all the three are but one God most High One uncompounded pure Divinity Wherein subsist so the Mysterious three That they in Power and Glory equal be Each doth himself and all the rest possess In undisturbed joy and blessedness There 's no Inferiour nor no Later there All Coeternal all Coequal are And yet this Parity Order admits The Father first eternally begets Within himself his Son substantial Word And Wisdom as his second and their third The ever blessed spirit is which doth Alike eternally proceed from both These three distinctly thus in one Divine Pure Perfect Self-supplying Essence shine And all cooperate in all works done Exteriourly yet so as every one In a peculiar manner suited to His Person doth the common action do Herein the Father is the Principal Whose sacred counsels are th' Original Of every Act produced by the Son By'the Spirit wrought up to perfection I' the Creation thus by'the Fathers wise decree Such things should in such time and order be The first foundation of the world was laid The Fabrique by th' Eternal Word was made Not as th' instrument but joynt actor who Joy'd to fulfill the counsels which he knew By the concurrent Spirit all parts were Fitly dispos'd distinguisht rendred fair In such harmonious and wise order set As universal Beauty did compleat This most mysterious Triple Unitie In Essence One and in subsistence Three Was that great Elohim who first design'd Then made the Worlds that Angels and Mankind Him in his rich out-goings might adore And celebrate his praise for evermore Who from Eternity himself supplied And had no need of any thing beside Nor any other cause that did him move To make a World but his extensive Love It self delighting to communicate Its Glory in the creatures to dilate While they are led by their own excellence T' admire the first pure high Intelligence By all the Powers and vertues which they have To that Omnipotence who those Powers gave By all their glories and their joys to his Who is the fountain of all joy and bliss By all their wants and imbecillities To the full magazine of rich supplies Where Power Love Justice and Mercy shine In their still fixed heights and ne're decline No streams can shrink the self-supplying spring No retributions can more fulness bring To the eternal fountain which doth run In sacred circles ends where it begun And thence with inexhausted life and force Begins again a new yet the same course It instituted in Times infant birth When the Creator first made Heaven and Earth Time though it all things into motion bring Is not it self any substantial thing But only Motions measure As a twin Born with it and they both at once begin With the existence of the rolling sphere Before which neither time nor motion were Time being a still continued number made By the vicissitude of Light and Shade By the Moons growth and by her waxing old By the successive Reign of heat and cold Thus leading back all ages to the womb Of vast Eternity from whence they come And bringing new successions forth until Heaven its last revolutions shall fulfil And all things unto their first state restore When Motion ceasing Time shall be no more But with the visible Heavens shall expire While they consume in the worlds funeral fire Th' invisible Heavens being still the same Shall not be toucht by the devouring flame Treating of which let 's wave Platonick dreams Of Worlds made in Idea fitter theams For Poets fancies than the reverent view Of Contemplation fixt on what is true And only certain kept upon record In the Creators own revealed word Which when it taught us how our world was made Wrapt up th' invisible in mystique shade Yet through those clouds we see God did create A place his presence doth irradiate Where he doth in his brightest lustre