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	tree_n	1,517	5	8.6085	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11116	A most excellent treatise containing the way to seek heavens glory, to flie earths vanity, to feare hells horror with Godly prayers and the bell-mans summons.	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1639 (1639)	STC 21384; ESTC S502	58,638	288

mispent their time in vanity Oh that now I might die the death of the righteous Oh that I might not die at all Oh that I might feele in my conscience the least hope of pardon which is as unpossible as to un●ade all the water in the vast Ocean with aspoone Oh that God would give mee the least dram of grace which is as impossible as for the least graine of Mustardseed to fill the whole earth prevent this betimes which thou maist doe by abandoning the vanity of the world and so live that wheresoever or howsoever thou dyest whether abroad or at home by day or by night sleeping or waking whether a sodaine death or a deliberate death thou maist willingly commend thy spirit unto the hands of God as unto the hands of a faithfull Creator and maist say with the Bride Come Lord Iesu even so come Lord Iesu come quickly my heart is prepared to enter into thy rest receive me into the armes of thy mercy entertaine mee into thy owne kingdome that leaving the vanity of this world I may with thy glorified Angels and blessed Saints enjoy that everlasting felicity of a better world which never shall have an end Adew therfore vaine world with all worldly delights whatsoever and now solitary soule begin to take thy solace in better things And to prove the world vaine and consequently thy selfe vaine behold these shapes read these Verses and in order open the leaves that are folded up Herein as in a mirrour behold thy owne estate reade and consider what thou readest that thou maist know and see thy owne vanity Here thou shalt see what thou wert what thou art and what thou shalt be Dust thou wert dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt returne dust in thy creation dust in thy constitution dust in thy dissolution Hels Torments I. THough long it were since Adam was Yet seemes he here to be A blessed creature once he was Now naked as you see Whose wife was cause of all my care To say I may be bold Turne back the leaves and then you may My picture there behold II. To thinke upon the workes of God All worldly men may wonder But thinking on thy sinnes O man Thy heart may burst asunder The sinner sits and sweetly sings And so his heart beguiles Till I come with my bitter stings And turne to griefe his smiles III. Muse not to gaze upon my shape Whose nakednesse you see By flattering and deceitfull words The Divell deceived me Let me example be to all That once from God doe range Turne backe the leaves and then behold Another sight as strange IV. Had Adam and Eve never beene As there you saw their shape I never had deceived them Nor they ere made debate But turne behold where both doe stand And lay the fault on me Turne backe the upper and nether crests There each of them you see I. III. Here we doe standin perfect state All formed as we were But what the Serpent did by hate Shall sodainely appeare Then here behold how both doe stand And where the fault did lye Th' almighty power did so command That once we all must dye II. IV. See what comes of wicked deed As all men well doe know And for the same God hath decreed That we should live in woe The dust it was my daily food Vnto it we must turne And darknesse is my chiefe abode In sorrow so we mourne Of the punishments which the Lord threatneth unto such as live a sinfull life ONe of the principall meanes that our Lord hath used oftentimes to bridle the hearts of men and to draw them unto the obedience of his commandements hath beene to set before their eyes the horrible plagues and punishments that are prepared for such persons as bee rebels and transgressours of his Law For although the hope of the rewards that are promised unto the good in the life to come may move us very much hereunto yet are wee commonly more moved with things that be irkesome unto us than with such as be pleasant even as we see by daily experience that we are vexed more with an injury done unto us than delighted with any honour and we are more troubled with sicknesse than comforted with health and so by the discommodity of sicknes we come to understand the commodity of health as by a thing so much the better perceived by how much more it is sensibly felt Now for this cause did our Lord in times past use this meane more than any other as it appeareth most clearely by the writings of the Prophets which are every where full of dreadfull sayings and threatnings wherewith our Lord pretendeth to put a terrour into the hearts of men and so to bridle and subdue them under the obedience of his Law And for this end he commanded the Prophet Ieremie That hee should take a white booke and write in the same all the threatnings and calamities which hee had revealed unto him even from the first day he began to mlke with him untill that present houre and that he should read the same in the presence of all the people to see if peradventure they would bee moved therewith unto repentance and to change their former life to the end that hee might also change the determination of his wrath which he had purposed to execute upon them And the holy Scripture saith That when the Prophet had done according as hee was commanded by almighty God and had read all those threatnings in the presence of the people and of the Rulers there arose such a feare and terrour amongst them that they were all astonished and as it were bestraughted of their wits looking one in anothers face for the exceeding great fear which they had conceived of those words This was one of the principall means which Almighty God used with men in the time of the written Law and so he did also in the time of the Law of graces in vvhich the holy Apostle saith That as there is revealed a justice vvhereby God maketh men just so is there also revealed an indignation and vvrath vvhereby he punisheth the unjust for vvhich cause S. Iohn Baptist the glorious forerunner of our Saviour Christ was sent vvith this commission and embassage to preach unto the world That the axe was now put to the rooot of the tree and that every tree that brought not forth good fruit should bee cut downe and cast into the fire Hee said moreover That there was another come into the world more mighty than hee that carried in his hand a fanne to winnow and cleanse therewith his floore and that he would put up the corne into his garner but the chaffe hee will burne in a fire that should never bee quenched This was the preaching and embassage which ●he holy fore-runner of our Saviour Jesus Christ brought ●nto the world And so great was the thunder of these words ●nd the terrour which entered ●nto mens hearts so dreadfull that