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	let_v	see_v	1,452	5	2.8237	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14239	A sermon preached before the Commos-House [sic] of Parliament, in Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of February. 1620. By Iames Vssher. Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Dublin, in Ireland; Substance of that which was delivered in a sermon before the Commons House of Parliament, in St. Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of February, 1620	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1624 (1624)	STC 24554; ESTC S119955	33,194	56

in nothing terrified by our aduersaries Philip. chap. 1. vers 27 28. But howsoeuer God hath thus marshalled his Church in a goodly order terrible as an army with banners yet such is the disorder of our nature that many for all this breake ranke and the enemy laboureth to breed diuision in Gods House that so his Kingdome might not stand Nay oftentimes it commeth to passe that the Watchmen themselues who were appoynted for the safegarding of the Church proue in this kinde to bee the smiters and wounders of her and from among them who were purposely ordained in the Church for the bringing of men into the vnity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God euen from among those some doe arise that speake peruerse things to draw away disciples after them Thus wee finde in the Ecclesiasticall History that after the death of Iulian the Apostata questions and disputes concerning matters of doctrine were freshly set afoot by those who were set ouer the Churches Wherupon Sozomen maketh this graue obseruation that the disposition of men is such that when they are wronged by others they are at agreement among themselues but when they are freed of euils from abroad then they make insurrections one against another Which as we finde to be too true by the late experience of our neighbour Churches in the Low Countries so are we to consider with the Wise man that What hath been is now and that which is to bee hath already been and bee not so inquisitiue why the former dayes were better then these for wee doe not enquire wisely concerning this When like troubles were in the Church heretofore Isidorus Pelusiota an ancient Father moueth the question What a man should doe in this case and maketh answere that If it be possible wee should mend it but if that may not bee wee should hold our peace The Apostles resolution I thinke may giue sufficient satisfaction in this poynt to all that haue moderate and peaceable mindes If in any thing yee bee otherwise minded God shall reueale euen this vnto you neuerthelesse whereto wee haue already attained let vs walke by the same rule let vs minde the same thing It is not to bee looked for that all good men should agree in all things neither is it fit that we should as our Aduersaries doe put the truth vnto compromise and to the saying of an Achitophel whose counsell must bee accepted as if a man had inquired at the Oracle of God We all agree that the Scriptures of God are the perfect rule of our faith wee all consent in the maine grounds of Religion drawne from thence wee all subscribe to the articles of doctrine agreed vpon in the Synode of the yeere 1562. for the auoyding of diuersities of opinions and the establishing of consent touching true Religion Hitherto by Gods mercy haue wee already attained thus farre therefore let vs minde the same thing let not euery wanton wit be permitted to bring what fancies he list into the Pulpit and to disturbe things that haue been well ordered I beseech you brethren saith the Apostle marke them which cause diuisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee haue learned and auoid them If in some other things wee bee otherwise minded than others of our brethren are let vs beare one with another vntill God shall reueale the same thing vnto vs and howsoeuer we may see cause why we should dissent from others in matter of opinion yet let vs remember that that is no cause why wee should breake the Kings peace and make a rent in the Church of God A thing deepely to be thought of by the Ismaels of our time whose hand is against euery man and euery mans hand against them who bite and deuoure one another vntill they bee consumed one of another who forsake the fellowship of the Saints and by a sacrilegious separation breake this bond of peace Little doe these men consider how precious the peace of the Church ought to bee in our eyes to bee redeemed with a thousand of our liues and of what dangerous consequence the matter of schisme is vnto their owne soules For howsoeuer the schismaticke secundùm affectum as the Schoolemen speake in his intention and wicked purpose taketh away vnity from the Church euen as he that hateth God doth take away goodnesse from him as much as in him lyeth yet secundùm effectum in truth and in very deed hee taketh away the vnity of the Church onely from himselfe that is hee cutteth himselfe off from being vnited with the rest of the body and being disseuered from the body how is it possible that he should retaine communion with the Head To conclude therefore this first vse which wee are to make of our communion with the Body let vs call to minde the exhortation of the Apostle Aboue all things put on loue which is the bond of perfectnesse and let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one Body Behold how good and pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in vnity what a goodly thing it is to behold such an honourable Assembly as this is to bee as a house that is compact together in it selfe holding fit correspondence with the other part of this great body and due subordination vnto their and our Head Such as wish not well to the publike good and would reioyce at the ruine of our State long for nothing more then that dissensions should arise here betwixt the members mutually and betwixt them and the Head Hoc Ithacus velit magno mercentur Atridae They know full well that euery Kingdome diuided against it selfe is brought to desolation and euery house diuided against it selfe shall not stand nor doe they forget the Politicians old rule Diuide impera Make a diuision and get the dominion The more neede haue wee to looke herein vnto our selues who cannot bee ignorant how dolorous Solutio continui and how dangerous Ruptures proue to bee vnto our bodies If therefore there be any comfort of loue if any fellowship of the spirit fulfill our ioy that yee be like-minded hauing the same loue being of one accord of one minde and doing nothing through strife or vaine-glory Remember that as oft as we come vnto the Lords Table so oft doe we enter into new bonds of peace and tye our selues with firmer knots of loue together this blessed Communion being a sacred seale not onely of the vnion which wee haue with our Head by faith but also of our coniunction with the other members of the body by loue Whereby as we are admonished to maintaine vnity among ourselues that there be no schisme or diuision in the body so are we also further put in minde that the members should haue the same care one for another For that is the second vse which

vvith Idolaters by countenancing or any vvay ioyning vvith them in their vngodly courses For that this is the maine scope at vvhich S. Paul aimeth in his treating here of the Sacrament is euident both by that vvhich goeth before in the 19. vers Wherefore my deareby beloued flee from Idolatry and that vvhich follovveth in the 21. Yee cannot drinke the Cup of the Lord and the cup of diuels ye cannot be partakers of the Lords Table and of the table of diuels Whereby vve may collect thus much that as the Lords Supper is a seale of our coniunction one vvith another and vvith Christ our Head so is it an euidence of our dis-iunction from Idolaters binding vs to dis-auovv all communion vvith them in their false vvorship And indeed the one must necessarily follovv vpon the other considering the nature of this hainous sinne of Idolatry is such that it can no wayes stand with the fellowship which a Christian man ought to haue both with the Head and with the body of the Church To this purpose in the sixth of the second to the Corinthians we reade thus What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for ye are the Temple of the liuing God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walke in them and I will bee their God and they shall be my people Wherefore come out from among the be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the vncleane thing and I will receiue you And in the 2. Chap. of the Epistle to the Colossians Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which he hath not seene vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde and not holding the head from which all the body by ioynts and bands hauing nourishment ministred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God In which words the Apostle sheweth vnto vs that such as vnder pretence of humility were drawne to the worshipping of Angels did not hold the Head and consequently could not retaine communion with the body which receiueth his whole growth from thence Answerably whereunto the Fathers assembled out of diuers prouinces of Asia in the Synode held at Laodicea not farre from the Colossians did solemnely conclude that Christians ought not to forsake the Church of God and goe and inuocate Angels and pronounced an anathema against any that should bee found to doe so because say they he hath forsaken our Lord Iesus Christ the Sonne of God and giuen himselfe to Idolatry declaring plainly that by this idolatrous inuocation of Angels a discession was made both from the Church of God as they note in the beginning and from Christ the Head of the Church as they obserue in the end of their Canon For the further vnderstanding of this particular it will not be amisse to consider what Theodoret a famous Bishop of the ancient Church hath written of this matter in his Commentary vpon the second to the Colossians They that defended the Law saith he induced thē also to worship the Angels saying that the Law was giuen by them And this vice continued in Phrygia and Pisidia for a long time for which cause also the Synod assembled in Laodicea the chiefe City of Phyrgia for bad them by a Law to pray vnto Angels And euen to this day among them and their borderers there are Oratories of Saint Michael to be seene This therefore did they counsell should be done vsing humility and saying that the God of all was inuisible and inaccessible and incomprehensible and that it was fit men should get Gods fauour by the meanes of Angels And this is it which the Apostle saith In humility and worshipping of Angels Thus farre Theodoret whom Cardinall Baronius discerning to come somwhat close vnto him and to touch the Idolatry of the Popish crue a little to the quicke leaueth the poore shifts wherewith his companions labour to obscure the light of this testimony and telleth vs plainely that Theodoret by his leaue did not well vnderstand the meaning of Pauls words and that those Oratories of Saint Michael were erected anciently by Catholicks and not by those Hereticks which were condemned in the Councell of Laodicea as he mistooke the matter As if any wise man would bee perswaded vpon his bare word that the memory of things done in Asia so long since should be more fresh in Rome at this day then in the time of Theodoret who liued twelue hundred yeeres agoe Yet must I needs confesse that hee sheweth a little more modesty heerein then Bellarmine his fellow-Cardinall doth who would make vs beleeue that the place in the nineteenth of the Reuelation where the Angell saith to Saint Iohn that would haue worshipped him See thou doe it not I am thy fellow-seruant Worship God maketh for them and demandeth very soberly why they should be reprehended who doe the same thing that Iohn did and whether the Caluinists knew better then Iohn whether Angels were to bee adored or no And as for inuocation of them he telleth vs that Saint Iacob plainly prayed vnto an Angell in the 48. of Genesis when in blessing the sonnes of Ioseph hee said The Angell which deliuered me from all euill blesse those children Whom for answere we remit to Saint Cyril in the first Chapter of the third booke of his Thesaurus and intreate him to tell vs how neere of kinne hee is here to those Hereticks of whom S. Cyril there speaketh His words bee these That hee doth not meane in that place Genes 48.16 an Angell as the HERETICKES vnderstand it but the Sonne of God is manifest by this that when hee had said The Angel he presently addeth who deliuered mee from all euils Which S. Cyril presupposeth no good Christian will ascribe to any but to God alone But to come more neere yet vnto that which is Idolatry most properly An Idoll we must vnderstand in the exact propriety of the terme doth signifie any Image but according to the Ecclesiasticall vse of the word it noteth such an Image as is set vp for religious adoration And in this later sence we charge the adherents of the Church of Rome with grosse Idolatry because that contrary to Gods expresse Commandement they are found to bee worshippers of Images Neither will it auaile them heere to say that the Idolatry forbidden in the Scripture is that onely which was vsed by Iewes and Pagans The Apostle indeed in this place dehorting Christians from Idolatry propoundeth the fall of the Iewes in this kinde before their eyes Neither be yee Idolaters saith he as some of them were And so doth hee also adde concerning another sinne in the verse following Neither let vs commit fornication as some of them committed As well then might one pleade that Iewish or Heathenish fornication were here onely reprehended as Iewish or Heathenish Idolatry But as the one is a foule sinne whether it bee