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	lord_n	people_n	2,163	5	4.6392	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96615	A paraenetick or Humble addresse to the Parliament and assembly for (not loose, but) Christian libertie. Perused and allowed according to order.	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2768; Thomason E19_10; ESTC R10999	12,134	16

though of severall judgements whilest we agree in fundamentals but your word to bid us do so Is it not time for the Lords Harbingers and Trumpeters to sound the allarm to the great and dreadfull day of the Lord and to apply your selves now to turne the hearts of fathers to the children and of the children to the fathers lest the Lord come and smite the earth with a c●●se Nay hath hee not sorely smitten us for not only the neglect but the contempt of this prescription by a contrary practising even setting the Fathers the nursing-fathers of the Church those that should be so against their children And indeed excuse us if when wee consider how faire wee were for a good issue of these common troubles of late when God gave us those many Occasions and those solemne Opportunities of praise and thanksgiving when some can say if ever they found their hearts then drawn forth in earnest supplications and triumphant expectations of a smooth successe and instead thereof what an unusuall returne wee had from the hand of God contrary to the tenour of his former proceedings beating back our hopes upon 〈◊〉 and when wee compare this with former the like passages of providence in the like juncture of times as that ill successe that interrupted the Petition ready to be presented at the Common-Councel against us and also compare these with some Scriptures and Scripture examples How God hath made Jerusalem a burthensome s●●te c. Zech. 12. and how he hath formerly rebuked kings for his peoples sakes saying Touch not mine anointed c. and how he brought Artaxerxes and his Realm under wrath for that cause Ezra 7. and consider how righteous this is that if the children fall out the father should make the third excuse us I say if we can give no better account of these things but the Lords jealousie over his peoples liberties Wherefore if pity will not move you let equity at least constrain you * 1 Thes 4.6 Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother saith the Apostle Have you taken of us a price deny us not our commodity Christ bought our liberties for us with his blood wee have bought them over again at your hands with our own blood shed not for our selves only but for you also We have set you down as it were where you would be We have dislodged the Canaanites before you wee are necessitated to passe on further it were but your duty to march on before us and give us quiet possession with you Wee have fought and adventured purse and person upon this expectation of Liberty not of another Religion but of this way of walking in your Religion as of the Liberty of the Religion it self which we eyed in the first place If nothing lesse was in your hearts why did you not tell us so Nay why hath the Assembly born us in hand with such hopes and intimations Why have such Considerations been tendred to us intimating nay almost assuring us an after-liberty upon condition of a present modesty in that juncture of time only For what else is the tenour of the 5th Consideration published Dec. 23.1643 in these words That it is not to be doubted but the Counsels of the Assembly and the care of the Parliament will be not only to reforme and set up Religion throughout the Nation but will concurre to preserve what ever shall appeare to be the RIGHTS of particular CONGREGATIONS according to the Word and to heare with such whose Consciences cannot in all things conform to the publike Rule so far as the Word of God would have them born withall which is all that we desire What did you do with those terms The Rights of particular Congregations and these contradistinguished to the generall Reformation and setting up of Religion through the Kingdome if you did not speake to our sense But you will say 't is cautioned What ever shall appeare according to the Word To whom mean you it should appeare To your selves What promise were this To preserve what ever appeares to you is not grace but debt and if this was your meaning you might have said more properly When ever these Rights should appear to you and if by according to the Word you meant only in your own interpretation that 's not thank-worthy what bait is held out to us therein but a miserable collusion But the latter part of the Consideration is more expresse which promise a bearing with those whose Consciences cannot in all things 〈◊〉 to the publique Rule And what though it follow 〈…〉 as the Word of God would have them born withall for that implies a concession that the Word would have them born withall otherwise why do you bob our mouths with these Apples of liberty and toleration and condescend to terms of the measure there ●f if no such thing in any degree be due unto us or warrantable by the Word Why then do you give place to us so much 〈◊〉 for an 〈…〉 and if a toleration duly bounded be divine then how have you indeavoured it or why do you not indeavour that 〈◊〉 What 〈◊〉 or title of toleration have you yet brought ●●●th 〈◊〉 do you given us hopes of in your proceedings hitherto What things more terrible and more void and exclusive of all bearing and forbearing can you meditate yet then Fines Prisons 〈◊〉 prohibiting the exercise of our Way and our Ministery but upon hard conditions which things wee have too much cause to feare and expect as not exceeding the rate and proportion of some present conclusions and more menacing agitations Judge now whether the performance of this Consideration be not yet wholly in a●●ere to us And to minde you of some other passages What do you in that earnest intreating Ministers and People Consid 6. to forbeare for a convenient time the joyning themselves into Church-societies untill they see whether the right Rule will not be commended to them in 〈◊〉 orderly way I say what do you in this but set us as liberty afterwards And why do you there bespeak us as free-men if you made account and it be in your power to make us bond-men or use us so And further why doth the Assembly in the 7th Consideration glance with that congratulatory respect upon the liberty to serve God according to his Word which we injoy in this time more then hath been at any time in England since the beginning of the Reformation if it be not a just liberty and if it be just why doth it begin to be contracted at least some part of that liberty wee have injoyed viz. preaching without ordination till we can have it according to our consciences And lastly do you not cherish as great a hope in us as all that wee have ask●d or shall aske comes to in the last Consideration where you pawn your own hopes to cherish ours that wee shall never come to suffer for doing what shall appeare to be our duty though not