Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	death_n	life_n	2,323	5	4.6375	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61970	Svffolks tears, or, Elegies on the renowned knight Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston a gentleman eminent for piety to God, love to the Church, and fidelity to his country, and therefore highly honored by them all : he was five times chosen Knight of the Shire, for the county of Suffolk, and once burgess of Sudbury, in the discharge of which trust, he always approved himself faithful, as by his great sufferings for the freedoms and liberties of his countrey, abundantly appear : a zealous promoter of the preaching of the Gospel, manifested by his great care, in presenting men, able, learned, and pious, to the places whereof he had the patronage, and also by his large and extraordinary bounty towards the advancing of religion and learning, both at home, and in forreign plantations among the heathen.	Faireclough, Samuel, 1625?-1691.; Faireclough, Samuel, 1625?-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing S6164; Wing F109A_CANCELLED; ESTC R21324	30,120	73

and sleep in dust no danger fear'd Till that these bodies putrifactions prey Be raised up to life at the last Day The way is beaten to this house of Death The fatal enemie of Mortals breath A raw-bon'd carcase of his Head the haire And flesh is falne and left the skul all bare His eyes no eyes cannot be seen not see Worm-eaten nose one jaw no teeth hath he Yet heaps of men he daily doth devour And hundreds fall before him in an hour Within his cruel breast he hath no heart Yet full of courage and with deadly dart He kils yet neither arm he hath nor hand He hath no feet yet walks o're sea and land Nor arteries flesh nor sinews wonder Hath he all his joynts they are asunder His bones there one and here another lyes He smites there one and here another dyes Haste thither knock call know the cause why thus This leane starv'd Heluo snatcht our joy from us Could sacred Piety that adorn'd his mind The grace of heart and life no pitty finde Wilt thou thus wrong oh death the Publick weale And justice slay extinguish fervent zeal Pull down the Temples pillar quench the fire That Heaven 's sent and did to Heaven aspire Could neither faith nor faithfulness find grace Nor friendly love keep off thy Serjeants Mace Could not integrity and truth him save With Hezekiah from the greedy grave O Sun return yet shine on Sions hil On Ahaz Dial keep the shadow stil Why fel he not upon Elisha's herse That could the dead againe to life reverse Where is He now that Lazarus did raise Where is the widow of Sarepta's praise That might in flaming Chariot let him ride With him to heaven then he had not dy'd Shal I not once within this vale of tears Or shal I hold my peace not speak my fears Shal I not once again on earth behold That countenance so grave so brave so bold Which with a look could daunt the face of sin And make offence to hide it selfe with in Shal I not see his presence blesse the wals Wherein did sound his frequent sacred cals Of wife and children and of all the rest To waite on God who is for ever blest And beams of blessing from this Sunt ' expect That blest these blessings might on him reflect And as the Rivers to the Ocean pay Their tribute streams that in their channel play So daily Prayer answerers re-ascend In praises might to God and never end O never end your prayers and praises due To him that gave such sweet returns to you That you should pray and yet stil praise his name And walk in right before him without blame So did he walk and so attended went VVith all his traine and in the Temple spent Both hours and dayes and of all dayes the best VVherein both Christ did rise and God did rest The time though divers yet the precept 's one Writ and ingrav'd by Gods own hand in stone In midst of that his everlasting Law VVhich might at all time keep in dreadful awe All hearts and all induce his voyce with feare And faithful care and conscience to heare Oh! shal I never more observe that eye Intently lifted up unto the skie And hands stretcht out unto the throne of grace And bended knees to fall before the place VVhere shadowing Cherub cover'd with his wing The Mercy-seat of heavens mighty King From Golden Altar did the incense fly In clouds of smoke and mounted up on high God smelt the savour in his heart he said Behold it 's done according as thou pray'd And now O death can thee no prayer melt Wherein the highest God such sweetness smelt Release thy Prisoner and set o'pe thy gate Breake off those fetters free thy selfe from hate And let him rise from off that fatall bed VVhereon thou forc'd him to lay down his head Vnto the votes of high and low restore Their joy to be enjoyed as before VVhat aylest thou O Muse bereft of mind VVhat mean these words these empty puffes of wind VVil 't change the Fates and burn the sacred rowl Of Gods Decree and make thy selfe a scroul There to designe each one to death or life And heaven and earth to set at dismal strife Shal brazen mountains with a blast remove Or shal the Sun run retrograde above Shal morning o'pe her purple door i' th VVest And Moon and Stars to rule the day be prest And night shine forth with Phoebus orient beams And at thy will all rivers change their streams Then my Commission I to thee Wil give The living shal not dye the dead shal live And mortals all immortal shal become And wither'd branch with winter blast shal bloome And Adam shal with Eve to Eden go No fruit shal kil no friend shal be a foe But if that Adam must no more return Why should I break up Barnardistons urn His faith so Abraham dy'd yet did beleeve But Truth did Hezekiah once reprive And Lazarus did life againe inspire And to his body did the soul retire But know'st thou not how these of death did taste And back again unto my Palace haste Nor Abrams faith nor Isaacks Jacobs feare Could sheild them from deaths deadly piercing speare So Joseph Joshua and Josiah all By sooner later stroakes of death did fall And Job was patient under death's sad blow And mighty Sampson unto death did bow And David with his Worthies all did yeeld To death against his stroke they found no shield And John Christs bosome friend did hither hye And Christ himselfe the Son of God did dye Eliah left his Mantle him behind They sought him but in no place could him find His change like death and Enoch he is not Nor Rachels children Death became their Lot And thou O Muse shal be as one of these When Atropos thy thread to cut shal please O cruel Death can nothing then asswage Thy savage fury and thy direful rage Must all O Charon thee thy ferriage pay And all take Boat and all have over-lay Then come and to our Lazarus let us go And as he dy'd with him let us do so As Joseph went unto old Jacobs grave So shal this Saint of us attendance have What mean'st O Muse and whither dost thou wend When of thy passion wilt thou make an end Wilt thou presume on Sion Mount to stand And Heavens scepter sway in thy right hand The Lord by power and providence divine Did all unto their place and end assigne The Earth to Plants in Seas the Fishes swim The Birds in th' air do wave their feathers trim Shal not the fixed Stars in heaven shine What God doth own wilt thou detain as thine And why among the dead dost thou enquire For these that live lift up thy eye look higher There is a place beyond that mount most bright Whence Phoebus chariot shines with flaming light The stately City new Jerusalem Wherein doth dwel Jehovah God of Shem.