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	good_a	know_v	1,906	5	3.4501	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84677	An alarm to trumpets or, Mounte chival to every dejected, remisse, and secure trumpet, either in England, Scotland, or Ireland. By E. F.	E. F. (Edward Ford), fl. 1630?-1660.	1651 (1651)	Wing F1458A; Thomason E1361_3; ESTC R209188	12,639	31

against our Conscience and its testimony Alas you see already here is three tottering Nations and a few stedfast soules many broken heads but a few bleeding hearts therefore it is very requisit that hereafter we doe walke more circumspectly not as fooles but as wisemen Redeeming the time because the dayes are evil in order hereunto it is very fit that we speedily frequently and fervently apply our selves unto the thron of Grace to obtaine mercie and find Grace to helpe in time of need imploring and beging of him for the sonne of his loves sake to infuse into us a principle of Life and Grace that we may bee his Children not onely by name but by nature also so shal we stand in awe and sin not commune upon our beds be still counting it indeed an ignominious shame that the Lackey should live more in awe of his Lord then we of Jehovah-●issi that the Servant should stand more in awe of his Master then we doe very often of our Maker and that the Child should stand more in awe of his earthly Parents then we of our heavenly Father T is time sayes David that thou have mercy upon Sion yea the time is come and in order hereunto it is time that wee forsake our sinnes yea the time is come it is time that we abandon our impiety when our impiety is about to abandon us it is time to forsake riotous and tippling houses when the Judge is at the doore high time to get Christ into our hearts when the Kingdome of heaven is at hand But I grow too tedious consider what is said and the Lord give us understanding in all things A few faire Caveats for secure Christians DEclare in Judah and publish in Jerusalem and say Blow ye the Trumpet in the Land cry gather together and say Assemble your selves and let us goe into the defenced Cities Set up the standards towards Zion retire stay not for I will bring evill from the North and a great destruction Jer. 4. 5 6. And the Word of the Lord came unto me the second time saying What seest thou and I said I see a seething pot and the face thereof was towards the north Then the Lord said unto me out of the north an evill shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the Land Jer. 2. 13 14. O ye children of Benjamin gather your selves to fly out of the midst of Jerusalem and blow the Trumpet in Tecoa and set up a signe of fire in Beth-haccerem for evill appeares out of the north and great destruction thus saith the Lord Behold a people commeth from the north Country and a great Nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth Jer. 6. 1. 22. The great Day of the Lord is neare it is neare and hasteth greatly even the voyce of the Day of the Lord the mighty man shall cry there bitterly that day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distresse a day of the Trumpet and Alarm against the fenced Cities and against the high Towers Zeph. 1. 14 15 16. And behold God himselfe is with us for our Captaine and his Priests with sounding Trumpets to cry alarm against you O children of Israel fight not against the Lord God of your Fathers for you shall not prosper 2 Chron. 13. 14. Therefore behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites and it shall be a desolate heap and her daughters shall be burnt with fire then shall Israel be heire unto them that were his heires saith the Lord Jer. 49. 2. Blow ye the Trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy Mountaines let all the inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the Lord commeth for it is nigh at hand blow ye the trumpet in Zion sanctifie a Fast call a solemn assembly Ioel 2. 1. 15. For the Builders every one had his sword girded by his side and so builded and he that sounded the trumpet was by me and I said unto the Nobles and unto the Rulers of the people the work is great large and we are separated from the wall one far from another in what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet resort ye thither unto us our God shall fight for us Neh. 4. 18 19 20. Shall a trumpet be blowne in the City and the people not be afraid Shall there be evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it Amos 3. 6. Sonne of Man speake unto the Children of thy people and say unto them When I bring the Sword upon the Land if the people of the Land take a man of their coasts and set him for their Watch-man if when he sees the Sword come upon the Land he blow the trumpet and warne the people then whosoever heares the sound of the trumpet and takes not warning if the Sword come and take him away his bloud shall be upon his owne head He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his bloud shall be upon him but he that takes warning shall deliver his soule Ezek. 33. 2 3 4 5. A prudent man fore-sees the evill and hides himselfe but the simple passe on and are punished Prov. 22. 3. But stay MEthinks I hear poor Malachi complaine That Israel deales unkindly and prophaine Their irreligiousnesse he mentions too 'T is my default and sighing say 't is true For pray how many times have I declar'd That I 'de goe labour in Gods Vine-yard Supposing it indeed a great disgrace For to sit idle in the Market-place And strait-way has my nimble thoughts rid Post For to be there at nine a clock at most But sinfull spraines made both my feet so lame That it was near a leaven before I came Nay my luke-warm affections was so stal'd I had not then come had I not been cal'd And when I was arriv'd the heat of day Made me so faint that I could hardly stay And that which mov'd me chiefly to be gone Was ' cause I saw that some had almost done And ' cause that I so long had loytering been That I had all my labour to begin Yet to 't I fell and wrought some halfe a day But was asham'd to aske so much as they At night the Master cal'd to take our due And I receiv'd thank God a penny too Some of my neighbours mutter'd but sayes he You have a penny as we did agree Methinks it savours of corrupted bloud That your eye should be ill ' cause mine is good I must confesse the burthen of the day Has been borne out by you yet tell me pray Had not my loving grace assisted ye For ought I know you had come as late as he And in conclusion graciously did say 'T were hard all Loyterers should be cast away When I did heare the Master tell them this My soule was ravisht with his gentlenesse And thought it was great pitty men should be Backward to work for one that was so free Maker of Heaven and Earth if thou wilt hire A poore and sinfull soule that doth desire To work by 'th day I le promise faithfully To be laborious for no one but thee He make no bargain with thee but will stand To thy owne courtesie onely in hand I doe desire that thou wilt please to give An earnest penny that my Soule may live And to declare if I should question'd bee By any one I doe belong to Thee This through thy tender mercie being done For feare of night I le come no more at noone FINIS