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	great_a	power_n	1,386	5	4.4255	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85443	Zerubbabels encouragement to finish the temple. A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Apr. 27. 1642. By Tho. Goodwin, B.D. Published by order from that House.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1268; Thomason E147_13; ESTC R1423	34,286	63

made glorious ones in their personall walkings with him and to that end he made a plentifull provision in matters of faith even from the very first It fell out in this case as in a new Plantation which if men were to make in another world and so to begin the world anew their first care would be to provide necessaries for their subsistence as they are men to have corn for bread cattle for meat and the like But matters of Order Government they think of afterwards and often fall into the right by seeing their errors by degrees Think not much therefore that men call for as most men doe a reformation of some things amisse in matters of worship discipline or an addition of some things perhaps a Candlestick or some other utensil or ordinance of Church-worship is found wanting You will wonder that all along during the raigne of those good Kings both David Solomon who yet gave the patterne of and also built the Temple and those other Reformers among the Kings of Judah there should something have been omitted about the Feast of Tabernacles untill their comming out of the Babylonish Captivity Yet wee find it was so as appeares by Nehem. 8. 16. and 17. verses The people went forth and made themselves boothes every one upon the roofe of his house and in their Courts and in the Courts of Gods house and in the streets and since the dayes of Ieshua the son of Nun untill that day the Children of Israel had not done so This feast was kept as is thought by Solomon 2 Chron. 7. 8. and by these same Jews Ezra 3. 4. yet not in this manner according unto the Law and therefore at the 14. ver. of that of Nchemiah it is said They found it written in the Law that the children of Israel should dwell in boothes which before that they had not done although they might have kept that Feast But now they had learned by a sad experience to keepe it aright with dwelling in boothes by having been lately strangers out of their owne land to signifie which and to professe themselves strangers was the intent of that Feast and that rite of it the dwelling in boothes And this reason is intimated in the 17. verse All the congregation that were come againe out of the Captivity made boothes c. They did reade also every day out of the Law ver. 19. which before when that Feast was celebrated they had not done A second Observation That in the greatest businesses which most concerne the good of Gods Church and his own glory he oft-times suffers Mountains of opposition to lye in the way of them So here in the way to the building and perfecting his Church To give another instance of it and that the highest The Salvation of the sons of men whom he had chosen before all worlds is a businesse which of all other he most mindeth and effectually intendeth but doth he bring it about without rubs Never such Mountains lay in the way of any businesse Adam he sins and in him all those whom God meant to save whereby the way to their salvation was quite blockt up Mountaines of Sins make a Separation betweene him and them Isai. 59. 2. and not all the power of men and Angels can any whit move much lesse remove them no more then strawes can move a mountain But then comes the Son of God who throwes and buries all these mountains in the bottome of the sea And when Christ had thus removed the guilt of sinne and would come into mens hearts to apply his death there lie as high mountains in his way to us as before lay in ours unto him Luke 3. 5. Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths straight every mountaine shall be brought low There are high things and strong holds 2 Cor. 10. 4. that exalt themselves against the knowledge of Christ but all these shall be brought low and shall be made a plaine And as this is found true in the salvation of the Church by Christ so in its preservation and growth There is almost no mercy but some mountain or other lies in the way of it And the reason of this dispensation of Gods is both that his hand and power in bringing things to passe for his Church may be seene and acknowledged and that his enemies may be confounded I put both these reasons in one because we finde them mentioned together in one place Nehem. 6. 16. In which Chapter you may reade of the great opposition made in building the City as here the Temple which yet when God had carryed on It came to passe sayes that 16. ver. that when all their enemies heard thereof and all that were about them saw these things they wene much cast downe in their owne eyes there is one part of the reason for they perceived that this work was wrought by our God there is the other part First Gods power appeares in carrying things through much opposition If there were a full concurrencie of all second causes and a generall suffrage of them his voice would then be lost and swallowed up among that crowd but when there is a great canvas as in Colledges we call it then the power of his casting voyce appeares Thus why is God said to bring Israel out of Egypt with a strong hand Exod. 13. 30. but because it was carryed on through much opposition There lay no lesse then ten mountains in the way of it Pharaohs heart was hardned ten times which God did on purpose to shew his power Exod. 9. 6. Secondly he doth it to confound his enemies the more which usually goes together with doing good unto his Church He renders vengeance to his adversaries and is ncercifull to his Land both at once Deut. 32. 43. He often suffers them to have the ball on their foot till they come to the very goale and yet then to misse the game That so wherein they dealt proudly he might shew himselfe above them which is Jethroes reason Exod. 18. 9. This Observation but in generall More particularly a third Observation is this That Temple-work especially useth to meet with opposition You shall finde the building and the finishing of this Temple in all the degrees of it to have had many contentions against it all along accompanying it Thus when first that Altar was set up Ezra 3. 3. it is said that feare was upon them because of the people of those countryes Againe when the foundation was laid what interruption that met with you heard before out of the 4. Chapter And lastly when they came to finish it Chap. 5. 2. at ver. 3. their enemies came and questioned them for it Who hath commanded you to build this house c. and the devill was in it in a pure opposition to the Temple for they had suffered them to build their owne houses as appears Hag. 2. 4. and never stirred against them but onely now when they began