Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	father_n	son_n	2,571	5	5.5290	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19254	Bartas Iunior: or, The worlds epitome; man Set forth in his 1. generation, 2. degeneration, 3. regeneration.	Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631.	1631 (1631)	STC 5667; ESTC S117171	40,888	74

wisdome have excluded quite Her fond entising with the fruits delight By Gods law Deut. 13.6 And then betooke himselfe unto his will To have remained firme and constant still Now being to returne from his revolt He doth confesse the Act but not the Fault Question But was the Woman of her husbands minde Could she be gracelesse faithlesse sencelesse blinde Surely She would her faulty sinne confesse Because She made her Husband to transgresse Answer Alacke she was found tardy in the Fact And did conceale the Fault but not the Act. Examine but her weake Simplicity And you shall finde her sly Hypocrisie Consider but her drift and how she spake And what a slight Confession she did make Put these together in an even eye And wonder at her strange Audacity God summons her unto the Iudgement-seate Gen 3.13 She on the Serpent layes the guilt most great As if the Serpent had compell'd her to it When freely of her selfe her Will did doe it God will not in his Iustice put it up But with affliction hath filld full her cup And in a right-set order he will render An exact Punishment on Each offender And now because the Serpent was the first For whose offence the Creatures were accurst For whom the Earth and Heav'ns must all expire 1 Pet 3.7 And at the length consumed be with fire He first is punisht unto his desert That did their glory by his guile subvert The Divell Gen 3.14 Curst shalt thou be above each thing alive The Cattell Beast the Creature vegetive Vpon thy panting belly thou shalt glide And ever feede upon the Dust Beside Betweene her Seede and Thine I will set strife Which shall continue ever with their life Thou shalt in One full many sorrowes feele For he shall breake thy head thou bruise his heele The olde Serpent Thus God in mercy in This-Ones correction Remembers Adam of his Soules-refection And in the plaguing of his Enemy That is Christ Exod 34.6 Ier 23 6. Points him out One for his delivery So just is God withall so mercifull So wise so good so true so bountifull That in his Wisdome He Himselfe will give Rather than Man shall thus in Bondage live And being true and just he doth condemne The subtill Serpent that seduced them Who was compeld thereto against his will VVhom God afflicteth as the Cause of Ill. ●imile Even as a Father that beholds his Childe In hazard of his life by weapon spoyld ●hrysost in ●en hom 7. Doth in his passion to the weapon runne And breakes the same for hurting of his Sonne So God in Iustice for a good intent ●ote this VVill plague this Fault though in the Instrument God did not aske the silly Serpent why He gull'd the Woman by his Treachery Because he knew him for a brutish creature ●Vho had no hand in plotting their defeature ●eing the Divels Instrument therein ●evoid of reason senselesse of the Sinne Calvin on Gen 3. Yet for because he was in it the Actour He must be punisht as a Malefactour Vpon his panting Belly he must goe VVhich was his pleasure once but now his woe A crooked Shape annexed to the same Iob ●6 13 Because through him our crooked Folly came His spotted Skinne must move astonishment Which was a rare and comely ornament And be casheer'd from Mans society To live by him in open Enmity Gen. 3.14 ●ut this addes more to his extremities ●he other creatures are his enemies ●hey for his inbred-malice will detest him ●nd seeke occasion ever to molest him ●eset with such a crue of Enemies ●e must indure extreame neeessities ●ometimes he feedes on Frogs on Birds on Flies Arist hist animal l. 8. c. 4. ●pon dead Carrion which before him lies ●ut frighted from it he full often must ●itten by Famine prey upon the Dust ●o fearefull of the creatures to be found Plin. l. 8. c. 39. That he delights to dwell within the ground ●ut if he can by any Wile or Chance ●hrough Mans owne Folly or Gods sufferance ●●rprise him sleeping without full defence ●eing then subject to his violence ●e will not spare to venture life and lim ●o he may ruine or indammage him ●nd Man on t'other side all slghts will try ●ow to avoid and kill this Enemy Gen 3 14 So odious hath God made Him unto Man More then Behemoth or Leviathan Reve. 12.9 Reve. 20.2 But for the other Serpent-mysticall The Divels person Diabolicall As he was cursed in his fall before So in offending he is cursed more August de gen cont Manech 2.17 Curst above all the creatures that have life In that he first occasioned their strife Curst above every creature void of sense In that they smarted so for his offence Therefore he must partake the greater woe Because from him each creatures curse did flow Gen. 3.14 Dust he must eate here is his penury Denoting out his endlesse misery Cyprian in Symbol Past all recovery to his former state From which he did himselfe precipitate Because he being made in all perfection Aug. Tract in Ioh Evang 2.20 Inferiour to no creature till 's dejection But number'd was in that celestiall Traine VVho had as much as Creatures could containe VVhat state in Mercy could God bring him to Than that which formerly his Sinne did rue Man having sinn'd against the Lords injunction Might well be rais'd unto the Angels Function But Satan could no other state exceed Vnlesse he had beene made a God indeed Heb 6.4 5 6. Ibid. 10 27. Besides he sinn'd against that blessed Spirit That gave him all those graces to inherit And he despairing of Gods mercy fell VVithout provokement to the pit of Hell 1 Pet 2 4. Rev 20 10 VVhere he tormenting of the wicked lies VVhom God will suffer never more to rise For the fal of Adam VVhom he hath curst anew for this same deed To plague him greater in the Womans-seede When Christ in Iudgment shall with Vengeance come Iude v. 6. And more torment him in the Day of Doome NOw he is curst above all Beasts and Cattell Speaking of the time then present Immediately after the curse this decree of God took effect Now all the Saints are ranged in a Battell ●ow their Commander Saviour Christ doth goe ●o give him battell and an overthrow ●he glorious Martyrs are his Ancient-bearers The Saints his souldiers and his best obeyers The Angels are his Sentinels and stand To doe what ever he shall them command ●is Flagge before him is both white and red ●etokening his deare blood that should be shed ●is Scutch'on is his Crosse the Motto life ●o him that undertakes this godly Strife O This is He that hath subdu'd thy might Meaning Satans to whom the Authour speakes Col. 1.13 Fulgent de Praedest c. 13. ●issolv'd thy Power with thy Malice quite ●estored Adam to better State ●hen what he