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	good_a	parent_n	1,888	5	8.6795	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01538	Ieroboams sonnes decease a funerall sermon on part of 1 Kings 14. 17. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1627 (1627)	STC 11663; ESTC S102970	43,691	50

of those seeming differences betweene the texts of Scripture before mentioned let me intreat a while your best attention to that that shall be deliuered that I may not be in ought therein mistaken First therefore let it be considered that all men Father and Sonne as well the one as the other Considerati ∣ on 1 owe a death vnto God which hee may iustly require whensoeuer and wheresoeuer on what occasion and by what meanes soeuer he will God therefore for the sinne of Achan might command his whole houshold and his children among the rest though not priuie to or guiltie of that offence of his to be put to death and so punish him in them as well as in his owne person because they ought all of them a death to him which on that occasion he might require But Amazias may not put to death the sonnes of those traytors that slew the King his Father according to that Law which God had enacted betweene man and man to be obserued because they were no way obnoxious to him neither did they by any Law or Statute humane or diuine owe a death vnto him otherwise Yea the iustice and equitie of Gods dealing in this kinde may bee further cleered euen by such courses as men also may lawfully take For suppose we some great Noble-mans only sonne and sole heire condemned to die for some rape or robberie by him committed Howbeit his Soueraigne considering that the young man is one of good parts otherwise and may hereafter doe his King and Countrey good seruice though he were ouertaken in that act as also out of pitie to his Fathers house loth to see an ancient family vtterly extinguished in him and besides hauing earnest suit made in his behalfe by diners neere about him is inclining yea purposed to grant him his pardon But in the interim while the matter hangeth yet in suspence it commeth to be discouered that the Noble-man his Father hath his hand in some foule treason hath entred into conspiracie either with some forraine 〈◊〉 or some domesticall traitour against the person of his Prince Now hereupon his Soueraigne altring his minde and purpose concerning his Sonne causeth him instantly to bee brought out and executed in the sight of his Father whom after also hee disposeth of according to his desert In which case the Sonne you see is punished for his Fathers offence but for which hee might haue escaped and the Father is punished in the Sonne his Sonnes death no doubt being no lesse punishment to him than his owne and yet is there no wrong or iniustice done either to Father or Sonne because both had deserued death and death was therefore due to either And herein erred those wicked Iewes that charged God with iniustice that they complained that their Fathers had done amisse and that they themselues being no way faultie suffered onely for their Fathers faults Whereas indeed vile wretches they were euerie whit as bad or worse rather than they and bare the burden of their owne iniquities Secondly let it be considered that God layeth Consideration 2 no temporall iudgement at any time vpon any but hee is able to turne the same to the good of the partie vpon whom it is inflicted And that he doth so as here also hee did when hee layeth any outward euill on a godly person for the sinne of some wicked one and so punisheth as he doth oft also the bad in the good For the better cleering of this wee may well make vse of that distinction so rise in the Schooles that these outward temporall euills or penall sufferings are in the nature Sometime of a curse Sometime of a cure And accordingly there is a foure-fold course of Gods dealings in these cases Course 1 For sometime God punisheth a bad Father in a bad Sonne and then it is not a crosse onely but a curse to both So God punished wee may iustly deeme Pharao in his first-borne Course 2 Sometime hee punisheth a good Father in a good Sonne and then it is though a crosse yet a cure to both So punished he Dauid i●…e may well iudge in his young childe Course 3 Sometime hee punisheth a good Father in a bad Sonne and then it is a cure to the Father and a curse to the Sonne So punished he the same Dauid in his sonne Absolom Course 4 Sometime hee punisheth a bad Father in a good Sonne and then it is a curse to the Father and a cure to the Sonne So punished hee Ieroboam in his sonne here mentioned And that which was no doubt a great and grieuous crosse and plague to his Father yet proued through Gods goodnesse in mercie wisely so disposing it no lesse a benefit and blessing to the childe Thus then I hope that by this time you see how God without any the least blemish to his iustice may by death take away the Sonne for his Fathers Branch 1 offence Branch 2 Why man may not ordinarily doe therein as God doth and yet that in some cases men doe also and may well doe the same Branch 3 That the wicked Iewes had no iust cause to charge God with iniustice for his dealings with them albeit that he should so haue done And how God can turne to the good of a good child Branch 4 the euill that he suffers for his bad Fathers default though to his vngodly Parent the same be a fearefull iudgement and not a crosse only but a curse too Now a word or two of vse and so an end And first it may admonish Parents to be the Vse 1 more carefull to shun sinne if not for their owne for their childrens sake yet because their sinnes may bring iudgements vpon their children also euen as well as vpon themselues There is no Parent if he be not wholly stript of naturall affection but desires the welfare of his child Yea Parents are vsually wont to be more charie of their childrens welfare than of their own Art thou desirous then of thy childrens well-doing Doe not wilfully that that may any way impeach it And nothing may sooner doe it than thy sinne As thine obedience and vpright carriage of thy selfe in Gods sight may procure a blessing euen to thy posterity so thy sinne and transgression may bring euill also vpon it What a griefe would it be to any of vs that haue children if in playing with one of them wee should let it fall vnwittingly whereby the childe should get a knocke that it should lie long sicke and at length die of Take heed then how to satisfie some wanton lust or desire of thine thou doe wilfully that that may prouoke God to wrath cause him to lay the like on thy childe as thou seest that in the like cases sometime he hath done Yea consider with thy selfe if shortly after some such wilfull running out of thine and giuing