Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	civil_a	ecclesiastical_a	2,893	5	8.1068	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04605	Londons looking backe to Ierusalem, or, Gods iudgements vpon others, are to be obserued by vs	Jones, John, minister at St. Michael Basenshaw, London.	1633 (1633)	STC 14722; ESTC S119135	33,692	66

the powers of darknesse into the kingdom of thy deare Sonne What shall wee doe that haue thus sinned against thee ô thou preseruer of men whither shall we goe from thy spirit or whither shall we sly from thy presence If we ascend up into heaven thou art there if we make our bed in the deepe thou art there if wee take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea even there shall thy hand finde us No darkenesse can cover us from thy all-seeing eye no place can shelter us from thy almighty hand thy judgements can follow us and thy vengeance take hold on us whithersoever we goe What then shall we doe in this perplexity In all humility wee cast downe our selves before the throne of thy mercy bewailing our misery with bleeding hearts and throbbing soules deploring our misery imploring thy mercy condemning our selues confessing our sins promising purposing and resoluing with all our hearts to forsake our sinnes Though we are out of measure sinfull yet thou art out of measure mercifull thou art infinite in mercy and with thee is plenteous redemption The greater our sins are the greater shall be the glory of thy mercy and of thy Sons merits in forgiving our sinnes which are so many and so great Pardon therefore we pray thee all our sins past wash us from them in the pure laver of thy Sons blood It is not the river Iordan nor all the rivers of Damascus that can cleanse us from our spirituall leprosie onely thy Son thine onely Sonne and that pure fountaine of thy Sonnes blood which thou hast opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sin and for uncleannesse In that blood we beseech thee to wash us from our sins from the guilt of sin from the punishment of sin from the power of sin with that blood purge our consciences from dead workes and quicken us by thy Spirit unto a new life that we may serve thee the true and ever-living God zealously without feare universally without partiality sincerely without hypocrisie constantly without apostacy in all righteousnesse and true holinesse all the dayes of our liues that the end of our life may be the end of our faith which is the saluation of our soules And although we are unworthy to pray for our selues yet in the name of thy Sonne we are bold to enlarge our prayers for thy whole Church howsoeuer distressed or whersoever dispersed throughout the parts of the whole earth Give thy Gospell a free passage repaire the ruines of Sion build up the broken walles of Ierusalem and with the breath of thy nostrills blow downe the walls of Iericho In thy due time put an end to the troubles of the Church abroad Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand and doest not plucke it out of thy bosome how long oh Lord how long wilt thou suffer the blood of thy seruants to be spilt upon the ground Thou that didst once heare and regard the blood of Abel one man crying for vengeance wilt thou not heare the blood of many thousands What advantage canst thou have in giving over thy owne children to the fury of their enemies shall thy enemies triumph and thy children perish shall thy enimies reioyce thy children mourne shall the light of thy Gospell be eclipsed the splendour of thy glory obscured thy temple defiled thy name dishonoured thy truth slandered Are they of Babilon better than they of Sion or is there any other people that knoweth thee besides Israel or what generation hath so beleeued thy couenant as Iacob Arise then oh Lord arise plead thy owne cause honour thy owne name defend thy owne altar fight thy owne battaile protect thy owne people behold the pride of the wicked and send thy wrath upon their heads throw downe the forces of all them that haue purposed cruel things against thy Sanctuary against the top of Sion thy hallowed house the place where thine honour dwelleth Make every nation to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power that there is none other that protects thy Church and truth but thou onely Protect thy Church and truth among us and all that thou hast placed in authority over us especially his sacred Maiesty Charles by thy gracious providence King of great Britaine France and Ireland defender of the true ancient Catholick Apostolick faith and in all causes and over all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as civill next under thee and thy Sonne Christ supreme governour Blesse we beseech thee his royall consort Queene Mary beseeching thee that with Mary shee may chuse the better thing that cannot be taken from her Blesse the present pledges of our succeeeding hopes Prince Charles with lady Mary his sister O Lord grant that as they grow in yeares so they may grow in grace and favour with thee and with men Blesse the rest of the Royall progenie beyond the scaes the Lady Elizabeth with her princely issue when thou seemest best settle them againe in their former inheritance that they may be nursing Fathers and mothers unto thy Church Blesse the Right Honorable the privie Councel the true hearted Nobility and Gentrie of our Land the Reverend Iudges all vnto whom thou hast committed the sword of iustice all Ministers vnto whom thou hast committed the sword of the spirit what names or titles soever distinguished whether Archbishops Bishops or inferiour Pastors And that there may be a continuall supply of able men to governe both in Church and common wealth blesse all nurseries of good learning especially the two famous Vniversities of this Land Cambridge and Oxford water the young plants that are in both of them with the dew of thy grace that they may grow vp as Cedars in Lebanon for the building of Sion And comfort all that are comfortlesse oh thou Father of comfort and God of all consolation visite the sicke strengthen the weake heale the wounded bind vp the broken hearted gather the dispersed redeeme them that are enthralled releeue them that are impoverished succour them that are tempted restore them that are fallen by infirmitie and establish them that stand by thy free spirit Finally giue a blessing we pray thee to this our meeting in this thy house vpon this thy day to speake and to heare thy holy word O Lord God I am a child and cannot speake I am of polluted lipes and slow of speech but thou art he that canst giue sight to the blind and speech to the dumbe therefore untie the strings of my stamering tongue and touch it with a coale from thine alter my doctrine shall drop as doth the raine and as the dew vpon the grasse And for this thy people touch their eares and their hearts with the finger of thy blessed spirit that they may heare thy word attentiuely conceiue it rightly beleeue it readily apply it wisely treasure it upon their memories faithfully practise it in their life and conversations conscionably so all our