Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	day_n	know_v	lord_n	2,641	5	3.7017	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46850	A visitation of love to the tender plants of Gods vineyard given forth by Henry Jackson ; also two generall epistles, given forth by William Caton.	Jackson, Henry, fl. 1662-1700.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.; Scostrop, Richard.	1664 (1664)	Wing J71; ESTC R11245	15,342	21

his end in redeeming of you which may be answered by your faithfulnesse unto the Lord and in so doing every one will have his reward with him for every one that answers the Lords end for which the Lord called him comes to enjoy his presence comes to be filled with love life joy and peace and such do really shew forth his praise and declare his wonderous works to the bringing of honour and renown unto him and not unto themselves but they that are unfaithfull and disobedient though called they do not answer the end for which they were called and therefore doth not the Lord so reward them through his dwelling with them through filling them with love life joy and peace as he rewards the other that are faithfull but on the contrary they who are called and are not faithful as to answer the end for which they are called they I say are filled with sorrow and unbelief with trouble and anguish and condemnation pursues them from that which called them which they being unfaithful unto it ministers not consolation but condemnation it speaks not peace but warre c. And this being alwaies present with them to put them in mind of their neglect of their unfaithfulnesse of their disobedience and of their unworthinesse they are alwayes disquieted and tosticated in themselves and in such the murmurer and unbeliever hath place and such are very unfitting to bear crosses tryals and sufferings for all these will adde to the trouble which they were before possessed withall so that very many inconveniences do ensue where the end for which God called a people is not answered by them that are called therefore my dearly beloved friends be mindeful not onely of the end for which you are called but of answering the same that the Lords delight may be to do good unto you who are his peculiar treasure and live all in his eternall power and spirit that you may know the Lord and his eternall truth to be on your sides when furious men rise up against you then need you not be afraid of what they can do unto you for hath not the Lord oftentimes already suffered many of you to be tried through the fury of the wicked which at sundry times hath been high against you but how hath the Lord turned it backward and how hath he restrained the wickednesse of the wicked by his mighty power from being executed upon you even to your own admiration and hath not the Lords end in this been to engage you through his infinite mercy so much the more unto him who oftentimes suffered the fury of the ungodly to break forth a little yet not for the destroying but for the trying his people and how near have we found him unto us even as a rock of defence to fly unto in our greatest straites difficulties and temptations and what free accesse have we had unto him through his eternal spirit in our selves when by Jayles houses of correction force of Armes and the like we have been hindred from having accesse one unto another or for meeting together in the outward yet by those things before mentioned we could not be hindred from meeting together in the Lord I mean in the eternal spirit when the fury of the wicked hath been as the rageing of the Sea and having then the testimony of the Lords eternal Spirit in our selves that we had answered the Lords end in his calling of us in that we had faithfully shewn forth his praise and brought honour and renown unto his Name upon earth Oh! what joy and peace that did bring unto our soules and how did we rejoyce in the Lord when he covevered our heads as in the day of battell even untill that the fury of the wicked came to be abated so oftentimes you know have we seen the eminent hand of our God stretched out for our deliverance which hath hitherto preserved us to our great admiration therefore let us who have had such experience of the faithfulnesse of our God endeavour to be like unto him even faithfull as he is faithfull And now forasmuch as that in these perillous times we cannot well serve our God in that way in which he required us to walk without being in jeopardy of bonds and imprisonments or to have other sufferings imposed upon us by reason of our meeting together to wait upon the Lord and it doth therefore so much the more concern us to feel the drawings of our God by his eternal Spirit to our meetings that when we are met we may so much the more enjoy his presence in our meetings to the refreshment of our soules and then if we suffer for waiting upon him he will not leave us comfortlesse in that suffering which for that cause comes upon us and this is the word of trueth unto you neither will it be grievous to us while we keep in that through which we enjoyed him in our meeting for in that may we enjoy him in our sufferings and then it will be better to be one day in a prison with the Lord then a thousand else where without the enjoyment of his presence in which we have found as you know much joy and peace much comsort and consolation and therefore have we cause to hazard our liberty through our keeping of our meeting though we be accounted by men offenders for so doing rather then through the neglecting of them we should become offenders in the light of the Lord through whose mercy we are come to know the benefit of them to the end we might prise and frequent them and not slight nor neglect them for it is certain if we neglect them we shall not reap any benefit by them but if we frequent them according to the manner of the faithfull then will the Lord be with us at them and amongst us in them and then his end in bringing of us into the practise of such meetings will be answered to his glory and our comforts Again as concerning swearing what was the Lords end in giving us to see the evil of this was it not that we should keep clear of it and bear our faithful testimony against it as against a hurtful evil which is direct contrary to the doctrine of Christ and seeing we have known the terrours of the Lord God against this evil and have therefore perswaded others from it how can we therefore in any wise consent unto it as to do it though we should therefore lose both our liberties and estates for surely the Lord hath an end in convincing us of it in shewing us the evil of it and if we keep clear of it and bear a faithful testimony against it unto the end then the Lords end in convincing us of the evil of it will be Answered who knew before what would come upon us by reason of our testimony against it And if God had not suffered this as a snare in the hand of our enemies there would have been something else