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	lord_n	see_v	3,711	5	3.5921	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16573	The complaynt of veritie, made by Iohn Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, vnto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, & wrytten with their bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Rogers, Matthew. Instruction of a father to his children.; Allerton, Ralph. A lamentable complaynt of the afflicted, unto god our onely healper.; Allerton, Ralph. A briefe rehersal of parte of the aucthours trouble, entituled God is my comforte.; Allerton, Ralph. Songe of the poore prisoners in Lolers tower.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Wordes of Maister Houper at his death.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. These are the wordes that Maister John Houper wrote on the wall with a cole, in the newe inne in Gloceter, the night before he suffered.	1559 (1559)	STC 3479; ESTC S112643	64,740	174

vp thy firy brande and vexe poore Abell still Though Abel haue no fleshly strengthe thy furious wrath to tame yet God wil preserue him at the length to thy rebuke and shame Although his flesh thou lay ful lowe thy wrath to satisfie yet by the death of Lamethes bowe for his bloud thou shalt die Though Ismael had the greater stay before the promis begonne yet God bad Abraham put away the bond maide with her sonne Though Iacob fled his brothers ire to cause the fury cease yet God gaue him his whole desire and brough● him home in peace when Israel out of Egipt fled from him that helde them thrall The lord preserued the righteous sede and drowned their enemies all when that Golias in his great pryde his hie blastes out did blowe The lord soone laied his pompe asyde and brought his boastinges lowe when king Saule sought Dauids life without Dauids offence The Lord at last ended that strife and Saule made recompence when Acheor to a tree was bounde because he truth did tell He was soone healed of that wounde by the God of Israell when Holifernus in his rage against Goddes flocke did stand Then soone did his pryde asswage euen by a womans hand when A man made a gallowes strong for Mardocheus the Iewe Himselfe was hanged theron ere long for God is iust and true when Susan was without refuge and like to suffer paine The Lord that is a righteous iudge did pay her foes againe As Daniell in the Lions den was kept from wo and greefe So God preserueth righteous men and sendes them quicke reliefe when that the ouen was made red hot the children to destroy Gods angel the flame out swot and walked with them in ioy when Peter Iohn in pryson were for preaching of Gods worde Gods angel did the doore vnbarre as Luke doth well recorde Thus by examples strong and sure the Scripture doth witnes The enemies power can not endure for God doth it suppres when God made all thinges with his word he blest it with increase But soone the deuil brought Caine the sword bad him breake the peace So from that day vnto this houre Cain hath the sworde in hande Seking still Abell to deuoure either by sea or lande For by the deuils great enuie came death amongst mankynde And all that his dere children be fulfill their fathers mynde Dere christians be not nowe afraide to doe your maisters will For he doth promise to be your aide and your defence from ill His mercy is to succour those that trust to him at neede Feare not for God will your bands lose as he hath promised Therfore sticke harde vnto the worde the whiche you haue professed And then no doubt but that the Lorde will see your cause redressed Now seing we shall deliuered be as Esdras doth declare By death or life what cause haue we either to doubt or care But onely in our Lorde Iesus to put our confidence who in these daies is vnto vs a tower and strong defence All prayse be to the liuing God which iudgeth righteously And in all ages fulfyls his worde his name to magnify Finis ¶ The wordes of Maister Houper at his death O Lord Iesus that for whose loue I leaue wyllyngly this lyfe and desyre the bytter death of the crosse with the losse of all my worldlye thinges then eyther to abyde the blasphemie of thy moste holye name or to abey vnto menne in breakynge of thy Commaundementes thou seest Lorde that where I myght lyue in wealth to worship a false god and to honour thine ennemy I choose rather the tormentes of my bodye and the losse of this my lyfe and I haue counted all thynges but vile dust and donge that I mighte wyn thee whiche death is more deare vnto mee then thousandes of gold and syluer such loue Lorde hast thou laid vp in my brest that I honger for thee as the deare that is wounded desireth the soile so send thy holy comforter to ayde comfort and strengthen this weke peece of yearthe whiche is of it selfe empty of al strēgth thou remembrest that I am but vyle duste and donge and of my selfe able to doo nothinge therfore O Lorde as thou of thine a customed loue hast bidden me to this banket counted me worthi to drink of this thy cuppe amōgest thine elect giue me strēgth against this thy ellyment that as to my sight it is moste yrkesom vntolerable so to mi mind it may at thy commaundemēt go as an obediēt seruaunt be swete and plesant and through the strength of thy holy spirite I may passe through the fury of this fire into thy bosom according to thi promisse and for this mortal lyfe receyue an immortalitie and for this corruptible receiue an incorruptibilite accept this bornt sacrifcie O heauenly Father not for the sacrifice sake but for thy dere sonnes sake my sauiour for whose testimoni I offer this my free wyl offering with al my hart with al mi strength with al my soule Oh heauenli father forgeue mee my sinnes as I forgeue all the worlde O swete sonne of God my sauyour sprede thy winges ouer me O God the holy ghost comforte strengthen and stablish me and as through thy mighty power thou hast brought me hyther to death so condyth me in to euerlasting blisse O Lord into thy handes I commende my spirite thou haste redemed me O God of truthe Lorde haue mercye vpon me Christ haue mercy vpon me Lord haue mercy vpon me Amen ¶ Finis ¶ These are the wordes that Maister Iohn Houper wrote on the wall with a cole in the newe Inne in Gloceter the night before he suffered COntent thy selfe with pacience w t christ to beare y e crosse of payne ●ho can or will recompence ● thousand folde with Ioyes againe ●et nothing cause thy hart to fayle ●ainch out thy bote hoise vp thy saile Put from the shore ●nd be thou suer thou shalt attayne ●nto the porte that shall remayne For euer more ●ere not death pas not for bandes ●nly in God put thy whole trust ●r he wil require thi blod at their hāds ● thou dost know y t once die thou must Only for that thy life if thou geue ●eth is no deth but amens for to liue Do not dispaire Of no worldly tirant see thou dreede ●y cōpace whiche is gods worde shall the leade ●nd the wind is faire ¶ Finis TWO NOTABLE Sermons Made by that worthy Martyr of Christ Master Iohn Bradford the one of Repentance and the other of the Lords Supper now newly imprinted Perused and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling on Adling hill 1599. To the Christian Reader Thomas Samson wisheth the felicity of speedy and full conuersion to the Lord. GOdly learned men doe write and publish bookes to profit the age in which they doe liue and the posterity This desire was in the Authour of this ●reatise Master Iohn

whom he loueth he loueth to the end So that now where aboundance of sinne hath beene in thee the more is the aboundance of grace But to what end Forsooth that as sinne hath raigned to death as thou séeest to the killing of Gods Sonne so now Grace must raigne to Life to the honouring of Gods Sonne who is now aliue and can not die any more So that they which by faith féele this cannot any more die to God but to sinne whereto they are dead and buried with Christ As Christ therefore liueth so doe they and that to God to righteousnesse and holinesse The life which they liue is In fide Filii Dei In the faith of the Sonne of God Whereby you sée that now I am slipt into that which I made the third part of penance namely newnesse of life which I could not so haue done if that it were a part of it selfe indéed as it is an effect or fruit of the second part that is of faith or trust in Gods mercie For he that beléeueth that is is certainely perswaded sinne to be such a thing that it is the cause of all miserie and of it selfe so greatly angereth God that in heauen nor in earth nothing could appease his wrath saue alonely the death and precious bloodshedding of the Sonne of GOD in whom is all the delight and pleasure of the Father hee I say that is perswaded thus of sinne the same cannot but in heart abhorre and quake to doe or say yea to thinke any thing willingly which Gods Law teacheth him to bee sinne Againe hee that beléeueth that is is certainely perswaded Gods loue to bée so much towards him that where through sinne he was lost and made a firebrand of hell the eternall father of mercy which is the omni-sufficient God néedeth nothing to vs or of any thing that we can doe to deliuer vs out of hell and to bring vs into heauen did send euen his owne most déere Sonne out of his bosome out of heauen into hell as a man would say to bring vs as I said from thence into his owne bosome and mercie wee béeing his very enemies hee I say that is thus perswaded of Gods loue towards him and of the price of his redemption by the deare bloud of the Lambe immaculate Iesus Christ the same man cannot but loue God againe and of loue doe that and heartily desire to doe better the which might please God Trow you that such a one knowing this geare by faith will willingly welter and wallow in his wilfull lusts pleasures and fantasies Will such a one as knoweth by faith Christ Iesus to haue giuen his bloud to wash him from his sinnes play the Sow to welter in his puddle of filthie sinne and vice againe Nay rather then he will be defiled againe by wilful sinning he will wash often the féet of his affections watching ouer the vice still sticking in him which as a spring continually sendeth out poyson enough to drowne and defile him if the swéete water of Christes passion in Gods sight did not wash it and his bloud satisfie the rigour of Gods iustice due for the same This bloud of Christ shed for our sinnes is so deare in the sight of him that beléeueth that he will abhorre in his heart to stampe it and tread it vnder his féete He knoweth now by his beléefe that it is too much that hitherto he hath set too little by it and is ashamed thereof Therefore for the residue of his life hée purposeth to take better héed to himselfe then before hee did Because hée séeeth by his faith the grieuousnesse of GODS anger the foulenesse of sinne the greatnesse of Gods mercie and of Christs loue towards him hée will now bee héedie to pray to GOD to giue him his grace accordingly that as with his eyes tongue hands féet c. hée hath displeased God doing his owne will euen so now with the same eyes tongue eares hands féete c. hee may displease his owne selfe and doe Gods will Willingly will he not doe that which might renew the death of the Sonne of God Hée knoweth he hath too much sinne vnwillingly in him so that thereto hee will not adde willing offences This willing and witting offending and sinning whosoeuer doth flatter himselfe therein doth euidently demonstrate and shew that hee neuer yet indéed tasted of Christ truely Hee was neuer truely perswaded or beléeued how foule a thing sinne is how grieuous a thing Gods anger is how ioyfull and precious a thing Gods mercie in Christ is how excéeding broad wide hie and déepe Christs loue is Perchance he can write prate talke and preach of this geare but yet he in part by faith neuer felt this geare For if hee did once féele this geare indéed then would he bée so farre from continuing in sinne willingly and wittingly that wholy and heartily hee would giue ouer himselfe to that which is contrary I meane anew to life renewing his youth euen as the Eagle doth For as we béeing in the seruitude of sin demonstrate our seruice by giuing ouer our members to the obeying of sinne from iniquitie to iniquitie euen so we béeing made frée from sinne by faith in Iesus Christ and endued with Gods spirit a spirit of libertie must néeds demonstrate this fréedome and libertie by giuing ouer our members to the obedience of the spirit by the which we are lead and guided from vertue to vertue and all kind of holines As the vnbeléeuers declare their vnbeléefe by the woorking of the euill spirit in them outwardly the fruits of the flesh euen so the beléeuers declare their faith by the working of Gods good spirit in them outwardly the fruits of the spirit For as the Deuill is not dead in those which are his but worketh still to their damnation so is not God dead in them which bee his but worketh still to their saluation The which working is not the cause of the one or the other béeing in any but onely a demonstration a signe a fruit of the same As the Apple is not the cause of the Apple tree but a fruit of it Thus then you sée briefly that newnes of life is not in déed a part of penance but a fruit of it a demonstration of the iustifying faith a signe of Gods good spirit possessing the heart of the penitent as the old life is a fruite of impenitencie a demonstration of a lip-faith or vnbeliefe a signe of Sathans spirit possessing the heart of the impenitent which all those be that bee not penitent For meane I know none He that is not penitent the same is impenitent hee that is not gouerned by Gods spirit the same is gouerned by Sathans spirit For all that bée Christians are gouerned with the spirit of Christ which spirit hath his fruits All other that bee not Christs are the Deuils Hee that gathereth not with Christ scattereth abroad Therefore dearely beloued I beséech you to consider this geare