Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

you learn him that kills and makes alive that casts down and raises up that condemns and justifies and so shal know the way of death and the way of life and who that is that is hardned by the Law and who fulfills it and the life and end of both and you wil see the cause and end of all the tribulations earthquakes and thunders and several voices clouds smoak and darkness and great temptations and the trial of your faith herein wil be as that of gold and will bring to inherit the knowledge of God and eternal life and power to judge the Prince of the Air and over the mystery of iniquity and to deny the God of this world with all his snares and traps wherein the unlearned Professors are caught and held captive at his wil though some of them have a knowledg and form of the Truth taught from what others have thus learned all which you shal judg and have power over and all ministration under the Son shal with this be comprehended whether Angels or Spirit Even he that is faithful and diligent unto the end of this great tribulation shal be made white and have judgment committed to him and the Key of Davids house to bind and lose and shal sit in the Lambs Throne of Judgment and Righteousness in heaven and the Grave nor Hel shal have no more power nor shal his old iniquities have any more power over him the strength of sin being dead Wherefore Brethren in the Light be faithful when you come into this condition take heed of Unbelief and hast not out of it least you tempt the Lord of your Life and grieve his meek Spirit and provoke him to leave chastening and so your spot remain and you prove but Bastards and not free-born Children of this Kingdom Power and Glory and so in time your old Iniquities overtake you again For whatever of the old man comes out of the fire unconsumed dead and buried in this Baptism wil be a continual Canker seeking to eat and an Enemy daily waiting his opportunity upon all occasions to get up and overspread the pure Plant of Innocency and so spoil you of your Beloved and so make void all your sufferings past and bring in the old Evils like a Flood upon you as it hath befallen many at this day but be faithful to the end of all Iniquity the Root as wel as the Branch so shall your Righteousness arise clear and unspotted and your old sins shall therewith be buried and never arise again neither to accuse nor raign and this is your victory over death And this know whatever others imagine let none deceive you That though sin the evil Seed be sown when men sleep and take root with pleasure and spring up with ease and delight yet the end thereof is bitterness and great Tribulation but the precious Seed is sown with tears conceived in sorrow brought to light with sighing nights of watching dayes of mourning and with much labour of spirit and travel of Soul must you come to see your desire for though the World have conceived a Faith in the air and so bringeth forth nought but several sorts of Winds striving upon the Earth without Foundation and so builds nothing to perfection Yet with you it must not be so for to you the Light is sprung up which leads to the Foundation of God and you have received a Faith that gives you a sight of the Stone which the Builders see not and to you it is given not onely to believe in him but to suffer for his sake in the behalf of him and so to run as to win him so to strive as to obtain him his Name his Power his Nature for this is that your soul groans for to possess and inherit his Power his Love his Meekness his Patience in all Tribulations his Faith in all fears and to have the Power of all his Grace and Vertue living in you whereby you may be men of able Spirits rightly furnished to every good work and against all evil that in him you may overcome when you are tryed and be more then Conquerors and your Work is to war against whatever would keep you from coming to this Foundation and Corner-stone And it is not beating the air that will fight your Battel for it 's against all these deceits you are to fight and airy notions and all spirits that would possess you with words and forms without the Power of Righteousness and what ever lyes under the power of sin the true Light gives you to see the cursed deceipt that lyes in all this and that these are the subtile paths of the destroyer and nothing less then Victory over sin and subtilty will satisfie your souls so that it 's onely Life and Power that can give you peace and therefore yours is work and not vain words and that which strikes at the root of sin is your best Weapon So it is not Flesh that profits you it 's the spirit that must quicken through hardship that which ease hath slain ere you come to perfect peace For though the Letter tell of a Child that is heir of all things and gives this Inheritance to all in whom he is formed whose Name is Wonderful in Counsel and Strength yet is not this brought forth without hard labour and travel and the pangs of death gone thorow for when you come to the Lord for Counsel and feel that there is two manner of Seeds in the Womb then will you see that great Work is to be done ere you come to rest There is the strong man to be bound before the Babe can reign and strongly is he armed with all manner of Wiles to save himself and it 's not words and thoughts that will cast out the Mother her Son which must not inherit and this must be done or all is in vain He that is born of Flesh is in bondage to things here below this cannot inherit Immortality for sin hath power in him and dye he must that the Son of Righteousness may arise to life in you and bring your life to light with him as he appears and though the Light be above the Transgressor yet the Son is lowly that gives it So being faithful in the Light which from the Son cometh which condemneth all the lofty wayes of the first-born you will beled into ways lowly to cross your life in him through Watchings and Fastings and great Tribulations must he be famished into which the Spirit will lead you where there is nothing for the Lust to live on nor for that Wisdom to walk in that loves it self or seeks its ease and pleasure Then be faithful to your Guide however he storm that is to be destroyed And with all diligence press into that which calls in the wandering mind and give heed with watching and wrestling to get abiding therein which as you are faithful therein it will be enlarged till it become a habitation for your pure

entrance to him from whom all the World are driven who are in the Lust and in that Nature which loves it self and worketh iniquity yet wearying themselves to find the Door without the Light of that Life which is not of this World And as you mind onely to feed on the Plant of Life you will come to know the Work of the Father in his Vineyard and who the faithful Labourer is and what must be his Work and the sloathful servant and what his Work bringeth forth and the cause why the field of the sluggard is over-grown with evil fruits and why his Vine bringeth not Fruit to perfection For you will find many Plants besides the Tree of Life all which seek to be fed and strengthened in the mind and affections and many grown Trees tall and strong which have got fast rooting spread and bring forth abundantly after their several kinds and all these present themselves to the eye of the mind to be fed from thence which is as the feet fetching food from far without which they cannot live long but must pine away and fall as they dye in the affections and as the mind is withdrawn from such objects as they are fed withall So the Work of him that is faithful is to number these to the Axe and to the fire and not to suffer these any place in the mind how strongly soever they tempt and try every way to spread Root to keep life that so through the death of these the Vine may grow alone in the clean affections and holy mind and honest chaste heart which is the good ground and where the pure Plant will bring forth of it self in all where it is not cumbred with that which is contrary to it Which contrary fruits all that mind the Light may see but the sluggard not being diligent to dig up the Root as well as to condemn the Fruit therefore they are daily growing and the good ground ever cumbred with them and such ever know what they should do but are never able to abide there their life being lost in the midst of this Wilderness and over-grown with wild Plants But you being diligent in your Watch you will see that the cause of all your troubles and confusion when you come to the true labour indeed is not for nothing for you will find many plants of several kinds for the World is in the heart of man as he is droven from God And every kind hath its several life which lives have their several feedings all which you may feel in the Light by their temptings to lead out your minds and though they are of several motions and live upon several objects yet the least of them being fed by consent in your mind will over-run the Vine and in time bury it by growing up in your affections Wherefore all must down that Truth alone may rise in your affections and the Word of Life have place in your hearts who is purer then to dwell in the Adulterous minde and whose eye cannot behold iniquity who hath no communion with darkness nor fellowship where any Idol stands in the Temple So this is your faith in your labour even that which overcomes the World and suffereth nothing thereof to take place in your minds but with the Spirit of Life to watch and wrestle against every lust and kill every affection that would go out for food for what-ever goes out betrayes the innocent and every pleasure of the flesh as a Canker doth eat out the Life of the holy and just one but by Faith the Just lives and in faithfulness doth he judge and make War against all his Enemies in every one who are exercised therewith And in this Work mind what you follow follow nothing rashly but prove all things with the fire and that which will not endure the Temptation and bear the Cross is the Adulterer who will look out every way for ease and the Serpent wil present many likely wayes to her under fair pretences which she that would live at ease will hastily hearken to and if you hearken to her you will betray the Work of Life which is bringing forth in hard travel and labour which is flain in the birth where ease and sloath is consented to and with living at ease and pleasure hath the Life been slain from the beginning of the world and hath been kept under by her Sorceries who fares deliciously upon Earth and by consenting to her pleasures hath the Election been lost and covered with the Seed of Wickedness which God hates which Wars after the flesh and lusts after the flesh to strengthen it self above the holy spiritual Seed but minding to make that sure to you which calls in your mind and being obedient thereto it will lead down by the Power of the Cross through that which is above to the feeling of the Election and a separation being made betwixt that which God chuseth in this Working-Power and what he condemneth you will come thereby to know to what to join and from what to withdraw that you may be Workers together with him and not against him which the subtile one will lead you to do till with the Light the separation be made and so joining to it in faith and obedience the Election will arise and by diligence thereto it will be made sure And once feeling the Innocent to move under the Oppressor give your selves no rest until the strong man bow for with great Plagues upon that Nature and with a strong hand against that will must the Seed of Promise be redeemed from under his Power which like Pharoah if he get but rest will not let Israel go from under his Power and if you keep with the Spirit and hearken low it will let you see what must be the Plagues you must pour upon him till he be brought dovvn that a little Child may lead him and reign over him and he that was oppressed by the Beast may ride upon him And as that Nature got head and strength by having its Lusts fulfilled so it must be subdued by having its Lusts famished which if you be not faithful to the seed of God herein you sell your Birth-right and betray your own redemption and are found deceitful Workers against God and your own Souls Wherefore run not with that which is in hast but lye down in that which is meek lovvly and patient that vvhich is vvilling to vvait the Fathers time and seeks to obtain by the obedience of Faith and not in the Will that vvould have in its ovvn hand For a Nature there is vvhich runs out for help and raveneth abroad to be satisfied vvhich God vvill famish And this vvill seek to lead the mind if it be follovved and vvill hunt about and murmure if it be not satisfied This goeth about the Citie but entereth not and this must suffer hunger and feel the Lambs wrath and plagues upon the head thereof what vvay soever it turns till it bovv and