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
A92861	Justice upon the armie remonstrance. Or A rebuke of that evill spirit that leads them in their counsels and actions. With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their waies, to the good spirit and minde of God. Dedicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2385; Thomason E475_34; ESTC R204449	51,573	59

when you and your friends in the House and abroad shall have your hearts ripped up to you you 'l say this is truth and this is the reason that you seek security something to uphold your tottering Kingdom Now to part with this is death to you and you call it a preposterous and self-deserting way page 27. Now consider this First you have by this wofully defil'd your cause and manifest you undertooke the warre for advantage though it may be you were such strangers to your owne hearts as not to know it But their is more evil in you then yet you understand and it will break forth in your life If the warre had been only defensive you would have rested quietly when much more is offered then we ever had Secondly that you count all your own because you have fought for it the Kingdome and glory of it is but enough to reward you for your workes that you have right to all t is yours and your parties and this makes you often expresse the Kings title by conquest indeed you would enforce him to hold by it though he never mentiond it because it s your present claim you count your selves conquerours which is a brutish thing and by it you would extinguish civility contract religion humane nature law and all the obligations of them to bring in your title force Beastly Warre That you will lose nothing but keep what you have got and would by warre and force secure what by force you have won and therefore call self-deserting all one with self-deniing or self-forsaking preposterous Now then to conclude this you are not Saints yet Saints will not seeke a Kingdome by the destruction of others nor rejoice in the evill of others either sinne or punishment not in others fall that they may rise not advance themselves by an Army composd of ungodly men not by force but love Yet t is true Saints shall reigne notwithstanding and those will prove Saints before you that you little thinke for God will provoke you by a foolish people Know too that Saints rights are secure in heaven and need not begge security of men I scorne that cause that is subject to ruine and destruction and therefore your feares and sad expressions of danger impending shewes your foundation to be upon the sands I laugh at your destruction and mocke when your feare comes You live in God stand for God and the Gospell of God and talking of ruine and destruction base is that way and accursed that is subject to such black thoughts our cause is immortall t is eternall it lives and triumphs in death is gaine in losse destruction is farre from us we know it not But sit under our owne Vine and Fig tree and none makes us afraid Another thing in danger is persons engaged the party adhering you harpe often upon this string pag. 28 29. foure or five times you thinke the King will be revenged of you for your eminent activity against him This discovers a base and poor spirit and unbecoming Christian souldiers to continue war break off peace designe the ruine of the King and his family subvert the whole government of the Kingdome to secure your owne lives and this I know is one maine reason of your present activity and others are but assum'd and pretended to cover this a Principle very destructive to a Kingdomes peace and contrary to the spirit of Christ fear a snare and the pit have taken hold of you that are forced t o continue the disturbance of a nation and all the miseries of warre upon us to save your selves Let us suppose your feares and the feares of those that are called honest men for this is a generall distemper to be demonstrations as doubtlesse to you they are and that indeed the King should picke out a dozen or twenty or more to suffer what then suppose I were one of them I account thus I have victory over death and death is swallowed up by victory and therefore cannot feare it am free from it death cannot hurt me I sport with it am above his reach I live an immortall life and cannot see death and he that hath not this freedome is a slave Secondly I have no life but truth and if truth be advanced by suffering then my life also if truth live I live if justice live I live and these cannot dye but by any mans suffering are enlarged enthroned and so I am enlarged If I or any other have a life distinct from truth it s a lye if distinct from justice its unjust Thirdly My life is a common life I live with you and in you I can confesse you and all have a right to it if you come for it take it if I had a life separated from you I would lay it downe for my brethren and I ought to do it that I might live with you and you with me and I would spoile principalities and powers by this crosse If the King should come to take it I would so freely yeild that he could not but yeild to that love that can dye for him so hold forth a true immortall power that is too strong for earthly and fleshly oppositions or if any should seeke my life I would be content to give it that I might live againe in their soules And this is the way of the Gospell to overcome Tyrants and no other way and to gaine Kingdomes indeed Fourthly I count it not an honest life that needs such force with so much misery to the Kingdome to maintaine it but on the other side I am engaged to dye for my Country and I shall more advantage the cause of liberty and religion by one single suffering that is pure then we have done by all the bloud that hath beene shed in this rude way of warre and lay a better and stronger foundation against tyranny and errour then all these warres I judge it ten times more honourable for a single person in witnessing truth to oppose the world in its power wisdome and authority standing in its full strength and that nakedly and singly then fighting many battels by army force this Is brutish common the other Christian divine holy excellent and therefore your great care of securing your selves comes from a slavish fear of death from an unwillingnesse to suffer and want of the power of godlinesse to meet the power of the world with and true and heavenly love to your Country you know not that command Eph. 5.2 Walke in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himselfe a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour If you had this perfect love it would cast out fear if your life were indeed united to God or Christ were your life or that you loved others so as you could dye for them you would not not now be to seeke for security 'T is your great fear and expressed page 38. you may be made a sacrifice That which is proposed to you by God