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	sin_n	sin_v	3,111	5	9.7434	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62048	The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, M.A.	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.	1672 (1672)	Wing S6277; ESTC R34633	41,246	112

keep up the power of Godliness in our hearts and lives And as God on that day bestoweth great blessings on them that humbly and reverently worship him on that Queen of days that Market day of our souls Isa. 58. 13 14. So he hath inflicted dreadful Judgements on the profaners of that day and when men have neglected to punish them he hath taken the Sword into his own hand and done it himself One example whereof there was in Maidstone when I lived there In former time that day was much prophaned as I said before and children were wont to play in the streets on that day One Sabbath as children were playing near a wall against which Wagen-wheels were set up on a sudden there arose a great wind which blew down a wheel upon one of the Children and crusht it to death Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum Besides on week days such was the blessing of God upon his preaching and example many Families Morning and Evening did set up religious duties who never minded them before You might there if you walkt in the great street about nine and ten a clock in a morning hear singing in many Families for they commonly sung Morning and Evening when they read the Word and Prayed CHAP. XIX His great Courage HE had a strong and undaunted Spirit not discouraged by any obstacles which were laid in the way of his duty He feared God and none else He was like that Ancient that when a threatning message of death was sent him bid the Messenger tell the Empress Nil timeo nisi peccatum I fear nothing but sin Or Rowland Taylor who being intreated to flie the Marian days said I know the cause so good and the truth so strong on my side it will by Gods grace-appear before their Beads resists their false doings for I believe I shall never be able to Good so good a service as now He discovered much courage in reproving sin for as Christ said of the Church of Ephesus he could not bear those that were evill were they never so great Elijah durst speak to Ahab and Mr. Wilson to the highest person by way of reprehension when there was cause for it If men were bold in sinning he was as bold in telling them of it and giving their sins their due accents yet as wise Physitian he could distinguish between Pimples and Plague sores between infirmities and scandals accordingly apply himself to his Patients CHAP. XX. Of his Zeal HE was one that abundantly discovered his zeal for God in embracing all opportunities to do him service in his great care where ever he came for the strict observation and right Sanctification of the Lords Day in his sense of the dishonour done to God by the prophaness and contempt of the ordinaces of God by some and by the errors and wilful withdrawings from the Ordinances by others which he bewailed bitterly to his dying day Some who its hoped had the root of matter in them questioned his call to the Ministry nay suspected his call to be Anti-christian and seperated from him though they themselves acknowledges that he was their Spiritual Father and had begotten them through the Gospel and he might say to them as the Apostles to the Corinthians Ye are the Seal of our Ministry do we need as some others Letters of Commendation to you ye are our Epistle known and read of all men For asmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ Ministred by us written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God not in Tables of stone but in fleshly Tables of the heart 2 Cor. 3. 1 2 3. How frequently and affectionately did he urge that upon them that separated in my hearing Isa. 11 6 7 8 9. This causeless sinful separation lay near his heart even when he lay upon his dying bed The great danger of their souls as also of those that wholly cast of the care of their eternal good caused him in the course of his Sermons and Expositions when the Scriptures led him to it to reprove their sins sharply and indeed according to the command of the Holy Ghost he could do it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cuttingly that they might be sound in the Faith Tit. 1. 13. It s reported of Bazil that one hearing much of him had a great desire to know what manner of man he was hereupon in a Vision was represented to him a flame of sire with this motto Talis est Basilius such a man is Basil. And truly such a man was Mr. Wilson meek and cold when at any time himself was reproached and abused but as hot as fire in the cause of his God The zeal of Gods house burnt him up Errors and Heresies were very odious to him such was his love to the truth It might be said of him as of Austin that was Malleus Haereticorum The Hamer of Heresies and Schismes I have heard him often quote and comment on those Scriptures Heb. 10. 25. and 1 Iohn 2. 19. With much warmth and vigour that if it were possible he might reduce those that went astray And though such as were toucht in their sores were angry and said it was passion and his natural heat was Kitchin fire the effect of his natural Spirit yet the judicious knew otherwise that it was a coal from the Altar true zeal the fruit of Gods Spirit in him knowing that he was set 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle speaks Phil. 1. 17. For the defence of the Gospel Some of those that separated were very dear to him that he might say as David It was not an enemy that reproached me then I could have born it willingly was it he that hated me that did magnisie himself against me But it was my friend and my acquaintance we took sweet counsel together and formerly walked to the house of God in Company Psa. 55. 12 13 14. But as dear as they were to him the Truth of the Gospel were much dearer Amicus Socrates amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas And he was a man of such clear convincing light and as it is said of Apollos Acts 18. 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 able strong mighty in the Scriptures that had they not been wilfully blind or very weak eyed they must have seen their errors It is observed by some as a special Providence of God that the same day in which Pelagius the Heretick was born in Brittain St. Augustine the great Confuter of his Heresie was born in Affrick God so disposing it that the Poison and the Antidote should come into the World together I am sure it was a good providence to Maidstone that when many errors sprung up there was such an able faithful Husbandman to watch them and root them out otherwise many more then did might have fallen from their own stedfastness and been led away with the errors of the times CHAP. XXI Of Faith and Heavenly mindedness HE was