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	wage_n	2,391	5	11.9240	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14923	The soules progresse to the celestiall Canaan, or heavenly Jerusalem By way of godly meditation, and holy contemplation: accompanied with divers learned exhortations, and pithy perswasions, tending to Christianity and humanity. Divided into two parts. The first part treateth of the divine essence, quality and nature of God, and his holy attributs: and of the creation, fall, state, death, and misery of an unregenerated man, both in this life and in the world to come: put for the whole scope of the Old Testament. The second part is put for the summe and compendium of the Gospell, and treateth of the Incarnation, Nativity, words, works, and sufferings of Christ, and of the happinesse and blessednesse of a godly man in his state of renovation, being reconciled to God in Christ. Collected out of the Scriptures, and out of the writings of the ancient fathers of the primitive Church, and other orthodoxall divines: by John Welles, of Beccles in the County of Suffolk.	Welles, John, of Beccles.	1639 (1639)	STC 25231; ESTC S119607	276,075	406

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majesty_n and_o to_o take_v our_o nature_n into_o his_o divinity_n 2.9_o hebr._n 2.9_o whereby_o he_o become_v subject_a to_o a_o temporal_a death_n and_o in_o that_o respect_n a_o little_a inferior_a to_o the_o angel_n his_o own_o creature_n second_o man_n the_o respect_n christ_n have_v of_o sinful_a man_n it_o be_v a_o act_n of_o wonderful_a goodness_n and_o love_n because_o the_o end_n thereof_o have_v not_o respect_n to_o any_o mean_n that_o may_v enlarge_v the_o honour_n and_o felicity_n of_o christ_n himself_o in_o who_o all_o true_a honour_n and_o happiness_n consist_v in_o a_o infinite_a measure_n but_o have_v only_o respect_n to_o poor_a and_o sinful_a man_n that_o by_o this_o mean_v he_o may_v repossess_v the_o favour_n of_o god_n from_o which_o he_o cast_v himself_o by_o his_o own_o disobedience_n and_o rebellion_n object_n now_o if_o it_o be_v demand_v that_o see_v the_o nature_n of_o man_n be_v so_o poison_a with_o hereditary_a sin_n as_o that_o all_o the_o child_n of_o 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