Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	eternal_a	good_a	life_n	4,162	5	5.3241	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47212	A sermon preached at the consecration of a chappel in the house of John Collins, Esq., of Chute in Wiltshire, performed by the Right Reverend Father in in [sic] God Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum, on the 25th of September, 1673 by Joseph Kelsey ...	Kelsey, Joseph, d. 1710.	1674 (1674)	Wing K249; ESTC R2647	19,026	38

Saints begging them to trample him under their feet if so to die might satisfie for his Apostacies More than this you might have seen the Great Theodosius Emperour of the World with the Retinue of a Prince but the Humility and Importunity of a distressed Man begging of that Resolute Prelate of Milan admission into the Church which he never without satisfaction could obtain The consideration of these and the other degrees of Penitents too long here to mention may make us reflect how hard a thing it was in those better times to obtain pardon of a wilful sin by the necessary Absolution of the Church and by those severities she preserved Honour to Religion respect to her self and even by violence saved the Souls of many such whose Salvation we have now cause to fear unless the way to Heaven be much broader than it was In this part after-Ages placed the Holy Laver of Regeneration wherein we were made the Sons of God and Heirs of Eternal Life being by the Answer of a good Conscience enlightned and born again Which Efficacy not only the Jews allowed to their Baptism but the Heathens also to their Initiations that they only after death should be happy who were so Initiated and miserable who died without it 2. From hence through the great and Silver Gates they entred into the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Body of the Church in the very middle of which stood the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Pulpit whence the Congregation received instructions of Salvation from the Mouth of the Preacher This the Object of equal both love and hatred is not more despised by some than by others held in admiration to these a Stumbling Block to them 't is Foolishness both dangerously perverting its Original Institution Of so great and serious consequence is the well management of it for the Churches Peace and safety of Religion that whatsoever Crasty Vlysses shall gain this Palladium into his possession 't will not be long before he Storm the City and with Fire and Flames destroy the most flourishing Kingdom From this Throne the Tetrarchs of time as a Great Wit calls the Clergy command Obedience about one quarter of the year from the attentions of their oft too heedless Auditories This is the Watch-Towre whence as from an Egyptian Pharos the Seers of God dispence unto the World the Everlasting Gospel a Lanthorn to their feet and a Light unto their paths Hence they cry aloud to tell Judah his transgressions and Israel his sins and give warning of those Shelves and Sands which have drowned multitudes of Souls From this place it was S. Peter at one Sermon converted three thousand to the Christian Faith and ever since Pious Bishops and Doctors of the Church have daily added all well disposed minds Here stood Origen in whom all the Science both of the Ethnick and Christian Philosophy was united The stream of his Eloquence as prosound as was his Learning clear as his Speculations no Mud or Froth but what was raised by his too near approach to those Rocks against which unwary Wit too often suffers Shipwrack Hence Nazianzen declaimed his Christian Philippicks and hence Athanasius by the Might of his Courage and Zeal of his Elocution stopt the Sun as it were that it did not set upon the World delivered Orthodox Faith from a most strong Captivity and fear of sudden death Here lastly stood the Great Bishop of Constantinople the very Top of Ecclesiastical Eloquence who by his Pious Behaviour and Power of his Oratory drew the minds and bended the hearts of his Princely Auditory No Vice so high which his Rhetorick would not reach none so strong which his Preaching did not make relent And how foolish soever to prejudice and prophaneness Preaching may appear yet managed by study and wisdom it oft-times breaks the hardest heart makes the most seared Conscience feel it will startle the most secure sinner and sometime or other will be remembred by those who most deride it a dark night a sick bed or an uneasie sleep will reconcile the man to this Heavenly Doctrine and make him abhor the thoughts of jollity and indiscretion 3. Lastly Through the Gates called Beautiful they ascended to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Holy Altar from which I have too long detained you To this Holy Table therefore let us go and participate the Food of Souls There let us offer up not only this Oratory but our Souls and Bodies to his most Faithful Service promising him never more by any wilful sin to prophane his Temples nor drive away his Holy Presence FINIS