Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	evil_n	sin_n	4,011	5	5.5536	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77441	A Brief method of hearing Mass with profitable advantage to such as shall make constant use and practice of it : to which is added prayers for the king, &c. in English and Latin.		1685 (1685)	Wing B4604A; ESTC R42665	12,256	47

all faithful believers Grant all Catholicks grace to abstain from sinful and scandalous courses As their Religion is holy so grant that their lives may be holy too Give them grace often to remember for what end they are here in this World that it is only to work their Salvation not to live at ease follow Pleasures Pastimes Company or to go bravely apparelled Put them often in mind of what Head they are Members how unseemly a thing it is to have a good Lord and yet to be bad Servants to believe in a crucifyed God and yet to murmur at Crosses to be baptised as Christians and yet to live as Heathens to have promised in Baptisme to forsake the vain Pomp and Glory of the World and yet to thirst after nothing but the Vanities of the World Grant them often to descend into themselves by pious Thoughts and reflect daily upon these words of the holy Scripture that the broad way leadeth to Hell that no man can serve two Masters God and the World that the bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit Send them O Lord true and zealous Pastors who may exhort them Not to trust in the uncertainty of riches not to conform themselves to this wicked World not to be sollicitous what Cloaths they wear but rather To doe the true fruits of Pennance to enter into the narrow Gate to affect those things which are of Edification to be cald in modest Apparel to abstain from all appearance of Evil and to keep themselves unspotted from this World The hands over the Chalice GIve me leave O merciful Saviour in the acknowledgment of the greatest of thy favours to exercise here the greatest of all Christian Vertues to wit FAITH HOPE and CHARITY The third part from the Consecration to the Consummation Elevation I Believe then firmly O my sweet Saviour that after the Words of Consecration thou art really here present upon the Altar and in the hands of the priest and because thou who art almighty and truth it self hast said THIS IS MY BODY THIS IS MY BLOOD I humbly confess it to be they true Body and Blood and as humbly I adore it And seeing dear JESVS thou offeredst thy self to thy Father for me in recompence of this thy great Favour I offer unto thee my Body and Blood and my very soul it self as a Sacrifice to thy divine Honout and renew here my resolutions of living faithful to thy divine Service and of dying rather then I will commit a mortal sin willingly I hope sweet Saviour thou wilt not deny me thy assistance and grace to perform these Resolutions Thou who hast given for me here thy BODY and BLOOD wilt not refuse me the rest to wit pardon of my sins and grace to serve thee And thou O Father of my sweet Saviour I beseech thee remember the bitter sufferings of thy beloved Son Look down upon his Blood offered here unto thee and remember O Lord the blood offered upon the Cross by thee when thou wast reconciled unto us Thou promisedst anciently O Lord that looking upon the Rainbow thou would'st remember the Covenant made betwixt thee and mankind and never drown the World again by Water and canst thou look down upon the Blood of thy dear Son offered here unto thee in Sacrifice and not remember the great Covenant and League which thou mad'st with us in the death of thy dear Son I beg of thee then O Lord by the Merits of thy Sons death by his holy name JESVS and all obtaining name with thee that thou would'st vouchsafe to grant us thy holy Grace and the guist of perseverance to persevere finally in it Memento II. GRant also O Lord that the infinite Merits of thy Son's Passion may be extended unto the Church suffrant in Purgatory and that one drop of that precious Blood may free from the pains of Purgatory the Souls of N.N. that they may pass speedily from the Church suffrant unto the Church triumphant and there praise thee for ever And seeing O Lord thou canst not look upon this holy Sacrifice without remembring thy old Mercies I humbly begg of thee that thou wouldest by this propitiatory Sacrifice have mercy on us poor sinners of whom I am the chiefest and grant us grace to be heartily sorrowful for our sins past purely for thy Love sake and to make a firm resolution to dye rather than commit them again as also to confess them to our Ghostly Father at the first Opportunity Short Elevation BUT because O Lord no actions are meritorious in thy sight which are not done to thy honour and glory I here dedicate to thy Honour and Glory all my Actions Words and Thoughts desiring to serve thee purely that at last I may live with thee P. World without end C. Amen P. Let us Pray Being admonished by wholsome precepts and taught by divine Institution we dare confidently say Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy name thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven give us this day our dayly Bread and forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive others their Trespasses against us And lead us not into Temptation C. But deliver us from evil P. Amen ' Thou hast done all things well O Lord All things which thou hast made are very good Sin onely which is nothing and which thou knowest not is none of thy Invention but the Divels and therefore is Evil and the only true Evil. Free us but O Lord from this Evil and no other Evil can hurt us This is the mother-mother-evil the evil of evils the cause of Death of Sickness of Misery of Poverty No adversity can dominere over us if no iniquity dominere in us Thou O Lord who art the Author of life canst only free us from this Author of death Free us then I beseech thee O Lord from the evil of Sin that we may never dye eternally but live and praise thee P. World without end C. Amen P. The peace of our Lord be always with you C. And with thy spirit Agnus Dei. P. Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World have mercy upon us Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World hear us Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World Grant us peace Most Merciful and sweet Saviour seeing thou art the Mediator betwixt God and Man the prince of Peace who pacifyes all things in Heaven and Earth pacify I beseech thee thy Father angry against us Sinners Make also I beseech thee our peace with our Adversary upon Earth Our Adversary O Lord is thy Law it resists our Appetytes gainsays our Desires crosses our Wills When we desire and covet unlawful things thy Law opposes us saying Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Goods thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steal c. And becomes our Adversary But seeing O Lord it is for our good that thy Law opposes us and that thy Law is holy and immaculate