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	good_a	see_v	2,875	5	3.5208	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27130	Iacob is become a flame and the house of Esav stubble, or, The battail betwixt Michael and the dragon in which the seed of the woman is bruising the serpents head, and Cain the first birth ... is found the vagabond, and Abel and Abraham ... the friends of God : being a true discovery of the two seeds or births between which the enmity is put, the time and day being come in which the elder must serve the younger : with a few words to the priests, Bishops, Episcopal-men, and professors of this last age, and a short warning to the rulars and inhabitants of the earth.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1530; ESTC R27128	18,671	21

persecutions cruel mockings imprisonments and drawing before Judgement seats should like Abraham in obedience to the voice of the Lord God of our fathers go out of our own Countrys not knowing whether we went even we who are called Quakers that tremble at his word yet we are no Vagabonds but obedient children and servants of the most high God of power and compassions before whom all Nations shall bow and tremble Therefore be awakened all ye Rulers and Inhabitants of the Earth and consider these things and be not rash heady nor high minded nor hasty to give heed to false reports or to fulfil the lusts and wills of envious wrathful and ambitious men or to lay hands suddenly or violently on any without just cause but be meek patient and sober and search out the truth of causes and controversies and consider the Scriptures before written for the people of the living God are at this day strangers and Pilgrims in the Earth as all our fathers were Therefore fear God and be very careful heeding the light his witness in you which lets you see between good and evil for some have entertained Angles unawares Heb. 13.2 Be wise thererore now O ye Kings and Rulers and be instructed and learn Righteousness ye that be Juddges of the Earth and serve the God with fear and trembling least his anger be wholly kindled against you and then you perish from the way of everlasting peace and happyness I am a lover of the Holy God and good men of truth mercy and Righteousness and am w●y●ing in the spirit of Love and patience for the Resurrection of the dead that the Righteous and holy seed may arise and come into Rule and Dominon in and through the whole Creation called VVilliam Bayly THe decree of God the first Birth is to slay That all its fruits and Offspring might decay Which hath sild the Earth with Pride and Violence Even like the Plague and grevious Pestilence The zeal of God against it now doth burn Which will consum 't in Iacobs blest return For the first born of Egypt must be brought To death who hath the seconds mischeif sought Which now must rule the Nations with his Rod Though Cain may flee and build i' th Land of Nod Yet there his hand will finde him out again Then endless will be his punishment and pain And all that came from the first Birth must go In 't Condemnation and eternal woe Which caus'd the wrath of God on earth to come Therefore its great destruction is the Sun Of what the Prophets by past have declar'd That Babylon no longer should be spar'd But Vengeance on her head should poured be That all her Plagues and nakedness may see And by her Torments learn for to amend Least furious Plagues again on them he send For with his sword hee 'l cut down Ceadars tall And with great noyse Now Babylon must fall And all her Merchants they shall weep and wail For God will neither leave her head nor tail And hee 'l not spare his Arrows for to spend Till of her seed h' hath made a final end All flesh shall fail all knees shall feeble be The Joynts and Loyns of men now loos'd you 'l see The Earth shall reel the Mountains they shall quake Because God pleads with them for his Seeds sake These things are neer and hasten they do now The time is come that Nations all must bow To him that 's born who must the Scepter sway And bring to dust what stands against his way His Name is Light his burthen is so to Easy his Yoak to those who life for-goe And in his Name sake and in his will can rest These are the Souls that are for ever blest But as for them that will not he should Reign The time draws neer in which they must be slain Amen Ha le lu jah W. B Babylon the Great is fallen is fallen and become the habitation of Devils Revel 18. THE END

and of his Apostles and Prophets in the days past who wandered in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute and afflicted having no certain dwelling place But if you say nay these are no Vagabonds though Christ had not a place to lay his head on nor Abraham a foot of ground and wandered into a strange Country not knowing whether he went and the Apostles and Patriarks wandered and were in Dens and Caves of the Earth being destitute afflicted and tormented by the wicked men of the World who was not worthy of them having no certaine dwelling place yet these were no Vagabonds but good men Righteous men sincere and holy men of God 4. Qu. Then what is the absolute ground of being a Vagabond seeing these men are no Vagabonds though they have no certaine dwelling place but wandred up and down in the earth and that Cain is a Vagabond though a rich man and builded a Citty 5. Qu. Whether the word Vagabond doth not signifie a seperation or wandring from God who is truth and love or a being banished from his presence by reason of envy murther and rage which seperates from the pure just God For Cain said when he had been wrath and had slain his brother now shall I bee a Vagabond and a fugitive in the Earth and from thy presence shall I be hid mark that and behold every one that findeth me will s ay me so he fled from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod on the East of Eden where this Murderer built a City a strong hold being afraid every one that found him would kill him mark here the first builder in the Earth was a Vagabond a rich man a persecutor and a Murderer about Sacrifice Gen. 45. 6. Qu. Now whether envy wrath persecution murder cruelty oppression and imprisoning about Sacrifice and Worship be not the very ground and cause of being a Vagabond or seperated from God and not the want of a certaine dwelling place in the Earth Seeing Cain is a Vagabond though he builded a City and Abraham and the Apostles and Prophets and many other holy men of God and Christ are no Vagabonds though they wandred and had no City house or dwelling place in the Earth or so much ground as to set their foot or to lay their head on 7. Qu. Whether God hath not chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heires of his everlasting Kingdome and whether the rich men that did oppress them and draw them before Iudgements seats were not the blasphemers and such as tormented and afflicted them in envy ambition and wrath were not the Vagabonds seeing such things seperates from God and hides his presence from them 8. Qu. Whether Lazarus was a Vagabond who was very poor and lay begging at the rich mans Gate where the Dogs came in more love then their owner ticking his sores or whether this hard hearted Rich man was not the Vagabond seeing he was cast into Hell torments where he was seperated with a great Gulf from the presence and Glory of Gods love for ever and Lazarus the begger carried into Abrahams bosome the friend of God by an Angel being comforted and the other who lived in pleasures unrighteousness and deliciousness every day in his life time tormented Luke 16. He that hath an ear to hear let him hear Now seeing Cain is a Vagabond being in the wrath envy transgression the ground of it Let us search the line of true Iudgement yet further and see if we can finde more rich men to be Vagabonds and Blasphemers though they have Citys like Cain or habitations in the Earth 9. Qu. Whether Ishmael the wild man the mocke and scoffer was not cast out of Abrahams house the freind of God into whose bosom the poor man Lazarus was carried and whether he was not seperated by his wildness mocking and enmity whose hand was against every man and every mans hand against him from the presence of God and was a Vagabond seeing the word Vagabond signifies a seperation or being driven from or cast out of Gods presence 10. Qu. Whether Esau the cunning Hunter the prophane person was not a Vagabond seeing he sould his Birth-right for a mess of Pottage and lost the blessing and afterwards sought a place of Repentance but could not finde it but was rejected though he sought it carefully with tears consider this ye prophane and ungodly ones whose pleasures and treasures are in this life out of whose Loyns came the Dukes of Edom and twelve Princes from the Loynes of Ishmael the wild man the mocker and scoffer who was cast out of Abrahams house and these had Towns and Castles like their brother Cain and great possessions in the Earth Gen. 21.9 25.16 36.40 H●b 12.16 11. Qu. Whether such as are in the envious wrathful wild mocking and scoffing nature Now and are prophane persons cunningly hunting Now and persecuting and afflicting about Sacrifice Now and drawing the poor of this world wh are chosen rich in faith and heirs of Gods Kingdome before the Iudgement seats Now Whether these are not the Blasphemers Vagabonds and seperated from Gods presence Now in this state though they may be great and rich in this world as the Princes of Ishmael Cain and the Dukes of Edom seeing God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in fai h and heirs of his Kingdom without end from which Cain was a Vagabond though he builded a City and called it after the name of his son Gen. 4.17 THerefore hearken all you Kings Rulers Governours and people upon earth and take heed you do not persecute and imprison or abuse the servants and Children of the most high God wherever they come in your Dominions or Countrys under the name of Vagabonds wanderers or Idle persons or the like who come in love to your souls And be you warned that you hurt not them who do no evil I charge you in the name of the dreadful God that made heaven and earth least you bring Innocent blood upon your own heads and as you will answer it in the terrible day at hand for the Almighty God is no respecter of persons who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords neither doth poverty or riches in this world make a Vagabond or keep from being a Vagabond for they were no Vagabonds who had here no continuing City but sought one to come whose builder maker is God though they wandered about in sheep skins Goat skins in Dens Caves of the earth yet these were no Vagabonds but had a habitation in God of whom they obtained a good report through faith and were blessed of whom the world was not worthy And if any of us who are of the same seed and generation and built upon the same foundation Christ Jesus the Light that lighteth every man who was hated scorned derided and drawn from prison to Judgement I say if any of us who declare his Generation now by afflictions