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	will_n	3,297	5	6.8462	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61224	Some thoughts concerning the life to come with a brief account of the state of religion as it is now in the world.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1693 (1693)	Wing S5138; ESTC R37589	43,947	90

this Body there succeeds Judgment and Account and strict requiring for all those Omissions of Good and Duty which I have been guilty of which are now utterly gone by and cannot be retrieved for all eternity Trial was once had but now it is over even as to all the Days and Doings of this Life here upon Earth Now the Days are passing and we are as yet in the Flesh but then they will be all over and gone and our Spirits will be removed from hence Then shall they remember Luke 16. 25 the several Steps and Passages of our Life here on Earth which at firs● may seem as faint as the remembrance of ● Night-Vision or of the things which hav● been lately or long since past But they shal● be all call'd over again and appear before us● All the Thoughts Words and Actions of th● past Life will remain present before the Sou● and appear more lively and make yet a greater impression because then she is to receiv● accordingly than when they were first done The Word of Instruction which doth aris● hence is that every thing now should be so done as it will be then wished and desired that it ha● been done and this is to strive to the utmost i● pleasing and finding acceptance with Almighty God In what fear should we pass the tim● of our sojourning How should we improv● every moment of our precious Time and n● suffer the least portion thereof to pass away i● unprofitable and vain things The dispropo●tion between Time and Eternity is vast an● as much greater as between the whole Ocea● and a single Drop or as the whole gathering ●f the Waters is to a narrow Gulph or Stream The Rivers run to the Sea and in like man●er as soon as we draw Breath we are gliding ●n 'till we launch forth and are swallowed up ●nto Eternity The Odds will be as great or ●ather more exceeding than when one who ●as imprisoned in a dark Dungeon or cub●ed up in a narrow close Room is let out to ●he liberty of the whole Earth Or like a Swal●ow which for a little time was pent up in a Cage is let out again to fly up and down in ●he wide and immense Regions of Air. The ●lteration and Change which will be then ●ade upon us is yet more unconceivable It ●oth not yet appear what we shall be Now ●e know nothing or but little of the Soul ●e shall then perceive nothing besides the Soul ●ow we are wholly taken up with the Con●erns of the Body then we shall have nothing ●o do with it And so though our Bodies do ●●oulder towards the Dust and then seem to be ●tterly lost yet it is not so for ever for they ●●all be raised up again and rendred glorious ●nd incorruptible Now we do mind if not ●nly yet chiefly things sensible and carnal ●ut then we shall be wholly taken up with the ●onsideration of things spiritual The whole Creation with all the Things and Works of God will be more clearly manifested before us and understood by us than they are now as much as the Understanding of a Man doth exceed and surpass the Conception and Instinct of a Beast It will be a very great change and renewal of things now no more to turn to Corruption nor to be destroyed nor yet dissolved But as it is said of Melchisedeck That he abideth a Priest continually Heb. 7. 3. By which Word Priest according to its first institution is signified the most Sanctified and Holy and Choice of the People And ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of Priests and a holy Nation Exod. 19. 6. from whence cometh that Word Clergy So in like manner it may be affirmed when those true Things are erected and set up whereof the Things heretofore made and now in being are but the figure when the new Heavens and the new Earth are created which are spoken of in Isai 65. 17. then if we may so speak after the manner of Men with much humility trembling and reverence that it may be understood by their Capacities God hath done his best For the new Heavens and the new Earth which I will make shall remain observe that before me saith the Lord Isai 66. 22. This Word Remain doth denote an eternal unchangeable state or whatever is to last for a time if it be a thousand or million of Years that is transitory for the several parts and portions of Time do pass away and succeed one another Now there is both Time and Motion which are relative Terms and these do point forth unto as they will be swallowed up at length in the eternal Rest The whole Earth is at rest and quiet they break forth into singing Isai 14. 7. This doth respect and look back unto that Confusion Desolation Destruction Trouble and Weariness which hath been heretofore on the Earth when there was fear and weeping It is before said The Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from thy hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve vers 3. These former evil things shall be done away and the contrary good things shall succeed in the room thereof And though this will in some measure be fulfilled in the latter days on the Earth when the Sinners who cause all this evil and trouble shall be consumed out of the Earth and the wicked shall be no more Psal 104. 35. For in what Prayer the Spirit of Truth doth dictate is included a Promise that so it shall be And then the People who inhabit here shall practice the same Holiness and live in peace as in Jerusalem which is above which is the Mother of us all Which Word Jerusalem by Interpretation is the Visions of Peace Though this will be in a less degree and more imperfect manner just before the Church on Earth shall be received up and swallowed into that of Heaven And it shall then come to pass that the whole Creation shall be at res● and quiet They shall sing for joy and brea● forth in loud Voices and everlasting Hallelujahs as is described in the Revelations They shall not only be so as to rest and inward peace of Soul and Spirit but also as to outward Res● and Motion The Sun shall no more be thy ligh● by day thy Sun shall no more go down neither shall thy Moon withdraw it self for the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Light Isai 60 18 19. So shall it no more rejoyce as a strong Man to run a Race nor any longer continue● his going forth from the end of Heaven nor his Circuit unto the ends of it but the reason of the thing will then also cease and God Himself will then supply that immediately to his living Creatures and Spirits which they had before by the means and instrumentality of the inanimate Creatures There shall be no more any weary Beast but if these sensitive and irrational Creatures should be raised up also to being