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	work_n	6,191	5	6.9192	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61419	An appeal to heaven and earth, against the Christian Epicureans, who have betrayed their king and countrey, and exposed them to the judgments of God drawn up in questions theological, and theologico-political/ by Socrates Christianus.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5419; ESTC R8220	13,491	20

An APPEAL TO HEAVEN and EARTH Against The Christian Epicureans Who have betrayed their KING and Countrey And Exposed them to the Judgments of GOD Drawn up in QUESTIONS Theological and Theologico-Political By Socrates Christianus LONDON Printed in the Year MDCXCI THE DESIGN Of the Following Questions BEcause it may be mistaken by many and is otherwise like to be fully understood by few it is necessary to premise a brief Explication of it It is not to expose any person much less Him whom all may perceive to be particularly concern'd in them They were indeed written with some respect to him but for his service partly for the necessary and more full Conviction of a dangerous Error by him unhappily committed that he may before it be too late provide to prevent the further Mischiefs of it by humbling himself in the sight of the Lord speedily and giving Glory to God by acknowledging his Fault and a resolute actual Amendment whatever Difficulty or Danger occur in it For a Great Fault it seems to be and such as is not to be denyed or palliated in not well attending to the Design and Conduct of the Providence of God and Prosecuting his Service with that Fidelity Generosity and Magnanimity as became an Instrument raised up by him but stooping through Evil Counsels to vulgar mean and vain Policies And the Danger of the Consequence thereof seems to be no less viz. Lest being destitute and out of the way of that Conduct which he deserted to secure himself or promote his Business he fall into the very Evils he sought to avoid find the Egyptians upon whom he leans prove as broken Canes which run into his hand and the Cananites whom he hath not by a vigorous exerting his Authority endeavoured to subdue as Pricks in his Eyes and Thorns in his Sides and a Snare unto him Partly to represent to him the True Ends and Business of Government and some of those Faults therein which have been committed by and brought no little mischief upon his Predecessors in this Kingdom that he may with great Caution avoid the same and all such Counsels as might mislead him into them For it would greatly aggravate such a Fault in Him if He should become guilty in the least but by attempt or desire of what he is raised up to punish in so near a Relation and scandalize the Extraordinary Manifestation of the Providence of God in the late Revolution and his own Enterprize and make it and his Declaration suspected of Hypocritical Ambition from the Beginning And partly to make manifest to him what kind of Persons in matters of Religion and what in matters of State and Government are very unsafe and dangerous for him to rely upon their Counsel Advice or Judgment even by his own Experience as well as by the Examples of his Predecessors For I can hardly be perswaded that ever any Man in such a height of Fortune was more betray'd than he hath been one way or other by all sorts but most perniciously by those of the Clergy who have had any special Obligation or other Advantages of access to him Which brings me to another Part of the Design And this as I said before is not to expose any much less the Sacred Function but for Admonition to those who are faulty either through Neglect of Watchfulness and Faithful Warning through Unfaithful Caution and Forbearance for any self respect or through Error and Corruption of Judgment whereby they departed out of the way and caused him to stumble from the Ancient Paths that they may consider well the Danger which not only He through their fault but themselves also are fallen into For if he miscarry therein his Blood and the Blood of thousands more will be required at their hands as I doubt they have much to answer for already for the many Souls which in Ireland and elsewhere have died in their Sins and Wickedness and might have been reclaimed that they may consider the danger thereby in Him brought upon all for this is the pernicious Root of all our Mischief the Accursed thing for which we cannot prosper and well considering these things they may consider further what is to be done and by them more especially to stop the Wrath which we may fear is gone out and apply themselves to it speedily with a Zeal no less than that of Phineas And for this purpose it is but reasonable that this should be done to make it the more effectual by way of APPEAL to all the Divines of this Church or rather of all Protestant Churches if not to Heaven and Earth to High and Low Rich and Poor for all are concern'd in it and it may be feared that the Sin reaches Heaven it self and may bring down Judgment upon our Heaven and Earth very suddenly if not prevented by some extraordinary Means used without further delay And this is the last part of the Design subordinate to the Supream End of All to make All for All are concerned sensible of their concern in this matter and how dangerous the Case is which is with us just as it is in some Diseases which are never more dangerous than when the Patient is least sensible of Danger or Disease As Insensibility is a most dangerous Symptom so of it in any such Case we need not seek for further Evidence when we may perceive it to have invaded the Clergy who are as it were the Vitals in such Cases Of which we have three notable Arguments and Proofs The first is the Faults before mention'd of such as have any special Obligation or other Advantage of Access to the King of which I need say no more Another is the common Discourse of many in good earnest who can plainly laugh at a Universal Reformation as a thing Impracticable or at least Unseasonable and think themselves very wise in it and therefore please themselves in commending the Zeal of such as are any whit earnest for the promotion of it with a kind of insulting pity for their weakness These Persons though I am well assured some of them do not intend it really do strengthen the hands of Evil Doers and discourage the Work of the Lord and how conceited so ever they may be of their own Parts or Prudence are in this particular under two great and shameful Mistakes or Over-sights 1. They do not consider the Prevalence even of Humane Authority well exerted in a good Cause and what hath been effected in their own time or in the time of their Fathers to the suppression of the most common and impudent Vices which are now reviv'd and reign amongst us in so much that they durst not appear but were either wholly suppressed or fled into Corners 2. Nor do they any better consider the Power of God the Methods of his Providence or the Nature of that Faith which is so highly extolled in the Sacred Scriptures but are in truth though they little think it a kind of Christian