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 great_a sin_n 2,789 5 5.0653 4 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A19254 Bartas Iunior: or, The worlds epitome; man Set forth in his 1. generation, 2. degeneration, 3. regeneration. Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631. 1631 (1631) STC 5667; ESTC S117171 40,888 74

There are 2 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

rule of opposition And good as we distinguish by possession After his fall he likewise understood The Guilt of Evill by the losse of Good Others did call it so by the Event Because it did procure his punishment But this not fully doth explaine the place August de Civ Dei l 14. c. 12. The Tree was wholesome and had pleasant grace How was it evill then By Accident Not of it selfe By the Commandement Gen 2 17 For this cause it was said Thou shalt not eate The precept made it so the pow'r was great To warren Man from Sinne in Innocence Who after was to fall by Negligence Thou shalt not eate This precept tells him why But what commands the God of Majesty Rom 12.3 He bids him for to rectifie his Will And not to covet that would make him ill He bids him to be wise in all discretion And not to rise in thought 'bove his condition He tells him how his glory might consist In true obedience if he will persist He tells him though he were a Prince on earth Yet it was He that gave him first his birth And being but a Subject and a Creature Luk 20.25 Deu 10.12 He must pay homage to his Lord and Maker Thus as a Rule the Tree of knowledge stood To tye him to Obedience which was good It was not set by Gods appointment there For to intrap his life as with a Snare As the malicious multitude surmise Who murmure ' gainst the Lord that 's only wise But God therein would his Obedience try To prove his Love his Faith and Loyalty Deut 10.12 Nor did he stand in need of Mans obedience Who was to doe it upon his allegiance Nor could the Lord be better'd ought thereby Psal 16 2. For nought can adde unto his Soveraignty No Power can make him greater than he is Psa 145.3 No Ioy can helpe to perfect up his blisse No Iustice make him just by betterment Psal 50.11 No Knowledge adde to his experiment With one sole act he viewes all things that be Through his essentiall Conspicuitie Psal 94.11 And knowes the very secret thoughts of All By uncreated Power Personall Gods power is himselfe Prov. 8.15 He is the sole perfection of all things He maketh Lords inaugurateth Kings He pluckes them downe he reares them up againe For by his pow'r all Kings doe live and reigne Zanchy upon the Attribute Lord. Psal 50 12 Psal 145 3 Isay 40 12 Psal 147 9 He is the true and compleate Lord alone That helpeth All yet stands in need of None If he be hungry who shall give him meat For the whole world is his he is so great He measures Heav'n and Earth as with a Span He feedes the Beast and giveth food to Man He heares the little Ravens when they cry Iob 39 3 Psa 147.9 And gives them meat to to their voracity He with a word did Earth and Heavens make Psal 33 6 And he becomes a Begger for our sake He begs a loyall and a faithfull Heart Pro. 23 2● Deut 10.12 He sued to Man and Man would not impart His bound obedience to his Maker great His soveraigne Lord of prime and Supreme-seate VVhat could the Lord in favour more have done Than have required duty of a Sonne VVhat could a Sonne in due have chosen rather Than true obedience to so good a Father Luk. 20.25 Who did exact obedience as his due To have confirm'd his Faith and blest him too Gen. 2.17 Who did in mercy warne him of his fall That he might shunne the punishment withall But see the nature of Ingratefulnes Adam forgot the God of Righteousnes He would be elevated through Ambition Rom 12 13. He would be like the Highest in Condition He would be wise above Capacity He would be equall to the Deity Presum'd to gaine this knowledge by that Fruite But through his folly was made destitute It was no petty Sinne he did commit The greatnesse of his sinne No trifling Apple which he sought to get Although Pope Iulius third of that same name Did prize his Peacocks losse above the same His Sinne was most exceeding insolent Against the mighty Lord omnipotent Psal 145.3 He that is great without all Quantity He that is good without all Quality 1 Tim 1 17. Psal 90 2. Isay 66.1 Ier 23 24. He that is everlasting without Age He that in Heaven hath his heritage Who with his Essence Pow'r and Saving-grace Fills Heaven and Earth and is in Every-place This same is he which Adam disobey'd Rejecting Iacobs God to be his ayde All through the fond perswasion of his Wife And so I come unto the Tree of life THe Tree of life had properly the name From the true Vertue which was in the same The Fruite thereof retein'd this property To keep the body from mortality August de Civ Dei l 14. c. 26. In such a state and perpetuity As should have banisht all infirmity As Hunger Thirst olde Age and Feeblenesse Sorrow and Sicknesse Death and Wretchednesse And when that Adam had continued there In all the blisse and jollities that were In a full space of time contented then He should have gone not dyed as other men Like Enoch Gent 5.24 It was as a Sacrament of life to man But in his beauteous Strength and Happinesse Have beene translated to Gods blessednesse It likewise was a Signe of Life to Man That he might duly contemplate thereon And so obeying the commandement Might endlesse live without all punishment It was a Type of Christ the Sonne of God Rev 22 2. Pro 3 13 Ioh 6 33. Who should be borne to feele his Fathers rod And so give life to Mans posterity Who lost the same by Adams misery Thus stood these Trees in midst of Paradice Gen 2 9. When Adam listen'd unto Gods advice Thus Adam was in his Magnificence Gen 1 26 Long of his Makers great Benevolence Thus was he in Dominion over all Psal 8.5 6 In State and Power most Majesticall Thus was he seated thus did he command All things that were either in Sea or Land The Ayre was pure unblemisht to his eye The Sunne surpassed in his radiancy The Ground was fruitfull without helpe or labour And all the Hearbs had a most pleasant savour His Body was so comely and so faire As if it had beene made of purest aire His Lookes were heavenly and his Thoughts divine And all his Parts to goodnesse did incline His Second-selfe had all things that he had Gen 2.23 And in this Sympathy was Adam glad He cal'd her Woman and in that fit name He shew'd her Being and from whence she came ●bid v. 25 They both were naked and were not ashamed Their perfect comelines in Both unblamed Gen 3.7 They had no clothes to cover nakednesse Aug Civit. Dei l. 14. ●26 Till Sinne brought Shame to hide
be 〈◊〉 them committed more iniquity The Sinne which he enacted was his owne ●et beares he not the punishment alone ●o creatures without life it did extend ●●r this word Earth doth them all comprehend O then if e're Compassion touch'd thy heart Participating of anothers smart Pitty the Earth afflicted for thy Sinne The Authour to the Reader Which but for thee had ever blessed bin We all were sinfull in our Fathers loynes His sinne was ours our sinne with his conjoynes Then let us pitty what our selves did marre Forbeare to sinne least we increase the scarre Simile If thou should'st see thy Father give correction To one of 's servants without Faults detection Either in carriage knowledge or in skill But ever ready to performe his will Yet to be punished for thine offence Would it not move thee unto penitence Make thee let fall a sigh a sob a teare As feeling in thy selfe what he doth beare Make thee to impetrate thy Fathers love Which being granted might his hate remove Luke 15 18 19 20 God is thy loving thy respecting Father Thou sinning he hath castigated rather The harmelesse Earth than Thee that thou maist view The cause of Sinne that urg'd him thereunto And learne withall that this same chastisement Is not the Servants but Thy punishment Turne to the text read on the words withall Tell me if God speakes not patheticall VVith such compassion in delivery As if he felt the whole Earths misery Gen 3.17 18 Curst be the earth O Man for thine offence For Thornes and Thistles shall spring thick from thence In carefull sorrow Thou thereof shalt eate And get thy living from it by thy Sweate Till thou returne unto the Dust againe Gen 3.19 For Dust thou art and from the Dust wast taine Loe how the Lord portrait's his misery In Vailes of sorrow fraile Mortality Loe how he sets him forth as now he is A creature subject unto what 's amisse Psal 49 2● Eph 4 24 VVho was before prone unto godlinesse And had no staine of inbred wickednesse But having thus disjoyn'd his will from Gods Rom 8.7 8 It proves rebellious and with him at oddes His Body now corrupted by his Soule August de Civit. Dei l. 14 c. 3. 1● VVill be no longer under her controule The Soule corrupted by the Bodies staines Wisd 9 15 Is as a Captive led and tyed in chaines Man with them both is in continuall warre Rom. 7 23 And they in him doe still maintaine the jarre The Spirit sometimes gets the victory Sometimes the flesh by her antipathy Gal 5 19 Sometimes he manlike doth assist the Spirit And doth the Flesh of power disinherit Anone the Flesh prevailing with the Man Repells the Spirit backe doe what he can He fights on both sides deales with either hand To will or doe or else to countermand Much like a Wave that rises ' loft and falls Iam. 1 6 Simile So man doth reele as his affections calls Sometimes the billowes of ambitious tide Doth whirle him forward with full saile to pride Anon the Blast of Pleasure sets him on To a bad bias'd conversation Sometimes he doth lament his Wickednesse And stands amazed at his Wretchednesse Anon as carelesse of his former State He slides from Grace and seemes a Reprobate O what a changed thing is Man become How wav'ring in his Will and best Wisedome How stagg'ring stands he like a tottering Reede Which is the embleme of himselfe indeede Mat 11 7 The Reede doth yeeld to every Puffe of Winde So Man doth yeeld to Evill in his minde The Reed is void of pith to amplifie Man void of Vertue full of Vanitie The Reed fast bound with knots doth hold as ginnes Man faster bound with sundry sorts of Sinnes Yea such unto himselfe himselfe will be Appearing by this strange Antipathie Iudg. 16 His flesh like Dalilah doth now consent To give him to the Worlds false fond content The Devill with the World doth him allure To leave his God and turne an Epicure His passions like himselfe doe him disturbe Plutarch in his Morals page 76 And will not be obedient to his curbe They make him pale and red and full of feare They make him quiver they abate his cheare They perturbate his panting comberd heart With very touch of Anger 's piercing Dart. August de Civit. Dei l. 14 c. 3. 15 Nature within him likewise goes about By force of Sicknesses to weare him out And all the other Creatures gathering head Are ' gainst him set with hate invetered The Lyon Panther Tygre Wolfe and Beare The Dragon Crocodile and All that were Before obedient Servants to his Will 2 Kings 2 24. Have now cast off their yoke and bent to kill Man fell from God then they from man did fall Man having sinn'd they were accursed all As in the Dog Cat c. This cause they had on man to shew their spight Goodnesse they had by man they lost it quite Yet in a few obeying he is blest Finding by them the losse of all the rest The stampe of Soveraignty fix'd on his brow Arist. hist anima● l. 9. c 44. Doth make them stoope and in subjection bow And they whose strength sets little by his might Doe notwithstanding dread or feare his sight The stout courageous Lyon dares affront The Hunters staves and make their weapons blunt Plin. l 8. c. 26. And having ground enough he will defend Himselfe with courage stoutly to the end Yet in the woods he flees for feare of Snares Lest he should be intrapped unawares And will not set upon a Man alone Vnlesse he be compeld thereto by one Ambros de Cain l. 2. c. 1 So that the Naturalists doe truly say A Childs shrill voice will raise him from his prey The ponderous Elephant doth puffe and swell Plin l. 8. c. 4 When he the footsteps of a man doth smell The Tygresse fierce if she the like perceive Doth her abode in that same instant leave And with her fearfull howling seemes to rave Bearing her young-ones to some other Cave That princely Fish the Dolphin of the sea Basil Hexam 10. With whom Arion once maintained plea Doth at the presence of mans shadow fly How ever Pliny writes the contrary The weeping Crocodile of Egypts Nyle Which doth so many simple soules beguile A Creature as they say without a Tongue Plin. l 8. c 25. Some eight and twenty foote or thirty long Pursuing man most fiercely in the chace Flees backe as fast if he but turne his face This feare of Man which keeps them thus in awe Ambr. E●● 38. Gen. 9. ● Was through Gods mercy giv'n them as a law That they his Image might not violate Without his will which must cooperate When Man who beares his Maker on his crest Forgets himselfe and imitates a Beast Then doth the Beast take courage out of hand And as his