Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	faith_n	grace_n	work_n	6,088	5	6.2038	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81234	Asarkokaukēma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, open'd in a sermon preached at the funeral of Kingsmel Lucy, Esq. Eldest sonne to Francis Lucy, Esq. / By Tho. Case ...	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; Lucy, Francis.; Lucy, Kingsmel.	1655 (1655)	Wing C823A; ESTC R175653	36,380	166

Will of God Your silence before the Lord where by you evidence to your selves and others your trial to be the rod of a Father the fruit of love You do not only bear your Crosse but adorn it The Lord cause all grace to abound in your souls perfect the good pleasure of his grace and the work of faith with power And the Lord continue you both comforts one to another and blessings to all your Relations 1 Sam 2.20 give you a rich recompence for the loan which is lent to the Lord and now one channel is dried up cause the remaining to over-flow with mercy Make your surviving off-spring double comforts to you and blessings to the world Yea the lesse you have of the creature fit you for and fill you with MORE OF HIMSELF So prayeth Your most obliged and most faithful Friend and Servant in the Gospel THO. CASE To the Choise and every way Hopeful Young Gentleman Mr. RICHARD LUCY the Now only Son and Heire to FRANCIS LVCY Esq Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. Learned Friend YOu have not the least interest in these papers whom your desired Brother hath left Inheritor not to his Expectations only but his Vertues which here are presented to you Not as you have seen them in their own native beauty and splendor as they beamed out themselves to the eye of those that did converse with him while alive but as you have seen the picture of a man taken in his winding sheet in more dark and lifelesse colours and yet as to the visage and aire such as that without an Inscription you might at first sight be able to tell whose picture and image it is The view whereof I know not whether it may affect you more with grief or joy grief becaufe it ls not himself joy because you have so much of his shadow to converse with as long as you shall survive I send it to you Sir to perfect the Copy for the truth is there is none that can draw it to life but your self it being not only imago tua but imago tui that therefore you would every day adde one line to the finishing of this excellent piece Nulla dies fine linea is the designe of this third dedication It concernes you highly for though the death of your honoured Brother hath left you the Birth-right it is his Life only that must give you the Blessing Your Advantages are rare a pious fathers counsels a gracious mothers tears and prayers the inspection of a learned and industrious Tutor your daily converse with silent and vocal Libraries dead and living monuments of learning Above all that which the great Rabbi among the Jewes and Apostle amongst Christians puts as a Crown upon young Timothies head that from a childe thou hast known the Scriptures 2 Tim 3.15 which are able to make thee wise to salvation These are your advantages and Prayer your emprovement the exercise whereof you have learn't both by Precept and by Pattorn may the Gift of Prayer be accomplished with the Grace of Prayer the sweet and secret teachings of the Spirit of Grace and Supplication Zech. 12.20 The Lord make you to abound in that holy duty our heavenly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the traffick and trade whereby we fetch in the merchandize of the Heavenly Jerusalem Great obligations presse you to a vigorous emprovement of your advantages the recruit of your tender Parents comforts the honour of your Noble Family the expectation of your worthy friends the name of your excellent brother whom dying me thinks I hear bespeaking of you thus Vive tuo frater tempore vive meo That you may do worthily and answer all these engagements with an overplus of satisfaction may a double portion of your Brothers spirit rest upon you It is Sir and shall be the prayer of Your real friend and Servant unfeignedly covetous of your perfection THO CASE TO THE READER Good Reader IT is a judgement threatened by two Prophets against the Jewes Jer. 16 5. Ezek. 24.23 that they should not mourn nor lament for their dead That which was their judgement is our sin which the Prophet Isaiah hath languaged to our hands Isa 57.1 The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering c. It was sometime the curse of the worst of men that wretched Coniah They shall not lament for him Jer. 22.7 saying Ah Lord or Ah his glory This wanton secure ungrateful generation hath most wickedly translated this curse upon them whom the Lord hath blessed and made blessings to their generations we lament not over our Worthies saying Ah Lord or Ah their glory The Hand of God of late is gone out against us in a dreadful manner and within a few moneths last past hath taken away divers worthy Ministers not only faithful but mighty in the service of the Gospel The last Summer as I take it there died in one Essex County only about thirty foure godly Ministers since then there is fallen very lately worthy Dr. Hill Malle is Hereticorum Schismaticorum flagellum Master of Trin. Coll. Cambridge a man of a singular spirit for Government mighty in convincing and suppressing of error and innovations Reverend Mr. Gataker a Treasury of Learning and Religion Profound Dr. Gouge His excellent Comment on the Hebrews with other of his learned Labours will remain as Monuments of his great worth to posterity whose indefatigable industry both in his publick Ministery domestick duties and private studies was to admiration Judicious Whitaker mighty in preaching melting in prayer whose holinesse was mixt with such sweetness and tendernesse of spirit that it rendred him useful and acceptable to men of all judgements and tempers Excellent Dr. Bolton a man of singular spirituality and acutenesse in all his Gospel-labours Famous Mr. Angel a man ineeed of Angelical understanding and holinesse a burning and shining light Precious Mr. Robinson Englands Jacob London Remembrancer judicious in preaching affectionate in prayer in both incomparably laborious a man most deeply sensible of the evil of the times and unmovably firm to his principles Ingenious Mr. Jaggard a man of singular parts and excellent Ministerial abilities Hopeful Mr. Fenton newly chosen to Croatchet Friars young in yeares but of great maturity in the knowledge of Christ These and many more some in their full age others in the midst of their dayes and some wo unto us in their prime and strength of their Ministery hath God removed from us To this breach that God hath made upon us in the Church hath he added some deep wounds in the Common-wealth Besides the death of many worthy Gentlemen very serviceable in their generations that which may set most sad upon our spirits is that God hath snaetch't from us by sudden and unexpected strokes many young Gentlemen of the greatest eminency and hopes which this or many generations formerly have known That