Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	holy_a	son_n	6,458	5	6.0598	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30669	The mystery of iniquity discovered to work in the children of disobedience whereby the pretended godliness of schismaticks appeareth to be the greatest ungodliness : in a cathedral-lecture at St. Peters in Exon / by Arthur Bury ...	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6198; ESTC R43074	27,889	48

shall be exposed to the many temptations of falling into those sins of an extravagant tongue whose Iniquities are so exceedingly both mischievous and insuperable This may perhaps seem a Mystery that there should be so vast a disproportion between the bulk and effects of the tongue But there is yet a greater Mystery behind Hitherto the fire or poyson may vye with it but there is another mystery wherein the whole world cannot match it with a parallel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 11 c. It is a ridling mischief What fountain is that which out of the same hole casteth forth salt water fresh sweet water and bitter What root is that which beareth branches leaves of one sort and fruit of another What cause is that which produceth contrary effects The Sun indeed hardeneth clay softeneth wax but he doth not beam out heat and cold the difference is not in his light but in the objects which receive it But the tongue can at the same time bless God and curse man whom God made like himself and to be loved for his sake v. 9. You cannot finde in all the creation such another the heart of man it self which is comprehensive and deceitful above all things yet is deceived if it think it can do this 1. John 4.20 He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen The tongue can really bless and curse but the heart cannot really it may feignedly the love of God if true will expel the hatred of our brother if this dwell there the other will not however the stock and branches and leaves speak a Fig yet the fruit declares an Olive Talk of Wisdom and extraordinary gifts and yet stir up Divisions in the Church Pretend the love of Christ and yet live contrary to his Example and commands These things ought not so to be If you will be Christians indeed let it be known by your Love let your Wisdom appear by your meekness For if you nourish strife and envy all your pretences of religion are but specious lyes and vain brags Love is of God and malice of the Divel Christ taught you to learn of him to be lowly and meek and finde rest but faction destroyeth the peace and happiness of mankind and therefore This is not the wisdom which cometh from above c. Thus we see the greatest cheat in the world detected and arraigned In the 15. v. his disguise pull'd off by shewing both that he is not what he pretendeth and is what he most professeth to loathe In the 16. vers he is indicted as the most pernicious malefactor in the world First His cheat discovered by shewing his fountain 1. Negatively not from above 2. Positively It is earthly c. 2. His crime impleaded by discovering the sea of confusion and mischief which he bringeth upon the world And these are the two Offices of the 2. verses of my Text. In prosecution whereof what shall I do shall I exercise the same vehemence as my Apostle doth I must then exspect to be my self accused of contentiousness even while I speak against it Shall I then use gentleness I may more justly expect to be censured as an unfaithful Sollicitor of the cause of God and his Church I will endeavor to offend on the better side And if I shall then be accused of bitterness I will appeal to my Apostle who is far more invective If of coldness I will appeal to him too who hath taught to beware of strife so I shall on the one side imitate his ardour or on the other practice his Doctrine First then for the discovery of the fountain and that Negatively It cometh not from above cannot say to God as David did Psalm 87.7 1 John 1.5 Chap. 4.8 16. All my Springs are in thee God is called in the Abstract Light and Love He is called Light with so much solemnity as will hardly be matched and we are told after great preparations that this is the very summe of the Gospel He is called Love twice in one Chapter of the same Epistle And they very well set forth each other The proper Office of light and Love is to reconcile the greatest enemies multiplication and union They are both the greatest multipliers and uniters The greatest multipliers for it is the proper work of Light to Shine that is to multiply and furnish the world with it's self The Sun is such a Fountain as to stream out his light on every little atome of every side and every beam like the Fountain multiplieth into new beams so that whether we believe the Sun to be the Centre of the world it is admirable that he should extend himself to every atome of so vast a Circle or if he be not the Centre it is yet more wonderful that his light should reach the most distant Star and from thence return again to shine upon the earth Light is the greatest yea and the onely multiplier every seed multiplieth by reason of a spark of astral fire kindled in it which if it might be husbanded would fill the whole world with it's posterity As Light so Love too is ready to distribute willing to communicate Again the beams of light do so scatter themselves abroad as to keep close together not the least piece of the air where they do not embrace each other unless some gross body force a separation and even then they use all possible diligence to meet again And this doth Love too If it be possible as much as in it lyes lives peaceably with all men Thus light which Plato well honoured by calling it the shadow of God setteth forth the Divine Love in it 's two great effects liberality and peaceableness Which will more particularly appear if we consider him manifested in each office of the three persons As creator redeemer and sanctifier we shall finde that Love not strife cometh from above from the Father Son and Holy Ghost 1. First As Father and creator God is light and being so multiplied himself in begetting a world from himself Love was the procatartik Light the instrumental cause of the creation Which the Divine word describeth to have been performed after this manner Genes 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth The heaven as the principle of light and heat and life and beauty and love The earth as the principle of darkness and cold and death and horrour and hatred And thus it was There was darkness over the face of the deep vast Abyss and the Spirit of light moved upon the face of that liquid Chaos and in a moment compassed it round and so distilled it that the purer parts drew toward the light and the grosser fled from it The purer made that light inaccessible which is the throne of God the third heaven and the evening and the morning that exalted light and that baffled darkness were the first day Then the