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	person_n	son_n	3,185	5	5.8825	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73284	Profano-mastix. Or, a briefe and necessarie direction concerning the respects which wee owe to God, and his house even in outward worship, and reverent using of holy places. Shewing chiefly when, and how, wee ought to enter; how to behave our selves being entred, how to depart; as also, how to esteeme of Gods house at every other time. Written out of a true and sincere intent to reduce the disordered and factious, to a better order then either their neglect, stubbornnesse, or scrupulositie can purchase for them. / By Iohn Swan curate of Duxford S. Peters.	Swan, John, d. 1671.	1639 (1639)	STC 23513; ESTC S106202	33,675	74

crucis for the death of the Crosse For whereas the chiefe Priests Scribes and Elders at the time of his death * Math. 27.37.40 mocked him in allusion to his name saying Hee saved others himselfe he cannot save and whereas the Iewes and wicked Miscreants have alwayes ever since derided the Christians with their crucified Iesus it pleased the Lord in his wisdome to exalt his Name so much the more by how much it was debased and vilified by wicked men And this hee would should be expressed by some externall gesture thereby to shew the inward obeysance and subjection which is due to Christ Against which whilst some object that it cannot be meant of any actuall bowing of the knee because Angels Soules departed Divels and damned soules have no knees to bow they doe but deceive themselves For the Apostle speaking unto men speakes after the manner of men giving us to understand that as wee are to shew our reverence and subjection by bowing of the knee so they by some such gesture as is truly correspondent to this of ours Wee know that in * 1 Cor. 13.1 another place hee gives the Angels tongues And therefore may as well in this place give them knees They have the one as well as the other And so in their kind doe what is here commanded us They their way wee ours for there be many passages in the * Rev. 4.10.2.5.8 c. 14.7.11 See also Heb. 1.6 Revelation which may cleare this doubt And albeit some of these of whom the Text speaketh be of a different quality from the saints and Angels and are therefore obstinately bent against Christ Iesus and will not for the present do their Reverence nor be willing to shew any outward token of subjection or obedience yet seeing Christ must reigne till he have put all his enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 15.25 the time shall be sure to come when the strongest opposites shall bee brought unto it and whether they will or no be made to stoope and to do open reverence to that blessed name which hath bin so often scorned and derided by the Devils and wicked And therefore let every one that liveth bee afraid even how he leanes to perversnesse lest he come at last to be accounted guiltie of a desperate evill For when we have done the best wee can it is no whit more then Christ hath merited For worthy is the Lambe that was slaine to receive power riches wisdome strength honour glorie and blessing Revelat. 5.12 Besides were it so that this were not spoken properly in respect of us who have knees it may as well bee granted that neither is it required of us that wee should confesse for the one is mentioned in the text of Saint Paul as well as the other So that if wee take away the proprietie of speech from the one wee take it also from the other and then wee are as little bound to confesse as to bow which were a tenet directly opposite to a knowne truth For as with the heart Man beleeveth so with the tongue he confesseth as the Scripture elsewhere speaketh viz. Rom. 10.9 10. Nor againe is there cause to feare that although wee bow at the name of Iesus and not at the name of God that wee doe thereby advance the Sonne above the Father For first this honour of Christ begins with the Father hee was the cause of it by Him was his Sonne exalted both in his person and his name which hee would should bee acknowledged and therefore saith the text every knee shall bow and every tongue confesse And secondly as it began with him so it ends with Him also for saith the text againe It is unto the glorie of God the Father And no marvell for it redounds much to His glorie that wee should thus honour his Sonne It is no will-worship taken upon our owne heads but such as even the Father himselfe both desireth should bee done and is not only well pleased that it be done but also glorified in regard that it is done From whence it appeareth that this bowing to the Sonne is in effect a bowing to the Father also at whose command and unto whose glorie we doe it And although it be in it selfe a dutie of the text yet hath the Church also interposed her authoritie for the more strict and decent observation of it Canon 18. Injunct 52. In which neither doth our present Canon nor that Injunction of Queene Elizabeth cause more to bee done then what had formerly beene observed in the Church of God in those ancient times which had beene before For when they speake of reverence done at the name of Iesus these words are also mentioned viz. as it hath beene accustomed Nor was it a late custome among the Papists for even in the dayes of Saint Hierom. the Christian Church was carefull to observe it His words bee these Hier. in Isa 45.23 Moris enim Ecclesiastics est Christo genuflectere quod Iudaei mentis superbiam demonstrantes omnino non faciunt For it is saith hee the custome of the Church to bow the knee to Christ which the Iewes shewing the perversnesse of their mindes altogether refuse to doe Thus it was then but how long before I cannot tell Only this I observe from hence that the ancient Church understood that text where this dutie is taught in the same sense that we understand it now And therefore how they can bee acquitted from enemies of the Orthodox veritie who feare not to stand against it no man I suppose is able to declare And sooner by farre may they bring forth an argument of spight then an evidence of the spirit who speake against it The people must use the Answers of the Liturgie The next dutie that I shall mention is that being in Gods house and at his service care must bee had to use all the Answers of the holy Liturgie and that cheerefully and aloude not whispering or betweene the teeth nor as some doe silently and not at all For tell me I beseech you where is the eagernesse of your Prayers and Prayses if in a publike Assemblie yee bee as mute as fishes Revel 14.2 I heard a voice from heaven saith Saint Iohn as the sound of many waters and as the sound of a great Thunder and I heard the voyce of Harpers harping with their harpes Like unto which should bee the voyce of the Church on earth in all her severall Congregations when shee uttereth her Prayers and Prayses to the God of heaven For first wee are to come joyntly to the place of publike meeting like the concourse of many waters whose voyce stands to signifie the voyce of a numerous and full multitude being met together Secondly to bee earnest in our devotions like the sound of a great Thunder And then thirdly shall this loude voyce of ours bee musicall like unto those heavenly Harpers harping with their harpes It may be Multa vox ex