Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	5,168	5	5.9174	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01988	A godly boke wherein is contayned certayne fruitefull, godlye, and necessarye rules, to bee exercised [et] put in practise by all Christes souldiers lyuynge in the campe of this worlde	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Enchiridion militis Christiani.; Artour, Thomas.; Gough, John, fl. 1561-1570.	1561 (1561)	STC 12132; ESTC S105777	97,714	292

exercise your selfe after this maner It shall not much be peyneful vnto you to resist themotions of your ennemies but also you shall perceiue greate fruite and pleasure For as muche as by this holsome remembraunce you shall vnderstande that you be conformate to your head and shal so recompence him his great paynes and punishmente whiche he suffered for your sake ¶ The. xvii Rule howe greate a helpe to resyste synne is to remember howe detestable a thinge synne is And though this be the most redy and present remedye agaynste all kynde of temptation yet it shal greatly pro fyte to suche as be weake and infyrme if they diligentely remember when they are moued and inti sed to synne Howe fylthy howe pestilente howe abhomynable a thynge syn is And contrary how noble and excelent the dignytie of man is In trifles and matters of smalle valewe we councell and take good aduisemente with oure selfe And in so weightie a matter shal we not diligently remember with oure selfe before wee bynde vs to the deuyll by oure consent as by oure wrytynge and obligations Howe marueilouselie wee were created in how excelent condicion and degree set aboue other creatures Howe preciousely we are redemed frome captiuitie and tiranie of sinne and to how great ioye and felicitie we be called and ordeyned Shall we not also remember and recorde in oure myndes that man is that gentyll and honorable beaste for whose cause almighty god created made this vniuersal world that mā is the citizen of angels the sonne of god the heire of immortalitie a member of Christ. And that the bodye of a christen man is the temple of the holy ghoste and the sowle or mind of man is the similitude and image of almighty god the secret chamber of the deuinitie And contrarye that synne is the miserable destruction and pestilent infection bothe of the bodye and sowle the deadly poyson of oure moste cruel ennemie the bayte of the deuyll and the erneste and pledge of oure moste miserable and beastely seruitude and bondage and after you haue thus diligently remembryd with your selfe then take good ad uisemēt whether it be cōuenyente or profytable for so disceitful poisoned short delectation of syn to fal frō so gret dignitie noblenes vnto such indygnitie and mysery from the which thou canste not at thy pleasure delyuer thy selfe ¶ The. xviii Rule to auoyde sin by and by comparing the. ii heades together videlicet God and the deuyll ANd after ye haue this substā cially aduysed counsayled with your selfe it shalbe necessary that you cōpare confer together the two disagreyng and farre vnlyke heades and capitaynes god and the deuyll by synne thou makest the one thine ennemie and the other thy lord and master By innocency and grace of god●… 〈◊〉 art ascrybed into the number and ●…lender of the frendes of god ▪ and adopted vnto the ryght and h●…ytage of the chyldren of god But by synne thou arte made and constituted the seruaunte and sonne of the deuyll The one is that eternall sprynge and fountayne verye image of the highest beautie gretest pleasure and moste excellente goodnes comynge and deuyding him selfe to all men The other is father and auctour to al vices extreme myschiefe and greatest infe licitie Remember the goodnesse and benefites of god towarde the remember also the malyce and mis chiefe of the deuyll Consyder by how great goodnes almighty god dyd create thee Howe mercyfully he redemed thee howe lyberally he hath indued thee How gentyl ly he ●…ereth and susteyneth thee dayly ●…ffendynge and displeasyng his goodnes howe ioyfully he rec●…ueth the amending thine offen ces Cōtrary cal diligently to thy remēbraunce howe enuiously the dyuyll hatyth thy helthe in what miserie and wretchednes he hath in time past deiected the and how he dailye labourith to bringe man to eternal dampnation And after thou haste diligentlie ponderyd comparyd these thinges in thy remembraunce thinke farther with thy selfe after this maner Shall I vnkindly and vnnaturally forgetfull of my beginning forgetful of so great benefites towards me for so little and vaine pleasure for sake so noble so louinge so beneficiall a father and geue my selfe in bondage to so enuious and cruel a master shal I not render vnto my maker creatoure almyghty god that thing whiche shame bindeth me to render vnto a man beynge good beneficial vnto me Shal I not abhorre and fiye the deuyll whiche naturally doth flie a man being hurtfull and euyll vnto me ¶ The. xix Rule for the absteining from synne is to haue in oure remembraunce the myseryes of thys worlde FUrthermore haue dilygently in your remēbraunce how ful of trouble and wretchednes how fraile and vncertaine this present life is And how subtillye deathe on euerie side awaiteth man And diuers times sodenly and vnware oppresseth man when no man is suer to lyue one moment or instant of an houre howe peryllous ieoperdous it is to defer or prolonge that life that is to say to continue in sinne in the whiche if sodayne death as it many times hapneth apprehend or take thee thou diest eternally ¶ The. xx Rule to beware of Impenytencye FInally Impenitencie is gretly to be feared For asmuch as of so great a company verye fewe trewly and with all their harte ryse agayne from sin Specially such as prolonge and defer theyr contynuance in synne to the later ende of their lif The discence and fal vnto syn is very slipper and easie but it is harde and great difficulty to ascend againe from sinne And therfore it shalbe very necessary to euery christen man before he discend vnto the depe pit dungion of syn That he diligently remēber that the returne againe frō sinne is very harde and laborous And that he cannot without speci al grace ryse againe at pleasure ¶ Here folowith certaine speciall remedies against certaine speciall vices and sinnes and first against Lechery HYtherto after my sim ple and grose maner I haue declared vnto you certaine generall remedies against all kynd of vice commonly Nowe af ter my capacitie lernyng I shal also prescrybe vnto you certayne specyall remedyes by the whyche you may be the more able to with stand the. vii pryncipall or dedly synnes And fyrst agaynst the syn of lechery for asmuch as this syn of al other so much inuadith man most sharply assautith him and is most common and bryngith moste men to dystruccyon and myschefe And therefore if this fylthy pleasure prycke or inflame thy sowle remēber continuallye to arme thy selfe with this armoure and to re sist it First call to thy remēbrance howe impuer how beastly how greatly vnbeseming and vncomly vnto man this fonde pleasure and voluptuousnes is which equalith vs the creature and unage of allmighty god vnto the vilest of the brute and vnresonable beastes as swine dogges gotes such other and not