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
A33989	Counsel for the living, occasioned from the dead, or, A discourse on Job III, 17, 18 arising from the deaths of Mr. Fran. Bampfield and Mr. Zach. Ralphson / by Hercules Collins ...	Collins, Hercules, d. 1702.	1684 (1684)	Wing C5361; ESTC R32496	24,906	39

us trembling and fall down and cry out Sirs what must I do to be saved our God whom we serve is able to do this and much more and he can as of old make his people grow so much the more as their afflictions abound thinking people will conclude they must needs be the Lords that suffer patiently under such apparent wrong Again let us bless God though we are in the Prison of man yet that we are delivered from the Spiritual Prison of Sin and Satan into the glorious liberty of the Children of God and out of the Kingdom of darkness into the glorious light of the Gospel Colos 1.13 there is no such Prison as for a man to be bound and fettered by his Lusts and Corruptions that stirs not a foot further then his Corrupt Affections suffer him a man in liberty in honour Zach. 9.11 may be in worse Bonds then a Bodily Confinement le ts bless God for bringing us out of this Pit by the Blood of the Covenant this was the great end of Christs coming into the world and of his Divine Unction to Preach good tidings unto the meek to bind up the broken-hearted Isa 61.1 to proclaim Liberty to the Captives chap. 49.24 25. and the opening of the Prison to them which are bound the Prey shall be taken from the mighty and the lawful Captive delivered or as the Original the Captivity of the Just the Captives of the Mighty shall be taken away and the Prey of the Terrible shall be delivered those that were under the power of Satan that Roaring Lyon that great Red Dragon shall be Rescued Eph. 4.8 for Christ hath led Captivity Captive Col. 2.15 Satan and all Evil Angels Principalities and Powers the Rulers of the darkness of this world and made a shew of it openly in his his glorious Resurrection and Ascension so that now he having obtained the Conquest over Satan Sin the Grave he will say to the Prisoners Isa 49.9 Go forth and to them which are in darkness Psal 1.7 Shew your selves he hath broken the Gates of brass and cut the Bars of Iron in sunder the darkness of a Material Prison is nothing to the darkness of a Spiritual one Material Chains to Spiritual Chains deprivation of the Bodies Liberty is not to be compared to the Souls being shut up from God Psal 16.11 this is far worse then to be shut up from friends being delivered from Spiritual Bonds We may have Liberty in Bonds light in Darkness Peace in Trouble Communion with God by the Spirit is a good Cordial to keep up the heart from fainting in this valley of tears until we come to our Mount of Joy where there is no limits of Joy and Blessedness as the greatest Comforts and Estates of the greatest Monarchs here are there 's no mixture as in this world Gods Providential Dealings with his people in this world is like Chequer-work there is the dark as well as the light side of Providence the most Refin'd and best State and Condition of the best Saints are mixed here if we have some peace we have some trouble if we have large Comforts one day we may expect a great degree of trouble another least we should be exalted above measure we must have a thorn in the flesh now and then but in Heaven there is no mixture 2 Cor. 12.7 for there is all light without darkness all life without death all Riches without Poverty all Content without the least Dissatisfaction because we shall then praise and love God in so perfect a manner Psal 17.15 as God will not demand more perfect Obedience then they will give nor themselves desire to bless God better then they shall for that were to suppose a kind of dissatisfaction in Heaven which is contrary to Holy Davids word Then shall I be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness are we sensible of Gods free grace to our Souls here in delivering us from Spiritual Bonds that is an infallible sign we shall admire free grace hereafter in the glorious Liberty of the Children of God and shall be among that Multitude in Revelations 7.9 10. which none could number of all Kindreds Nations People and Tongues that stood before the Throne and before the Lamb cloathed with white Robes and Palms in their hands and cried with a loud voice Salvation to our God which sitteth on the Throne and to the Lamb. Again This may be a Ground of Lamentation for the Church of God that his Ambassadors which did use to bring us glad tidings of Salvation 2 Cor. 5.20 are not only shut up in Material Prisons for a time the Prisons of men but some of them are lodged in the Grave and their mouths totally stopt so as we shall not hear them sound the Gospel Trumpet any more It 's sometimes a sign of anger when the King calls home his Ambassadors the Apostle saith in 1 Cor. 4.1 Let a man so account of us as the Ministers of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vperetes Ministers the word imports labour painful labour and signifieth an Under-Rower Gods Ministers are thus called 1 Cor. 4.15 because under Christ the chief Master they do help forward the Ship of the Church toward the Haven of Heaven through the many Rocks and Sands Storms and Tempests Temptations and Persecutions which they meet withal they are called Fathers which signifieth instrumentally their begetting Souls to God they are called Bishops or Overseers this charge hath its name Pakad in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 1.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 13.17 from visiting and in the Greek EPISKOPVS from Over-seeing Applied to any which hath a charge Civil or Ecclesiastical and they are so called of their watchfulness care and labour for the good of his people for they watch for their Souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with Joy and not with grief Again they are called Pastors POIMVN this is taken from Shepherds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and applied to Teachers Mat. 9.36 to Christ the good Shepherd John 10.11 14 the great Shepherd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ARCHIPOIMVN 1 Pet. 5.4 these are some of his honourable Titles this same word is applied to Kings as in Mat. 2.6 Rev. 27.7 19.15 but a word of a double signification is to be understood according to the subject matter spoken of taken in Mat. 2.6 for Ruling as a King but in Acts 20.28 for feeding as a Shepherd Feed the Flock of God over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Over-seers Is not there cause of mourning when God taketh away our Fathers which begat us our Ambassadors which brings glad tidings and good news of Reconciliation and Salvation by the death of the Son of God yea our Ministers which conducts guides and Rowes the Ship of the Church as it were under Christ to Heaven Yea to lose our Pastors and Shepherds