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	spirit_n	3,926	5	5.5026	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01666	Of the ende of this world, the seconde commyng of Christ a comfortable and necessary discourse, for these miserable and daungerous dayes.	Geveren, Sheltco à.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1577 (1577)	STC 11803A.7; ESTC S115248	72,058	116

poorely and like a seruant as before but lik a Soueraygne like a King of all Kings in maiestie triumphing in much glory accompanied with Archangels and all the hoast of heauen in the Cloudes he will come that so he may be reuenged vppon his enemies and headlong cast that harlotte and that King of Locustes the sonne of perdition the image of the beast and false Prophet into that burning fornace of vnquencheable fire ▪ but his chiefest comming shal be to drawe thee vnto him and to bring thee into his bed chamber where all sorrow and sighing be layd a part thou shalt enioy the pleasant speech and sweete embracementes or thy louing husband and sh●lt be b●wtified with all cel●●tiall bene●●tes which haue been apoynted for thee since the beginning of the world Which being so I thought nothing would be more grateful vnto thee nor better recreate thee in these thy troubles than to learne some certayne tokens and heare infallible tydings of thy husbandes returne The consideration whereof hath caused me for your comfort by wryting to place before your eyes such vndoubted signes of his cōming although I will not take vpon me to tel the very houre day and yeare which is knowen to God alone that easely you will beleue and perswade your selfe that it will not be long before he come this day will he visit thee before the Sunne be set of which the most part is consumed noone is past it is now one of the clocke and therfore his comming must needes be nigh These and such like things you shall perceyue to be handled in this booke Where I haue erred amend the fault and forgeue the maker for to your iudgement I submit me which is the onely thing I desire after I haue obtayned your ernest prayers to your beloued in my behalfe that I may accompany you in the fayth and spiritual blessings with which in Christ through the meere grace of God the father you are especially adorned and that with you I may haue the same communion of all celestiall benefites and be partaker of the kingdome of Christ and God the father Fare you well and God graunt you now and euermore the quietnes of mind and perpetuall delight with euerlasting comfort in Christ by the holy Ghost Amen From Emden THE PREFACE AMong al sinnes none is more odious before God then is incredulitie doubting both of diuine promises and threatnings notwithstanding that the world and hypocrites placing al religion in external behauiour ceremonies thinke the cōtrary Because that frō that do spring al sinnes ●f doubting both of God in God and al wickednes els whatsoeuer so that we may wel affirme mistrust to be the cause of all euils For who is there so extremely mad that willingly would defile hymselfe with any sinne if he gaue sufficient credite to these woordes of Christ Come ye blessed of my father c. Agayne Depart frō me yee accurs●d into that eternall fire which is prepared for the Diu●ll and his Angels Or to those wordes of Paule where he sayth We must all appeare before the tribunall seate of Christ that euery one may beare away those things which he hath in his body doone according to that which he hath committed be it good or bad Wherefore of these may certaynly be gathered that none of them beleeue eyther the sweete promises of God or seuere and horrible threates which stubbornly resist his commau●dements and do not obey them For it cannot be that either beleeuers should lyue after the flesh or lyuers after the flesh should be beleeuers because not beleeuers but lyuers after the flesh shall dye And of this we haue a manifest example in that rich man crauyng of Abraham that he would send Lazarus to his fiue brethren to warne them least they came into that place of torment By which no doubt he would signifie that they would more esteeme the aucthoritie of Lazarus commyng from the dead then Moses and the Prophetes And therefore what marueyle if he contemned charitie when he cared not for faith That when he flowed with such abundance of all things yet nothing at all fauoured poore Lazarus lying miserably before hym And therfore because he was without fayth and charitie beyng departed from this world was cast headlong into hell And as this vnbeliefe is the very spring of sinne and of all vngratiousnes the gulfe in which all vnregenerated are drowned so contrarywise true and Christian fayth by which we haue a sure trust to Gods mercy and free remission of our sinnes promised to vs through the merites of Christ the sonne of God is the liuely fountaine in Christ by the helpe of the holy ghost of loue both of God and our neighbour and it is at one woorde the cause of all spiritual good which follow her as necessarily as heate doth fire Because it is meete if beleeuers liue after the spirite that the holy ghost stirre in them like motions to hym selfe But yet alas great infirmitie and weakenesse is in the faithfull although regenerate so that not seldome they stande in doubt of Gods promises and therefore haue great neede of proppes to keepe them from falling for we are more delighted with apparant and present things than with future and inuisible For naturally those things which are obiect vnto vs doo more moue our senses than those which are of faith which is the substance of things to be hoped for an argument of things not appearing whose litle sparke sometyme appeareth in vs and is much to be raised by the woord of God that it may the more increase and quicken our dead members with the heate of the holy Ghost Also in our greatest temptations and most cruell persecution the Diuell togeather with our vile fleshe bring great doubts into our myndes of the promises of God especially when we behold the vngodly to liue in this world in al pleasure to their hartes desire ioyfully which thing that kingly Prophet Dauid in his Psalmes dooth at large and plainly teach vs. And therefore the miseries of this lyfe are the more easily borne when we doo as it were behold the ende of them before our eyes Of which it commeth that to the godly truely thinking them selues to wander in this world not to liue in their owne countrey the remembraunce of these euylles is pleasant and is a great comfort in all miseries to thinke by death in that last commyng of Christ at the length that they shall haue a most free entrance into that celestial Hierusalem sweete and eternall Countrey of which in a most assured hope by fayth they knowe them selues citizens Wherfore I haue thought it very expedient by certaine arguments to set against all infidelitie the doctrine of the Prophetes and Apostles concernyng the last commyng of Christ to the vniuersall iudgemēt before which in the ruine of this wretched world shall in a moment appeare the resurrection of the flesh and a sodaine change of all