Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	people_n	3,792	5	4.4298	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67603	The rule of charity: or, The liberal mans guide design'd, for the use of all good Christians. Being the pious result of a lay-man's ordinary meditations. By H.W. Gent. Licensed according to order.	H. W. (Henry Waring)	1690 (1690)	Wing W858; ESTC R219405	35,835	107

Intail his Lands and enterprize all he may to confirm his Title or inlarge his Possessions Let him call Good Works a kind of Community and oppose Alms as much as levelling Let him say All that I hold is mine and what wrong can I commit by keeping my own to my self For my part Sir I love Peace and Plenty your Speech-making ought to be directed to them that affect Lawless Lives or Civil-Wars seeking to deprive others of their Rights and their Inheritance I should like Religion better if the Teachers were not as so many Leaches Give give continually I love to hear them Preach up Christ Crucify'd and forbear their old Popish Stories of Alms and Good-Works You know there was no Beggar in Israel and were I Task-Master General there should be none lest in England But I think of all poor People the poor Gentleman is the most importunate his Hands is always full of Briefs and Letters of Request and I seldom see one of that Tribe but I am feeling in my Pocket When you have spoken your pleasure Nabal against Christian Love and Charitable Contributions it is but one way of wounding your self with your own Weapon seeing the way to make that you possess your own is by your power of disposal Which if it be never put into Act how can you be assured you have such a Power By giving it a-way we come to know it is yours and as without Property there can be no Charity so Charity in its several Acts doth best confirm Property From the Laws of Thine and Mine you bring an ill Inference whereas by Giving those Laws are best put in Execution You must give not only for the Preservation of Discipline and Order but also for the maintenance of your Title Unless the Bread be yours how can you dispose of it There is neither Giving nor Obligation by Gift where all is in common If you peruse the principal Causes of the first distinction between Mine and Thine long ago confirm'd by Custom by the Positive Laws of GOD and of all Nations you will find these among others 1. Encouragement to Labour to prevent Idleness for where the most Industrious and the most Negl gent Person were to be sharers alike of a common Fund too many would lye basking in the Sun while others were Sweating at their Imployment 2. For Preservation of Peace they being most remote from War that have most to lose who cannot soon be induc'd to Fight so long as they can quietly enjoy their Effects and Fruits of their Labour and Industry 3. To distinguish Families because it appears the Will of Heaven that some Houses should be remarkable for Blessings some for Vertues and that some should be stiled from their Inheriting of Ancient Riches Generous and Noble while others should be noted for a Dull and Idle Generation born under Command to remain Slaves and Peasants With this distinction of Thine and Mine began a Subordination of Men in Civil Societies for the sake of Government But of all these causes of difference of Estates none is greater than this That there might be some Endowed with Riches to impart and that there might be some poor People to make tryal of the Rich Man's Faith in GOD's Promises and design'd for his own Good to make Experiment upon his Charity That by contributing much in this Life he might obtain in the next a more Illustrious and lasting Inheritance Art thou a Propriator yet you must own a Lord in chief of all your Substance The Earth is the Lord's and the Fulness thereof all Lands are held of him in Capire So to alleadge Property when GOD Commands you to dirburse something upon his Account is to say somewhat that is answer'd by the Laws of Supream Right and suspended by the degrees of Charity It is enough that you have the Honour and the Happiness of Distribution and to reserve enough for your own Uses Take what sufficeth for your Family defraud not your Successors and behold those poor People yonder are sent to be Sharers of all that is to be spar'd from You and your Posterity If this or that be needless to you the same presently becomes one of their Necessaries And what you reserve cannot be so much your own because it is over-plus to your Use every way unless you put it to Interest to that Company of Beads-Men For at the Instant you dispose it to them the same is entered in the Day-Book of Heaven and out of that Treasure you shall be Repaid And you shall find it After many Days infinitely multiply'd Observe how Nature communicates The Sun out of his abundance of Light gives a Largess of it to the Moon Lucinoe gives Alms of the Light she receives to the Earth that is founded in Darkness This Earth having no Light to spare freely imparts such useful Matters as she carries though of another Growth and Temper to her ingrateful Inhabitants The Clouds newly replenisht with Rain empty their Stores upon the parched Mountains they discharging themselves into the Rivers that over-flow pay Tribute to the wide Ocean Nilus and Euphrates are proud in swelling over their Banks to make the adjoyning Meadows Fertile The glutted Bear and Tyger have sometimes quitted their Prey to others half pin'd and to Beasts less Ravenous while the more Civiller Creatures of every Species have been famous in Story for many tokens of Affection shewing how all things from the highest to the lowest correspond for a mutual Relief Here and there is an accursed Shimei or a churlish Nabal excepted that says Who is David Talk not to me of the King or the Prophet I know not that Man in the World for whose sake I would little my Estate Shall I take my Bread and give it to Strangers It is enough Churle that you know the Petitioners to be Men and that you may know every Man is of more value than a Mint of Gold and Silver Would you lose a Man for a Morsel of Bread Shall I take my Bread and give it away dost thou say 'T is thy Bread indeed by the Favour of a better Master than thou art but so that it is not always and every way thine There is a certain Clause in the Conveyance that speaks it thy Bread to Give not thine to with-hold 'T is yours to dispose of not to detain the disposal of which looks toward the Communion of Saints that is on Earth with those in Heaven There is Bread of participation in every House as the Eucharistical Bread is eminently such in Churches And for maintaining a Correspondence between Divine and Humane Love and their Effects we are taught to make daily Petitions 'T is you Miser that makes bold to change our Lord's Form of Prayer calling that Your Bread in your selfish Language which is call'd Our Bread in the Language of our Redeemer And that is and ought to be the Idiom of all good Christians Which word Our doth import a Christian Communication Shall