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	know_v	see_v	4,988	5	3.1452	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

entrance to him from whom all the World are driven who are in the Lust and in that Nature which loves it self and worketh iniquity yet wearying themselves to find the Door without the Light of that Life which is not of this World And as you mind onely to feed on the Plant of Life you will come to know the Work of the Father in his Vineyard and who the faithful Labourer is and what must be his Work and the sloathful servant and what his Work bringeth forth and the cause why the field of the sluggard is over-grown with evil fruits and why his Vine bringeth not Fruit to perfection For you will find many Plants besides the Tree of Life all which seek to be fed and strengthened in the mind and affections and many grown Trees tall and strong which have got fast rooting spread and bring forth abundantly after their several kinds and all these present themselves to the eye of the mind to be fed from thence which is as the feet fetching food from far without which they cannot live long but must pine away and fall as they dye in the affections and as the mind is withdrawn from such objects as they are fed withall So the Work of him that is faithful is to number these to the Axe and to the fire and not to suffer these any place in the mind how strongly soever they tempt and try every way to spread Root to keep life that so through the death of these the Vine may grow alone in the clean affections and holy mind and honest chaste heart which is the good ground and where the pure Plant will bring forth of it self in all where it is not cumbred with that which is contrary to it Which contrary fruits all that mind the Light may see but the sluggard not being diligent to dig up the Root as well as to condemn the Fruit therefore they are daily growing and the good ground ever cumbred with them and such ever know what they should do but are never able to abide there their life being lost in the midst of this Wilderness and over-grown with wild Plants But you being diligent in your Watch you will see that the cause of all your troubles and confusion when you come to the true labour indeed is not for nothing for you will find many plants of several kinds for the World is in the heart of man as he is droven from God And every kind hath its several life which lives have their several feedings all which you may feel in the Light by their temptings to lead out your minds and though they are of several motions and live upon several objects yet the least of them being fed by consent in your mind will over-run the Vine and in time bury it by growing up in your affections Wherefore all must down that Truth alone may rise in your affections and the Word of Life have place in your hearts who is purer then to dwell in the Adulterous minde and whose eye cannot behold iniquity who hath no communion with darkness nor fellowship where any Idol stands in the Temple So this is your faith in your labour even that which overcomes the World and suffereth nothing thereof to take place in your minds but with the Spirit of Life to watch and wrestle against every lust and kill every affection that would go out for food for what-ever goes out betrayes the innocent and every pleasure of the flesh as a Canker doth eat out the Life of the holy and just one but by Faith the Just lives and in faithfulness doth he judge and make War against all his Enemies in every one who are exercised therewith And in this Work mind what you follow follow nothing rashly but prove all things with the fire and that which will not endure the Temptation and bear the Cross is the Adulterer who will look out every way for ease and the Serpent wil present many likely wayes to her under fair pretences which she that would live at ease will hastily hearken to and if you hearken to her you will betray the Work of Life which is bringing forth in hard travel and labour which is flain in the birth where ease and sloath is consented to and with living at ease and pleasure hath the Life been slain from the beginning of the world and hath been kept under by her Sorceries who fares deliciously upon Earth and by consenting to her pleasures hath the Election been lost and covered with the Seed of Wickedness which God hates which Wars after the flesh and lusts after the flesh to strengthen it self above the holy spiritual Seed but minding to make that sure to you which calls in your mind and being obedient thereto it will lead down by the Power of the Cross through that which is above to the feeling of the Election and a separation being made betwixt that which God chuseth in this Working-Power and what he condemneth you will come thereby to know to what to join and from what to withdraw that you may be Workers together with him and not against him which the subtile one will lead you to do till with the Light the separation be made and so joining to it in faith and obedience the Election will arise and by diligence thereto it will be made sure And once feeling the Innocent to move under the Oppressor give your selves no rest until the strong man bow for with great Plagues upon that Nature and with a strong hand against that will must the Seed of Promise be redeemed from under his Power which like Pharoah if he get but rest will not let Israel go from under his Power and if you keep with the Spirit and hearken low it will let you see what must be the Plagues you must pour upon him till he be brought dovvn that a little Child may lead him and reign over him and he that was oppressed by the Beast may ride upon him And as that Nature got head and strength by having its Lusts fulfilled so it must be subdued by having its Lusts famished which if you be not faithful to the seed of God herein you sell your Birth-right and betray your own redemption and are found deceitful Workers against God and your own Souls Wherefore run not with that which is in hast but lye down in that which is meek lovvly and patient that vvhich is vvilling to vvait the Fathers time and seeks to obtain by the obedience of Faith and not in the Will that vvould have in its ovvn hand For a Nature there is vvhich runs out for help and raveneth abroad to be satisfied vvhich God vvill famish And this vvill seek to lead the mind if it be follovved and vvill hunt about and murmure if it be not satisfied This goeth about the Citie but entereth not and this must suffer hunger and feel the Lambs wrath and plagues upon the head thereof what vvay soever it turns till it bovv and