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	think_v	3,328	5	3.8263	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89125	Deaths advantage: or A sermon preached at the funerall of that noble and valiant gentleman, Colonell William Gould, high sheriff of Devon: by order of Parliament, and late commander of the fort and island in Plymouth. By Stephen Midhope, Mr. of Arts.	Midhope, Stephen.	1644 (1644)	Wing M1996; Thomason E13_21; ESTC R7641	19,383	33

that naturally cared for your matters I condemne not al that went before him I know some meant well but were vnequally yoaked ouermatched As for others I neede not tell you what burning firebrands they have proved to the West publico malo nati as if they had been borne for publique mischiefe who forsooke their faith betrayed the country wherewith they were intrusted and with it as much as in them lay the religion lawes and libertyes of the whole Kingdome But for this Noble Colonell you know the proofe of him and I dare make my appeal to you as S. Paul once did to the elders of the Church from the first hour that he came into this towne you know his behaviour among you at al seasons how watchfull industrious was he night and day for your safety what arts did he vse at what expence was he to keepe the hearts of the souldiers to him especially of such as were in places of chief trust greatest danger I thinke there are none that are able to judge but will give him the testimony of a faithfull prudent commander as for those that misrepresented his best actions invying him while alive and reproching him now he is dead I dare appeale as Iohn Husse once did from Pope Alexander to Pope Alexander so I from themselves to themselves from their tongues to their hearts I le but name our dutyes towards him and I have done 1 Shall I say let us lament him or blesse God for him Surely both become us 1. Lament him Our losse is great The Church State town country wil find a misse in him 1. He was a bravo Commander resolute active of solide judgement of publique vse and spirit and shall we send him to the grave without an Ah. his glory and not weepe over his beir as David over Abners know ye not that a great man is fallen this day in Israel 2 The Church will have a great want of him he was a hearty true promoter of the cause of Christ he cast in all he had into the Churches treasury his parts estate strength person life never a good Minister in the towne but had incouragement from him indeede he was a man of speciall vse and service for Church and commonwealth so that we have cause to lament him if we knew our losse And I think there is no good man that knew the estate of the towne when he dyed but tooke up some such lamentation as Micah did woe is me the good man is perished out of the earth blessed be God that hath since supplyed that losse and I pray God from my heart that this towne may still be so furnished that you may have no want of valiant Colonel Gould 2. Or rather for why should we reckon our friends gaines our losses he dyed I doubt not in good time for himselfe but to us to the towne country kingdom too soone let us give God the glory and him his due double honour spreading his name which is the last the all we can doe for him with some such attestation as Deborah gave her voluntier governours Judg. 5. blesse ye the Lord that raised up the person and spirit of Colonell Gould to stand for the publique cause of religion lawes liberties to spend his time strength estate parts and to jeopard his life for the same blessed be God that raised up his spirit to such a pitch of magnanimity and resolution in such a time as that was and let his memory be blessed though envy bark and his name be precious with the Lord and with the generation to come 2 All that I have to say to you Noble and resolute commanders wish for you is that you would expresse him Be humble be serviceable be active for Christ You cannot do or suffer too much in his cause Be constant faithfull in your intrustments resolute to live and dye with the Church of Christ and for it in one word live live live much spend your thoughts on Christ which way you may set up his Name what may be for his honour advancement of his cause and not what is for your own advantage Lay out your time strength parts your all for Christ Feare not losse here you cannot drive a more gainefull trade in life you shall be honoured desired in death honoured lamented after death crowned with a crowne of glory that fadeth not away FINIS

I Have perused this Sermon intituled Deaths advantage and finding it to be sound and judicious pious and profitable I License it to be Printed and published JOHN DOWNAME DEATHS ADVANTAGE OR A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FUNERALL OF THAT Noble and Valiant Gentleman Colonell WILLIAM GOULD High Sheriffe of Devon By order of Parliament and late Commander of the Fort and Island in Plymouth By STEPHEN MIDHOPE Mr. of Arts. REVEL 14.13 Write Blesse are the dead which die in the Lord from hence-forth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their workes do follow them LONDON Printed by L. N. for FRANCIS EGLESFIELD and are to be sold at the Marigold in Paul's Church-yard 1644. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL SIR JOHN BAMPFIELD BARONET THE WELL-DESERVING AND Honoured Commander of the Fort and Island in Plymouth Grace and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ NOBLE SIR THAT there is a life above that of sensuall pleasure the Heathen by the twy-light of Nature could discerne who thought him not worthy the name of a man that spent a whole day together in sensuall pleasure reckoning such amongst beasts in humane shape but that there is a life of faith as far above that of reason as it is above the life of sense that comming from God returnes to him againe moves by higher principles and to higher ends acts all for the honour of the great God aymes in all at the setting up of Christ and making him glorious before the world this is such a dark and hidden path that had we not the fiery Pillar of Gods truth to cleare it to us together with a cloud of many witnesses especially in these last dayes that have beaten it out before us whose life is not in carnall pleasure nor civill transactions no nor yet in philosophicall speculations who lay out all their strength are ready to exhaust all their bloud from Christ and his truth we must have been for ever ignorant of it This is not to be found in the Schoole of Socrates nor in the pit of Democritus What those Masters of morality groped after in the darke but could never reach viz. the right way of living I have adventured to present to your and the publique view in this poore and plaine Sermon which I confesse hath no other argument to procure either your view or patronage but this one that it hath the Name of Jesus Christ in it the want whereof when Austin espied after conversion in Tullies Booke abated the heat of his delight which he once took in it When you meet with weaknesses may you be pleased to Remember that not any selfe-forwardnesse or over-valuing hath obtruded these unpolished Meditations into the publique light but my willingnesse to put a stop if it may be to the false and slanderous aspersions on the dead that I perceive have already cankered the hearts and mouths of many and to raise though upon the ruines of my own credit a monument of deserved praise to him to whose fidelity and resolution in the cause of Christ the Kingdome stands so much indebted to this day And now Noble Sir these rude Notes being forced to looke abroad whither shall they run for shelter but to you Surely your right is greatest to them as succeeding the man in his honour and intrustments as well as in his holy activity for the publique good But I perceive by Austin Retr lib. 1. cap. 2. who repented him that he attributed more to Theodorus to whom he wrote a booke though otherwise he were a godly man then was meet that it is easie to over-lash in the commendation of a good man Only this therefore let me name without flattery to give the world an accompt of my choise Your love to Christ in his Ministers and members your constancy in sticking to his Cause with the losse of friends and lands in these back-sliding and forwardnesse in acting for him in these bleeding times doe more then satisfie me that I have found a Patron sutable to my subject Wherefore praying your favourable construction and acceptance of this poor mite I commend you to the Lords grace who double the spirit of his deceased servant on you make you high and Noble in all your ends faithfull and constant in all your instruments couragious and valiant in all your undertakings for Christ and his truth Remember Sir riches honours high places may make you great not gracious not happy they passe away daily and often much faster then they came I 'le ad deum copiosus ille opulentus adveniet cui astabunt misericordia patientia charitas fides Lactant. lib. 7. c. 27. and if they tarry with you to your last yet then must you leave them to others as they are now left to you We shall carry nothing with us but a life spent in and for Christ Worke apace then be diligent to take in and put off as much as you can for your Masters advantage that you may go richly laden to the Haven at the last and when you have fulfilled your time receive the crowne of righteousnesse and glory for which he prayeth who is yours Devoted to serve you in all Gospell offices STEPHEN MIDHOPE DEATHS ADVANTAGE PHILIPPIANS 1.21 For me to live is Christ and to dye is gaine THE Text is a compendious expression of S. Paul's scope in life and hope in death The inference is thus After salutation and gratulation from the 1. verse to the 12. he proceeds for the better incouragement of the beleeving Philippians to boldnesse and constancy in the profession of the Gospell and fellowship with Christ and his Church to declare unto them 1. His present estate in bonds and the good God had wrought out thence from the 12. verse to the 18. 2. His hope of the like for the future verse 19 20. viz. I not only have had and now have but I shall still have great cause of rejoycing in my sufferings For 1. I know what-ever the adversaries worke against me all through the helpe of your prayers and assistance of the Spirit of God shall still turne to my salvation 2. I know likewise that Christ shall be hereby glorified in my body which whether it be by life or death by living to him or dying for him 't is all one to me For to me to live c. The words are diversly rendred by Interpreters The Syriack reades them as do our English Translators so all the Ancients so Erasmus with others Calvin and after him Beza render them thus Christ is in life and death advantage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supplying the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the sense will be 'T is indifferent to mee whether I live or die for having Christ I must be a gainer by both estates for 't is Christ alone that makes me happy in life and death For my part as I take no pleasure in dissenting from such eminent lights so I dare not