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	lord_n	sin_n	3,005	5	4.4939	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30513	The crying sinnes reproved whereof the rulers and people of England, are highly guilty ... : with meek exhortations to this present Parliament ... / E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1656 (1656)	Wing B5988; ESTC R20702	16,287	20

and unthankfulness among you and the cause why you abuse the mercies which you do enjoy having lost the sence of the former dealings of the Lord with you Further you say all which with other the grievous sins of these three Nations call aloud upon all the good people in them to lay low in the sight of our offended God and by Prayer ond Humiliation a way which in our deepest distresses we have found both our duty and comfort to tread in to seek to appease his wrath and that he will be pleased for his own Names sake to remove whatsoever accursed thing there is amongst us and that as he is our God so we may be his people Answ Indeed many more grievous sins is highly abounding in these three Nations your own oppressions and self-seeking honors and vain glories in your self-performed righteousness which your persecution of the Innocent by grievous and unjust Fines and Imprisonments not regarding the cry of the poor which lies under the heavy hand of oppression of you subordinate Rulers these abundantly adds to the measure of the iniquity of these three Nations all which abominations cries aloud for vengeance upon the heads of some of you rather then for humiliation for sin cries not for humility this is your ignorance but the good people of G●● doth lay low in his sight who ye highly offend every day and 〈◊〉 you and suffers under your iniquities though you reward 〈◊〉 them with persecution and hard censures of cruel dealing till 〈◊〉 your wickedness you repent and turn from it all your Prayers 〈◊〉 H●miliations and set dayes of seeking God in your rebellious Hy●●●t●cal hearts shall never appease Gods wrath but the rather shall 〈◊〉 ●●ereunto and kindle it more abundantly against you away with 〈◊〉 oblations and false divining Prophets they are a weariness to ●●●●d and his hand is against them while your hearts are upright 〈◊〉 him and though sometimes some of you have found God near 〈…〉 distress when you called upon him even when your hearts were 〈◊〉 a measure upright with him yet in vain you now set your selves to 〈◊〉 him and your cry he will not hear nor his wrath shall not be appea● 〈◊〉 for you have truly confessed the cursed thing is amongst you even 〈◊〉 Idolatry of the deepest nature both in Teachers and people and ●ll you repent and remove every burden from off the innocent the ac●●sed thing cannot be taken away but for his Names sake which is E●●ty and Justice Judgement must he bring upon your heads and unto you ●e will be a God of vengeance and unto him shall you be a people of his Curse except you break of your sins by righteousnesse and your ●●●●ities by shewing mercie to the poor Further you say and this you desire That he will infatuate the Counsels and defeat the designes of all those that labour to exalt themselves against the ●●terest of his Son and his people Ans Friends you or some of you are the men which seeks to exalt your selves and not with and therefore against the interest of the Son of God and his people instance the unjust suffering of many of Gods people who know the Son in them to rule them under your Laws upheld by you and acted in by some of your selves and you say in your hearts you will not have this man to reign over you for you own not the bringers of that Message but uphold your false Prophets which speaks smooth things to you and cries Peace while you follow your own wayes and verily herein you go to seek God against your selves to your own destruction as being some of you the very men guilty of the Abominations which you set and propound to your selves in your humiliation to pray against your eye is blinde and your hearts unbelieving and ye know not what you do and your own counsels and designes or so much of them at least as is against the Innocent is sure to be infatuated and defeated and you shall receive from the Lord the answer of your requests upon your own heads for you labour against the Interest of the Son while you seek to binde any mans conscience to this or that Worship Again you say That he will be pleased in a most special manner to 〈◊〉 his presence to those who are entrusted with the management of the A●●● these Nations Answ If you do his will and fulfill his Ordinance of Justice and ●quity towards all men not seeking your selves in any thing 〈◊〉 Lord in all things and wait on him in his Light by which Christ ●●●neth every one of you to be guided thereby in all your wayes 〈…〉 presence you may enjoy in a special manner in the managing of all ●●fairs to his glory but if you keep not the conditions of the Lord in f●●●ing his honor onely and in denying your selves his presence you 〈◊〉 not finde with you but shall be filled with desolations and content●●● and the Nations over whom you are entrusted shall not have peace 〈◊〉 deliverance in your dayes but they under you shall have confusion 〈◊〉 oppressions and the special presence of the Lord shall not be sho●● 〈◊〉 you or to them and remember this is a warning to you Again you say That he will appear the mighty Counsellor experimentally 〈◊〉 them Answ If you stand in his counsel and walk in uprightness of he●●● before him in the Light of Christ Jesus then will he appear to be mighty in his counsel with you and for you otherwise shall you be given up to follow the counsels of your own hearts which shall never bring forth good but evill to your selves to your whole Nations and this shall you know experimentally by the Light in your own consciences Again you say That he would in all things spirit you unto the work 〈◊〉 which you are called and give you unity among your selves even the best ●●●ty that of the Spirit in the best Bond that of Peace that as you are a people ab●●●ding in mercies so you may abound in returns Answ The work is great unto which you are called and shall hardly be accomplished by you except you receive the Spirit of the Lord to be ruled therewith in your own hearts for if you rule for him you 〈◊〉 first be ruled by him mark and ordered with his light which will condemn every evill affection in you and this is the Spirit of unity in the best bond of peace which is most precious which brings forth a humble walking with the Lord in all righteousness before him and being led every one in particular with this spirit and united to God and one to another in not seeking your selves but the Lord This is the way where Gods blessing is received and a returning unto him of praise for his mercies but I wish you are not rather adding sin unto sin and fulfilling the measure more and more of your transgressions till the wrath of the Lord break