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	righteousness_n	work_n	2,859	5	6.2434	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60374	A father's legacy. Sir Henry Slingsbey's instructions to his sonnes. Written a little before his death	Slingsby, Henry, Sir, 1602-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3995; ESTC R220066	17,170	98

live on Earth another thing to love Earth To be in the World and of the World are different conditions Tabernacles are not to be accounted Habitations While we are sojourning we must be journeying towards Canaan nor may we rest till we get home O my tender Ones for never were children more dear to a Father make every day of your life a promising passage to your native Countrey As every day brings you nearer your grave may every day increase in you the richness of his grace Let the joyes of Heaven and torments of Hell be familiar with you by meditating of the felicity of the one and infelicity of the other these to deter those to allure Be not too much taken with Fashion it is the Disease of this age Comeliness is the most taking dresse to a discreet eye whatsoever is else borders on sin and becomes reputations stain I am not now very old when this Judicial Sentence has enjoyned me to leave you yet never did that spreading vanity of the Time much surprize me For my part I did ever rather affect not to be known at all then to be known for Singular It is a poor accomplishment that takes her essence from what we wear The Rinde makes not the Tree precious but the Fruit Neither speak I this to excuse my frailties I confess my diversions have been many but through my hearty Conversion and unfeigned Contrition by the merits of my Saviour I hope my peace is made Now to continue my final Bequest My desire is that you would be circumspect in your discourse Though no Society can subsist without Speech yet were it very necessary to be cautious of the Society to whom we direct our Speech I may experimentally speak it having so highly suffered by it Few or none have ever been hurt by silence but many too many by too prodigal speech have engaged their freedom to the power of their Foes varnished over with the specious pretences of Friends Let your whole Life be a Line of direction to your selves and of instruction to others Be more ready to heare then to teach and above all things let your Famebe a living Doctrine to your family Be diligent in the vocation or imployment you are called unto and be ever doing some good work that the devil may never find you unemployed for our Security is his Opportunity to prevent his sleights give no way to sloth When you come into any Holy place call him to mind to whom it is dedicated Hold your selves then as retired from the world and lift up your hearts to Him who is your Hope and Helpe both here and in a better world Esteem of all men well and of your selves the worst Suffer with others when you shal hear them desamed and preserve their report as well as you may For it is not sufficient to be tender of our own and impeach others but to tender others as our own Stand alwayes in an humble and religious fear Be not ashamed to confess what you were not ashamed to commit If at any time through frailty you fail with tears of unfeigned contrition redeem your fall Walk with an undefiled Conscience knowing that you are in his presence whose eyes are so pure as they cannot abide miquity and whose judgment so cleer as it will search out hypocrisie Keep your bodies undefiled Temples should be pure and unpolluted If your desire be to honour your Maker you must make your heart his Harbor Every Countrey hath one chief City and that situate in the Heart of the Land and becomes the Kings Seat Your heart shall be the City of the King of Kings so you guard the gates of your little City that no sinful intruder nor usurping designer enter nor surprize them no corrupt affection win in upon them Now the better to secure your State let your eyes your City-Centinels be so directed that they become not distracted by wandring abroad they beget disorder at home All neighbourly offices I commend unto you they gain love which is the oyl of our life But too much familiarity I do not admit Charity is expedient to all Familiarity to few Cherish Affability there is nothing that purchaseth more love with less cost Friendship is properly term'd the Fruit of virtue without which ground it becomes an unripe fruit and loseth its kernel Prefer restraint of the Body before that of the Mind there can be no true freedom so long as the Soul is liable to thraldome I have been known to sundry Holds yet I found my infranchized mind when I was most estranged from enjoyment of liberty to be the freest enjoyer of it self Hold nothing comparable to the estimate of a clear Conscience a continual Feast admits no competition with a Cloud of impeaching Witnesses This hath been my Anchor hold to secure my Vessel The terrours of Death are but objects to the eye with a momentany sense of a little pain to the body whereas if the Soul through the gusts of a restlesse Conscience grapple with death and gives up her hold her sufferings are to eternity A short storm should not discourage us when we are within the ken of our Harbour Prosperity is a fair gail but the memory of it rather afflicts then refresheth us when our security has thrown us upon a shelf before we come a-shore If earthly enjoyments had seiz'd on me my death might have prov'd more Natural but through those Preparations wherewith Gods goodness hath furnished me perchance not so welcom I am now to put off that which troubled me most to become clothed with his righteousness whose All-sufficiency has pleaded my cause In my Period to these and to order your course the better in the Current and Progression of your affairs Let not the Sun shine upon you before you have commended your selves to that Son of Righteousness to direct you in all your wayes and inrich you with all good works To conclude for I feel my failing Faculties through continuance of my long restraint and late necessary addresses drawing near their conclusion Let your youth be so seasoned with all goodnesse that in your riper age you may retain an habit of that which your youth practised Well-spent Minutes are precious treasures whose reviving memory in our recollection of what we gathered by them will refresh your fainting Soules in their sharpest gusts of humane frailty To speak of Marriage to you I will not onely this let a religious fear accompany those acquiescences wherein I conceive a parity in descent a competency of Fortune but principally our harmony in a religious profession may conduce highly to your future comfort and remove those occasional discontents which a failing in any of these too usually procures which completed may your Choice thus equally tempered with discretion and affection admit no change so shall a pious emulation in your succeeding Relations second your choice Prefer your Fame before all Fortunes it is that sweet Odour which will perfume you