Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	son_n	2,904	5	5.0346	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31030	Jacob at his journeys end, or, Part of his last words uttered to his son Joseph, and the rest of his children, immediately before his being gathered to his fathers a sermon preached at the interment of ... William, Lord Brereton of Brereton in Cheshire ... / by A.B.	A. B.	1665 (1665)	Wing B9; ESTC R3284	11,205	26

his age and time The man I think is not to be found that can justly accuse him or blast his reputation or honour by justly charging him with dissimulation ot fraud or unfaithfulness or lying or incontinency or drunkenness or swearing or any other notorious vice I have had the happiness to be frequently near him and often in the hearing of him for a dozen years together yet did I never that I remember hear any obscene or filthy communication come from his mouth nor observe him upon any provocation let any one of those many oaths escape his lips that many men now adays reckon and look upon as the greatest if not only ornament and grace of their discourse But it is not enough to be extra vitia without any nororious vice God will not be satisfied with a negative holiness we must not only cease to do evil but learn to do well Isa 1. And so did he And that you may take a short view of his vertues I shall present him briefly to you in all or most of his remarkable Relations and offer to your considerations how he did carry himself towards his Correlates And then I admonish and beseech you to go and do likewise 1. Consider him as a Christian and how he behaved himself towards God both in the time of his health and sickness While God enabled him to come hither we seldome very seldome missed his early company here He was resolved that God loves the Gates of Syon more than all the dwellings of Jacob and will not be put off with our pretences of doing our Devotions in our Closet when he expects us in the Church Nor was his Devotion personated and put on to deceive the world but he took his time for private as well as publick performances as I have told you before In his sickness those three Christian graces of Faith Hope and Charity were very remarkable He signified his Charity in forgiving all that had done him any injury and desiring to be reconciled to all betwixt whom and himself there had been any misunderstanding and debate His Faith and Hope he expressed to my unworthy self in private while he was able affirming he did firmly relye on the merits and mediation of his Saviour Jesus and through him hoped for a glorious Resurrection And in this Faith and Hope he earnestly desired and received both the Absolution of the Church and the Sacrament of the Supper of the Lord. When his tongue had fail'd to do its office and we perceiv'd that he endured a great fight of afflictions that the Lord delay'd his coming and Death made but slow though sure approaches I did as I thought I was in duty bound advise him to search his own heart whether there were any thing yet undone that God expected he should do before he call'd him hence and that he would signifie to us by some token whether he hoped that his peace was perfected and his conscience quier Whereupon he looked upon us with a more chearful countenance than it is ordinary for a dying man to manifest and then casting up his eyes to Heaven he layd his hand upon his heart seeming to say that all was quiet there and that he died in Peace and rested in Hope His Piety and Devotion all along his sickness was very exemplary He acted his part in all the prayers and that with a stronger and more chearful voice than we conceaved he had been able to utter or did utter upon any other occasion The last word as I remember that I heard him say was Amen to our prayers but he moved his lips when he could not use his tongue to do that office which yet held out beyond our expectations and fail'd him not till very near his end And as his Piety was great towards God so was Gods mercy towards Him for though the stroke light on almost all the one side of his body it miss'd his brain So that by Gods great goodness he enjoy'd the use of his intellectuals and all or most of his senses in a wonderful vigour and acuteness towards his very latter end insomuch that he could hear our very whispers distinguish his drink see and know his visitants beyond the expectation of his friends and perhaps beyond the belief of Strangers And as his Piety so was his patience very remarkable He did endure much and long but complain little or nothing at all Oh me I am sick very sick oh me I am full of pain was all that could he said came from him tending towards a complaint You have heard of the patience of Job said St. James c. 5. Yes we have heard of Jobs patience and many of us have seen his and I think those that have seen and observ'd it will say they never saw his Christian Patience Fortitude equalled much less exceeded 2. Consider him next in the relation of a Subject concerning which I need to say but little because you all or most of you know his loyalty and fidelity to his Soveraign as well as my self Only let me mind you that in the last ingagement in this County he did not publickly appear untill there was great cause to doubt if not despair of any good success which was an argument there was no other motive but meer Loyalty and Conscience that drew him to hazard Himself his Sons that accompanied him and his Estate rather than he would incur the suspition of being backward to do his King and Country service 3. Consider him as a Son 1 A Son of the Church whose peace he was very careful to maintain whose orders he was ready to observe And as God gave him a very dutiful affection to his Mother the Church so he made the Church Service serviceable comfortable unto him I cannot think it possible that one that doth not really delight in reciprocally find comfort by the service of the Church should so frequently and cheerfully joyn and bear a part in it as he did notwithstanding all the Obstacles and Impediments of pain and sickness which is an argument that the Church service is not so faulty as our selves and that we might take pleasure in it reap profit by it if our own corrupt hearts were not indispos'd and out of order I confess we owe much to his example if our Congregation be in practice any thing more observant of the Churches Orders than some of our neighbours Let the contemptible Priests as some call us in scorn say what they will or can the peremptory vulgar will do as they list If their betters will not believe us they will despise us If a man of Authority Honour or Worship will not be persuaded to change his posture but keep his seat they will use neither leg nor knee unless it be to cross the Church in her directions and commands but believe it Gentlemen it is no disparagement to use your own tongues to make confession of and cry God mercy for your own