Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	harden_v	heart_n	pharaoh_n	2,001	5	11.6391	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63912	The middle way betwixt. The second part being an apologetical vindication of the former / by John Turner.	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3312A; ESTC R203722	206,707	592

for what is past when they consider they could not help it and then being listed into such a Party where all take themselves to be of the Elect added to this other comfortable consideration that the Elect cannot possibly fall away from Grace This makes them look not only without remorse but with satisfaction and pleasure upon the enormities of their past life they will repeat them and chew them with a Gusto as I have seen many of this sort of People do as being the unavoidable consequences of the beastly and as I may call with a great deal of reason the unnatural state of nature But now they tell you their pardon is seal'd and they are sure 't is impossible for them to miscarry which is Milk and Honey without Money and without Price a Calvinistical Dispensation at once more cheap and more effectual then any his Holiness can afford at Rome which was thought for many years to have been the only staple of that profitable Trade for it is profitable to the cause of Calvinism and to the interest of a separation that might be justifyed upon other grounds though it be more effectually promoted by this and though the Pope indeed in point of ready money have perhaps the start of the Doctours of Geneva Which brings me to the fifth thing and that is that this Doctrine of Election on the one hand and of absolute rejection and reprobation on the other is apt to fill men with insolence and pride with an high opinion of themselves and with a contempt and hatred of others and so is at once a natural cause of separation and of an obstinate and inveterate continuance in it Whether the grounds of such separation be reasonable or no which as it did confirm and strengthen the separation from the Church of Rome a thing that was otherwise necessary to be done without fancying any such eternal decrees to make themselves proud and to breed an hatred and contempt of those from whom they separate for justifyable reasons so I reckon likewise that it is the great Pillar of the Schisme from our Church at this day which as it pretends to greater purity so it proceeds upon an opinion that the Separatists for it are the Elect of God while we from being peaceable and sincerely honest without terms of art ●or being good Subjects without any reserve and for being good Christians without censuring all as Reprobates that differ from us are sometimes pityed and at other times despised as unregenerate Wretches being yet in our sins and in the state of nature that is in such a state in which there is no salvation and in which there is no other prospect but of Eternal death and a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation to devour the Adversaries This if it be examined will be found to be the general Ear-mark and Characteristique of the Separation and I am of opinion that there cannot be a better service done to the Church or to Mankind then by exposing such pernicious doctrines so injurious to God and so destructive to the peace and quiet of the world to that disgrace and infamy which they deserve But sixthly and lastly the last thing which I shall mention as having given occasion and encouragement to so dangerous a doctrine is the overheated zeal of St. Austine St. Jerome and others of that age against Pelagius who though it neither can nor must be denyed that he was much to blame that he attributed too much to the Powers of Nature and too little to the helps and Assistances of Grace yet it is equally certain that those who opposed him both in that age and afterwards went too far into the other extreme it must likewise be acknowledged to the credit of our Country in which he had his birth that he was a very wise as well as virtuous person and that for the clearness of his reason he had incomparably the advantage of all his adversaries put together and upon supposition that his last concessions were not extorted from him by the violence of his opposers but by the evidence of truth and by a more serious enquiry into the sense of Scripture and into the nature of things for our belief of these divine assistances is founded in both I should make no very great scruple to affirm that he was a tolerably Orthodox Divine And thus much shall suffice to have written upon this weighty Subject concerning Freedom and Necessity and concerning their several bounds borderings and interfering mixtures together with the genuine causes and effects of the one and of the other FINIS THE CONTENTS of the Two SERMONS THat those places wherein God is said to have hardened the heart of Pharoah are to be understood in their naked and Grammatical sense that is that God did really harden the heart of Pharaoh as the Scripture affirms him to have done Pag. 1 2 A short and true survey of the behaviour of the Aegyptians towards the children of Israel from their first entrance into the Land of Aegypt till their departure out of it and the drowning of the Aegyptians in the Red Sea from p. 2 to 7 From whence a true account is given of the reason why God hardened the heart of Pharaoh and it is likewise shewn that this hardening is not to ●e looked upon under the notion of a sin but of a punishment for former sins from p. 7. to 10 God cannot with justice condemn a man to everlasting torments merely because be did not or could not understand his duty p. 10 11 Part of the ninth Chapter to the Romans relating to this matter explained and the true extent of Gods dominion over his Creatures assigned from p. 11 to 22 The hardening of obstinate and inveterate sinners is so far from being any injustice that it seems absolutely necessary to the due administration of the divine justice in the government of the world from p. 22 to 25 There is nothing in it for which a Sinner can justly expostulate with God as having suffered any wrong because it is a thing perfectly of his own choosing from p. 25 to 27 It is the same thing in effect with the taking away Sinners by untimely deaths before they have made their peace with God by repentance which no man denies but God may justly do p. 27 28 In what sence God may be said to be the cause of obduration or hardness in a Sinner p. 28 29 A Parallel of the Story of Nebuchadnezzar with that of Pharaoh from p. 30 to 35 The same was the case of the Builders of Babel and in what sense their Language may be said to have been confounded p. 35 36 37 The same notion confirmed from Deut. 28. p. 37 To the same cause must we refer all those divine or Panick terrors infused into the minds of men by a supernatural way by which the Philistines the Midianites the Ammonites Moabites inhabitants of Mountseir Canaanites c. were