Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	heart_n	lord_n	see_v	3,172	5	3.4596	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54047	A question propounded to the rulers, teachers, and people of the nations of England, for them singly to answer in their hearts and consciences in the fear and dread of the Almighty God ...	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1183; ESTC R31072	6,399	10

that thy Rulers had built up a true Church yet the evil Spirit the unclean Spirit would have endeavoured to pollute it to provoke the Lor● to remove his candlestick which is an inward act of his Spirit the outward building might stand notwithstanding and then thy house must have been left desolate and the same Spirit would then have called his people out of it but if thy building hath not been Spiritual and in the Spirit how can the Spirit of the Lord suffer the Children begotten by him to lodge in it O when wilt thou have an ear to hear that the Lords wrath may asswage towards thee which kindleth more and more and is entring a pace within thy bowels This this is the Lords charge against thee Thou art for the Protestant name it is now become thy interest and a goodly covering in thy eyes but against the Protestant Spirit which the Lord calleth to follow him further and further from all the things of Popery and from all the things like Popery And the Lord will put a difference between the Protestant Name and the Protestant Spirit between them that serve him in the fear which he begets in the heart and them that set up that kind of fear wich is taught by the precepts of men O England we are now seemingly in thy hands who hast long handled us very roughly and we have no strength against thee nor no hope of deliverance from thee but in the Lord our God and there we are at rest waiting upon him in the innocency and integrity which he hath begotten in our hearts until he plead our cause And in that day thou wilt see that we have not been thine enemies and then thou wilt mourn over that mist of darkness which hath with-held thine eye from discerning what true friends we have been to thee and how we have endeavoured and sought with our hearts to prevent thy drinking of that bitter cup which is to go round the Nations And if thine ear could have been opened thou mightest have been spared POST-SCRIPT THe Gospel is free the grace and mercy thereof free the Spirit a free Spirit freely given of God and freely ministring for God the Church a Spiritual building built in the Freedome and Liberty of the Life of the Spirit the order a●● government of the Church is from and in the same free Sp●rit guiding a people whom God makes willing in the day of his power the maintenance of the Ministry a free maintenance t●● whole obedience and worship free in the free spirit and in t●● truth which is begotten in the heart by the free spirit The he●● of this Church is Christ the living Spirit who hath appointed none to be Head under him here on earth nor hath giv●● power to any to make any Laws concerning his Kingdome the Government thereof concerning his Ministry or ●t maintenance thereof Is it not thus Doth not the least child Light see it to be thus But the Church of England was Church built up by force setled by force upheld by force her Ministers maintained by force her Order Unity Uniformity and Government forcible and the free pure spirit of life can have no scope in her but according to the wills of her Rulers Teachers and People if it move otherwise if it appear otherwise it is sure to be nick named and persecuted O England England can God alwayes suffer these things Will not his hand at length be stretched forth against thee Given forth by Isaac Penington the younger in the fear and dread of the most High 14. of 12. Month 1659. The day of the Lord so cemeth as a thief in the night For when they shall say Peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape 1 Thes. 5 2 3. And when the Lord cometh Woe to him who is found beating his fellow Servants and endeavouring to force the Conscience which God hath made tender and plyable to the voyce of his Spirit from its obedience and subjection thereto THE END London Printed for L. Lloyd at the Castle in Cornhil 1659.