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
A54444	To all simple, honest-intending, and innocent people without respect to sects, opinions, or distinguishing names, who desire to walk with God in the pure spirit of life and true understanding : I send greeting in the harmless love of God.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1664 (1664)	Wing P1632; ESTC R28431	6,598	9

To all Simple Honest-intending and Innocent people without respect to Sects Opinions or distinguishing Names who desire to walk with God ●n the pure Spirit of Life and true Understanding I send Greeting in the harmless love of God BRethren and Sisters a spring is open in me of that life and nature which shall out-live all prejudices contentions persecutions and enmity even the charity of the Eternal and Incomprehensible power which gusheth forth streameth yea and freely floweth towards you all In this spirit I cannot be withholden from visiting you for the yearning and melting of my tender bowels do reach forth unto you all In and by which I am constrained to shed abroad these things to the end that God may be glorified in many and that some may know I yet live to love all I have a deep consideration of sundry things which I have seen come to pass to the sorrow and grief of my heart and bowing down of my soul before the Lord God which cries to him that lives for ever and ever The cause of my plaint for whom and for what it is I shall be silent in to man because I know it is the Lord alone that works the salvation of Israel and that returns the Captivity of Jacob whose day hastens it will come yea it is swiftly coming to pass of which these following words are true and certain effects of its dawing God is that spirit life light vertue and power appearing in and unto his poor creature man which through charity in judgment for the manifestation of mercy and remission appeareth in the secret of mans soul to the end that in his mind he may be like his God that in that likeness and heavenly similitude he may faithfully serve his God Now God in himself is incomprehensibly holy and immeasurably wise who makes man both in intention and inclination and many vertues like himself But makes not man either in holiness or wisdom absolutely God himself because he will have mans fear and reverence in his eye to the end of time and dayes He comes into mans heart to work a work and through the work to shew to man who and what he is that works it how and what manner of spirit the time when he began the subject upon what and the end for what he operates it that as man shall see and behold him in all these respects as he walketh towards man so man may walk in the spirit of his God towards all men this being of his Image and Likeness but what is not of this degenerates from his similitude Now this I hope you may all know or may yet be given to know that God never came to any void of Charity in rash but alwayes in righteous tender judgment who hath approved his grace in the eyes of man by long-forbearance and at last forgiveness who delights not in the death of a sinner who while some were in their bloud when none pitied them he said to them live and while others were backsliden he healed their backslidings and loved them freely By this spirit I am taught that if any Lamb be bitten wounded or torn by the Wolf in his own house if I seek any thing it must be to heal him if any Childs garments be spotted it must be to wash them if any Babe be fallen asleep to wait in hope and breathing till he be awakened if any is not of the fold to gather him in the same Charity by which I was gathered and leave the Righteousness of Equity to him who shewed me mercy Ah what a rare thing it is to find a mans judgment composed of and standing in the mercies of God Though who shall inspire the heavenly glory and not find the fulness of just judgment to be the immence over flowing fountain of mercy yet he comes in 10000 of his Saints to judge the earth in them that nothing but mercy in an understanding of his glory may dwell there what wise-man then shall go out of his own land into another Sea where the Lord is travelling in the deep thereof in judgment that his streams may flow forth in Righteousness and his Ocean overwhelm in holiness and that the knowledge of his glorious brightness may cover the earth as the waters cover the Sea Let my soul therefore keep to the secrets of his judgments within me that when I go forth it may be with the effect of his judgment which is mercy tenderness love and charity to all which I desire may not prove offensive to any and let not my soul go forth in its own conceivings to take from God his Prerogative of judgment in any yet if at any time my foot should slide and I do so let him that sees me not therefore slay me but save me for that is of mercy and not of severity and cruelty This spirit speaketh truth in all and admiteth not any to speak otherwise then truth of and unto all yet if any speak not truth of him in whom it lives and rules it forgives the wrong not seeking revenge on any and he that is in it knows the experimental work of it both in life and practice and this never dying but ever living spirit is the perfect Oneness and Unity and there is no holy Unity or Oneness beside it or beside what it is not it self but of it or in it And no visible appearance of what man is in feature or gesture or what mans corporal form bear about it or upon it or what mans acts as things in natural view done or effected is it self that is to say is this very spirit life or unity But many things may be of its dictates or motions and therefore because the dictates are not the dictator nor the motions the real mover therefore the motions dictates or appearances cannot be the eternal Oneness or Unity he therefore whose unity stands in an external appearance may miss of the true mark But he whose unity stands only in the eternal unity or one spirit of life and holiness whether in appearance or not appearance outward keeps his solid peace and infallible fellowship with God Christ and all his Saints which never dies And understanding of the nature of this spirit hath taught me to bear withall persons though according to the true knowledge are zealously affected with appearances where the appearance is of good intention and simply in it self no trangreson and also to suffer in a sense under the evils of many who in appearance are absolutely transgressours for a seeds sake who hath wrestled and striven with all men in their sins and transgressions and for their souls sake which are captivated and bound in darkness through their transgressions that through bearing and suffering the aboundance of love charity temperance mercy forgiveness of our Lord Jesus Christ may appear in the fulness of the day which is hoped for and believed shall be most gloriously revealed he that sees most of it this day