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	sin_n	2,722	5	4.5112	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56047	A warning to London in particular wherein the wickedness thereof is reproved, and the people put in mind of some of the sore distresses and great calamities, that God already hath brought upon that formerly florishing and happy city : also the future distress and calamities hinted at, which God will bring upon the inhabitants thereof, that come not in their day to cease to do evil, and by timely repentance, turn to the Lord, while He calls, and His Spirit yet strives with them.	Parke, James, 1636-1696.	1679 (1679)	Wing P376; ESTC R5757	7,480	15

lay to heart these things whose Day is not over and gone with whom God's Spirit yet strives O! mind it receive and obey it that you may come to know the Guidance and Conduct of it and you all coming to walk in it you will walk safely and in Humility with God O People Call to mind seriously consider all the heavy Woes and Judgments that have come upon the Inhabitants of LONDON and why the Lord hath smitten you so often O! hear his Rod even the Rod of his fierce Wrath that is kindled against you and Revolt not from Him more and more to the utter hardning of your Hearts against his Reproof and Cheeks of his Spirit in your Consciences that sometimes in secret you have had when no Eye saw you and how unsensible and hard are many of you grown since God visited you by his Judgments and great Calamities of Plague Fire and Sword What! have you quite forgotten how the Hand of the Lord was stretched forth in so great Indignation against that City that he made almost all Faces gather Paleness and thousands were startled and amazed at that time O! have ye forgotten how the Lord visited your City and pleaded with you by a sore grievous destroying Plague wherein so many Thousands perished and Multitudes for fear of their Lives fled as if a Destroying Enemy had pursued them thinking themselves best and most happy that could get from the City And have you forgotten how afterwards the Lord suffered your strong City to be laid in Ashes and Grass to grow in the Streets and how many Thousand Families were forced out of their Habitations to lodge in the Fields and sore put to it to get convenient Lodging or whereon to lay their Heads Also you ought to remember and never to forget how your City was distressed and impoverished by the Disappointments and Losses that you met with in the two Wars that God suffered to be betwixt this Nation and the States of Holland what Pressing and afterwards the lamentable Cryes Scrikes and Groans of Wounded Men such as mine Eyes never desire to see nor Ears to hear in this City or Nation nor else-where any more And truly whatever ye look for from God your Sins and Provocations have not been less since but rather more against Him that smote you formerly Surely it may be said of many of you That the more God hath smitten you the more ye have revolted and the more Forbearance and Tenderness he exercised to you the more ye have set your selves in Opposition and Rebellion to slight and dishonour him and grieve his good Spirit The Lord hath been loath to give the People of this City up to utter Darkness and Destruction that I am a Witness of although the Goodness of many that did taste of the Goodness of God was but as the early Dew that soon was gone then such turned with the Dog to their own Vomit and the Sow that was washed to wallow in the Mire again and instead of going forward towards that Mark of the Price of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus which they professed and were called to have sliden back and gone back again into the gross Darkness of Aegypt and declaring their Sin as Sodom And many of you that are Inhabitants of London in this Estate and Condition have professed the Name of the Lord and named his Name imagining that you believed in it and that you were saved thereby and that God would save spare and deliver you from your Enemies whereas ye may justly expect the contrary from God if ye do not consider your Ways and Repent of the Evil of your Ways and Doings and turn unto God while its called to day And you have been more apt to look out at Secondary Causes than to smite upon your Thigh and say What have we done as the Cause wherefore God doth bring all this Evil upon this City and Nation that hath come upon us When have your Hearts in a Godly Sorrow cryed to the Lord To turn away his Displeasure from this City and Nation that you have incur'd or brought upon your selves by a Continuance in Sin and adding Sin to Sin What else kindles God's Wrath or causeth his Displeasure to come upon a City or People O! have ye not proceeded from Evil to worse and rushed into Iniquity as the Horse rushes into the Battel as if the Lord did not see or take notice of it but as he hath reproved you for it and brought his heavy Judgments upon many because of it so he will reprove you and judge you more and more and great Woes and Judgments God threatens your City with to bring upon the Inhabitants of it if speedily you repent not of your Wickednesses and turn from them to Him that smiteth you What way or in what manner the Lord will bring his Woes and Judgments upon you I feel not much in me to go about to determine but leave it rather to Him that seeth and is privy to all your Sins whether secret or open O LONDON LONDON thou art a city that many Eyes are upon watching for Evil to come to thee and not for Good But Evil shall come upon them that desire and design thy Ruin Destruction Destruction certainly shall come upon themselves that are such Watchers for Evil and Hellish Contrivers bending their Tongues to speak it and their Hearts to put it in Practice their own Wickedness shall correct them and their Hellish Confidence to pursue and bring about that Evil which they have hatched against thy Peaceable Inhabitants that desire to live a Peaceable and Godly Life both in City and Country shall all turn at last to their Confusion utter Ruin and the Overthrow of their black Intents and Works of Darkness But hereby you who Repent not will be left without Excuse before God who may suffer many of ye utterly to perish in this Calamity because of your Wickedness Such Evil Instruments may be permitted of the Lord as a Rod to smite and be a Scourge to the People of London and others in this Land that are highly guilty of provoking the Lord to Wrath who sometime hath suffer'd Evil Men as the Executioners thereof to execute his Wrath upon People that continue in their Wickedness and Rebellion against him And you in this City who are in that unhappy State not knowing the Lord who is Israel's Keeper to watch over you and your City your Watchings Guards and Double Watchings will be all in vain and to no purpose to preserve or deliver your City from that Evil that assuredly the Lord will bring upon it if you Repent not with all your Hearts and speedily turn unto him Which that you may all do while God gives you a Day is the fervent Desire of him that truly seeks the Peace of the City and the Good of all men every where known unto many by the Name of JAMES PARKE Horslydown the 14th of the 2d Moneth 1679. 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