Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	judgement_n	lord_n	sin_n	3,017	5	4.8345	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34201	Concavum cappo-cloacorum, or, A view in little of the great wit and honesty contain'd under a brace of caps, and wrap'd up in the querpo-cloak of a phanatick in some reflections on the second part of a late pamphlet, intituled, Specvlum crapegownorum, being a dialogue between True-man and Cappocloak-man / by an honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	Honest gent. and a true lover of all such.	1682 (1682)	Wing C5692; ESTC R18924	46,034	73

te In te solum peccavi And Grotius thus comments upon it A te solo Poenas metuere possum Nam Liberi sunt Reges a vinculis delictorum ut ait Ambrosius secundum dictum Rabbinorum Nulla creatura judicat Regem sed Deus benedictus That is in plain English if I can translate the Words Against thee against thee only have I sinned From thee alone can I be punished for my sin For as Ambrose saith Kings are free from Punishments for their Sins And according to the saying of the Rabbins No creature can judge a King but only God blessed for evermore Now Sir I hope it is no great Crime if these authorities should perswade the Gentleman to take the Words in this sense and me to believe them to be rightly applyed even against the infallible Word of your dear self for I see very little reason you have offered against this application and I see less reason to think that Grotius and saint Hierom did not understand Hebrew as well as your learned Worship Cap-cloak-man I do not at all question it For I give you the translation of the Hebrew in the very same Words that Saint Hierom hath done but I cannot assent to Grotius his explication of them for reasons I there give you p. 33 and 34. True-man I pray then what can be the reason that David does here so Emphatically repeat this expression Against thee against thee only have I sinned but only his acknowledgement of God's sole power over him to punish him or to forgive him Cap-cloak-man That cannot be the reason For the Words were without question uttered in reference to the privacy of the fact committed which lay conceal'd from all the World but God True-man Well faced out indeed When were these Words spoken of by David after the Prophet Nathan had been with him and publickly told him of his Murder and Adultery or before It must be surely after it for before that he took no notice of his sin Cap-cloak-man What if it was after What 's this to the business True-man No more but this that then David's sin when he makes this Confession did not lye conceal'd from all the World but God Cap-cloak-man But the uery next Words Explanatory of the first and to them annex'd and made part of the sentence seem to demonstrate the Reason that I have given to be the true Reason of the Words viz. and done this evil in thy Sight i. e. not in the Sight of any other True-man Nay surely they seem to demonstrate the quite contrary For I think Tautologies are not to be allowed in Scripture without a great Necessity Why then must these latter Words and have done this evil in thy sight be taken in the very same sense with the former Against thee Against thee only have I sinned when the sense may be otherwise very clear and pertinent to his purpose Cap-cloak-man Because David could have no Reason to appeal to Heaven about his Power but speak these Words to this End viz. to justifie the Almighty in what Punishment he should inflict on him as the last Words of the Text demonstratively imply viz. to the end that thou mayest be Iustified in thy Word and pure in thy Iudgment p. 34. ibid. True-man For that very Reason that you have given from the last Words I conclude that David had great cause in his confession to remember the power that God had given him in raising him up to be King of Israel For this as the Prophet Nathan urgeth it 2 Sam. 12. v. 7 c. was the grand aggravation of his sin Thus saith the Lord God I anointed thee King over Israel c. wherefore then hast thou despised the Commandment of the Lord Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine House thus saith the Lord Behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own House and another shall ly with thy wives in the sight of the Sun For thou didst it secretly but I will do this thing before all Israel c. Cap-cloak-man Go on and let us see how suitable to this occasion your sense of the words will prove True-man With all my Heart David having seen this threatning of the Prophet Nathan to be fulfilled upon him in the Rebellion of his own beloved Son Absalom against him when he seiz'd his Father's Wives and Concubines and lay with them even in the Gates of the City in the sight of all Israel in the Agony of his Soul he pens this Penitential Psalm to beg Pardon for that particular Sin of the Murder of Vriah which he could not but know was the Cause of these so heavy afflictions upon them In which he confesses to God Almighty Against thee Against thee only have I Sinned c. i. e. Thou O God hast raised mee up from a Poor Shepherd's Boy to be King of Israel and given me an absolute Authority over thy People so that they should have no power to call me to an account for any of my Actions or to inflict any Punishment upon me But I have abused ingratefully all these thy Mercies towards me and thine own power over thine own People with which thou hast intrusted me hath been a means and encouragement to me to take away the Life of Innocent Vriah thus heinously have I Sinned against thee and more particularly against thee then any other of thy People could have done Cap-cloak-man This is hitherto very pertinent I must confess but how can you carry it quite thorough the Verse so as to agree with the following Words True-man Have but Patience to go along with me and ou'll see Cap-cloak-man Well go on then with your Paraphrase and I will not interrupt you any more True-man This great evil saith David I did in thy sight So privately that no mortall Eye could see that I was concern'd in it but thou O God who art every where present and seest all things didst manifestly behold it and that thou mightest vindicate thy power and Providence hast made my Crime visible to all men in my Punishment according as thou didst foretell by thy holy Prophet Nathan That thou mightest be justified in thy Word and pure in thy Iudgments And hereby thou hast justified thy Prophets threatnings and cleared thine own Iustice from all Aspersions that mine Impunity might have brought upon it by inflicting such heavy Iudgments upon me which I acknowledge I have most justly deserved Now let me hear what you have to say against this Gloss. Cap-cloak-man Truely Neighbour I have nothing to say against this paraphrase but that it may be the true sense of the Words for all as I know to the contrary at present but you can't think the Fellows that are hang'd are accountable to none but God because they sing these very Words at the Gallows Me it thinks this renders that sense of them a little ridiculous True-man After they are hang'd and dead who I pray are they accountable to