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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	know_v	let_v	see_v	3,024	5	2.9158	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47746	The history of sin and heresie attempted, from the first war that they rais'd in heaven through their various successes and progress upon earth to the final victory over them, and their eternal condemnation in hell : in some meditations upon the feast of St. Michael and all angels.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1698 (1698)	Wing L1135; ESTC R11401	44,933	69

have no Choice no Free-will to go to the Right hand or to the Left Have I any Pleasure at all that the Wicked shou'd Dye Ezek. xviii 23. ver 31. Saith the Lord God and not that he shou'd Return from his ways and Live And why will ye Dye O House of Israel Why Because they might say upon this Scheme you have Decreed us to Dye and we have no Choice no Power to do any otherwise then we do It is as if I shou'd Bind a Man Hand and Foot Lock him into a House then set Fire to it and ask him Why will you stay there and be Burn'd As I Live I have no Pleasure in your Death c. This wou'd be a Mocking and Insulting upon his Misery This wou'd be making God the Author of all the Sin in the World For where there is no Choice there can be no Sin Therefore those Creatures who have no Choice are Incapable of Sin as Trees Stones Beasts c. And as there cou'd be no Sin against God so cou'd there be no Offence against Man No man ought to be Punished for Murther Theft Robbery c. If he be carry'd to it by a Fatal Necessity which he cannot Resist Therefore Men Distracted or in Feavours are not Lyable to Law because they are not suppos'd Capable of the use of their Reason whereby they may Govern their Choice in their Actions I may Add that there is nothing more Self-Evident no not the Perception of our out-ward Senses than Free-will in Man who do's not Perceive that it is in his Power to do this or that And all the Repentance and Regret in Man for his Follies arises from this Consideration that he might have done otherwise Without this there cou'd be no such thing as Repentance no nor of Council and Advice or indeed of any Thinking at all Without this Man cou'd not be a Reasonable Creature for where there is no Choice there can be no Reason at least no use of our Reason It is Liberty and Free-will which Confounds all those Atheists who wou'd Reduce Every thing even God Himself to mere Matter For let Matter be Refin'd as far as Imagination can stretch it it can never come from under the Laws of Necessity All its Motions are Perscrib'd and must proceed Exactly according to its Mechanism and cannot vary in the least Tittle But the Freedom of Will to Act this way or the Contrary exceeds all Rules of Mechanism and is an Image of God which cannot be Impress'd upon Matter And when the Devil or Man by his Instigation wou'd shrow'd their Sin under this seeming Necessity it is to throw it upon God But their own Consciences fly in their Faces and tells them that they might have Helpt it and therefore that their Sin lys at their own Door How far any or All of the Errors and Heresies before Mentioned or what others of the like Nature did Prevail in the Ancient Ages of the World of which we have little Account and before the Flood we cannot now Determine But this we may be Assur'd of that there were Gross Errors and Heresies amongst them And that these as well as those of which we have the Account were Instigated and Promoted by the Arch-Enemy who first Tempted Man to Sin after his own Example And has and will to the End of the World Seduce Mankind as far as in his Power And God has Permitted him Great Power and Great Success which will all turn no Doubt to the Greater Glory of God in the End and to the Encrease of Endless Happinness to those who are subjected to Great Tryals and Tentations and shall Continue Faithful unto the End God has had His City from the Beginning and the Devil his Camp laying Siege to it and often Wasting and almost Destroying it whereby God shew'd His Almighty Power and Love to His Church in His Miraculous Defence of it amidst so many and Great Dangers Of which this Attempt is Design'd by way of a History Deduc'd from the Beginning of that first Revolt in Heaven and the various Successes of the same War carry'd on upon the Earth ever since the Fatal Seduction of our first Parents in Paradice And the Low Ebb to which the Church was often Reduc'd and yet still Deliver'd will strengthen our Hearts in those Afflictions and Depressions of this City of God which we see in our times And not only keep us from Despair but give us a Lively Hope Encrease our Faith and stir up our Courage always to Work and never to Despond when we know that God is on our side and that we must Overcome in the End if we Faint not and give up the Cause for want of Trust in God and Loose both our Labour and Reward Therefore that we may see that Nothing New has befallen Us Let us look into the Several Ages of the World Whom find we that walked with God or fought on his side but Abel Seth Enoch and Noah before the Flood Then was the whole World Destroy'd for its Wickedness except Eight Persons After the Flood how soon did Nimrod and the Builders of Babel declare their Pride And the whole World receiv'd this Principle of the Devil and Govern'd themselves by it And the Army of God was confin'd within the small Family of Abraham And when God had Rescu'd a Nation to Himself Deut. vii 7. Psal Lxxviii 9. Matt. xxiii 37. and given them His Law they were the Fewest of all People a Stubborn and Stifnecked Generation that set not their heart Aright nor sought after God they ston'd their Prophets and kill'd those whom God sent to Reclaim them Till at last God Remov'd Them too and Scatter'd them among the Heathen Then the Devil boasted in his Conquests and set up his Banners for tokens he Possest all the Temples and Thrones in the World None Appear'd against him but a few Heathen Philosophers who were themselves in half Pay with him had suck'd many of his Principles with their Milk but yet were assisted by God and Spoke Noble things in defence of Love till by it as by a clue they discover'd God Himself or found that Love was Almighty and they made it the first Former of all Things They batter'd Pride with mighty Arguments and brought upon themselves the Rage of the Devil who kept them Low and Poor and Despis'd and Arm'd Kings and States against them and Rais'd many of them to a sort of Martyrdom Thus Deplorable was the Condition of the World then a few stifled Embers only left and all the Torrents of the World all their Violence let loose upon them to Quench them It was now time for God Himself to Appear in Defence of His own Cause which in the hands of Men had been Betray'd Overpower'd Conquer'd and only not Intirely Lost And Lo He Comes a Body is prepar'd for Him and God was made Flesh Now let Us seriously attend this Conflict for never before nor ever again