Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68954	A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetuall guide. Selfe-enriching examination. Soule-fatting fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 3255; ESTC S106789	149,468	268

upon any part of Gods Word on God himselfe his Wisedome Power his Mercie or on the infinite varietie of good things which wee receive of his free bountie upon his workes and judgements upon our sinnes and the vilenesse of our corruption that wee yet carry about us upon our mortalitie and changes in this World upon our manifold afflictions of this life and how wee may in best manner beare and goe through them and the benefit thereof upon the manifold and great priviledges which wee enjoy dayly through the inestimable kindnesse of God towards us upon the foure last things but especially of those things that wee have most speciall need of Of the thing meditated upon consider First The definition or description Secondly The distribution sorts kinds or parts Thirdly Causes especially efficient and finall Fourthly The fruits and effects which it bringeth forth Fifthly The subject wherein it is or about which it is occupied Sixtly The qualities or properties adjoyned And know that oftentimes in common practice these three the finall cause the fruit or the effect the use or propertie of a thing are often confounded Seventhly The contrarie Eightly The comparison Exemplifie in the joyes of Heaven of which see Hall In sinne of which see Practice of Christianitie pag. 293. Vpon this occasion let us peruse in this manner Fasting and the Plague 5 A fifth meanes to profit by the Word is Teaching Praying with and Catechizing your children and servants To which Dutie be stirred up and strengthened by First Scriptures Deut. 4. 9. 6. 7. 11. 19. Psal 78. 5 6. Exod. 12. 26 27. 13 14. Iosh 4. 6 7 21 22. Deut. 6. 20 21. Eph. 6. 4. Secondly By the patterne and practice of holy Parents from time to time Consider for this purpose the carriage of Abraham Gen. 18. 19. David Prov. 4. 4. Bathsheba Prov. 31. 1. Lois and Eunice 2 Tim. 1. 5. Thirdly By the authoritie of the ancient Fathers 1 Heare Austin Notwithstanding my deare friends in so great a difference of manners and such abominable corruption governe your Houses governe your Children governe your Families As it behoves us to speake to you in the Church so it pertaines to you to doe in your Houses that yee may be able to give a good account of those who are under you Againe I pray thee my Brother I pray thee shew to all under thee of meere good will from the least to the greatest in thy House the love and sweetnesse of Heaven the bitternesse and feare of Hell and be thou solicitous and watchfull because thou shalt render an account to the Lord for all those under thee that are in thy House Declare charge command perswade them that they would take heed of Pride of Slandering of Drunkennesse of Fornication of Luxurie Anger Perjurie Covetousnesse which is the root of all evill 2 Nazianzen Hast thou a Child Let not wickednesse take advantage and occasion Let it be endued with sanctitie and consecrated to thy spirit from the very Cradle I know he meanes it immediately of Baptisme but by Analogie that binds also to have a care of religious education Fourthly by Reasons First Thy Children sprung from thy Loines and came into the World to encrease the number of Gods people to learne the way to Heaven and walke in it not onely to uphold thy House inherite thy Possessions and convey thy Name to future Generations The glorifying of our God serving our Brethren in love salvation of our owne Soules are the chiefe ends why we live a little while in this World Now Parents should be most solicitous to further their Children for the attainement of the maine end and most soveraigne good Secondly Neglect of this Dutie makes Parents worse to their Children than to their Beasts For 1 They provide for their Beasts all things necessarie for them but in their owne deare Children they neglect that One necessarie thing 2 They procure for and put their Beasts to all things of which they are capable Their Children are capable of Grace and Immortalitie and they never meddle nor move them to looke that way or lay hold upon eternall Life Thirdly Let the remarkable and rufull example of Eli be for ever a keene spurre in the sides of slouthfull Parents to quicken them to this Dutie Fourthly Thou art farre more cruell than the Ostrich and the Dragon and mayest be said to have suckt the brests of Tygres and to be hewed out of the hardest Rocke if having brought thy Children forth into this World limbes for the Devill and fewell for Hell-fire thou labour not might and maine to get them new-borne the members of Christ and freed from everlasting flames Fifthly Grace onely is able to make thy Children truly obedient serviceable and everlastingly thankfull having now a double tye first birth secondly new-birth Then onely and never before doe they begin to pray for their Parents to deale faithfully in their businesses not to long for their death Sixtly A conscionable and constant performance of this Dutie in their life time will fill Parents hearts full of sweetest joy and heavenly comfort upon their Beds of Death when they see by their care and zeale for their spirituall good that holy knowledge and wisedome planted in their Childrens hearts which will bring them after them to eternall blisse or how soever consciousnesse of a conscionable discharge of their Dutie in this respect will infinitely refresh them Seventhly It is the way to make thy posteritie truly honourable and to meet thee in Heaven Those Children which are taught by thee may teach the same things unto theirs and those to others c. Eightly Thy Children neglected in this point and so dying impenitently will curse thee everlastingly in Hell for thy bloudie inexpiable crueltie towards them in this kind Ninthly Besides innumerable sinnes of thine owne the least of which merits eternitie of Hellish torments thou hast justly set upon thy Score by this unconscionable murthering negligence the sinnes and sinnefull courses of thine owne Children which will lye full heavie upon thy Conscience when it shall be ragingly enlightened by the long provoked wrath of God 6 The next meanes is Prayer Prov. 2. 3 4 5. 7 The seventh meanes is Practise See Iohn 7. 17. 8 The eight is Experience See Dike of the heart pag. 69. 3 Be none of the reprobate grounds Math. 13. of which see Dike Taylor 4 Be none of those who invited to the Marriage of the Kings Sonne Math. 22. either first wilfully contemne Vers 3. secondly or carelesly dis-esteeme Vers 5. thirdly or cruelly persecute Vers 6. 5 Reject all those Hellish temptations which doe mightily keepe off the dint and power of the most piercing Word and being entertained will cause the Word preached to be but as the breath of the Minister scattered in the Ayre and

were sent out into the World as Sheepe amongst Wolves There come after and drinke of the same Cup millions of blessed men and women under the primitive Persecutions Of which some were scalded some burned some broyled some hanged some beheaded some throwne downe from rockes upon stakes some stabbed in with forkes some racked and torne in pieces their tongues cut out their eyes bored out their flesh twitched off with Pinsons womens brests feared off with hot yrons pricked under the nayles with Needles and a thousand more wayes tormented with as great varietie and exquisitenesse as politike malice could devise and prophane crueltie execute If wee passe along from thence even to these Times yea and if our eyes were so enlightened that we could looke upon the state of Gods children and their way to Heaven even to the Worlds end we should ever be able to trace them along by the teares of Brine and bloud which are powred out and spilt for the profession of Gods Truth and practice of holinesse This then is was and ever will be the lot and portion of all those who are fitting and preparing for Heaven They are ever persecuted one way or other If by reason of the milde and peaceable Times they fight not unto bloud and passe the fierie Triall yet they shall have their troubles oppressions and disgraces at least they shall be ever sure to be payd home with the scourge of tongues they shall be loaden with slanders and false reports they shall be made a gazing-stocke a by-word and Table-talke a scorne reproach and derision to them that are round about them as David was Psal 79. 4. Which being so why should not a common case in the cause of God breed a common comfort in true Christians Why should any of them thinke much to drinke of the same Cup that the dearest Saints and soules now blessed with the Lord have begun to them in and of which all that will be saved even to the last day must taste and follow Why should any man that truly loves God or lookes for the joyes of the other World seeke or desire a priviledge above all the children of God that everwere and even above the Sonne of God himselfe Christ Iesus Most unworthy is hee of the glorious comforts of Grace of the inward Peace that passeth all understanding and of that Glory which is to be revealed who for a slanderous tale a lying tongue a reproachfull tearme or the feare and face of any mortall man slinkes back from a bold profession of sinceritie and from the true service of the living God In sufferings and afflictions for Gods cause there is not onely matter of patience but even occasion of glory They are like starres in the forehead honourable maimes conformities to Iesus Christ Liveries of a Christian souldier Fifthly let him consider that his momentanie crosses and afflictions cause an exceeding and everlasting weight of glory Let his vexation be never so grievous his persecutors never so great and mightie neither they nor that can last long For the life of man and all the glory thereof doth passe away like a Ship in the Water whose tract cannot be seene againe like an Arrow through the aire or a Weavers Shuttle through his worke like a fading Flower suddenly plucked up and withered like Grasse like Smoake like a Dreame like a Bubble of the Water Though a Christian therefore be never so deepely plunged into miseries he shall abide but a while under the waters of affliction the day of redemption cannot be farre off Though he should passe through the teeth of wilde Beasts upon the sword of the Tyrant through the flames of fire though his braines should be dasht against the walls his limbes lye scattered in the streets and his bloud runne downe every channell yet shall he ere it be long gloriously rise againe in despight of all the powers of Darkenesse and bloudinesse of cruell men Hee shall entirely be restored by the mightie and immediate hand of God hee shall be clothed with Light and immortalitie his bloud shall be revenged and all teares wiped from his eyes and there shall be set upon his head a Crowne of everlasting joy peace and happinesse Sixtly comfort unspeakable and glorious may spring up in the heart of Gods child amidst his sufferings for the cause of God out of a consideration That in all afflictions without exception Christ suffereth with him Paul was the mirrour and miracle of all Christians for the varietie and gloriousnesse of his sufferings you may see a strange and unmatchable Catalogue of them 2 Cor. 11. 23. c. He was in stripes above measure plenteously in prison in death oft Of the Iewes five times received hee fortie stripes save one he was thrice beaten with Rods he was once stoned he suffered thrice shipwracke night and day was he in the deepe Sea In journeying he was often in perils of Waters in perils of Robbers in perils of his owne Nation in perils among the Gentiles in perils in the Citie in perils in the Wildernesse in perils in the Sea in perils among false Brethren in wearinesse and painefulnesse in watching often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and in nakednesse Yet all these and what other crosses and afflictions befell him he calls and accounts them the sufferings and afflictions of Christ Now saith Paul Col. 1. 24. now rejoyce I in my sufferings for you and fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his Bodies sake which is the Church And 2 Cor. 1. 5. As the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation aboundeth through Christ. Lazarus in all his povertie contempt sicknesse sores or what other miseries suffered nothing wherein Christ was not partaker of his griefe and sorrow So sweet and blessed a consent and sympathie is there betwixt Christ the Head and all true Christians his members that so long as the great mysterie of that mysticall Vnion stands true and sure which is for ever all holy men and servants of God in all their sufferings for the Name of Christ profession of his Truth and practice of sinceritie shall have Christ himselfe partner and partaker of their miseries which is able to refresh the heaviest heart in the greatest extremities I have stayed long upon this point to wit how Sathan labours might and maine by crosses and slanders to discourage Gods child and to stop his course in the wayes of righteousnesse and in laying downe some comforts against them because thousands at the very first entrance or after some small continuance are wofully turned backe from grace and sinceritie by temptations reproaches and troubles raysed against them by their owne rebellious flesh Sathan and prophane men Now in a ninth place if all this will doe no good if the heat of persecution inflame the zeale of the true Christian if reproaches and afflictions be so