Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	let_v	lord_n	see_v	4,698	5	3.6890	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34997	A plain path-vvay opened to the simple-hearted for the answering all doubts & objections which do arise in them against the light and truth in the inward parts, by which many are kept from obedience and so from peace to their panting souls / by Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1688 (1688)	Wing C6938; ESTC R29744	13,460	16

have begun to resolve to follow the Lord in his pure Way of Holiness thus opened unto you in the Light though to the loss of all and though it be to the bearing your part of the great reproach that lies upon them that love him more then their Lives and at such a time there was felt a secret joy in a hidden ground in your Souls and the seed of the Kingdom that had been long buried up began to spring up in you in which Seed your Souls felt some touchings of that heavenly Life Joy which for the time exceeded all things that this World could afford and whensoever ye come to feel this refreshing dew upon your Souls then take heed and wait singly in the sence of it keep your Eye to the joy that is now set before you in Christ Jesus the Seed for if you let your minds wander and your eyes gad abroad there be objects on every hand to lead you out from your Souls beloved and to bring you to defile your hearts and make your selves an unfit place of residence for him who is holy and pure and will not dwell nor take delight in a polluted Temple but will withdraw himself as he did from Israel of old and from their Temple when it was polluted and prophaned And besides when your minds are taken hold of by any of the corruptible things in this changable World there will presently kindle a desiring longing and lusting after the enjoyment of those things though contrary to the will of God and then next the Reasoner and Consulter gets up in thee and starts a question May not I enjoy the Lord and this May not I keep in the Way of Truth and yet do this or that thing which my heart desireth And though it be not perfectly according to the Truth made manifest in me yet I will have my Will my Lust my Desire satisfied but this one time and that 's not much saith the Consulter and this is but a small matter there be others that do greater things then this and such like reasonings enter the mind and this grieves and vexeth that good and Righteous tender Spirit that moved in thee and brings a weight and oppression upon the pure in thee and that withdraws it self again from thee in which thy Light did arise unto thee and so a night comes upon thee for where the Serpent can bring any to make a question of obeying the Truth he is as ready to frame an Answer as to beget the Question but his answer always comes with a Liberty and perswasion to disobey as it did by Eve in the beginning and when Transgression is finished then Death enters upon thee with its dark Power and manifold Sorrows pierceth thy poor Soul though the fruit was desirable to be eaten yet now it is eaten thou canst not come at life to eat of that too though thou desirest it but art driven out and kept out with a flaming Sword that turns every way against thee And here 's now a ground laid for Doubts and Questioning of a higher nature then before to raise in thee for before thou doubtedst of the Truth it self whether it were the Truth but now having tasted of it and received a Convincement of it and yet let forth thy mind from it after other Lovers thy ears after the voice of the Adulteress and so caused the pure Light to withdraw from thee thorow thy Rebellion Now thou desirest thou mightst but see again what thou hast seen and feel again what thou hast felt but doubtst fearst that thou shalt never see nor feel nor enjoy the like again and now thou wishest O that thou hadst stood in the Cross to thy own will that thou hadst denied thy self that thou mightst not thus have lost the sight and sence of thy Souls Beloed And now thou seest by Woful experience whence Doubts and Fears and Sorrows do arise even thy joyning with the Enemy who brings forth Reasons against the obedience to the Light And therefore now hearken to that which remains in thee though darkness sorrow doth encompass thee yet there is something remains which gives thee a sence of thy state and condition and makes thee to know thy loss and want hear the voice of this and this will humble thee and bring thee into true brokenness of heart and contriteness of spirit and as thou comest to know that state then thou hast something to offer to the Lord of his own preparing which will be far more acceptable to him then a multitude of Words Preformances Duties so called and as thou in the true lowliness of mind dost come before the Lord and offers up this offering God will hear in Heaven and will answer the Cry of the poor and needy Soul that cannot be satisfied without his presence and he will remember his Mercies of old which never fail for his seeds sake which is not yet brought forth in thee And when God doth again shine forth unto thee and make his Power known thou must expect it must be in judgment because of the transgression thou hast gone into that he may consume that in thee which led thee into the Sin from his pure Law which is Lgiht for Zion is Redeemed by Judgment And therefore take heed lest thou be offended at his appearance take heed that thou limit not the Holy One but if his appearance be with more sharpness and bitterness to the carnal part than before it is but just it should be so It is the Lord let him do what he will he sees more cause now than before by how much more thou hast sinned against his goodness but bow to his Judgments Bear his Indignation as Micah said because thou hast sinned against him Mic. 7.9 And as thou yieldst to his righteous Judgment thou wilt know the coming to the midst of them in which the mercy is remembred and made manifest and therefore the hasty and impatient that flee the Judgment as soon as it begins a little to appear in them they never find the true deliverance but get ease another way which lasteth but for a moment but they who come to know a thorow work wrought in their Earth and the Floor thorowly purged they come to know the true and lasting Peace to their Immortal Souls And although this is not obtained by ease and liberty to the carnal mind which must dye yet the end Crowns all that hold out to it they are the saved ones as Christ said Mark 13.13 And they find the returning with sheaves as the Prophet said Psal 126.5 6. They that sow in Tears shall reap in Joy They went forth said he with weeping and bearing precious Seed but they shall return with joy and bring their Sheaves And as Christ said They that forsake Father and Mother Wife and Children House or Lands yea or their own Lives for my sake shall have an hundred fold in this time and in the