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
A92193	A tender exhortation to Friends at Bristol, to bring to remembrance how it was with them in the beginning.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.; Fox, George, d. 1661.	1700 (1700)	Wing R3; ESTC R182323	5,268	16

have gone before them for the Way is the same for the Young as well as the Old and therefore they ought to consider their standing And the Lord is the same to day as yesterstay and for ever and he will not acquit the Guilty neither Rich nor Poor therefore I pray Friends consider and be you watchful with that little knowledge which the Lord hath given you over your Words and Actions whether it be Pride or any other Evil which oppresses the Seed that you may witness Peace as many that have gone before you had done And now Friends I have a Word to some that minister among us for they that have their Commission rightly from the Lord their need not much be said but some there are that minster in the wise part by what they learned from others and from the Scriptures and they reach to the wise part in others But the right Ministry dissolve all to nothing and makes self of no Reputation and cuts down that that stands in the way And further I desire that there may not be too much healing of the Wound until it be throughly searched that they may not go away to much at ease and forget themselves and a liberty get in and then they are more careless than ever they were before And so I desire you that are rightly called may watch over the Flock and over your own Hearts too for I do not question but you may have occasion as well as others to watch continually for what the Enemy cannot do one way he will endeavour another And now Friends I have a Word to those that have been long hearers of the Truth as we have been long Hearers but now the Lord is risen and calls upon us to be doers of his Will in whatsoever he calls us to and as others have been Preachers to us we may now be Preachers our selves in Righteousness and in Truth for if we hear all our Days and do not come to that of God in our selves to be Preachers to others in our Conversations it is no encouragement for others to follow our Example I pray Friends be not offended at my plain Dealing for I always found it best if I had any thing against a Friend to tell him of it to his Face and not joyn with an Enemy against him behind his Back and I ever had Peace in so doing and I hope shall to the end Friends I have some concern upon my Mind concerning some of those that run into such things that I am sure the Truth will not justifie in desiring to be Rich by that way that God's Controversie is against I pray consider is it not better to be contented with the Blessing of the Lord in a middle way than to run into that that causes an evil Report upon the good Land I would have none discouraged because of these things nor think the worse of the Land because of the evil Spies for such as have known the true Travel to it can give in their Testimony that the Land is good for all this and to be desired beyond all things in this World Friends I have something further that lies upon my Mind that is the consideration of those things which is before written of the great appearance that was once witnessed of the presence of the Lord that was amongst us And now my desire is for my self as well as for you that we may not sit down at ease and please our selves with what we have known for it is not that we have known in former Days will satisfie our Hungry Souls now because our Lord exhorted us to Pray for our daily Bread and that we may Watch and Pray always for if we lose the Sense of our condition Darkness may soon overtake us and then what can we do And now Friends if any should rise up againgst the Truth in oposition to it again as formerly they have done I have this to say in the behalf of it though they make little of the appearance of it and it came forth by a poor People yet there was Men which I can name that spoke and Prophesied of it in our Day though they saw it but I through a Vail yet the Lord was pleas'd to rent the Vail and they did Preach of the New Jerusalem coming down from above in the Day that the Lord would search Jerusalem as with a Candle and they Preached of the two Seeds though we did not know what they meant in that Day And I pray what difference is there between that they Preached and that Friends came forth in And now to witness what I have said I shall write down some of these Men's names that use to hear in those Days as Walter Cradock William Arberey Joshua Sprig Thomas Brooks John Webster Dr. Everard Peter Sterer William Dell John Saltmash Morgan Floyd and as John's Baptism was Glorious in his time so was there Preaching in their time and they were greatly set by by the Government which proved some hurt to them which I desire may be a Warning to all others not to be much lifted up of what perswasion soever Friends upon the consideration of the many deliverances that we have had since that Massacree the desire of my Heart is that we may do nothing to provoke the Lord as Israel did of old to cause him to bring his Judgments upon us as he did upon them because I see there is many come in among us some for one end and some for another and such serve their own end but the end of the Lord is not answered And these are some of the little Foxes that hurt the tender Grapes I pray let none take offence at my thus Writing for in the Grief of my Heart do I Write these things because I do hear so many Complaints by some that have suffered loss by some that are call'd by the name of Quakers Friends seeing some Exercises are come upon you concerning these Men that rather strikes at the Truth more than you but I hope the Lord will plead bis own Cause and not let it fall for all this But this I desire for my self as well as for you that we may all consider right well and search our Hearts every one and see whether there be nothing in us that may cause the Lord to suffer such a thing to come upon us that so what we find amiss we may let it fall let it be what it will and endeavour to be Examplary to our Enemies in whatsoever we are concern'd in A. R. O Day of Tryal come thou art For to discover every Heart And manifest things as they be That all the Innocent may see The Man that doth the Life possess From him that it only profess Yea thou wilt shew them who they are That soared up above the Sphear In Words in Carriage or in Action Which gave the Seed no satisfaction And such before that thou art over Their Nakedness thou wilt discover Whereby some that deceived have been Are catcht by them as in a Gin Will be ashamed and sit down And wait within to feel their own Eternal Gift to God again And Life to breath upon the Slain And as these things they come to feel It will afre●● renew their Zeal To stand against every thing That would to God dishonour bring And patiently the Cross do bear Who ever fly they will not dare Because they see it would offend And bring them Sorrow in the end The living God who is so just That all that will him follow must Deny themselves in every thing And wait on him who is their King George Fox the Younger THE END