Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	line_n	page_n	read_v	7,070	5	11.4609	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94556	To the lavv, and to the testimonie or, A proposall of certain cases of conscience by way of quære; chiefly touching the publick worship of the New Testament; and other things either necessary or profitable for Christianity; presented to those churches and societies of Christians, which professe the Scripture of the Old and New Testament for the only rule of faith and manners. Wherein the true and genuine way to reconcile Christians is laid open / translated out of Latine into English by a lover of truth and peace.	Lover of truth and peace.	1648 (1648)	Wing T1562; Thomason E1165_3; ESTC R210102	44,767	117

profitable for him Then it is well and we have enough for now they are brought to another publicke worship namely from that which is now in use and is in its owne nature turbulent imperfect and presumptuous not wholly intrinsically undoubtedly and meerly true and yet by meanes of a word of mouth government catechisme and confession not wholly intrinsically undoubtedly and meerly true boasteth it selfe for the genuine worship of God to a worship in its own nature peaceable erected indeed meerly by Ecclesiastick authority and right of common calling and in the name of the respective members of the Church in the tolerance and connivence of God yet notwithstanding by the very written word of God wholly intrinsically undoubtedly and meerly true and by meanes of government subordinate to the very Scripture it selfe and in its exercise coming nearest to be wholly intrinsically undoubtedly and meerly true both Ministers and people are now brought 177. And these indeed are the questions that were first to be proposed as well to the people as to the Ministers of your Churches there should now follow a fuller deduction explication of them as also a consideration of all and singular states of mans life likewise the other helpe of due Ecclesiastick administration promised by Christ to the Church I mean the Spirit of Christ together with a proofe and enumeration of the sundry uses and commodities of the worship of connivence and of the many discommodities of the worship at this day performed in the name of God after that a solution of objections and many other things But because I would not be tedious and in that your answer to the questions proposed ought to go before I will now omit those matters which if God permit shall be communicated to you in their season Farewell and laying aside all prejudice remember to give to God the things that are Gods FINIS In page 72. line 26. for Apostolicall reade Apostaticall THE AVTHORS ADMONITION WHereas since the yeer 1645. no Answer hath hitherto been made to a Book entituled To the Law and to the Testimonie for this cause they who are therein concerned are desired that if they have any thing to answer they would at length produce it But least being carried away with the preposterous prejudice of the cause they should fight and trifle with their own vizards as a certain Buffon according to the humour of that faction basely did to ingratiate himself with those of his own side and to stir up the hatred of the People against the Author in a late sillie and senslesse Pamphlet of his not worthy of a confutation let them not cavill with the words and imposing such glosses upon them as are quite besides the mind and meaning of the Author go about to refute them and gull their poor credulous disciples but let them closely grapple with the very context of the book and true state of the controversie not that fained one of their own making most clearly set down in the 18th Article and let them either refute the positive part thereof and answer to the questions or yeeld the bucklers By this meanes they shall not be thought to have sported in serious things nor to have offered violence to their consciences But if they shall slight this admonition let them thank themselves for the aspersion of deserting a desperate Cause and usurping a Papall jurisdiction which will thence arise and for whatsoever they would not have to come to passe from this neglect of theirs Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up Matth. 15.13 Hearken fear beware