Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	lord_n	people_n	sin_n	3,287	5	4.6566	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43750	Christian counsel and advice unto the rulers and people of England even unto all such who have not yet sinned out their day of blessed visitation from God, which he in his infinite love and mercy hath held forth, and is holding forth unto the children of men, throughout all kingdoms of this world : with Christian counsel and good advice, against that grievous crying sin, and most abominable transgression of persecuting men about religion for the answer of a good conscience towards God : presented unto all that bear rule in ecclesiastical affairs now in the Church of England / by ... John Higgins.	Higgins, John, 1633-1667.	1663 (1663)	Wing H1951; ESTC R18558	9,342	16

darkness unto the Light and from Satan's power unto the power of God the Creator of all that man through faith and obedience may come to be blessed with the blessing of eternal life Furthermore the Lord God of heaven and earth for his glory and honours sake doth now command and require all men as well the King on the Throne as the lowest of men to bow their hearts and submit their souls in all holy obedience and conformity unto the guidance rule and government of the Light and Spirit of Christ that he may rule as King in the hearts of all the children of men in all nations and countries upon the face of the whole Earth and his Kingdom is to reach over all the Kingdoms of this world And now my friends and Countrymen both high and low rich and poor c. this obedience and conformity unto the Light and Spirit of Christ doth the God of Heaven Command Require of us all even from the highest to the lowest upon pain and peril of Eternal Condemnation and an utter separation from God and all the Saints in Light And these things Oh ye Rulers and people of England have deeply entered into the hearts of many thousands in this our native Countrie even in this Kingdom and in the Ilands dominions thereunto belonging and God hath given us an absolute command and a perfest sence and feeling in our hearts of that which he requires of us all and so in obedience to his heavenly calling many are they who love not their lives unto the death that God may be glorified and our souls rest in his heavenly blessings from hence forth and for evermore And now since the Lord God hath thus called us to serve and to worship and Reverence his holy name in faithful obedience unto Christ the Light and the truth Oh! how hath the seed of the Serpent raged and raised war against the Lord and against his Annointed But the Lord our God is with us and his Blessed presence dwells in us and among us so that in the godly Resolution of our soules we are purposed in the name and power and spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ to go on and follow the Lamb in righteousness wheresoever he goes and thus we are the Lords and at the disposings of his blessed spirit to serve and to worship him in all godly fear and Reverence even all the dayes of our appointed time And behold this is but our Reasonable duty so to do and as the Lord our God hath engaged us through his infinite love mercy thus to walk in all holy duty and obedience unto him even the same Obligation comes upon all as they wait for an understanding in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ But now this is that which grieves the spirit of the Lord and is the greatest of abominations that when a man or a people doth not onely neglect their own duty and obedience unto God but are also smiting ready to devour the obedient children of the Lord who fears and Reverences his holy name and power and dare not sin against him Oh this grieves the Spirit of the Lord and is that crying sin and grievous Abomination which draws down wrath and vengeance from God upon the wicked and world of ungodly as it did in generations past Oh remember Sodom and what became of the inhabitants thereof when they persecuted Righteous Lot And this is of concernment for the King and Rulers of this our Nation to consider and remember least they also perish in Gods wrath and indignation But for as much as God hath put it into their heads to do Justice and to execute judgment in the earth oh that they might serve God in their generation and set a stop to the violence of the wicked who are like unto the wild beasts often ready to rent and devour the innocent and harmless people that feares the Lord and dares not sin against him nor lift up a hand with carnall weapons for to defend themselves but commits their innocent-innocent-cause singly and wholly unto him who will certainly render recompence and vengeance unto his enemies either in this World or in that which is to come Oh sad to consider where shall the wicked and the ungodly appear who do not onely neglect their own Duty and obedience to God but are beating their fellow-servants and smiting with the fist of wickedness even those that fear God and walk humbly before him and cannot run with the wicked into the abominable excess of Riot Oh! Consider these things ye that forget God and work wickedness least he tear you to pieces and there be none to deliver you for that for which you cause the ineocent to suffer Buffetings Beatings and Persecution with great and grievous and long imprisonments that for which you cause them thus to suffer ought to be your own duty and obedience unto your Creator even to fear and to walk humbly with your God and to wait upon him in his light and counsell and to hate and deny every false way of the wicked and to be led and ruled ordered by the light and spirit of Christ the beloved of the father in all your waies and exercise th●● I say ought to be your obedience and practice also who are causing the innocent faithful and obedient children of the Lord to suffer for these things even for their obedience and duty unto the name and power and spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ Wel now is the day of the patience and long suffering of the Lord our God not willing that any should perish in their sins but that all might repent come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved from the wrath which is to come And now God in his infinite love and mercy hath lifted up a standard in the Nations that all may flow unto him and may be saved with an eternal Salvation which he hath prepared before the face of all people and unto him must the gathering of all be for all the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of the Lord in the new and everlasting covenant of God where sin and Transgression comes to be blotted out and man renewed into the image of God again where he shall give glory and honour unto him that is the ancient of days whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and of his Dominion there shall be no End Christian Counsel with good Advice against that grievous crying sin and most abominable transgression of Persecuting men about Religion for the answer of a good Conscience towards God Presented unto the View and Consideration of the Bishops and Priests and to all that bear Rule in Ecclesiastical affairs now in the Church of England HEarken and be moderate Oh ye Bishops and Priests and all that bear Rule in Eecclesiastical affaires or spiritual matters about Religion and the worship of God It is a Christian spirit of Moderation that would be a