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	time_n	3,122	5	3.6287	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54907	The captive (that hath long been in captivity) visited with the day-spring from on high. Or the prisoner (that hath fitten in the prison-house of woful darkness) freed into the everlasting light and covenant of God, in which perfect peace and satisfaction is Written by way of conference, and sent out into the world for the sake of those who have long groped upon the tops of the dark mountains, where the barrennesse and emptinesse is, without the knowledge of the true light to be their guide, that they (as in a glass) may see themselves, and read what hath been the cause why they have so long sought, and not found that they have sought for. Given forth especially for the sake of the scattered people in America, by one who labors for and waits to see the elect gathered from the four quarters of the earth, known by the name of Richard Pinder.	Pinder, Richard, d. 1695.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2262; ESTC R219448	16,995	45

to give peace as ever it was to trouble and condemn me when I had committed unrighteousness and as I remember thou told me it is able to keep and preserve me out of all the snares and temptations of the wicked one which thing hath not been counted credible by either Teachers or people among whom I have walked but we have rather cryed out as heresy and blasphemy that any should say they are free from sin in this life but indeed since I fell into conference with thee and that thou hast informed me to this light within and that by it I feel my understanding somewhat opened I dare not judge it as a thing unpossible but that people may be throughly washed and cleansed by the blood of Jesus from all sin and unrighteousness while hear upon Earth that if it should please the Lord to open thy mouth to inform me any further I should gladly lend an eare Inform. Well being thou seest the cause why thy sin hath so prevailed against thee hath been because thou hast not taken heed to the light which shewed thee when temptations did arise in thy own heart and seeing thou hast received some incouragement for the time to come to take heed unto it namely the light which I did inform thee unto which hath shewed thee thy own darkness now that thou may mind thy own condition I perceive that is safe for thee and not to seek to comprehend things in thy own wisdome but wait to feel thy self comprehended into the light which thou told me at our first entring into conference thou hadst a desire to be freed into for consider darkness is that which thou hast been captivated by and light is that which hath been hidden from thine eyes but now thou finding it somewhat opening thy understanding it is safe for thee to abide in it and not to reach at things above thy measure least thou be beguiled and deceived again for as I told thee before thy strength sufficiency and ability in the measure of light which thou saith in some measure hath opened thy understanding that if thou go before it thou goes from thy strength and stay and then the enemie which thou hast been so long captivated by he can toss thy mind and lead thee what way it pleaseth him so in short thy profiting unto God stands in thy own measure of light received from Christ for abiding in it thou wilt see more light and witness the Day-star arise in thy heart which will be more joy gladness comfort and satisfaction unto thy soul then ever thou tasted of while thou followed such Teachers and walked amongst such people that cryed heresie and blasphemy that any should expect to be freed from sin in this life For thou mayest remember while thou walked among such that thou was wholly in darkness for thy ear was stopped at the cry of the light which now in some measure hath opened thy understanding that thou dare not judge that is impossible but that they which believe may be Cleansed throughly by the blood of Jesus Therefore it is none but such teachers and people that calls the light natural such thou told me thou did adhere unto in the time when thou was so tossed from Mountain to Hill that cryes heresie and blasphemy that any should say they are freed from sin in this life but now thy understanding being somewhat opened by the true light thou sees all things possible with God but while thou stood wholy in that nature which hated the light thou was in the unbelief and so judged according to thy blindness and as thou saw it was in thy self and measured the Saints conditions by thy own as Paul and others that thou knows full well those teachers and people that hates the light which Christ hath enlightned every one withal and calls it natural that they cannot believe any such thing that any should be wholly cleansed from sin while here upon Earth but accounts it as delusion that any should have such a faith in them that they may be wholy clensed but little I hope I need to say unto thee concerning them for thou knows well thy self upon what a bad Foundation thy faith stood while thou followed such Teachers and walked among such people Videlicet such as cryed Heresie and blasphemy that any should say they witness freedome from sin while here upon Earth Captive I hope the Lord will further shew me the things which long I have sought after for this now I plainly see that my profiting unto God stands onely in the measure of Light which Christ hath enlightened me withall and also the Lord through his tender mercyes with the day from on high by which he hath visited me hath letten me see that the cause of all this my want hath been that I have not minded my own Condition but hath rather sought to comprehend things in my Earthly wisdom which now I see is foolishness with God and hath separated me from the knowledge of his wayes that I was not like to see into those things which do pertain unto life eternal neither into the Saints Conditions which I read on in the Scriptures because I knew not a measure of this Light within to be my guide which now I see the Scriptures were spoken forth from and remains as dark sayings unto me and all men untill our understandings comes to be opened by the true light which leads to the fulfilling of them For as thou sayest while my ear was stopped against the cry of the true light then I measured the Saints Conditions and judged of them according to my own darkness for the faith I was in or rather unbelief gave me no victory over my sin in that I did not believe in the Light which Christ had enlightned me withall though I professed faith in him and did strive many times within my self to believe that all my sins past and to come were done away in him yet still this light which came from him namely Christ and shined into my own Conscience did shew me that my sins were standing and was unblotted out and that I was an enemy in my mind unto his life in that sin was brought forth and that with my mind I served it and as thou said my faith stood upon an unsound Foundation as I now plainly see for it was gathered from without me and not from any knowledge of Christ made manifest within me the hope of my glory but was wholly built upon my own Imaginations which did arise out of that ground which did hate the appearance of Gods grace that when it at any time did appear reproving me for the vanity my mind was run into it was rejected in that the teachers whom I followed told me it was but a restraining grace and not saving and by their perswading of me I was strengthned in my Imaginations that I went on in rebellion not taking heed to the appearance of Gods grace which did appear to