Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	meek_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	37	3	8.5264	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41735	The life and death of Thomas Tregosse late minister of the Gospel at Milar and Mabe in Cornwal with his character, and some letters of his, not long before his death.	Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.	1671 (1671)	Wing G147; ESTC R2939	27,276	70

How affable and courteous was he and yet how severe again●● sin What meekness and humility in his own cause and yet what courage and magnanimity in the cause of God shone in him How much holy fear and self-jealousie and yet how much Christian boldness and confidence was he possessed with What an inflexible and strong bent of heart for God against sin seemed he to have and yet how flexible and complying with others for their good was he He did not as some take Christ to ease himself of his work or to secure his lusts His Sincerity but to kill them and to quicken him to dutie His peace of Conscience was maintaned not by peace but war with Sin it was not only from but also in God He had not only form of Christ in his life and Picture of him in his fancy but also the Image of Union with and love for Christ in his heart He affected not so much to entangle his thoughts in disputes about the controversies of Religion as to get the power of it stamped on his soul His faith did not lye level with worldly Interest but oppositie thereto He climbed not as some ●o the top of an high profession without ●●●ing a deep foundation in self-denial He borrowed not as to many the Mask of Rel●g●on to conceal a rotten heart but was uns●tisfied in his heart-inquiries after grace till he arrived to such a full measure thereof as is 〈◊〉 ●ttainable by any hypocrite H●● d●yly progress in mortification of sin seemed very remarkable His mortification and conspicuous He knew full well that one reigning lust would darken and harden his heart yea bring all into captivity and therefore durst not gratify any lust in the least He was content to give up his lusts to death for Christ who gave up his soul to death for him He thought it not much to part with a beloved sin for a beloved Saviour Yea he seemed to take more pleasure in subduing his unlawful desires then others do in the fulfilling of them And lest his flesh should impose on his more noble part he innured himself to many bodily severities and deprived himself of such natural refreshments which others too much indulge themselves in Yet did he not content himself with external mortification but maintained a daily conflict with the whole body of sin in corrupt nature yea he would oft blame himself much for spiritual sins as Infidelity pride c. Which others could least blame him for His Crucifixion to the world was not less visible His Crucifixion to the world He seemed to have acquired a great indifference of Spirit for things indifferent to give perishing things but perishing affections As our blessed Lord gave his Heaven for him so he thought it not much to give his earth for his Lord He could not part with Christ for any worldly good and therefore was willing to part with all for Christ The believing views he had of future Glories darkned the world glories to him so that he seemed to admire nothing but approching glory or what related thereto Poverty in Christs way was greater riches to him then a flourishing state in the ways of sin He knew how to abound in his wants by contentedly wanting what the Lord thought not fit for him and thereby crucifying his desires he made the Cross of Christ easy to him His desires were low and therefore his spirit high above the frowns and smiles of this lower world He seemed better pleased in his mean condition then worldlings are in the highest His mind was too great to put a great value on the nothings of this life He brought his natural desires into a narrow compass and thence gained a great inlargement of Spirit By his long sufferings he gained a great dexterity and skill in bearing the Cross By starving sin His Art in bearing the Cross and crucifying his heart to the world he took out the stings of his sufferings He knew that the Divine will was more Eligible then his own and therefore he endeavoured to conform unto it as well by passive as active obedience He knew he could not glorifie God more then by being content that Gods Glory should gain by his private losses He durst not make sin a shelter against sufferings or bear false witness against God by repining under the Cross He was not so well pleased with sin as to prefer it before sufferings Or so ill-pleased with sufferings as to fly from them when called thereto He innured himself to the yoke of Christ and so gained the Art of bearing his Cross His Conscience continued under a lively sense of sin and that made him dead and in a measure senseless as to suffering His Will was so far broken as that it could chearfully bend and submit to the Cross yea welcome crosses when in Gods way When God brought him into any affliction or suffering he waited there till God brought him out He knew himself to be nothing and that made him bear any thing from God with contentment And by knowing his own vileness he learnt to justify God in every cross His spirit was generous and noble like that of the Eagle which is not clamorous when it wants food He studied passive obedience as well as active to be well-pleased with what God did as well as to do what was well-pleasing to God He had a fit disposition for the Cross which made that easy to him which seemed into llerable to others As he durst not make men Lords of his faith so neither of his happiness by doting on their smiles or fearing their frowns but as worldly men content themselves with the world without God so he endeavoured to content himself with God without the World He had his present wants supplied by ordinary or extraordinary means and therefore conceived lit his duty to trust God for the future He knew he had more of the creature than he deserved and therefore was not anxious about having more He was much taken up about the weighty things of Eternity and therefore little concerned about these lower things He had many generous and noble dispositions but no one appeared more illustrious and visible in him His zeal for God after his conversion than zeal for his Masters service and the good of Souls Oh! what a rare and excellent Quality is a publick Spirit for God And how much was this holy man invested herewith How little did his flamin zeal care to live when the honour of his great Lord seemed to bleed and die What a meek and patient Spirit had he as to injury done unto himself and yet how impatient and zealous was he as to injury done unto his Lord How modest and backward was he in his own cause and yet how magnanimous and forward in the cause of God How little was it in the power of the greatest men to frown him out of duty or flatter him into Sin What a masculine courage