Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	righteous_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	12	3	8.6568	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02036	Pauls crovvne of reioycing. Or The maner how to heare the word with profit. By Thomas Granger preacher of the word at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston in Lincolnshire; Pauls crowne of rejoycing.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12182; ESTC S114984	43,435	71

vnsauory speeches In dissembling lying cousonage in bargayning insnarings called ale-house bargaines wasting your good like Esaus then is it such like as S. Peter speakes of 1 Pet. 4. 3. 4. It 's like the meeting of swine at their trough and it seemes strange to such heathenish people that good Christians run not with them to the same excesse of riot and therefore speake they euill of them You say also that he preacheth out of choler and that hee will be angry when no man hurts him You thinke belike no man should be angry for Gods cause you will take your brothers part your kinsmans part and your friends part when you see him abused yea in his absence you will answer for him it may be you will not deale onely words but blowes for him if you loue him well and should God haue no friends to take his part not to speake a word for him nay not so much as to looke with an angry countenance against his enemies Hath not God beene and is not God our friend that wee should shew no loue at all to him can a childe with patience see his Father wronged and should the children of God not be displeased when they heare the name of God blasphemed Surely if we loue our Fathers that begat vs wee cannot but loue God much more which hath made both them and vs and all the world and maintaines vs all and all for vs of his own goodnes and bounty If we loue our earthly Mothers that endured some bodily paines in our birth we cannot but loue Iesus Christ that endured the cursed death of the Crosse For our new birth Our Mothers bring vs forth Children of wrath firebrands of hell but Christ hath brought vs forth children of God and heyres of his glorious kingdome Surely this loue of God towards vs which is infinite and endlesse should moue vs to loue him at the least to be displeased with his enemies and the contemners of him Was not Moses angry with the Israelites in Gods cause Exodus 32. 19. Did not the Leuites out of their zeale of Gods glory slay euery man his brother companion and neighbour Was not Lots righteous soule grieued from day to day because of the wickednesse of the Sodomites but you say a man is angry for nought if it be in Gods cause you shew what knowledge what faith what loue of God there is in you This is farre from louing him with all the heart soule minde and strength There is none so ready to answere for themselues as you are yea you will be very feruent and zealous in your owne causes but you will hate or mocke them that speake in Gods behalfe Whether doe you loue God or your selfe better whereas you say that some of your rich men will ouer power him and remoue him vnlesse he looke well to himselfe he knowes that to be the nature of the rich which serue the golden Deuill Mammon to hate all them that seeke to set forth Gods glory Hee knowes that Mammon is now strong in the world and so full of sophistry that hee can make the Law a nose of waxe yea and the Gospell also to turne them which way he list Notwithstanding he feares not the souldiers and seruants of Mammon though they come like Goliahs strong men sensible men sound cardes well purst cunning vnderminers against him for God hath put a stone in his sling euen his word in his mouth and giuen him strength to slay a Beare and a Lion God hath bidden him not to feare you wherefore should hee feare Ezech. 2. 6. Sonne of man feare them not nor be afraid of their words although Rebells and thornes be with thee and thou remainest with scorpions feare not their words nor be afraid at their lookes for they are a rebellious house Wherefore I would counsell you to looke well to your selfe that Satan and your owne sins ouer-power not you and remoue you cleane out of Gods fauour protection and kingdome Afterward you come to tell me of a fine man of a great Scholler that vseth more Greeke and Latine then English in his Sermons and that it will doe one good to heare him What edifying doe you thinke that any of his vnlearned hearers get by such vsing of his Greeke and Latine You your selfe say that they profit nothing in knowledge and I thinke they profit as little in good life What good is that you speake of It is euen nothing but this that you vse him as an instrument to disgrace your Minister withall by your odious comparisons-making And because heereby you comfort releeue and refresh an accusing conscience whiles that you dispose the plain-dealing of your owne Minister and accounts him the right Preacher that lets you liue securely in your sinnes Moreouer doe you thinke it a decent thing for a Minister to goe from the pot to the pulpit Should he not rather come from God I meane from prayer and Meditation that he might pray and preach in fear humility reuerence and zeale as hauing the word put in his mouth from God and speaking as from God beeing in the glorious presence of God and his Angells You say that you haue talkatiue fellows in your parish that can put them all downe in reasoning and their minister too It likes you well and such as you to call gracious words talkatiuenesse and prattle Marke what the Apostle saith Colossians 3. 16. Let the word of God dwell plenteously in you in all wisedome c. In another place Let your speech be seasoned with salt but you thinke that vaine foolish rotten and vnsauory speeches should rather be plentifull in men mouthes for with these I neuer heare you finde any fault oaths lyes foolish ieasting ribaldry hath free passage without checke or rebuke And if such persons doe but humour and please you then is all well taken how bad soeuer it be and with such like persons you loue to keepe company but you haue no delight to tarry where there is sober talke and Christian communication as I haue seene diuers begin to hem and to hum and to hang downe the head to yawne raspe and stretch as being weary with long sitting saying that they haue businesse and therefore must away and so sliuing out of the doores presently stumble into an other place where they will be as merry as cuppe and cann can make them But heare what the holy man of God the Prophet Dauid saith Psal 26. 4. 5. I haue not dwelt with vaine persons neither will I haue fellowship with the deceitfull I haue hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the vngodly And Psal 119. 115. Away from me ye wicked for I will keepe the commandement of my God And Pro. 14. 7. Depart from the foolish man when thou perceiuest not in him the lips of knowledge And Ecclus. 9. 17. Let thy talke be with the wise and all thy communication in the Law of