Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	witness_v	work_n	world_n	37	3	3.9945	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84161	The voice of Michael the archangel, to his Highness the Lord Protector: for the salvation of himself and the three nations. / Presented by Arise Evans.	Evans, Arise, b. 1607.	1653 (1653)	Wing E3472; Thomason E1480_2; ESTC R208736	18,220	34

shall a man that stands in the gap bring before God when he prays for you If he say with Abraham Gen. 18.24 That peradventure there are some righteous persons among you your own declarations will tell him it is false If with Moses Exod. 32.11 12 13. he mentioneth an oath or promise made to your fathers alas what promise or oath can be alleadged if there were any such on your behalf that have broken so many oaths and will not repent If he say with Christ Luk. 23.34 Father forgive them for they know not what they do truly it is manifest you cannot be so ignorant Therefore there is no going to God for you but the onely way is to speak to you if so be you will hear and repent Remember what our Saviour saith Mat. 5.16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven It is not your confident notions in your speech nor the notions of them in the Memento to the Army or in the Colonels petition that will justifie you and them before God nor is it your building upon your successes as if God had owned you and your cause thereby alas you come far short in successes to Alexander Julius Caesar Mahumet and many heathenish Commanders which had nothing of God in them but rather the devil altogether was the cause of it therefore let not that deceive you God will judge you according to your works and men angels and all the world shall be your witness you shall not be your own witness and what you say for your selves is nothing of value it being in your own cause Now it is for your justification to do such works as all the world shall confess to be according to Gods word that they may bear witness to you and say of a truth these are the people of God that is for you to restore the King then they will witness for you but now they are witness against you insomuch that they question the justice of God for your sake saying If Gods word be true then these people though they make such a high profession and yet do as they do and no punishment comes upon them they are not the people of God for thus they argue it with God Is it possible that these are thy peculiar people that dis-inherited their King with all his seed without the least cause of all his right which his predecessors enjoyed above two thousand yeers And he by the whole consent of the Nations put in possession of it under which King they lived so happy for many yeers that all the world could not parallel and for government in Church State there was not the like Are these thy people that when their King confiding in their fidelity to him to be as true as his was to them he knowing how deserving he was of their loyalty gave them more liberty then all the Kings that ever was before him did to do what they would for the good of the Kingdome for them contrary to their oaths to destroy him and thy Church and take all the patrimony to themselves belonging to thee and thy Church and Ministers this thousand yeers and that took all from the loyal and conscientious people If these be thy people then sure the Scripture is not thy minde and we are yet to seek Oh Lord look upon thine honor thy name is blasphemed because of these people who call themselves by thy name and say what they did most wickedly was thy works laying it upon thee to the dishonor of thy name Try them see if any of them will prove so true to thee in their Religion as Charles Steward and William Laud did alas they have no Religion nor know they which to chuse but are confounded and divided striving who shall get most of their unrighteous Mammon gotten by oppression I believe I need not tell you for you know it that thus the world resents you before God shewing him that it is impossible for it to stand with his Holiness Justice and Righteousness to let you go unpunished and consider that God hath an high esteem of his own name and repute among all the world and consider that a Judge doth not when an evidence is given against a malefactor examine whether the witnesses be good men or bad but if the witness agree so that it is found that what they witness is true the malefactor is condemned for his fault though in other things he is more blameless then the witness So when the cry against Sodom came up to heaven it was not Lot nor Abrahams cry for we see Abraham prayed for them Gen. 18.27 28. but it was the cry of the generality that condemned Sodom as wicked men Gen. 13.13 And yet God makes as though he knew not the certainty of it Gen. 18.20 21. Therefore God sends two angels to finde out the truth and then to destroy it Gen. 19.1.12 13. and how many angels were abused by you we know not now since angels come in such mean habits Now after all this cry about Sodom it was not for Gods honor to let it stand for what would men have said if he had not destroyed it but conclude that God was the Author of all their wicked works And how zealous is holy Moses of the name of God that the world should not speak evil of God for any cause Numb 14.11 12 13 14.15 16. And how severe did God punish David because he being reported to be a man after Gods own heart did give an occasion for men to speak evil of God 2 Sam. 12.11 12 13 14. for though David upon his repentance is quitted from death yet the flower of his sons must die for it his wives are given before the eyes of all to his own son and he defiles them and he pursueth his father David to the death Oh what a sad condition was David in for that sin as you may see 2 Sam. 15. 2 Sam. 16. 2 Sam. 17. 2 Sam. 18. Therefore I beseech you as you tender your own salvation have a care to the name of God that you have taken upon you before all the world and let it not be evil spoken of for your sake methinks I hear the voice of Joseph Gen. 39.9 when his Mistris tempted him to lie with her saith he My Master hath put all that he hath under mine hands but thee how then can I do this great wickedness vnd sin against God He was not to his master as the late Parliament was to King Charles he would rather go to prison and die then be so perfidious but see the end of it God exalts him and makes him Lord over all Egypt therefore have a care to the name of God And let your light so shine before all the world that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven and this you can do no way except by repentance you