Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wonder_n	work_n	work_v	96	3	6.3578	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45874	An information of the present condition of affairs, and declaration concerning present duties from the commission of the General Assembly, unto the kirk and kingdom of Scotland	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1648 (1648)	Wing I170; ESTC R11397	6,062	13

they could not in Justice refuse to suffer the Englishes to pursue those who had invaded their Kingdom sent some of their number unto Berwick and Carlile to perswade the rendering of those Garrisons and unto the English Army to take care that their comming into the Kingdome of Scotland might be without any prejudice to Religion and as little detriment to the Countrey as possible A few dayes thereafter the Forces at Stirling accepted of the conditions offered unto them by the Committee of Estates It shall be needlesse to insist upon the vindication of the rising of these Noblemen and Gentlemen others that took Arms for the Covenant the Tyranny of those with whom they had to do being insupportable and such as threatned ruine and desolation to the Land and tended unto the rending a sunder of the Union betwixt the Kingdoms the overturning of the work of God and the putting of an Arbitrary and unlimited power unto the hands of the King and the setting up of the Popish Prelaticall and Malignant party for acting all their mischievous and wicked designes And they who took Arms being a considerable part of the Parliament who had dissented from and protested against the Engagement and had been the chief instruments of carrying on the Lords work from the beginning and having assisting unto them many others of place and power and having also for them the body of the people of the Land and the Ministry and all the Judicatories of the Kirk and being obliged by the Covenant to promove this cause against all lets and Impediments whatsoever It were also needlesse to take pains in proving the sinfulnesse and unlawfulnesse of the Engagement against the Kingdom of England The Generall Assembly having done it so fully from the word of God and from the Covenant and the Lord having ingraven upon it so visible charactars of his heavy displeasure not onely by giving up most of the instruments that were imployed in it unto the lust of their own heart to commit all sort of wickednesse with greedinesse But also by so shamefull and totall a defeat of that Army as has few paralells i● 〈◊〉 age It shall be more usefull in this posture of affa●●● whilst the Lord is breaking the horn and ●●●…ging down the power and pride of Enemies for 〈◊〉 one in the Land to consider his work and to regard th●●peration of his hands And therefore in the first 〈…〉 1. It do●● c●●●●rn all the Authours Promoters and Abettors of 〈◊〉 ●…ick●●…●ourse and all these who comply with the p●rposes and designes of the Malignant party throughout the Land to behold the Majesty of the Lord and his hand lifted up in behalf of his people that they may learn Righteousnesse and dash themselves no more against the rock of his displeasure by continuing to oppose his work and disturbe the peace of his people The Lord hath now for ten years past showen himself against them in all their devices and designes And though he has many times suffered them to conceive mischief yet they have alwayes travelled with vanity and brought forth the wind They have alwayes been snared in the work of their own hands and their devises have returned upon their own heads yea their most subtill and malicious plots have in a strange way of dispensation from him who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working turned to the advantage of the Lords cause and good of his people And if they be not wise at last to observe and see these things as their way is delusion so the end hereof shall be bitternesse and death There could be nothing more satisfying to us then that the spirit of Malignancy were banished from the hearts of men and the name of Malignants buryed never to be revived nor remembred any more amongst us And could such be induced to quite their prophane and formall way and to turn unto God we are confident that all the enemity that they have against his work and his people should quickly evanish and that they should find mercy and comfort But as long as they stand at a distance with the Lord in regard of their private condition and carriage what wonder is it though they have no love to his cause nor his servants We wish that God may give them repentance that they may recover themselves out of the snare of Sathan and come to amendment 2. What ever shall be the frunt of the Lords work in these It concerns such who were formerly oppressed in their consciences persons and estates in this day of reviving and delivery to remember their wayes and be ashamed as for all the evil thereof so for the great cumvence and countenance they gave unto disaffected and Malignant men and carried on that wicked Warre that has been the cause of so much sinne and misery unto this poore Land Neither is it to be forgotten that though many keep their conscienees pure and did rather choose to suffer the spoyling of their goods and to expose themselves to the hazard of all the violence and oppression of these who caried on the Engagement then to sin against God yet not a few even of these who wish well to the Lords work whether through fear or earthly mindednesse gave so farre place unto their wrath as in some measure to comply with the evil of their course by giving obedience unto their unlawfull command in putting out Horse and Foot and advancing moneys for that end who albeit they have many things to plead for themselves before men yet their way hath not been straight before the Lord who searches the hearts and ponders the paithes 3. It is high time for those in whose hands the Lord hath again put the managing of publick affairs from dear bought experience to learn Wisdome and avoid the rocks upon which they have formerly split Carnall counsell foolish pittie and self interest made many of these not only to slack their hands and remit their zeal against the opposers and underminers of the Lords work But also to receive them unto publick counsells and imployments And if after this way hath been so much cursed of God unto them they should again fall therein as the fault will be without excuse so it cannot but bring some strange testimony of the Lords displeasure upon these who after that he has punished them lesse then their iniquities do deserve and given them such deliverance do again return to break his Commandment by joyning with the people of these abominations And therefore we trust that such will take heed that they be not again deceived neither by the carnall counsell of their own hearts from within nor by the fawnings and flatteries of these men from without As the Malignancie of some and unrighteous dealing and loose and scandalous walking of others in Judicatories and Armies and places of power and trust in the Kingdom have been a main cause of all the evils both of Sin and punishment under which the Land groans