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_v	world_n	zeal_n	13	3	7.4398	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00277	To my louynge brethren that is troublyd abowt the popishe aparrell, two short and comfortable epistels. Be ye constant: for the Lorde shall fyght for yow, yowrs in Christ	Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585.; Pilkington, James, 1520?-1576.	1566 (1566)	STC 10390; ESTC S111875	21,292	58

To my louynge brethren that is troublyd abowt the popishe aparrell two short and comfortable Epistels Be ye constant for the Lorde shall fyght for yow yowrs in Christ. ¶ To all my faithful brethren in Christ Jesu and to all other that labour to weade out the wedes of popery Peace in the Lorde Jesu be with you and make you perfite in all good workes to doe his will working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. DEare Brethren because we are creatid for gods glory the edification one of another in Christ and are bounde to serue thervnto by wealthe or woo lyfe or death and cheifly they to whom God haue geuen the greter gyftes and whom he hath callyd to higher romes are moste bounde to be zelous for gods glory with godly zelousie to profyt the churche and sponse of Christe vnder their charge and that by no subteltye as the Apostel warnithe they shulde be corrupted from the symplicitie of Christ therfore there is no doubt of your good zealle and diligence My good fathers deare brethren who ar first callid to the battel to striue for gods glory and the edification of his people against the Romish reliques and rages of Antichrist I doubt not but that you wyl coragiouslye and constantlye in Christ rape at these rages of Gods enemyes and that you will by this occasion race vp many as grete enormites that we all know labore to race out all the dregges remnants of transformid popery that are crept into England by to much lenite of them that wylbe namid the Lordes of the cleargie what is he that hath the zeale of gods glory before his face that wyl not ioyne both in prayer and in sufferinge with you in so good a cause that is so much for gods glory and the edification of gods church in the pure simplicite of Christes word sacramentes wherin our enemies and persecutours are strangely bewitchid I wote not by what Circes cupe that they do make suche a diuersite betwixt Christes worde his sacramentes that they can not thinke the worde of God safelye ynoughe preachid honorably inough handlyd without cap cope surplis But that the sacraments the maryinge the buryinge the churching of wemen other church seruice as they call it muste nedes be decored with crossinge with capping w t surplessing with knelinge with preti wafer cakes and other knackes of poperi O Paule that thou were a lyue thou durst tell those politike gentelmen that ther hath bin to much laboure bestoued vpon them in vaine thou durste say vnto them as thou didest to y e Corinthians that they eat not the Lordes supper but pley a pagent of their owne to blynde the people and kepe them still in supersticion fare from the symplicite of Christes supper but howe many sely sowles is ther that dothe beleue veryly that they haue an English masse and so put no difference betwene truth falshod betwene Christ and antichrist betwene God and the deuell they are strangely bewitched I say that thus wyll bynde theyr Englyshe presthode sacraments but muche more enchauntid that can fynd no garments to please them But such as haue ben polutid openly with popishe supersticion Idolatry but most of all in this point shall theyr madnes apere to all posterites that they make these Antichristian rages Causam sine qua non that is a cause without which ther is no holy ministery in Christ so that this shall make an Englyshe preste be he neuer suche a dolt or vnlearnid in the knouledge of the scripture as we haue very manye and without these romisshe reliques not Paule hym selfe shalbe admittid as one of them dyd blaspheme the rest of them in effecte do affirme well agaynste suche popishe chaffer and popery hathe byne longe agone foughten witheall when the gret captaines of that religion lyuyd and yet God gaue the victory Therfor let vs not fear now although it doth begine to sture agayn for ther is no craft conninge counsell wysdom or policy against the Lord. We haue Christ hys Apostells the Prophetes euer stryuing agaynst the Ipocrites of their time o● our ●yde a strau for popishe polici we haue the worde of God to warant vs to rote out al monuments of supersticion and Idolatry are charged to abhor them to accompt them accursed and to defy them and to detest them as menstreous clowtes they haue not the worde of God for them And what wysdom is in them sayth god by his Prophet Jeremi they talke of obedience concorde but ther is no obedience against the Lorde no nor concorde to be desired but wher gods glory and verite is preserued Els better to haue al the worlde in hurly burleis and heauen earth to shake then one ioyte of gods glory shulde decaie So far forth as in vs leithe we haue theyr owne lawes and proclamacions to rote out all monuments of supersticion and Idolatrye theyr oune wordes are contrarye to theyr doinges Yt shulde apere that they repent their reformacion proclamid as did y e Isralites they buylde agayn that which ons they haue distroied and this is doue openlye that all the worlde may wonder and behold but what is done secretlye god wyll one daye haue it declarid openly ye they make the name of god this doctrine that we professe to be euell spoken of alredy By many of theyr doinges theyr iudgement hasteth that for such causes persecute Gods true preachers Wherfore let vs ●ot feare theyr threteninges ther can none ●ersecute the godly for this cause trasshe ●ut ether such as are nether hote nor colde ●nd then they shalbe vomyted out vnlesse ●heir zeale encrease or such as haue no God before their eies whose god is their bellie or ●ls open papists whom god hathe geuen vp ●o a reprobate sense wherfore we must thus take it that they ar gods rodds for oure sinnes because we haue not ben more zelous in Gods cause nether carefull to seke his glorye that wolfe Wynchester blodie bucher Bonar fought once against many godli men for the grounde of this gere and thei had all the power of the Realme seruinge theyr lustes but beholde how the Lorde in short time ouerthrew them al to giue vs coradge to go forwarde the Lord forgeue vs we ar to slacke and neglygent in heauenly thynges this monster Bonar remainithe and is fed as papists say for their sakes it must be grauntyd it is for some purpos althoughe he be a traytor and an enemi to the crowne and realme and bothe to God and man whiche brunnid godes holy testament murderid his saintes and his servātes But what the Lord requyrith to be done wythe false Prophetes it is manyfest we haue bothe the lawe of god man for vs But we ar answerid nay you your sealues shalbe compellid to turne your coates and cappes and get you into his leueris and