Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	world_n	worship_n	zeal_n	35	3	8.3013	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41500	Prelatique preachers none of Christ's teachers, or, A Disswasive unto the people of God from attending the ministry (so called) of those, who preach by verture of an (Apocryphal) ordination, received from an order of men, commonly stiled Lord Bishops wherein arguments are tendered to their serious considerations, by way of motive against that practice ... .	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1663 (1663)	Wing G1192; ESTC R33795	80,325	88

affections towards the Saints chusing for their bosome converse persons whom they judge most able and willing withal to justifie them in their Apostacy and to maintain the Prelatical cause from the one end to the other with greatest zeal and dexterity they become self-willed self-conceited boasting of their knowledge imputing it to the weakness and ignorance of all others that they do not sacrifice at the same Altars with them or that they scruple question or condemn any thing which they allow and practise In a word these Crow-trodden professors let the Metaphor offend no man by offering and suffering their judgments and consciences to be ridden by a Prelatical Clergy become in time not only transform'd into an uncouth strange and hard favour'd kind of Christian much unlike unto themselves when and whilest they consorted with the Sons and Daughters of God and drank of the same waters of life with them but for the most part so intoxicated also besotted and bewitched with their new wine that they seldom or never recover that lovely image of God wherein they formerly appeared to the comfort and joy of many a precious Soul For that which Solomon saith concerning the woman which forsaketh the Guide of her youth and forgetteth the covenant of her God namely that none that go unto her return again Prov. 2. 17 19. may be said of those that turn aside to a Babylonish Ministry God in judgment poureth out upon them the spirit of deep sleep and closeth their eyes Esa 29. 10. so that they hardly ever awake out of the snare until they dye CONSIDERATION XVIII Nor falleth it much short of a Demonstration of the Evil or sinfulness of that Way from which by many Arguments we have disswaded already that so much secular violence hath been and still is imployed to compel and force all men into it How did the Prelates heretofore before the great mountain of their power and glory was removed by the late King and Parliament turn every stone of tyranny cruelty and oppression to constrain both men and women to keep their Parish Churches What troups of Summoners and Apparitors were levied up and down the Nation to hunt out and pursue like Blood-hounds all both male and female bond and free whose Judgements were too full of Light their Consciences of Goodness to drink of the waters of those polluted Cisterns which they had hewn out chusing rather some of them to worship God chastly and purely even with two or three gathered together in the name of Christ amongst whom he hath promised his presence Mat. 18. 20. although in such an attempt as this they exposed themselves to the danger of being with Daniel cast into the Lyons Den I mean of being brought into their High Commission or some of their Antichristian Consistories many I say chusing this rather than without any such danger to communicate with the Parish Assemblies either in their adultrous worship or idol ministry and of late since their deadly wound was almost healed how have they by their sorceries insinuated and prevailed with the Legislative Powers of the Nation only to legitimate Ministers of their spurious brood and conformity and to disinherit all others of their functions as if they were basely descended because they do not call them Fathers and not only this but by several penalties also to restrain all assemblings of men for the Worship of God and their Christian Edification excepting only in consort with such Congregations where they shall be necessitated to hear such Teachers only who bring their office of teaching from under their hands Thus doth the spirit of Prelacy in conjunction with an arm of flesh with the powers of this world instead of those of the world to come labour in the very fire to bring the whole trade of hearing to the shops of their journey-men be their wares never so braided sleight or deceitful and this verifieth the saying Superbia appetitum habet unitatis omnipotentiae i. e. The Pride of man greatly affecteth unity and omnipotency Now it can hardly be shewed that ever the real interest of the Gospel or true Christianity endeavoured their advancement or promotion in the World by threatning or inflicting secular punishments as Fines Confiscations Imprisonments Banishments Deaths or the like upon those who refused to comply with them but upon their service and for their gaining upon the world rather offered and exposed their own proselytes and friends upon all occasions to the suffering of these things from the world Whereas on the contrary it is well known that Idolatry Superstition and false Worships almost in every kind in all ages for the enlargement of their quarters and for encreasing the number of their Proselytes have according to their strength warred after the flesh in the Apostles phrase and pleaded their cause with Fire and Sword and all manner of outward severities against those that refused compliance with them By how authoritative and bloody an Act of Uniformity did King Nebuchadnezzar endeavour a universal concurrence of all within his vast Dominions to joyn with him in his Idolatrous Worship of the Golden Image which he had set up Then all his Princes and great Officers of State being summoned together and present an Herald cryed aloud To you it is commanded O People Nations and Languages That at what time ye hear the sound of the Cornet ye fall down and worship the Golden Image which Nebuchadnezzar the King hath set up And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace Dan. 3. 4 5 6. And when only three persons in his Dominions were accused as Nonconformists to this his Decree with what fierceness of indignation doth he proceed against them First In his rage and fury he commanded to bring them before him Being come he himself examined them or rather expostulated with them about the crime laid to their charge as if it had been an high affront put upon him or an undervaluing of his Majesty and Power Is it true O Shadrach Meshach and Abeduego Do ye not serve my gods nor worship the Golden Image which I have set up Even as our Prelates and great men of their Inspiration count it an insufferable disparagement and reproach unto them when persons of meaner rank in the World judge it not safe or well-pleasing unto God to worship him after the same mode with them as with the same Ceremonies the same Gestures or Postures of body in the same places and assemblies the same I mean in nature or kind and especially with the same Liturgies and forms of Prayer when they shall authoritatively solemnly and with a borrowed visor of gravity and devotion impose all this upon them When the King having re-minded the said three Servants of God of the tenour of his Decree concerning the worshipping of his Golden Image and threatned them with the heavy doom therein expressed in case they should persist in their