Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	father_n	good_a	1,717	5	3.7214	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26344	God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing A492; ESTC R22209	47,052	94

Our own feet shall carry us our own creatures torment us like diamonds we are cut with our own dust When David had numbred the people his own heart smote him God finds the rod within us wherewith to scourge us As some vapor engendred in the cavernes of the earth struggles for vent and being barred of free passage causeth an earthquake in the foundations that bred it Or as some fiery exhalation wrapp'd up in the bowels of a thick cloud breakes through that watry resistance and del●●ers it self to the world with a dreadful noise So the griefs and perturbations begotten by our own lusts become terrours within us and rend our very hearts till they get vent by confession and repentance thus do we muster up forces against our own peace We pray Lord deliver us from our enemies and in that number we do wrap up our unthought of selves for we are our own enemies Turn thine hand upon mine enemies for thou canst do it with the turning of an hand Deliver me from the evil man who is that saith S. Augustine he is not far to seek libera me ab homine malo that is à meipso deliver me from the evill man that is from my self I am the aptestto beget destruction upon mine owne soul no enemy could hurt us if we were our own friends But we must not extend it so farre upon this holy King they were thoughts indeed and thoughts of sorrow but of godly sorrow and he calls them his own to shew his neere acquaintance with them My sorrowes He was not a stranger to his own soul his heart was not dead flesh Satan had given him a fall and he felt not that sin had given him diverse falls and he felt not them neither at last God undertakes him wrastles with him and he gives him a fall too he felt that yea and that made him feel all the rest Now is he sensible of every pang and stitch the least thorne makes him smart and he cryes out of the multitude of his sorrowes There be some that can drowne their griefes in wine and musick as they did in Hinnom the cry of the Infants with the noise of the Instruments as if they would forget that they are the owners of their own thoughts because they trouble them Many deale with their soules as some old women do with looking glasses they turne the wrong side toward them that they might not see the furrowes of their own faces They are loath to think of a reckoning least they should despaire of making even the arrerages Men have the courage to dare to sin but they dare not look on their soules as they are polluted with sin I have heard of a melancholy man that would not beleeve he had a head till his Physician made him a hat of lead and put it on which with the weight inforced him to cry O his head So men lost in sensuall pleasures scarce remember that they have a soul within them untill miseries like talents of lead or quarries of stone with their heavy pressure squeese out a confession Nothings be so neer as a man and his soul Tot a domus duo sunt the whole houshold is but two yea why should they be called two we may say in a right sense Mens cujusque is est quisque every mans soul is himselfe If there be any division sin made it a just punishment at qui nollet cum Deo uniri non pos●it in semetipso non dividi All these quarrels and brawles may thanke sinne that is the makebate betwixt God and us betwixt us and our selves But that man and his soul be grieuously fallen out that will not speak one to another when he shall passe a whole day and not aske his soul how she does this were too much betwixt man and wife when he shall he down in his bed as the beast doth in his litter without bidding his soul good-night when he shall have fowled and besmeared his soul with the nasty aspersions of lusts and not sweep out the dust before he shut the door not wash his soul with tears before his eye-lids be closed down with slumber yea when he shall have wounded his soul with blasphemies and uncharitable injuries and then throw it down in a deluge of drinke as it were weltring in the own gore without calling for repentance the Chirurgion to dresse it What madnesse and selfe-hatred is this When the soul may not have leave to think over her own thoughts to reflect upon her self to search her own bruises to survey the multitude of her sorrowes and feel in what need she stands of comforts That Plerisque notus ignotus moriatur sibi But the children of God have learned to commune with their own hearts to examine every thought and to weigh every desire in the balance of the Sanctuary Whether they find themselves pensive or joyfull they wil search the cause As Rebecca said when she felt the children struggle in her wombe Why am I thus Whether fear or hope joy or pain have invaded my thoughts let me aske my soul the reason Why am I thus The Fathers were excellent good at this they had their confessions and Soliloquies familiar conferences with their own hearts that when a man reads them hee would think they kept no other company but themselves Conference with others may make us wise or learned but conference with our selves is the way to make us holy Tell thy conscience of all suggestions as the chast wife after some peremptory denyalls to her impudent Tempter professed to tell her husband of those sollicitations such and such be my thoughts thus and thus they haunt me what shall I do with them Indifferency is no lesse then selfetreachery in matters of such consequence that come so neere mee as to bee Apud me 4. Within me for this is the field where the skirmish is fought within me It is unhappy when souldiers march over the palaces of peace and seats of Justice where the Senators of counsell use to sit If there must be warre yet let it be in forrain Countries or if it will bee in our own land yet let it proceed no further then the borders but when it is gotten into the chiefe City though it bee subdued it will cost a dear victory As Pyrrhus when his friends congratulated his victory over the Romans with a great losse of his own side replyed yes but if we have such another victory we are undone There is no penitent heart that hath felt the bitternesse of these combates remembring what sighes and sorrows what groanes and tears it cost him to make his peace but would be loth to be put to the charges of such another conquest Durius ejicitur quam non admittitur hostis sinne may be kept out with ease but will not bee driven out save with wofull expences Within me not before mee as the host of the Philistims lay before Saul not behind me