Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	1,882	5	6.6827	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66656	Eurēka, Eurēka the virtuous woman found, her loss bewailed, and character examined in a sermon preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678, at the funeral of ... Mary, countess dowager of Warwick, the most illustrious pattern of a sincere piety, and solid goodness his age hath produced : with so large additions as may be stiled the life of that noble lady : to which are annexed some of her ladyships pious and useful meditations / by Anthony Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Warwick, Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. Occasional meditations upon sundry subjects.	1678 (1678)	Wing W301; ESTC R233189	74,039	235

hath injoyn'd us all to cry to God for mercy for the breach of and for grace to incline our hearts to keep the fourth Commandment as well as any of the other nine and 't is not hard to observe that the streams of Religion are deep or shallow according as these Banks are kept up or neglected She was a very devout Communicant seldom omitting to prepare her Soul with solemn fasting to renew her covenant with God And in the act of receiving I cannot think of her without reflecting on S. Stephen when he saw the Heavens opened and Jesus standing at God's right hand and his face was as the face of an Angel And to encourage others to such serious preparation to that Sacred Ordinance as she us'd before it I shall shew what sweet advantages she reaped in it and by it And this I shall do by transcribing word for word out of her Diary what I find written with her own hand concerning one of the last Sacrament Days she ever enjoyed For the Sacrament which was appointed to have been administred in her Ladyships Chappel upon Easter-day was put off by reason of her falling ill in Passion week November 25. Sacrament Day AS soon as I awaked I blessed God When I had read in the Word the Chapters of the Sufferings of my Blessed Saviour I spent much time in meditating of his dying love By which thoughts I found my heart much drawn out to love him and melted by his love then with great and awful apprehensions of God upon my heart I went to pray In which duty my heart was lifted up in the high praises of God for both spiritual and temporal mercies and my affections were much drawn out in the duty in which my heart did follow exceeding hard after God for a nearer communion with him in the Sacrament than ever yet I had I then renewed my covenant with God and made promises that by his Grace enabling me I would walk more closely with him for the time to come That which in especial manner I begged of God at this Sacrament was more love to him more holiness more contempt of the world and the Glories of it that I might be more useful to the Souls and Bodies of my Fellow Christians than formerly I had been Those mercies which in especial manner I was grateful for were the Creation and Redemption of the World and for the Gospel and the Covenant of Grace and for converting Grace and for Justification and for some measure of Sanctification and for so much Patience exercised toward me before my conversion and in order to it imbittering Creature-comforts that I might seek for comforts above and for a sanctified affliction and for some degree of patience to bear it and for supports under it by the warm and lively comforts of the Holy Ghost and for returns of prayer and for so many opportunities to seek unto God and for the sweet reviving hours I had enjoyed with God in solitude by Heavenly Meditations and for the Word and Sacraments and the sanctifying motions of Gods Spirit I was in a more than usual manner melted in the duty and shed a very great plenty of tears in it which when I came from I found a longing desire to partake of the Lord's Supper and a great joy that I was going to partake of it Then I went to hear the Text was I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the Father but by me I was attentive at that good Sermon And by what I heard of the excellency of Christ had my heart much warmed with love to him Afterwards at the confession before the Sacrament I found my heart in a more than usual manner broken for my sins which I bewailed with great plenty of tears and from my heart judged and loathed my self for them After I had received I found my heart in an extraordinary manner warmed with love to God And my Soul did follow very hard after him to be made more holy and for Grace to serve him better than ever yet I had done I had very lively affections in the duty in which I received much joy and had sweet communion with God in it After I had at the Table of the Lord given to the Poor I came from the Sacrament with my heart in a sweet grateful and Heavenly Frame and then in private blessed God for that blessed Feast and begged strength to keep my promises I had made to God of new obedience In the Afternoon I heard again the same person upon the same Text I was in an attentive serious frame at that good Sermon The Subject of which was to shew that Christ was the only way for poor penitent sinners to come unto the Father I meditated upon the Sermons and prayed them over And had also meditations of the Joys of Heaven with the thoughts of being for ever freed from sin and of being ever with the Lord where I should enjoy him in his fullest love I found my heart much revived and my Soul did then make strong Sallies and Egresses after that blessed Rest After Family Duties were over at which I prayed with fervency I did before going to Bed commit my self to God O Lord I do from my Soul bless thee for this sweet day in which thou wert pleased to vouchsafe unto me thy most unworthy Servant more Soul-joy than thou didst give me for a long time before She was a very ferious and artentive hearer of the Word and constantly after Sermon recollected what she heard sometimes by writing always by thinking and calling it to mind that she might make it her own and turn it into practice not content to be a forgetful fruitless hearer only but a doer that she might be blessed in her deed And such she was for the external performances of Religion And though this was beautiful and lovely yet her chief glory was within in the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible in that dress of Graces which adorned her Soul this string was all of Orient Pearls and evenly matched not one ill watered or of unequal size There was not one dryed or withered Limb one member wanting or defective in the new creature she was complete in Christ all of a piece The Head of her Knowledge was comprehensive and clear The Eye of her Faith was piercing and steddy The Ear of her obedience was open and light of hearing and boared at the door posts of wisdoms house Her Palate was savory and relishing to which God's Law was sweeter than the honey and the honey-comb and more esteemed than her necessary food The Cheeks of her Modesty were fair and ruddy The Arms of her desires were stretched out after God and flexible to embrace him The Hands of her Justice and Charity were strong and open The Breasts of her Bounty were well-fashioned and full of milk and the Bowels of her compassion were tender and fruitful Her hunger and