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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	mark_v	peace_n	upright_a	1,413	5	10.3964	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51249	Theosplanchnistheis, or, The yernings of Christs bowels towards his languishing friends wherein the sincereity, ardency, constancy, and super-eminent excellency of the love of Jesus Christ as it workes from him towards his friends is delineated, discussed, and fitly applyed / by S.M. ...	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1647 (1647)	Wing M2588; ESTC R9458	55,323	150

loose you can you tell I tell you that to die here is to begin to live for ever hereafter Secondly in Infringements and imprisonments of the body hee suffers with them gives rest unto them z Tranquillus Deus tranquillat omnia qaictum aspice●e quiescere est Bern. in Cant. 23. is it not better you sensible soules to be in prison with Christ than to bee at Liberty without him nay is it not better to be in Hell with him than in heaven without him if such a thing could be doth not his presence prove a Heaven a Christus nobiscum 1. Politicè ut Rex in Regno Dux in exercitu 2. Occonomicè ut Pater in domo 3. Ethicè ut ratio in homine 4. Physicè ut anima in corpore Cornel. à lapide what 's the Heaven above but the fruition of God and Christ and Christians tell me when you injoy much of Christ in the closet or Congregation when you feele the warmth heat and vigour of all his love and spirituall graces working upon your drooping Spirits doe they not revive you put much life in you his words are Spirit and life much more then are his works Is it not your Heaven to enjoy and for your soules to possesse their beloved's presence b Heu Domine Deus rara hora brevis mora Bern. in Cant. ser 13. Res delicata est Spiritus Dei Tertu Memor sum quanta pace fruebar cum in Domino gaudebam ideò nunc magis doleo quia scio quid perdidi scio quàm maxima bona amisi redde quod per peccatum mihi abstuli redde quod meâ culpâ perdidi Savanarol medit in Psal Miserere c. Thirdly in wounds or hurts of the body or mind if Saul goes to Damascus and treads but on the feet of Christ the meanest and lowest of his servants Doth not Christ bow his head yea all his body to save them will it not make him crye out Saul Saul why doest thou tread on my feet persecute me in the least of my members yea certainly had he ne'r opened his mouth before yet then as the dumbe sonne of Craesus by straining his voice had the strings of his tongue unloosed when he saw his Father like to be butchered crying Oh! kill not King Craesus so Christ could the former be which cannot be in him yet then when they suffer he suffers with them and cries as to Saul Kill not my children pierce me not cut mee not in pieces rob not imprison me not he now plainely speakes this in our eares by his word could wee but mind it Christians when you are touch'd with a hurtfull touch so sensible is hee that he is touch'd in the apple of his eye too his eye smarts whose you are and hee that made eyes assure your selves will soone heale that eye sore when 't is seasonable to doe it Lastly in hurts of the mind Are you wounded in Spirit troubled in mind tempted he is tempted with you wounded with you troubled with you is not this love discover'd Now hee is in Heaven he is touch'd with a feeling of your infirmities on earth c Inchoata in incarnatione completa in ascensione Cornel. à Lapide Are you tempted so was he and that in all points like to you sinne being excepted viz. sinne did not tempt him as it doth you but then he was tempted by Satan to sinne as well as Satan tempts you to sinne d This I take to be the sense of the place instance that sore temptation to cast himselfe downe from the pinacle of the Temple to murther himself and that temptation hee tempted him withall to commit Idolatrie to fall downe and worship a Devill like a Heathen hee also tempted him to distrust infidelity when he would have had him make bread of stones as though God could not live without bread or as though there were not enough of God in the blessed man to sustaine him a little longer yea for ever if he pleased without food CHAP. V. Of the ends of Chrisi's love EVery thing hath its end * Prov. 23.18 and every thing is such as its end is as the thing is towhich it tends all 's well that ends well that 's the Proverb not more ancient then true 't is the end that crowns the action when God would prove a person action or thing to be good or evill he takes this course observes and bids us observe also what the end of the person or thing is at which it aimes or tends marke the perfect man and behold the upright man saith the Lord for the end of that man is * Psal 37.37 peace though hee ha's trouble in his beginning and progresse yet ha's he peace in his end viz. his way tends to peace though hee sowes in teares yet hee reapes in joy for Light is sowne for the Righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart men sow to the end they may reape Thus he proves an upright man to be a good man by his good end So saith he the end of the wicked shall be cut off Viz. He shall misse of all that hee aimes at hee thinkes whatsoever his life be his death shall be good he aimes at happines after a sort but takes asunder the meanes from the end when such an one dies all his thoughts perish where is his hope when God takes away his soule saith Job either his sinne with himselfe shall have no end for sinne in its fruits goe to hell with him lives for ever with him sinnes are his workes and they follow him or secondly his end shall be and that most certainly the beginning of his never ending torment by paine of losse and sense together viz. his sinne tends that way leads thither Some desire Heaven but 't is not so much for the societie of God and Christ as from a carnall conceit that there 's no want there they shall have fulnesse Doe not carnall men dreame of carnall eating in Christ's Kingdome happie said the Jewes are they who shall eat bread with thee in thy Kingdome but this end shew'd their desire was carnall for Christ reproves them when he tells them the Kingdome of Heaven consists not in meats or drinkes but in Righteousnesse and true holinesse Every true lover propounds to himselfe his end ha's his end and that 's true of Christ hee hath ends for which he loves and to which his love tends His ends are such as these 1. To make his object lovely 2. To present his Spouse blamelesse 3. To keep the soule stainlesse 4. To save the soule harmelesse FIrst he loves to make his lovely in his owne blessed sight and unto his owne glorious selfe Christ loves comely Christians Christ's frame on a Christians spirit is a Christ-aluring beautie a choice Spouse's distance from her loyall husband is a cord of love to draw his presence to her long suspension of personall fellowship makes communion sweeter