Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	appear_v	love_n	love_v	792	5	6.1776	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60658	A tender visitation of the Fathers love, to all the elect-children, or, An epistle unto the righteous congregations who in the light are gathered, and are worshippers of the Father in spirit and truth, to be read amongst them in the pure fear of the Lord God, when they are assembled and met together in his name / by Wlliam Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4336; ESTC R2609	12,935	18

and in his Power you have been made to stand else had you been as others are for no Temptation but is Common and none can stand but in his Power for he alone is Israels keeper therefore the Boaster is Excluded and all the loftie is cast down who in their Difference seems to Glory and smites at others who in some things may Differ from them and would have none come near to them but such as in the likeness of their Holiness doth appear and who appears not with them such they Judge and who Receives and owns them such is there Love unto in the affection and so runs into a Self-separation and particular Union and this doth not refresh the Seed nor travails not to set it free Oh dear Friends watch over this Spirit that it may not have a place in any of you to Rule for the Fruit of it is Bitterness and the End of it is Desolation therefore be you all stayed in the pure measure of the Love of God Received that therein you may bind healm cherish and succour every breathing desire that thirsts after the Lord God not looking at the appearance nor Judging according to that but to feel in the measure of the Love and Life the true state of every one and so to divide aright that however any do appear the Cry of the Immortal may be felt and the state thereof truly Discerned that you may reach forth an Arm to all that stand in need and do good to all in tenderness alwayes considering what makes you to differ for verily Friends the Lords dear Seed breaths after him out of all Forms and Appearances and he is gathering and bringing forth a People out of the Traditions who cannot live any longer therein such is the Earnest after God in many this Day unto whom his tender Visitation of Love is Reached forth so put not a difference in Forms Appearances but in their true ground where the difference stands that betwixt the births you may truly divide for the least breathing after God in Tenderness is to be Cherished in all under what Form or Appearance soever they do yet abide the Lord is gathering a People in his Mercy out of all Professions to make them partakers of his living Truth whose understandings he is opening to behold the wonderful things that he is bringing to passe in this his Day so let your bowels be open unto all that in the Love wherewith the Father hath loved you and gathered you in the same Love according to the measure you may reach to the Seed of God in all that every tender Plant may be refreshed and all the weak and feeble may be strengthened and comforted that every one in their measures may be considered and as they stand Faithful unto God therein even so to be nourished and tendered in Love that all may be brought to a measure of God in themselves and every one therein to feel there Union with God and one another that so all friends who are gathered into Gods Truth this Day may be Translated into his likeness and bear his Image who is Love for he hath opened his Love in freeness to you and hath largely ministred forth of the Riches of it and this he doth require that you should Love one another in that Love wherewith he hath loved you and this will make you glorious as this covering is received upon you and by it shall all men know that you are true followers of him whose Name you profess for it draws you near him and unites you to him and makes your truly like him and it will close you all up in the puritie of it self and Unite you perfectly together and preserve you all in tenderness to God and one another that there will not be an Evil Eye amongst you but the Strong will bear with the Weak and not seek so much to please themselves and this is that which truly bears and endures all things and travails to remove burdens and to ease the oppressed Cherishing that which breathes in all but cannot hurt it in any Oh waite dear Friends in the Love of the Father to abide for it is a sweet thing for brethren there to dwell and let us consider one another that we may provoke one another more unti love until it be our garment to cover us throughout that nakedness may not appear in any so will all be healers and not burters nourishers and not destroyers and this is well pleasing unto the Lord and a service that is accepted of him for it is the travail of the Seed to set free and to bring out of all straitness that Unity may be held and Increased and every Plant may be preserved and all the Body kept in sweet order that every Member may feel its Union with the Head and there Receive its nourishment so will a supply be ministred unto that part which lacketh and every Member will stand serviceable in its place and bear its proper office in the Body and none to say to each other I have no need of thee but all to stand in the pure Unity of Life it self and there perfectly joyned in the one heart so will the Lords Name be one and his People one and his service and Worship one and this will keep all in a sweet savour unto God and a deareness and tenderness one towards another and unto this hath the Lord called you wait for the increase of it more amongst you that love unfegnedly may abound and the life of Righteousness may stand in Dominion that so for the soul you may all watch and with a tender eye be careful one over another that the Body may truly edifie it self in Love and all may receive comfort one of another then will the Lord of Life delight in you and dwell amongst you and water you dayly in his fresh Springs and feed you with the Heritage of Jacob for ever Oh dear Lambs prize the Lords Mercies over all for unto a high calling he hath called you be single unto him that his Love you may answer in walking worthy of all his Mercies so in his Power he will preserve and with his Arm defend that no weapon formed against you shall prosper for his care is over his own and unto his Chosen doth his Love reach for a good Shepheard he is over his Flock alwayes taking care for them he leads them where good Pasture is feeds them with the choicest food his Rod is alwaies stretched forth and in it doth their Comfort stand his staffe is near them to defend that the Devourer cannot Spoil nor with his teeth make them a prey he stands by them in the Day and in the Night he leaves them not for Israels keeper doth not slumber you are his Chosen his Flock his People who are of the immortal born your place is safe your strength is sure abide within and in the Life be ever stayed for in your Tent