Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	faith_n	hope_n	hope_v	3,020	5	8.6912	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60664	Univeral love In which a visitation floweth through the creation, that all people may be informed into the truth, and in their several places come to walk in the truth, and live in the truth, to be a good favour unto God, and honour God. 1. To parents of children. 2. To masters and dames of families. 3. To servants in their places. 4. To aged people. 5. To such as live a single life. 6. To young people. 7. To children. 8. To such as are in outward government. 9. To ministers of parishes, so called. 10. To such as practise in the nations law. 11. To such as trade in wights and measures. 12. To such as buy and sell in the markets or in any other places. With a general exhortation. Also something concerning faith, and hope, and love, and the word, and mans restless part, and the election, and a particular place of bondage opened. ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1668 (1668)	Wing S4344; ESTC R219638	76,293	165

because in that place there is not perfect liberty which the hope hopeth for and all that feels this hope they feel Christ and they breath in his hope for perfect liberty in his life and waits to be delivered by his power from under the bondage of corruption and waits for the glory and hopes for the glory and so the hope is kept in the life and breaths in the life to come into the glory and in due time there is an answer given and it comes to a full possession of that which it hoped for and so comes to its satisfaction in the glorious liberty for it is to be understood that whilst the Seed is in travel in any place that there is something of the oppressing nature over and then the hope is exercised through Faith and the Faith believes over it and the Hope hopes in the Faith and in that state there is a hope to be eased and a hope to be delivered and a hope to come into the glory and a hope to be established in rest and here Faith and Hope have their unity together and are exercised together and Faith is the substance of things hoped for and by the power in which it standeth it makes way for the hope and brings in the evidence of things not yet seen for Faith and Hope are united in the ground and Faith goes forth in the power to make way for the liberty of the hope and through the Faith the hope overcomes oppositions and comes to the enjoyment of that which it hopeth for and so Christ is in man the Author of Faith and also the hope of glory and this is a living hope and a standing hope for it is begotten in the life to breath after life and hopes for the full perfection of life and the glorious liberty in the life which being attained the hope is then satisfied and possesseth the thing which it hath hoped for through the travel and there the hope is fully answered and satisfied and then faith and hope rejoyces in the glorious liberty of Christ the fulness And this hope is not like the hypocrites hope that perisheth for the hypocrites hope is generated in the airy part by the motion of imagination and it is like the Spiders web which by her own labour she makes to her self And how many have created their own hope through their own belief and hath something which the hope looks at to be its satisction in the end but that hope perisheth and the end of it is misery For how do people deceive themselves with a vain hope and how much are many perswaded of assurance of life through their own hope and yet know not Christ in them the hope of glory but through imagination have created an object and their belief standeth in that and their hope reaches to that and no further for is it not the cry of many people that they hope to be saved and they hope God will shew them mercy and they hope he will pass by their offences and pardon their sins and so in a vain hope enclose themselves as a Spider in her web and there sleeps at ease as if there were no danger And this is the hope of the hypocrite that perishes who knows not Christ in him for there is no hope that is created through an imagination or that reaches to any thing which the imagination frameth that can give satisfaction to the soul for the soul being immortal there is not any thing below life and immortality that can satisfie it and life and immortality is in Christ Jesus the souls Saviour and there can be no assurance of eternal life through any other faith or hope but what standeth in himself then how miserable are such that have neither faith nor hope but what they have created to themselves and hath no further Seal of eternal life but what they draw to themselves through their own belief and hope which being created in the perishing part there must an end come and both the object of the belief and hope and also the belief and the hope will fall and perish together But Christ is for ever and the living Faith and Hope is in himself and he alone is the object of that Faith and Hope and this hope gives peace in hoping and gives assurance of that which is hoped for and through assurance there is satisfaction in the travel and in the end there is perfect rest in Christ. And this is a true hope Concerning Love GOD is Love and Love is his Nature and it is in God the fulness and as it is in God it is unmeasurable every way the heights and depths and length and breadth is past sinding out and it is a secret in it self unto which no mortal eye can approach for it doth contain it self within its own perfect body and there is in it self in everlasting fulness and by its own motion and in its own pleasure it manifests it self to the Sons of men universally and spreads it self as an unbounded River which hath its natural course from the body of the Sea and in its passage doth refresh the thirsty and returns into the body of the Sea again even so it is with love which in it self is a pure perfect body containing it self within its own body as to its own fulness and yet is alwayes sending from it self many sweet and pleasant streams of vertue which refresheth and watereth all that are athirst for it and all the streams that proceed from it they have their course and passage and returns into their own natural body again and so love is in it self an incomprehensible being and from Eternity to Eternity it stands unchangable and it is the greatest of all things and its vertue is the chiefest good it is a fountain which abounds in largeness and fulness and in freeness it opens it self in tenderness and with its own vertue it doth supply the want of all that thirst for it and it gives forth a measure of it self in the openings of it self which as a stream of pure water doth reach the thirsty soul and this is love in it self which disposeth of it self by measure according to its own pleasure and with this love God loves the world and he sends his only begotten Son into the world that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life and with this his love he reaches all people through a manifestation of light which light is Christ the only begotten of the Father and with this light of Christ is every man Englightned that comes into the world and with this light the sinner is sought and for sin reproved and that is love which doth reprove and who do not answer the reproof they do not answer the love of God neither doth receive the love when it is tendered but who answers the reproof and loves the light which doth reprove they answer the love and receives the love and then with the love they