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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	conscience_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	2,594	5	11.1136	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36272	A sermon preached before the King, Aug. 14, 1666 being the day of thanksgiving for the late victory at sea / by J. Dolben ...	Dolben, John, 1625-1686.	1666 (1666)	Wing D1833; ESTC R15031	13,657	34

and Pray to him 1. Love him VVHo can do other then love God in whom he lives and moves and hath his Being How can we refrain loving that Infinite Wisdom and Power and Goodness which hath made the Universe and wonderfully disposed it in a beautiful Harmony and mutual correspondence and doth so sweetly govern and carefully sustain all the parts of it Beside David knew Love to be the sum of Gods Law and the Compendium of mans Duty to him and could not be a Man after Gods own heart without doing this before and then what new thing doth he promise in my Text Further To love God for his Benefits onely is but to love our selves and our own conveniences to love him as we do fair weather and sweet air as we love meat drink and sleep And the insincerity of such a love would be sure to appear upon the tryal which Satan desired to put on Job J b 1.9 10 11. While God maketh a hedg about its and blesseth all that we have perphas we shall love him But if he put forth his hand and take all we have our Love being grounded on no other Principle will go away with our goods and we shall be in danger of Cursing him to his face We are to love God for his own Excellencies We are to love him because he requires it and the more Because having a just Right and Power to exact from us the most painful hard services He is so gracious as to demand no more but that we love him that we be not so much his Servants J●hn 15.15 as his Friends This is our standing ordinary Duty Indeed this is all we can perform We can do no more then love God That is both the Perfection of our Obedience here and shall be of our Happiness in Heaven But yet this love is capable of degrees The affection may and must be at sometimes and on some occacasions more intense then at others and the acts more lively and vigorous when our hearts are impregnated and our services called forth by signal extraordinary demonstrations as instances of Gods love to us We ought ever to love God with all our Souls that is heartily and entirely yet this hinders not but that the love which was always true and void of Hypocrisie proceeding as S. Paul derives it out of a pure heart 1 Tim. 1.5 and a good conscience and faith unfeigned may now be more ardent then usual That the fire which was alive in the Embers before may now burn out and flame with a Seraphick heat and brightness when God hath descended thus to stir it up to invite and court and even ravish our affections with the abundance of his favours This David intimates in the very Text For though we have it onely I will love yet the Original expression signifies I will ardently or affectionately love thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of my Bowels or from the bottom of my heart will I love thee Ex intimis viscer●hus Tr●m●l and so some of the best Translations render it To t'ame●ò affettu●sa mente Dio dati Well then if this be the Scale and Standard of our Duty in this behalf that our Love ought to rise in proportion to the Benefits we receive As our Saviour indeed sets it in the Gospel Luke 7.47 where he tells us that the most obliged person will love most and were it not so there could be no such sin as Ingratitude in the World that odious inhumane Crime would lose all the ground and reason both of its guilt and shame Then it will presently be evident to all men how much we of this Nation ought to love God who hath so abounded in his favours to us But how much we do love him is hard to say for the expressions of our affection are very untoward L●ke the Course and rude Caresses of Russian Husbands to their Wives our kindness looks much more like to Anger and ill nature then Love If to disobey dishonour injure and affront to do every thing that will displease God and grieve his Holy Spirit be Love then we love him extreamly But if there be any Truth in what Common Sense and the Uniform Voice of Mankind affirm of Love That it is an active vigorous Principle working mightily in the hearts of Men Provoking and even constraining them to do every thing which may be agreeable to those they Love and accordingly hath produced wonderful Prodigious effects in Humane Friendships If the Holy Scriptures and Histories of Times truly Christian deceive us not in representing the sincere Love of God as an affection which can neither be dissembled nor suppressed being always cheerfully and indefatigably employ'd in his service If it devoureth Difficulties casteth out (a) 1 John 4.18 Fear (b) Psal 119. saepe Rendreth Labour easie and desireable delighting not onely in the sweat of its Brows but in the most Bloudy Agonies and Conflicts breaking through the Briars and Thorns of an accursed World and the many flaming swords which Satan draws against it making it self a Paradise and Heaven upon Earth in the doing Gods Will in walking with and (c) 1 John 4.15 16. dwelling in him For which reason Love is called The (d) Rom. 13.10 fulfilling of the e Gal 5 10. Law The keeping God's (f) 1 John 5.3 Commandments That whereon all the Law and the Prophets (g) Mat. 22 40 depend The (h) 1 J●hn 4 7.8 knowing God and being known of him The (i) E●h 3.17 Root and Ground of Religion and the choicest most excellent (k) Ga●●5 22 F●uit of the Spirit If this be the true Character of that Divine Vertue as indeed these are the Lineaments and Features by which it was most eminently discernible in the unparallell'd Example of our dear Lord and Saviour and in the first Copies taken from thence the Primitive Martyrs and Confessors Then may something like to it be found in our Fancies our Discourses or Professions but not the least shadow of it appears in our Lives and Conversations Unhappy Nation that we are for whom the essences of things and the Definition of Duty must be quite changed ere we can pretend to that disposition towards God which Nature dictates and the bare apprehension of a Deity exacts I am not willing to utter words of ill Omen this day but thus much I cannot refrain from saying That had God expressed his kindness to us no otherwise then we have done our returns of Love to Him we had not now been here Surely David lov'd God at another rate else we should not have found him in one Psalm panting and languishing after him like an emboss'd spent Dear Psal 42. 1● 2. Grieved and afflicted for being kept from his presence Psal ●20 84 2.69.9 Languishing and fainting with desire to get into his Temple burnt up and devour'd with Zeal for it in others Not onely his Book