Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	love_n	love_v	shed_v	3,733	5	10.1521	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45865	A guide to repentance. Or, The character and behaviour of the devout Christian in retirement Psal. 119. 54, 60. I called my own ways to remembrance, ... commandments. By John Inett, M.A. chanter and residentiary of the cathedral church of Lincoln.	Inett, John, 1647-1717.	1692 (1692)	Wing I157A; ESTC R215993	30,439	131

Lust and that temptation that once reigned with an uncontrouled power shrink and wither at the thoughts of Judgment Thus the Penitent impales guards his resolution his vows and prayers and under this consideration the returns of his sorrow and penitence appear always wise and reasonable But lest this Picture of Repentance should seem all shadow and leave too dark and melancholy impressions on the Penitent his next care is To form in his soul such images of the Eternal Goodness that a principle of Love may conduct his fears and sorrows and such a value and esteem of that adorable pattern he is to imitate animate a holy reverence and awe that love that may supersede every thing that is uneasie in his fears and inspire a secret pleasure and delight in all the methods of Virtue and Religion For this end he entertains himself with the contemplation of that infinite Love and Mercy to sinners that present themselves in the Passion of his Lord. His Reflections on the Death and Sufferings of Christ and the Love of God visible therein THat he who made Man after his own likeness and designed him a partaker in the felicities himself enjoys should love his own Image and with pity and concern see it defaced and lost is so natural a thought that the same notices which discover his Being present it to us as the most adorable Object in Mercy boundless in Love and Goodness infinite Thus it seems possible to account for the Mercies of Creation and Providence but the whole method of Man's Redemption is so stupendious and amazing that 't is some pain to form any Idea of it but impossible to think much more to speak of it or entertain it with the resentment it deserves That he who knows that we are but dust should pity and forgive is easie to conceive but that he should give a Beloved in exchange for a Rebellious Son part with the express Image of his Person to restore that Man had abused defaced and lost that he should give a Son from his Bosom to bring an Enemy thither and let him dye in whom he was well pleased to fit them to live who had made Death their Choice and Destruction their wish is a heighth of Love beyond the boldest Wishes and most aspiring Hopes that he who was possess'd of immense Felicity before the World began should come down from Heaven to take that Nature which had deserved his Anger that he who was over all God Blessed for ever should be led like a Lamb to the slaughter for his sake who deserved to have been an Eternal Sacrifice to Justice that he alone should tread the Wine-press of his Father's Wrath for him who only had merited the dregs of the bitter cup that he should be wounded for the Sins that ought to pierce our own Souls and bruised for the Transgressions that might have sunk us down in a deluge of Misery are such instances of an amazing pity and love that his Soul must be colder than the Earth and his Heart harder than the Rocks that can resist them but he must be a Monster something that can neither love nor think that can despite and contemn it After all that God has thus done to command my Love shall the flame that ought to melt only harden me And the Blood shed upon the Cross serve only to write my Name among those that weep and howl for ever Shall such Miracles of Charity such amazing Goodness be lost upon me No! No! I must not I cannot resist a being cloathed with every Excellence and Perfection infinitely good in himself and unspeakable good to me that is pleased with my Happiness and delighted in my Welfare deserves the noblest Passion and justly challenges all the Powers and Faculties of my Soul to love is the least return I can make the smallest acknowledgement that is due to him that gave his Son for us This consideration as it presents the Penitent with an amazing instance of Charity and Justice so it raises a Holy Emulation betwixt his Love and Fear he loves that Goodness that pitied the Sinner and reveres the Justice that punished his Sin he adores the Charity that gave but dreads the Justice that spared not his Son his Love inspires his fears and a holy awe conducts his Love he can easily resolve not to offend the Being he cannot but Love and can heartily lament it whenever he breaks his resolution and is always uneasie till he has begged Pardon and be reconciled again His Prayer for the Love of God ALmighty God whose infinite Perfections and Excellency whose immense Goodness and Beneficence justly render thee the most amiable and adorable Being worthy of all Love and Obedience and in respect of whom every thing is but vain and contemptible pour into my Heart such Love towards thee and imprint upon my Soul such an Idea of thy Excellency and Perfections that I may love thee with all my Mind with all my Heart and with all my Strength and consecrate all the Powers and Faculties of my Soul to thy Love and Service that I may prefer thy favour above all things of this World and a Love of thee inspire a cheerfulness into every Duty and shed an influence upon every thing I ought to door suffer for thee and so possess my Soul that every thing may appear vain and empty that would withdraw me from thy Servce and every thing easie and acceptable that thy Service requires from me that I may so love adore thee and do thy will on Earth that I may be fit to joyn with those whose Reward and Duty it is eternally to Love and serve thee in Heaven for Christ Jesus his sake who is the Son of thy Love Amen His Litany or short Prayers O God the Father God the Son God the Holy Ghost hide not thy self from my Petitions but hear my Prayers and have Mercy on me O thou Creator and Preserver of Man by whose Power I was made by whose Bounty I have been provided for by whose Grace and Assistance I hope to live to thee and by whose Mercy and Goodness I hope to live eternally with thee have Mercy upon me and hear my Prayers O Blessed God whom to know is Life and to serve is perfect Freedom whose ways are ways of Peace and to do whose will is our Duty and Reward O do thou teach me to know and love thee as I ought to do and keep and guide me in all thy ways O thou that knowest what Dangers and Temptations encompass me how soon my best Resolutions are broken my best Purposes overcome my most Solemn Promises and deliberate Vows rendred ineffectual let thy Goodness be present in every Danger and Temptation and thy Grace be always sufficient for me From the snares of the World the corruption of my Nature the Arts and Designs of the Destroyer from the mischief of evil Council the infection of bad Example a great Danger and an invincible