Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	heart_n	lord_n	mercy_n	20,835	5	8.9584	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45700	The charitable Christian, or, A word of comfort from the God of comfort, to such as are truly poor and a word of Christian counsel and advice to such as are worldly rich, stirring them up to the Christian duty and practice of charity : with some powerful motives and perswasions thereunto, drawn from the Word of God, to convince men of the necessity of this Christian duty, with the sore evils and calamities which are threatned in the Word of God against unmerciful men / published by a lover of hospitality.	Hart, John, D.D.	1662 (1662)	Wing H927; ESTC R40133	26,662	59

unbelief discovers it self Saith God give to the poor and thou shalt never lack saith the hard-hearted man Give to the poor and thou shalt lack and so gives God the lye Eccles 11.1 Cast thy bread upon the water and after many dayes thou shalt finde it No saith the unmerciful man I shall never see it again and so makes God a Lyar and declares himself an unbeliever 3. Unmercifulness is an argument that there is no love of God in that man 1 John 3.17 Whoso hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him He may think and others may think and say that he loves God but there is not one dram of Gods loves in that man for if a man loves God he would love man who is the Image of God Christ commanded us that we love one another as he hath loved us John 15.12 He testified his love by giving his life his blood for us and we will not give a little bread an old garment a little silver it is a clear demonstration that there is no love of God in us 4. Unmercifulness it hath much cruelty and unnaturalness in it Isa 58.7 saith the Lord Deal thy bread to the hungry cover the naked and hide not thy self from thine own flesh The poor are our own flew Mal. 2.10 Have not we all one Father Hath not one God created us Prov. 22.2 The rich and the poor meet together the Lord is the maker of them all Now if we hide our eys from them if we will not consider their necessities and relieve them we are cruel and unnatural if a man be naked or hungry he will seek to cloathe and feed himself he will not hate his own flesh Ephs 5.29 No man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it When men therefore refuse of strengthen the hand of the poor and needy they despise and hate their own flesh they are unnatural and to prevent this God hath laid a command to be merciful where the strongest reason and plea may be against it Prov. 25.21 If thine enemy hunger give him bread to eat if he be thirsty give him drink much more then to the Poor 5. Unmercifulness it brings a curse yea many curses upon men and their estates Prov. 28. 27. He that hideth his eye from the poor shall have many a curse The poor will curse him and not onely man but even God himself curseth them Psal 41.1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor If a man do it not shall he have a blessing No Depart from me ye cursed Marth 25.41 For I was hungry and ye fed me not And Prov. 3.33 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked Sometimes they have not a heart to eat and take the comfort of their Estates sometimes they are perplexed with fears and ceres and for rows about their Estates sometimes they are wasted at Law sometimes by Fire or Robbery sometimes by such secret wayes that none can give any rational account of but know that the curse of God is there 6. Unmercifulness it makes men altogether unlike God who is the Father of mercy and the God of all compassions 2 Cor. 1.3 He makes his Sun to arise on the evil and the good and sendeth rain upon the just and upon the unjust Mat. 5.45 He giveth food to all flesh Psal 136.25 To each his sufficing food in due season fills every living creature with his blessing He giveth liverally and upbraideth not as St. James saith Jam. 1.5 He bears the destres of the humble and the poor Psal 10.17 He is kinde to the unthankful and to the evil Be ye therefore merciful as your heavenly father is merciful Luke 6.36 But now that man that is near pinching and miserable and doth not regard the condition of the poor to comfort their hearts and to strengthen their hands in filling their hungry vellies and cloathing their naked bodies he is unlike and contrary to God who is all love and bowels of mercy pitty and compassion and ever mindful of the poor and hath made a Law for their relief which standeth recorded in the Word of God unalterable and can never be repealed or made void Deut. 15.7.8 9 10 11 14 15. If there be among you a poor man one of thy brethren within any thy gates or the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother but thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart saying the seventh year the year of release is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother and thou give him nought and he cry unto the Lord against thee and it be sin unto thee Thou shalt surely give him and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto For the poor shall never cease out of the land therefore I command thee saying thou shalt open thine hand wide to thy brother to the poor and to the needy in the land Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flocks and out of thy floor and out of thy wine-press of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him And thou shalt remember that thou was a bond-man in the land of Egypt and the Lord thy God redeemed thee Therefore I command thee this thing to day And to this very purpose is that in Levit. 25.35 36 37 38. If thy brother be waxen poor and faln to decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him yea though he be a stranger or so sorner with thee that he may live with thee thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury nor lend him thy victuals upon encrease take thou no usury of him or encrease but sear thy God that thy brother may live with thee Here is two Statute And of God himself that are of more force and greater authority then all the Acts of men or Parliaments which shall never be altered but shall be in full force and power to the end of the world yea shall be a Law to condemn the gainsayers and neglecters thereof in the day of judgement Christ saith Luke 14.13 VVhen thou makest a Feast call the poor the lame and the blind and thou shalt be blessed And Luke 14.18 God anointed Christ to preach the Gospel to the poor And in another place he saith The poor receive the Gospel And hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in Faith and Heirs of the Kingdom which he hath promised to those that love him In Luke 6.20 saith Christ Blessed are ye poor