Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	aaron_n	blessing_n	dew_n	120	3	10.0269	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42553	Philadelphia, or, a treatise of brotherly-love Shewing, that we must love all men: love the wicked in general: love our enemies: that the godly must especially love another: and the reasons of each particular love. The manner of our mutual love; the dignity, necessity, excellenc, and usefulness of brotherly-love. That the want of love, where love is due, is hatred, shewed in divers particulars. The greatness of the sin of malice and hatred; with the reasons why wicked men hate the saints: together with cautions against those sins that break the bond of love. Many weighty questions discussed, and divers cases cleared. By William Gearing, minister of the word.	Gearing, William.	1670 (1670)	Wing G436C; ESTC R223669	92,727	215

if he had said Moses from God commandeth you many things I command this Love ye one another This is the Royal Law which ye must obey 2. Because he is most delighted in it It is the joy of Christ when he seeth Brethren to dwell together in Love and Unity Psal 133.1 It is like the precious Oyntment of Aaron How sweet was that It is like the Dew of Hermon How fruitful is that For there the Lord commandeth his Blessing even Life for evermore Eternal Life is the Crown the Reward the blessing of Brotherly Love How pleasant how comly is that This is one of those weightier things of the Law which our Saviour speaks of Mat. 23. Yea the weight of the Law lieth upon it as it were For the Law is fulfilled by Love not excluding Faith but presupposing it This is the order first Faith secondly Love to God thirdly Love to man Faith apprehendeth God's Love to us in Christ God's Love apprehended by Faith makes us love God Our Love to God maketh us to love our Neighbour And where this Order is not framed in the Heart and Soul there is no right orderly frame of Holiness but meer disorder and confusion There may be some confused motions now and then towards heavenly things and some disordered purposes to lead a new life but there is not Christ formed in the heart nor holiness framed there nor Kingdom of Christ set up there nor Image of God imprinted there nor the Law of God written there CHAP. IX IN the prosecution of this point I will handle these four Conclusions 1. I shall shew That we must love all men 2. That Godly men must love even the wicked 3. That Godly men must love even their very Enemies 4. That the Godly must especially love one another 1. That we must love all men Here first Let us observe these Differences of Love 1. There is a Love of Pity and Compassion This Love is due to all men good and bad who are in misery This will make thee weep with them that weep not shedding the tears of a Crocodile as Ishmael the Son of Nethaniah did Jer. 41.6 But rather of our Saviour who not only raised Lazarus but also wept over him to make it appear how he loved him Joh. 11.35 The Jews said Oh how be loved him He that is a man of much natural affection will be kindly affectioned with Brotherly-Love for where there is no Bowels of Compassion there can be no true love either of Man or of God True Love to any is manifested chiefly to their Souls Dost thou see men to go on in sin and in a desperate neglect not to regard the Salvation of their own Souls then mourn for them being moved with the consideration into what misery these wretched Creatures are like to plunge themselves in Seest thou a vain Sensualist spend his days in the eager pursuit of carnal delights never considering his latter end mourn for his Sorrows hereafter Seest thou a Neighbour drunk or hearest thy Friend swear and curse let thy heart pity him Alas poor Soul What will he do when Christ cometh to judgment Poor wretch methinks I see him weeping and wailing and wringing his hands although now he spend his days in mirth and jollity This Love was in Christ towards the wicked Jews Luk. 19.41 For even in his Triumph when the people was making great joy he then wept over Jerusalem This was the burden of his Lamentation O Jerusalem that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace but now they are hidden from thine eyes O Jerusalem thou that now triumphest I cannot but weep when I consider how the things of thy peace are going and thy fearful destruction is hanging over thee the sword of God's vengeance is drawn out against thee So when thou seest any wicked man merry and jovial pity him O poor wretch Thou that art so merry now O that thou knewest the things that belong unto thy peace before they be hid from thee I do even see how the sword of Divine Wrath hangeth over thine head and thy Damnation slumbereth not This Love of Compassion was in David Rivers of tears saith he run down mine eyes because men keep not thy Law I mourn when I see wicked men to be jolly in their sins So St. Paul saith There are some of whom I tell you weeping that are enemies to the Cross of Christ whose end is destruction II. There is a Love of mercy and help due to all in their Afflictions This is plainly shewed by the parable of the good Samaritan The wounded man was not his Companion he found him in misery by chance as he was passing by the way-side whether he were Jew or Gentile or Stranger this Samaritan did comfort him relieve him and took great care to recover him See what use our Saviour made of this Go do thou likewise the same Dost thou see a man in misery be not like the Priest and the merciless Levite but be a good Samaritan to him speak comfortably to him and let thy heart joyn with thy tongue and thy hand with thy heart be as ready to do good as to wish well to him that he may bless God in thee and for thee If thou canst not do all thou wouldst yet be willing to do all thou canst and where thou canst do no more turn thy wishes into prayers and from prayer conclude for those that are Godly My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in Glory by Jesus Christ Suppose a wicked man is in misery and it is in thy power to help him yet give something humanitati if not homini The Sun shineth upon the good and the bad the Clouds water both the Creatures tell thee what thou shouldst do A good man saith Solomon is merciful to his beast then much more will a good man be merciful to a man in misery In the Law God ordained that if a man did see his Enen●mies Oxe or Asse in a ditch or pit he should help him out Doth God take care for Oxen and for Asses and not much more for men Remember Dives is tormented in Hell for his hard-heartedness towards distressed Lazarus III. The Love of Courtesie and Gentleness We owe Kindness and Gentleness to all men This is a Fruit of the Spirit A surly dogged harsh temper is unbeseeming a Christian such persons are more fit to be Monks and Anchorets than Christians God himself is said to be a God of a great Kindness so must his children be A gentle Spirit puts forth it self to all gentle and curteous behaviour drawing affection and delight from others See how sweetly our Saviour carried himself towards all When the man came in not having the Wedding-garment Friend saith he how camest thou in hither It is Parabolical indeed but yet our Saviour sheweth with what gentleness courtesie and kindness he carried himself Some there are indeed that turn Love