Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earth_n	father_n	heaven_n	17,972	5	5.2409	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88585	Love's letters, his and hers, to each other, a little before his death.	Love, Mary, 17th cent.; Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3166; Thomason E646_6; ESTC R208751	4,189	8

leaving you on earth where are three of my Babes those two above need not my care but the three below need you●● It comforts me to think two of my Children are in the bosom● of Abraham and three of them will be in the arms and care of so tender and godly a mother I know you are a woman of a sorrowfull spirit yet be comforted though your sorrows be great for your Husbands going out of the world yet your pains shall be the lesse in bringing your Childe into the world you shall be a joyfull Mother though you be a sad Widow God hath many mercies in store for you the prayers of a dying Husband for you will not be lost to my shame I speak it I never pray'd so for you at Liberty as I have done in Prison I cannot write much but I have a few practicall Counsels to leave with you viz. 1. Keep under a sound Orthodox and soul-searching Ministry Oh there are many deceivers gone out into the world but Christs sheep know his voice and a stranger they will not follow attend any Ministry which teacheth the way of God in truth and follow Solomons advice Pro. 19.27 Cease to hear instruction that causeth to erre from the words of knowledge 2. Bring up your Children in the knowledge and admonition of the Lord the Mother ought to be a Teacher in the Fathers absence Pro. 31.1 the words of his Mother taught him and Timothy was instructed by his Grand-mother Lois and his Mother Eunice 2 Tim. 1.5 3. Pray in your Family daily that yours may be in the number of the families who do call upon God 4. Labour for a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price 1 Pet. 3.4 5. Pore not on the comforts you want but upon the mercies you have 6. Look rather at Gods end in afflicting then at the measure or degree of your affliction 7. Labour to clear up your evidence for Heaven when God takes from you the comforts of Earth that so as your sufferings do abound your consolations in Christ may abound much more 2 Cor. 1.4 8. Though it is good to maintain a holy Jealousie of the deceitfullnesse of the heart yet it is evill for you to cherish fears and doubts touching the truth of your graces If ever I had confidence touching the grace of another I have confidence of grace in you that I can say of you as Peter did of Silvanus I am perswaded that this is the grace of God wherein you stand 1 Pet. 5.12 Oh my Dear Soul wherefore dost thou doubt whose heart hath been upright whose walking hath been holy c. I could venture my Soul this day in your Souls stead such a confidence have I of you 9. When you finde your heart secure presumptuous and proud then pore upon corruption more then grace but when you finde your heart doubting and unbeleeving then look upon your grace not on your infirmities 10 Study the Covenant of Grace and Merits of Christ and then be troubled if you can you are interested in such a Covenant that accepts purposes for performances desires for deeds sincerity for perfection the righteousnesse of another viz. that of Jesus Christ as if it were your own Oh my Love rest thou in the love of God in the bosome of Christ 11 Swallow up your will in the will of God It is a bitter cup we are to drink but it is the c●p our Father hath put into our hand when Paul was to go to su●… at Ierusalem the Christians could say The will of the Lord be done Oh say you so when I go to Tower-hill The will of the Lord be done 12. Rejoyce in my Joy to mourn for me inordinately argues that either you envy or suspect my happinesse The Joy of the Lord is my strength Oh let it be yours also Dear Wife farewell I will call thee Wife no more I shall see thy face no more yet I am not much troubled for now I am going to meet the Bridegroom the Lord Jesus to whom I shall be eternally married 13. Refuse not to marry when God offers you a fair opportunity but be sure you marry in the Lord and one of a good disposition that may not grieve you and one of a comfortable livelihood in the world Farewell Dear Love Farewell and again I say Farewell the Lord Jesus be with your Spirit the Maker of Heaven and Earth be a Husband unto you and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be a Father to your Children So praies From the Tower of London the 22. of August 1651. the day of my Glorification Your dying yet most affectionate Friend till death Christopher Love

LOVES LETTERS His and Hers To each other a little before his Death Printed in the Year 1651. Mrs Love's Letter to her Husband Sweet heart BEfore I write further I beseech you think not that it is your wife but a friend that now writeth to thee I hope thou hast freely given up thy Wife and Children to that God that said Ier. 49.11 Leave thy Children I will preserve them and let thy widows trust in me thy Maker shall be thy Husband On that the Lord would keep thee from having one troubled thought about thy relations I desire to give thee freely up into thy Fathers hands and not only look upon it as a Crown of Glory for thee to die for Christ but as an honour for me that I should have a Husband to leave for Christ I dare not speak to thee nor have a thought within my self of my unspeakable losse but wholly keep my eye fixed upon the unspeakable and unconceivable gain Thou leavest but a sinfull mortall Wife to be everlastingly married to the Lord of Glory thou leavest but Children and Brethren and Sisters to go to the Lord Jesus thy elder brother thou leavest friends to go to the enjoyment of holy Angels and of the spirits of Just men made perfect thou dost but leave Earth for Heaven and if naturall affections begin to rise I hope that spirit of grace that is within thee will quell them And knowing that all things here below are but dung and drosse in comparison of those things above I know thou keepest thy eye fixed upon the hope of Glory which maketh thee so trample upon the losse of Earth My Dear I know God hath not only prepared Glory for thee and thee for it but I am perswaded he will sweeten the way for thee to come to the enjoyment of it and when thou art putting on thy clothes that morning think I am putting on my wedding clothes to go to be married to my Redeemer when the messenger of Death cometh to thee let him not be dreadfull but look upon him as a messenger that bringeth thee tidings of eternal life when thou goest up the Scaffold think what thou toldest me that it was but thy Chariot to draw thee to thy Fathers house And when thou layest down thy dear Head to receive thy Fathers stroak Remember what thou saidst to me that though thy Head were severed from thy Body yet thy Soul should soon be united to Jesus Christ thy Head in Heaven And though it may seem bitter that by the hands of men we are parted a little sooner then otherwise we should have been yet let us consider it is the decree and will of the Father and besides we could not have lived much longer together and it will not be long ere we shall enjoy one another again in Heaven Oh let us comfort one another with these sayings Oh be comforted it is but a little stroak ere thou shalt be where the weary are at rest and where the wicked shall cease from troubling thee Oh remember though thou eat thy dinner with bitter herbs yet thou shalt have a joy full supper with Jesus Christ that night And my Dear by what I write to thee I do not under take to be a Teacher of thee for this comfort I have received from the Lord by thee I hear a Warrant is come to the Lieutenant I am ready to think it may be concerning thee to send thee to thy journeys end to morrow and that because they may possibly be hindred if they stay till the day appointed but I am perswaded that thou art so far from being afraid of it that thou dost long for the day which next under God to hear of thy willingnes to die will be the greatest comfort to me in the world I can write no more but commit thee to the hands of that God with whom thou and I ere long shall be Farewell Farewell M. Love One Comfort I would have thee to carry to thy grave If ever God did good to my Soul thou wast the chief Instrument of it for I never looked after God till I saw thy face July 11. Another My Heavenly Dear I Call thee so because God hath put Heaven into thee before he hath taken thee to Heaven thou now beholdest God and Christ and Glory as in a Glass but to morrow Heaven-gates shall be opened and thou shalt be in the full enjoyment of all that glory which eye hath not seen nor eare heard nor the heart of man can conceive God hath now swallowed up thy thoughts of Heaven but ere long thou shalt be wholly swallowed in the enjoyment of Heaven Oh no marvail there should be such a quietness and calmness in thy spirit whilst thou are falling into this tempestuous storm because thou perceivest by the eye of faith a haven of rest where you shall be richly laden with the glory of Heaven Oh lift up thy head with Ioy when thou layest it upon the block in the thoughts of this that now thou art leaving thy head to rest in thy Saviours bosome which when thou shalt awake shall be Crowned not with any earthen Crown which fadeth away but with an Heavenly Crown of glory Oh be not discouraged when thou shalt see a Guard of Souldiers triumphing with their Trumpets about thee but lift up thy head and thou shalt behold God with a Guard of his holy Angels triumphing for to receive thee into glory Oh be not dismayed at the scoffs and repreaches thou maist meet with in thy short way to heaven for be assured that God will not glorifie thy body and soul in Heaven but he will make the memory of thee glorious upon the earth Oh let not one troubled thought for thy Wife and Babes rise within thee thy God will be our God and our portion he will be a Husband to the Widow and a Father to thy Children the grace of thy God will be sufficient for us Now my Dear I desire willingly and chearfully to resign up my right in thee to my Father and thy Father who hath the greatest part and interest in thee Though men have separated us for a time yet our mercifull God will ere long bring us together again where we shall eternally enjoy one another never to separate more And let me hear how God beareth up thy heart and let me taste of the Comforts that support thee that they may be as Pillars of Marble to bear up my heart I can write no more Farewell farewell my Dear till we shall meet where we shall bid farewell no more till which time I leave thee in the hands of a tender-hearted Father and do rest till I shall rest with thee in Heaven Mr Loves Letter to his Wife the day of his Death My most gracious Beloved I Am now going from a prison to a Palace I have finished my work I am now to receive my wages I am going to Heaven where are two of my Children and