Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	aaron_n	beard_n	descend_v	34	3	7.9169	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09013	The rose, and lily Delivered at the lecture, in Ashby de-la-zouch in the county of Leicester. By William Parks, Master of Arts, and curat of Chelaston in the county of Derby.	Parks, William, curat of Chelaston.	1639 (1639)	STC 19303; ESTC S102532	67,453	210

enough to receive so worthy a person and yet behold the stateliest place for his entertainment is a stable If the King of Heaven will needs come into the earth the most princely chamber were fittest for him to be lodged in and yet behold he lies in a manger If King Solomon was so ravished with admiration when hee considered that GOD would reside at the Temple in Hierusalem which was so glorious that it was p 1 Kings 6.38 seaven yeares in building that hee cries out q 1 Kings 8.27 But will GOD indeed dwell on the earth behold the Heaven and the Heaven of heavens cannot contayne thee how much lesse the house that I have made how much more would he have admired had he come into this stable and found Christ this Lord of life lying in a manger Secondly in his life-time he was poorer then the beasts of the Field and the Birds of the Ayre for they have dens and nests to roost and to rest in but hee had not a place where to lay his head as himselfe testifies r Mat. 8.20 And as for his outward estate he was so poore that when tribute was demanded of him he had nothing to pay it but he sends Peter with an angle ſ Mat. 17.27 to catch a fish to bring him money to pay it therein shewing great t Ians●n cenc cap. 69. Majesty as well as poverty his poverty in that he had nothing wherewith to pay it and his Majesty in that being Lord of Sea as well as Land he commands a Fish to do it for him So that as the Apostle S. Paul sayes of himselfe u 2 Cor. 6.10 he was as having nothing and yet possessing all things so may I say of Christ he possessed nothing and yet he was Lord of all When Priene w Cicero Paradox 1. the City where Byas dwelt was taken by the enemies and the Citizens fled carying as much of their substance with them as they could when he was admonished by some to doe the like Ego quidem inquit facio nam omnia mea mecum porto I doe it said he already for I alwayes carry all my goods about me so lightly did he esteeme of those ludibria fortunae riches that he thought them not worth a carrying so Christ carryed all his goods about him so that when he died he needed no executors to prove his will for x John 19 23. the Souldiers parted his goods among them and hee had nothing for them to part but onely his garments Mat. 27.35 I have heard a story of Richard Nevile sometime Earle of Warwick how true it is I know not that when the people would have made him King hee refused that dignity saying that he had rather make Kings then be one but this I know he that y Psal 85.7 putteth downe one and setteth up another when the people would have made him King refused it Erat Rex qui timebat fieri Rex nec talis Rex qui ab hominibus fieret sed talis qui hominibus regnum daret saith Saint Augustine z In John Tract 23. He was a King that feared to bee made a King not such a King that should be made by men but such a King as should give a Kingdome to men A King hee was indeed and acknowledged to bee so a Mat. 2.2 by the wise men at his birth Nathanel b John 1.44 and the whole multitude acknowledged him c Luke 19.38 to bee King in his Life at his death Pilate wrote him King of the Iewes d John 19 19.22 and would not alter that title and yet hee would not be made a King by the people lest e Calvin in Iohn 19. his spirituall Kingdome should have been at an end he refused to be made a King on earth for hee was already King of Heaven and earth Thirdly at his death he was so poore that he had neither Sepulchre nor winding sheet of his owne but f John 19.38.39 Ioseph and Nicodemus were faine to supply them Even the richest men and most puissant Monarchs have nothing at their deathes that they may properly call their owne but onely their Sepulchres We may say of them all as S. Austin g Ad fratr in Er●mo Ser. 48. speakes of Caesars Tombe Though hee were the feare of men and terror of Princes yet all his great riches his titles of Honour and Dignity his Crowne and Scepter Speare and Sword Omnia sibi pariter defecerunt quando defecit spiritus ejus reliquerunt eum captivatum in sepulchro trium brachiorum plenum faetore putredine All those things left him as they doe all men else when he was bereft of his soule and left him nothing but a Sepulchre of six cubits to conteyne him but Christ as he was without all earthly pompe in his life so at his death he had not so much as a Sepulchre or winding sheet of his owne untill they were given him In all which respects we may say of him with S. Augustine h De Catechiz rudibus Omnia bona terrena contempsit homo Christus ut nobis ea contemnenda monstraret The man Christ Iesus did contemne all earthly things to teach us also to doe the like It was a curse layd upon the Serpent in Paradise i Gen. 3.14 upon thy belly shalt thou goe and dust shalt thou eat all the dayes of thy life and therefore the seed of the woman k Ver. 15. being to break the head of the Serpent went not on his belly nor had his affections placed on the earth but was lifted sursum versus coelum upward toward Heaven therein resembling the Flower of the Lily of the Valleys Secondly folia liliorum non solum dilatantur ad latera sed etiam inferius declinant ad ima the Leaves of the Lily do not onely extend outward but bend downward so Christ extended his benefits farr off and even to his enemies The Apostle S. Paul tells the Gentiles l Eph. 2.13 that now in Christ Iesus yee who somtimes were farr off are made nigh by the bloud of Christ Christs benefits to us are like the oyntment m Psal 133.2 on Aarons head that ran downe on his beard and descended to the skirts of his garments they went downe to the lowest members of the Church When he was upon the earth hee shewed his love unto the poore in doing good to the Halt the Lame the Blind as it were so many cripples from severall Hospitalls Now love n Doctor Boys expo of the Creed is more shewed in deeds then in words but more in suffering then it is in doing so that the love of Christ was especially shewed unto us in dying for us As the Father shewed great love in giving his Sonne unto us so the son shewed like equall love in being so ready to suffer for us Greater o John 15 13. love hath no