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	garment_n	skirt_n	58	3	11.4091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21060	A vvorthy communicant: or, A treatise, shewing the due order of receiving the sacrament of the Lords Supper. By Ier. Dyke, minister of Epping, in Essex	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1636 (1636)	STC 7429; ESTC S100166	228,752	658

when men love themselves and seek their owne base ends It is one thing in some sort to love a man that is a childe of God and another to love him because he is a childe of God It is one thing to love a godly man and another because he is a godly man A man may love one who is a Scholler and a Preacher but yet not love him because he is a Scholler or a Preacher nay it may be he could love him a great deale better if he were neither The Apostle speakes of love out of a pure heart 1 Tim. 1. 5. And S. Peter of loving the brethren with a pure heart 1 Pet. 1. 22. When love is pure it is true Then it is pure love when it springs from none other Fountaine but the lovelinesse of Gods grace and Image in those whom we love 2 Secondly true love to the children of God and to Saints it loves such above all others the best of all others 1 Pet. 2. 17. Honour all men love the brotherhood There is a love and a respect to be given to all men according to their relations worth quality c. but yet true Christian love bestowes its Beniamins portion the specialty and choise of its affection upon godly ones It loves a godly religious man better than a learned man and the more godly a man is it loves him the more Doe good to all but specially to the houshold of faith Gal. 6. So love all men in their order and degree but let your brotherly love your heartiest and sweet affection be towards such as are brethren Love the brother-hood A love of the brother-hood must be a brotherly love a love as to brethren In a Family a man loves all the servants but yet he beares a more speciall neerenesse and deerenesse of affection to his brethren than to servants 1 Pet. 3. 8. Love as brethren We reade of a young man Mark 10. that came running to Christ and enquiring how he might inherit eternall life And we reade of Lazarus whom Christ raised from the dead Ioh. 11. It is said of both that Christ loved them of the rich young man Marke 10. 21. Then Iesus beholding him loved him of Lazarus Iohn 11. 3. Lord he whom thou lovest is sick Now the young man was a Pharisee only he had some candour and ingenuity in him more than usually was in Pharisaicall spirits and so farre Christ loved him shewed loving respect and carriage towards him But now Lazarus was a godly and an holy man and therefore Christ loved him with a more specialty of affection He loved the one as a morall faire conditioned man that had some good desires and inclination towards good but he loved Lazarus deerely and intimately as a godly and a good man with such specialty of affection that it was enough to know him without his Name by Christs love to him The man whom thou lovest By this try the truth of thy love Whom lovest thou best Have the best men the best of thine affection Are those deerest to thee who are deerest to God the best evidence that can be of the truth of thy love But this proves many to want this love and that they love not the godly as godly men should be loved what ever their professions and protestations of love be For let it be granted that they love them yet let it bee enquired whom they love best to whom their hearts and affections are closest knit Looke upon those that are deepest in their affections and judge whether they be at the best more than morall and civill and whether those that be godly and religious have halfe that affection and love that meere civill persons have Thou doest not love godly men best therefore thy love is hypocriticall thou lovest a morall man better than one that is religious therefore thy love is with dissimulation 3 Thirdly true love loves as the Colossians did Gol. 1. 4. It loves all the Saints Where grace is the ground of love where ever grace is there is love as fire still followes the fuell Grace hath the same beauty in all and if grace be the attractive of affection it drawes affection to all in whom it is The love that is amongst Gods Saints is compared to the ointment that was powred upon Aarons head Psal 133. 2. It was powred upon his head but it rested not there it ran also downe upon his beard nay it ran downe to the skirts of his garments So the love that is among the Saints it diffuses it selfe to all the members of Christ it runs not only upon the head and beard but upon the skirts of the garments to the very lowest and meanest of Gods people in whom there is grace It excludes not any whom God hath received Rom. 14. 3. despises not any whom God hath chosen Iames 2. 5 6. Love the brotherhood sayes S. Peter He doth not say love a brother or such of the brethren but love the brother-hood the whole fraternity society and company of the Saints the whole brood and brother-hood of Gods people Try thy love by this He that loves a godly man for his grace that hath no other thing to commend him neither friends nor riches nor credit nor profit that can love poore godlinesse as well as rich godlinesse that can love grace in rags as well as in robes in russet and leather as well as in silkes and velvets such a love to all Saints is a good evidence of truth of love But when men love onely some great and rich ones that have grace and regard not meaner ones though gracious it is a signe that it is not true love Yea it is a blameable errour in many that though their love be indeed to the godly yet it is with a kinde of confinement only to some as worthy of their communion and affection It is not to be denied but that a man may love some godly men more than othersome Christ himselfe had his beloved Disciple and wee shall finde that thrice Christ shewed some speciality of favour and affection to three of them above the rest Luke 8. 51. He suffered none to goe in save Peter Iames and Iohn Luk. 9. 28. in his transfiguration he tooke up with him onely Peter Iames and Iohn And in his agony when he sequestered himself from the rest of his Disciples yet he takes these three along with him Mat. 26. 37. But yet such a confinement of our affection to some choise ones as goes with a contempt or plaine neglect and exclusion of others of meaner abilities and graces is an unwarrantable thing such as will not be allowed by this signe of love now instanced in 4 Fourthly true love loves and delights in the fellowship and society of the godly Love the brother-hood sayes S. Peter He doth not say love the brethren but love the brother-hood that is as some expound it the fellowship of the brethren and so our former translation reades it Love