Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	abide_v	commandment_n	father_n	4,406	5	7.0669	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63710	Something in plainess delivered to the beloved seed, as it bubled, or rise up through the earthen vessel	M. T.	1677 (1677)	Wing T30; ESTC R219147	7,827	11

EXTRA ECCLESIAM NON EST SALUS That is Out of the Church is no Salvation and tell people they must believe as the Church believeth but Christ was before their Church or Rome either and he saith learn of me and believe in the light that ye may be children of the light And the holy men of God were and are saved by their own Faith and not by others that is implicite Faith but the Faith that Christ is the Author of in me that is the living Faith that I am to cleave unto for Salvation and not other mens though they be of the same Faith yet their oyle will not serve me I must have it in my own lamp or vessel And if that be thrown down which formerly was built up and I have not faith in the thing I do not know that I am a transgressour Circumcision is nothing nor uncircumcision but the keeping of the Commands of God and the new creature avaiseth the other is nothing any outward visible thing though the life and power of God once appeared therein and brings it not up again but draws off from it yet if he doth appear therein it is but an external sign shadow or form which is no farther to be heeded then as bowed thereunto by the Spirit as kneeling is a signe or token of reverence and the putting off the hat a signe or coken of humilitie but not the thing it self or substance the humility of Spirit is all and that soul that yeilds obedience daily to what it knows or is of God made manifest to it is in the fear and is in the reverence in the substantial part of what the other represents And this is not self exaltation or being of Corahs spirit to obey the Lord and keep his commandments and the evil way to hate and the forward mouth for those that honour the Lord he will honour and exalt them above their opposers And it is Gods prerogative to change or alter set up or pluck down at his pleasure that none may rest in any thing short of the substance or life it self of the thing and whatsoever a man doth it is his part to do it believingly and in that he pleaseth God And as I keep to the thing that maketh new or the new creature I shall not plead for or against any of the Signes or shadows among the Christians more then among the Jews any further then the Spirit in newness induceth me for this is the all to come unto Christ all and in all then I am nothing neither is the creature to be any thing in it self if Christ be all then the shadows must fall where the substance is enjoyed If he be all in the Jew and Gentile then he is to be looked at and not the signes nor the shadows and his permission or command who suffers things to be and doth all things in heaven and in earth according to his own good will and pleasure onely he asketh the heart a willing and obedient heart and here is the one thing necessary many things are not necessary but cumbersome and burthensome And that of the Apostle he could not stand its like in the same external form to the Jews as he did to the Gentiles nor to the Gentiles as he did to the Jews to please them but one might have been displeased but his condiscention took off any occasion of offence he became all things that he might gain some and yet the man the same as to God-ward giving none offence least the Gospel should be evil spoken off for the power would crush down that which would take offence so was hereby the better able to come within them to reach to his own or to the Word in them which he said he preached which word all people must hear that will live The Word that shall live for ever but the signes or the shadows or the form wherein God once appeared he doth not say that shall live for ever And it would be to little purpose for any to strive to perpetuate a thing which will wear out as if there were any validity or worth in that to make them the better Christians it is the new heavens and the new Earth wherein righteousness dweleth that remaineth or is to remain the other will wax old as a Garment or that which man in the old nature is pleading for it is the new that remaineth and it is in the newness of Spirit we are to serve him who is our life our streugth our daily preserver and it is by or through the renewings of the holy Ghost whereby we are saved through which the birth born of the spirit comes to live the new birth without which it can neither live nor grow up So I questioned with them to wit the Papists how were they safe where uncleanness unrighteousness and drunkenness was for that is shut out of the Kingdome And so where there is respect of Persons height of spirit haughtiness or wise in their own conceit how can there be safety or prosperity which would confine the Lord or lye him as it were to a tabernacle or certain number of men whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain and such onely to be righteous when as the Apostle saith be not wise in your own conceits but condescend to men of low estate and in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him So that those that would limit the holy one or confine him to a tabernacle and that there must be safety among such and no more may it not be just with the holy Lord God to leave them and pitch his tent among others universally that it may appear there is safety where he wil be or manifest himself as he did his tabernacle which he planted in Shilo and the Lord is come down to men of every Nation in all professions that fear him and work righteousness that his people may come down more to them in the signs and shadows not for the shadows sake but for the seed sake and the Lords sake who hath visited them And this to be sure amongst all where there is most of the true knowledg and true learning there will be most of the humility meekness and love Christ is a pattern and example to us who hath said as I have kept my Fathers Commandment and abide in his love so shall ye abide in my love if ye keep my commandments who was obedient unto death even the death of the Cross that is in doing the will of his Father whose love is such that it passeth knowledg should man then be so straitned in his love who hath vouchsafed to condescend unto mankind in their low condition and not rejected them whose tender mercies are over all his works And so whom the Lord owns I may own and every one may own as being one with him in spirit for he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit and the Saints had the mind of Christ