Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	act_n	faith_n	soul_n	2,563	5	5.2634	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50495	Two sticks made one, or, The excellency of unity being a sermon preached by the appointment of the Congregational and Presbyterian perswasion at their happy union on the sixth day of April, 1691, which was a day set apart by them, partly to bewail former divisions and partly as a thanksgiving to God for Their present agreement and now at their unamimous request made publick / by Matthew Mead ...	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1562; ESTC R3764	27,269	42

contempt of another One was for Paul against Apollo another for Apollo against Paul a third for Peter against them both a fourth was neither for one nor the other but for Christ against them all i. e. they cryed down all Humane Ministry and were for the immediate teachings of Christ without any means or instruments Now thus to say I am of Christ is a sin For as we must not make a Christ of Means by resting upon them so nor may we lay aside Means expecting Christ should do all without them Be so for Christ as not to despise Ministry Be so for the Ministry of one as not to despise another Do not impropriate Christ to any party It is a dividing Spirit to say Lo here is Christ or lo there is Christ Matth. 24.23 It is to unfaint the whole World to Consecrate our own way And this is a provoking thing and must needs stir up strife and envy for every man is concerned when his right and title is called in question The Apostle discovers another Spirit and more truly Catholick when he writes to this Church 1 Cor. 1.2 To the saints at Corinth and to all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both yours and ours He seems to check that proud and envious humour which would so inclose Christ to a party as to deny and defeat all other claims Jesus Christ both theirs and ours Like that of Christ My father and your father my God and your God John 20.17 4. See that your Union be laid in Truth and Holiness Zech. 3.19 1. In Truth That must have the first place love the truth and peace Union in Errours in false Principles is no better than a confederacy against Christ Isa 8.12 And say not a confederacy That is a cursed accommodation that is made to the disservice of Religion because while we thus make peace with Men we make a breach with God 2. Let your Union be founded in Holiness It will not stand if it be not upon this bottom Loose Zeal is not unity but compliance Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. A Man may see God without Peace but he can't see God without Holiness Peace is a sort of provision that will not keep if it be not well salted Therefore our Lord Christ hath taught you how to preserve it Mark 9.50 Have salt in your selves and have peace one with another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Col. 3.14 5. Keep Love in constant exercise This is a true principle of Union It is not only the knot that ties it but the bond that holds it It is the cement that holds the stones of Christs Spiritual Temple together This was the sacred sodder which united the Primitive Christians so firmly of old that they were of one heart Acts 4.32 and one soul We are united to Christ by Faith but to one another by Love And we should be careful to strengthen both the bands that neither of them be broken The true Mother would rather lose the Child then see it divided Among the Romans they had a Temple dedicated Jovi depositorio because there they laid aside their quarrels and differences before they enter'd into the Senate Shall Heathens lay aside their mutual jars for common good and shall not the Ministers of the Gospel do it much more for the Churches safety 6. Pray much for that wisdom that is from above which is pure peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated Jam. 3.17 3. Indeavour what in you lies to perfect this Union Nothing less then this will fully answer the Prayer of Christ He doth not only pray that his people may be made one but that they may be made perfect in one John 17.23 And if Christ prays for it ought not we to indeavour it that we may be perfectly joined together in the same mind 1 Cor. 1.10 and in the same judgment And because the oneness can never be fully perfected here therefore let us long for Heaven where this Blessing shall be compleat Here we injoy it by way of initiation their it will be in consummation All partition Walls shall then be destroyed There all contrary Opinions and differing Sentiments shall cease Their Luther and Zuinglius Hooper and Ridley shall be all of a mind Many Spiritual Gifts and Graces shall cease there whether there be prophecies they shall fail or whether there be tongues they shall cease Nay Faith Hope Repentance c. they shall cease too but Charity never fails 1 Cor. 13.8 Love and Union shall go with you to Heaven and shall be a part of the Saints felicity for ever It shall no more be said I am of Paul and I of Apollo but God shall be all in all I will conclude all with a short Exhortation and a Prayer as short The Exhortation is in Philip. 2. five first Verses If their be therefore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfil ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better then themselves Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus That is the Exhortation The Prayer is in Rom. 15.5 6. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded one towards 〈…〉 according to Christ Jesus that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then will the Two Sticks be One in the hand of the Lord. Eph. 3.21 To him be glory in all the Churches by Christ Jesus throughout all ages AMEN FINIS These four Books are Published by Mr. Matthew Mead and sold by Tho. Parkhurst in Cheapside viz. Spiritual wisdom Improved against Temptation in a Sermon at Stepney September 16th 1660. The Almost Christian Discovered or the false Professor try'd and Cast in seven Sermons The Good of Early Obedience or the Advantage of Bearing the Yoak of Christ betimes The Vision of the Wheel seen by the Prophet Ezekiel opened and Applyed partly at the Merchants Lecture in Broad-street and partly at Stepney on January 31th 168● being the day of thanksgiving to God for the great Deliverance of the Kingdom from Popery and Slavery