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	work_n	2,998	5	6.1099	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25299	The saints security against seducing spirits, or, The anointing from the Holy One the best teaching : delivered in a sermon at Pauls before the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of London, upon the fifth of November, 1651 / by William Ames ...	Ames, William, d. 1689.	1652 (1652)	Wing A3009; ESTC R11	27,575	47

Christ crucified is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an offence to the Jew and to the Greeks foolishness but unto them that are called both Jews and Greeks it is the power of God and the wisedome of God Great men are not always wise men and the men of the world are not fit to advise withall in the things of God Some there bee whom God hath given up {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to a Reprobate minde to an injudicious minde which hath no true judgement in heavenly things Would any one make a madd man his Counsellor No He would chuse one that is compos mentis one that is of a sober and discreet reason advise with him in a matter of difficulty He that is of a ranting spirit and given to the love of fleshly pleasures may verba conari may like a Parrot speake words which hee understands not but he is crazed in his intellectualls and knowes not the way of the spirit in the soule Let me heare one speake concerning the worke of Grace the actings of Faith the drawings of the spirit whose eyes have been opened as Baalam said of himselfe in another case one who hath had an internall sense and feeling of these things within himselfe for Hee is best able to unfold such hidden mysteries But let us cease from man for wherein is he to be accounted of The Day-dawning and the day-star arising in our hearts will give us better light into that more sure word of the Prophets and Apostles then all the learned School-men or voluminous Commentators who have not plowed with Gods Heifer Fourthly If knowledge of Christian Doctrine must be received by spirituall anointing then to be instructed in the Letter of the Scriptures is not enough to make a Christian A man may by naturall understanding exercised upon the Letter of the Bible attaine to very great Orthodoxie in Articles of Faith and severall points of Religion for that which is true in Divinity is true also in Reason but notwithstanding all this litterall knowledge his soule may be like Pharaohs leane kine a starved and ill-favoured soule The generality of men in the world are exceedingly mistaken in this businesse for they have thought it to be Reformation enough if they might but purge their Articles of Faith and set forth in print that which might vindicate the truth of their opinions and wayes from the prejudice that they lye under in the World whereas in the midst of such reformation men shall be as carnall and devilish as they were before they shall inwardly be as full of pride and covetousnesse of envy and malice of hatred and revenge as ever and they shall have leave to study mischiefe and conceive evill will against their neighbour notwithstanding all the elaborate nicenesse of a reformed System Brethren Wee must not onely reforme our Bookes though that be very good but we must reforme our hearts and our lives the power of this anointing must eat out the proud flesh of our distempered hearts and quicken us also into a more pure and refined spirit Professors doe thinke they attain to a great measure of heavenly skill if they are but so well read in the Bible as to turne from one Scripture to anoother and compare one place with another whereby they may more strongly back that opinion which they would defend whereas all this while The Scripture is a thing without them and the minde of God is in their Bibles not in their hearts but the true Christian hath the word of God transcribed into himself and can say in his measure as Jesus Christ did I delight to do thy will O my God Yea thy Law is within my heart Eunapius in the life of Porphyrie speaking of his Master Longinus sayth Hee was such an excellent Schollar That hee was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a living Library a walking Studie all his books were so well digested and their notions concocted in his minde that he did as it were give life motion to his Books in a requitall for that learning which he had received from them He is a Christian to purpose who hath the Bible transpirited into his minde who hath digested the sense of Scripture into practice and vitall blood Hee is not a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit whose praise is not of men but of God Fifthly Doth the Apostle bring in this anointing of the spirit as that which secures holy men from Antichristian impostures then here may wee see the ground of those great Apostacies that are abroad Doe wee at any time see some eminent professor come tumbling downe like Lucifer from the height of his profession and immerd himselfe in the dung of worldly wickednesse let us know the reason is because he had no root in himselfe They went out from us saith our Apostle for they were not of us They were leviter tincti sed non penitus imbuti they have had perhaps some sodaine and transient tasts of sweetnesse in the wayes of God but never did feed upon them with savour nor digest them They went out from us that it might bee manifest that they were not all of us There be some men in the world who have much of that which we call light in their understandings but have no grace nor honesty in their hearts and it is no wonder if they turne away from the Truth in a time of Temptation and day of Tryall it is the good ground that bringeth forth fruit and it is the honest heart that stands in a tempest being well bottomed and grounded upon a Rock Hee that is hurryed into any profession by the impulse of his worldly affections can not be setled and established in that profession but must turn about when those affections give the word Hee is like a ship whose sails are open to every gale of winde but hath neither Ballast nor Rudder to keep it steddy in its motion Many people thinke themselves so good Protestants that they should never turn Papists who yet I feare would fall from their owne stedfastnesse into the error of the wicked and casting off the Protestant Articles would easily entertaine for Faith the dogmata of Rome the reason whereof is Their souls are not converted to that Faith which they professe To an unregenerate man who gives up himselfe to licentiousnesse All Religion is alike for Religion doth oblige and command the soule into a diligent obedience to some Rule but such an unmortified heart cannot endure the beautifull bands of a Religious Law But where the Gospell of Christ cometh as it did to the Thessalonians not in word onely but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in power and much full assurance where the word of Truth is made manifest in mens consciences and becometh