Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	child_n	parent_n	4,224	5	8.6238	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12558	Munition against mans misery and mortality A treatice containing the most effectual remedies against the miserable state of man in this life, selected out of the chiefest both humane and divine authors; by Richard Smyth preacher of Gods word in Barstaple in Devonshire.	Smyth, Richard, preacher in Barnstaple, Devonshire.	1612 (1612)	STC 22878; ESTC S100020	65,151	158

yet this in parte insinuates the greatnes of Gods mercie namely that it is as great as himselfe and that no mar● vaile sith it is himselfe But first let vs heare what himselfe testifieth of himselfe that way that only is able perfectly to know himselfe 2 The Lord a Psal 113. ver 8. seq saith David is mercifull and gratious of long suffering and pienteous with goodnes hee chideth not for ever nor keepeth his anger alwaies hee dealeth not with vs according to our sinnes nor rewardeth vs according to our iniquities but as high as the heavens are aboue the earth so much doth his mercie gue beyond them that feare him as far as the East is from the w●st so far doth he remoue our sinnes from vs as a father hath pitty on his children so hath the Lord pitty on them that feare him for he knoweth whereof we are made hee remembreth that we are but dust Here we haue not only a profession of the greatnes of Gods mercy in expresse words but also a liuely resemblance thereof by most proper comparisons yea most forcible arguments also and reasons for proofe thereof as God vvilling shall hereafter be observed b Esai 49. vers 15. Againe saith the Lord Can the mother forget her young childe and not haue pitty of the son of her wombe but be it that a mother may forget yet will not I forget thee saith the Lord. And c Esay 55. v 7. ●9 in the same Prophet to weete Esay Let the wicked forsake his evill waies the vngodly his imaginations retur●e vnto the Lorde and hee will haue mercie on him and to our God for he is full of compassiō For my thoughts are not as your thoughts nor my waies as your waies but as high at the heavens are aboue the earth so high are my waies aboue your waies and my thoughts aboue your thoughts And so d ser 3. ● in Ieremie If a man bee divorced from his wife shee departing from him shall bee marryed to an other shall he take her againe should not the land be defiled thereby But thou hast plaide the whore with many lovers y●t returne to me ●aith the Lord. And in e Ezech 18. ver 23 31. Ezechiell hee even mourneth for the follie and obstinacie of his people that woulde not returne vnto him and liue Am I delighted with the death of a sinner saith the Lorde and not rather with this that hee should returne from his waies and liue Why will yee die ô house of Israell Out of these Scriptures the like we may gather many consolations wherby to be perswaded of the forgiuenesse of our sins And first let vs cōsider that Gods loue infinitely exceedeth any loue that is to be found in the creatures being as farre aboue it as the heavens are aboue the earth or the vtmost endes of the worlde are distant one from an other And yet wee see that the loue which is in the creatures is of greate force and produceth very strange effects and speciallie that loue wherewith God here compareth his namely that of parents towards their children who loue thē yea tenderly loue them even when they are vnworthy of their loue and gladly embrace any submission from them f Teren. Andr●a Act. 5. scen 3. Propeccato magno paulum ●upplicii satis est patri Even nature hath taught men to plead this * That a father is satis fied with a little punishment for a great offence Nay we see that fathers cānot but loue their stubborne children that refuse to submit themselues yea that stand at open defiance with them whereof the Scripture affordeth vs a notable example g 2. Sam. 15 ver 1.2 c. Absalon most vnnaturally rebelled against his father king David after that hee had pardoned him for a cruell and odious murther and sought to depriue him both of crowne and life For ●in kings these both goe togither vvho leaue to bee men when they leaue to be kings can no longer hold their liues than they hold their soveraignety Hee I say vnnaturally rebelled against so kinde a father and was vp in armes against him And yet see howe his father was affected towards him Having raised an armie to suppresse him h Chap. 18.5 12. hee chargeth his two principall captaines that they should deale gently with Absalon for his sake i Vers 31.32 33. And when afterwarde he had newes that he was slaine he made most pitifull lamētatiō for him crying out My son Absalon my son my son Absalon woulde God I had dyed for thee would God I were in thy steed ô Absalon my sonne my sonne Thus nature forced him to loue even a rebellious sonne But most memorable is that which happened in our age at Castillion vpon Loing in France k Bodin de repub lib. 1. cap. 4. A father offering to giue his son a blow for some misdemeanor the sonne ran him through with his sword Here the miserable father perceiving himselfe woūded to death never left crying after his son as long as he coulde crie that hee should flie and shift for himselfe least iustice shoulde take hold on him O admirable force of fatherly loue that the father shoulde tender the sonnes life that deprived the father of life But God doth not only cōpare his loue to a fathers loue but also to a mothers loue vvhich commonly is the more tender of the two that sex being passion arely indulgent And of what force a mothers loue is even towards wicked and vngratious children the same author in the same place specifieth by the example of a womā of the same natiō who having a sonne that vsed her most outragiously reviled her beare her threw her at his feete and amongst many other indignities committed one against her which I thinke vnmeet to be mentioned in particular yet would never complaine to authority of him and when the magistrates of their owne accord tooke notice thereof and holding the example into lerable convented him before thē gaue sentence of death against him the mother came crying and howling in most pitifull sort denying all the wrongs and outrage he had done vnto her And no marvell that the parents loue of their children is so tender and vehement sith wee see howe strong and strange the affection of very beastes is towardes their young ones The loue of their young ones l Sen ep 75 saith Seneca forceth wild beasts to runne vppon the hunters iavelin or speare m Nat. Comes de venat lib. 2. and they vsually either recover them or die in attempting to recover them Nowe these strong instincts of loue in the creatures are derived from God and infused into them by him I speake of the substance and soundnesse thereof For as for the irregularitie of it specially in men it proceedes not from creation but from corruption depravation But I say this loue yea this fervency of loue