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	desire_n	heart_n	2,921	5	4.6692	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65453	A sermon preached in St. Maries church at Gates-head in the county-Palatine of Durham at the funeral of George Johnson, Gent., deceased, May 29, Anno Dom 1683 / by Richard Werge ... ; whereunto is added, Anelegy by a friend.	Werge, Richard, 1624 or 5-1687.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1366; ESTC R8026	12,157	36

you than many friends Friends can do you no good except God be your friend and if God be your friend you will not stand in need of other friends He will more than supply the room of all friends relations You cannot account those friends that are taken away by death to be utterly lost It is observable that Job's Children who were taken away by death were not numbred amongst the things that were lost It is said that the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before Job 42. 10. He had seven thousand sheep before and he had fourteen thousand given him again he had three thousand Camels before and he had six thousand given him after and so for other things they were all double But when his Sons and daughters are mentioned there is the same number as before seven sons and three daughters and yet it is said that God gave twice as much as he had before the reason is this His Cattle were utterly lost and their number was doubled and his sons and daughters were the same number as before and yet they were accounted double because though they were taken away by death yet they were not absolutely lost 8. Let us by this that hath been said be perswaded to prepare our selves for death Death is common none can exempted from it and it is certain none can avoid it and therefore it is fit that we should be always prepared for it Death is an Enemy which we must encounter an Enemy which wee must overcome and therefore wee should be always in a readyness for it In order to your preparation 1. Think of those things that may put you in mind of death It hath been an ancient practice of the Devil to perswade men to be forgetful of death some of the Aegyptians did hide their dead the Scythians did eat their dead the Greeks did burn their dead and let the Wind blow away their ashes others have thrown their dead bodies into the sea to be devoured of fishes on purpose that there might be nothing before their eyes to mind them of death But surely it will be Christian prudence to have death always before your eyes and to look at those things that might put you in mind of Death God clothed our first parents with the Skins of dead beasts that they might think on Death And he now feeds us with the flesh of slain beasts that we might remember the same 2. Endeavour to disaffect the things of the world So long as men have towring thoughts and ambitious desires after honour so long as men are full of immoderate cares about the things of the world So long as they affect delicate fare and costly arraiment they are unwilling to hear of Death But when they come to have their affections dead to the world when those intemperate desires after great possessions are quenched when men undervalue and disesteem the world and look upon all the glory thereof as a fancy when men have their hearts cleansed from the love of the world then they are easily perswaded to be willing to die 3. Set your houses in order for the comfort and convenience of them that are to live after you When Hezekiah received a message of Death he was commanded to set his house in order Isai 38. And it is of great use for all Christians When mens estates are unsetled then their minds are unsetled but when men have discreetly disposed of their estates for their families and relations their fears and troubles are in a great measure over and they are then in a fitter condition to die 4. Set about repentance It was good counsel that one gave to his Scholar that he should be sure to repent one day before he died which came to this that he should repent every day because he knew not but that might be the day of his Death It is one of the Devils ways to destroy souls by tempting them to defer and delay the time of repentance He deals with sinners in this case like a cunning Usurer who flatters his debtor till he hath failed his day and then he seizeth upon his land And therefore let us cry out quamdiu cras quare non hodie How long shall we say to morrow why not to day You may die to night and how can you repent to morrow It will be your prudence speedily to repent I would willingly perswade you to set about the confession of all your sins both in thought word and deed Mourn for your sins for Original sin for Actual sins for the sins of your Youth and riper years Mourn for your sins of Omission and Commission for sins at home and sins abroad for sins of Ignorance and sins of Presumption But this is not enough a sorrow for sin an acknowledgment of sin do not make up true repentance Judas repented and acknowledged his sin in betraying innocent blood and yet he retained a murtherous principle for he afterwards murthered himself And therefore you must add to these reformation of life There must be a change of the heart and such an alteration of the mind and disposition as may produce a new life and conversation To this your repentance add faith the end whereof is the salvation of the Soul Being thus prepared you will be in a condition like St. Ambrose who declared that he was neither ashamed to live nor afraid to die Being thus prepared you will be meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light And now I cannot but say something of this worthy person deceased whose body is now brought to be inhum'd I cannot be silent without wrong to the Church and dishonour to God neither can I speak without loss to his merit I am afraid that except I were a more worthy Encomiast able to expatiate in a formal Panegyrick that what I shall say will be a diminution of his worth Posibly some may judge it unfit to commend the dead though they have been famous in their Generations But you know of whom it was said that he was a burning and a shining light and I think it fit that they who honour God should be honoured both in life and death He had a strong body and a solid judgment an excellent dispatch of business not apt to be elevated or dejected By his vigilance care industry and activity God blessing his endeavours he hath done many and great things for the good of himself and others in this place He was clothed with humility of an obliging temper of a most sweet disposition seldom seen to have an angry countenance nor did I ever hear him speak evill of any man He was a Peace-keeper and a Peace-maker ready to compose differences far from doing any wrong to others and far from revenging wrong done by others He was made up of kindness he never declined any capacity of doing good His assiduity in waiting upon Ordinances and his love to the Ministers of the Gospel was admirable especially to those