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_v	love_v	2,618	5	5.8704	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58343	England's beauty in seeing King Charles the Second restored to majesty preached by Tho. Reeve ... in the parish church of Waltham Abbey in the county of Essex.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R688; ESTC R33981	56,380	68

the beauty of holinesse what amiable blessings might we enjoy under him for How great is his goodnesse and how great is his beauty Zach. 9.17 that is the goodnesse of his mercies and the beauty of his benefits his favour is splendour his bounty is beauty Oh that we would be good we should find God goodnesse it self The hand of the Lord is upon all them that seek him in goodnesse Ezra 8.22 they which seek the Lord want nothing that is good Ps 34.10 He giveth to all men liberally and reproacheth no man James 1.5 He loadeth us with benefits Ps 68.19 he will pour out blessings till there shall be no room to receive them Mal. 3.10 They which diligently obey the voice of the Lord and observe and do all his Commandments all these blessings shall come upon them and overtake them Deut. 28.1 2. yea where and in what shall they not be blessed They shall be blessed in the City and in the field in the fruit of their body and in the fruit of their ground in their basket and in their dough and in their store-houses and in all that they set their hand unto their enemies that rise up against them shall fall before them they shall come out against them one way and flee from them seven wayes they shall be the head not the tail above and not beneath be able to lend and not to borrow yea their God will open his good treasure and leave such characterising marks of his bounty that all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is called upon by them and they shall be afraid of them Deut. 28.10 or as it in Is 61.9 Their seed shall be known amongst the Gentiles and their buds amongst the people All that see them shall know them that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed Is 61.9 yea it is Gods goodnesse which maketh him so appetible goodnesse is the proper object of his will as if he had not a will in him but to communicate the effluxes of his kindnesse and favour to his dear ones by that he is not onely a free Agent and so doth nothing out of necessity but a liberal Agent because he does act good with an eminency God is love John 1.4 because he hath nothing but love in him there is praeceptum Consilium operatio boni in Deo Tho. Aq. 1● q. 19. a. 12. Precept counsel and operation of good in God Yea whereas many other affections are but in God interpretatively according to the similitude of the effect love is God properly and essentially for it is the first motion of his will yea joy and delight desire and hope are not so properly in God as love because all these are but emanations of it they having love for their spring or root It is such a sweet property that wheresoever it doth affect it cannot but be dispersing Tho. Aq. 1● q. 20. a. 2. Assidet Deo magna est cum ipso necessitudine conjuncta Nyss in ●rat de pauper am benig omp Beneficiorum Dei memoria sufficiens est ad virtutum laborem Chrys hom 67. in Gen. Sunt ut divitum filii qui ornaius gratia aueum monile gestant nunquam deponunt veluti nobilitat is signum circumferentes ostenintes Chrys hom 1. ad Philippenses and exhibiting for amare nihil est nisivelle bonum alicui to love is nothing but to will good to another Therefore love is implanted into God and hath a necessary connexion with him for so long as he is a God he cannot but be a beneficent God the effects of this love are so numerous and conspicuous that the memory of Gods favours is work enough for all the vertues Find me out Gods true Favourites and I wil soon shew you their rich Largesses like Noble-mens children they never walk abroad but they carry their Jewel of honour about their necks Cleomenes and Ptolomaeus which had the sirnames of Euergetae were never comparable to our benigne God for he does exceeding aboundantly above all that we can ask or think there is no end of his goodness As Plutarch reports of Timoleon that he rejoyced tam immensam mult it udinem hominum vitam agere beatam suâ opera that such a multitude of men lived an happy life by his means so it is Gods delight that he hath such a multitude of Courtiers which are susteined by his pensions Oh then that ye would serve God what might ye not receive of his bounty ye might mount upon the high places of the earth the Crownes might then be to Helem The golden phial with rich treasure which Aemilius bestowed upon Tubero for his service in the war against Perseus Plut. in Paulo ●●mili● Cromer l. 5. Sabell l. 5. En. 3. Diodor. Sic. l. 17. Sab. l. 2. En. 3. the golden hand which Boleslaus the thrid of Hungary gave unto Zelislaus for a hand which he had lost in a fight against the Moravians the golden bullock which Lucius Minutius received for destroying Sp. Melius the high priviledges and presents which Cyrus sent to the Arimaspi for their relieving him at an exigent the infinite gifts which Xerxes bestowed upon Pythius the Phrygian for entertaining his whole Army were never like to the Donatives and Benevolences which we might receive from God But here is our basenesse that we look for every thing that is beautifull but will do nothing which is beautifull where is our beautifull repentance innocency devotion watchfulnesse meditation alas no the Apostle may say If any things be comely seek after those things but we are not for these venust and specious things whereby we might affect Gods eyes or enflame his desires towards us we are very prompt at filthy things filthy speech filthy lusts filthy vomits filthy lucre our consciences are defiled and our conversations disteined but for doing any thing which might be acceptable and amiable which might please Gods sight and ingratiate us into his favour we have no skill in it So that ye see what it is that does diminish your felicity and make you walk up and down with your semi-prosperity namely because ye will not be eminently Godly There is not a more auspicious thing in the world then Religion Oh ye must fetch welfare into the Nation with your watery eyes and bended knees and mortified brests and cleansed consciences and regenerate fruits your zeal in your Churches and closets and bed-chambers would do more good then all counsel-chambers A few penitents and Saints would be better Patriots then all the Statesmen in the Land If ye would forsake your brutish lives and sensual courses your hypocrisy and faction your Church-spleen and Liturgy-spight restore your ill-gotten goods and sacrilegious possessions build Hospitals erect Colledges found Churches free your shops from fraud and your Tribunals from bribery have less pride and more charity amongst you what a glorious Kingdom might ye here have Is