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	good_a	will_n	3,330	5	5.9191	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29121	The second Adam being the second part, or branch of the comparison between the first, and the second Adam, in these words, so by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous. By Thomas Bradley doctor of divinity, chaplaine to His late Majesty King Charles the First, and præbend of York. And there preached at Lent assizes holden there, 1667/8. Oxon. Exon.; Nosce te ipsum. Part 2.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1668 (1668)	Wing B4136A; ESTC R213087	22,288	53

that dwell there are holy Saints the exercises there used are holy exercises Into it may no uncleane thing enter All things call for holiness at our hands if ever we hope to come to Heaven The Apostle in his Epistle to the Collessians Giveth thanks to the Father that he had made them meet to be partakers of the Inheritance with the Saints in light Col. 1.12 implying That as we are in the state of nature and in the first Adam we are not meet for it Before we be meet to be partakers of the Inheritance with the Saints in light we must be children of the light and walk in the light If ever we mean to inhabite in that holy City we must here get into the Suburbs of it and learne the Language of Canaan which there they speak If ever we mean to beare a part in that Heavenly Choyre in singing Hallelujahs to him that sitteth upon the Throne we must here set our Harps and our Hearts in Tune to it We must get grace before we can come to glory righteousness before we can attaine to blessedness even the righteousness of Sanctification before we can attaine to the righteousness of Glorification and so we shall be meet for it That makes us capable of it that leads to it even at the next remove Which is the next particular and the last to be spoken of shewing the third sort of righteousness of which by the obedience of the Mediator beleevers are made partakers The righteousness of Glory And this shall be both perfect and inherent when all sin as well as sorrow shall flee away all corruption shall be abolished There shall be no more Devill to tempt nor world to allure nor flesh to withdraw but we shall with free and full consent of heart and will serve and laud and magnifie the living Lord and rejoyce in his presence for evermore where we shall arrive at the end of our hopes the full fruition of God in the beatificall vision in whose light we shall see light and we shall shine in the Kingdom of the Father with Angelicall brightness and perfection our souls shall acquiesce In ultimo fine in the fruition of the chiefest good beyond which there is nothing to be attained nothing to be desired where God shall be to our understanding a Sunne of light to our affections a Sea of love to our wills abundance of peace We shall drinke of the pleasures of the Celestiall Paradise as out of a River and be filled with those joyes which are in his presence unspeakable and glorious We shall leave the dunghill of this inferiour world with all the corruptions which are in it through lust and be taken up into the third Heavens and to the City of the living God the Celestiall Jerusalem and to the company of innumerable Angels and to the Assembly and Congregation of the first borne whose names are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfest and to Jesus Christ the Mediator whom though we have not seen we love but then we shall see him face to face and our love and joy shall abound and we shall attaine to the end of our hopes in the beginning of our happiness that never shall have end Quando erit ille dies quando erit illa dies When will the day be when that day shall be How should we love and long for this appearance and rejoyce even under the hope of this glory Who that hath this hope would not with St. Paul Desire to be dissolved that be may be with Christ Phil. 1.23 Oh if we should but let loose our soules and turn them out as Noah did his Dove by divine contemplation to sore up to the third heavens and there take a view of the joyes and glory of the Celestiall Paradise how would it take us off from these vile things here below How would it draw up our thoughts to the seeking and affecting of the things that are above from the sollicitous care of seeking after the treasures of wickedness which profit nothing to the laying up of treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust can corrupt nor theeves break through to steale from seeking after the pleasures of sin which are but for a season to seek after those which are at the right hand of God where is fullness of joy and pleasures for evermore Oh if we could but draw the curtains of Heaven and look into the Sanctum Sanctorum and see the joyes and the glory that there is layd up for those that seek it we would never care for the earth more we would never care for this world more the very pleasures of the Court would seem vile unto us the treasures of wickedness we would trample under our feet all our thoughts would tend upward all our care and study in the seeking of those things that are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God and where we hope one day to sit on the right hand of Christ St. Paul had that happiness that never man had but he To be rapt up into the third Heavens and there saw those things which here we Preach of and to return again But see what effect it wrought upon him it took him cleere off of the world his life ever after was nothing but a Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ All the honour of his Apostleship the glory of his miracles the high reputation that he was in amongst the Nations for his great learning and wisedom for his works miracles and powerful Preachings were all nothing all these could not satisfie him nothing could now content him but Cupio dissolvi esse cum Christo I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ And why was this high favour vouchsafed to this Apostle to be thus rapt up into the third Heavens and after he had seen those glorious things then to return again but that he might be an experimentall Preacher to the world of all those things that there he saw and here we speak of No marvaile if the Fathers of old St. Augustine St. Jerome St. Ambrose St. Bernard c. were so much and often in contemplation heavenly meditations spirituall ejaculations as witnes their Manuels Enchiridions Soliloquies Monuments of their Devotion left among us by these did they live in communion with God upon these did their soules sweetly feed and feast as upon meat to eat which the world knew not of By these they even lived in Heaven while they were on Earth and in stead of Men conversed with Angels Beloved we have soules as well as bodies and consist as well of celestiall as of terrestriall substance why should our earthly part be more powerful to draw us downward to the vile things here below then our heavenly part to carry us up to the pretious things that are above where our hopes are where our Inheritance lyes where our happiness is where our Christ is and where we hope shortly to be with him in Glory Whither the Almighty of his infinite mercy bring us through the Merit and Obedience of this One in my Text our Mediator To whom therefore be all Honour Power and Prayse for evermore Amen FINIS