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	grace_n	love_v	2,786	5	6.0792	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27592	A conciliatory discourse upon Dr. Crisp's sermons on the observation of Mr. William's dissatisfactions in them : in which the unsearchable riches of Christ ... / by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2134; ESTC R34407	34,697	34

there are to the other and the one are sav'd and brought home to God under the same means the other are lost 7. This Inward Grace and the Outward Administration exceedingly differ For the Inward Grace is Love Spirit Life the Outward Administration is to speak nothing now of the Government of Christ by the Laws and Light of Nature where his Word is not in Outward Administration where it is by the Overtures of his Word upon the Understanding Wills Affections and Consciences of his Subjects one with another By that Ministry of his Word he presses upon all the Obedience of Faith Repentance and Holyness the Duties required of us which according to the Inward Grace and Love to his own he gives the Inward Efficacy and Almighty Operation of 8. In the Inward Grace and the Operations of it there is a vesting them in the Faculties of his Election and a Conduct of their Internal Action upon their own Minds and Hearts and of the Principles of Outward Action which flow in all Conformity and Agreeableness thereunto so that the Vehicle is our selves but the Inspiration is God's and Christ's 9. From all this it is evident That although there is on many Accounts after to be given a large Field and Scope of Preaching and Discoursing upon and according to the outward Administration yet it is of Superior Necessity to preserve the Fountains of Grace and Love of Power and Spirit clear the Foundations sure and firm and though there may be Fault in not being large enough upon and according to the outward Administration because it shews the necessity of and as a School-master brings to the Inward and manifests how it diffuses it self yet the Error and Danger is greater in not sufficiently both securing and illustrating the Doctrin of the Inward Grace For many more have perish'd in sticking upon the Outward without being led in the Inward than by applying most to the Inward For that always when it is admir'd ador'd and receiv'd diffuses it self into the Outward So that if Eternal Love and Grace is Christ be so taught as that its Efficacyes are always shewn to be in all Holyness and Purity If it pleases the All-wise Spirit to carry any of the Spirits of his Servants wholly upon the Inward Grace seeing he ballances them by many Men of his Servants largely insisting upon the Outward Administration therefore such his Servants are not to be blam'd but God is to be acknowledg'd in his manifold Graces and unspeakable Gifts by the one and by the other 10. The Glorious Appearance of all these is not till in the Fulness not only of Time as in our Lord 's Coming but in the Fulness of Times viz. of all Time in the Kingdom of Christ Then shall be a Recollection a Recapitulation a Gathering and a Gathering together of all in Christ Then shall the Riches of Inward Grace be found to Praise and Glory And the Wisdom Righteousness and admirable Long-Suffering and Patience of the External Administration and Government of God and Christ as Rector and Judge of the Universe be admir'd and ador'd also towards even the Lost Having thus laid a general Scheme I come now particularly to make brief Conciliations of the true and most enlarg'd Apprehensions and Discourses upon even Eternal free Grace in Christ towards all the Elect of God according to Dr. Crisp with Mr. Williams's weighty and most valuable Considerations upon the Outward Administration of the Gospel Covenant according to his Heads of Discourse at the end of his Book Head 1. To the first Head The Elect are Children of Wrath till effectually call'd As it may be oppos'd to all Dr. Crisp hath said concerning the Elect being before Faith and Repentance as much deliver'd from Wrath even as the Believer is or as a Saint Triumphant in Heaven is Reconciliation If we speak as Creatures of Time the Elect are Children of Wrath but why may there not be a Declaration of that great and supreme Truth setting out the Eternal Love of God in Christ to all his Elect even while they are of and in themselves in the Gall of Bitterness and under the Bond of Iniquity For without Relation to the having done Good or Evil in the mere Estate of Nature which is in fallen Men a State of Wrath. It is said Jacob have I loved Now what more contrary to the State of a Child of Wrath than to be Loved of God So concerning Reconciliation as by the Death of Christ the Apostle says God commendeth his Love to us in that while we were yet Sinners Christ dyed for the Vngodly When we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son Rom. 5 8 10. Here then is the Case God the Supreme and Eternal Being beholds all things in as they speak a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a just now even Dr. Hammond however so great an Enemy to a particular Predestination acknowledges this view of all things by the Eternal Being The Question then is Whether an Eternity of Love and Grace an Eternal Duration in Happiness after the short time of Life and some parts of that short time of Life rescu'd from Wrath also may not preponderate in giving the Denomination to the Elect Or why may not the Preaching of Gods Infinite and Eternal Love and Grace be made an Instrument of the Divine Spirit for the winning in the Souls of his Elect to himself When God says I have Loved thee with an everlasting Love therefore with loving Kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31 3. Or why should an● Man hereupon presume to continue in Sin When it is agreed on both Parts Electing Love and Reconciliation by the Death of Christ have most indispensable efficacious Emanations into Holyness while therefore there is a black and dark side of being pass'd over by God hanging over all continuing in Impurity to work upon Men by Terror and Affrightment out of Sin why may not the setting out that Grace Work every way effectually both by the Bands of Love and the Goads of Fear to move Persons home to Christ and we know Men are naturally desirous of and ever Industrious after whatever they account Tokens of what they call being Born to good Fortune and as naturally fly from all the Marks of what is call'd ill Fortune I see therefore no Reason but it should strongly affect Men among whom Scripture is setledly receiv'd and so ought to be universally Preached when they hear of so Gracious a Choice of God to desire with greatest Vehemency to find in themselves any Manifestations of it it being the surest Ground of Hope and to be under the Dread of any of the black Marks of Rejection as being pass'd by of God Of which Efficacious Holyness or Unholiness are respectively the Tokens and Indications And though it must be acknowledg'd There is a Point of Time in which God speaking as in the Language of Time does style his Elect Children of Wrath even as others