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	great_a	see_v	2,872	5	3.1437	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77846	Publick affections, pressed in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: Upon the solemn day of humiliation, Febr. 25. 1645. / By Anthony Burgesse, pastour of Sutton-Cold-field: now minister at Laurence Jewry London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of that House.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing B5653; Thomason E325_5; ESTC R200622	19,054	30

want of necessaries then they fret and rage Thus people that open their mouthes because of taxes and assessements found no trouble or burden under those altars cringes and corrupt doctrines that were then preached When our estates are gone we think our selves undone but not so when God and his pure worship is removed from us 6. In all their murmurings they never blame themselves for their sins sometimes they complain of God of the instruments of the evils themselves but never any word of their own sins If they had said God hath done like an holy and just God our Governours like faithfull and wise men but we by our iniquities have brought all this evill upon our selves it had been well It argueth a carnall froward heart when we are alwayes complaining and talking against instruments never seriously humbling our selves for our sins nor considering that if God doe leave Governours to their own selves it is for the sins of the people What makes our hearts like so many Mount Aetnaes sending forth vollies of enraged flames but looking upon mercies as so many debts to us and calamities as so many injuries Let us feel sin more and we shall feel outward troubles lesse Use 1. Of admonition to people to take heed of this sin of murmuring and discontent 1 Cor. 10. Neither murmure ye saith the Apostle as some of them murmured It is questioned how this was applicable to the Corinthians Why should they murmure And it is answered thus The Corinthians were guilty of many foule and disorderly courses now the false Apostles let them alone but Paul he was resolved to come with the rod of discipline among them as he saith hereupon the Corinthians muttered their sore eyes could not endure the Sun shining And this is still the cause of the vexations and disquietnesse of men that they cannot submit to the holy rules and wayes of Christ This made some heretofore call the Geneva Discipline the Spanish Inquisition and all because men love their lusts and their pleasures even to death Grudge not therefore under the difficulty of a Reformation Think not that God will cast England into a dead sleep as he did once Adam and take out of her side a glorious Church and shee never know of it or feel any pain Consider how much the Antichristian party ventureth for their Idols and corrupt worship how they through many tribulations enter into the kingdome of hell and the kingdome of darknesse suffereth violence by them they deny themselves and take up the crosse and follow Satan O that we were as wise as cordiall had as publick affections for the truths and government of Christ as they for Satan Shall men bring their ear-rings to make a golden calf yea offer their sons and daughters to Molech And shall not we be ready to do and suffer in the way God calleth for Use 2. Of direction to men in place and trust To expect difficulties and hardship You see Moses is even weary of his life Josuah indeed never met with any discontent or muttering from the people herein God was very mercifull unto him But Moses and David and Nehemiah what difficulties did they devour Be you as the heavens that communicate their influence to the earth though that by way of requitall sends up nothing but black and smoaky vapours Now in the midst of these take some Remedies 1. Consider seriously Whether you have not sinned against God and therefore God makes the people loose in their affections When Shimei reviled David see how spiritually David resenteth it The Lord bid him do it There is not any sigh or discontent in people but there is a just and wise providence in it though it may be their fault and impatiency It is a great expression of Gods love to the people of Israel that a dog should not move his tongue against man or beast Exod. 11.7 2. Keep up sincerity and holy ends in reference to God How could Moses have supported himself if there had not been that brazen wall therein O how sweet a repose is it to a man much in publick affairs when hee can truly empty his soul in prayer to God! O Lord the people are jealous and suspicious many have hard thoughts but thou knowest the integrity of my heart and indeavours O Lord I have not sought my self nor been vainly puffed up I have made no parties driven on no designes but cordially thought meditated and indeavoured the publick good Remember me O my God in this Such a man God will honour and he hath the advantage of all others who serve corrupt ends And truly such is the change of all sublunary things while they are at the best that there is no safe haven but in this one thing Lastly Consider this or Moses As soon as the people were out of Egypt and they became to be an embodied people the first thing he sets upon by the command of God is to settle the Worship of God and order therein for the Church of God being a Society joining together to worship God it cannot be rationally thought that it should remain compact together without Government no more then any other Society And it is one thing when God raiseth up some to be avenged on the sins and oppressions of men that have gone before and another thing when besides this God putteth into their heart to settle the things of his Temple The first is a mercy and this was done by Jehu the second is a far greater mercy and that was done by Hezekiah and Josiah Now our considence and expectation is that God will use you as instruments for both these mercies to the Kingdome And oh that in this Land at last we might as Paul concerning the Colossians Col. 2. rejoice beholding the faith and order thereof FINIS

heat was not wholly naturall but something feavourish appeareth 1. From the complaint of that trust and charge God had committed to him when-as indeed it was God his love and honouring of him 2. In complaining of those qualities that ought to be in him as a Governour Have I conceived all this people to be a mother to them Have I begotten them to be a father to them And this care over the people is resembled to the fathers bearing a sucking-child in his arms and when Moses complaineth that God did say unto him Bear these as a father we doe not reade any-where that God commanded him in such expresse words but calling him to that office was in effect to say so 3. His impatience is seen in desiring to die rather then to goe thorow that work it being not lawfull to desire death out of impatience for any pretence whatsoever The Rabbins they have another reason why hee was in a passion because say they hee speaks to God in the feminine gender for v. 15. there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but a Friars notion upon the New Testament and a Rabbins upon the Old are much alike for the word is used in a feminine form though of a masculine gender Deut. 5.27 Ezek. 28.14 The Observations I shall pursue out of the Text are these 1. God layeth a command and charge upon all those whom hee raiseth up to relieve an oppressed people to doe it with tender affections to the publick They must regard the Common-wealth as the father doth the sucking-childe in his armes Hence Psal 28.9 to feed a people is to rule them and the word doth not signifie a meer single feeding but with love and great affection and this phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is frequent among Heathens Hence Philo observed that God took Governours from following the sheep being used to a pastorall cure that so they might with greater bowels and affections govern men And as God in the Old Testament called shepherds rather then of any other profession so in the New Testament he called fishermen rather then others to publick imployment and all because such are used to more pains labour and diligence Obs 2. The ingratitude and discontents of people are such under Reformers that they make their condition very hard and uncomfortable Obs 3. It is very hard for Governours themselves to lead a people out of bondage into freedome and not to provoke God much by their owne sins Obs 4. That though God doe raise up men on purpose to doe some great work for him yet there will be many difficulties and stops in the way Obs 5. It 's not enough to bring out of Egypt but we must be carried into Canaan All the matter I have chosen to treat of is practicall remembring The Manna did not fall within the camp or tents so neither doth sweet practicall matter in controversies For the first Observation I shall declare in how many wayes these tender affections to the publick are to be seen 1. In a deep sense and feeling of publick miseries In this Nehemiah's practice is imitable who though hee had all the content and accommodation for himself that his heart could wish in the Kings Court yet was exceeding sad and took no notice of all his advantages because Jerusalem was in desolations Christ in the midst of all his applause and acclamation wept because of the evill to come upon Jerusalem Write after this copy and say All our own safety and good successe doth not take off our hearts from the sad thoughts about publick desolations Sometimes take off your thoughts from other matters and consider in private how great the streights miseries and difficulties of thousands are in the three Kingdomes especially on such daies as these are take the advantage of your hearts Shall so many families and estates be broken and not your hearts so many bodies lie wounded in the field and shall not your hearts be wounded Let us be so many Jeremiah's making our lamentations before God And if the Prophet findes his bowels making noise like an harp within even for the desolation of a Moab how much rather for Jerusalem Mee thinks these dayes are rather spent in expecting what new thing or witty thing wil be preached then preparing hearts to mourn and gush out because of the breaches God hath made 2. In taking heed of provoking God by our personall sins If wee love the publick how carefull shall we be to sin lest God punish it upon the Common-wealth When David had sinned and the Kingdome was visited how doth hee cry out I have sinned but what have these sheep done Injustice and impiety in men of office and dignity is cruelty to the Common-wealth The sinnes of such are like the eclipses of the Sun and other celestiall bodies that do much corrupt the sublunary Aristotle saith The perpetuall duration of things cometh from the simple and daily motion of the Sun from the East into the West but the corruption of things is because of the oblique motion of the Sun and Starres thorow the Zodiack Resolve then because we love the publick there shall no iniquity be found in our hands no ungodlinesse in our families I will not be a Jonah in the ship to cause the tempests and storms to arise As great mens children have sometimes other boyes whipt for their faults so doth God chastise Governours upon the people as sometimes the peoples sins upon Governours Consider therefore Is the wrath of God upon the land what sin may you find out of yours or your families that so the vapours being dispersed there may be no more thunder 3. In abhorring all self advantages to the prejudice of the publick This is to be like a tender father and how fully did Moses expresse this When God offered him great preferment to make a great nation of him and his he doth utterly refuse such an offer Who hath sincerity and faithfulness enough to deny such a thing in our dayes if God should tender it Tully had two wishes though hee saw neither effected one was to see the Common-wealth free before he died and the other That every man might have such a fortune as he calls it as he stood affected to the publick The divell doth many times proffer the glory of the world to a man if hee will deny the publick Be able to say of all self-advantages as Pliny in another case Capio aliquam voluptatem quôd hâc voluptate non capior Hoc est principatus sua negligere eorum quos regit curam habere Therefore saith Oleaster God made Pharaoh have a dream about the scarcity and famine that was to come though ignorant of God rather then any other because it belonged to those that were in authority to provide for others see Isa 22.21 24. They were high expressions of Paul concerning his countrey-men He could be even an Anathema for them I will not dispute about those