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	heart_n	know_v	3,560	5	3.6423	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62089	Being for ever with the Lord, the great hope, end and comfort of believers what it is, and how to be obtained and forethought of / preached by Matthew Sylvester ; and published at the publick request of Mr. Ri. Baxter, at the hearing of it.	Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1688 (1688)	Wing S6329; ESTC R34636	31,001	96

innocence and designs of such a Person as the Son of God was ingaged in such Mediatorial Work and all pursuant to this great Design That Life and Immortallity might be intail'd upon us who our selves could not live till he himself had undergone and conquer'd Death Nor would he bring us to himself but under such advantages and upon such terms as should evidently and greatly minister to universal satisfaction and renown So black was that thick Cloud wherein this Sun of Righteousness did set and pass into his glorious State thus to prepare our way to himself in Heaven as that the sight thereof made his awakened Soul to tremble and to solicite God for help Mark 14.34 Heb. 5.8 9. Yet through this Cloud he wrought his Way to diffuse his Glory through the Heavenly Regions and to make the Hosts and the Inhabitants thereof the amazed Witnesses of his triumphant Grace and Faithfulness And thence to afford those Influences which should prepare us for and suit us to that State. Blessed is Heaven that Christ is in it and blessed are holy Hearts below that Christ in Heaven is theirs and for them Christ there inthron'd and imploy'd for us should loosen all our Hearts from all save what his Heart is upon His Work and Presence in that holy Place hath both its Voice and Force He speaks not now to us in roaring Thunder-claps from the burning Mount nor doth that Blood through which God brought him from the Dead and consecrated the High Priest of our Profession to his most noble Work within the Vail cry like the Blood of Abel for Revenges to fill our Hearts with Enmity or Anguish but it is an alluring grateful Whisper from betwixt the Cherubims of Grace and Glory a Call to Pisgah thence to behold Emanuel's Land that promised and expected State of Holiness and Joy hence therefore let us send our Hearts to Christ as a poor Widow's Mite only to acknowledg our Obligations to him and to testify how much we love our Lord and Head. And O thou Prince of Life and Glory thou Oracle of Truth the sealed Amen of all God's Promises and of our glorious Expectations thou Conqueror of Graves of Hearts and Hell whom to behold is our great Hope and Joy for without Thee the Prince of Life we cannot live and never look to know what it is indeed to live till we be got to Thee Lend us a Beam of Light to view thee by that every Look may melt our Hearts and make them shine and burn That thus our Admirations and Affections may bear some small proportion to their Object and more effectually secure us from losing Hearts below and throwing them away upon unworthy things We lose Affections in mistaken worth and thou get'st little else hereby but Slights and Stabs and all because we know not Thee the Lord of Glory How little is thy Love admir'd by us because we feel it not how little are we affected with thee because we have not seen thee how little do we bemoan our absence from thee because we are so little apprehensive of what thy glorious Presence so liberally produces and dispenses how easily are we courted and prevail'd upon to forget thee because we do so little think upon and are so little affected with thy Wounds below and thy Worth and Joys above Eyes have not seen Hearts cannot love O lift and help and warm and fix and conquer all O let our Hearts be made as fast and pure as Heaven Let preparations be compleat in Hearts as well as in those Mansions of eternal Glory with thy self which thou hast order'd and incourag'd us to expect O let not Grace and Love as large as Heaven be under our Feet any more but upon our Hearts Could ever Heaven be ours or found and valu'd by us as Heaven indeed without thy Sufferings Triumph Grace and Presence And can we think on Heaven indeed and yet forget the Throne of Majesty and Grace that is there and him that sits thereon acting pursuantly to this delightful Hope that we shall see him in his Meridian Glory and be with him for ever 10. Let nothing have or influence your Hearts below but that which suits the Heart of Christ above All must be like the Lord that are to live with him and he that hath this Hope in him must purify himself as Christ is pure 1 Joh. 3.2 3. Whatever Christ died to start below he lives above to propagate to vindicate and compleat He hath as true a Heart for Godliness now as ever and he was call'd the Holy Child after his Exaltation Acts 4.27 Christ's Heart is pure so are his Joys for they are the Joys of Holiness in its utmost luster vigour and extent You must be pure or Christ and you must part the Constitution of the heavenly State admits of no disorder His holy Soul abhors what seems to shake his Father's Throne He cannot bear it that a filthy Soul should stand before him for God's Name is in him Exod. 23.21 In that he lives he lives to God Rom. 6.10 He dy'd with Holiness upon his Heart and as a Martyr for it as well as to make an atonement for us 1 Pet. 2.22 23. With a pure Heart he went to Heaven and can you think that Purity can wast and rot when fac'd with the most immediate Visions of God and entertain'd with all things most expressive of God's complacency in it Surely God's greatest Favours must bear the clearest Characters and Signatures of his essential Purity and Holiness Hath Holiness lost its Interest in Heaven since Christ went thither Or hath Sin gotten ground by Christ's ascent to Glory O Sinners be no longer doting Fools and stupid Sots Lay by your Venom and cleanse your Hearts and Hands Jam. 4.8 1 Cor. 6.9 to 11. The Heart the Blood the Inheritance the Crown and Triumphs of our Lord are all engag'd to revive Holiness in the World Psal 130.4 Dote not upon deceitful Riches Christ is the Pearl of Price by whom you are to be inrich'd in every thing Let not the Mammon of Unrighteousness usurp the Throne of Christ the over-valued World is a perfect Enemy to Christ to Heaven and Heavenliness Be not perplexed nor over-charg'd with Cares be not intangl'd whilst you are allow'd to be imploy'd Take heed of Delilaes lest you lose your Locks and be bereav'd of your Christian Strength and Hopes Fear not the Frowns prize not the Smiles of Mortal Dust beyond Divine Allowance Christ hates Competitors Christ did it not below he loves it not above Be not buri'd alive in Sloth Rom. 12.11 there is nothing in Heaven but Life and Joy in full conformity to all the Laws and Purposes of that compleat Theocracy Diligence brings in rich Delights 't is Sloth that makes Hell so full and Heaven so empty Be not high-minded neither court nor cherish Self in any dress by Pride and Rage Haman's preferment made him but high enough to reach a Halter Learn

Work of Faith Labour of Love and Patience of Hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father knowing your Election of God vers 3 4. It is not every one that is to be with Christ for ever The Subject must be suited to this State and Priviledg and that not by mere Miracle but by the fit improvements of those Means and Helps which God affords us for our preparation-work Means suited to their Ends are to be adhered to and used accordingly Nor can it be expected that God's Institutions will ordinarily be neglected by himself and that our neglect thereof should be to us as prosperous as our fit observation● 〈…〉 And yet mistake me not I do not say that outward Means and moral Swasions are all that Christian Converts are brought home by There is a powerful quickning Divine touch upon the Soul needful to make it throughly Christian and without this no Man becomes a real Christian And none can live with Christ for ever but he that is wrought and kept thereto by special Grace and Providence And excellent Persons must such be that are thus changed and kept for such a blissful State as this here in the Text The Apostle calls them the Children of the Light and Day 1 Thess v. 5. such as derive a new Nature from it 2 Cor. iii. 3 18. walk under the Government and Conduct of it Ephes v. 8. and are entitled to great Priviledges by it Acts xx 32. xxvi 18. John xii 35 36. Let me then close this Head with this 1. Consider who expresly are to be excluded and upon what accounts 1 Cor. vi 9 10. Galat. v. 19-21 Ephes v. 5. Mat. xxv 41-46 Rev. xxi 8 27. Hence then this We can take in no such Persons They that make nothing of discovering directive encouraging and transforming Gospel-Light that have not fetch'd their Principles therefrom and formed their Lives and Practices and Tempers thereunto nor made the greatest reckoning of these Privileges which are to be obtained thereby are no ways fitted and therefore not determined whilst such unto this blessed State. Consider 2. whom Christ expresly hath consigned and promised this Priviledg unto John xii 26. Luk. xii 31-37 xiv 26 27. xxii 28-30 2 Tim. ii 11 12. Luke xxi 36. 1 John iii. 1-3 Jude 20 21. 2 Pet. i. 5-11 iii. 14. 'T is not the Form but Power of Godliness that can entitle and adopt us to that State resolute Promoters of Christ's Interests patient Sufferers for it prudent Contrivers fruitful Walkers such as are observant of his Conduct obedient to his Laws submissive to his Providence and satisfied in and with his Care and Grace and that joyfully prepare and wait for his appearance and presence and duly represented him to themselves and others so as to value nothing like him no nor themselves but as in him and for him These are to be with him for ever see 2 Tim. iv 6-8 2. The State and Privilege whereto they are determined to be for ever with the Lord John xiv 2 3. Hence we are exhorted to seek those things above where Christ is Col. iii. 1. Hence Come ye Blessed and depart from me ye Cursed Mat. xxv 34 41. Present with the Lord 2 Cor. v. 8. They shall walk with me in White for they are worthy Rev. iii. 4. When Christ who is our Life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in Glory Col. iii. 4. When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and admired at in all them that shall believe in that Day 2 Thess i. 10. Father I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold the Glory which thou hast given me John xvii 24. Christ with his Father are the only Temple of that Blessed State where all the Favorites of Christ must be Rev. xxi 23. Christ is our Life in Heaven Col. iii. 3 4. Our Hope from Heaven Tit. ii 13. Phil. iii. 20. Our Plea for Heaven Heb. ix 15. Our Way to Heaven John xiv 6. Our Head and all in Heaven Ephes i. 20-23 We are to be with him who is the greatest Friend Isa ix 6 7. Heb. i. 2-14 iv 14-16 Rev. i. 5 18. Col. i. 15-19 ii 9 10. The dearest Friend Gal. ii 20. Ephes iii. 18 19. Tit. ii 14. His aim at this our Exaltation and Advancement his sharp and costly Agonies and Engagements to effect it and the delight he took therein prove this And the fastest and most faithful Friend in Isa xi 5. Heb. iii. 1 2. x. 23. xiii 8. But now what it is to be with Christ none yet fully know 1 Cor. xiii 9-12 Christ himself tells us We shall behold his Glory John xvii 22. Now what is Glory but the luster of discovered Excellency and Perfection And O the excellence of the Lord-Redeemer in his exalted State his Transfiguration amazed Beholders When he appeared to Saul he struck him blind the distant sight or glance which Stephen got imprest no ordinary Majesty and Glory on his Countenance But Christ acquaints us with his three-fold Glory wherein every Eye shall see him Luke ix 26. There is his personal Glory as to his humane Nature a glorious Body Spiritual Immortal incapable of Sufferings lively and of the nearest alliance and approach to Spirit and every way fitted to subserve the Function of his compleated Soul and like a Chrystal Mirror to have his inward Glory transmitted through it to all Spectators A glorious Soul exerting all its vigours in and through this Body wherein every Gesture Look and Motion and Expression shall shew the excellent Temper Furniture and Beauty of his Soul. O the Wisdom Majesty Holiness and Vivacity of his Soul which then will have their fullest Explications and Appearances And then the fulness of the Godhead which dwells bodily in him shall have such great and clear Discoveries and Effects as shall delightfully entertain his Favorites with great varieties of discoveries for evermore What emblemmatical Glory may attend his Person as the Symbol and Signal of the extraordinary presence of his Father with him and complacency in him I dare not guess at nor am I wise or good enough to know nor arrogant and bold enough to determine but sure I am the physical Changes and the judicial Process and Conclusions of that Day with the evident yieldings and submissions of the whole Frame of Nature to his Will and the effectual bowing of every Knee and the confession of every Tongue to him will deservedly bear the Character of the Father's Glory Phil. ii 9-11 And all this shall we behold to everlasting Satisfaction And we shall see his Glory further in all his Rectoral Excellencies The Constitution and Administration of his everlasting Kingdom will declare his Eminencies How much he is above them in Excellencies and Prerogatives How excellently he governs them with such extraordinary Light and Love suited so