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	let_v	3,737	5	4.4169	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49783	God save the King, or, The loyal and joyfull acclamation of subjects to their King as it was opened in a sermon, preached in one of the congregations of the city of Edinburgh ...	Lawrie, Robert.	1660 (1660)	Wing L694; ESTC R34509	19,165	22

bodily Scotland England France Holland Flanders Germany and Spain I believe if we get the history of his Travels published the world will see how in all those places he hath been miraculously preserved from many dangers 6. A King signally owned of God now in restoring him after all his troubles to his Dominions His enemies were wont to talk of signall Providences when they carried a day in battell against him and did boast of these as if God had approved of their doings But see if among all they can reckon they can speak of such a signall providence as this It is observed of the Egyptian Magicians their blindnesse that they could not see the finger of God till the plague of lice came and then in the least they were found Confessing this is the finger of God whereas if their eyes had been opened they might have seen ambas manus his whole ten fingers in their ten plagues So may it be said to these who are not convinced of a work of God in this they may see not only the finger of God but both his hands even his ten fingers not in ten plagues but ten gracious discoveries of his holy attributes See 1. the print of his Power that mighty finger of God clearly appearing Zech. 4 6. Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord. 2. The print of his Mercy Psal 18.50 He sheweth mercy to his anointed and to us also a sinfull people 3. Of his justice the Lord appearing against Oppressours Isa 51.13 Where is the fury of the Oppressour 4. Of his Truth and Faithfulness making good his word Psal 125.3 The rod of the wicked shall not rest alwayes upon the lot of the righteous 5. His Wisdom in bringing order out of confusion and light out out of darknesse 6. His Zeal in vindicating his Providence from the Blasphemies cast upon it 7. His daunting Majesty appearing in the quieting of all hearts upon the discovery of this work Be still and know that I am the Lord I will be exalted in the earth it is the language of this dispensation Psal 46.10 8. His Providence both for our King and us when we were so very low that we knew not what next to do he hath remembred us in our low estate Psal 136.23 9. Pitie and Forebearance in the tender way of bringing it about not surcharging these poor harrassed Nations with new wars and troubles 10. His Holinesse David said Psal 60.6 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will divide Schechem and mete out the valley of Succoth his Holinesse was engaged to give him victory over his enemies that were profane and peaceable possession of his own People and his Holinesse doth certainly shine forth in bearing down all rebellious opposition to Princes and opposing himself to a profane and lawlesse crew To whom the fifth Circumstance is the people to whom this goodnesse is manifested and this is not the least in illustrating the glory of the deliverance that God should have bestowed these mercies on us a sinfull and unworthy people to whom he may well say as it is Ezek. 36.32 Not for your sakes do I this be it known unto you Be ashamed and confounded for your own wayes O house of Israel Now for conclusion of this point I say this We are allowed to rejoyce in this great mercy in this singular blessing But let us take heed how we rejoyce 1. That there be no excesse in the expressions of our rejoycing It is not unlawfull to expresse our joy by Meats Drinks Triumphs and other Solemnities Nehem. 8 Yet let us not run into excesse We have done well this day to begin our expressions of joy in coming to the Church to hear Gods Word and to present our spiritual sacrifices of prayers and praises unto God Let us take a holy stamp of fear and love to God upon our hearts to the door with us that may be a restraint from excesse Remember the Kings Majesty his Proclamation against prophane and debaucht Drinkings and how pungent that word is We are sufficiently ashamed of such who give no other evidence of their affection to Us. 2. Let not our joy be a mere carnal joy that hath no higher rise than an earthly contentment that hath no other operation than what is sensual and earthly that looketh no higher than the creature and hath self for its utmost end But let us rejoyce with a spiritual joy that God may have the chief share in all our triumphs joyes and exultations That God may be the principal object of our rejoycings and our joy may rise up to holy admirings and exaltations and extolling of him Psal 34.3 O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his Name together If we exclude God out of the play this day all our joy shall be but as crackling of thorns under a pot Yea we shall not be far from the sin of those Angels that fell and of Adam who were contented to rejoyce in their priviledges but not in God who gave them And so provoked God to rob them of them David is a good example of rejoycing in mercies who in all his Psalms doth more remember by whom he was made happy than how happie he was esteeming more highly of the giver than of any gift The second expression of this peoples joy is in a loud acclamation God save the King In the Original it is Let the King live Which as you heard was the usual Salutation to the Kings of old And the words do expresse three things First The peoples cordial affection to the King which is the duty of all loyal Subjects to their King highly to tender and regard even from their hearts the Kings happinesse and welfare See how the Scripture presseth all cordial respects to Kings Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought Exod. 22.28 Thou shalt not revile the gods nor curse the Ruler of thy people One of the Ancients writing upon 1 Sam. 6. where God smote the men of Bethshemesh for looking irreverently into the Ark hath this Note that God smote them non solum quia inspexerunt sed quia despexerunt because the Ark had been taken captive and in the Philistins hands for some time they lookt upon it with contempt The Ark was a sign of Gods Authority and God was so displeased when his Authority was contemned that he smot fifty thousand for it Although our King hath been brought very low hath been under sad captivity and exile Let none when he is now returned despise him or look with lesse reverence upon him The lower he hath been brought by his afflictions we should set him the higher in our affections And will you consider how the Apostle Peter twice in one Chapter presseth Submission and Honour to Kings and yet the Kings who ruled at that time were heathen and strangers to the Church And if this precept standeth in force towards a heathen King and stranger What then