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	mind_n	2,955	5	5.1791	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23681	The desire of all men a sermon preach'd at Daventry in Northamptonshire, March 5, 1694/5, (being the day of the interment of our late Most Gracious Queen), before the bayliff and burgesses of the said corporation of Daventry and other gentlemen of the country, and published at their request / by Charles Allestree ...	Allestree, Charles, 1653 or 4-1707.	1665 (1665)	Wing A1080; ESTC R8239	11,013	30

them In a word so much of a Piece was she to her self in the Practice of all Christian Virtue and in all the great Lines of her Duty that she gave a Grace and Luster to every Relation wherein she stood A Friend she was to the excess of Bounty and Liberality and her Retributions bore proportion to the Dignity of her Station rather than to the Exigencies of the Persons upon whom they were conferr'd like Alexander she consider'd what was fit for a Princess to give in kindness more than what was decent for a Subject to expect and receive And what may seem a Paradox to some Peoples Ears She was a most Dutiful Daughter to the highest Degree and Example of Obedience and never gave a just cause of Offence to her Father For if People will be descanting upon the exploded Topick of filling the Vacant Throne and make this an exception let them consider in answer to their Objections the necessity of the thing and the call of God for it and withal the Obligations She had of paying Obedience to her Husband in the first place sooner than to her Father But to go on and consider her in the Relation She stood to her Royal Consort a Wife She was precisely observant to oblige and hit the humour of her Royal Husband from the smallest to the greatest things and never was a pair more sutably matcht that more carefully sought their mutual satisfaction or made more equal Returns of Love and Affection Provident and Careful She was in the management of all his Great Concernments and this appear'd in her Wise Administration of the Government when the necessity of our Affairs and the Peace of Europe requir'd the Annual Absence of the King to Head the Confederacy and to put Life and Soul and Vigour into the Hearts of our Allies In short She was such a Wife in whom the Heart of her Husband did safely trust But Death has now dissolv'd the Union of this Royal Pair for so it pleas'd God to order it that whilst this Excellent Lady was preparing her self for the Holy Communion upon Christmas-Day She was seiz'd with that Disease which She was sensible would prove Mortal to her She then dismist all worldly Laws and Thoughts and every thing that might be the least hindrance to her in her Preparation for another World She then arraign'd and judg'd all the Actions of her Life with the strictest Scrutiny and could find nothing to affect her Mind with Grief but only this that She was fearful She had set her Heart too much upon the King So scrupulous was She lest a just natural Affection should become immoderate and prove criminal and her Love to God suffer any diminution by her Fondness to the King Happy Saint that upon her Death-Bed had no other matter to condemn her self for who would not purchase such a Peace at the highest Price whatever Her Hopes of Heaven were so ravishing and delightful that the Temptations of the World could not allure nor Death frighten her For being Righteous She had Hope in Death Prov. 14.32 Thus Liv'd and thus Dy'd this Incomparable Princess as ever Adorn'd the Throne of England in a Calm of Conscience in stedfast Faith in Peace with God in Communion with his Church and in perfect Charity with all the World And though we justly mourn and lament a National Loss in her Death yet let it not be without this Consolation that She certainly died the Death of the Righteous and her last End was like His. FINIS