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	true_a	3,082	5	4.2829	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54445	To the Prince of Venice and all his nobles which was delivered for him in his pallace and received by him in his council-chamber, being a visitation and warning of that city, which also may serve unto England and all the nations called Christian nations / written by the servant of the Lord, John.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing P1633; ESTC R29389	27,608	37

of the Just where none other Guide can lead you unto Christ the true Light of the World who is the Shepherd and Leader of his little Flock unto pleasant Pastures who are despised and hated of the wicked sinful World even as our Lord and Shepherd was before us But now is the LORD GOD coming to judge for his own whose we are and not our own The Ground of Idolatry in the Heart NOw I would shew you the Ground in which an Idol is made and in which Idolatry is brought forth Exod. 32.1 4. Whilst Moses was in the Mount and out of the Camp the Children of Israel consulted together and with Aaron the Priest and made a Calf and Worshipped it Ezek. 40.14 As for the Heathen in these dayes they have the Images of things visibly before them and do bow their heads unto them but as for the house of Israel they have set up their Idols in their hearts Now come you and examine all your hearts and let that of God in you answer me Paul the Apostle said Col. 3.5 Covetousness is Idolatry In that heart which is covetous the Image of Caesar the Image of the Prince of the Nation his Superscription Mark and Stamp in the Gold Silver and Brasse that 's the god which he serves that is the Idol in his heart the love of the Mammon is planted in his heart Now that heart Christ saith cannot serve GOD because the unrighteous Mammon is master in the heart Matth. 6.24 master of the mind master of the affection and master of the secret thoughts and there is no spirit to serve GOD for the mind is in the Mammon and it cannot serve GOD. Again Such as are proud having great Possessions in the Earth and go vain-gloriously in gay Apparrel which seek for the honour which comes from man and which love to be called Master and Lord and to be said unto I am your servant Sir and I am your slave Sir such are Unbelievers saith Christ Joh. 5.44 which seek honour one from another they have not Faith for they are not faithful in their life in obedience to Christ's Words who saith Be not you called of men Masters for one is your Lord Matth. 23.8 10. which is in Heaven Now their glory in the flesh is the Idol set up in their hearts here GOD is dishonoured by that cursed Image in the heart and Idol of vain-glory in the heart for the Scriptures say All Glory belongs to GOD. So when the heart lusteth after any Glory and sets up Glory in his mind that is a strange god and that strange god hath the glory and not the True GOD that is one of the gods of the Earth which will not save but shall be destroyed with the worshipper of the false god Again Some are Drunkards others Gluttons Whoremongers Whores and Thieves I would have all these also to know the Image and Idol which is set up in their hearts and the faln god which they worship with their affections and all their hearts which the true Eternal GOD will destroy Phil. 5.19 Lust and pleasure is their god as the Apostle saith Whose belly is their god who mind earthly things But whilst their hearts and affections take pleasure in the things of the flesh and so worship the Idol and false god in their hearts with the love of their hearts which part that is to say the whole heart the True GOD requires they are but fatting themselves to be fit for destruction which shall surely overtake them with the sore displeasure of the True GOD. Again Others love to see the Pictures of their Friends and Kinred and Children and the Pictures of the Patriarchs and Apostles and Christ and Mary and the Pictures of Wild-Beasts of the Field and the Tame Beasts of the Field and the Fowls of the Air and the Fish of the Sea and the Creeping-things of the Earth and so that eye which takes pleasure in the sight of these Pictures le ts in the love of them into the heart and so unto many mine eye hath seen in the Counsel of GOD these things have been a double Image and a double Idol as the Image and Idol of the Heathen and the Image and Idol of Israel an Image and an Idol without which they have bowed unto and kissed upon a piece of Board or against a Wall and upon a piece of Paper or cut out of an intire body of Wood GOD's Vengeance and Plagues and Indignation will smite the hearts of all such Idol-worshippers which worship Images and Pictures without and let in the love of these things into their hearts then it becomes the god of the heart also here GOD is not known among such to be all in all for where an Image or an Idol a false god within or without stands the True GOD is nothing at all to them or in them until He shall be known to them all in Vengeance and Fury against them all Now I would shew you further that those things may be made an Idol and an Image in the heart which GOD once commanded To which end Jeremiah spake unto the House of Judah saying Jer. 7.4 Trust you not in lying words saying The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord are these when he was sent to cry against the Temple which GOD once commanded to be built that His Name might be sanctified therein Then the Temple was all glorious within as I am speaking after the manner of men without as it was also glorious within in the Substance whilst the Jews were kept to within where the Substance was known but when an Eye was open in them to let in the glory of the Temple without then they were turned from the glory of the Temple in the Substance and so GOD forsook their Temple 2 Cor. 6 16 19. Now saith Paul Your Body is the Temple of the living GOD and he that now shall set up Love and not the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World which is CHRIST the Love which cometh from GOD GOD is Love 1 John 4.16 1 Joh. 1.5 and GOD is Light So he that sets up another Love than the Light and hath in his heart another Love than the Light he sets up a false god and worships an Image and is an Idolater in the substance though his love be to make long Prayers or to read the Scriptures or to hear Sermons or to sing Psalms or to give Alms and all his Goods to the Poor and his Body to be burnt being out of the Light which reproveth all sin in the Conscience and reproveth all false love in the Conscience Matth. 6.5 the love of that which would be seen of men or have praise of men that which leads to be spoken well of men for his words or for his works or for his Religion that is the false love in the hearts of the Heathen

and professing Christians That is their false god even the love which is not of the True GOD who is Love and who is Light for the Light in all your Consciences upon a due search of all your hearts will reprove it And again Gen. 6.5 Where the Imagination of the heart of man ruleth which is only evil continually I say where the Imagination worketh in Jew or Gentile to walk according to the Law or the Gospel being not in that by which the Law was given forth and the Gospel preached they worship a false god that which their own hearts do imagine to be God whilst the True GOD is hid from Imaginers the worshippers of strange gods which their Imaginations do make in their minds Now that is the ground of an Idol and the ground of Idolatry The Imagination which blinds the eye and blinds the heart Rom. 1.28 and blinds the understanding altogether concerning the true Knowledge of the True GOD. For they like not to retain GOD in their knowledge who like to retain Imaginations in their minds Many have heard it said that GOD is a Spirit Joh. 4.24 and he will be worshipped in Spirit and do think from that report they have enough of the knowledge of GOD and of the True Worship and yet the World that thus confess are divers in their Worships being not yet in the Spirit in which GOD is truly known and witnessed to be a Spirit they worship they know not what Joh. 4.22 who are in the flesh in the lust nature and deeds of the flesh which is at enmity with God who is a Spirit Here I find all the World Jew and Gentile Professor and Prophane of all Nations in sin in the flesh at enmity with GOD and the Spirit and with all that walk with GOD and Worship GOD in Spirit and do hate and persecute them Gal. 4.29 according to that which Paul said As then he that was born after the Flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now mark even so it is now because they know not GOD which hath begotten us into the Spirit and therefore they hate the Father and them whom the Father sendeth And this to all the Idol Worshippers within and the Idol-worshippers without in the World is the Word of the LORD GOD. Concerning the strait Way to Life IT is not the will of the LORD that alwayes the simple should be held in a by-way Therefore let me declare unto the simple Isa 35.8 the strait-way of the Lord which the way-faring-men though fools shall not erre therein All the World is yet ignorant of that way being in divers pathes in the going forth of their Feet but in the substance and body their footsteps lead them Matth. 7.13 to meet all in the one broad wide way of sin and transgression which leads to the Pit of Perdition This is glad-tidings to the Seed of the captivity which I sound among the sons of men The LORD is come and coming to fulfil the Promise of his Covenant which he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophet Jeremiah whom GOD sent as a Child among the Nations with his Word and to confound the counsels of the wise by the Revelation of his Wisdom in Childhood Behold the dayes come Jer. 3.31 33. saith the LORD that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their GOD and they shall be my People 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3 4. That was the Law which God gave unto Moses who was a Follower of Christ which was not written in tables of stone but engraven upon the table of the heart For this commandment which I give thee this day is not hidden from thee neither is it a far off it is not in heaven Deut. 30.11 12 13 14. that thou shouldest say who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it neither is it beyond the Sea that thou shouldest say who shall go over the Sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it But the Word is very nigh unto thee in thy Mouth and in thy Heart that thou mayest do it Rom. 10.8 2 Pet. 1.19 And this was the Word of Faith which Paul preached and the same Word of Faith which Peter also bore witnesse to saying We have a more sure Word of Prophecie whereunto ye do well if ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark Place until the day dawn and the day-Star arise in your Hearts Now all that are not come to this Word of Faith which is a Light that shineth in a dark Place they are out of the true Faith of Christ whose Name is called the Word of GOD Who saith Rev. 19.13 John 8.12 Joh. 12.46 I am the Light of the World which lighteth every man that cometh into the World saith John 1.9 And Christ the Light of the World who said I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh unto the Father but by by me John 14. v. 6. This is the Way which for Ages hath been hid from the simple the Light which leadeth to the Father who giveth Life everlasting to all that love the Light and follow and walk in the Light wherewith they are lightened which tells you in you● own mindes and consciences that you must not Swear nor Lye nor Steal nor Covet nor be Proud nor Scornful nor vain in your Words and Hearts nor wanton in your Mindes unto uncleanness and lust of the Flesh nor Envy any man which is murder nor be Drunk nor Gluttenous nor to do any Wickedness This is the strait-way Matth. 7.14 and the little narrow way which Christ the Light who is the Way spake of leads to Life it is strait and narrow to that Nature in all flesh living which walks in sin enemies to the strait way of Life John 16.8 The Light which convinceth the World of sin if you love it and follow it will lead out of all sin this is the way which the Prophets prophesied of should be to the wayfaring-men though fools wherein they should not erre This is tryal to all the Worlds ways of Jew and Gentile upon the face of the earth Are they entred in that way in which a Sinner cannot walk 1 Jo. 3.8 Joh. 3.19 No Sinner doth walk in the Light for all Sin is of the Devil And he that commits Sin is of the Devil And this is the condemnation of the world that Light is come into the world and men love Darknesse rather than Light because their deeds are evil The Lord God is come to put all Professions in the Ballance and wil weigh them in the Ballance of Equity and that which is found in the vanity of