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	husband_n	wife_n	2,730	5	6.6528	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03332	The apology of Theophilus Higgons lately minister, now Catholique VVherein the letter of Sir Edvv. Hoby Knight, directed vnto the sayd T.H. in answere of his first motiue, is modestly examined, and clearely refuted.	Higgons, Theophilus, 1578?-1659.	1609 (1609)	STC 13452; ESTC S114948	30,879	65

of Veniall and Mortall sinnes flat against the principles of that profession 7. If after Reconciliatiō vnto the Catholick Church I had written or spoken against any article of hir faith my crime toward hir might seeme inexpiable and your aduantage against me very great Howbeit it is neither the one that I am guilty of nor the other which I feare but it was your pleasure Sir to make a chayne of such wrongs to weaue them in your discourse 8. I answere therefore FIRST that I wrote not that little Pamphlett after my returne out of Yorkeshire but before SECONDLY that as I came vnreconciled into the presence of that Venerable Priest F. Flud so I neuer saw him nor heard of him vntill my arriuall in S. Omers where also himself had remayned one whole yeare at the least before that time And I meruayle that your intelligencer concealed this point from your notice which he could not but know much more certainly then that I was reconciled by such a Priest though heere also I leaue your informer and your self vnto your better proofes THIRDLY that I wrote it according to my opinion therein precisely at that howre And truly this was one of the 3. or 4. points wherein I had the learned judicious and expedite resolution of that Reuerend Priest after my arriuall being perswaded absolutely in most points at that time and chiefly in the chiefest metropoliticall question concerning the ❀ Men must diligētly seek out the true Church that so they may rest in hir judgement sayth D. Field in his epist. dedicat CHVRCH So then I neither wrote agaist that which I did belieue nor yealded vnto that which I did not conceiue FOVRTHLY that the occasion of writing it was a certain conference betwixt me and a Catholick gentleman vnto whose hands I deliuered it and desired him to procure me a good resolution thereunto FIFTLY that the occasiōs of publishing it were many and one principall viz. to diuert a strong suspition intertayned somewhere to my prejudice as I was induced to think by sondry reasons SIXTLY that some particulars in that pāphlet as namely * in fine Secreta mea mihi c. haue long since made the construction more cleare vnto Sir Edward and his world which sometimes was more secrete and obscure 9. This is good Readers the true text of this matter which now I referr vnto your judicious interpretation Let me add onely a word for a finall complement herein and say thus much that if I were as guilty of or in this fault as my Accuser would make you belieue yet I might be excused rather then y See the Examen of Fox his Calendar Part. 1. pag. 374. c. CRANMER himself whose seuerall Treatises pro contra for and against the Reall Presence were exhibited by Bonner in a publick Iudgement when it was no small mortification you may think vnto that chādged Father to behold the faces of his vnlike children Wherefore z Ouid. Met. 13. Haud timeo si jam nequeo defendere crimen Cum tanto commune vivo 10. But as there is no proportion in our faults if yet I committed any in respect of all the circumstances of Person matter manner c. so ZWINGLIVS a greater Patriarch then he and one of the a Apo. 11.3 two witnesses against Antichrist as b de Relig. in exposit 4. Praecepti Zanchius belieueth may hold out his buckler for my defence For he * Sir Edw. phrase pag. 100. mark you me now falling away from Luther and teaching a doctrine of the Sacrament contrary vnto his former preachings confesseth plainely that c De vera falsa Relig. he knew the truth long before but he serued the time wherein he is commended by Christ as a faithfull and wise seruāt who giueth meate vnto his family in due season So sayth your Zwinglius of whom the censure of d De Eucharist lib. 1. c. 1. Bellarmine is perhapps very true to witt Zwinglius betrayeth his impiety to couer his ignorāce Howsoeuer it be the censure of his fellow witnesse e Loc. Com. Luth. Fabric classe 5. pag. 50. M. LVTHER is very terrible against all that Sacramentary faction viz. He that taketh pleasure in his owne damnation let him belieue that the truth is taught by theis Spirits since they beganne and defend their opinions by lies 11. So much for your second proof and now to your THIRD which you deliuer in theis words f pag. 19. It is not long since you haue complayned through impatient emulation and ambition that if you might haue been then preferred and not aduised rather to returne to the Vniuersity to repayr your wings You would not haue changed your copy so soone nor made so sorry a flight from vs to ROME This you know to be well knowen and vpon farther occasiō may be better specified vnto the world 12. I answere The thought neuer entered into my heart the speach neuer proceeded out of my mouth And I am glad as well for your owne as my sake that you haue some other Authour then your self who sitt at the receipt of custome and keepe an auditt of intelligences to specify in theis behalf that so when he commeth forth and crieth adsum I may answere confidently and say vnto his face * Psal 26.12 Mentita est iniquitas sibi Wherefore remooue theis wrongs from your self vnto their proper Authours that I may behold them in their owne center then you are free whosoeuer shal be found guilty in this matter For I assure you that I am incredibly abused and whosoeuer the Authour be I beseech the Readers to vnderstand that g Matth. 1● 28 Inimicus homo hoc fecit §. 2. Of vnnaturall affection to my Father 1. SIR Edward is desirous to make me odious and contemptible in the eye of his world and therefore he would shew that I am an vnnaturall Husband to my VVife and likewise an vnnaturall Sonne vnto my Father persons that should be conjoyned with indissoluble bands of loue For the bands betwixt the first are sacramentally Supernaturall betwixt the secōd intrinsecally Naturall and Inseparable in both In the first two are made one in the second one brancheth from the other so that betwixt the Husband and Wise there is a concourse of equall duties from the Father there is a decourse of affection vnto the Sonne and from the Sonne a recourse vnto the Father 2. How I am condemned in the first respect you haue h Chap. 1. §. 4. already seene how I am condemned in the second you shall now receiue a double proof FIRST Your Father tooke a long iourney saith i pag. 17. Sir Edward to seek out his lost Sonne who neuer opened his mouth to aske him blessing for his paynes Then after an amplification of no value or su●stance he addeth k pag. 18. Was not this I say grief inough but that you must depriue him also