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
A26295	Vox clamantis, or, An essay for the honour, happiness and prosperity of the English gentry, and the whole nation in the promoting religion and vertue, and the peace both of church and state. / by P.A. ...	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4314; ESTC R32826	52,049	117

Wisdom Religion Justice Temperance Loyalty and Charity that will exalt you and that must establish both you and your Family For unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord his House shall soon be overthrown Ecclus. 27.3 So that if ever God should suffer the Nobility and Gentry of this Nation to be once more overthrown and trodden down as heretofore Atheism Contempt of God and Religion Wickedness and Dabauchery together with gross Hypocrisy will be the cause thereof from which fearful judgment let us pray Good Lord deliver us Gentlemen think seriously of those many dangers and Temptations that your Wealth Grandure and Superfluity of all things expose you to therefore the Son of Syrach saith Ecclus. 31.8.9 Blessed is the Rich that is found without blemish Who is he and we will call him blessed Who hath been tryed thereby and found perfect Then let him glory who might offend and hath not offended or done evil and hath not done it How hard a thing is it for a Rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven saith our blessed Saviour although few ever in the World have believed him and it is recorded of Pelagius as a late Author hath it that grounding himself upon this Scripture It is impossible for a Rich man to enter into Heaven he would by no means grant that a Rich man could be saved but for this the Church noted him for an Heretick for among his Heresies this is scored up for one together with that That it is not lawful to swear but if Pelagius had never otherwise erred the Church might very well have pardoned him that heresy as the said Author observes and goes on thus For many times it falls out by reason of the hardness of our hearts that there is more danger in pressing some truths than in maintaining some errors many Rich and Covetous men by reason of the truth that Rich men may be saved flatter themselves in their sins whereof they dye well conceited from which they had been freed had it been their good fortune to have been thus far deceived and been Pelagians Let men therefore either quite refuse Riches if they offer themselves or if they will give them acceptance let them believe that if they be Rich they may be saved but let them so live as if they could not for the one shall keep them from error in their Faith the other from Sin in their Actions Therefore when ever thou seest God willing to bring the world upon thee to enrich thee to raise thee to honour Suspectum habe hanc Domini indulgentian which the said Author cites out of Tertullian In the midst of your fulness of all things consider seriously your danger and take this caution Go not after thy Lusts but refrain thy self from thine Appetite take not pleasure in much Good Cheer Ecclus. 18.30 32. And Chap. 19.2 5. Wine and Women will make men of understanding to fall away Whoso taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condmned but he that resisteth pleasure crowneth his life It is true God vouchsafeth you abundance and you may pertake of the good Gifts of God and give him thanks for every Creature of God is good being sanctified by Prayer and as the wise man speaks Ecclus. 31.20 27. Sound Sleep cometh of moderate Eating he riseth early and his Wits are with him but the pain of Watching Choler and Pangs of the Belly are with an unsatiable man Wine is as good as life to a man if it be drunk moderately For it was made to make men glad The great danger is of sinning in the use of lawful things by Intemperance and Excess a Temptation to which lyes always before you and as a late Author hath it To be able to meet and check an Enemy to encounter occasions to act our parts in common life upon the common Stage and yet to keep our uprightness this is truly indeed to live and to serve God and Men and therefore God the more because Men On the contrary to avoid occcasions to follow that other Vincendi genus non pugnare to overcome the world by contemning and avoiding it this argues a wise indeed but a week fainting Spirit therefore it mainly concerns you in the midst of Temptations and Snares to be watchful over your selves And this you may please to take for your incouragement Ecclus. 33.1 There shall no evil happen unto him that feareth the Lord but in temptation even again he will deliver him Abound in conjugal affections to your Yoak Fellows Amor perennis Conjugis Casta manet Love them as your selves for they are a part of you and therefore as the Scripture speaketh No man ever yet hated his own Flesh render them their due benevolence let them be to you as the Loving Hind and Pleasant Roe as Solomon speaks And let her Breasts satisfy thee at all times and be content with her Loves Prov. 5.19 A Friend and a Companion never meet amiss but above both is a Wife and her Husband Ecclus. 4.23 Poverty is that which usually makes enjoyments comfortable and pleasant to us it is therefore certainly unnatural and unreasonable that it should be otherwise herein Let your affections run strongly to your own Drink Waters out of thine own Cistern c. Prov. 5.15 And abandon with abhorrence the wild Cattel leave them to the sordid base and ungentile leave them to your Slaves Drudges and Scullions And why wilt thou my Son be ravisht with a Ssrange woman saith the Wise man Prov. 5.20 And Can a man take Fire in his Bosom and his Cloaths not be burnt Can one go upon hot Coals and his Feet not be burnt Prov. 6.27 28. And Ecclus. 26.22 An Harlot shall be accounted as Spittle but a Married woman is a Tower against death to her Husband Lust not after her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eye-lids For by means of a Whorish Woman a man is brought to a piece of Bread c. Prov. 6.25 26. Consider also that in nothing more is Christianity to be esteemed than in the Laws of Conjugal Chastity The very Animals some of them observe a kind of Conjugal Covenant how much more should the Diviner Creature Man that he might not spring out of uncertain seed and so mutual affection that Nature hath kindled between the Parent and the Children be utterly extinguished as the Great Grotius hath observed Avoid Gentlemen as much as possible vacancy and to be unimployed for a man hath an active and Vigorous Soul and must be imployed and no man need in truth to complain of want and imployment that hath a mind and understanding to improve a Soul to save Now proper imployment for Gentlemen they being Scholars and having time and leisure also is the improvement of themselves in knowledge and wisdom as the Son of Syrach observeth Ecclus. 38.24 The wisdom of a Learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure and he that hath little business shall