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
A45351	A sermon preach'd at the Castle of York to the condemned prisoners on Monday the 30th of March 1691 being the day before their execution : with an appendix which gives some account of them all, but more particularly of Mr. Edmund Robinson Clerk who was condemned and executed for high treason in counterfeiting the King's coyn / by George Halley.	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1691 (1691)	Wing H455; ESTC R26651	21,825	37

consider it and let not your punishment here but the consideration that you have offended a good and gracious God by your Wickedness be the motive to such a Repentance And here let me a little touch upon let me reprove the Wickedness and set before you the evil things that you have done Two of you are Condemned for Murder and that of a most cruel and barbarous sort the one for the Wife of his own Bosom the other of her harmless and innocent Babe Murders monstrous and unnatural How Diametrically opposite are such horrid Acts to the Laws of the Christian Religion They command the Husband to dwell with his Wife according to Knowledg i. e. with all Conjugal Love and Affection to give honour to the Wife as unto the weaker Vessel How then doth he violate this Command who breaks the Bone of his Bone who wounds the Flesh of his Flesh Christianity obliges Husbands to love their Wives as their own Bodies charges every Man to love his Wife even as himself Ephes 5.28.33 Husbands love your Wives and be not bitter against them Col. 3.19 Secondly We have before us a Woman who hath Murder'd her own Child an Infant born of Fornication Fornication of it self is an hainous Sin a Sin that without Repentance excludes from the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.9 Fornicators shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And it is a Sin much more hainous when it is productive of a greater when Murder is the sad effect and lamentable consequence of it to destroy the Fruit of one 's own Womb to send it out of the World too unbaptized before it was wash'd in the Laver of Regeneration to give it a Bloody Baptism I want Words to express the unnaturalness and barbarity of such an Action Alas How doth the Commission of one Sin make way for another How doth one Wickedness tread upon the heels of another The Devil tempted to Fornication and then to hide the Shame tempted to murder the Infant though that was the most effectual way to be expos'd to the greater Ignominy and Disgrace Thus the Devil did with David as soon as ever he succeeded in his Temptation to commit Adultery with the Wife of Vriah he presently took the advantage and tempted him to add to his Adultery the crying Sin of Murder Blood-guiltiness A Sin which defiles the Land a Sin which cries to Heaven for Vengeance which importunes the Justice and wearies the Ears of the Almighty till it be avenged a Sin for which God hath not only ordained a Temporal but an Eternal Death to be the punishment of it unless his Wrath be atton'd with an hearty and an unfeigned Repentance Pardon for Sins of such an horrid nature must be sought carefully with Tears Others of you are to be cut off with the Sword of Justice for Theft for Wrong and Robbery Acts altogether repugnant to the Laws of the Land and contradictory to the Laws of God who hath commanded us not to Steal Thou shalt not Steal had you sought the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness had you not neglected his Divine Service and Worship had you wrought honestly with your hands and been industrious in your respective Vocations God would never have suffer'd you to have wanted the Comforts and Necessaries of this Life but Idleness is the grand Snare of the DEVIL had you trusted upon your Heavenly Father who Cloathes the Grass and Lillies of the Field He would have provided for you He would have much more cloath'd you O ye of little Faith It is Excellent Advice which the Royal Psalmist gives 62.10 O trust not in Wrong and Robbery He that thinks to support himself by such Means trusteth to a broken Reed he will be sure to be disappointed to find his Folly when he expects the Fruit of his Contrivances Riches innocently gotten are not to be rely'd on much less such Gain as is got by Injury and Oppression Acts of Injustice make Men odious to God render them unfit for humane Society There are few that follow this wicked Employment but at the last reap up the Wages which are appointed by the Law to be the Reward of it and whosoever of them escapes Vengeance in this World shall not without Repentance escape Vengeance in the World to come Nothing but the Execution of such Men can give Check to their Wickedness nothing can put a Stop to them and prevent the Mischief that such Men do in the World but a cutting them off this is the Reason of Capital Punishments among Men it is all imaginable Justice and Equity to remove such Men out of the World as will be a Plague to Mankind while they live in it Another of you suffers Death for Burning a Barn for consuming with Fire the Fruits of the Earth which had been with Labour and Charge sown and reap'd by one who had formerly been to him a kind and an indulgent Master An Act of Ingratitude as well as Impiety and an Argument of a most Malicious and Diabolical Spirit an Act that is contrary to the Golden Rule of the Christian Religion which commands all its Professors not to do that to others which they would not have others to do unto them to put away all Hatred and Strife all Envy Malice and Revenge such being the Suggestions of the Devil Others of you are Condemn'd for Coyning for Counterfeiting the King's Coyn which with Clipping of it is one of the most growing Mischiefs in the Kingdom How Excellent is the Coin of this Nation both for intrinsick Value and Comeliness and never was Mony so spoyl'd and abus'd as ours If the same Question were to be put in this Age as of old Whose is this Image and Superscription Part we might but we could not answer the whole we may indeed guess at the Image upon a piece of Money but we cannot tell whose it is by the Superscription for that is all gone but mark the End of such Men. Such Criminals rob the King of his Due invade his Right and Propriety and intrench upon his Royal Prerogative for it is the KING alone who hath Power to Coin it is He alone who hath an indisputable Right to set the Value upon Money and to make it currant within his Sovereignty and Dominion and our Religion obliges us to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's such therefore as Counterfeit or Clip the King's Coin the same are Thieves and Robbers and it is an Iniquity to be punish'd by the Judge From those Base and Vitious Practices What a Loss flows to the Subject What a Scandal to the Nation A Tradesman that takes up these dishonest ways of living what Injury may he bring upon such as are of the same Trade with himself By under-selling them by affording his Commodities at a Cheaper Rate than he bought them because of the unlawful Profit and Advantage he can make of the large or broad Money that he sees laid down upon the Nail for them