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
A47130	A Christian catechisme, for the instruction of youth, and others to whom it may be useful in the grounds of Christian religion, and practice of Christian piety wherein the twelve articles of the Christian creed, and the Godhead and manhood natures of Christ and his prophetical, priestly, and kingly office are briefly explained : and the true Christian doctrin, concerning Christ his being a sufficient saviour, as he is both God and man : and with respect to both the absolute necessity, and excellent consistencie of his outward coming in the flesh, and his inward coming, and spiritual appearance in our hearts, through faith in him, and love and obedience to him, in order to our eternal salvation, declared and demonstrated by testimonies of Holy Scripture : and the divine excellency of the light within, in distinction from humane reason, asserted and vindicated : and the question concerning its sufficiency to salvation, truly stated and resolved : where also many other Gospel doctrins, and practical Christian truths and duties are held forth / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1698 (1698)	Wing K150; ESTC R19823	60,929	128

Objection is oft made by some against the necessity of Faith in Christ as he suffered in the Flesh that Paul said He knew Christ no more after the Flesh how is this Objection to be answered 2 Cor. 5. 16. A. The words after the Flesh do not refer to Christ's Flesh as if Paul had renounced and quite buried in oblivion all Knowledge Faith and Remembrance of Christ's Death and Sufferings in the Flesh and Resurrection the contrary of which is evident from many places throughout his Epistles and particularly from his words a little before in that same Chapter v. 14 15. but his carnal knowledge of Christ such as he had when a Pharisee which was but a knowledge of Christ after the Flesh he did justly reject Q But have not some felt an inward spiritual Fire and had experience of the good Effects of it who are so far from having had Faith in Christ as he outwardly suffered Death in the Flesh that they are prejudiced against it and have openly before many Witnesses opposed it as unnecessary and unprofitable yea hurtful as drawing from the Gift of God within A. As the Law at Mount Sinai Exod. 19 1. 16. 12. 2. 6. was given in Fire on the 50th day after the Children of Israel came out of Egypt so the Holy Ghost was given in Fire on the 50th day from Christ's Resurrection Acts 2. 1. 2. 3. And as these two outward Fires differed so there are two inward Ministrations of Fire as it were two Fires the first Legal the second Evangelical and whatever good Effects the Legal Fire produceth it maketh none the Children of the New Covenant or bringeth to that Perfection and Purification and true and real Sanctification that the Gospel ministration bringeth unto the Effects of the last and first as much differing as Gold and Silver differs from Brass and Iron Q. What is the Everlasting Life A. It is the full enjoyment of God and Christ together with the holy Spirit by Vision Love and Delight together with the complete Glorification of the Souls and Bodies of all the Faithful eternally and without all end in the Kingdom of Heaven and where they shall enjoy the blessed Society of all the holy Angels and glorified Saints Matth. 5. 8. 1 Cor. 13. 12. 1 Joh. 3. 2. Rev. 22. 4. Philip 3. 21. Luke 20. 36. Heb. 12. 22. Q. Is there an Earnest or first Fruits of Eternal Life that the Faithful do enjoy here on Earth in the mortal Body A. Yea John 6. 47. 58. Rom. 8. 23. 2 Cor. 1. 22. 5. 5. Eph. 1. 14. Q. What is that Faith in Christ Jesus whereby the Faithful eat his Flesh and drink his Blood that they may have Eternal Life A. It is not only the assent of the understanding to the truth of Christ as he came in the Flesh and gave his Body of Flesh to be broken and his Blood to be sued for us but is a most chearful ready and free consent of the Heart and Will whereby every true Believer with great desire receiveth accepteth and relyeth upon Christ trusteth and consideth in him and in God the Father through him for remission of Sin Justification and Eternal Life and Salvation and all the Spiritual blessings promised in the Gospel and by which free act of the Will the Faithful chuse God to be their God and Father and Christ to be their Redeemer and Saviour Head and Husband King and Lord as well as Priest and Propitiation for Sin The Believer having thus acted Faith on him is as truly refreshed comforted strengthened fed and satisfied with him as a hungry Man is with Meat therefore by a Metaphor believing in Christ is called an eating of him both which assent of the Understanding and consent and choice of the Heart and Will is wrought in the Soul by the Spirit of Christ by means of the Word and Doctrin delivered in the holy Scriptures and by the like Metaphor it is called a looking to him a coming to him a resting and abiding in him a being joyned to him as the Members are joyned to the Head a being grafted in him Rom. 11. 17. Joh. 15. 4. and built upon him as on a sure Foundation also a being married to him by which Faith as they abide and dwell in him so he abideth and dwelleth in them Heb. 12. 2. Isa 45. 21. 22. Matth. 11. 28. Isa 11. 10. John 15. 7. Eph. 2. 6. 3. 17. 1 Cor. 6. 17. Eph. 2. 20. Rom. 7. 4. Yea not only his Spirit and Life dwelleth in them but he himself the Man Christ Jesus who dyed and rose again by Faith dwelleth in them not by his bodily Presence but by their having him in their constant thoughts and remembrance and in their love and affections as the loving Wife hath her loving Husband in her thoughts and affections when he is bodily absent and as Paul said to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 7. 3. You are in our hearts to dye and to live with you Q. But it is objected by some that they find a difficulty if not an impossibility in it to believe in the Man Christ without them whom they have never at any time heard or seen they cannot frame a conception of him in the mind as the Wife can of the Husband whom she hath both heard and seen and immediately conversed with A. The account that the holy Scriptures give us of him and of his most holy Life and Virtues and wonderful Excellencies doth better help us to frame a Conception of him in our minds as the holy Spirit that we receive from him gives life to that Conception by his powerful Operation in us than if we had only seen him and heard him outwardly as the true and accurate description of a Man's Life and Virtues gives us a better account of him than the bodily sight and hearing of him therefore it was that our Lord said to Thomas Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed Joh. 20. 29. There is no Man who hath receiv'd some extraordinary favour from a Person that he hath not seen but by the favour which he hath receiv'd from him he will be helped to frame a very lovely Conception of him in his Heart and Soul And the faithful who had not seen Christ with their bodily Eyes more than we to whom Peter writ unto did both believe in Christ and love him whom they had not seen and rejoyced in him with great joy even joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 6. With what dearness of love and affection do we love the Saints whose holy Lives and Virtues are so lively set forth to us in the Scriptures and the holy Martyrs in Church History though we believe not in them But we could not love them unless we had some true Conception or Idea of them for love doth as much require a lively Conception of the Object beloved as Faith requireth a lively Conception of the Object believed Therefore if