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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90402	A voyce out of the thick darkness: containing in it a few words to Christians, about the late and present posture of spiritual affairs among them. Together with a post-script about darkening the counsel of God. As also, certain Scripture-prophecies concerning some transactions in the latter times. / By Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1217; Thomason E597_7; ESTC R203131	40,524	63

to live together erects a bed prepares a table for them feeds cherishes them as the man doth the wife the father the child stands in their defence against all opposition Sin within enemies without nothing must speak a word against them if they do he takes it as spoken against himself He that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye And so 't is with them The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me This is the proper state between them But now behold hearken and you shall hear them complaining and that to God himself O God thou hast cast us off Thou hast thrust us out of thy presence Thou hast withheld thy sweetness from us We are not now one but severed and at a great distance one from another We never meet at the same bed at the same board in the same house no not in the same Kingdom but thou thy self art gone into a far Country and hast left us here in a strange Land O God our happiness lies in thine embraces in union and communion with thee We desire nothing but to be near God to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our lives to see in the bosom of the Lord all the motions of our spirits But O God thou hast cast us off thou hast given us a bill of divorce and sent us packing We can hear no news of thee no news from thee Lie we in never so great depths of misery and pangs of spirit thou regardest not We are as a woman forsaken bearing up and down the reproach of our widowhood continually O GOD thou hast cast us off Thou hast scattered or broken us There should be a publique communion among the people of God They should have fellowship one with another as well as with God They that are so near in one spirit should not be such strangers here in the flesh And there should be also a meeting and current of life in every ones particular spirit Faith Love Hope Joy Peace c. should meet in the inner man and go forth from the inner man into their several ways of spiritual motion Thus it is when things are right But now Thou hast broken us Thou hast scattered us up and down one from another How are the people of God rent in spirit one from another So scattered that they can have no true spiritual communion together And how broken and shattered in their own spirits their life broken their light broken their joy broken their peace broken their hope broken their faith broken yea every thing so broken that there is nothing left whole within neither Surely some feel this Thou hast been displeased All Relations are knit up of Love The relation between King and People father and child husband and wife are knit by several ways of affections one to another wherein their hearts stand towards one another according to the tye and bond of the Relation Now in several cases their hearts turn one from another They do not only act harshly one towards another as it often falls out but in some cases their hearts turn one from another And this points at somewhat in God who hath so ordered things that though the original tye between him and his Spouse be ever the same yet there are certain cases yea he himself often casts her into such a posture wherein his heart turns from her He can at the same time wonderfully love her and yet loath her in her present condition Though he loves her in her person yet he loaths her in her state of weakness and vanity And though the strength of his love to her person causeth him at sometimes to turn towards her and entertain fellowship with her yet the vileness of her present state soon turns his stomack and causes him to withdraw again And so the husband likewise is at present in such an unlovely state so dark so hidden and in that respect so unlovely his excellencies so clouded and he thereby appearing so unlike himself that the Spirit of the Spouse too turns from her Husband and she doth not like such a God as he now appears to be Now of all things this is most irksom to each When they perceive the heart of either turning from the other God regards not all the sins of his people Let him but find their love flow forth fully towards him their hearts stand entirely and only to him-wards he has enough Nor do the people of God much grumble at the afflictions and miseries that befall them from God they know they have need of these things But when they suspect that they take offence at one another that their hearts begin to withdraw then they stir up one anothers jealousie God complains much of his peoples thus provoking him to jealousie and likewise speaks of his provoking them to jealousie in the same manner And this is that that lies sore here at the Spouses heart Thou hast been displeased Sure thou hast taken some offence at us or thou wouldst never have dealt thus with us O turn thy self to us again Now the Spouse speaks to God as he doth at another time to her Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet turn again to me saith the Lord Thou hast cast us off and scattered us and hast been displeased O turn thy self to us again saith the Spouse that will help all all the rest will quickly be forgot The Church feels her sickness and knows what will heal her Her wound her misery came by Gods turning from her by his turning his back upon her and she knows nothing will heal her but his turning again to her and that she calls to him for She doth not pray to have her wounds healed or to have comforts or enjoyments from him but she prays for that which will do all O turn thy self to us again All our content lay in thee All our trouble arises from thy absence from thy turning away and departing from us O turn to us again She prays for healing for the world in the next Verse Heal the breaches of it that will serve their turn but no healing but the presence of thy self will serve our turn If thou intendest any pity any relief to us there is no way but this to bring it home to our hearts Turn thy self to us again There is nothing can throughly wound a Soul truly acquainted with God but his withdrawing from it Nor is there any thing can heal that wound but his return again This is all the request such a Soul knows how to put up from the bottom of his spirit O turn thy self to us again Vers 2. Thou hast made the earth to tremble thou hast broken it heal the breaches thereof for it shaketh At the same time when God rouls up the Heavens like a Scrole he kindles a fire in the bowels of the earth When he causeth the spiritual Beauty Glory Rest and Peace of his own dear people to pass away