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	life_n	love_v	3,278	5	5.8521	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57526	A true believer's testimony of the work of true faith; who hath believed in Christ Jesus the true light, who enlighteneth every one that cometh into the world, that all men through him might believe. Wherein are many excellent things held forth, which through faith in the light are seen, learned, and certainly believed, &c. and are profitable for all to reade. With a visitation to the called of God every-where. By a servant of the Lord, Geo. Rofe	Rofe, George, d. 1664.	1661 (1661)	Wing R1790; ESTC R222733	39,311	98

Presence may go along with them and his Arm may defend them and his Glory follow after them to be their Re-reward And the Spirits and Life of all the Children of the Promise the Heirs of Eternal Salvation He upholds who give themselves up unto Him and to the Appearing of his Glory and the Light of His glorious Gospel which shines in their hearts that they may be unto Him as the Tower of Sion and the Bulwarks of Jerusalem in them hath the Star arisen which hath shined from the North and is broken forth in the Darkness of the Night and is shining towards the South it rises in the East it looks towards the West and there is no place for its going down The Lord hath Multitudes of People He gathers them as the Bands of the Earth He suffers the Nations to afflict them for a season He chastizeth with the Rods of Men that He may prove them all for His Glory And yet a little while and the Rage of the Heathen shall sink He correcteth his People for their Good and chastizeth them for their Peace-sake that He may build up his Nation which He hath visited and establish his Seed which he hath gathered and multiply his People Thy Throne O God endures for ever and the Scepter of thy Righteousness who lettest not Sufferings and Tryals to come upon the Seed which thou hath chosen and the People which thou hast visited to destroy them but to establish them that when thou hast tryed them as Gold they may be established and fitted for thy use that they may be humbled and all fear before thee and wait upon thee that thou mayest renew us all from day to day and night after night in thy Life to do thy Service to fit all thine to Glory and Praise and Honour immortal for thy great Name thou art spreading over all the Earth By Faith it was given me to see wherein the Worship of the true God consisteth and how He must be worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth which the Father seeks such to worship him as worship Him in the Spirit as worship Him in the Truth and in the true Light which enlighteneth every one in which none can see the VVorship but who come into the Faith and into the Humility and into the Fear and into the Waiting and into the Zeal for God which bows the heart before God and the heart being bowed then the Consideration is come into and the Inquirings into the Knowledge of Life and the sinking down to feel the Spirit which brings the Truth into Remembrance and also brings to be still and quiet and wait in stilness and quietness and silence then God is seen and felt and his Life which gives the Creature to feel after God who comes to be felt in his Life which enlighteneth the Creature and gives the Creature liveliness to wait for the renewing the strength and God reveals his Word his Power and his Requirings in the Creature which works in the heart and in the reins and runs through the mortal body and is weighty in operation to give Power and Dominion to the Creature to the end that it may have full power and strength to resist the Assaults of the Devil and to have its mind staid in stilness and quietness and silence and waiting for the Love and Vertue and Mercies of God which being felt then the Lord is admired and bowed unto this is VVorship to bow before the God of Heaven that all that 's in Man may be bowed down and submitted under the Life and Power then he worships he boweth down to the higher Power his soul abhors all defilements his thoughts are staid on God his heart is kept tender and open and he is refreshed in the Enjoyment of the Life and of the feeling of the Presence of the Lord and of his Power by which the Creature comes to admire the infinite Love and Mercies of God and the Riches of his Grace that after so long living in disobedience the Lord should reveal his Power and make known the Riches of his Grace to such a Creature that hath been as altogether unworthy but the Lord hath done it for his Seeds sake in Man which never consented to or took pleasure in sinning but hungred and thirsted after God and breathed after God and moved in the Creature towards the Lord even while the Creature was yet subject to vanity and for the Seeds sake the Lord is merciful full of compassion long-suffering and slow to Anger and blessed are all they that turn unto Him in the obedience of His Seed and in the Faith of His Son they shall see his Mercies know his Presence feel his Life Power and Spirit which bows and brings to worship God By Faith it 's seen that none are more sensible of the feeling of the Presence of the Lord than when they are still and quiet and wait in silence and stilness even when met together and when alone for by Faith many are come to see that the Lord is very near and that they feel his Presence when they wait upon Him and his Life breaks forth in his tender Love to the great refreshing of the soul and quickning of the Creature this takes away weariness and leanness from the soul and removes the multitude of vain Thoughts which have lodged in Man so that though they may often appear yet they become stilled as though they were not for when any thing appears contrary to the Will of God the Light is near and ready to administer Judgment upon it and to give the Creature to apply its mind to Judgment through which God redeems out of the Incumbrances and reveals his Noble Spirit of Life which stills the Thoughts and the Desires and Affections which would raise Lust and War in the flesh so that Man comes to wait out of himself and out of his own thoughts and imaginations in the Life the Promise it self where it feels the Riches of the Love and of the Mercies and of the Grace and of the Power which brings into the Glory and into the unspeakable Life and Love where the mortal body becomes filled with Immortality and Life which swallows up mortality in Victory and Conquest and Dominion and the delight of all mortal fading things and this hath made me bold and confident in the Lord of my Life to give up my whole strength for the witnessing forth the Truth through Faith which by Faith is received of God even through the Nations by Sea and by Land as the Lord requires which I account Eternal Salvation though for it I suffer many things but all is good and for good By Faith it 's seen how exceeding good it is to wait upon the Lord and to be still and silent before Him and in all things to eye Him and fear Him then the Incumbrances come to be taken away and the Darkness and Doubtings dissolved and Courage and Boldness for God received which

gives to fulfil his Will and to receive his Peace and to get Conquest over all the Enemies of the Soul in every partiticular and this gives Peace in all the World and satisfieth concerning outward things and enjoyments and gives to see the end of them all and that the losse of Estates Friends Relations and the destroying the outward body all is as nothing and but a parting with that which must be parted with be it sooner or later the Will of the Lord be done for we praise God we have found Christ and all things else is but as dung and drosse and must be parted withal By Faith in the Light man comes to see Him that is invisible and to the end of all visible things and delights and to be made willing to let all the Honours Preferments and Riches of the World and the Great Name and Reputation to passe away as that in which Life is not to be found and to be satisfied if he loses any thing for the Lord's sake and the Gospels sake he shall receive his Reward By Faith it comes to be seen that every one having Food and Rayment they are therewith to be content and that the labour of all in the works of the Creation is to be for the Glory of God and for the Praise of God and the Honour of God and every ones Labour is to be for the Lord and not to incumber themselves with taking care to lay up in store for Generations to come and for a Son or a Daughter which its not known whether they may glorifie God therewith or no so that every one in his present Generation is to preach Righteousness in all things that in all his works he may preach for God Noah a Preacher of Righteousness obtained mercy with the Lord in his Generation who obeyed God even God that hath created Heaven and Earth and all that lives therein who watereth the Earth with the dew of Heaven and causeth it to fall upon the tender Grass so that it buddeth and to mollifie the Clods of the Earth that the Seed yeeldeth encrease Seed for the Sower and Bread for the Eater who satisfieth every living thing that hath life and breath both in Heaven and in Earth and in the Waters under the Earth so that upon Him the care of every creature is to be set and the expectation of every Creature is to wait upon Him who is the Provider for all Generations from Generation to Generation unto a Thousand Generations that his Works might be seen unto all and the Wonders of his Mercies throughout all Generations to the setting forth of his Praise unto all Generations that the works of his Hands might all praise Him and He might be extolled by all his Creatures But certainly Generations have abused themselves and dishonoured the Lord Almighty and the Enemy of Mankind hath had his strong-holds in bewitching thousands and ten thousands to set their hearts on earthly things and earthly delights more than God so that they have forgotten God their Saviour rebelled against the Rock of the whole World who hath founded the Sea and the dry Land in Himself and every Creature in his Power who reserves the Wicked in his Wrath and places them in His Displeasure unto perpetual Generations And indeed this is the ground of the snares of all the world the Enemy having bewitched the minds of People to delight themselves in earthly things they have forgotten God their Saviour and defiled themselves with themselves and with the rest of the Creatures having their thoughts tempted to the creatures they give themselves up to be earthly and carnally minded and to have the burnings of the lusts to run into the greatness and height of glorying in the Creatures and this is that which separates the families of the Earth from God and which causes the enmity and the warrings and envyings and discord in all the World against which the Law it self was given for in that Nature which delights as before stands the sum of the Transgression of the Law from which a man must be born and redeemed before he can love the Lord with all his heart and mind and soul and serve Him with all his strength and to love his Neighbour as himself and to do unto every one as he would be done unto which fulfills all the Law but the Earth is the Snare and the parting with it the fear of many and the keeping many from the Covenant though man in giving all things up to the Will of the Lord and himself too gives but the Lord 's Own to Him which the Lord requires that in all things He may be served and honoured and who gives not up freely the fear with which they feared the Lord will bring upon them and the thing which they put far off He will bring near and make them suffer in Therefore ye Families of the Earth if you will come to the Covenant of God give up to the Lord in all things whose right it is and shake your selves come out of the love of the World and the delights of those things in which thousands have perished that Satan may not tempt you for when you are tempted and overcome and defiled you have first let your thoughts out to take pleasure or liking and to love that or those things at which the Temptation pointeth else you could never be so easily overcome as to make Sin the greatest pleasure in the World for if you believed in the Light and walked in the Light in the Fear of God and in Humility you would see the Thoughts and judge them and not suffer the Eye of the Mind to look on that at which the Temptation pointeth to take delight in that and to love that and to advantage thy self in that and then the Tempter should not overcome thee neither wouldst thou like the Glory of the World though tempted to it This is the great Temptation which blessed is he that overcometh and getteth the Victory through the Faith by which Faith Abraham forsook his Father's house and native Country and wandred a Pilgrim and a stranger in a strange Land seeking a habitation which was not an Earthly Tabernacle but Eternal in the Heavens whose Builder and Maker was God By which Faith Moses chose to suffer Affliction with the People of God rather than to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a season and would not dwell in the King's Court nor be called the Son of Pharoah's Daughter By which Faith the Saints chose to wander in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins and in Dens Caves of the Earth suffering the spoyling of their Goods with joy giving up their Bodies to suffer all manner of Tortur●s these overcame the great Temptation and loved not their Lives unto Death Of whom the world was not worthy who through then faith suffered all things not accepting of deliverance By which Faith many in this Age give themselves up in the like Sufferings having the Evidence of a