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
A79883	Ministers dues and peoples duty; or A bill of accounts between ministers and people: shewing vvhat people owe unto their ministers; which may also serve to mind ministers, what they are to expect from their people. By Sam. Clark M.A. sometimes fellow of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridg, and now minister of Grendon Under-wood in Buckinghamshire.	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1661 (1661)	Wing C4494; Thomason E1057_4; ESTC R204352	37,580	60

Cultum exhibens non ut Petro Cornelius aut Johannes Angelo Divinum 1 King 18.1 nec merè tamen ut fratres Josepho civilem sed spiritualem quendam atque eo nomine quod esset Propheta qualis erit Angelis sicubi spectantur tribuendus saith the Author of the Anonymous Annot. printed Cantabr 1653. 2 Sam. 28.14 Even King Saul also stooped with his face to the ground and bowed himself before him whom he conceived to be Samuel And Alexander the Great Joseph Antiq. l. 11. c. 8. when he saw Jaddua the High Priest alighted from his horse and humbled himself with much reverence unto him and Constantine when he entred into the Synod of Nice bowed himself very low unto the Bishops there assembled and sate not down untill they desired him And well may it be thus that people should so highly Esteem Honour and Reverence their Ministers since Their Calling is the most honourable in the world for Mal. 2.7 2 Cor. 5.20 they are Messengers or Angels of the Lord of Hosts and Embassadors of God Now a speciall Messenger is a Messenger sent after an honourable manner from some great personage to represent his own person and therefore the dignity of an Embassadors place is greater or less according to the excellency of his Master that sends him They then being Embassadors of God who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords sent in his own a 2 Cor. 5.20 stead their Calling must needs be honourable in a spirituall way as I said before Hence also they are called Angels Elders Rulers Overseers Fathers Lights all which call for and bespeak esteem honour and respect Yea even many who seem in their words most to vilifie and undervalue the Ministry yet by their actions discover a high esteem of it in that they invade it with so much eagerness and earnestness For who goes a wooing to a poor forlorn maid or widdow that hath nothing of worth in her This then being their due as you have seen Render to them their due honour to whom honour belongs Rom. 13.7 2. A second due is Singular Love and Affection Singular Affection Magis ac magis charos ducatis Beza Gal. 4.15 Rom. 16.4 Esteem them very highly in love Or Count them more than exceedingly dear They must have a specialty in their peoples affection Thus the Galatians loved Paul so entirely that they would have pul'd out their own eyes to have done him good So did Aquila and Priscilla when for his life they laid down their own necks resolved to stick close to him whatever it cost them And good Obadiah came not behind any of them in love when not without adventure of his life he hid the Lords Prophets in caves 1 King 18.4 from the rage of Jezabel Alexander the Great was wont to say that he was more beholding to his Master Aristotle then to his Father Philip for that he had his being only from the one and his well-being from the other And surely if we owe love to our naturall parents as authors of our temporall life how much more is due to our spirituall parents who have begotten us by the immortall seed of the word unto a blessed and eternall life And truly 't is but equall that people should thus intirely love their Ministers because their Ministers do most passionately affect them Witness that strange wish of Paul I could wish that my self were accursed or separate from Christ for my brethren Rom. 9.3 my kinsmen according to the flesh Where some lay the emphasis upon the word could q.d. if it were possible to be done Balls Power of godliness p. 8. and lawfull to be desired I could find in my heart to do it Others thus He doth not wish to be made the enemy of Christ but only not to enjoy the blessed vision of Christ not of an elect person to be made a reprobate but remaining a chosen vessel to be deprived of the glory of the elect that his brethren might be saved however it was a high and admirable strain of heroicall love So 1 Thes 2.8 Being c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an emphaticall word not used elsewhere in the New Testament signifying to be in a manner overborn with earnest desire affectionately desirous of you we were willing to have imparted to you not the Gospell of God only but our own souls also because ye were dear unto us True the Galatians would have parted with their eyes for Paul ay but he would part with his soul i. e. his life either by pains in preaching or by persecution for the Thessalonians here See also 2 Cor. 2.4 and 12.15 1 Thes 3. per totum Phil. 1.7 8. and 2.20 And this also is the temper of every faithfull Minister in some measure as appears by their readiness to spend and be spent in the service of their peoples faith Now then if there be but the least spark of good nature in you this cannot but ingage you in the strongest bonds of love to them again Magnes amoris amor And therefore if you will not amorem impendere freely vouchsafe them your love yet are you bound amorem rependere to requite their love with love But yet withall observe that you must not love them meerly nor only upon this account because they love you nor yet for the excellency of their gifts courtesie liberality or the like but principally for their works fake because they teach you to know God a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys hom in 1 Thes 5.12 Et paulo post 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are the instruments of your conversion and regeneration open Heaven gates unto you make you partakers of a Kingdom inform you of your duty reprove you for stepping aside and admonish you of your miscarriages for this is part of their work ver 12. and for this works sake you must count them dear even for their admonition and reprehension as well as for their exhortation and consolation This is right love and indeed such a love as that they which can find it in their souls may take much comfort therein as being a very good sign of sincerity 3. Diligent Attendance Diligent Attendance upon them for Instruction whereby first people must seek unto their Ministers privately for satisfaction and resolution in any thing they are ignorant of or scrupulous about So they are directed to do Mal. 2.7 The Priests lips should keep knowledg and they the people should seek the Law at his mouth not only out of their own brains nor out of their books It 's no praise for them to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 self-taught as Austin reports of Anthony the Monk lest they have cause to complain with Jerom Having no other guid whom I might follow Nullum praevium sequens pessimum Magistrum memetipsum habeo I had the worst Master that could be viz. my self But they must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taught

first moved me to preach on this Subject so want of sufficient meanes thorowly to know their duty prevailed with me to print it Oportet eum qui instruit rudes animos talem esse qui pro ing●ni● auditorum possit se aptare Gratian. And as you see it is set out in a plain garb and familiar style as being calculated for the Meridian of Country-capacities which usually for the generality are not of any great latitude And therefore some of the particulars here published were omitted in the Preaching because in all probability they would have flown over the heads of most if not of all of my hearers and I desire to shoot just breast-high and to aim especially at the hearts or however never above the heads of my Auditors Again other passages may seem to some abominable truths which they are unwilling to hear and take notice of and yet they cannot tell how to gainsay but if truths they must not be alwayes thrown aside and disregarded they must neither be alwayes concealed by Ministers nor neglected by people and what more fitting season for the declaring of them then such an opportunity And lastly some things may be disputable which all do not agree in concerning which if any one shall vouchsafe nostras esse aliquid putare nugas and so far inhance the price of them as to render them considerable by a publick refutation yet I do not take my self bound to enter the lists with any one in their defence and to engage in such a quarrel for my design as hath been said was only to acquaint people with their much neglected duty wherein I have given them my judgement of what came in my way if any be otherwise minded in any of the particulars I shall not quarrel with them There are too many differences in the Church already de larâ caprinâ about these extra essential points which have made it very * Litigandi pruritus est Ecclesiae scabies Wotton scabbed I had rather stroke than scratch it be a peace-maker than a peace marrer My aim is to quicken those that are remiss to practise not to provoke the learned to contend And if this Discourse may be any way usefull to thee in this way give God the glory and pray for a further blessing upon his endeavours who is Thine in the Lord S. C. 1 Thessal 5.12 And we beseech you Brethren 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you THe subject of these words though Introduction it may be not so toothsome and acceptable to some palates yet I am sure it is both wholsome and profitable yea and necessary too there being no way to Heaven but by Christ a Joh. 14.6 no way to Christ but by Faith b Joh. 1.12 no way to faith but by Hearing c Ro. 10.14 no way to hear but by a Preacher d Ro. 10.14 no likelihood of profiting by what he preaches without some esteem of and affection to both his doctrine and person e Mar. 6.4 5. and a competent performance of the other duties hereafter to be mentioned And therefore consulting rather how to profit then to please people I have made choice of these words to be handled at this time which I may call The peoples directory how to carry themselves toward their Ministers I gloss them thus Explication And or But. i. e. Though private charitative edification mentioned in the words immediately preceding the Text be to be endeavoured yet not to the prejudice and disadvantage of publike and authoritative Duties must not starv eat up or justle out one another No God will have mercy and sacrifice both in this sense we The Ministers and Messengers of Christ authorized by him to bind and loose See Dr Lightf Harm of N.T. Sect. 52. i. e. according to the common use of that phrase among Jewish writers to teach you what is lawfull what unlawfull what you ought to do and what to forbear And more particularly and especially I Paul who am guided by the unerring Spirit of God in what I now write to you and require of you beseech Though we might be much bold in Christ i. e. in his Name and by vertue of that authority he hath given us to enjoyn you that which is fitting and convenient and require your obedience thereto yet for loves sake to shew our affection and love to you and our gentleness and mildness towards you we beseech and entreat as if it were some great courtesie and kindness to our selves whenas it is your own greatest concernment you The private members of the Church of Thessalonica and in you all Christians of your rank and place to the end of the world Brethren Though 't is true you be our younger Brethren as I may so say for we are Elders and so ought to be guided by us yet because you are our brethren and children of the same Father and Mother therefore we deal thus gently lovingly and respectfully with you to know Which is not meant of a bare personall but of a practicall knowledge for verba sensus c. i. e. so to carry your selves as befits the relation you stand in them that labour among you i. e. your Ministers whose calling is a painfull laborious imployment how sleight soever some make of it for Solomon saith Much study or reading 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Luther renders predigon preaching is a weariness to the flesh ay and to the spirits too spending them more then any bodily exercise whatsoever as appears by those consumptions apoplexies and such like diseases which Ministers are more subject to then others and are over you in the Lord Whom God hath set to be your spirituall Parents to beget you unto God and Nurses to feed you with the sincere milk of the word and Guides to direct you in your way to Heaven and Physicians to counsell you for your souls good And therefore though you be never so high and much above them in other respects yet in these respects they are above you yea above the highest For as Ministers are no where in Scripture exempted from the secular power so nor * I grant that Cleries both may and ought to display their colours and ensignes of their censures against Princes who violate their publike and solemn Oath do raise make open warre against Jesus Christ King ●ames's defence of right of Kings against Card. Petron. p. 113. Edit in 4o. Magistrates from the Ecclesiasticall but if there be an a Rom. 13.1 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers omnis anima that reaches Ministers so there 's a b Joh. 20.23 Whosesoever sins ye remit c. cujuscunque that includes Magistrates and admonish you or instruct you Where you are faulty they must deal plainly and truly with you and reprove you for your miscarriages and teach you