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	soul_n	2,540	5	4.5795	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76382	Vsura accommodata, or A ready vvay to rectifie usury, in a briefe declaration hovv that evill which is so often found and justly complained to be sometimes in lending for gaine, may find a safe and certaine remedy. / By I. Benbrigge· philopolitēs. Published according to order.	Benbrigge, John.	1646 (1646)	Wing B1867; Thomason E353_22; ESTC R201088	32,929	40

its wickednesse The third and last followes For 3. Finally such kinde of close dealing of worldly selfe-wisedome cannot stand with that sobriety we should have in and towards our selves 1 Thess 5.6 7 8. Rom. 12.3 Luke 21.34 We should live soberly in this present world Now christian sobriety is a virtue moderating not onely our desires of meate and drinke but also all esteeme of our selves and our cares for these outward things It restraines the Lust of the eye as well as the Lust of the flesh and the Pride of life But I appeale to every conscience of these greedy Hungarians if they have any whether their wilfull and obstina●e denying of their wealth doe not come from their covetous affection thereto and inordinate love thereof I dare avow it doth and that in so doing their soules appeare to be drunken and overcharged with the cares of this life 1 Tim. 6.9 10. Hence it is that they erre from the Faith and fall into such Temptations and snares as will pierce them through with sorrowes which are to be prevented onely by a Godly sorrow never to be repented of and to bring them thereunto Let them in time consider what they have done in a serious review of the sad premisses which will convince them that in this one act they have committed many sins the least of which they can never excuse so well but it will overthrow them at the Barre of Gods Judiciall Tribunall In the meane time they must admit of this for truth That they love not themselves nor their Neighbour no not their God and therefore are not the same they would seeme to be True Christians But to make our flight somewhat lower Civill Policy also doth require men to be know their estates Christianity is our upper sphere wherein whilest we move Phil. 3.20 Gen. 5.22 we have our conversation in heaven and walke with God The lower Sphere subordinate thereto is civill Policy wherein whilest we rightly move we live with Gods Vicegerents as good Subjects and sound members of the Body Politick which cannot subsist without the influence thereof Wherefore as I have endeavoured to make men shew themselves good Christians so now my aime is to perswade them to be good Common-wealths men in this particular And so to doe I will briefly make i● good to them that The Publication of mens estates hath been practised commanded and commended by such who have diligently sought the Prosperity of those Cities and Kingdomes they lived in 1. For the Practise of it The Custome and Practise of the greatest Empire of the Romans may suffice to prove the revealing of mens estates absolutely necessary to make a Kingdome become great and flourishing For the very first steppe unto the superlative degree Rome climbed up unto was no other then the exact view and perfect valuation of the estate of every Roman from the highest to the lowest as is cleare by these ensuing Authorities Decad. 1. lib. 1. T. Livius saith After Servius Tullius the sixt King of the Romans had vanquished the Hetrurians he returned to Rome and then went about an exceeding great worke or meanes of Peace Vide Penart in 2 Sam 24. That as Numa was Author of the excellent Lawes so after ages did report Servius the Founder of all distinction in the City and Orders wherein appeared any degree of dignity or fortune For he ordained the Valuation of every mans Goods A thing most profitable to an Empire that should become so great Thereby all Officers of Warre and Peace came not to be done man by man as before but according to the quality or rather the quantity of their estates Then did he distribute them into Companies and Bands And this Order comely both in peace and warre he did prescribe according to their valuation Of those that had the greatest estates he made eighty Centuries forty of the elder and forty of the younger To the Seniors of whom the Senate hath its name he committed the Custody of the City c. Rom. Antiq. lib. 4. Dyonysius Halicarn relates that besides the many other things Servius Tullius did constitute he commanded all the Romans to give in their Names and to prize their Goods by the value of mony and to adde a lawfull Oath whereby they should sweare that all their Goods were truely valued to their full worth and withall to set downe the Names of their Parents their age their wives and childrens names the Name of their City or Village of the Countrey where they dwelt being also added And he did inflict this punishment on him who was not valued or prized He should be despoiled of all his goods whipped and sold for a slave This Law endured a long time amongst the Romans but when the Valuation was finished and the Bookes wherein the Names of all Persons were written being received whereby both their number and the greatnesse of their Fortunes was knowne he did introduce the wisest Ordinance that ever was and the most profitable to the Romane State as experience hath taught This was the good Order he instituted he tooke out of the whole number one part whose estates were greatest c. This Act was afterwards imitated by T. Largius the First Dictator Dion Halicarn lib. 5. for according to Servius Tullius his most excellent Ordinance he commanded all the Romans according to their Tribes to confesse openly the value of their estates adding thereto the Names of their wives and children with their owne and their childrens ages And in a little time all were valued because of the greatnesse of the Punishment for they who obeyed not were to loose their Goods and be turned out of the City c. Againe when M. Geganius Macerinus Idem lib. 11. ad sine● and T. Quintius Capitolinus were Consuls they informed the Senate that whereas many things had been neglected by reason of the continuall expeditions of the Consuls amongst them That Ordinance which of all other was most necessary viz. The Valuation of Estates whereby was knowne both the number of them who were of a military age and the greatnesse of their fortunes by the quantity whereof every one should contribute to the necessity of Warlike occasions there having been no Valuation in 17 yeares c. Moreover we read in sacred Writ Luke 2.1 2. that there came a Commandement from Caesar Augustus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vt describeratur totus Orbis That the Habitable world under the Command of the Romane Emperour should be described as Beza renders it Erasmus Vt censeretur and so Vatablus whom our English Translators se●● to follow by saying That all the world should be taxed If any object The Emperour sinned in this his Command as David did in numbring of his People alledging the Authority of Stella who indeed aggravates this Act of the Romane In locum as a greater sinne then that of the Israelite The truth is Some learned men doe doubt whether