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	love_v	nature_n	2,758	5	5.1983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51830	Two sermons both preached at Northampton, one at the assizes March 1693, the other at a visitation October the 10th, 1694 by John Mansell ...	Mansell, John, 1644 or 5-1730.	1695 (1695)	Wing M513; ESTC R32049	23,984	62

High Office do all shine at least with some borrowed Rayes of the Divinity And represent them as so many Gods to other Men. For whether we consider that Natural Capacity Ingenuity and Probity which ought to prepare the Soil for their Riper Vertues to grow in it being seldom seen that the best Education and greatest Erudition do ever sufficiently Correct and Cultivate those Depravations of Nature whereby some Persons have infamously distinguished themselves and after their Advancement to the Seat of Judicature have made their very Scarlet blush at the Extravagant and Outragious Deportment of those that wore it Or whether we consider the profound Knowledge and the vast Experience the Solid Judgment and the Wisdom like an Angel of God the Unwearied Industry and Uncorrupted Integrity the Generous Courage and the Invincible Patience the Heroick Justice and the Saint-like Mercy which are all required to the making up of one Accomplished Magistrate we must needs confess that there is much of God in the Great Man And if we examine wherein the Image of God in Man did at first consist we shall find that in a great part it appeared in the Moral perfections of his Nature in a near Resemblance of the Divine Wisdom Goodness Truth Purity Justice and Mercy and the like Moral Attributes which are the only imitable perfections in God he therefore that is most qualified with those Moral Excellencies has certainly most of God in him and the Divine Image is most beautifully revived in his Vertues So that Magistrates in the Just Wise Upright Discharge of their Duties are Gods best Representatives the Divine Wisddom shines through theirs and the Divine Justice Illustriously appears in all they do Thus by qualifying themselves with more Eminent Vertues than other Men they stand like so many Gods above them A Bold Hyperbole I confess was it not Licensed by the Holy Spirit it self But consideration 3 3. The Eminent Benefits that Good Magistrates Communicate to the rest of Mankind and their great usefulness in the World renders them as so many Gods in it Thus we know Idolatry arose whilst Men Deified their Publick Benefactors and those who had done any signal good to the rest of Mankind were rewarded with Temples and with Altars with Sacrifice and Adorations And thus God himself recommends himself to the Love of his Creatures by his Universal Goodness and Beneficence All his other Attributes may indeed ingage our Veneration and perhaps our Fear but it is only perfect Goodness that irresistibly Charms our Affection We may admire all that is Great but we love only what does us good The Nobler Nature may have a Right to our Wonder but it is only the more Useful that has a Right to our Kindness And therefore though the Civil Magistrates by their Mighty Power may strike an Awe into other Men though by their Excellent Accomplishments they may command their respects yet it is only their Mighty Usefulness that recommends them to their Love They are the Blessings which such Communicate to the World that make them dear as Publick Benefactors and beloved as Gods in it Thus whilst they secure every Mans Property and Protect every Mans Life whilst they are the Keepers of Gods Peace upon Earth and the Dispensers of his Common Justice amongst Men whilst they impartially determine all Disputes between Man and Man whilst they are Terrors unto evil doers and the Encouragers of those that do good And in fine whilst they are the Ministers of God for good to the World Rom. 13.4 In all this they much resemble the Divine Justice that gives to every one its due and the Divine Providence that upholds Peace and Order Right and Equity in the World And may well therefore be looked upon as so many Gods in it Since there would be no living in this World without them but it would soon turn into a meer Wilderness and Man himself run Wild and Savage in it And all the Foundations of the Earth be quickly out of course as our Authour expresses it when he charges those Mighty with their Male-Administration ver 5. But now in the midst of our Disorders the Presence of an Upright Magistrate is as the Appearance of a God his Awful Brow strikes the Guilty dumb his Well-known Justice raises up the Head of Oppressed Innocence and his Solemn Sentence like the Almighty Fiat turns Confusion into Peace and Harmony Thus whilst they become the Publick Ben factors of Mankind the Noble Pillars upon which all Humane Societies do rest the Glorious as well as Useful Preservers of Peace and Justice in the World they are indeed the fairest Images of God in it And so they may be called consideration 4 4. By reason of the Eminent Honours due to the Just Discharge of their High Office Render says that Apostle Honour to whom Honour is due Rom. 13.7 And it is of the Civil Magistrate that he is there speaking for to those he thought the greatest Honours due and therefore to those he commands them most especially to be rendered And there is all the Justice in the World in it that they who are clothed with so much of God's own Power should shine also with some part of his Glory that they who do so much of God's own Work should be dignified with some small Share of his Honour too Thus when Kings communicate part of their Sovereign Power to their Vice-Roys they communicate part of their Royal State to them also And therefore much of that outward Pomp and Ceremony which has been thought necessary to support the Majesty of Crowned Heads hath been proportionably allowed to Judges and Inferiour Magistrates Thence come their Maces their Sword-Bearers and their Robes of State the Bench and Bar set forth with so much Venerable Solemnity All to Command a Reverence to the Magistrates Persons and to render the great work of Justice as Glorious as it is useful And yet all this is but mean Pageantry if compared to the inward Veneration that every Wise and Good Man payes to those Living Images of the Divine Justice to those great Representatives of God governing the World for with what profound respect do we behold such a Person for whom a whole Nation fares the better And how do our very hearts bow before that Superiour Vertue to whose well imployed Authority we owe the quiet of our Possessions and the security of our Lives And whose Names do more Illustriously fill up the Records of History than those of Just and Good Princes of those Patres Patria who have made their Peoples happiness the Business and Glory of their Reigns and than those of Uncorrupt and Upright Judges Their Persons are at present regarded with the highest Honour and when they die their Memories shall be Embalmed in the precious Oyntment of that good Name which they secured by repeated Acts of Vertue in their Lives And for all these Reasons the Scripture does justly dignifie them with this Sacred Title in