Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	apostle_n	faith_n	good_a	2,900	5	3.9902	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73593	An abstract of the doctrine of the sabbaoth Briefly, yet fully and plainely set forth; together with the vses of the same doctrine; with the vsuall obiections and answers therevnto. All which for the helpe of memorie, are drawne into sundry chapters.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1606 (1606)	STC 4165a.5; ESTC S124659	39,562	132

An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbaoth Briefly yet fully and plainely set forth Together with the vses of the same Doctrine with the vsuall Obiections and Answers therevnto All which for the helpe of Memorie are drawne into sundry chapters AT LONDON Printed by V. S. for Nicholas Ling. 1606. To the right Worshipfull and religious Knight Sir Francis Knolys one of the Lievtenants and Iustices for the Peace in Barkeshire and to the vertuous Lady his wife W. B. wisheth increase of Gods favour in this life and full fruition of the same in the life to come RIght Worshipfull having had so long experience of both your sincere affections to true religion and your religious dispositions to the exercises of Gods worship both publikely in the holy assemblies and privately in your family I knew not to whose Patronage I might better commit this short Treatise of the right observation of the Lords Sabbaoth than vnto you both It is for matter substantiall and sound for memory short and methodicall for vnderstanding perspicuous and plaine for vse most necessary and profitable and in all like vnto the meate that Iacob provided for his father Isaac which was so savory that his father both loved it after a more speciall manner than he did other meates and also blessed him that brought it vnto him So will this doctrine of the Sabbaoth be vnto the religious taste of your inward man so savory yea so savoring of the spirit of God that I am assured your soules will delight in it and blesse God for them that have prepared it for you As for my part I have but gleaned in the fieldes of other godly and learned men who have more copiously laboured in this argument neither is this my Abstract any other than the fragments of their sumptuous feasts yet through the blessing of God it may proove like the remainder of the five Loaves and two Fishes in the Gospel which being reserved at Christs appointment to the glorie of God filled twelve baskets full that is were aboundantly blessed to a greater quantitie than the former And as for your parts without flattery be it spoken seeing God hath given you both the hearts to honour him by a more carefull and constant observation of his Sabbaoths than many other yea than any other I might say of any note amongst vs I see no reason but notice should be taken thereof that as God by you is glorified and his Church by your good examples edified so others also hearing of the same may by your examples be stirred vp to the like zeale and to give you that commendation that is due to those that love the truth For him that honoureth me saith God I will honour And sith God hath awarded you Honour for honouring him by walking in the religious steppes of your honourable father How can I deny it you or others envie you for it And as the blessed Apostle tells Philemon so I may not vnfitly vsurping his words say vnto you That both thanks and prayers are and shall be rendred vnto God for you by many which heare of your love and faith which you have towards the Lord Iesus and towards all his Saints that so the fellowship of your faith may be made fruitfull and that whatsoever good thing is in you through Christ Iesus may be knowne for we yea all we in this populous Towne of Reading and the Country about which vnfainedly feare the Lord and desire in truth of heart to make streight steppes to godlinesse and to profit in his waies have great ioy and consolation in your love to the Gospel of Christ because by you also the Saints hearts are not alittle comforted It is pittifull to see in divers places how many which are advanced by the bountifull providence of God vnto places of dignitie and honour in the Common-wealth of our English Israel doe beare themselves in hand that having beene at the House of God to heare common Prayer or a Sermon are for this their eare-service and lip-labour notable Sanctifiers of the Sabbaoth And whereas they ought to sanctifie it also at home by conference with their families prayer and meditation singing of psalmes and other holy duties both of pietie and charitie yea and to carry themselves in all grave and sober manner as having authoritie in their hands to terrifie vanitie and profanenesse and not to countenance them do suffer themselves to be made companions to all vaine men a thing which holy David detested * Psal 15. Psal 26. Psal 101. and like Esopa blocke to lie drenched in the love of vaine sports and smoakie recreations vexations indeede to a sanctified heart with the losse of pretious Time and checke of their owne conscience Whereby it oftentimes commeth to passe that their base desire of winning other mens mony is recompenced with the losse of their owne substance to verifie Gods Proverb by Solomon Pro. 21.17 He that loveth pastime shall surely be a poore man their hearing of Sermons is also accursed their soules grow barren in holy knowledge and heavenly wisedome and when time serveth they have not so much as one arrow in their quiver to shoote at a treacherous Papist or a wicked Atheist or any other hereticall depraver of the Truth which are too rife in every corner with popish perswasions and divelish sophistications watching where men are weake or faint-hearted to resist there to breake in and make spoile of all or if they have a peece of any argument in store to give an assault withall or can make some answer to repell the ill-affected in religion yet through their want of practise or through their inexpertnesse in the word of Truth either they have no heart to incounter with them or else they want strength to continue the conflict or for want of holie wisedome they vtterly shame themselves and the Lords cause in the handling But you right Worshipfull have not so learned Iesus Christ And if I have found favour in your eyes as I am sure in times past with thanks I acknowledge that both I and my poore ministry have let me be bold in the Lord to exhort you still to continue constant in your holy courses for the honouring of God in the sanctification of his Sabbaoths and by your godly examples and zealous perswasions to be a meanes to stirre vp others that lie securely asleepe in the opinion they have of an outward formality in religion and to draw on others amongst vs that be Masters in Israel yet too backward in these holy duties and are in danger of losing their first love to holy religion if ever they had any whereby the fame of our Towne beginneth to be at a low ebbe in comparison of that it hath beene yea we begin to be like the Church of Sardi that had a name of living to God but indeede was dead Revel 3. ● many keeping the Sabbaoth to the halves in the fore noone at the Temple in the