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	hope_n	2,556	5	7.0461	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

away and comes to nothing like seed cast away vpon the rock where it cannot take root And in this point the irreligiousnes of Prentises doth farre exceed the negligence of masters For it is too apparant that many seruants would seldome or neuer come to Church at all if it were not more for displeasing their masters on earth then for displeasing their master in heauen For let masters vpon occasion bee from home a moneth or two and all that time if his seruants come to Church in the forenoone onely they thinke they are meetly well in the fashion but commonly you shal not see them there either forenoone or afternoone and their reason is their masters absence is the time of their liberty and they may not suffer such good daies to slip away without fruit If you aske them how they wil answere it to their masters at their comming home they will tell you they hope their masters knowledge goeth but by his eie If you aske thē how they will answer it to GOD that seeth and iudgeth the most secret workes they make a pish at that or giue you some grosse flout for recompence But let such know that pouertie and shame belongs vnto them for refusing instruction and they that thinke now the Lords day though it were a moneth long to flie away as one minut in their pleasures shall hereafter thinke one minute too lag and passe by as slowly as a whole yeare in their paines But here some may reply Will you not allow vs to recreate our selues at any time If you say yes then I pray what day haue we that be prentises to take our recreation in but the Sunday For all the weeke wee are kept so straight that we cannot so much as get out to speake with any friend And as for keeping our Church duely howsoeuer others be negligent yet it is well knowne in our parish that we neuer almost misse one Sunday in the yeare but wee are alwaies at Church with the first and neuer go into the fields or to any merrimēt vntil euening praier be done and then I hope the matter is not so hainous as you make it Surely if you were such diligent goers to Church as you say you are it could not be but you should heare at sometime or other that you ought not to prophane or mispend one houre of the Sabbath where you make it lawfull to spend halfe the afternoone in merriment and pleasure But it may be you are asleepe when you should heare that or else you take it to be but the word of a mortall man and the authority thereof to vanish with the speaking But a day will come when you shall know it was the eternall truth of the GOD of heauen which his ministers deliuered and when it will cut your heart to remember that you did heare such a Preacher in such a yeare in such a moneth in such a day and in such a Church denounce the fearefull iudgements of God against such a sin which you did vse and wherein for a little pleasures sake you did obstinately continue to your owne damnation To conclude hast thou beene a drunkard now learne sobriety hast thou been intemperate now embrace chastity hast thou beene malicious shew charity proud be humble Finally whatsoeuer vice thou hast addicted thy selfe to recline now to the contrary side That which thou doest do it with all thy power in the present time euen in this day of saluation For time being once past can neuer be recalled and to trust vpon time to come is as much as if we shold trust vpon a broken staffe the splinters whereof will run into our hand or vēture to passe so dangerous a gulse as damnatiō with a tottering planck delay I meane which hath tilted so many thousands into hell before vs. THE FOVRTH PART CHAP. 10. HAVING shewed the inestimable loue and mercy of GOD to repentant sinners that do truely forsake their former wickednesse I thinke it necessary in the last place as the Lord will enable mee to shew the good profit of afflictions to Gods children to the end they may not bee discomforted or shrinke backe at the sight of them Eccles 2.1 My sonne saith the Sonne of Syrach if thou come into the seruice of GOD stand fast in righteousnes and feare and prepare thy soule to tentation and shrinke not when thou art troubled but wait patiently vpon God And it is a sealed truth which the Apostle hath deliuered All that will liue godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution in one kind or other more or lesse It is their portion and euer hath beene Christ Iesus himselfe the author of our faith was not exempted and the seruant is not aboue his Lord. If then afflictions must needes bee vndergone let vs labour to vndergo them willingly which must bee vndergone of necessity I know there is a certaine tendernes in our nature which with reproches and ill turnes is so pressed and wrung that there is scarse any man to be found so wise or couragious but when he feeles the prickes and stings thereof pearcing him is oftentimes halfe in the minde to giue ouer his course of godlinesse and turne from the way of vertue No affliction or vexation for the present seemeth ioious but grieuous saith the Apostle but afterward it bringeth forth the quiet fruits of righteousnes to them that are exercised therby Let vs not dwell then vpon the present feeling but looke further into the sweet effects and end of our troubles thence gather comfort strength against them This made the Apostle breake out My Brethren count it for an exceeding ioy when yee fall into diuers tentations because they are pledges of Gods loue trials of our faith and breeders of patience experience and hope which neuer makes ashamed Art thou entred into a course of religion and sanctification art thou iealous for the Lord of Hostes and doest thou meet with oppositions and stumbling blockes in thy way be not dismaied was it not told thee before the way to heauen lay by the crosse It is a sure signe thou art in the path that leades thither Art thou skoffed at by worldlings prophan people Iob. 21.14 men or women for I know diuers such persons of both sexes that being not content to liue in ignorance themselues without any desire to know the way of the Lord do deride and point at those that seeke instruction Let the clearnes of thy conscience and thy holy desire and endeuour to the best things be as a brasen wall and a strong tower against these euils let them know that the Lord hateth those that sit in the seat of the scorneful Psalm 1. and though they please themselues well enough the while yet it shall not be well with them at the last day Esay 3.10 For the reward of their owne hands shall be giuen them Hast thou a master that entreates thee hardly for thy well doing and