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	jesus_n	2,585	5	5.9640	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06733	The demaundes of holy scripture, with answeres to the same wherein are defined, and declared the cheefe, and principall poyntes of Christian doctrine: very profitable for the right vnderstanding of holy scriptures: made by T. Becon, and dravven out of his great vvorkes.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1577 (1577)	STC 1718; ESTC S110677	46,473	108

as the floure of the grasse c. Knowing and acknowledging with S. Paule that wee haue here no certaine abyding place but seeke for one to come againe that as we brought nothing into the world so shall we cary nothing out of it but hauing meate drinke and cloth we ought to be content and abundantly satisfied forasmuch as godlynesse is great riches yf a man be content with that he hath What is thankes giuing to God To remember the benefites of the Lord confessing and acknowledging al to come of him offryng him our whole hart loue seruice for the same What is innocencie A mind or conscience giltie of no sinne which commeth through faith in Iesus Christ as the Apostle sayth we being iustified by faith are at peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ by whome also it chaunced vnto vs to be brought in through fayth vnto this grace wherein we stand and reioyce in the hope of the glory of God. What is fasting To beware that wee oppresse not the bodie and so by that meanes the minde also with surfetting drunkennesse and excesse as our Sauiour Christ sayth Take heede to your selues least at any time your hearts be ouercome with surfetting drunkennesse cares of this lyfe c. Agayne to liue chastly purely and soberly to abstayne from vices to bring oure bodie into bondage to the spirite and the spirite to God to minister to the bodie only y that is necessarie to mortifie the flesh with the affections and lustes of the same The right abstinence from meates taken as a way or helpe to the abstinence from sinne consisteth not in the qualitie but in the quantitie of the meat not what but how much meat drink thou receyuest For whether fasteth more aright he that moderately receyueth of flesh or he that cloyeth himselfe with fish ▪ All things are pure to them that are pure sayth the Apostle All the creatures of God are good and nothing to bee refused if it be receiued with thankesgiuing For it is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer Why then is this lawe so earnestlye established with such penaltie vpon it that wee eate no fleshe on Fridayes or other dayes appointed to abstayne from the same I take that as a ciuile positiue Lawe lyke to the actes of Parliament made for sundrie and diliers purposes concerning the state of a Realme and for the wealth of the same For if it were anye lawe of God binding our conscience no King nor Pope myght dispence with the breaking of it What is prayer To call vpon the name of the Lorde assuredly trusting to obtayne that we require so that wee aske of him in his sōnes name and none other that thing whiche he will to bee required and none other that eyther for obtayning of good things auoyding of euill or releasing and forgiuenesse of euill and sinnes past Whatsoeuer ye aske in my name sayeth Christ that will I doe that the Father maye bee glorified by the Sonne If ye shall aske any thing in my name I will do it Again verilye verilye I say vnto you Whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my name he will giue it you And Saynt Iohn in his Epistle sayth This is the truste that we haue in him that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth vs And if we knowe that he heareth vs we knowe that we haue the petitions that wee desire of him What is obedience A lowlye and hartie submission of our selues to God and afterwarde to oure Parentes to the Magistrates to oure Superiours and to all those to whome God hath committed the rule and gouernance of his flocke and people in this worlde or in iust causes to all them to whome we be by anye title inferiour But what yf our Superiours wyll enforce vs to obey them in vniust causes In this behalfe we owe them no obedience God is the highest Magistrate If any inferiour Magistrate commaundeth any thing contrary to his godly commaundement and blessed wyll we must aunswere with the apostles Oportet deo magis obedire quam hominibus We must obey God more then men Examples hereof we haue many and diuers both in the olde and in the newe Testament What is humilitie A subiection of the proud hauty courage of our mind shewing our selues inferior to all men presuming in nothing esteming our selues worse then all men in our owne conceates And this is that which the apostle saith In giuing honor goe one before an other Againe be not hye minded but make your selues equall to them of the lower sorte Be not wyse in your owne conceates Hereto agreeth the saying of S. Peter submit your selues euery man one to an other Knit your selues togeather in lowlynesse of mind For God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble Submit your selues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you when the time is come What is pacience Willingly without resistance eyther in thought word or deede to suffer vndeserued punishment after the example of Christ which prayed for them that persecuted and moste cruelly tormented him This pacience is described of S. Peter in his first Epistle where he sayth seruauntes obey your maisters with feare not only yf they be good and courteous but also though they be froward For this is thanke worthy yf a man for conscience toward God endure griefe and suffer wrong vndeserued For what prayse is it yf when ye be buffeted for your faultes ye take it paciently But and yf when ye doo well ye suffer wrong and take it paciently then is there thanke with god For hereunto verely were ye called for Christe also suffered for vs leauing vs an example that we should follow his steppes whiche did no sinne neyther was there guile found in his mouth which when he was reuiled reuiled not againe when he suffred he threatned not but committed the vengeance to him that iudgeth righteously c. What is the olde man that we must put of The naughty corrupt and rotten nature which sithens the fall of Adam we haue lineally at our first generation receaued of our parentes through the corruption of the first roote Adam Or thus the noughty concupiscence lust to sinne and affection of our fleshe without faith of this olde man speaketh our Sauiour Christ on this maner That which is borne of flesh is fleshe And except a man be borne from aboue he cannot see the kingdome of god Also the Apostle Laye from you the olde man which is corrupt according to the deceauable lustes Againe put of the olde man with his workes What is the newe man that we must doo on The renewyng of man by fayth and the word of God the spirite of God geuen by Christ our spirituall and second Adam Agayne to tame the old man our fleshely and first Father Adam to beget vs agayne and adopte vs

face and outwarde sight The face of the anger of God is the feling of the curse wrath of God also the presence sight iudgment of God is caled his face as Let al the earth hushe or be stil before the face of the Lord. As the Waxe vadeth and consumeth in the face of the fire so shal all sinners perishe before the face of God. What is the eye of man It is reason or the wysedome of the flesh A single eye is reason instructed with the word of God. A wicked eye is reason depraued and corrupt enuye engendred against their neighboure for the gyftes of god Otherwhiles the eye hand right foote c. betoken our kinsmen and best belooued freendes What betoken feete in Scripture The feete be and betoken the affections desire and will of the harte My foote stode straight foorth that is to say I haue neyther hurt any man nor would hurt And though perchaunce I haue hurt any yet I willed none euill or hated any c. To washe one an others feete is one to loue an other and to wyll well one to an other What is a slaunder to offende or to be offendicle to any man It is whereby the faith or charitie of our brother is offended or hurt The faith of the brother is offended when any man preacheth teacheth other thinges then the word of god Of this kind of slaunder speaketh Christ. Who soeuer offendeth one of these little ones c. The charitie of our neighbour is offended or hurt when we helpe not the poore when we be not glad of our neyghboures prosperitie and sory in his aduersitie c. It is the obstacle and let whereby we fall and stomble in the way of the Lorde that is to say we haue not a life vpright and worthy the Lorde I meane when we stagger in the faith or loue towardes our neighbour in which two euery christian ought stoutly and still to walke Forgetting with saint Paule the thinges that be behind our backes endeuering to come to the marke set before our eyes Otherwhiles slaunder or offending is taken in Scripture for the offending wher by the wicked can not beare the word What is an Hipocrite It is the wicked man coloured and cloked with godlynesse Wherefore hipocrisy is called fayned holynesse What is an enuious man He whose hart for anger burneth at an other mans prosperitie nor can suffer with his will any other to be enriched with the benefites of god So did Cayn enuy Abell his brother Saul Dauid and Ioab Amasas But Iohn did not enuy Christ his successour when he sayd He must increase and I decrease Nor Ionathas Saules sonne did not thus hate Dauid his loyall and trusty freende and companion What is for God to sleepe When he seemeth to vs to forsake vs in our temptation nor helpeth vs So slept Christe in the ship his Apostles being in daunger and ieoperdye And so doth Dauid call vpon God to awake saying arise wake Lorde why doest thou sleepe so long What is it for men to sleepe When they without all care of the word of God slugge and sleepe in sinne and ignoraunce when they refuse contemne and regarde it not To rest and sleepe in the Lord is to dye in fayth c. What is to be awake To exercise and put in vre the word of God and our faith What is fortune It is fate or destiny chaunsing to any man by the will of God without mans prouidence Who is my brother He that hath one father with me that is to say God. Who is my weake brother He that hath one faith with me in God and fauoureth the Gospell but yet wauereth and doubteth in his conscience of some things as meates and difference of dayes Who is my neighbour He on whom I exercise charitie and loue or hee who needeth my helpe Who is a Lorde or maister He that hath a seruant gouerneth and ruleth another as he whiche keepeth vnder vices and lewde appetites is Lord and maister ouer them so through faith in Iesus Christ we be Lordes ouer the Deuill Death and sinne Also he that vseth the Sabboth or holy daye as he seeth neede that is to saye doubteth not if he see the loue of his neighbour requireth the contrarie to breake it that man I say is the Lorde of the Sabboth day Who is a seruant He that hath a maister and is not his owne man or else he that is at the becke and commaundement of another Thus Paule calleth himselfe the seruant of Christ as he that doth and accomplisheth the will of sinne he is a seruaunt to sinne What is a true and faithfull seruaunt He that hath fayth and doth his duetie with all diligence according to his vocation and calling What is a slothfull and vnfaithfull seruant He which beleeueth not in God negligently ordereth himselfe in his vocacion and refuseth to beare his crosse What is an officer or ruler Euery lawfull power among men ordeined of God to the defence and protection of that that is good and to prohibite and to punishe that that is euill according to right and equity What is a tyraunt An vnlawfull and vniust ruler which administreth all things as he list and laieth great burdens yokes vpon the people doing against all conscience equity Such a one was Pharao to the children of Israell Howbeit suche be not to be resisted of Christian men but obeyed in all thinges saue where they wil haue vs doo that that God forbiddeth vs and haue vs not to do that that god biddeth And we must tarye till God deliuer vs out of suche tyrauntes handes as the children of Israel did What is matrimony or wedlocke The lawfull coupling and resort of man and woman according to the ordinance and commaundement of God. What is adultery The vnlawful company of man and woman as is the mariage with the mother sister aunt brothers wyfe and such other wherein Moyses treateth To that perteyneth stupre incest fornicacyon and like abhominacions touched in the foresaid Chapiters What is properly mans worke or that man can doo What soeuer that reason and the nature of man can inuent and doo as to rule his house well to gouerne the common weale buylde and searche the nature of thinges and dispute and reason vpon them What is that that is aboue mans power otherwise called spirituall and heauenly What soeuer surmounteth reason and that man can not attaine vnto except God graunteth it and geueth power to obtaine it as that our sinnes be forgiuen through faith and that we be saued by Iesus that dyed on the crosse That God is our defender and louing father yea in aduersitie and trouble That God is iust yea whē he suffereth the good men to