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	work_v	4,705	5	7.7266	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28184	The non-pareil, or, The vertuous daughter surmounting all her sisters described in a funerall sermon upon the death of that vertuous lady, Elizabeth Hoyle, late wife of the worshipfull Thomas Hoyle, alderman of the city of Yorke / by that godly and reverend divine, Mr. Iohn Birchall ...	Birchall, John.	1644 (1644)	Wing B2940; ESTC R6101	31,968	42

in heaven but as these heavens and this earth is now the place of our habitation so after death we looke for another place of habitation then this even in heaven Seeing then our hope is in heaven to have another and a better a more happy and blessed place of habitation then wee have here below now therefore what manner of persons ought we to be For Love now Faith is an intaking grace but when it would put it selfe out for the doing of any good then it takes hold on Love Faith works by love saith the Apostle it works love and it works by love and this love of God as the Apostle speaks will constrain a man to live unto God yea to the utmost of his desires and ind●avours the love of grace will not make a man stint himself in his de●●res after grace no as those persons that do love money would not only have this hundred or that 1000. but many hundreds and many thousands especially if they love it for it selfe then there is no end of their desires after money So let a man turn the st●eam of his desires towards grace and then he will long after it unmeasurably he will never stint his desires after it and say Thus much grace will serve me and so much grace will content me And as love thus will put a man on unto that is good so lastly for Feare it will pluck a man back from the doing of what is evill therefore that man there in the book of Nehem●ah was faithfull above many because he feared God above many Lastly the meanes of grace in the use and the right use of them when men hea● Sermons and then afterwards preach them over and over again to themselves that they may have grace in their hearts and expresse grace in their lives Oh this duty of meditation in bringi●g things home unto the heart is one of the ●peciall means to make the soule rich in expressing the power of godlinesse in life and conversation this for the means of it Now for the Arguments to it and they are four From God the thing our selves and others Why shou●d thou and I labour thus to be rare and excellent in grace why first because God bids us if there were no more but this it is enough for thee and me that God bids us labour to be so thus in 1 Pe● 5 the Lord is calling upon us to grow in grace and in Mat. 5. last verse Be ye pe●f●ct as y●ur 〈◊〉 F●ther is perfect what can we be as perfect as God is fa● be we from that conceit but we should labour to be like unto God for there he is speaking how God doth good to the bad nay God doth good to his enemies now let us b●ing our selves unto this rule of perfecti●n Certainly if a man doth excell in vertue and be rare in grace in the world he shall have enemies ●ost thou love them canst thou pray heartily for them this is now to be perfect as thy heavenly ●●ther is perfect Secondly look on the thing it selfe it is in it self a most c●mmendable thing you shall find that the Lord doth study to find out tearmes to to put upon his people that are rare in grace for their praise and comm●ndation as Abraham Moses David and Daniel oh for Daniel the Lord comes again again to him to tell him Oh Daniel a man of desires a man greatly beloved the heart of God is so taken with him that herepeats it again O● Daniel a man greatly beloved that is a rare expression of the Holy Ghost for the praise and commendation of such a man as doth excell in grace Thirdly look on ou● selvs in regard of our own persons in heart and in regard of life 1. For our hearts to have the love of God towards a man and the blessing of God in a speciall manner upon the spirit of a man oh this is an admirable thing indeed to bee inriched in the world oh we say this is an excellent thing and how will men ●i●e early and go to bed late and all for what why for this that the Lord may b●e●se them with a rich state in the world But oh the blessing of God on the s●ule of a man in making a man ●ich in grace this is an excellent thing indeed one d●am of grace is worth all the world now the Lord will inrich tho●e in grace that do use well the means of grace Take heed how you he●● saith Christ for loo● in what manner of he●ring you hear ●nd with what me●sure of diligen●e af●er hearing you use s● God will measure out again to you Thus in regard of a mans heart within 2. In regard of a mans life without truly our life is but sho●t we have a great de●l of work to do and but little time therfore saith the wisem●n Eccles 9. What soever thou findest to do do it with all thy might saith he why so why for as the time is short so after death there is no working then the time of this life is a working time after death is the receiving of wages though a wicked man shold do never so much in hell yet that cou●d not any way comfort him but what he hath done in the body look to that mainly And as thus for ou● selvs so lastly for others and that both for them also from them For them do●t ●hou wish well to thy Countrey dost thou wish well to Eng●and dost thou wish well to this City of Yor●e to the Parish the Family where thou live●t oh then labour for this excel●ent state if thou d●e excell in grace thou art the person that must prevail with God for wife for child for Church for state for County for ●ingdom all if there be any hope to prevail with God in mercy his excellent ones must do it but when there is no hope then saith the Lord Though Noah Daniel Jo● should all joyn together in prayer I would not hear them implying thus much That then the case is desperate when such excellent ones cannot prevail And as thus for others so also from others Would'st thou receive strength and incouragement from persons in the worst times why then it must be from the Saints that d● excell in grace In evill and dangerous times C●le● J●shu●h who were rare Saints Elyah a rare Saint D●niel a rare Saint they must step up that so from them Gods people being discouraged distressed might receive comfort incouragement And here now Her whom in the beginning I set out unto you by way of Commendation I now again set before you as a pattern for the imitati●n FINIS AN ELEGIE UPON The much lamented Death of that vertuous Lady and unparallel'd Matron ELIZABETH HOYLE LATE Wife to the Worshipfull Thomas Hoyle Alderman of the City of Yorke who surprized with an Ap●plexie at her private Devotion● departed this lif● Decemb. 9. 1639. Come my people enter thou