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	good_a	love_v	3,022	5	6.2213	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68254	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the IX. of Nouember, 1589. By William Iames D. of Diuinitie, and deane of Christes-church in Oxford	James, William, 1542-1617.	1590 (1590)	STC 14464; ESTC S122045	32,294	60

not to care for the members not to haue the same care hath brought confusion to most mightie nations If it make vs a laughing stocke to our enemies if it shewe vs not to be the sonnes of God if he be not onely hated but accursed that setteth debate betweene brethren If euery kingdome or house deuided within it selfe shall come to destruction If when we bite one another we shall be consumed one of another let vs haue brotherly loue among vs brotherly care one for another Salomon saith that a brother that is holpen of his brother is as a strong or well fenced citie Ecce quàm bonum quàm iucundum est habitare fratres in vnum First Ecce beholde with an admiration and then howe good and howe pleasant a thing it is brethren to dwel together in vnitie not contented as you see to say It is good or it is pleasant but beholde how good and howe pleasant it is Many thinges are good that are not pleasant as affliction and the like and many things pleasant that are not good as the bread of wickednes but brethren to dwell together in vnitie is Beholde how good and how pleasant c. S. Austen on this Psalme saith Ita dulcis est sonus vt qui psalterium nesciunt ipsum tamen versum cantent The sound saith he of Ecce quàm bonum quàm iucundum est habitare fratres in vnum is so sweete that they who knowe not the psalter yet sing the verse The summe and conclusion of this point is that we loue one another Thereby shall all men knowe saith our Sauiour that you are my disciples if ye loue one another as I haue loued you Owe nothing to any man but this that ye loue one another For in Christ Iesu neither circumcision auaileth any thing neither vncircumcision but faith that worketh by loue The ende and fulfilling of the lawe is loue Let vs therefore not loue in worde or tongue but in deede and trueth with a loue without dissimulation with such a loue swill couer the multitude of offences It was the Apostles ioye which he by many obtestations besought them to fulfil to be like minded and as here is required the same care so there the selfe same loue Phil. 2. Let vs therefore as the Apostle saith to the Hebrues consider one another to prouoke to loue and to good workes I might speake and so had purposed much more to this sence but the time hath so ouertaken me that I must referre that as also the third part of mutuall compassion and the application Yee are the bodie of Christ and members for your part to your Christian consideration Onely this I wish you all consider that as in the griefe of the bodie the very heart sigheth the cies shead teares the head aketh the stomacke refuseth foode the whole bodie is made feeble though it be but the griefe of a finger or of a toe so in the church there ought to be a sympathie and fellowe feeling to weepe with them that weepe to reioyce with them that reioyce Who is weake saith the Apostle and I am not weake to remember them that are bound as bounde with them It is most aptly saide of Chrysostome to this sence hom 35. in Matth. Doeth thy brother suffer trouble or losse if thou be sorie for him thou art placed as a mēber in the bodie of the Church if thou sorow not if thou suffer not thou art cut off and peraduenture thou therefore sorowest not because thou art cut off Tamdiu dolet membrum quamdiu in corpore continetur si autem abscissum fuerit nec dolere poterit nec sentire The member so long grieueth as it is conteined in the body but being cut off it hath neither sorowe nor sence and so euery Christian that contemneth his brother Quia iam est alienus à corpore ideò affectum charitatis non tenet in corde Because he is nowe a stranger from the Church therefore he holdeth not the affection of charitie in his heart This your Sympathie and commiseration should shewe it selfe in releeuing your needie brethren in helping and succouring the poore maimed souldiers in aiding and assisting your afflicted brethren in Fraunce and Flaunders for the Gospels sake Nowe is the time when Pharaoh of Rome Senacherib of Spaine Rabsace of Flaunders in their pride set themselues against the Lorde and his Christ seeke to displace your dread Soueraigne whome let vs beseech God euer mightily to maintaine to conquere subdue this nation to a forraine yoke to spoile man woman and childe and to make vs all slaues to their Romish and Spanish crueltie A heathen man could say Qui non propulsat cùm potest iniuriam c. He that doth not put away force or violence when he may is as much in fault as if he should forsake his parents or his countrey Our Sauiour saith Quod vni existis c. What you haue done to one of these for my name sake you haue done it vnto me is it true in reliefe of the bodie with foode and raiment and not in preseruing the body and soule from idolatrie and superstition In the 9. of the Actes Christ saith to Saule Saule Saule why persecutest thou me Saule persecuted the Christians not Christ that was in heauen yet saith Christ because he had a compassion with his members his Church that that might be verified which the Apostle here saith If one member suffer all suffer with it Quando minimos meos persequeris me persequeris Whē thou persecutest the least of mine for my name sake thou persecutest me It is saide by our Sauiour what you haue giuen to one of these ye haue giuen it to me for he that giueth to the poore lendeth to the Lorde and truely in this case he that assisteth them that fight the Lordes fight lendeth vnto the Lord it shall be paied him againe and the Lorde shall deliuer him in the day of trouble In which respects in these daies of the Spanish intended inuasions of the seeking to supplant Christ and his members in our neighbours of Fraunce ye should not only not murmure at any helpe sent them or looke to be pressed thereunto by power or authoritie but freely and chearefully to offer to make a free will offering to serue the Lord. The cause is Christes the enemie ours as well as theirs and therefore we aswell as they should suffer with them The king is the Lordes annointed he is our neighbour a good neighbour such a one as feareth God that hath from his youth borne the Lordes yoke the danger great for that through his sides he shooteth at vs and by his ouerthrow making as it were a bridge on his backe the enemie hopeth for an entrance to vs. Let vs all therefore in this case for asmuch as the danger is common make the care common let vs not seeke to lay all on her Maiesties backe whose care and cost is onely for vs and our safetie who for Christ and his Gospell sake for the freedome and libertie of her loyall and louing subiects to serue the Lorde her God hath aduentured the wrath and indignation of most mightie and malicious enemies and hath suffered the most detestable and damnable practises of most vile and wicked wretches But the Lorde her God whome she serueth hath stoode by her and deliuered her and they are fallen into the pitte they prepared for others and haue inherited the reward of blood There was a time when our swordes were turned into plowe shares but the case is nowe altered we must turne our shares into swordes and he that hath no sworde must sell his coate and buy asworde Surely as Gods cause against whome they fight is the principall motiue that stirreth vp those our enemies thus to maligne vs so a second adiuuant cause is that abundance and plentie vvherevvith the Lord our God in his mercie hath so richly blessed vs. Novve as our Sauiour saith he that vvill saue his life shall lose it so vvhen Gods cause and our Countries requireth it he that vvill spare then shall lose all I may say of this kind of men that hoord vp their filuer and gold that are rich in plate and iewels and the like which these men thirst after as Aiax once did to Vlisses when they stroue for Achilles armour Cur spolieris erit non cur metuaris ab hoste So this abundance nay rather this close keeping of it when our prince and country may require it where it rusteth and profiteth not Cur spolieris erit It shall be a cause why wee shall be spoiled not why wee shall be feared But I see I forget my selfe and abuse your patience I must therefore the time being spent without repetition end humbly beseeching the almightie God for his great mercy sake so to softē our hard hearts that there be no strife or contention among vs but that all bitternesse may be laid aside and that as members we may all haue a care and the same care that if one suffer all may suffer with it if one be honoured all may reioyce with it that as we are the body of Christ and members for our part so we may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ To whom with the holy ghost three persons in one most glorious Trinitie one God in Vnitie might and maiestie be yeelded all honour prayse and glory for euer and euer Amen