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	heart_n	love_v	3,359	5	6.1438	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15471	A comfortable meditation of humane frailtie, and divine mercie in two sermons upon Psalme 146.4. and Psalme. 51.17. The one chiefly occasioned by the death of Katharine, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Harlakenden of Earles-Cone in Essex.	Williamson, Thomas, 1593-1639.	1630 (1630)	STC 25738; ESTC S106233	35,205	48

the joyes of heaven yet we rebell against the most high and lightly regard his counsels if we looke up to heaven we see the seat indeed of a tender Father but infinitely have we sinned against him and it if wee gaspe in our trouble for the comfort of Christ his merits the Redeemer of the world wee see how vilely our owne evill words and deeds crucifie him daily and put him to open shame grieving his spirit quenching his gifts and abusing his very grace Now the Adamant softens when warme bloud is shed on it and the bloud of the Lord Jesus so graciously effused on us and for us the riches of this goodnesse should lead us to remorse and to repent of our sinnes even in love of the Lord for his mercies yea no slight affection no cursory Lord have mercie upon us should suffice us with Ieremy we should call for a cottage in the wildernesse and then broken to water wash with teares the day wherein wee were borne And O that the precious balmes the mercies of our Lord Jesus the sense of what he hath done and suffered for us should not mollifie us and make us relent yea let us bee sicke with his love the loves of Christ constraine as the Apostle speaketh 2 Cor. 5. And if before time we have served and loved the Lord even for feare of wrath henceforth let us feare God for love and repent and sorrow for our sinnes in love and so our contrition will become entire and of the whole heart because the love of God is absolute and infinite Now there bee who make a trade yea a sport and a merriment of their sinnes who can count and chronicle their dissolutenesse with delight so farre they be from contrition and remorse and they no doubt will laugh in their ●leeves to heare of this bruising and maceration of spirit and let the deceived world take these for godly people jolly fellowes they shall die like men like the beasts that perish the Lord gave strength to the horse and clothed his necke with thunder saith Iob he mockes at feare and beleeves not the sound of the trumpet yet if the quiver of the Lord rattle against him he is afraid as a grashopper Obdurate godlesse spirits whose hearts like Prometheus grow fat and stupid in the night of their ignorance there is a day when the Vulture of feare and heavinesse of heart shall seaze and gnaw upon them death shall feed upon the ungodly Psal 49. and when they come indeed in sight of death and the fatall anchor beginnes to fall that can never be weighed againe and the lusty saylers the senses that rowed them over the streames of carnall pleasures stand amazed and faile and the waves of horror swell and breake upon the crackt vessell and the unwise Pilot reason as at the end of his wits cryeth out with him in Seneca Huc ego quemadmodum vens Lord how may this be yea their owne heart and conscience then amidst their other evills shall returne upon them like the Raven in blacke and sable weeds with the law the curse and all the aberrations of life in his mouth and what tongue can tell their sorrow Like as the chased Deere recovering about the end of the day some little breathing stands and listens unto the cries of them that seeke his bloud and seeing the way stopt pants and shuts his fearef●ll eyes and finding his legs faile him at last lies downe despaires and dies so they oft-times and amidst their agonie faine would give a thousand Rammes and a thousand Rivers of oyle and the fruit of their body the choicest goods they have to be assoyled from the sinne of their soule O consider we this that we doe not quite forget God without contrition and repentance the Lord wee see is a consuming fire and the impenitent sooner or later have there no peace their hell even upon earth and if so in the first day at the day of death at least what shall we say to the day of revelation the day of the generall judgement Surely Kings shall repine then at the beggers joy and mighty Emperours shall say with Theodosius how much better is it to have beene the true member of Christ his Church than the head of an Empire For the Angels shall bee seene then to gather up the scattered peeces of every contrite and broken heart and to draw out to their encouragement the teares of repentance which the Lord had treasured or put up into his bottle and to take quite from them the cup of trembling and to reach it forth into the hands of all impenitents and remorselesse sinners and so I have done with the sacrifice The broken and contrite hear● and proceed to the second branch of the text the Lords gentle acceptance O God thou wilt not despise If in the conscience of sin the broken heart tremble to appeare before the Lord and though humbled yet feareth lest God should not accept of him behold his Cordiall God will not despise him Not despise him Yea deare shall he be in Gods sight that the Sunne may not burne him by day nor the Moone by n ght For as in the Scripture there is an excesse of speech when more is spoken than is understood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as cast out the beame that is in thine owne eye So there is also a defect of speech when more is understood than spoken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as despise not prophecie the Apostle meaneth we should honour that gift of the Holy Ghost much So here the words must be understood above the letter and meane much more than is spoken namely that God will highly esteeme and comfort and revive the spirit of the humble for Christ his sweet allures and invitations of the laden and contrite heart to come to him shew that it is no despicable matter a thing to be despised is fruitlesse and of small use but this oblation of David is of exceeding much validitie and therefore he cals it first A sacrifice an offering it is wherewith if we approach before the Lord we have a good evidence before us the pledge of our peace and remission of sins because God hath so promised to accept of us for Christ his sake Secondly David cals it Sacrificia in the plurall number Sacrifices because a penitent heart why this is one for all it includes and summes up all that whatsoever it is that God accepts it is in stead of all no single sacrifice Thirdly the Prophet cals it Sacrificia Dei the sacrifices of the Lord of the Lord by way of Emphasis or excellence as Nineveh the Citie of God or the exceeding great Citie Ionah 3. and the trees of God are goodly Cedars Psal 80. and Opera Dei the works of God or which God approves Iohn 6. So the contri●e heart is the sacrifices of God such as to God is verie pleasing an heart that repents and beleeves in Christs bloud and seekes mercie for