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	know_v	love_v	4,027	5	6.3882	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85486	The right vvay: or A direction for obtaining good successe in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1394; Thomason E463_1; ESTC R202327	28,997	43

arctat Cypr. Ser. de Ieju● If a Fast be discreetly ordered it will tame the rebellion of the flesh it will binde and keep in compasse inordinate and exorbitant motions and subdue immoderate appetites It will so restrain such things as might hinder praier as the soul will be much more free to flie up aloft 7. From the Person before whom they fasted namely Before God I observe That Duties of piety are to be performed as in Gods presence Observ 7. We ought to doe nothing but as in Gods presence so as setting God before us The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hithhalec whereby Enochs walking before God is set out Gen. 5. 24. and which is required of Abram Gen. 17. 1. implieth a constant continuall setting of God before their eies It is of the seventh hebrew conjugation which importeth a frequent and constant performing of a thing Learned and judicious Tremellius and Junius translate that word indesinenter ambulare continually to walk If we must in every place and in every duty that we take in hand do it before God much more must we so perform duties of piety Deus omnium mentes voluntatesque in ipsis adhuc clausi pectoris latebris intuetur Cypr. Serm. 5. de lapsis which have a kinde of immediate respect unto God and wherein we have immediately to do with him These are most sincerely to be done because God beholds the very disposition of men and their purposes while they are in their hearts 8. From this speciall note of relation OVR here applied to God thus Before our GOD it appeareth That The Lord is in speciall manner the God of his Church Observ 8. Namely of those that professe his name and believe on him Therefore such do not only apply it to themselves but also others give it unto them as Nebuchadnezzar an Heathen Monarch stiled the Lord the God of Shadrach Meshech and Abednego Dan. 3. 28. and Darius another Heathen Monarch said to Daniel Thy God whom thou servest c. Dan. 6. 20. This is a ground of strong confidence to believers 9. From the principall End of the Fast which was To seek of God or to pray to God it is most manifest That Praier is the most principall means of obtaining blessing blessing from God Observ 9. This means God himself hath prescribed and enjoyned for that end Quod Deus per suam promisit clementiam per sanctorum implet preces Hier. Com. in Dan. 9. There unto hath he made many precious promises Here upon Saints in all ages have used this means and found it to be effectuall That which through his grace he promiseth upon the praiers of his Saints he performeth 10. From the subject matter that is desired which is a right way it appears That A prosperous journey may be sought of God Observ 10. Men in their journies are subject to many dangers The divine Providence can keep them fare from all their dangers Yea he can so order it that by mistaking of a way they may avoid some dangerous plots of enemies against them Austine relates a story much tending to that purpose Nobi●-ipsis accidit ut in quodam bivio falleremur non iremus per eum locum ubi operiens transitum nostrum Doxatistarum ●…s armata subsederat atque ita factum est ut eoquo tendeba mus per devium circuitum veniremus cognitisque infidiis illorum nos gratularemur errasse atque inde gratias ageremus Leo. Aug. Enchid ad Lau. cap. 17. That in his journey he came to a two want way or to a place which went two waies In that which led most directly to his journies end an armed troop of the Donatists lay to seize upon him but he ignorantly fell into the other way whereby he escaped that troop and going the wrong way though farthest about came safely to his journies end and praised God for that mistake of his way God giveth to such as seek it of him Angels to keep them in all their waies Psal 91. 11. The Heathen supposed that there were certain gods who directed such as called upon them in their right way and gave them a prosperous journey These they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But indeed it is Jehovah only that is properly the director of our waies In all thy waies acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 6. This may also be applied to the methaphoricall interpretation of this phrase A right way 11. From the first sort of Persons for whom they pray which were themselves I collect That Men must especially seek blessing for themselves Observ 11. Every man is nearest to himself and a mans self is the rule of the love of his neighbour for thus saith the Law Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Mat. 22. 39. I may make from hence such an inference as the Apostle doth from a Bishops ruling his own house If a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the Church of God 1 Tim. 3. 5. In like manner if a man know not how to seek his own good how shall he take care for the good of others 12. From the second sort of Persons which were their littl ones I further observe That Blessing is to be sought for our young children Observ 12. Even for such as cannot seek it for themselves Their welfare is a means of continuing not the world only but the Church also in the world We are mortall and shall not alwaies abide here to serve the Lord. As our fathers who served God in their generations are gone so shall we after a short time God knows how soon But by procuring Gods blessing on our little ones they may grow up they may know God and serve him in their generation after we are taken from them Thus may the eternall God be everlastingly served by mortall men one generation serving him after another To sharpen our praiers and strengthen our faith in craving a blessing for our little ones we may plead before God that which God himself sais of the children of the Israelites that they were born to him and were his children Ezek. 16. 20 21. On this ground though our unworthinesse make us fear that God may curse them rather then blesse them because they are ours yet we may herewith uphold our spirits that they are Gods children born to him and thereupon pray that God for his own sake would blesse them 13. From the Things for which God was sought which are here called All their substance it appears That Blessing may be sought of God for our temporall estate Observ 13. The fourth Petition of the Lords praier Give us this day our daily bread Omnia ista bona sunt Dei munera sunt Ne putetis quod aliquis illa poterit dare nisi unus Deus Aug. Enar in Ps 35. Mat. 6. 11. giveth evidence to the truth hereof Though