Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	argument_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	17	3	8.6813	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66816	Eremicus theologus, or, A sequestred divine his aphorisms, or, breviats of speculations, in two centuries / by Theophilus Wodenote ...	Wodenote, Theophilus, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing W3241; ESTC R39130	60,438	192

stedfast indurance against all weariness what though the Lord grant thee not at first yet he will at last what though he grant thee not at all that same thing which thou desirest He will give thee as good a blessing or a better 2. GIve not over thy prayers though not presently heard but with faith and perseverance crave and with hope and patience expect Gods grace and mercy to help in due and convenient time Be thy wound never so deep thou art not past help so long as thou art not past desire to be holpen who art thou or what merit canst thou allege that therefore thy sute ought to receive a present dispatch what knowest thou for what reasons God putteth thee off perhaps not intending utterly to deny thee but for sundry main and important causes we tarry mans pleasure and wait upon him after many petitions where then is Gods honour why not wait much longer and willinger upon God who both knoweth our need and when it is most meet to supply it better than our neerest friends better than we our selves and never faileth or forsaketh those who unfeignedly put their trust in him who will be sure to do in the end that which shall be most for our good and his own glory 3. NEglect not Prayer under any pretence though never so plausible no not under pretence of Gods knowing and understanding all things or of his power enabling thee to do all things or of his providence determining all things but know that Almighty God hath commanded prayer as an instrument of continuall use profitable for all things for the performance of all those things which he hath promised and appointed He hath ordained many other means to bring his purposes to passe but none more excellent than prayer which procureth a blessing upon all the rest and without the which the rest cannot prevail 4. WHen thou prayest for the forgiveness of thy sins as thou art daily bound to do thou plainely confessest that thou art not able to satisfie for them that there can be no satisfaction made to Gods Justice for sins by our works How then canst thou supererogate as some teach and believe How then can the worthiness of thy deserts be so great that doing God more service than can be sufficiently rewarded in thy own person thou canst deserve heaven not only to thy self but for others too How then canst thou have an overplus of works or the measure of thy works running over which may be disposed or sold if he will liberally come off with his coin to the spirituall benefit of another which may go for payment of thy fellowes transgressions when thou hast not enough to supply thy own necessity 5. HOw earnestly soever thou pray against the pride malice and all the devices of the wicked that God will not suffer their actions to prosper lest they more and more offend yet still pray for the offendors that God may open their eyes that they may come to see the truth love it and imbrace it yet without exception of persons remember still to pray for the love of God the grace of Christ and the working of the Spirit upon all upon the godly that they may be confirmed upon the ungodly that they may be converted 6. WHen thou art about to take rest and knowest not what a night or an houre may bring forth and knowest not whether thou shalt ever work or wake again or no ly not down in thy bed as a dog lyeth down in a kennell or a swine in his sty or an oxe in his stall without any prayer any ejaculation any good motion to God-ward but commit thy self thy soul thy body thy goods thy brethren into Gods hand as a most faithfull keeper but remember and consider that God is nigh thee both in his essence whereby he filleth heaven and earth and in his presence whereby he beholdeth thy heart and all thy courses watching what thou do'st He is about thy paths and about thy bed and spieth out all thy wayes [a] Psal 139.3 To him not onely the light is light but darkness is light both the light and the night to him are all one in clearness [b] Psal 139.11 12. He therefore that will rise in his favour must ly down in his feare 7. HOwsoever worldly men who savour nothing but of the eart who see nothing but with fleshly eyes are unable to behold the beauty of the Church and therfore account it no part of their happiness to live within the compass and bosome of it yet esteem it thou more excellent and precious than all other societies in the world and with humblest thankfulness consider how highly thou art bound to God that thou art made a free denizen of so glorious a Corporation yea prefer alwayes the good condition of Gods Church before all concernments of thine own In the welfare thereof most joy In the wrong thereof most grieve Let naturall affections move thee much but let spirituall affections sway thee more so many cogitations of the distressed estate of the Church so many teares and prayers for her Let thy zeal to her evidence thy right in her Thou canst not get a better argument or surer witness to thy own heart of being ingraffed into that body whereof Christ Jesus is the head of having the life of Christianity and being possessed with the love of godliness than the having a sensible feeling of the Churches distress and a sincere and zealous affection and respect to the common good of religion and the Churches prosperous estate 8. MArvell not if wicked men get advantage but too soon and prosper but too well if such as have no fear of God before their eyes have their projects in some degree performed and their presumptions in part pleased if the violent tread down the vertuous and might now then overcome right Be not dismayed if the publick enemies sometimes prevail and get the upper hand against the Church God giveth not alwayes victory for favour or overthrow for displeasure but for some other ends to raise the wicked that their fall may be the greater (c) tolluntur in altum ut lapsu graviore ruant Claudian to rowse his own that their faith may be the stronger 9. IF thou be not fit to profit the Church or Commonwealth by thy person yet seek the good of both of them by thy Prayer that they may indure and flourish and increase and not be overthrown and suppressed by those that so cruelly seek not their reformation and conversion but subversion and utter undoing that peace and plenteousness and holiness and righteousness may be alwayes with them and the free and publick use of the Gospell that such notable and rare men as are wise in politick affaires as are indued with all gifts and qualities fit for States-men may be put in place held in grace and have imployment and they which are so imployed may shew themselves faithfull and they which are