Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	brother_n	love_v	see_v	10,944	5	5.0158	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11539	An exposition after the maner of a co[n]templacyon vpon ye .li. psalme, called Miserere mei Deus; Expositio in psalmos Miserere me Deus. English	Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.; Marshall, William, fl. 1535.	1534 (1534)	STC 21789.3; ESTC S106805	28,705	66

that worketh in you both the wil and also the dede / euen at his owne pleasure And se that with all mekenes ye submyt your selues vnto the vocacion of god / not seking the lyberty of the fleshe / nether yet despysyng good workes / for faith doth mortefye the fleshe and her workes / the spirite of god whiche resteth in a faythfull man helpeth our insurmitie and fyghteth without intermission agaynste synne / the deuyll and the worlde ¶ The power of faythe THe power of fayth is to iustefye vs that is / to dispoyle vs frome all our vices and laye them on Christꝭ backe whiche hathe pacefyed the fathers wrathe towardes vs and to endue vs with an others ryhtwysnes / that is Christꝭ / so that I and all my synnes are Christes / Christ with all his vertues are myne / for he was borne for vs and geuen vnto vs. Esaye ix Roma .viii. To obteyne this ryghtwisnes god the father requireth nothing of vs but that we beleue in hym and make hym no lyar He that beleueth that god of his mercye hath made vs these promises that for his truthes sake he wil fulfyl them / he setteth to his seale the god is true But he that beleueth not or doubteth of this as much as in him is he maketh him a liar .i. Iohn̄ v. for why sholdest thou doubte in hym excepte thou thoughtest that he were a lyar wold not kepe his pro messe which he made Now yf thou counte God whiche is the verye truthe to be a lyar / arte thou not worthye a thousande dampnacyones ¶ The worke of faythe FAyth worketh by charite / for when my ragyng conscience which fealeth her syn̄e is pacefied set at one with God thrughe fayth / then remembrynge the feruent loue of god towardes me I can not but loue my neyghboure agayne / for there is no man that hertelye loueth the father and can hate the sone / and althoughe the sonne be naught and vnthriftye yet for his fathers sake he wyll helpe to better hym and euen lament and be sorye for the sonnes wyckednesse Lykewyse yf we hertely loue god for his infinyte benefytes done vnto vs / then can we not hate that creature which he hath made after his own lykenes / whō god the father loueth so tenderly that he gaue his owne sonne vnto the death to redeme him / yea whom he hath adopted thrugh Christe to be his sonne and heyre Nowe all be it we se no kyndenes in this man for whiche we sholde loue hym yet hath god shewed vs kyndnes ynough for the which we ought to loue hym so coure hym at al tymes Let vs therfore loue hym for the loue that god his creatoure hathe shewed vs / beare his infyrmitye / yf he faule let vs lyft hym vp agayne / and endue hym with our mysdome all our workes euen as Christ hath done with vs / and this is an euydent token that thou louest god / when thou louest thy brother .i. Iohn̄ .iiij. and seakest al meanes to helpe hym / these are the good workes that folow fayth / and are euydent tokens that thy faythe is ryght and pure Thus seest thou how good workes / flowe out of faythe through charite / charite or loue is the fulfilling of that hole lawe Ro .xiij. ¶ Good workes AMonge good workes the chyef are to be obedyente in all thynges vnto kynges / prynces / Iudges / and suche other offycers as farre as they cōmaunde ciuyle thynges that is to say such thynges as are indyfferente / and not contrarye vnto the cōmaundemētes of god / for then must we rather obaye God then men / actes in the fyrst chapitre although we shold lese both our substaūce and lyfe therto To honour rulers To promote peace To praye for all comynaltyes And to applye al our studyes to profyte them ¶ The nexte are to be obedyent vnto father mother To prouyde for our householde both nouryshyng our famylye with bodelye sustenaunce / and also to enstructe them with the worde of god / and so to be theyr gouernour carnall and spirituall ¶ Then muste we loke howe we oughte to behaue our selues towardes our neygh boures knowlegynge that al the gyftꝭ which are geuen vs of god / are not geuen vs for our owne selfe but for the edefyenge of the cōgregacyō .j. Corynth .xij. yf we bestow them not on that maner we shall surelye geue a rekenyng for them before the lorde Emonge these ought we to haue respecte vnto the preachers and mynesters of the worde / that they maye be had in honoure and well prouyded for And aboue all thinges good bretherne addresse your selues vnto that necessary worke prayer Remembre to praye for all estates / for that is a worke that Chryst his apostles full dylygently exhorted all men vnto / promysynge them that they sholde obtayne theyr perycyons Iohn̄ .xvj. also .j. Iohn̄ .iij. yf they be accordynge to the wyll of god and for his glorye .j. Iohn̄ .v. ¶ Here endeth the exposition vpon the lj Psalme called Miserece meidens Imprented at Londō in Flete strete by Iohn̄ Byddeii / dwellynge next to Flete brydge at the sygne of our lady of pytye / for wyllyam Marshall Cum priuilegio Regali