Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	commandment_n	keep_v	love_v	23,346	5	7.4368	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36870	Heraclitus, or, Mans looking-glass and survey of life written in French by Peter du Moulin ; and translated into English by Sir H. L'Estr.	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; L'Estrange, Hamon, 1605-1660.	1652 (1652)	Wing D2584; ESTC R24305	25,639	117

for the wicked cover themselves with silence subtilty and dissembling like little children who think they are hid when they shut their eyes and that no body sees them because they see no body but God sees them all bare and naked better than they see themselves God who is not only all hand as holding and guiding all but also all Eye as seeing or searching all things he sees through the thickest substance and darkness is light unto him and therefore the Royall Prophet Ps. 94. justly taxes this sottish wisdom Take heed ye unwise among the people ye fools when will you understand he that planted the ear shall not be hear or he that made the eye shall not he see In this place the Prophet calls them unwise not the fools that run mad up and down the streets not the Idiots not the gross common people but the great Politicians who manage all their matters so smoothly as if they thought to hide themselves from the All-seeing wisdom of God or to dazle the eyes of his providence but as those are the fiercest Fevers that have the coldest Fit at first so that is the most desperate folly that is vizarded with wisdom and greatest discretion Thus the Godly man must observe the actions and affections of men and consider all the unprofitable travell of this life and accordingly frame his Meditation There are two sorts of people in the life of man as there is in a Fair Some come to buy and sell others only to look about He that fears God is but a looker on he comes not to buy or sell but onely to observe the workes of God and the actions of men that when he sees the glitter of vaine curiosities which men expose to view he may say Oh! what a number of things there are in this world that I have no need of but if while he be thus looking about he happen to get some hurt or be justled or have his purse cut that is if he be troubled or afflicted he will presently be gone and remembring that he is but a stranger in this world he will set forward towards his own Countrie his home in the Heavens ayming always as the Apostle saith towards the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus If the world contemn him he contemns that contempt knowing himself to be better than the world and called to a better hope he will esteem lightly of the promises of the World and the businesse thereof base and tedious and like Mary in the 10th of Luke he will choose the better part which cannot be taken from him concluding all his Meditations of Vanity as Salomon did in the end of his Ecclesiastes The End of all is this Fear God and keep his Commandements for this is the whole duty of Man After this Meditation we must rest our selves upon those two Maxims and Propositions which are the two Sanctuaries of Religion the first That to love God we must contemn the world the second that to contemn the world we must be think our selves of our own worth and dignity and the excellency of our vocation The first Maxime is taken out of the Epistle of St. John Love not the world nor the things of the world If any love the world the love of God is not in him for all that which is in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world the world passeth away c. Nothing drives us further frō the love of God than the love of the world for the Scripture calls the world the Kingdom of Sathan and as the Moon hath no light but by opposition to the Sun so our Souls are in darkness but when we look unto God So again it followes that as the Moon hath no light in the shadow of the earth so our Souls lose their light as the Scripture calls us Children of light when they are obscured and eclipsed with the love of earthly things as worldly cares and covetousness which we ought to tread under our feet like the Church in the Revelation which hath the Moon under her Feet that is tramples upon all the unchangeable unsteadiness of these sublunary things And as Christ would have the penny paid for Tribute to Caesar because it bare his Image so we must give our selves to God because we bear his Image the misery is this we often deface the Image and batter it against the ground bemiring our selves with base thoughts and dirty desires Therefore to the end we may contemn the world and all the World can promise or doe for us we must come to the second point which is to know the worth and excellency of Godly men for when men by Fox-friendship and cruell subtilty would intice a godly man to doe ill and to sin against God and his own Conscience then let him look into himself and thus Argue I that am a child of God of heavenly parentage one of the first-born whose names are written in heaven shall I value the promises of the world any thing worth which if they were certain yet they are too mean for me Win a Kings Son with apples tempt the Son of the great Prince of Heaven with money to offend his Father and like Esau sell his birthright for a Mess of potage I will never doe it God will never suffer me to be so hood-winked He is not worthy of Christ that doth not think the world unworthy of him was not the world made for the Godlies sake and will not God destroy it again and provide an house far more glorious for us and a more beautifull heaven than that we now behold which is indeed too mean for the dignity of Gods children thou that fearest God and hast faith in his Son I would have thee know that it is thou that upholdest the world and for whose sake the wicked are yet suffered to live so far are Gods enemies indebted to thee And God suffers the world to continue for the Elects sake whereof some are mixed with the wicked others are not yet born and as it is in the 6th of the Revelation God stayes untill the number of our Brethren be fulfilled and that is one of the causes why our Saviour calls his disciples the Salt of the Earth as a small part among men that preserves the rest and retards the dissolution God continuing the Bad for the Goods sake that the bad may profit at the example of the Good and by that means be driven to fear God and trust in his promises this being the excellency of Gods children they must esteem of the pleasures riches and glory of the world but as trifles and like the painted Kingdoms which the Devill offered Christ When men look down from the top of the Alpes to the plains below them the greatest Towns would seem no better than little Cabins how much would they