Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	faith_n	heart_n	purify_v	3,102	5	11.3066	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61481	The whole parable of Dives and Lazarus explain'd and apply'd being several sermons preached in Cripplegate and Lothbury churches / by Joseph Stevens ...	Stevens, Joseph.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5499; ESTC R34607	84,584	212

whether in Gods Service or the Devils Drudgery and if upon an impartial survey we discover that we have hitherto erred from the right end of our Creation humbly to implore Gods pardon and to beg his grace for the time to come that joyning our own endeavours with it we may redeem the time we have lost by breaking off our sins and speedily applying our selves to the practice of true Religion It is very sad to continue in an unconverted state because we know not how soon it will be ere we be strip'd into naked Spirits and sent into an irreversible state And to be thus surprized and the Work of our Souls left unwrought would be the worst of evils and then what would we give if possible that we might have again such opportunities and advantages of being happy consider therefore in time repent and amend in this life of tryal shake off that impovidence which detaineth you make you a new heart and a new spirit mortifie and subdue your unruly will wean your affections from the pride of life manfully deny all ungodliness and wordly lusts and live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for without wavering the blessed hope and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works May God grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the height breadth length and depth and to know the love of Christ that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God Now unto the only wise God and our Saviour Jesus Christ be given the Kingdom the Power and the Glory now henceforth and for evermore Amen SERMON VIII Luke XVI 27 28 29. Then he said I pray thee therefore Father that thou wouldst send him to my Fathers House For I have five Brethren that he may testifie unto them lest they also come into this place of torment Abraham saith unto him They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them THe rich man having received a slat denyal of that which he requested that Lazarus might be sent with a drop of water to allay the heat and throbbing of his parched tongue and sadly perceiving himself a pitiless miserable Object is here brought in intreating Abraham to dismiss Lazarus to his Brethren who were yet alive and to give them an account of his deceased Brothers wretched and woful State Let him assume his Body and go and relate what Torments I endure that he saw me in the midst of Flames my Flesh broiling my Tongue swoln with heat and pain That he heard me weeping and sighing and bemoaning my comfortless and irreparable Condition That he saw the damned Fiends imployed in vexing and tormenting me and that I have all the Scenes and Images of Terror always in view Let him tell them how I curse my Folly for living secure and careless without thought of another World or what would become of me after death Let him assert my Resolution That if I was admitted to re-enter the World and live my Days over again that are past I would not be charmed with the flatteries of Lust and Sensuality nor spending my time in eating drinking and soft delights in cloathing my Body with gawdy Raiment nor bend my study to invent Recreations for my Appetite I would limit my Will Desires and Affections and by a prudent management bring my Flesh under that it might be corrective and govern'd by the insinuations of Reason I would set an inestimable value upon the means of Salvation which I foolishly slighted and turned into wantonness That I would live in a constant expectation of Death and Judgment Such a Relation as this Father Abraham would astonish my Brethren scare them from their Sins and caution them against those Imprudences which were my destruction and remediless ruine This would rouse them out of sleep make them unravel all that they have done and put them upon other Methods But is there any Charity in Hell Are there any in the Abyss of Misery who wish the Conviction Conversion and Salvation of Souls on Earth Do they not rather envy the Privileges and Advantages of Happiness they enjoy and desire that they may be as miserable as themselves It is the Opinion of some sage and learned Writers That the rich Man here prayeth not so much for the reformation and final Good of his Brethren as for himself that his Torments might not be the more aggravated with the perpetual sight and company of those who in this World were his near Relations or familiar Acquaintance and who were led and influenced by his base vicious Examples It will greatly add to the Afflictions of lost Souls to see those in Hell who when in the Body were seduced and drawn away from Christianity by their loose Practices But to the Answer which Abraham makes to the rich Man's Petition Thy Brethren have Moses and the Prophets those exact Transcribers of God's Will their Manuscripts are Truths delivered by the Holy Ghost and therein is dictated whatsoever God exacts from Men and Directions how they may please their Creator He will not grant Men needless and extraordinary Revelations to gratifie their vain Curiosity since he has acquainted them with every thing that is fit for them to know and practise Thy Brethren cannot plead Ignorance when they are daily excited and admonished by God's Ambassadors And if they will not be reformed by these Means and mighty Helps they cannot reasonably expect that God should send departed Souls with a special Commission and compel them to accept of the Terms of Happiness against their will His Word is sufficient to prepare them for Heaven if they will but believe its Propositions and live up to the Rule of Life prescribed therein But if this prove not effectual there is no probability of their being saved They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them From which I raise these Doctrines First of all That the Scriptures are the only means appointed by God for the Conviction Conversion and Salvation of Sinners Abraham argues the unreasonableness and impertinence of the Rich Man's request that he would dismiss Lazarus to his Brethren by urging the advantages and fair opportunities they had of making themselves for ever They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them There is no need of extraordinary revelations since they have such an eminent privilege of hearing the Counsels and Instructions of those worthy Men commissioned by and imployed under God Secondly That it is too plain an argument of great Infidelity and hardness of Heart when the Word of God doth not take place convince Men of their sins and