Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	fear_n	fear_v	servile_a	2,946	5	12.3591	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86549	Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ: or, The doctrine of sanctification (which is the greater part of our salvation) founded upon Christ, who is both the meritorious, and and efficient cause of sanctifying grace, purchasing it for, working & perfecting it in his people. Applied (as it was specially intended) for the better information of our judgements, and quickning of our affections in holiness, wherein our everlasting our everlasting happiness chiefly consisteth. / Preached in the weekly lecture at Evesham in the county of Worcester, by George Hopkins, M.A. minister of the Gospel there.; Salvation from sinne by Jesus Christ	Hopkins, George, 1620-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing H2743; Thomason E1608_1; ESTC R208454	135,124	325

ashamed when I have respect to all thy commandements I do not say that hatred of sin or love of holinesse is gradually perfect in all or any of the Saints in this life but it is prevalent in all of them Inquire then what is the prevalent or overpoising frame of thy heart Is it against every sin and for the whole service of God I say the prevalent or overpoising frame for a carnall person may and usually hath many grudgings of conscience against sin and some approbation of the wayes of holinesse When the rich young man in the Gospel came to Christ inquiring what he should do to inherit Eternall Life and at his second question asked Christ What lack I yet Christ plainly discovered by his answer that he wanted more love to his spiritual than to his temporall happinesse And in this example is confirmed what Christ told his Disciples to wit that he that loved any thing more than him is unworthy of him and cannot be his Disciple Luke 14.26 Mat. 10.37 Doubtlesse Judas had some kinde of love to his Master upon whom he had waited so long But the thirty pieces of silver weighed Christ down in the ballance of his affection I say also it is the frame of thy heart that thou must inquire after for it is hard judging by some particular inclinations onely A bad man may sometimes be in a good minde as at the hearing of some rouzing Sermon or under some great Affliction or the like but this goodnesse is but as the morning cloud Hosea 6.4 and as the early dew that soon vanisheth away The young man forementioned was in a good minde while he was coming to Christ but it was but of small continuance A good man also may sometimes be in a bad minde as when he is under a prevalent temptation So was David when he fell into the sins of Adultery and Murder and Solomon when he declined to Idolatry Now if a wicked man should judge of himselfe by what his inclination was while he was in a good minde for a little season he may judge himselfe to be godly as I doubt many do and so deceive his own soule Or if a godly man should judge of himselfe by what he hath observed in himselfe while he was under the power of some great temptation he may take himself for a very reprobate I adde against every sin and for the whole service of God Because a wicked man may have a prevalent constant hatred of some sinnes and a constant predominant love to some vertues even very Heathens have been constant haters of injustice intemperance c. and have been great lovers of temperance justice and such like vertues And we see by experience that many meer civil persons are stedfast haters of swearing drunkennesse whoredome and such like open profanesse and lovers of truth honesty and sobriety Inquire then what is the prevalent frame of thy heart against every sin so far as thou knowest And this requires a serious and frequent observation of thy heart and wayes if thou wilt make a clear discovery Let me ask thee then Hast thou well observed the frame of thy heart and dost thou find it to be against every sin so as not to be contented with secret sins heart-sins most pleasing sins common infirmities even such as may and doe ordinarily consist with a state of grace Canst thou say with David Psal 119.113 I hate vain thoughts Psal 18.22 23. All his judgements were before me and I did dot put away his statutes from me I was also upright before him and I have kept my selfe from mine iniquity For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point to wit habitually willingly and out of indulgence he remaineth guilty as a transgressour of the whole law James 2.10 3. As a further consequent He that is saved from a state of sin feareth sin and followeth after holinesse What a man looks upon as evil he hateth and what he hateth he feareth if he be in danger of it and the greater he apprehendeth the evil to be the greater is his fe●re of it And what a man accounteth good and so loveth he hopefully seeketh the injoyment of if it may be attained and the better he esteemeth it the more diligently he seeketh after it Thus to our purpose speaketh Solomon Pro. 28.14 Happy is the man that feareth alway but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischiefe To feare judgement with a love to sin is a servile feare but to feare sin as a most sad evill in it selfe is from a true filiall fear of God who hath forbidden sin and in the words we see it is such a feare as is opposed to hardning of the heart And we have Paul's example for earnest pressing after the good he loved and hoped for Phil. 3.12 13 14. I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Jesus Christ Brethren I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behinde and reaching forth to those things which are before I presse towards the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus My soul followeth hard after thee saith David Psal 63.8 Ask thy soul then Art thou bold and adventurous in thy waies without feare of falling into sin or art thou fearfull and carefull in all thy undertakings lest thou transgresse Dost thou say as Joseph did when a temptation ariseth How can I do this wickednesse and sinne against God Gen 39.9 And dost thou in doubtful cases consider and inquire what the will of the Lord is that thou maist keep his way 4. Hence followes care to avoid the evil obtain the good in the use of such means as tend to the accomplishment of it Let me ask thee then What care and diligence dost thou use in hearing reading meditating praying conferring and watching over thy heart A meere Hypocrite may do most of these as to the outward act with some kinde of diligence But dost thou doe all these carefully setting this as the end thou proposest that hereby thou maist the more prevaile against every evil and make a progresse in all good and thereby glorifie God thy Saviour But alas what is it that the most do they sit out a Sermon kneel out a Prayer in publick say over their prayers in private some perhaps doe this and more meerly to get knowledge to obtaine a good esteeme with men or to satisfie the voice of an enlightned naturall Conscience or for some other by-end But if all endeavours do not chiefly refer to this end to wit to glorifie God in eschewing every evill and doing good it is but lost labour 5. Lastly hence also followes a mans joy and delight in that which is good and sorrow when the contrary evil overtakes him What a man loves desires and seeketh after as good he delights in the enjoyment of What a