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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	good_a	know_v	love_v	12,241	5	6.1095	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57965	Christs napkin: or, A sermon preached in Kirkcubright at the Communion, May 12. 1633. By that flower of the Church; famous, famous, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd. Never before printed	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing R2373A; STC 21465; ESTC S116297	15,666	24

the first the last Letter of the A B C The Ancient of Days the Eternal Son of the Eternal GOD It Teaches us that we may Crack more of our Old Holding and Old Charter nor all the VVorld can do For why VVhen began Christ to bear a Good-will to a Sinner Even when he began to be GOD and he was GOD from all Eternity Suppose the Sun in the Firmament were Eternal the Light of it behoved to be Eternal For the Light of the Sun is as Old as the Sun Love is a Beam of Light and Heat that comes from Christ the Sun of Righteousness Therefore Ever-living Christ and Ever-living Love For Love comes not on Christ the Day which was not in him Yesterday Man's Love and a King's Love are hunted for very much and yet they die and their love dies with them and often their love dies before themselves But who seeks Christ's Love that Changes not Yea this is a Matter of Admiration and VVonder that Christ should have thought on us VVorms of Clay ere ever we were and that our Salvation is as Old as Evermore and as Old as Christ and Christ is as Old as GOD For indeed if GOD should begin at any Point of Time to love Sinners his Love should have had a Beginning and if his love should have had a Beginning Christ himself should have had a Beginning Because love with him is one with his Essence and Nature But it may be said Can the love of GOD be Older than the Death of Christ Answer Christ's Death doth not make GOD properly a Hater or Lover of Man for then both his Will should be Changable and his Love have a Beginning How then Christ's Death doth not only let that GOD may kyth the Fruits of his Eternal Love out upon us but after such a VVay as he thought convenient for his Justice and therefore we are said in Scripture to Reconciled to be GOD and GOD is not said to be Reconciled to us His love is Everlasting because by order of Nature it is before the Seed before we had done either Good or Evil So that Sin should not Change GOD's Mind but only by the order of Justice Sin stood in the Way to hinder us of Life Everlasting which is a Fruit of his love yea more GOD with that same love in Christ loveth the Elect before and after Conversion And therefore we have to Rejoice in feeling any of God's love to us in Christ It is Old Acquaintance betwixt him and us and therefore as it is Folly in Man as Solomon saith to cast off his Old Friend and his Fathers Friend So let us think it Madness to cast off such an Old Friend as Christ and let our Faith hold fast by this under Temptations and Desertions Alpha and Omega Changeth not the Change is in us The Third Thing in the Words is a Promise of the Water of Life to the Thirsty Isaiah 55. 1 and John 13. 7. Christ at the Mercat-Cross crys the Well free But Learn 1. The Thirsty and Hungry Souls are meetest for the Water of Life What ye will say are not all Thirsty all wants the Life of GOD and the Sap of Grace and are burnt and withered at the Root But all knows not their own Want But indeed a special Comfort for the Weak Ones to say O say they I know Christ doth Good to Believers to Repenters and to such as love Him But I dow not nor cannot win to Faith and Repentance Hope Patience I have too short an Arm to Rax so High Then say I Have ye a Desire a Hunger for Faith and Repentance and Love now upon your Conscience speak the Truth I trow ye cannot deny it Then your Lord bides you come the Well is open unto you for Hunger and Thirst being next to Motion and are the Two Properties that begins first with Life So every Thing that is New Born is Lively and hath a Stomack for Meat and Drink O but say ye I am many Times in my Soul even at Deaths Door I have neither Faith nor Feeling I am even at this GOD loves me not and the Well is not ordained for me at these Times Would ye fain be at the Well Now in my Mind ye cannot win away The Children of GOD when at the lowest Ebb even when Faith Comfort Joy Love and Disposition to Pray is away Is there not a longing for a Presence I speak to the Conscience of GOD's Child Lye not No David Psalms 6. when he thought GOD strake him in his Wrath was at how long LORD A cutted word I think that he looked like a Poor Hungry Beast looking ov'r the Dyke who would fain have had a Mouth-full he was even going about to seek a Slapp to break ov'r the Dyke of his Doubtings And so it is with GOD's Bairns under their Thirst for the Well of Life See Cant. 3. when the Kirk can get no spearing of Christ and has no smell of Him and cannot find the Print of His Foot yet she is at this Saw ye Him whom my Soul loveth and Chap. 2. I charge you tell Him that I am Sick of Love Then let me now speak to Weak Ones and I will tell you who are Christ's Companions that Drinks with Him and shall get their Heads and Hearts full of the Water of Life even the Tender Christian that is ay seeking The Bairn in Christ's House that is most Cumbersome and makes most Dinn for his Meat is the best Bairn that Christ has The Bairn that is Greeting ilk hour of the day for a Piece and a Drink We say of such a silly Thing he would fain love Ay the Cumbersomer that Christ's Bairns be they are ay the Welcomer Na He loveth the Bairns best that has no shame and is ay crying alas black Hunger Dear Lord Jesus I am burnt with Thirst O for an open Cold Fountain O it is a sweet thing ay to be whinging and crying and seeking about Christ's Pantry Doors and to hold ay an Eye upon Christ when he goes into the House of Wine into His Fathers fair Luckie Wine-Celler where there are many Wines and bout in at Christ's back But in a word Have ye a Good Stomack Much Hunger Thrist Well ye shall get much Satisfaction of Grace in Christ Now who are they that are Debarred from Christ's Well Answer These who has gotten an Ill Drink from the Devil full of Lusts Pride and Covetousness full of Love of the World Such are they that has no Stomack for Christ Alas and woes me Christ standeth at the Wells side and cryeth the back of My Hand to you The Lord Jesus give you a Vomite-Drink that you may grow Wholsome and Hungry again for Christ For while then ye are never meet for Christ Is there not a Time when you cannot get Presence and ye have no pith to put up the Door and bout in but puts it half up and blinks in Love ye

Tears will follow us to Heaven unto the very Entry of the Door our Face shall be wet for we go out of this Life Sad and Groaning for this Miserable Life and to thrust throw the last Port and to wade throw the hindermost VVater it is a sore set But be blyth Christians and Grip to the Promise But ye that Laugh now and so are far from Tears that Mock the Mourners of Zion ye may Sigh and close the Bible and say alas I never shed a Tear for Christ yon Text is not for me It may be Christ shall that Day gar you VVeep and shed Tears for Evermore This Soure Laughing World will away There is a Day of Tears coming on you Greeting and Gnashing of Teeth And when a Man Gnasheth his Teeth one against another he has no mind of Laughing But I would not have your Mirth for a World be doing we will see who will Laugh fastest yon Day Vse 2. There is an Ill coming on this Land Sin is not come to a full Harvest GOD's Bairns that can now Mourn for their own Sins and the Sins of the Land Rejoice in Heaven there is never seen a Greeting Bairn there GOD has a Napkin to dight their Faces It is the Laughing Rejoicing People that GOD Destroys He that Sate upon the Throne John heareth more of Christ a Sweet Speech Here Three Things 1. A Speaker 2. A Speech 3. A Direction to keep the Speech Who spake the Speech is not told whether an Angel or an Earthly King For they sit on Thrones also But it is He of whom it is said Rev. 4. 2. And a Throne was set and one sat on the Throne John tells not his Name But he thinketh so much of him that he takes it as granted that there is none Worthy to be a King but He and to sit upon a Throne but He. The Saints measures all the Affections of others by their own Affections As if one speared at John who is He that Sits upon the Throne He would have answered what needs you spear Is there any in Heaven or Earth in my Estimation Worthy to be a King but He and to Sit upon a Throne but He and to take a Crown but He upon His Head The Saints sets ay Christ His alone they set Him ay above all Speak of Kings to them but Christ is out of play So Cant. 2. The Kirk Meeting with the Watchmen saith Saw ye Him whom my Soul loveth What kend the Watchmen Him whom her Soul loveth For she might have loved a Lown or a Harlot or an Idol-god or the World But she measureth the Watchmen by her Self there was none in her Mind but Christ And therefore she needed not to tell them as she thought So Mary Magdalen John 20. 15 says to the Gardiner as she thought Sir if ye have born Him hence tell me where ye have laid Him She tells not what Him taking as granted none was so much in her Mind as Christ Nay I pray you let the same Mind be in you that was in John Let Christ be to your Soul the Pearl of the Ring Amongst all Kings to us Christ should be made High and Esteemed as He the Only He that is Worthy to Sit on the Throne So Canticles 5. He is to the Kirk the Chief among ten thousand Gather all the Angels and all the Saints in Heaven and Earth together Christ is too Good to be their Captain And indeed what is all that sits on a Throne It must be Infinitly more in Him And what Glory is in the World is far more in Him Take all the Roses in the Earth and put them all in one that would be a Dainty Thing and Sight Now what are all these to Christ No more than a Nettle to the fairest Rose Fy upon the Tasteless Love of Men that never Loveth Jesus Christ and yet falleth in Love with Lusts They Love Gold Riches and Honour and puts Christ to a Backside ay Christ gets not his own amongst us we Commend him not neither will we match with him Thirdly I will make all Things New This is as much as all Things were Old Sinhath made all things Old Rom. 8. They are like a Woman Groaning in Child-birth with Pain and Vanity because of our Sin All the Creation are sickned because of Sin Because of our Sin Vanity came on the Sun Moon and other Creatures they Sigh under this and Pray in their kind a Mallison and a Wo to Man for Sin has made us all Miserable The Heavens that are the fairest part of the Great Web of the World waxes Old as an Garment The Prophet saith they are like an Old Clout The Water saith Let me drown Sinners they have sinned against my Lord The Fire saith Let me Burn him let me Burn Sodom for they have sinned against my Lord All Things has lost their Glory that they got in their first Creation Jesus seeth all Things gone Wrong and quite out of Order And Man fallen from his Lord and He did even with the World as a Pylot once with an Untentive Man at the Rudder stirring the Ship on an Sand-Bank he stept in quickly and turned Her incontinent or else all would have gone to Confusion So our Lord steped in when the Great Ship of this World was running on a Sand-bed The Sun and Moon looked Sad like and said They would not Serve us Our Lord Renewed them by his Death and made them all Laugh on the Elect again and gave them all a Suite of New Cloaths Drunkards Christ gave his Blessing to the Wine that ye Spew on the Walls Ye that Dishonours your Maker with your Vain Apparel ye know not what it Cost Christ Our Lord bleed to buy a Right of them that ye abuse in Vanity All that sets the World in their Hearts where the Lord should be forgets that Christ bought the World to be their Servant and not to be as their Darling and Wife that lyes in their Bosom Ye that makes the Earth and the broad Aikers of it your Souls Portion so as ye Desire no more but Land ye forget Christ that bought the World and made it New to be a Foot-stool and not a Chair for your Souls to sit down upon And if Christ has this Art to make all Things New come to Him all ye that are Old ye that has Old Hearts come Indeed Christ may get his Craft among us if we would go to Him for He makes all Things New The Devil borrows another Man's Heart for Covetousness and he has crooked it with the Thorny-Cares of this World and holled it and dung the Bottom out of it O if ye would put it in Christ's Hand he would put it in his Furnace and Melt it again and by his Art bring it out a New Heart for himself to Dwell in Alas Christ gets not his Trade or Calling amongst us But why are not our Old Hearts mended Because we handle them as a Foolish