Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	hate_v	love_v	sin_n	9,451	5	5.6895	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74683	A sermon called A vvife mistaken, or a wife and no wife : or Leah in stead of Rachel; a sermon accused for railing against women; for maintaining polygamie, many wives, for calling Iacob a hocus-pocus. A sermon laught at more than a play (by the ignorant) for many such mistakes : justified by the wise. Wisedome is iustified of her children. / By Tho. Grantham M. Art. curate of High Barnet neer London, invenies aliquem -	Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664.	1641 (1641)	Thomason E172_19	9,043	16

therewith and p. 616. If so be that evill were absolutely evill as good is Absolutly good he would in no wise will the event of evil neither should there be any evill existent at all his adversary agrees with him read King Bishop of London upon Ionah lecture 18. p. 238. In sin two things the act the defect good bad he hath if from the schools as you may read there read the same Lecture p. 240. In Adultery the commination of the Adulterers wicked the creature good Anselme de casu Diabolt Every creature of God is good ens bonum convertuntur Adultery nought thou shalt not commit adultery In drunkennesse society that is good it is not good for man to be alone drunkennesse nought wo be to them that rise up early to follow drunkennesse Isa 5. 11. he that will be further satisfied let him read Anselme Perkins Arminius Twiss Bishop King in the places cited If they had objected thus they had shewed lesse ignorance If every evill have his good why is pride excepted To this I answer In other sins man turnes from God either ignorantly or out of infirmity or his delight and pleasure drawes him but pride turnes from God meerly out of a self will because it will not be subject to God And therfore say Divines that when other vices fly from God pride stands to it and opposeth God know therefore it is expresly said Iam. 4. 6. That God resists the proud sets himselfe in battell aray against him as the Originall signifieth and that which is a consequent in other sins is the beginning and chiefe in pride for in other sins a man does not hate God first but he loves the creature first inordinately and then he hates God his love being contrary to his desire but pride hateth God at first that is the chiefe the first onset And the hating the Aversion the Turning from God is formalis completiva ratio peccati say the schooles The conversion hath it selfe onely materialiter in peccato And whereas the Act of other sins is good The very act of this sinne is nought cujus actus est contemptus Dei say the schools upon these reasons I was bolde to say there was no good in pride that is no such good as there is in other sins or no good in comparison of the good other sinnes have And if I should say absolutely there was no good in pride hese words would defend mee cujas actus est contemptus Dei Gregory in his Morals does not number pride amongst the seven chief and capitall sins but makes it the Queen and Mother of all Ipsa vitiorum Regina superbia then he saith it hath a generall influence into all things some are proud of their riches some of Eloquence some of earthly some of heavenly gifts If it be in Davids Arithmetick in his numbring of the people it is dangerous If in Pauls Revelations but God gives sufficient grace It is a Pestiferous deadly disease saith he corrupting all the body others call it the ruine of all vertues Prosper saith there is no sinne without it lib. de vita Contemplat And in some kinde the schooles agree to it other sins corrupt but the contrary vertue this corrupts al It is that dead fly in the precious ointment of all the vertues and makes them send forth a stinking savour from whence comes blasphemy the evill actions of Satan opposition to God but from pride that will not be subject to God nor limited within his Lawes Apostacy comes from pride Eccles 10. Initiū superbia Apostatate a Deo est pri●a superbia pars say the schooles and the blasphemy of the Devils ascends from Pride Ps 7 3. superbia eorum qui te oderunt ascendit semper there blasphemy is called pride Pride is the beginning of all sin Eccles 10. 14. And although it be said of coveteousnesse Tim. 6. 10. that it is the roote of all evill yet it differs much from pride because coveteousnesse is a turning to a Mutable good by which this sin is nourished and fed but pride is an Aversion from God an Absolute deniall of Obedience to God and therefore it is called the beginning of sin quia e● parte aversionis Incipit ratio mali As for that passage of a good-fellow If there be any good in drunkennesse let us take the other Cup I answere you must not sinne because there is pleasure or profit in a sinne both which are good There is Esca and Laqueus the hony and the sting take one avoide the other And thus you have seene the fall of this reeling Argument FINIS