Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	lord_n	soul_n	15,424	5	4.9587	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03597	A remedie against sorrow and feare, delivered in a funerall sermon, by Richard Hooker, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.; Spenser, John, 1559-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13722; ESTC S121049	7,781	18

A REMEDIE AGAINST SORROW AND FEARE delivered in a funerall Sermon BY RICHARD HOOKER SOMEtimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold by John Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit 1612. IOHN 14. 27. Let not your hearts be troubled nor feare THE holy Apostles having gathered themselues together by the special appointment of Christ beeing in expectation to receiue from him such instructiōs as they had beene accustomed with were told that which they least looked for namely that the time of his departure out of the world was now come Wherevpon they fell into consideration first of the manifolde benefits which his absence should bereaue them of and secondly of the sundrie evils which themselues shoulde be subiect vnto beeing once bereaved of so gracious a master and patron The one consideration overwhelmed their soules with heavinesse the other with feare Their Lord and Saviour whose wordes had cast downe their hearts raiseth them presently againe with chosen sentences of sweet encouragement My deare it is for your own sakes that I leaue the world I know the affections of your hearts are tender but if your loue were directed with that advised and staide iudgemente which should be in you my speech of leaving the world and going vnto my father would not a little augment your ioie Desolate and comfortlesse I will not leaue you in spirit I am with you to the worlds end whether I bee present or absent nothing shall ever take you out of these hands my going is to take possession of that in your names which is not only for me but also for you prepared where I am you shal be In the meane while My peace I giue not as the world giveth giue I vnto you Let not your hearts be troubled nor feare The former part of which sentence having otherwhere already beene spoken of this vnacceptable occasion to open the latter part thereof here I did not looke for But so God disposeth the waies of men Him I hartily beseech that the thing which he hath thus ordered by his providēce may through his gracious goodnesse turne vnto your comfort Our nature coveteth preservation from things hurtfull Hurtful things being present do breed heavines being future do cause feare Our Saviour to abate the one speaketh thus vnto his disciples Let not your hearts be troubled and to moderate the other addeth seare not Griefe and heavinesse in the presents of sensible evils cannot but trouble the mindes of men It may therefore seeme that Christ required a thing impossible Be not troubled Why how could they choose But we must note this being naturall and therefore simplie not reprouable is in vs good or bad according to the causes for which wee are grieved or the measure of our griefe It is not my meaning to speake so largely of this affection as to go over all particulers wherby men do one waie or other offend in it but to teach it so far only as it may cause the very Apostles equals to swarne Our griefe and heavines therfore is reproueable sometime in respect of the cause from whence sometime in regard of the measure wherevnto it groweth When Christ the life of the world was led vnto cruell death there followed a number of people and women which women bewailed much his heavie case It was naturall compassion which caused them where they saw vndeserved miseries there to poure forth vnrestrained teares Nor was this reproved But in such readines to lamēt wher they lesse needed their blindnes in not discerning that for which they ought much rather to haue mourned this our Savior a little toucheth putting them in minde that the teares which were wasted for him might better haue beene spent vpon themselues Daughters of Ierusalem weepe not for me weepe for your selues and for your children It is not as the Stoickes haue imagined a thing vnseemely for a wise man to be touched with griefe of minde but to be sorrowfull when we least should and where we should lament there to laugh this argueth our small wisedome Againe when the Prophet David cōfesseth thus of him selfe I grieved to see the great prosperitie of godlesse men how they flourish and go vntoucht Psal. 73. Himselfe hereby openeth both our common and his peculiar imperfection whom this cause should not haue made so pensiue To grieue at this is to grieue where we should not because this griefe doth rise from errour We erre when we grieue at wicked mens impunitie and prosperitie because their estate being rightly discerned they neither prosper nor goe vnpunished It may seeme a paradox it is a truth that no wicked mans estate is prosperous fortunate or happie For vvhat though they blesse themselues and thinke their happynesse great Haue not franticke persons many times a great opinion of their owne wisdome It may be that such as they thinke themselues others also do accompt them But what others Surely such as themselues are Truth and reason discerneth farre otherwise of them Vnto whom the Iewes wish all prosperitie vnto them the phrase of their speech is to wish peace Seeing then the name of peace containeth in it al parts of true happynesse when the Prophet saith plainly that the wicked haue no peace how can we thinke them to haue anie part of other then vainely imagined felicitie What wise man did ever accompt fooles happy If wicked men were wise they woulde cease to bee wicked Their iniquitie therefore proving their follie howe can wee stande in doubt of their miserie They abound in those things which all men desire A poore happynesse to haue good things in possession A man to whō God hath given riches and treasures and honor so that hee wanteth nothing for his soule of all that it desireth but yet God giveth him not the power to eate thereof such a felicitie Salomon esteemeth but as a vanitie a thing of nothing If such things adde nothing to mens happines where they are not vsed surely wicked men that vse thē ill the more they haue the more wretched Of their prosperitie therefore wee see what wee are to thinke Touching their impunitie the same is likewise but supposed They are oftner plagued then we are aware of The panges they feele are not alwaies written in their foreheads Though wickednesse bee sugar in their mouthes and wantonnesse as oile to make them looke with cheerefull countenance nevertheles if their harts were disclosed perhaps their glittering estate would not greatly be envied The voices that haue brokē out from some of thē O that God had giuē me a hart senseles like the flint in the rockes of stone which as it can tast no pleasure so it feeleth no woe these the like speeches are surely tokens of the curse which Zophar in the booke of Iob powreth vpon the head of the impious man Hee shall sucke the gale of Asps and the Vipers tongue shall sley him If this seeme light