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
B30830	An epistle of love to Friends in the womens meetings in London, &c. to be read among them in the fear of God.	Townsend, Theophila.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. Testimony out of the Old Testament and New of the Lord sending his prophets to declare his judgments against the disobedience and pride of the Jews.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1987A	6,109	10

AN Epistle of Love TO Friends in the Womens Meetings in London c. To be read among them in the fear of God DEar Friends and Sisters in Christ Jesus to you is the salutation of my true and sincere Love in the ever blessed pure and precious truth of our God and to you is my Heart open in the tender love of our heavenly Father who hath reached unto us and lifted up the light of his countenance upon us and caused the ever blessed light of his everlasting day to shine among us and hath made known the riches of his grace unto us in order to fit and prepare us for his own work and service To you my wellbeloved in the Lord doth my Love and Life reach at this time to you that are given up to serve the Lord his Truth and People with chearfullness of Heart and readiness of mind according to the measure of his grace committed unto you and the breathings of my Soul unto the God of my Life is that he may entich you all with his heavenly Gifts and Graces that you may be strong in the power of his might and made able to perform the work and service of the Lord in the Church of Christ in this your day and serve up your Generation in faithfulness unto the end Oh! my tender Friends and well-beloved Sisters in the Lord having a sence of your great Loss in parting with one so dearly beloved of the Lord and well esteemed among his people Anne Whitehead who was a worthy Instrument and faithful Labourer in the Church of Christ one whom the Lord had furnished with his heavenly Wisdom and so filled with divine vertues that she was able and ready to be helpful in all concerns in the Church of Christ both Spiritual and Temporal this I was sensible of by that acquaintance I had with her She was indeed one of the Lords worthies who hath taken her unto himself and he was right worthy of her who had made her worthy of so blessed a work and honourable a service in the Church of Christ who blessed her labour and made i● effectual for good as is well known to you that have been Eye witnesses and conversant with her as by the many living testimonys from the faithful Brethren and Sisters is demonstrated and I had true unity with you in it and I was refreshed and my heart was truely tendered and broken before the Lord and I was affected with your care and diligence to leave it upon Record that her worthiness may not be forgotten nor her faithfulness be Buried in the Grave of Oblivion I say my heart was affected in the reading thereof and the desire of my Soul is that we that are left behind may walk in the same Path and that her past publick restimony that she bore among you may not be forgotten by you but that it may be had in remembrance for it was seasonable and needful viz. Against Pride and Vanity and superfluity in many of the younger sort that profess the Holy Truth which is a grief to the righteous to see how it abounds among such in the City of London and some other places My spirit have been long grieved and my Soul bowed down under the weight of it but considering how many worthy Instruments attended your Meetings and not doubting but the Lord hath put it into their hearts to testifie against it I was willing to be silent and bear the burthen and mourn in secret to see how Pride and Vanity notwithstanding hath taken place in many that profess the truth so the true desire of my Soul is that those concerned may lay it to heart and be bowed down and cast of that which causeth the weights and brings the heavy burthens upon the honest hearted and grieves the Holy spirit of the Lord which is the Sin that so easily besets to wit Pride and is so delightful to the young people that the Enemy hath captivated many and taken many in that Snare to the dishonour of God and his precious truth which they profess and that to the hurt of their own Souls therefore in bowels of tender Love I exhort you all whom it may concern to whom this may come in the City of London c. To incline your hearts to seek the Glory of God and the peace and welfare of your own Souls and the advancement of the Holy truth that you profess and are convinced of which the God of all our mercies hath made known unto you let your adorning be that comely ornament of a meek and quiet spirit like Holy women professing godliness with good works Oh! that I might prevail with you to follow the council of the Lord and his servants and mind the light of Christ in your own hearts and Consciences to be guided by it into plainness and humility of mind that you might not be evil examples to others round about you for the Eyes of many in the Nation are upon you and those that are inclined to take liberty in Pride and vanity and superfluity take strength by you and when such have been cautioned and admonished to plainness as becomes the truth they turn it upon us and say This is little to what Friends wear in London which is too true on some therefore I intreat you to deny your selves and take up the Cross and follow Christ Jesus in the streight and narrow way that leads to Life and peace And you that are Elders in the Church and Mothers in Israel I intreat you watch over the younger for good and be good patterns and Holy examples to them and use all diligence to admonish and counsel with much tenderness in the wisdom and power of God and judge down Pride and vanity especially in your own Families and give no liberty to your Children to please them in any thing that is contrary to truth when they shall say to you such a one have a Chain of Gold why may not I or any other needless thing that may give occasion to the enemies of truth to point at it and say the Quakers are as ready to run into any new fashion as we and so cause the weak to stumble and turn the simple out of the way therefore my dear Friends and Sisters you that have a concern upon you for the Church and are Elders in the Family of God stand up in the power and Holy authority of God to find the Babilonish garment and the wedge of Gold that hinders Israels prosperity and put it out of the Camp away with the naked Necks and Backs the needless pinches and Ruffles the high dresses upon the Head and tiring the Hair wanton Eyes walking and mincing as they go and all superfluity that dishonours God and his truth least instead of a Girdle he send a Rent and instead of well-set Hair Baldness and instead of a Stomacher a girding of Sackcloth and burning instead of beauty except you repent therefore I intreat you receive