Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	john_n	love_v	world_n	13,642	5	5.6658	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43575	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honourable William Lord Pagett, Baron of Beaudefert, &c. By John Heynes, A.M. and preacher of the New Church, Westminster	Heynes, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing H17646A; ESTC R216791	19,530	47

men Why thy folly is much greater inasmuch as thou refusest a greater blessing than any of the forementioned ones and choosest a condition far worse than theirs Search into the causes of it and you shall find that it proceeds from the weakness of your Faith from the remisness of your Love to God from the flatness of your desires from the lowness and darkness of your spiritual apprehensions and from your unmortified affections you are not yet throughly crucified to the world nor is the world crucified to you there is a secret hankering after it a secret delight and satisfaction in it whatever you pretend to the contrary were it not so you would long earnestly for your enlargement and with Saint Paul Phil. i. 23. desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is far better III. This Doctrine exhorts us to a noble and generous contempt of the body Is it so vile a thing so mean and contemptible a thing in the sense I have explained it O then do not spend thy time thy strength thy substance in providing for it or in the satisfaction of it but think of the poor Soul that is imprisoned in it labour as much as you can to in large its condition here to separate it as much as may be from the body to advance it as far as your present state is capable above the body Would you not think him a mad man that should stop up all both peeping and breathing holes in his Prison that should desire that the walls thereof might be made much stronger and the doors be bolted much faster Such is the folly of those men who mind nothing more than the good habit of their body O transfer your care from the Body to the Soul for that must shortly lie down in the dust and perish but this shall abide for ever Think therefore how thou mayest provide for its security how thou mayest get a mansion in the Heavens that so when thou goest hence thou mayest not be at such an uncertainty as the generality of men are who know not what shall become of them or where their Eternal abode shall be When thou dost disregard and slight thy body upon the design of promoting the health and happiness of thy Soul thou shewest the highest regard to and care for it imaginable for as our Saviour saith He that loveth his life shall lose it John xii 25. and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal So he that expresses his love to his body by studying the pleasure and satisfaction of it doth take an effectual course to destroy it but he that despises and neglects it for the sake of Christ doth hereby infallibly secure its everlasting welfare for whosoever hath an interest in Christ may be assured that at his coming he will change this vile body that it may be fashion'd like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself and so this leads me to the second thing contained in the words namely what shall be the state of the body at the resurrection it shall be transformed into the similitude or likeness of the glorious body of Christ In treating of this I shall observe this order or method I. To declare unto you what kind of change this shall be and wherein it doth consist II. To shew what assurance we have of it or what grounds and reasons to persuade our selves that thus it shall be III. To stir you up to a serious meditation of it that you may find the power and influence of this great truth upon your own hearts As for the first what kind of change this shall be it is evident that it shall not be a substantial change from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here made use of by which is intimated unto us that the same substance shall remain only it shall have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is not another shape for the form and figure and lineaments of the body shall not be altered but another appearance as being freed from all those evil qualities that were contracted by sin and adorned with all the excellencies and perfections it is capable of This body of ours that we now carry about with us this vile body that is liable to so many injuries that is deformed with blindness cripled with lameness weakned with sickness pined with hunger dried with thirst scorched with heat contracted with cold this very body shall Christ change that it may be fashioned like unto his own body and that not as it was upon Earth but as it was when raised up by the mighty power of God like to his glorious body Saint Chrysostom when discoursing upon this place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Hom. 13. in Ep. ad Philipp could not contain himself but break out into a rapture of joy and admiration Oh wonderful saith he that this vile body this earthy this corruptible body should be made like unto that body wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of the Father like unto that body wherein he is Worshipped and Adored by all the Heavenly Host Who hath heard such a thing who could ever have imagined such a thing it shall be made like unto the glorious body of Christ in the participation of the same excellent qualities This is strange and we cannot but wonder at it but yet we may nay we must believe it for he hath said it and he will do it since he is able according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself If you desire to understand more particularly the nature of this change Scritur 〈…〉 manitum usque quaque vestitum Tertul. de Resur carn the Apostle will inform you fully in the 15. Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians and the 42 43 and 44. verses It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body O consider this well we shall have spiritual bodies not in the strict and most proper sense of the word for so a spiritual body is a contradiction but we shall have pure refined quick and agil bodies which if compared with these to which we are now restrained may well be called Spiritual We shall have spiritual bodies that is such as the blessed spirits wear when they go upon Heavens Embassies plyant and yielding to all the motions of the Soul like their vehicles of Aether We shall have incorruptible bodies that is such which shall not stand in need to be repaired and kept up by the constant supplies of meat and drink such which shall subsist unchangeably without those helps which nature now requires as necessary to the preservation thereof we shall have incorruptible bodies that is such which cannot be