Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	let_v	lord_n	love_v	12,105	5	6.4310	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60658	A tender visitation of the Fathers love, to all the elect-children, or, An epistle unto the righteous congregations who in the light are gathered, and are worshippers of the Father in spirit and truth, to be read amongst them in the pure fear of the Lord God, when they are assembled and met together in his name / by Wlliam Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4336; ESTC R2609	12,935	18

and in his Power you have been made to stand else had you been as others are for no Temptation but is Common and none can stand but in his Power for he alone is Israels keeper therefore the Boaster is Excluded and all the loftie is cast down who in their Difference seems to Glory and smites at others who in some things may Differ from them and would have none come near to them but such as in the likeness of their Holiness doth appear and who appears not with them such they Judge and who Receives and owns them such is there Love unto in the affection and so runs into a Self-separation and particular Union and this doth not refresh the Seed nor travails not to set it free Oh dear Friends watch over this Spirit that it may not have a place in any of you to Rule for the Fruit of it is Bitterness and the End of it is Desolation therefore be you all stayed in the pure measure of the Love of God Received that therein you may bind healm cherish and succour every breathing desire that thirsts after the Lord God not looking at the appearance nor Judging according to that but to feel in the measure of the Love and Life the true state of every one and so to divide aright that however any do appear the Cry of the Immortal may be felt and the state thereof truly Discerned that you may reach forth an Arm to all that stand in need and do good to all in tenderness alwayes considering what makes you to differ for verily Friends the Lords dear Seed breaths after him out of all Forms and Appearances and he is gathering and bringing forth a People out of the Traditions who cannot live any longer therein such is the Earnest after God in many this Day unto whom his tender Visitation of Love is Reached forth so put not a difference in Forms Appearances but in their true ground where the difference stands that betwixt the births you may truly divide for the least breathing after God in Tenderness is to be Cherished in all under what Form or Appearance soever they do yet abide the Lord is gathering a People in his Mercy out of all Professions to make them partakers of his living Truth whose understandings he is opening to behold the wonderful things that he is bringing to passe in this his Day so let your bowels be open unto all that in the Love wherewith the Father hath loved you and gathered you in the same Love according to the measure you may reach to the Seed of God in all that every tender Plant may be refreshed and all the weak and feeble may be strengthened and comforted that every one in their measures may be considered and as they stand Faithful unto God therein even so to be nourished and tendered in Love that all may be brought to a measure of God in themselves and every one therein to feel there Union with God and one another that so all friends who are gathered into Gods Truth this Day may be Translated into his likeness and bear his Image who is Love for he hath opened his Love in freeness to you and hath largely ministred forth of the Riches of it and this he doth require that you should Love one another in that Love wherewith he hath loved you and this will make you glorious as this covering is received upon you and by it shall all men know that you are true followers of him whose Name you profess for it draws you near him and unites you to him and makes your truly like him and it will close you all up in the puritie of it self and Unite you perfectly together and preserve you all in tenderness to God and one another that there will not be an Evil Eye amongst you but the Strong will bear with the Weak and not seek so much to please themselves and this is that which truly bears and endures all things and travails to remove burdens and to ease the oppressed Cherishing that which breathes in all but cannot hurt it in any Oh waite dear Friends in the Love of the Father to abide for it is a sweet thing for brethren there to dwell and let us consider one another that we may provoke one another more unti love until it be our garment to cover us throughout that nakedness may not appear in any so will all be healers and not burters nourishers and not destroyers and this is well pleasing unto the Lord and a service that is accepted of him for it is the travail of the Seed to set free and to bring out of all straitness that Unity may be held and Increased and every Plant may be preserved and all the Body kept in sweet order that every Member may feel its Union with the Head and there Receive its nourishment so will a supply be ministred unto that part which lacketh and every Member will stand serviceable in its place and bear its proper office in the Body and none to say to each other I have no need of thee but all to stand in the pure Unity of Life it self and there perfectly joyned in the one heart so will the Lords Name be one and his People one and his service and Worship one and this will keep all in a sweet savour unto God and a deareness and tenderness one towards another and unto this hath the Lord called you wait for the increase of it more amongst you that love unfegnedly may abound and the life of Righteousness may stand in Dominion that so for the soul you may all watch and with a tender eye be careful one over another that the Body may truly edifie it self in Love and all may receive comfort one of another then will the Lord of Life delight in you and dwell amongst you and water you dayly in his fresh Springs and feed you with the Heritage of Jacob for ever Oh dear Lambs prize the Lords Mercies over all for unto a high calling he hath called you be single unto him that his Love you may answer in walking worthy of all his Mercies so in his Power he will preserve and with his Arm defend that no weapon formed against you shall prosper for his care is over his own and unto his Chosen doth his Love reach for a good Shepheard he is over his Flock alwayes taking care for them he leads them where good Pasture is feeds them with the choicest food his Rod is alwaies stretched forth and in it doth their Comfort stand his staffe is near them to defend that the Devourer cannot Spoil nor with his teeth make them a prey he stands by them in the Day and in the Night he leaves them not for Israels keeper doth not slumber you are his Chosen his Flock his People who are of the immortal born your place is safe your strength is sure abide within and in the Life be ever stayed for in your Tent

them from the needful thing that no Life is possessed nor Power enjoyed but Antichrist Exalted and the Temple filled with a dry spirit that deadness and drowsiness is over the living the oyl being stope the spirit of slumber entred the Lamp is filled with it that when he comes he is not regarded nor no Readiness to receive him for there is no delight in waiting for him so have many lost their First Love and are Erred from the Way of Life Oh Friends there was a time in which he was more Brettous unto you when in the day he called you and in his love did visit you then was your hearts upright towards him and your joy did abound in him that you could have left all to follow him and nothing was deare unto you for his sake then was the Oyl powred forth freely and the favour of it was sweet unto you and your Lamps in brightness burned in that day and Life and Power you truly enjoyed and in sweet tenderness you was alwaies kept waiting his presence in you to feel and the brightness of his glory to behold your earnest was so much unto him that nothing could satisfie but the enjoyment of him Oh how sweet was his Word unto you in that Day how was you quickned and enlarged in it that you could have run and not been weary such was your delight in his Commandements how did you then attend to his Counsel and from his mouth received Instruction it was your Meat and Drink to do his Will whilst the tenderness did abide upon you and that which God had raised was fresh and living in you then was your eye kept single to him and was not after other Lovers your delight was in him placed and in sweet Union with his Life you lived in the measure which then you had received and therein was your lives refreshed and every morning your strength renewed that there was not then a feeble Person nor no weariness nor saintness was upon you but the living Power quickned and revived you and a sweet savour of life was then felt amongst you Oh consider for it was better with many in that day then now who have forsaken their first Love and are again come under the vail and doth not feel the springs of life in freshness to keep them awake and living unto God Oh come within my Friends for this Book is opened to be read divide a right feel in the Power see to the Root what springs up what is the fruit taste and see how it is search to the bottom mind Gods Witness it will not deceive you it will let you all see your conditions plainly it will not bring one thing to Light and hide another but it will bring all up that you may read thorrow with an understanding from the first day untill now for the Witness is true and will bear witness unto the Truth in all and what is out of the Truth it will reprove without respect of Persons so may all see your present states as the witness is minded and taken heed unto and it will keep all down to the measure of Truth and then none will seem to be above what they are And upon whomsoever the Witness smites hearken to it and as it opens your present states turn not away your ear that whoever have erred and from your first Love departed may again return Oh he is near you he waits for you come he will not Reject you but will freely heal you for yet is the Day of his Mercy to you for verily many are cooled and many slumber who in the day of tenderness truly tasted of the Word and Power from which the Oyl was poured forth that caused their Lamps to bear a glorious shew and this is a Lamentation in Israel this day the glory thereof in many seems to fade and a dry covering comes over in its place all may read as you mind the Light so will every one know your present states for the eyes of many hath been abroad and things hath been looked at and reasoned about and in the visible the mind hath run untill the Vail hath been secretly drawn that fears hath entered and their faith Surprized and then hath wavered that they have been driven back and their strength spoiled and so are many gone astray and neither finds springs nor pasture So all be diligent search out the Matter the Light will find it where it is and let all see where you are and what you feed upon for the Fathers Love sends to you all that the strayed may be gathered and the faithful established and though there may be some which will not hearken yet shall Israels glory stand and all that are willing thither to come though you have erred it shall not be remembred but the healing virtue of life you shall all taste and feel Oh hearken come delay not the Matter is weighty And all you dear and tender ones born of the Immortal seed sweet and pretious are you all the Fountain opens freely unto you the Fathers love cannot hold from you for you are his own he hath Chosen you and over you is his Arm stretched out your feet stands in a sure place and your Foundation none can remove happy are you that be in such a case yea blessed for ever who hath chosen the Lord to be your God you have stood in the Judgement and in the Cross hath walked and nothing could turn your feet aside you have not been Entangled though often allured you have been kept out of the Fowlers net and from him have you been preserved so in your stations you have stood and hath not swarved from the Lord but in his Power hath been kept and your Integrity you have Retained you are the living branches who in the Immortal knowes your Life your Leafe shall not wither neither shall your Blossom fade but glorious shall your Fruit be for in the River of Pleasure your Root is placed he hath weaned you from the world his life to delight in he feeds you dayly with the fatness of his House and gives you to drink of his Fulness freely Oh what is like unto your Portion ye tender Plants your Bread is sure and your Water faileth not your dwelling place is full of Pleasantness and your peace no man can take away the Lord hath formed you in the womb and in his Power hath brought you forth to make you a Holy People to himself and a Generation to take delight in Children of his Love you are and his mercy is Endless unto you his Seed he hath raised in you to Raign and made you Subjects to his Power in the Covenant of Life he hath Sealed you up and who shall separate you from his Love Who is sufficient for these things or Who can shew forth his Mightie acts Oh let not his mercies be forgotten nor his loving kindness slip out of your minds for his own Arm hath wrought his Work