Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	love_v	neighbour_n	self_n	2,652	5	9.4322	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28383	A plain and brief explanation upon the church catechisme different from what hitherto hath been extant : wherein the first elements and grounds of religion are reduced to such plain and familiar questions and answers ... : to which is added, a plain and useful tract of confirmation / by Nathaniel Blithe ...	Blithe, Nathaniel.	1664 (1664)	Wing B3197; ESTC R5761	48,274	155

in the publick prayers of the Church in hearing the word of God read and preached in Catechising and in receiving the Holy Sacrament of Christs most precious body and blood and in all these offices behaving our selves with all reverence decency and humility Q. Wherein consists that service we are on this day bound to performe towards our neighbour A. It consists in forgiving offences reconciling such of them as are at variance exhorting and edifying one another in love giving of alms and visiting the sick Q. What is that private service we are bound to performe to God on this day A. Reading good and profitable books meditating instructing our families in the principles of religion together with the performance of our private devotions which is every dayes duty Q. What is that rest which on this is required A. It is a rest from our common affairs and all servile works and labours unless of charity and necessity Q. Is this all the rest required on this day A. No we must not onely rest our selves but also we must suffer our Servants our Cattel and all that belongs unto us to rest on this day Q. What is your Duty towards your Neighbour which you learn in the second Table or in the sixth following command A. My Duty towards my Neighbour is to Love him as my self and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me to Love Honour and Succour my Father and Mother to honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him to submit my self to all my Governours Teachers spiritual Pastors and Masters to order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters to hurt no body by Word or Deed to be true and just in all my Dealings to bear no malice nor hatred in my Heart to keep my Hands from picking and stealing and my Tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering to keep my Body in temperance soverness and chastity not to covet nor desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get my own living and to do my Duty in that state of life into which it shall please God to call me Q. Who is your Neighbour A. Every man without exception unless the Church of God by its power hath for some notorious offence cut him off from her communion Q. Are we then bound to love our enemies those that hate us and persecute us A. These we are also to love and hereto we are strictly bound by our Blessed Saviours express command But I say unto you love your Enemies bless them that curse you pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you Q. In which of these six commands do you learn to love your neighbour as jour self A. This general duty I learn in all of them wherein is contained that kindness mercy and compassion which one man ought to entertain towards another it being the great design of this Table to maintain amity friendship amongst brethren Q. In which of these commands do you learn to do unto all men as you would they should do unto you A. This duty towards my neighbour I likewise learn from them all in general which teach me to give to all their just due and right not to detract from my neighbour by word nor deed neither to injure him either in body goods or name Q. In which of these commands dost thou learn to love honour and succour thy Father and Mother to honour and obey the King and all that are put in authority under him to submit your self to all your teachers governours spiritual pastors and Masters to order your self lowly and reverently to all your betters A. This part of my duty towards my neighbour I learn in the first precept of this Table or of the fifth in order honour thy Father and thy Mother Q. How can you learn thus much by this precept when as it onely enjoyns you to honour your father and mother A. These terms Father and Mother are very comprehensive under which are included all that are above us in what relation soever whether natural civil or Ecclesiastical Q. What is that duty which this command requires from you towards your natural relations that is your parents A. It is first to love them with so cordial an affection as so near a relation requires Secondly to honour them as those from whom I received my being who take care and provide for me in all respects next under my Creator Thirdly to succour them if providence should ever cast them into distress in every respect according to the best of my ability Q. What is that duty which this command requires from you towardes your civil relations that is the King who is the Father of his Country and all that are put in authority under him A. It is to give them that honour which is due unto them such as their eminent places and qualities require heartily to obey all their just commands patiently to suffer the penalties of their Laws when inflicted never upon any account whatsoever to rebell against them but quietly to submit my self to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake Q. What is that duty which this command requires from you towards your Ecclesiastical relations that is towards your Teachers spiritual Fathers Pastors A. It is to obey those good instructions they give me to follow their good examples patiently submitting to all those censures which for my extravagancies they inflict upon me and to endeavour by my true penitency to be absolved from them Q. So then I perceive there is a general duty by this command required of you towardes all your Superiours A. Yes this Law enjoyns me to order my selfe lowly and reverently to all my betters that is to give unto them that due subjection reverence honour and respect that their several qualities and employments challenge from me Q. In which of these commands dost thou learn to hurt no body by word nor deed to be true and just in all thy dealings to beare no malice nor hatred in thy heart A. This part of my duty towards my-Neigbour I learn in the second command of this Table or in the sixth of them all thou shalt do no murther wherein I am forbidden to offer any violence to my Neighbour either by word or deed not to take away his life either by open force or private treachery or any other way neither to harbour any murtherous malicious or envyous thoughts against him nor to utter any reviling railing bitter speeches In general here is forbidden all cruelty or unmercifulness either to men or beast Q. In which of these commands dost thou learn to keep thy hands from picking and stealing A. This part of my duty towards my Neighbour I learn in the fourth command of this second Table or in the eighth of them all thou shalt not steal wherein I am forbidden picking stealing secret purloyning open robberies violence plundering and rapacity or any other way