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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87161	A glimpse of divine light, breaking through a cloud of errours. Being an explanation of certain passages exhibited by anonymus, to the commissioners of White-Hall, appointed for approbation of publick preachers, against Joseph Harrison Gospel-preacher at Lund-Chappel in Lancashire, for the supposed delivering of which, he was denied approbation. / Published by the said Joseph Harrison, and proposed to the consideration of all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.	Harrison, Joseph.	1655 (1655)	Wing H897; Thomason E841_7; ESTC R207225	67,448	83

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} knowledge from the effects or an assurance of knowledge than of Faith 1 Iohn 2.3 1 Iohn 3.14 19. because drawn by reason enlightened from fore-granted premises the one whereof at least is evident to sence The former of these is independant as to works infallible hath its evidence in and from its self is fully satisfactory to the Spirit of a Christian and is most lively manifest and vigorous in the evil day The latter is dependant upon works will not amount to a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or full assurance hath its evidence in and from the Ergo or manner of inference is very convincing and silencing to reason because grounded upon sence and is ordinarily had in the good Sun-shine dayes of a Christian Secondly they are profitable c. to prevent Satans bringing believers into despaire or shaking us on though he cannot shake us from of the foundation of our faith And hence doth Peter exhort Christians to adde to their faith through which they were already established in the present truth 1 Pet. 1.12 Vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance c. and assureth them that if they do these things they shall never faile 1 Pet. 1 10. Because by the constant going on in these the advantage is taken from Satan of casting stumbling-blocks in our way which the committing of gross or discernably poysonous sins doth afford unto him they being as it were Darts put into the devils hands which he sets on fire in hell and shoots with terrour through the Canon of the Law to batter down that spiritual Kingdom of righteousnesse peace and joy which Christ hath erected in us 3. Though the Testimony of my conscience or my own integrity and innocency in such a particular cause or fact be not able to bear me up to plead at the judgement seat of God for I know nothing by my self saith Paul c. yet is the Testimony of a good conscience or my own righteous dealing in such or such a cause namely instrumental to encourage and embolden me under and against the false accusations aspersions and extra-judicial censures and sentences of all sorts of men and creatures whatsoever Hic murus aheneus esto nil conscire sibi c. could the Poet say And here Paul accounted it a very small thing to be judged of them or of mans judgement 1 Cor. 4.3 And Peter adviseth Christians to have a good conscience and telleth them that it is better if the will of God be so that they suffer for well-doing than for evil doing 1 Pet. 3.16 17. Fourthly and lastly good works are profitable c. To manifest to others the reality of our faith and the purity and undefilednesse of our Religon and undefiled before God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widowes in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted of the world Iam. 1.27 RIghteousness or good works are profitable unto others For first The Apostle expressely asserteth That they are good and profitable unto men Tit. 3.8 2. Calvin maketh the very essence of works as good to consist in their being profitable unto others and saith that in tota lege syllaba una non legitur c. In the whole Law there is not one syllable read which prescribeth a rule to man concerning those things which he should either do or omit for the profit of his flesh Insomuch that thirdly It is Antinomianisme with him or contrary to the bent of the Law for a man to love and doe for himselfe first and then secondly To love and do for his neighbour as for himself making love to self the rule and so superiour to the love of his neighbour This saith he was not the intent of the Lord in that Law Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe Sedubi naturali pravitate solebat But whereas by a natural depravity the affection of love was wont to reside within our selves He sheweth that it ought now to be diffused another way it being the property of true love not to seek her own things 1 Cor. 13.5 And hence 4. it was in my thoughts to have discussed the point a little with these Informers and enquired how this work of theirs deemed so righteous can be called good fith it will be hard to make it appear that it is profitable to any save themselves and me To them carnally and Per se feeding though not filling that which in them lusteth unto envy To me spiritually and Per accidens as the messenger of Satan was by his buffeting unto Paul But because I am perswaded it will be harder for them to kick against the prick they have made in their own spirits then it is for me to grapple with that they have made in my flesh I shall be silent as to that and willingly if my God see it good suffer here with Abel as a man of vanity and nothing and leave them Cain-like men of great possession though smally bettered if in the land of Nod And yet I must needs say to give even Cain his due the pattern of all such as sin against the law of love 1 Iohn 3.12 That he dealt farre more candidly with Abel then they have done with me for he first talked with his brother and then afterwards slew him Gen. 4.8 These men have bent their bowes and shot their Arrowes poysoned well nigh four years in the Quiver and are yet to talk and make it out that their sacrifice is of so much worth as to entitle them to the birth-right and impower them cum privilegio to trample upon the necks of their poor younger brethren But notwithstanding this my brethren in your patience do you possess your soules Mat. 21.19 give place unto wrath Rom. 12.19 Let the Lord of the Vineyard do what pleaseth him unto these husbandmen Luke 20.15 FINIS A vindication of the answer to the Queries lieth by me in scattered sheets the publishing called for and at hand Reply to Crand pag. 43. Reply to Mr. Blake page 49. The word is an Instrument of Gods Spirit not cooperative but passive working only per modum objecti as it containes a Declaration of the divine will and it proposeth to the understanding will the things to be known beleeved and practized Blake of covenants Sec. 20. out of Mr. Pemble Grace and faith vbi vid. et Kend answer to Goodwin cap. 4 pag 163. The power of the spirit doth not work upon the word to put life into it but it works upon our soules to put life into them Pemb. Vind. p. 122. vind. leg. pag 142. The doctrine I wil insist upon is this that the Law was delivered by God on mount Sinai in a covenant way page 220 Voluit dicere legem nobis esse mortuam et sic nos ejus jure selutos Sicut mulier mortuo marito ejuslege liberatur sed videtur rationem habere Iudaeorum ne tali