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	sin_n	son_n	9,084	5	5.9424	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67758	A hopefull way to cure that horrid sinne of swearing: or An help to save swearers, if willing to be saved being an offer or message from him, whom they so daringly and audaciously provoke. Also a curb against cursing. By R. Younge.	Younge, Richard.	1659 (1659)	Wing Y163; ESTC R218084	9,553	10

patient than a voluntary agent you may swear otherwise not Neither must we swear at all in our ordinary communication if we will obey Gods word as you may see Matth. 5.34 35 36 37. Jam. 5.12 Swearer Except I swear men will not believe me Messenger The● hadst as good say I have so often made shipwrack of my credit by accustomary lying that I can gain no belief unto my words without an Oath for it argues a guilty conscience of the want of credit and that our word alone is worth no respect when it will not be taken without a pawn or surety Neither will any but base bankrupts pawn so precious a jewel as their Faith or offer better security for every small trifle Besides he that often sweareth not seldom forsweareth And so I have informed you from Gods Word what the danger is of vain and wicked swearing Now if you either believe the Scriptures or desire to escape that direfull sentence Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Mat. 25.41 No longer excuse nor defend it but repent of it and forsake it and so much the rather for that of all other sins this sin of swearing is the most inexcusable First because it is a sin from which of all other sins we have most power of abstinence as I shewed you before and the easier the thing commanded is the greater guilt in the breach of it and the lighter the injunction the heavier the transgression as Austin speaks and Adam his eating the forbidden fruit sufficiently proves Secondly because it is a sin to which of all other sins we have the fewest temptations for all thou canst expect by it is the suspicion of a common Lyar by being a common swearer or that thou shalt vex others and they shall hate thee for it bringeth not so much as any appearance of good unto us to induce us for whereas other sins have their severall baits to allure us some the bait of profit some of honour some of pleasure this sin is destitute of them all and only bringeth much loss here namely of credit and a good conscience and the loss of Gods favour and the Kingdom of Heaven hereafter which is of more value than ten thousand worlds which shews that thou lovest this sin only because it is a great sin and swearest out of meer malice to and contempt of God which is most fearfull and as a man would think should make it unpardonable I am sure the Psalmist hath a terrible word for all such if they would take notice of it Let them be confounded that transgress without a cause Psal 25 3. And no marvell that this fearfull imprecation should fall from the Prophets mouth for that man is bottomlesly ill who loves vice meerly because it is a vice and because God most strictly forbids it He is a desperate prodigious damnable wretch who rather then not die will anger God on set purpose But as if Swearing alone would not press thee deep enough into Hell thou addest Cursing to it a sin of an higher nature which none use frequently but such as are desperately wicked it being their peculiar brand in Scripture as how doth the Holy Ghost stigmatize such an one His mouth is full of cursing Psal 10.7 Rom. 3.14 or he loveth cursing Psal 109. 17. and indeed whom can you observe to love this sin or to have their mouthes full of cursing but Ruffians and sons of Belial such as have shaken out of their hearts the fear of God the shame of men the love of Heaven the dread of Hell not once caring what is thought or spoken of them here or what becomes of them hereafter yea observe them well and you will find that they are mockers of all that march not under the pay of the Devil And whence do these monsters of the earth these hellish miscreants these bodily and visible Devils learn this their damnable Cursing and Swearing Are not their tongues fired and edged from Hell as St James hath it Jam. 3.6 yea it is the very language of the damned as you may see Rev. 16.11 21. Onely they learn it here before they come thither and are such proficients therein that the Devil counts them his best scholars and sets them in his highest form Psal 1.1 And well they deserve it with whom the language of Hell is so familiar that blasphemy is become their mother tongue Besides it is the very depth of sin roring and drinking is the horse way to Hell whoring and cheating the foot way but Swearing and Cursing follows Korah Dathan and Abiram And certainly if the infernal Tophet be not for those men it can challenge no guests But see how witless graceless and shameless even the best are that use to curse for I pass over such as call for a Curse on themselves saying God damn me Confound me The Devil take me and the like which would make a rationall man tremble to name because I were as good knock at a dead mans grave as speak to them Thou art crossed by some one perhaps thy wife childe or servant or else thy horse the weather the dice bowls or some other of the creatures displease thee and thou fallest a cursing and blaspheming them wishing them the plague of God or Gods vengeance to light on them or some such hellish speech falls from thy foul mouth And so upon every foolish trifle or every time thou art angry God must be at thy beck and come down from Heaven in all hast and become thy officer to revenge thy quarrell and serve thy malicious humour O monstrous impiety O shameless impudency to be abhorred of all that hear it not once taking notice what he commands in his Word as Bless them that persecuteyou bless I say and curse not Rom. 12.14 And again Bless them that curse you and pray for them which hurt you Luk. 6.28 which is the practice of all true Christians 1 Cor. 4.12 But this is not one half of thine offence for whom doest thou curse Alas the Creatures that displease thee are but Instruments thy sin is the cause and God is the Author 2 Sam. 16.11 Psal 39.9 10. Gen. 45.8 Job 1.21 from whom thou hast deserved it and ten thousand times a greater cross but instead of looking up from the stone to the hand which threw it or from the effect to the cause as Gods people do thou like a Mastiff Dog settest upon the stone or weapon that hut is thee But in this case who are you angry withall Does your Horse the Dice the rain or any other creature displease you Alas they are but servants and if their Master bid smite they must not forbear they may say truly what Rabshakeh usurped Isa 36.10 Are we come without the Lord and all that hear thee may say as the Prophet did to Senacherib 2 King 19.22 Whom hast thou blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy self even against the