Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	create_v	fruit_n	lip_n	2,112	5	9.2614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94796	A brief commentary or exposition vpon the Gospel according to St John: wherein the text is explained, divers doubts are resolved, and many other profitable things hinted, that had been by former interpreters pretermitted. / By John Trappe, M. A. pastour of Weston upon Avon in Glocester-shire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing T2037; Thomason E331_2; ESTC R200736	149,815	167

ever the anon lest the juyce be spent in leaves And if it be painfull to bleed 't is worse to wither Better be pruned to grow then cut up to burn Verse 3. Vinitoris culteltus ad surdes purgan●as Cal. Through the word c. Which is the pruning knife to lop off our luxuriancies rotten boughs raw grapes to pare off our gumme of pride mosse of formality c. The word hid in the heart keeps from sin as an amulet Psal 119.11 and keeps youth from uncleanesse ver 9. mixt with faith it purgeth upon corruption Act 15 9. and will not suffer men to rest in sin Verse 4. As the branch cannot bear fruit c. All our sap and safety is from Christ The bud of a good desire the blossome of a good resolution and the fruit of a good action all comes from him Gratia praevenie nos ut velimus subsequitur ne frustra velimus Aug. Verse 5. The same bringeth forth much fruit Christ is a generous vine a plant of renown and all his are filled with the fruits of righteousnesse Phil. 1.11 have hearts full of goodnesse as those Rom. 15.14 and lives full of good works as Tabitha Act. 9.33 Melch. Ad. in vlia In Bucholcero vivida omnia ficerunt vivida vox vividi oculi vivida manus gestus omnes vividi Nehemiah never rested doing good for his people he was good all over Like the Aegyptian fig-tree that bears fruit seven times a year Solin Polyhist or the Lemmon-tree which ever and anon sendeth forth new Lemmons as soon as the former are fallen off For without me ye can do nothing This is point blank against the doctrine of free-will Sub laudibus natura latent inimici gratia saith Augustine These will needs hammer out their own happinesse like the Spider climbing by a threed of her own weaving with Motto accordingly Mihi soli debeo Whereas the Apostle demandeth Who made thee to differ Greevinchovius the Arminian boldly answers Ego meipsum discerno I make my self to differ This he had learned from Heathens belike That we live Quòd vivamus deorum munu● est quod bene vivamus nostrum Iudiciū boc omnium mortalium est c Cic. de nat de Aug. de civit Dei l 5. is from God but that we live well is from our selves saith Seneca And this is the judgement of all men saith Cicero that prosperity is to be sought of God but wisdome is to be taken up from our selves St Augustine was of another judgement and saith Ciceronem ut saceret homines liber●s ficisse sacrilegos Verse 6. Cast them into the fire and they are burned So they must needs be may some say but his meaning is that temporaries of all others make the fiercest hottest fire because they are trees most seared and fuell fully dry Nahum tels us that such are but as stubble laid out in the Sun a drying that it may burn the better Chap. 1.10 or like grapes let to hang in the Sunshine till they be ripe for the wine-presse of Gods wrath Revel 15.16 Verse 7. Aske what ye will and it c. Either in money or monies-worth If ye ask and misse it is because ye ask amisse Vir iste potuit quod voluit One was wont to say of Luther that he could have of God what he would And being one time very earnest with God for the recovery of a godly usefull man he cried out Fiat voluntas mea Mea voluntas Domine qu●● tu● let my will be done and then he fals off sweetly My will Lord because thy will Verse 8. Herein is my Father glorified c. There is not saith one so much of the glory of God in all his works of Creation and Providence as in one gracious action that a Christian performs how much more in a life full of good fruits This makes others say ●erè magnus est D●us Christianorum said one Calocenus a Heathen Surely God is in them God also accounts that he receives a new being as it were by those inward conceptions of his glory and by those outward honours that we do to him especially when we study Gods ends more then our own and drown all self-respects in his glory Surely they that doe thus may have what they will saith one and God even thinke himself beholden to them Verse 9. Continue ye in my love In the love wherewith I doe dearly love you As who should say Suffer your selves to be loved by me loe the Lord Christ even makes love to the good soul and wooes entertainment Verse 10. Even as I have kept my Fathers Christs obedience must be our patern of imitation All his actions were either Morall or Mediatory In both we are to imitate him In the former by doing as he did Matth. 11.29 1 Pet. 2.23 In the later by similitude translating that to our spirituall life which he did as Mediatour as to die to sinne to rise to righteousnesse Verse 11. These things have I spoken that c. Sound joy is wrought in the heart by the hearing of the Word Make me to hear joy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken with the sense of sinne and fear of wrath may rejoyce Psalm 51.8 And God creates the fruit of the lips to be peace Isai 45. That my joy may remain in you The temporaries joy as it is groundlesse like weeds that grow on the top of the water so is it but frothy and slashy such as may wet the mouth but not warm the heart smooth the brow but not fill the breast like a slight dash of rain or an handfull of brush wood c. Eccles 7.6 The true Christians joy is full and firm solid and substantiall Gaudium in re gaudium in spe gaudium de possessione gaudium de promissione He hath still enough to make him everlastingly merry under whatsoever misery He can turn into his counting-house and finde there sufficient ot sustain him as David did 1 Sam. 30.6 Verse 12. This is my Commandment Love is the complement of the Law and the supplement of the Gospel Verse 13. Greater love then this c. Of any such love but in Christ we shall hardly read David in a passion may wish Would God I had died for thee but in cold bloud I doubt whether he would have done it A certain Citizen of Toledo B. Fulg ● 1. being condemned to die his son ceased not by prayers and tears to entreat that he might die for his Father which accordingly he did but this is rare for life is sweet and love is cold in this case Every man is his own next-neighbour Verse 14. If ye doe whatsoever c In desire and endeavour lifting at the latch though ye cannot open the door and looking to both the magnalia minutula of the Law Boni Catholioi sunt saith Augustine qui fidem integram sequuntur bonos more