Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	husband_n	sister_n	wife_n	31,415	5	10.2119	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97021	None but Christ, or A plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ, exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified, with a particular, applicatory, and saving knowledge, in diverse sermons upon I Cor. 2. 2. / By John Wall B.D. preacher of the word of God at Mich. Cornhill London.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W469; Thomason E1139_1; ESTC R210079	152,329	343

m 1 Pet. 2. 2. as new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby they that are born the womb desire the milk of the breast as the tender infant cryes for milk as soon as it is born and their end is that they may grow thereby as bees fly upon flowers to suck hony and sweetnesse and therefore they delight not alwayes most in the gayest flowers but wherein most honey is to be gotten and hence often they preferre a plain leaf of a tree before a gay flower An hypocrite indeed may seem to delight in the word as Herod did in hearing John-Baptist n Ma● 6. 20 But it is not to this end to gather hony from it for the holinesse of it to have his heart made better by it but to tickle his eare with novelties and please his fancy or to get notions that he may be able to discourse c. But if it come home to his particular sin O then he kicks and flings and hates the word and the messenger of it as Herod hated John-Baptist when he spake against Herodias and the Pharisees hated Christ when he began to reprove them of their hypocrisie By this saying thou reproachest us say they Luk. 11. 45. but David loved Nathan who dealt so plainly with him as appears 1 Kings 1. 27. Is this thing done by my Lord the King and thou hast not shown it to me thy servant intimating he was Davids choyce counsellour stil * There is 1. the carelesse hearer that hears but regards not Esa 6. 9 13 2 There is the gazing hearer that comes only to see be seen 3. The curious hearer that lookes more how the glasse is painted then what face he hath 4. The carping hearer that comes to see what he can catch at 5. The spider-like hearer that comes to suck poyson by wresting the word to his own destruction 6. The Butterfly-hearer that like as the Butterfly lights upon flowers to paint her wings but not to suck honey so hee comes not to be more holy but more gaudy with notions All these love not the word with a sincere or spirituall love notwithstanding all his sharp reproof he gave him The fi●t sign from love is if we love those that are out of Christ especially in relation to us with a spirituall love Quest But David saith Do not I hate them that hate thee Answ I answer he hated their sins in relation to Gods dishonour but it is a mark of our being in Christ to love their persons with a threefold love 1. First with a love of pity as was touched before in grieving for their sins and pitying their misery as did Ieremiah My soule shall weep in secret for your pride Jer. 13. 17. Our blessed Saviour wept over Ierusalem saying O that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy Planxit ruinas animarum Dyon Carth. peace Why were Christs eyes wet with tears but because their eyes were dry quare flevit dominus nisi quia flere te docuit Wherefore did Christ weep for us but to teach us to weep for our selves Cypr. Did not Abraham pity even the Sodomites when he pleaded so with God for them if there were but ten righteous among them and did not Paul tell them weeping their end was damnation we see grace will make us love and pity the soules of other any But much more the soules of those that are in near relation to us as of our wives husbands parents children brethren and sisters and dear friends so David wept for Absalom Iephta for his daughter when he met her whom he had vowed to sacrifice to the fire so Abraham prayd for Ishmael O that Ishmael might live in thy sight and Augustines mother for her son in his naturall condition 2. Secondly In having an earnest desire and care to bring others to the knowledge of Christ and salvation a Nascitur indignè per quem non nascitur alter A good man would not go to heaven alone when thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren said Christ to Peter b Luk. 22 31. Josh 24. 15. As the Reubenites Gadites and halfe tribe of Manasseh when they themselves were provided for they were yet to help over their brethren into Canaan Numb 32. 17 18. Spiders indeed work only for themselves but Bees for others c Acts 26 28. Paul wisht not only Felix but all that heard him were not almost but altogether as himselfe was except his bands and imprisonments his chain his gold chain was too rich for him yet to wear that honour he reserved for himself So when the Grecians which came to worship would fain see Jesus Philip and Andrew went and told Jesus d Iohn 12. 21. 22. So the woman left her water o Iohn 4. 29. pot when she had found Christ and went and told them of Christ that were in the city But especially they cannot but earnestly desire and indeavour to bring those united to them in neer relation to the knowledge of Christ As Mary when Christ appeared to her how she ran to tell the disciples r Paul wisht himself separated from Christ for his brethren s Rom. 9. 3. Exod. 32. 10 and kinsmen in the flesh and Moses to be blotted out of the book of life rather then the Jews should not be spared Yea even Dives in hel torments had so much charity as to pity his brethren and prayed Abraham to send Lazarus to them lest they should come to that place of torment Luk. 16. 28. And certainly they that have no regard of the soules of others committed to their charge to bring them to the knowledge of Christ may justly fear that they themselves never had the knowledge of Christ savingly revealed to them nor know the worth of soules CHAP. XIX The seventh signe of the saving knowledge of Christ namely the spirit of prayer Signe 7 THe seventh signe whereby we may know that Christ is ours is if we have received the spirit of prayer You have received the spirit of adoption to cry Abba Father saith Paul And the Prophet Zachariah Rom. 8. 15. chap. 12. verse 10. saith I will poure upon you the spirit of grace and supplication which consists of three particulars 1. First the heart is moved and excited Infertur appetitus orandi Aug. ad simplic l. 2. by the spirit to be often with God in prayer as the child naturally cryes and runs to the mother the young to the dam So that they make conscience to performe it and cannot live without prayer a Rom. 8 26. Psal 19. 1. 64. Seven times a day will I praise thee c. especially not without private prayer So Paul as soon as ever he was converted he got alone and betook himself to prayer Act. 9. 11. Behold he prayeth And Cornel. Act. 10. got upon the top of the house there was alone with God in